LUIS AGNELO DE ALMEIDA

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He is a researcher at the Smart Cities Research Center (Ci2 - IPT) and the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR - UC). He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (specialization in computers and electronics) and an Electrical Engineering degree (specialization in computers) from the University of Coimbra (UC).
Main scientific interests are: Computer Vision, Robotics, Telepresence, Teleoperation, Immersive Interfaces, 3D Reconstruction, Augmented Reality, and Computer Graphics.

Ongoing Project:

Augmented reality framework for socialization between elderly people

Immersive teleoperation of mobile robots

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http://www.researcherid.com/rid/N-3220-2013

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-4454

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis_Almeida12/contributions

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Publications:

1997 . 1999 . 2001 . 2002 . 2003 . 2011 . 2012 . 2013 . 2014 . 2015 . 2016 . 2017 . 2018 . 2019 . 2020 . 2021 . 2022 . 2023

2023

PhD Thesis

Luis Almeida, "Towards Telepresence and Robot Teleoperation", University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2023.
https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/114505

at ISR

2022
Journal
Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Dias, "Telepresence Social Robotics towards Co-Presence: A Review", in Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(11):5557.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115557

Journal
G. Pires, A. Lopes, P. Correia, L. Almeida, L. Oliveira, R. Panda, D. Jorge, D. Mendes, P. Dias, N. Gomes, T. Pereira, "Usability of a telehealth solution based on TV interaction for the elderly: the VITASENIOR-MT case study", in Univers Access Inf Soc. 2022 Jan 17:1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00859-3

2020
Journal
Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Dias, "Interface Transparency Issues in Teleoperation", in Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(18):6232.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app10186232

Human capabilities vs. human capabilities through mediated technologies (table A1)

2019
Conference
Luis Almeida, Elio Lopes, Beril Yalçinkaya, Rodolfo Martins, Ana Lopes, Paulo Menezes, and Gabriel Pires, "Towards natural interaction in immersive reality with a cyber-glove", 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2019), 06-09 October Bari, Italy.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2019.8914239

(movie)

2018
Conference
G. Pires, P. Correia, D. Jorge, D. Santos, N. Gomes, P. Dias, P. Ferreira, A. Lopes, A. Manso, L. Almeida, L. Oliveira, R. Panda, P. Monteiro, C. Gracio, T. Pereira, "VITASENIOR-MT: a telehealth solution for the elderly focused on the interaction with TV", 20th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services - Healthcom2018, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2018.8531126

2017
Journal
J. Garcia Sanchez, B. Patrão, L. Almeida, J. Perez, P. Menezes, J. Dias, P. Sanz, "Design and Evaluation of a Natural Interface for Remote Operation of Underwater Robots", in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 34-43, Jan.-Feb. 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2015.118

(movie)

Conference
Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Dias, "Improving robot teleoperation experience via immersive interfaces", in 2017 4th Experiment International Conference (exp.at'17), Faro, Portugal, June 6-8, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984414

2016
Conference
Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Dias, "3D Modelling framework: an incremental approach". In Eurographics 2016 - Posters, the 37th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-13 May, 2016.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/egp.20161047 http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/egp20161047

(movie)

2015
Conference
L. Almeida, P. Menezes, J. Dias, "Incremental Reconstruction Approach for Telepresence or AR Applications", in SciTecIN'15 - Sciences and Technologies of Interaction, EPCGI'2015: The 22nd Portuguese Conf. on Computer Graphics and Interaction, Coimbra, Portugal, November 12 – 13, 2015

J. Quintas, L. Almeida, E. Sousa, P. Menezes, "A context-aware immersive interface for teleoperation of mobile robots", in SciTecIN'15 - Sciences and Technologies of Interaction, EPCGI'2015: The 22nd Portuguese Conf. on Computer Graphics and Interaction, Coimbra, Portugal, November 12 – 13, 2015

2014
Conference
L. Almeida, B. Patrão, P. Menezes, J. Dias, "Be the Robot: Human Embodiment in Tele-Operation Driving Tasks", Ro-Man 2014: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Coapunication, Edinburgh, UK, August 25-29, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926298

(movies)

2013
Book Chapter
L. Almeida, P. Menezes, J. Dias, "Augmented reality framework for the socialization between elderly people", peer reviewed chapter in "Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care", Cruz-Cunha, M. M., Miranda, I. M., and Gonçalves, P., p. 430-448, IGI Global, 2013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch023

2012
Conference
J. Quintas, L. Almeida, M. Brito, G. Quintela, P. Menezes, J. Dias, "Context-based understanding of interaction intentions", Ro-Man 2012: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Coapunication, Paris, France, 9-13 September 2012

Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes and Jorge Dias, "On-Line 3D Body Modelling for Augmented Reality", GRAPP 2012 - International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2012.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0003866304720479

2011
Journal
H. Aliakbarpour, L. Almeida, P. Menezes, J. Dias - "Multi-sensor 3D Volumetric Reconstruction Using CUDA". Journal of 3D Research, Volume 2, Number 4, ISSN: 2092-6731, Springer, December 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3DRes.04(2011)6

Conference
L. Almeida, P. Menezes, L. D. Seneviratne, J. Dias, "Incremental 3D Body Reconstruction Framework for Robotic Telepresence Applications", in Robo2011: The 2nd IASTED International Conference on Robotics, Pittsburgh, USA, November 7 – 9, 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.2316/P.2011.752-068

L. Almeida, F. Vasconcelos, J.P. Barreto, P. Menezes, and J. Dias, “On-line incremental 3D human body reconstruction for HMI or AR applications”, CLAWAR2011 - The 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots And the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Paris, France, September 2011

Luis Almeida, Paulo Menezes and Jorge Dias, "Stereo Vision Head Vergence Using GPU Cepstral Filtering", VISAPP 2011 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, March 5-7, 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0003319406650670

(cepstrum project)

L. Almeida, P. Menezes, J. Dias, "Vergence Using GPU Cepstral Filtering", in Proceedings of the DoCEIS'11 - Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems. Lisbon, Portugal, February 21-23, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19170-1_35

(movie)

2003
Conference
Jorge Lobo, Luis Almeida, João Alves and Jorge Dias, “Registration and Segmentation for 3D Map Building - A Solution based on Stereo Vision and Inertial Sensors, Proceedings of the ICRA2003 - IEEE International Conf. on Rob. & Automation, Taipei, 2003.

2002
Conference
Jorge Lobo, Luis Almeida, Jorge Dias, “Segmentation of Dense Depth Maps using Inertial Data- A real-time implementation ”, IROS’2002 – 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Switzerland, 2002.

Jorge Dias, Jorge Lobo, Luis Agnelo, "Cooperation between visual and inertial information for 3D vision", MED 2002 -10th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 9- 12th, 2002.

2001
Journal
João Filipe Ferreira, Nuno Martins, Luis Agnelo, J. Dias, "Imagiologia Tridimensional Digital para Construção de Protótipos Industriais", Robótica, N. 45, 4.º Trim., pp. 28-34, 2001.

1999
Conference
Luis Almeida, Jorge Dias , "Dense Depth Maps using an Active Vision Head", Proceedings of CARS & FOF'99 the 17th International Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics & Factories of the Future, Aguas de Lindoia, SP, Brazil, August 18-20, 1999.

Luis Almeida, Jorge Dias , "Dense Depth Maps using Stereo Vision Head", Proceedings of SIRS99 the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Coimbra, July 20-23, 1999.

1997
Conference
L. Almeida, J. Dias, A. Traça de Almeida, "Dense Depth Maps Using Active Vision", 9th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 20-21st March, 1997.

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