Prof. Nuno Goncalves is researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics and Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computers Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He has received his MsC. and PhD degree in 2002 and 2008, respectively. His main research areas are computer vision and computer graphics with special emphasis to geometric problem in non-central projection vision systems. We has scientific publications in the following topics: omnidirectional vision, non-central cameras, optics, camera models, motion estimation, pose estimation, reflections for image rendering, sports vision and legged robotics. He is Principal Investigator of an on-going project funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation in the area of non-central camera models for computer graphics and computer-aided surgery. He participates regularly as reviewer for some of the most prestigious conferences and journals of the area of computer vision.

Joao P. Barreto received the "Licenciatura" and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Post- doctoral Researcher with the University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia. He has been an Assistant Professor with the University of Coimbra, since 2004, where he is also a Senior Researcher with the Institute for Systems and Robotics. His current research interests include different top- ics in computer vision, with a special emphasis in geometry problems and applications in robotics and medicine. He is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. He is also regular reviewer for several conferences and journals, having received 4 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in the last few years.

The research interests of Prof. Hélder Araújo are robot vision, computer vision, mobile robotics sensing and navigation.

Francisco Vasconcelos is a Ph.D. student. Currently researching at ISR in medical imaging and computer aided surgery for the ArthroNav and the UniProjection projects, both funded by FCT. His research intrerests are motion and structure estimation from endoscopic images, online self-calibration, and sensor fusion in visual SLAM. Obtained his MSc in Electrical and Computers Engineering, at University of Porto in 2009. His thesis "Robot Line Formation" covering the topics of Swarm Robotics and Graph theory, was developed and defended at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Pedro Miraldo received the Master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 2008. Currently he is a researcher and PhD student at the Institute for Systems and Robotics-University of Coimbra, and his work focusses on general camera models.

Miguel Lourenço received the Integrated Master's degree (BSc+MSc) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 2009. Since then he has been a computer vision researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics – Coimbra. He has worked in feature detection and matching in images with strong radial distortion, and indoor recognition based hybrid imaging systems. He is currently a PhD student at the University de Coimbra, working on matching and recognition in endoscopic images.

André Lages is a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics of the University of Coimbra, he finished his Master's Degree in Visual Information Technologies in 2011 at the same University where is specialized in realistic lighting/shading in 3D environments. He spent some time dedicated to freelancing to several clients, in architectural rendering, motion graphics, photorealistic 3D rendering and visual effects. His actual research area is the generation of computer graphics with the application of special algorithms for reflective objects.

Alumni

Ana Catarina Nogueira was a researcher at Institute for Systems and Robotics from Dec. 2011 until Aug. 2013. She has under-graduated in Visual Information Technologies in 2009 at the Dept. of Electrical and Computers Engineering and after in 2011 has received her MSc in Informatics Engineering at the Dept. of Informatics Engineering both at the University of Coimbra. She started researching about computer vision, mainly non-central projection vision systems, in 2008. Also, during the MSc, she has developed a semantic system with Natural Language analysis for the European Epilepsiae Project. She has scientific publications in non-central cameras, reflections for image rendering, quadric mirrors, semantic web, natural language processing and ontologies. In ISR, she was researcher on an on-going project about non-central camera models for computer graphics and computer-aided surgery, funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation. She was also a collaborator at the junior company of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra.

Diogo Roxo received the MSc degree in biomedical engineering from University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2011. He was a research fellow in the Institute of Systems and Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal, since 2011 and he was working in camera calibration and 3D reconstruction using Endoscopic Images. His research interests include developing and testing computer vision algorithms in Medical Imaging.

Hugo Brites