Caroline Conti

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-09-2010
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9197-2627

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 22-06-2017

Affiliations

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2018, Member
IEEE Signal Processing Society, 01-01-2016, Member
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2011 - 31-12-2016, Student Member

Expertise Topics

Light field image and video coding

Academic Activities

2Supervision of PhD theses

As Supervisor

Multi-modal detection using deep learning, PhD Student, Ramna Maqsood, Expected conclusion 01-2027

As Co-supervisor

Light Field Coding and Transmission using Deep Learning, PhD Student, Muhammad Zubair, Expected conclusion 04-2026

2Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Application for Light Field Inpainting, MSc Student, Marta Almeida de Aragão Veiga Coelho, Concluded 12-2022
Light Field Saliency Detection using Deep Learning: A Comparative Study, MSc Student, Ronielson Baptista Lima, Concluded 12-2022

Publications

4Books Chapters

S.M.M. Faria, M. Domański, T. Grajek, C. Conti, J Debono, P. T. Kovács, L. Lucas, P. Nunes, C. Perra, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, M. Sjöström, L. D. Soares, O. Stankiewicz, Emerging Imaging Technologies: Trends and Challenges, Chapter in, 3D Visual Content Creation, Coding and Delivery, Pedro Assunção and Atanas Gotchev, Springer International Publishing AG Springer Nature, New York, 2019
C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, C. Perra, P.A. Assunção, M. Sjöström, Y. Li, R. Olsson, U. Jennehag, Light Field Image Compression, Chapter in, 3D Visual Content Creation, Coding and Delivery, Pedro Assunção and Atanas Gotchev, Springer International Publishing AG Springer Nature, New York, 2019
C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Impact of Packet Losses in Scalable Light Field Video Coding, Chapter in, 3D Visual Content Creation, Coding and Delivery, Pedro Assunção and Atanas Gotchev, Springer International Publishing AG Springer Nature, New York, 2019
C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, 3D Holoscopic Video Representation and Coding Technology, Chapter in, Novel 3D Media Technologies, Ahmet Kondoz and Tasos Dagiuklas, Springer, New York, 2015

10Papers in Journals

M. Hamad, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Unsupervised Angularly Consistent 4D Light Field Segmentation using Hyperpixels and a Graph Neural Network, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Vol. 6, No., pp. 333 - 347, 2025,
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C. Conti, A. Gotchev, R. Bregovic, D. Dansereau, C. Perra, T. Fujii, Editorial Special Issue on Light Field Imaging, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 129, No. 1, pp. 117196 - 117196, November, 2024 | BibTex
M. Hamad, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Hyperpixels: Flexible 4D Over-Segmentation for Dense and Sparse Light Fields, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 32, No., pp. 3790 - 3805, July, 2023,
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M. Hamad, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Efficient Propagation Method for Angularly Consistent 4D Light Field Disparity Maps, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, No., pp. 63463 - 63474, June, 2023,
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M. Hamad, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, ALFO: Adaptive Light Field Over-Segmentation, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, No. -, pp. 131147 - 131165, September, 2021,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Dense Light Field Coding: A Survey, IEEE Access, Vol. 8, No. -, pp. 49244 - 49284, March, 2020,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Light Field Coding With Field-of-View Scalability and Exemplar-Based Interlayer Prediction, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 2905 - 2920, November, 2018,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Light field image coding with jointly estimated self-similarity bi-prediction, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 60, No., pp. 144 - 159, February, 2018,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, HEVC-based 3D holoscopic video coding using self-similarity compensated prediction, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 42, No., pp. 59 - 78, March, 2016,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Inter-Layer Prediction Scheme for Scalable 3-D Holoscopic Video Coding, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 819 - 822, August, 2013,
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24Papers in Conferences

M. Z. Zubair, P. Nunes, C. Conti, L. D. Soares, LFVS-Mamba: State-Space Model for Light Field View Synthesis, Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Klagenfurt, Austria, December, 2025,
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R. Maqsood, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, C. Conti, Efficient Frequency-Aware Multiscale Vision Transformer for Event-to-Video Reconstruction, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Palermo, Italy, September, 2025,
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R. Maqsood, P. Nunes, C. Conti, L. D. Soares, WaveE2VID: Frequency-Aware Event-Based Video Reconstruction, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Anchorage, United States, Vol., pp. 570 - 575, September, 2025,
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M. Z. Zubair, P. Nunes, C. Conti, L. D. Soares, Swinscale-LFVS: Parallel Feature Integration for Light Field View Synthesis, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Anchorage, United States, Vol., pp. 1942 - 1947, September, 2025,
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M. Z. Zubair, P. Nunes, C. Conti, L. D. Soares, Light Field View Synthesis using Deformable Convolutional Neural Networks, Picture Coding Symp., Taichung, Taiwan, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024,
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M. Hamad, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, View-consistent 4D Light Field Style Transfer using Neural Networks and Over-segmentation, IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop, Nafplio, Greece, Vol., pp. -, June, 2022,
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M. Hamad, C. Conti, M. Almeida, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, SLFS: Semi-supervised Light-field Foreground-background Segmentation, Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Leiria, Portugal, February, 2021,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Scalable Light Field Coding with Support for Region of Interest Enhancement, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Rome, Italy, September, 2018,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Weighted Bi-Prediction for Light Field Image Coding, SPIE - Applications of Digital Image Processing, San Diego, CA, United States, Vol., pp. 103961E - 103961E-12, August, 2017,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Improved inter-layer prediction for light field content coding with display scalability, SPIE - Applications of Digital Image Processing, San Diego, United States, Vol. 9971, pp. 99710P - 99710P-15, September, 2016,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, HEVC-Based Light Field Image Coding with Bi-Predicted Self-Similarity Compensation, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. 1 - 4, July, 2016,
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R. Monteiro, L. Lucas, C. Conti, P. Nunes, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, C.L.P. Pagliari, E. Silva, L. D. Soares, Light Field HEVC-Based Image Coding using Locally Linear Embedding and Self-Similarity Compensated Prediction, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEW.2016.7574670, July, 2016,
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R. Monteiro, C. Conti, P. Nunes, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, L. D. Soares, HEVC Compatible 3D Holoscopic Image Coding using Multiple Partitions, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol., pp. - http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/bibnacional/1934127, September, 2015 | BibTex
L. Lucas, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, C.L.P. Pagliari, E. Silva, S.M.M. Faria, Locally Linear Embedding-Based Prediction for 3D Holoscopic Image Coding Using HEVC, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2014,
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C. Conti, P. T. Kovács, T. Balogh, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Light-Field Video Coding Using Geometry-Based Disparity Compensation, 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol., pp. 1 - 4, July, 2014,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Impact of Packet Losses in Scalable 3D Holoscopic Video Coding, SPIE Photonics Europe: Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications, Brussels, Belgium, Vol., pp. 91380E - 91380E–15, April, 2014,
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A. Aggoun, O. Fatah, J. Fernandez, C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Acquisition, Processing and Coding of 3D Holoscopic Content for Immersive Video Systems, 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2013,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Using self-similarity compensation for improving inter-layer prediction in scalable 3D holoscopic video coding, SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, United States, Vol. ., pp. . - ., August, 2013,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, 3D Holoscopic Video Coding Based on HEVC with Improved Spatial and Temporal Prediction, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol., pp. . - ., May, 2013,
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C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, New HEVC Prediction Modes for 3D Holoscopic Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Orlando, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2012,
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C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Influence of Self-Similarity on 3D Holoscopic Video Coding Performance, Brazilian Symp. on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia, São Paulo, Brazil, Vol., pp. 131 - 134, October, 2012,
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C. Conti, J. Lino, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Spatial and Temporal Prediction Scheme for 3D Holoscopic Video Coding Based on H.264/AVC, International Packet Video Workshop, Munich, Germany, Vol., pp. . - ., May, 2012,
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C. Conti, J. Lino, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, P.L. Correia, Spatial Prediction Based on Self-Similarity Compensation for 3D Holoscopic Image and Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. ., pp. . - ., September, 2011,
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C. Conti, J. Lino, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, P.L. Correia, Improved Spatial Prediction for 3D Holoscopic Image and Video Coding, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. ., pp. . - ., August, 2011,
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1Non-refereed Publications

C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Display Scalable 3D Holoscopic Video Coding, IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 12 - 15, May 2014

Projects

Closed Projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
3D-SERVICIS	Scalable Error Resilient 3D Holoscopic Video Coding for Immersive Systems	FCT	01-06-2014	01-05-2016
LIMESA	Light Field Processing for Immersive Media Streaming Applications	FCT	01-03-2021	29-02-2024

Other Scientific Achievements

4Awards

C. Conti, IBM Scientific Prize 2016, Awarded for the work entitled "Efficient Solutions for Light Field Coding", Portugal, 01-09-2017
C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Scientific Awards ISCTE-IUL 2016, Awarded for the paper entitled "HEVC-based 3D holoscopic video coding using self-similarity compensated prediction", Lisbon, Portugal, 01-06-2017
C. Conti, L. D. Soares, P. Nunes, Best Poster Award COST Interaction 2014, Budapest, Awarded at the Best Poster competition of COST training school on Rich 3D Content: Creation, Perception and Interaction for the poster entitled ''Display Scalable 3D Holoscopic Video Coding'', Budapest, Hungary, 01-07-2014
C. Conti, P. Nunes, L. D. Soares, Scientific Awards ISCTE-IUL 2014, Awarded for the paper entitled ''Inter-Layer Prediction Scheme for Scalable 3-D Holoscopic Video Coding'', Lisbon, Portugal, 01-06-2014

Other Contributions

1Conference Committees

IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Organizing Committee, 2022

1Editorial Committees

Guest Editor, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 08-04-2021 - 31-01-2023

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IT Member Profile

Caroline Conti

Scientific Achievements

As Supervisor

As Co-supervisor

As Supervisor

Closed Projects2