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... Caroline Conti

Researcher

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

Email: Send Email
Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72


Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 22-06-2017
  • 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
  • Light field image and video coding
As Supervisor
As Co-supervisor
As Supervisor
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

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
  • 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
  • IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Organizing Committee, 2022
  • Guest Editor, Signal Processing: Image Communication, 08-04-2021 - 31-01-2023

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