{"id":45,"date":"2025-01-03T03:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/pliniomoreno\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:43:02","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/pliniomoreno\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Current Status<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tenured Research Scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt\">Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory<\/a>, located in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isr.ist.utl.pt\">Instituto de Sistemas e Rob\u00f3tica<\/a>, one of the research centers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ist.utl.pt\/en\">Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico<\/a>, which is the Engineering school of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulisboa.pt\/\">Universidade de Lisboa.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Ongoing research projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-Principal Investigator on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repairproject.eu\/\">RePAIR<\/a> H2020 FET Open project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Researcher on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/havatar\">HAVATAR<\/a> project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Researcher on the <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforresponsible.ai\/\">Responsible AI<\/a> project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Research interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Healthcare and well-being: Activity detection from wearable-based signals, social robotics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robotics: Visually oriented grasping, object affordances, robot-human engagement and in-hand object manipulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Vision: Visual object recognition and human activity recognition in videos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Society membership<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Academic year 2015\/2016. Visting Professor (Professor convidado) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/\">Electrical and Computers Engineering Department<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ist.utl.pt\/en\">Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012-2017. Assistant Professor at the Engineering Faculty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulusofona.pt\/\">Universidade Lus\u00f3fona<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Academic Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph. D. in <a href=\"https:\/\/deec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/\">Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ist.utl.pt\">Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico<\/a>, 2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sistemas.uniandes.edu.co\">M. Sc. in Computer Science and Software Engineering<\/a>. Universidad de los Andes, 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Science and Software Engineering. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniandes.edu.co\">Universidad de los Andes<\/a>, 2000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mecanica.uniandes.edu.co\">Mechanical Engineering<\/a>. Universidad de los Andes, 1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Ph. D. Thesis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Title: &#8220;Object component models using Gabor filters for visual object recognition.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/omni.isr.ist.utl.pt\/%7Eplinio\/pubs\/ThesisDocument.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/users.isr.ist.utl.pt\/%7Ejasv\/\">Jos\u00e9 Santos-Victor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Co-supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/users.isr.ist.utl.pt\/%7Ealex\/\">Alexandre Bernardino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><strong>Short summary:<\/strong> In this thesis we explore the properties of Gabor functions in the context of component-based object recognition. Current component-based object recognition approaches represent objects as constellation of sub-parts, dividing the problem in three stages: interest region selection, image region description and, eventually, the recognition step. We introduce novel methods using Gabor filters for interest point selection and image region description. Performance is evaluated with state-of-the-art object recognition architectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Previous research projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-Principal Investigator on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitaldaluz.pt\/learninghealth\/pt\/investigacao\/projetos-de-investigacao\">IntelligentCare<\/a> project<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-Principal investigator on the <a href=\"http:\/\/vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt\/rbcog-lab\/\">RbCog-Lab<\/a> project<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Researcher on the <a href=\"https:\/\/isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/aha-project\/\">AHA<\/a> project (Augmented Human Assistance)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Researcher on the <a href=\"https:\/\/gaips.inesc-id.pt\/team\/inside\/\">INSIDE<\/a> project (Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-principal investigator on the <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/248258\">First-MM<\/a> project (Flexible Skill Acquisition and Intuitive Robot Tasking for Mobile Manipulation in the Real World).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Researcher on the <a href=\"https:\/\/gaips.inesc-id.pt\/team\/maiss\/\">MAIS+S<\/a> project (Multiagent Intelligent Surveillance System).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research assistant on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.upc.edu\/project\/show\/59\">URUS<\/a> (Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Settings) project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research assistant on the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/rbf\/CAVIAR\/\">CAVIAR<\/a> (Context Aware Vision using Image-based Active Recognition) project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">&nbsp;Previous research interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teleoperation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Status Ongoing research projects Research interests Society membership Experience Teaching Academic Degrees Ph. D. Thesis Title: &#8220;Object component models using Gabor filters for visual object recognition.&#8221; (PDF) Supervisor: Jos\u00e9 Santos-Victor Co-supervisor: Alexandre Bernardino Short summary: In this thesis we explore the properties of Gabor functions in the context of component-based object recognition. 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