António J. R. Neves

Position	Aux. professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Intelligent Robotics and Systems
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students	Daniel Canedo, Ricardo Ribeiro
Former PhD students	João Cunha, Luís Matos, João Silva, Alina Trifan
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Audio and Video Coding, Compiladores, Computer Vision, Fundamentos de Programação, Introdução à Programação, Laboratórios de Informática, Programacao3, Programação 1, Programação 2, Programação Orientada a Objetos, Programação em Fortran, Programação em Java, Robotica Móvel e Inteligente, Sistemas Operativos, Algorithmic Information Theory
Projects	ProdutechSIF, SOCA - Smart Open Campus
Past projects	2016-FollowInspiration, ACORD, Cloud Thinking, DNA-Profiles, EUROC, FCM-DNA, FollowInspiration 2017, FollowInspiration Contactless, Heron II, Identity Verification, IntellWheels, LUL, ProdutechPSI, ProdutechPTI, RETIOT, SAICT, Smartphones for Smart Seniors, StrassVision
Events	AAL 2012, ICASSP 2009, ICASSP 2011, ICIP 2011, SIGNAL'2017
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0001-5433-6667
Personal page	http://sweet.ua.pt/an/

António J. R. Neves was born in Torres Novas, Portugal, in July 1979. He received the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering degree from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2002 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro, in 2007.

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) at the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics of the University of Aveiro (DETI), and a researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA). He is the current Director of the Master in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering.

Prof. António J. R. Neves participates in various projects involving computer vision, robotics, and intelligent systems, some of them still ongoing. He supervised 4 PhD students and more than 50 MsC students, being currently supervising 2 PhD students and 6 MsC students. During the last 12 years he was Professor on more than 20 different courses, and Coordinator Professor in several of them, in the areas of Informatics, Signal Processing and Robotics.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and member of several other research organizations worldwide, namely IEEE RAS, INSTICC, ATINER, SPR, among others. He is a reviewer for several journals in robotics and signal processing, organized 7 conferences or special sessions and served as a member of Scientific/Technical Committees for more than 100 conferences/workshops.

His main research interests are computer vision and intelligent systems. He also has interests in image and video coding, robotics and bioinformatics.

Publications

Books

• António J. R. Neves. Intelligent Video Surveillance. IntechOpen, Rijeka, Croatia, March 2019
• Alina Trifan, Irina Topalova, António J. R. Neves. ICAS 2018 - The Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. IARIA, May 2018
• António J. R. Neves, Laurent Fesquet, Alina Trifan, Wilfried Uhring. SIGNAL 2018 - The Third International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing. IARIA, May 2018
• António J. R. Neves. Service Robots. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, January 2018
• De la Prieta, F., Vale, Z., Antunes, L., Pinto, T., Campbell, A.T., Julian, V., António J. R. Neves, Moreno, M.N.. Trends in Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection - 15th International Conference, PAAMS 2017. Springer, August 2017
• Claus-Peter Rückemann, Ramiro Sámano Robles, António J. R. Neves. SIGNAL 2017 - The Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing. IARIA, May 2017

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• João Cunha, Rui Serra, Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. R. Neves. Batch Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Soccer Using the Q-Batch Update-Rule. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 385-399, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2017: 1.583 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. MAFCO: A compression tool for MAF files. PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 3, p. e0116082, March 2015 [IF 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)] [IF 2017: 2.766 (Q1, 15/64)]
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, António J. R. Neves, Carlos A C Bastos. On the representability of complete genomes by multiple competing finite-context (Markov) models. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 6, p. e21588, June 2011 [IF 2011: 4.092 (Q1, 12/85)] [IF 2017: 2.766 (Q1, 15/64)]
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho, Daniel A. Martins, Bernardo Cunha. An efficient omnidirectional vision system for soccer robots: from calibration to object detection. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 399-410, March 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255 (Q1, 28/122)]
• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, José Luís Azevedo. World modeling on an MSL robotic soccer team. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 411-422, March 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255 (Q1, 28/122)]
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossless compression of microarray images using image-dependent finite-context models. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 194-201, February 2009 [IF 2009: 3.540]
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. A three-state model for DNA protein-coding regions. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 11, p. 2148-2155, November 2006 [IF 2006: 2.302]
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. On the relation between Memon's and the modified Zeng's palette reordering methods. Image and Vision Computing, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 534-540, May 2006 [IF 2006: 1.171]
• Armando J. Pinho, António R. C. Paiva, António J. R. Neves. On the use of standards for microarray lossless image compression. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 563-566, March 2006 [IF 2006: 2.302]
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. A survey on palette reordering methods for improving the compression of color-indexed images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 11, p. 1411-1418, November 2004 [IF 2004: 2.011]
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. A note on Zeng's technique for color reindexing of palette-based images. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 232-234, February 2004 [IF 2004: 0.995]

Other articles in journals

• António J. R. Neves, Manuel Camarneiro, Lucas Cozinheiro. A New Approach for Vehicles Detection in Low Altitude Aerial Images based on Edge Density. International Journal on Advances in Software, vol. 10, no. 3 & 4, p. 490-498, December 2017
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves. A Survey on Lossless Compression of Bayer Color Filter Array Images. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 607-612, April 2016
• António J. R. Neves, Alina Trifan, Rui Garcia, Paulo Dias. Object Detection Based on Plane Segmentation and Features Matching for a Service Robot. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 653-660, April 2016
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo. Real-Time Color Coded Object Detection Using a Modular Computer Vision Library. CSIJ Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal, vol. vol. 5, issue 1, no. 19, p. 110-123, January 2016
• António J. R. Neves. Projeto CAMBADA: o futebol robótico na Universidade de Aveiro como ferramenta de ensino e investigação. Robótica, no. 87, p. 16-17, May 2012
• António J. R. Neves, Daniel A. Martins, Armando J. Pinho, José Luís Azevedo. An efficient real-time hybrid vision system for soccer robots. Robótica, no. 74, p. 4-9, 2009
• Nuno Figueiredo, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau, José Luís Azevedo, Artur Pereira, Gustavo Corrente. The base station application of the CAMBADA robotic soccer team. Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 69-74, June 2009
• José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Futebol Robótico na Universidade de Aveiro - o projecto CAMBADA. Revista Robótica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, no. 73, p. 10-13, October 2008

Chapters in books

• Daniel Lopes, António J. R. Neves. A Study on Face Identification for an Outdoor Identity Verification System. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, Tavares J., Natal Jorge R. (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, vol. 27, p. 689-699, 2018
• Patrick de Sousa, Tiago Esteves, Daniel Campos, Fábio Duarte, Joana Santos, João Leão, José Xavier, Luís de Matos, Manuel Camarneiro, Marcelo Penas, Maria Miranda, Ricardo Silva, António J. R. Neves, Luis Teixeira. Human-Robot Interaction Based on Gestures for Service Robots. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, Tavares J., Natal Jorge R. (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, vol. 27, p. 700-709, 2018
• António J. R. Neves. A Personal Robot as an Improvement to the Customers’ In-store Experience. Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems, Donnellan B., Klein C., Helfert M., Gusikhin O., Pascoal A. (Ed.), Springer (Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS ), Switzerland, vol. 921, December 2018
• Ricardo Ribeiro, Daniel Canedo, António J. R. Neves. Access Control in the Wild Using Face Verification. Intelligent Video Surveillance, António J. R. Neves (Ed.), IntechOpen, November 2018
• Daniel Canedo, Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves. Monitoring Students’ Attention in a Classroom Through Computer Vision. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Javier Bajo, Juan M. Corchado, Elena María Navarro Martínez, Eneko Osaba Icedo, Philippe Mathieu, Patrycja Hoffa-Dąbrowska, Elena del Val, Sylvain Giroux, Antonio J.M. Castro, Nayat Sánchez-Pi, Vicente Julián, Ricardo Azambuja Silveira, Alberto Fernández, Rainer Unland, Rubén Fuentes-Fernández (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, vol. 887, p. 371–378, June 2018
• Wouter Kuijpers, António J. R. Neves, René van de Molengraft. Cooperative Sensing for 3D Ball Positioning in the RoboCup Middle Size League. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Behnke S., Sheh R., Sarıel S., Lee D. (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, vol. 887, p. 268-278, 2017
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of Biomedical Images Based on Image Decomposition. Applications of Digital Signal Processing through Practical Approach, Sudhakar Radhakrishnan (Ed.), INTECH, p. 125-158, October 2015
• António J. S. Teixeira, Carlos Pereira, Miguel Oliveira e Silva, Joaquim Alvarelhão, Anabela Silva, Margarida Cerqueira, Ana Isabel Martins, Osvaldo Pacheco, Nuno Almeida, Catarina Oliveira, Rui Costa, António J. R. Neves, Alexandra Queirós, Nelson Rocha. New Telerehabilitation Services for the Elderly. Handbook of Research on ICTs for Healthcare and Social Services: Developments and Applications, Isabel Maria Miranda, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Ed.), IGI Global, 2013
• João Cunha, Eurico Pedrosa, Cristovão Cruz, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo, Artur Pereira, Ciro Martins, António J. S. Teixeira. Robô de Assistência no Domicílio. Laboratório Vivo de Usabilidade (Living Usability Lab), ARC Publishing, p. 183-199, October 2013
• António J. S. Teixeira, Carlos Pereira, Miguel Oliveira e Silva, Joaquim Alvarelhão, Anabela Silva, Margarida Cerqueira, Ana Isabel Martins, Osvaldo Pacheco, Nuno Almeida, Catarina Oliveira, Alexandra Queirós, Rui Costa, António J. R. Neves, António Amaro, Nelson Rocha. TeleReabilitação: Uma Instanciação. Laboratório Vivo de Usabilidade (Living Usability Lab), ARC Publishing, p. 201-214, October 2013
• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves. Cooperative detection and identification of obstacles in a robotic soccer team. Advances in Robotics: Modeling, Control and Applications, Calin Ciufudean, Lino García (Ed.), iConcept Press, p. 219-235, February 2013
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Compression of microarray images. Signal Processing, Sebastian Miron (Ed.), INTECH, p. 429-448, March 2010
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Daniel A. Martins, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Finite-context models for DNA coding. Signal Processing, Sebastian Miron (Ed.), INTECH, p. 117-130, March 2010
• António J. R. Neves, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau, João Silva, Frederico Santos, Gustavo Corrente, Daniel A. Martins, Nuno Figueiredo, Artur Pereira, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo Pedreiras. CAMBADA soccer team: from robot architecture to multiagent coordination. Robot Soccer, Vladan Papic (Ed.), INTECH, p. 19-45, January 2010
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho, Gustavo Corrente. An Omnidirectional Vision System for Soccer Robots. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, José Maia Neves, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Manuel Machado (Ed.), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 499-507, December 2007

Articles in conference proceedings

• Daniel Canedo, Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves. Focus estimation in academic environments using Computer Vision. ibPRIA 2019: 9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Madrid, Spain, July 2019
• José Ferrão, Paulo Dias, António J. R. Neves. Detection of Aruco Markers Using the Quadrilateral Conjuncture. Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2018, p. 363-370, June 2018
• Bruno Barbosa, Sandra Soares, Isabel Dimas, António J. R. Neves. Analysis of Emotions From Body Postures Based on Digital Imaging. Third International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing - SIGNAL 2018, Nice, France, p. 73-78, May 2018
• Arménio Baptista, Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves. Digital Management of Multiple Advertising Displays. Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems - ICAS 2018, Nice, France, p. 36-41, May 2018
• Rui Sacchetti, Tiago Teixeira, Bruno Barbosa, António J. R. Neves, Sandra Soares, Isabel Dimas. Human Body Posture Detection in Context: The Case of Teaching and Learning Environments. Third International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing - SIGNAL2018, Nice, France, p. 79-84, May 2018
• António J. R. Neves, Ricardo Ribeiro, José Maria Fernandes. Face Detection on Infrared Thermal Image. Proc. of Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing, SIGNAL 2017, Barcelona, Spain, p. 33-37, May 2017
• António J. R. Neves, Manuel Camarneiro, Lucas Cozinheiro. Vehicle Detection on Low Altitude Images Based on Edge Density. Proc. of the Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing, SIGNAL 2017, Barcelona, Spain, p. 38-42, May 2017
• António J. R. Neves, Campos, D., Duarte, F., Domingues, I., Santos, J., Leão, Xavier, Matos, L., Camarneiro, M., Penas, Miranda, Silva, R. and Esteves, T.. Functionalities and Requirements of an Autonomous Shopping Vehicle for People with Reduced Mobility. Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2017), Porto, Portugal, p. 373-380, April 2017
• Daniel Lopes, António J. R. Neves. A practical study about the Google Vision API. Proceedings of the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Marco Henriques, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Facial recognition based on image compression. Proceedings of the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• António J. R. Neves, Fred Gomes, Paulo Dias, Alina Trifan. A Ground Truth Vision System for Robotic Soccer. Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2016), Rome, Italy, p. 684-689, February 2016
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves. On the Use of Feature Descriptors on Raw Image Data. Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2016), Rome, Italy, p. 655-662, February 2016
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha. Image scanning techniques for speed-up color object detection. Proceedings of the 5th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, VipIMAGE 2015, Tenerife, Spain, p. 307-312, October 2015
• António J. R. Neves, Alina Trifan, José Luís Azevedo. Time-constrained detection of colored objects on raw Bayer data. Proceedings of the 5th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, VipIMAGE 2015, Tenerife, Spain, p. 301-306, October 2015
• António J. R. Neves, Filipe Amaral, Ricardo Dias, João Silva, Nuno Lau. A New Approach for Dynamic Strategic Positioning in RoboCup Middle-Size League. 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, vol. LNAI 9273, p. 433–444, September 2015
• Alina Trifan, António J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha, José Luís Azevedo. UAVision: A modular time-constrained vision library for soccer robots. RoboCup 2014: Robot Soccer World Cup XVIII, João Pessoa, Brazil, vol. LNAI 8992, p. 490-501, July 2015
• António J. R. Neves, Alina Trifan, Paulo Dias, José Luís Azevedo. Detection of Aerial Balls in Robotic Soccer Using a Mixture of Color and Depth Information. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), Vila Real, Portugal, April 2015
• Ricardo Dias, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, António J. R. Neves, Nuno Lau. Improving the Kicking Accuracy in a Soccer Robot. Proceedings of the 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Salamanca, Spain, April 2015
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. A rate-distortion study on microarray image compression. Proceedings of the 20th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2014, Covilhã, Portugal, October 2014
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Compression of microarray images using a binary tree decomposition. Proc. of the 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-2014, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 531-535, September 2014
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PhD thesis

• António J. R. Neves. Lossless compression of images with specific characteristics. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, September 2007