1. Computer Vision UCT2 – Information Technologies MAP-I Doctoral Programme Miguel Tavares Coimbra (Principal Instructor), FC, UP Adérito Fernandes Marcos, DSI, UM Cristina Manuela Peixoto dos Santos, DEI, UM João Paulo Silva Cunha, DETI, UA Manuel João Oliveira Ferreira, DEI, UM

2. 2 Computer Vision “The goal of Computer Vision is to make useful decisions about real physical objects and scenes based on sensed images”, Shapiro and Stockman, “Computer Vision”, 2001

3. 3 Course Objectives Provide the students with a core-set of mathematical tools, useful for most Computer Vision challenges. Give generic introductions to selected topics in lectures. Provide students with enough material for a deeper exploration of each topic. Help the student develop rigorous research and development methodologies.

4. 4 Course Programme Chapter I - Image and Video Processing Definitions, Low-level feature extraction, Image pre-processing, Motion analysis. Chapter II - Image Segmentation Basic methods, Segmentation by clustering, Segmentation by fitting. Chapter III – Pattern Recognition Fundamentals, Generic pattern recognition techniques, Pattern recognition for computer vision. Chapter IV – Selected Topics Geometry and 3D reconstruction, Content-based image retrieval, Medical imaging.

5. 5 Who are we? – Adérito Fernandes Marcos -Education - 1997 – 92: BEng in Comp. Eng. at FCT/UNL. - 1992 – 97: PhD in Computer Graphics., Fraunhofer IGD, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. -Professional activity: - 1997 – 99: Dept. Head., Computer Graphics Center, Coimbra, Portugal. - 1999 - 2005: Executive Director, Computer Graphics Center, Guimarães, Portugal - 2000 - …: Assistant Professor of the Dep. of Information Systems, School of Engineering of the University of Minho. -Selected Scientific Indicators: - 28 Publications (4 IEEE Trans.; 3 Elsevier Sc.), 2 international awards, reviewer & special editor of 2 top scientific journals, reviewer of 10 top scientific events. Co-founder of two series of international scientific events; evaluator of european projects (currently 3); 4 PhDs supervised. -12 years of experience in Computer Graphics.

6. 6 Who are we? – Cristina Manuela Peixoto dos Santos -Education - 1989 – 94: BEng in Industrial Elects. Eng. at UM. - 1994 – 98: MsC in Industrial Elecs. Eng., at UM. - 1998 – 2003: PhD in Industrial Elecs., robotics at UM. -Current professional activity: - 2006 -... : Assistant Professor of the Industrial Electronics Dep., Engineering School of the University of Minho. -Selected Scientific Indicators: - 26 Publications (4 journals), Reviewer for 1 top scientific journal and several top conferences. -10 years of experience in Robotics. -Collaboration with BIRG in EPFL, Lausanne.

7. 7 Who are we? – João Paulo Silva Cunha  João Paulo Silva Cunha, is Associate Professor at the Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro, Portugal and visiting professor at the University of Munich, Germany.  He is the creator (1997) and leader of the “Healthcare Information and systems” R&D group of IEETA (http://www.ieeta.pt/sias) where he has currently 17 co-workers of which several PhD and MSc students.  He is/was principal researcher of more than 10 projects funded by different R&D agencies in the area of biosignal and medical multimedia data processing.  He has been a researcher in several European projects such as: INFOBIOMED, TEAM-HOS and HANSA.  Dr. Cunha is the co-author of more than 120 publications. In the last five years, he has published 3 book chapters and 11 papers in scientific journals.

8. 8 Who are we? – Manuel João Oliveira Ferreira -Education - 1987 – 92: BEng in Elec. and Telec. Eng.at U. Aveiro - 1995 – 96: MSc in Industrial Informatics at U. Minho - 1998 – 04: PhD in Industrial Informatics at U. Minho -Current professional activity: - 2004 -... : Assistant Professor of the Industrial Electronics Dep. of the University of Minho. -Selected Scientific Indicators: - 15 Publications (journals, books, conference proceedings) -14 years of experience in developing Industrial inspection systems based on Computer Vision.

9. 9 Who are we? – Miguel Tavares Coimbra -Education - 1993 – 98: BEng in Elec. and Comp. Eng. at FEUP. - 1999 – 04: PhD in Elec. Eng., Queen Mary, University of London, UK. - 2005 – 06: Post-Doc studies at IEETA, U. Aveiro. -Current professional activity: - 2006 -... : Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Dep., Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. -Selected Scientific Indicators: - 18 Publications (3 IEEE Transactions), 1 Patent, Reviewer for 5 top scientific journals. -8 years of experience in Computer Vision.

10. 10 Contact Miguel Tavares Coimbra Computer Science Department Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Rua Campo Alegre, 1021/1055 4169 - 007 Porto mcoimbra@fc.up.pt