Published 24 papers in international journals and over 80 conference papers
Served as Associate Editor for journals including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, etc.
JPEG Requirements Group Co-Chair since 2025
Founding Chair of the IEEE Portugal Signal Processing Chapter
Member of IEEE CAS Society’s Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee (VSPC TC)
Major contributor to the JPEG international standard for static point cloud encoding
Significant contributions to JPEG PLENO and international standardization efforts
Research Experience
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Leiria (ESTG), Portugal since 1997
Vice President for Research of the Polytechnic University of Leiria (2018–2022)
Vice Dean of ESTG (2014–2018)
Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering (2010–2013)
Founding Coordinator of the Regional University Network – European University (RUN-EU) (2020–2022)
Coordinated and participated in numerous national and international projects funded by FCT, Horizon 2020, Erasmus, etc.
Supervised 3 completed PhD and 10 completed MSc theses
Background
Research focuses on deep learning techniques for multimedia signal compression and processing
Specializes in emerging immersive image and video modalities and static point cloud encoding (geometry-only and geometry with color)
Current work includes compressed-domain processing, applying computer vision directly to deep learning–based compressed representations, and processing signals from neuromorphic (event-based) cameras
Senior Member of IEEE and member of EURASIP
Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal since 2000