Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites (1B1F-2283-3049)

Curriculum Vitae

Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites

Catarina Brites received the E.E., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003, 2005, and 2011, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Previously, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico. In the last years, she has also been responsible for co-supervising several M.Sc. theses in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in the areas of image/video coding, deep learning based image coding, coding and processing of light fields and coding and quality assessment of point clouds. Several of the co-supervised M.Sc. theses have resulted in publications in international peer-reviewed journals (mostly from IEEE) and in renowned international conferences (also peer-reviewed) in the area of multimedia signal processing. Regarding her scientific activity, she has been developing research activity in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MSP-Lx) of Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her current research interests include 2D/3D visual data coding, event data coding, plenoptic imaging (light fields and point clouds) processing and coding, machine learning, visual quality assessment, and multimedia systems. Up to now, she has authored more than 70 international scientific journals and conference research papers and 1 book chapter (bringing together contributions from international experts in the distributed video coding field). According to Google Scholar, her scientific production has more than 3890 citations and her h-index of 30. Furthermore, over the last years, she is or has been actively involved in several European and National R&D projects in the fields of 2D/3D video coding and analysis, plenoptic image coding and quality assessment, deep learning based image coding and event-based vision data coding, being currently Co-Principal Investigator of one National project. In parallel to this activity, she has also had intense collaboration with international journal and conferences. She is or has been an Associate Editor of IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING. She is or has been a Member of the Organizing Committee and the Technical Program Committee of several widely known international conferences in the multimedia signal processing field (IEEE, EURASIP, Springer). She is also an active Reviewer for several international scientific journals (IEEE, Elsevier, EURASIP, IET and SPIE) and international conferences (most of them from IEEE). Additionally, she is a Member of the Technical Commission CT-120 - Image, Audio and Multimedia Information Coding and has been a Member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Science Academy.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites

Citation names

Brites, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1B1F-2283-3049
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6011-4574
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nVhevBoAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id: L-6191-2013
Scopus Author Id: 14027993100

Websites

https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/catarina-brites/cv (Professional)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nVhevBoAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)
https://www.it.pt/Members/Index/1213 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Exploiting Correlation Noise Modeling in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	n/a
2005 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Advances on Distributed Video Coding" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	n/a
2003 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Sincronização de Frequência e Estimação de Canal em OFDM" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/10/01 - 2024	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

2013/02/01 - 2017/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2003/01/01 - 2024	Researcher	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

2011/04/01 - 2017/03/31	FCT Post-Doctoral Fellowship	Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

2006/07/01 - 2010/06/30	FCT PhD Studentship	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/07/01 - 2026/01/31	EVent Aware Sensor CompresSION n.a. Researcher	Ongoing
2021/06/01 - 2025/02/28	Deep compression: emerging pAradigm foR Image codiNG PTDC/EEI-COM/7775/2020 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2019/08/31	Progressive Point Cloud Representation PTDC/EEI-PRO/7237/2014 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/06/01 - 2019/06/01	Emerging Image Modalities Representation and Compression PTDC/EEI-PRO/2849/2014 Researcher Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/10/01 - 2015/10/01	Networked energy-aware visual analysis 296676 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden Politecnico di Milano, Italy	European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Information and Communication Technologies Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2015/06/30	MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks PTDC/EEA-TEL/119804/2010 Researcher Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2006/07/01 - 2009/06/01	Networked audiovisual media technologies II IST-1-038398 Researcher University of Surrey, United Kingdom Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI, Germany Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Telecom Italia, Italy Politecnico di Milano, Italy Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Politechnika Warszawska, Poland Thales Research and Technology UK Ltd, United Kingdom Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	European Union Concluded
2005/09/01 - 2007/08/31	Distributed coding for video services FP6/2002/15314 Researcher Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Inria, France Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	European Commission Sixth Framework Programme Concluded
2005/09 - 2007/08	Distributed coding for video services FP6/2002/15314	European Commission Sixth Framework Programme

Outputs

Publications

Book	Natário, L.; Brites, C.; Ascenso, J.; Pereira, F.. Extrapolating side information for low-delay pixel-domain distributed video coding. 2006.
Book chapter	Pereira, Fernando; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João. "Distributed Video Coding: Basics, Codecs, and Performance". In Distributed Source Coding: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, 189-245. Elsevier, 2009. Published • 10.1016/b978-0-12-374485-2.00013-5 Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Fonseca, Pedro; Pinho, Pedro; Baltazar, Joel. "Evolution and Challenges in Multimedia Representation Technologies". In A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon, 275-294. Springer Netherlands, 2007. Published • 10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_18 Natário, Luís; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Extrapolating Side Information for Low-Delay Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coding". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 16-21. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. Published • 10.1007/11738695_3
Conference paper	Sezavar, Ahmadreza; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João. "Low Complexity Learning-based Lossless Event-based Compression". Paper presented in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Tokyo, 2024. Published Sezavar, Ahmadreza; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João. "Learning-based Lossless Event Data Compression". Paper presented in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Tokyo, 2024. Published • 10.1109/vcip63160.2024.10849853 Javaheri, Alireza; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, Joao. "A Point-to-Distribution Joint Geometry and Color Metric for Point Cloud Quality Assessment". Tampere, 2021. Published • 10.1109/mmsp53017.2021.9733670 Lopes, Diogo; Ascenso, Joao; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Image Coding with Neural Network-Based Colorization". Toronto, ON, 2021. Published • 10.1109/icassp39728.2021.9413816 Javaheri, Alireza; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, Joao. "Improving PSNR-Based Quality Metrics Performance for Point Cloud Geometry". Abu Dhabi, 2020. Published • 10.1109/icip40778.2020.9191233 Javaheri, Alireza; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "A generalized Hausdorff distance based quality metric for point cloud geometry". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Athlone, 2020. Accepted Costa, Afonso; Dricot, Antoine; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Improved Patch Packing for the MPEG V-PCC Standard". Paper presented in 2019 IEEE 21st International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Kuala Lumpur, 2019. Published • 10.1109/mmsp.2019.8901690 Lopes, Eurico; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Adaptive Plane Projection for Video-Based Point Cloud Coding". Paper presented in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Shanghai, 2019. Published • 10.1109/icme.2019.00017 Garrote, Joao; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Lenslet Light Field Imaging Scalable Coding". Paper presented in 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, 2018. Published • 10.23919/eusipco.2018.8553589 Oliveira, Andre; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Lenslet Light Field Panorama Creation: A Sub-Aperture Image Stitching Approach". Paper presented in 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, 2018. Published • 10.23919/eusipco.2018.8552948 Javaheri, Alireza; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Subjective and objective quality evaluation of compressed point clouds". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Luton, 2017. Published • 10.1109/mmsp.2017.8122239 Teixeira, Jose Abecasis; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Epipolar based light field key-location detector". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Luton, 2017. Published • 10.1109/mmsp.2017.8122259 Luz, Guilherme; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Saliency-driven omnidirectional imaging adaptive coding: Modeling and assessment". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Luton, 2017. Published • 10.1109/mmsp.2017.8122228 Javaheri, Alireza; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Subjective and objective quality evaluation of 3D point cloud denoising algorithms". Paper presented in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2017. Published • 10.1109/icmew.2017.8026263 Teixeira, José Abecasis; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Lisbon Landmark Lenslet Light Field Dataset: Description and Retrieval Performance". Paper presented in 2017 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Firenze, 2017. Published • 10.1145/3095713.3095723 Monteiro, Nuno; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Multi-view distributed coding and selection of local binary features". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Seattle, WA, 2016. Published • 10.1109/icme.2016.7552995 Peixeiro, Jose; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Digital holography: Benchmarking coding standards and representation formats". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Seattle, WA, 2016. Published • 10.1109/icme.2016.7552940 Monteiro, Nuno; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Multi-view distributed source coding of binary features for visual sensor networks". Paper presented in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, 2016. Published • 10.1109/icassp.2016.7472189 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Epipolar plane image based rendering for 3D video coding". Paper presented in 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Xiamen, 2015. Published • 10.1109/MMSP.2015.7340854 Brites, Catarina; Gomes, Vitor; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Statistical reconstruction for predictive video coding". Paper presented in 2014 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Valletta, 2014. Published • 10.1109/VCIP.2014.7051624 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Correlation noise modeling for multiview transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, 2014. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025648 Salmistraro, Matteo; Rakêt, Lars Lau; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Forchhammer, Søren. "Joint disparity and motion estimation using optical flow for multiview Distributed Video Coding". Paper presented in 2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lisbon, 2014. Published Shah, Dhiraj Kumar; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Studying Platelet-based Depth Map Coding". Paper presented in 2013 Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele), Castelo Branco, 2013. Published Shah, Dhiraj Kumar; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Evaluating multi-view plus depth coding solutions for 3D video scenarios". Paper presented in 2012 3DTV Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), Zurich, 2012. Published • 10.1109/3DTV.2012.6365473 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Structural based side information creation with improved matching criteria for Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2012 Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Dublin, 2012. Published • 10.1109/WIAMIS.2012.6226756 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Learning based decoding approach for improved Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2012 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Kraków, 2012. Published • 10.1109/PCS.2012.6213312 Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Augmented LDPC graph for distributed video coding with multiple side information". Paper presented in 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Hangzhou, 2011. Published • 10.1109/MMSP.2011.6093788 Naccari, Matteo; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Low complexity deblocking filter perceptual optimization for the HEVC codec". Paper presented in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, 2011. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116659 Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "A denoising approach for iterative side information creation in distributed video coding". Paper presented in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, 2011. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6116472 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Probability updating for decoder and encoder rate control turbo based Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5652833 Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Dufaux, Frédéric; Fernando, Anil; Ebrahimi, Touradj; Pereira, Fernando; Tubaro, Stefano. "The visnet II dvc codec: Architecture, tools and performance". Paper presented in 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aalborg, 2010. Published Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Compression efficiency analysis of Wyner-Ziv video coding with motion compensated side information interpolation". Paper presented in 2010 SPIE Conference on Visual Information Processing and Communication, San Jose, CA, 2010. Published • 10.1117/12.840544 Huang, Xiem; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando; Forchhammer, Søren. "Distributed video coding with multiple side information". Paper presented in 2009 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Chicago, IL, 2009. Published • 10.1109/PCS.2009.5167357 Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Design and performance of a novel low-density parity-check code for distributed video coding". Paper presented in 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, 2008. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711955 Areia, José Diogo; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Low complexity hybrid rate control for lower complexity Wyner-Ziv video decoding". Paper presented in 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, 2008. Published Pereira, Fernando; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Tagliasacchi, Marco. "Wyner-Ziv video coding: A review of the early architectures and further developments". Paper presented in 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Hannover, 2008. Published • 10.1109/ICME.2008.4607512 Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina. "Studying the GOP size impact on the performance of a feedback channel-based Wyner-Ziv video codec". Paper presented in 2007 IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT), Santiago, 2007. Published Pedro, José Quintas; Soares, Luís Ducla; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando; Bandeirinha, Carlos; Ye, Shuiming; Dufaux, Frédéric; Ebrahimi, Touradj. "Studying error resilience performance for a feedback channel based transform domain wyner-ziv video codec". Paper presented in 2007 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Lisbon, 2007. Published Areia, José Diogo; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando; Ascenso, João. "Wyner-Ziv stereo video coding using a side information fusion approach". Paper presented in 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Chania, Crete, 2007. Published • 10.1109/MMSP.2007.4412914 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Encoder rate control for transform domain Wyner-ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, TX, 2007. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379078 Pedro, José Quintas; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Studying the Feedback Channel in Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding". Paper presented in 2007 Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele), Peniche, 2007. Published Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Content adaptive Wyner-Ziv video coding driven by motion activity". Paper presented in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, 2006. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2006.312408 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Studying temporal correlation noise modeling for pixel based Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, 2006. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2006.313178 Tagliasacchi, Marco; Trapanese, Alan; Tubaro, Stefano; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Exploiting spatial redundancy in pixel domain Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, 2006. Published • 10.1109/ICIP.2006.313173 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Feedback channel in pixel domain Wyner-Ziv video coding: Myths and realities". Paper presented in 2006 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, 2006. Published Tagliasacchi, Marco; Trapanese, Alan; Tubaro, Stefano; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Intra mode decision based on spatio-temporal cues in pixel domain Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, 2006. Published Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Improving transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding performance". Paper presented in 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, 2006. Published Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Modeling correlation noise statistics at decoder for pixel based Wyner-Ziv video coding". Paper presented in 2006 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Beijing, 2006. Published Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Motion compensated refinement for low complexity pixel based distributed video coding". Paper presented in 2005 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), Como, 2005. Published • 10.1109/AVSS.2005.1577335 Trapanese, Alan; Tagliasacchi, Marco; Tubaro, Stefano; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Embedding a Block-based Intra Mode in Frame-based Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding". Paper presented in 2005 International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video (VLBV), Sardinia, 2005. Published Trapanese, Alan; Tagliasacchi, Marco; Tubaro, Stefano; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Improved Correlation Noise Statistics Modeling in Frame-based Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding". Paper presented in 2005 International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video (VLBV), Sardinia, 2005. Published Natário, Luís; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Side Information Extrapolation for Low-Delay Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coding". Paper presented in 2005 International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video (VLBV), Sardinia, 2005. Published Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Improving Frame Interpolation with Spatial Motion Smoothing for Pixel Domain Distributed Video Coding". Paper presented in 2005 EURASIP Conference on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services (EC–SIP–M), Smolenice, 2005. Published Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Distributed Video Coding: Bringing New Applications to Life". Paper presented in 2005 Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele), Tomar, 2005. Published
Journal article	Catarina Brites; João Ascenso. "Neuromorphic Vision Data Coding: Classifying and Reviewing the Literature". IEEE Access (2025): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3528375. 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3528375 Alireza Javaheri; Catarina Brites; Fernando Pereira; Joao Ascenso. "Joint Geometry and Color Projection-Based Point Cloud Quality Metric". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3198995. 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3198995 Alireza Javaheri; Catarina Brites; Fernando Pereira; Joao Ascenso. "Point Cloud Rendering After Coding: Impacts on Subjective and Objective Quality". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2021): https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2020.3037481. 10.1109/TMM.2020.3037481 Pereira, Fernando; Dricot, Antoine; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina. "Point cloud coding: A privileged view driven by a classification taxonomy". Signal Processing: Image Communication (2020): 115862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2020.115862. In press • 10.1016/j.image.2020.115862 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Lenslet Light Field Image Coding: Classifying, Reviewing and Evaluating". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2020): 1-1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcsvt.2020.2976784. In press • 10.1109/tcsvt.2020.2976784 Alireza Javaheri; Catarina Brites; Fernando Pereira; Joao Ascenso. "Mahalanobis Based Point to Distribution Metric for Point Cloud Geometry Quality Evaluation". IEEE Signal Processing Letters 27 (2020): 1350-1354. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2020.3010128. 10.1109/LSP.2020.3010128 Rente, Paulo de Oliveira; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Graph-Based Static 3D Point Clouds Geometry Coding". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 21 2 (2019): 284-299. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2018.2859591. Published • 10.1109/TMM.2018.2859591 Peixeiro, José Pedro; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Holographic Data Coding: Benchmarking and Extending HEVC with Adapted Transforms". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 20 2 (2018): 282-297. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/21595. Published • 10.1109/TMM.2017.2742701 Dias, André Seixas; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "SIFT-Based Homographies for Efficient Multiview Distributed Visual Sensing". IEEE Sensors Journal, Special Issue on Distributed Smart Sensing for Mobile Vision 15 5 (2015): 2643-2656. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84927163767&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2355914 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Distributed video coding: Assessing the HEVC upgrade". Signal Processing: Image Communication 32 3 (2015): 81-105. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924368349&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.image.2015.01.003 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Multiview side information creation for efficient Wyner-Ziv video coding: Classifying and reviewing". Signal Processing: Image Communication 30 1 (2015): 1-36. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919655639&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.image.2014.11.001 Salmistraro, Matteo; Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Forchhammer, Søren. "A robust fusion method for multiview distributed video coding". Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2014 1 (2014): 1-16. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958247723&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1186/1687-6180-2014-174 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Epipolar geometry-based side information creation for multiview wyner-ziv video coding". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 24 10 (2014): 1771-1786. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907809918&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1109/TCSVT.2014.2317871 Dias, André Seixas; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Perceptually driven video error protection using a distributed source coding approach". Signal Processing: Image Communication 29 1 (2014): 1-22. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892574977&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.image.2013.08.021 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Side information creation for efficient Wyner-Ziv video coding: Classifying and reviewing". Signal Processing: Image Communication 28 7 (2013): 689-726. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882454333&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.image.2013.05.002 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "An efficient encoder rate control solution for transform domain wyner-ziv video coding". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 21 9 (2011): 1278-1292. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052548309&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2147210 Ascenso, João; Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "A flexible side information generation framework for distributed video coding". Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding 48 3 (2010): 381-409. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952951423&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1007/s11042-009-0316-6 Martins, Ricardo; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Statistical motion learning for improved transform domain wyner-ziv video coding". IET Image Processing 4 1 (2010): 28-41. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79951808434&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1049/iet-ipr.2008.0133 Martins, Ricardo; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João (361C-6DEB-6354); Pereira, Fernando. "Adaptive deblocking filter for transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding". IET Image Processing, Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding 3 6 (2009): 315-328. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-71749106700&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1049/iet-ipr.2008.0201 Martins, Ricardo; Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pereira, Fernando. "Refining side information for improved transform domain wyner-ziv video coding". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 19 9 (2009): 1327-1341. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349466428&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2022783 Brites, Catarina; Pereira, Fernando. "Correlation noise modeling for efficient pixel and transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 18 9 (2008): 1177-1190. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-53949099397&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.924107 Brites, Catarina; Ascenso, João; Pedro, José Quintas; Pereira, Fernando. "Evaluating a feedback channel based transform domain Wyner-Ziv video codec". Signal Processing: Image Communication 23 4 (2008): 269-297. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-43449131520&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.image.2008.03.002
Thesis / Dissertation	Brites, Catarina. "Exploiting Correlation Noise Modeling in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2011. Brites, Catarina. "Advances on Distributed Video Coding". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2005.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - 2028/02/01	Efficient Compression and Analysis Techniques for Event-Based Streams Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Compressed Domain Face Recognition Assessment Co-supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 - 2021	How Fake is my Image? Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Networks Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Projection-based Dynamic Point Cloud Geometry Coding Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Performance Assessment of Deep Learning Based Image Coding Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Extracting distinctive features from light-field images Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Omnidirectional Video: Adaptive Coding based on Saliency Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Light Fields Imaging Coding Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Compression Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Graph-based Point Cloud Compression Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2017	Objective Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Views Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Light Field based 360º Panoramas Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Holographic Information Coding Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2012 - 2013	Perceptual Error Protection Using Distributed Video Coding Principles Co-supervisor	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	2022 European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) (2022/09/11 - 2022/09/14) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/01/19 - 2019/01/25	82nd JPEG Meeting (2019/01/19 - 2019/01/25) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016/06/06 - 2016/06/08	2016 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (2016/06/06 - 2016/06/08) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2014/09/01 - 2014/09/05	2014 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (2014/09/01 - 2014/09/05) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2007 - 2007	2007 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) (2007/11/07 - 2007/11/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2009/07/29 - 2009/07/30	Invited Talk Meeting	Encontro Ciência 2009
2009/02 - 2009/02	Invited Talk Meeting	1as Jornadas sobre Codificação de Imagem e Vídeo do Instituto de Telecomunicações Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/02/10	Light Field Processing for Immersive Systems (Thesis) Arguer	Maryam Faleh Awad Hamad (PhD) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2011 - Current	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	Member
2015 - 2019	EURASIP	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current	Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing	IEEE Signal Processing Society, United States
2018 - Current	Comissão Técnica 120 - Codificação de Imagem, Áudio e Informação Multimédia Member	Instituto Português da Qualidade, Portugal
2015/01/01 - 2019/01/01	Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	IEEE Signal Processing Society, United States
2017 - 2019	Young Scientists Seminar Member	Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2020 - Current	International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS)
2012 - Current	IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
2010 - Current	IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2019 - 2019	Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
2019 - 2019	National Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele)
2018 - 2019	International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS)
2018 - 2019	IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
2016 - 2018	IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2015 - 2018	International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS)
2015 - 2016	International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS)
2015 - 2015	National Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele)
2015 - 2015	Workshop on Distributed and Cooperative Visual Representation and Analysis (DCVRA)
2014 - 2014	International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)
2011 - 2014	European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2012 - 2012	Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
2012 - 2012	International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP)
2011 - 2012	IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2011 - 2011	International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP)
2009 - 2009	Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
2009 - 2009	International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS)
2009 - 2009	IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2007 - 2009	IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
2007 - 2008	European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2007 - 2007	Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2013 - Current	Programming	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/07	Sistemas Operativos	Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/01	Fundamentos de Arquitectura de Computadores	Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2019 - Current	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1941-0042)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2019 - Current	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1558-2205)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2018 - Current	Signal Processing Image Communication (0923-5965)	Elsevier
2015 - 2017	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1558-2205)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2011 - 2016	Signal Processing Image Communication (0923-5965)	Elsevier
2015 - 2015	EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (1687-5281)	Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
2015 - 2015	IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1558-2361)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2015 - 2015	Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (1573-0824)	Springer-Verlag
2015 - 2015	Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (1861-8219)	Springer-Verlag
2014 - 2015	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1941-0042)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2014 - 2014	International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (1550-1477)	SAGE Publications
2014 - 2014	APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (2048-7703)	Cambridge University Press
2013 - 2014	IET Image Processing (1751-9667)	Institution of Electrical Engineers
2013 - 2013	EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (1687-6180)	Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
2012 - 2013	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1941-0077)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2007 - 2013	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1558-2205)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2011 - 2011	Optical Engineering (1560-2303)	SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
2009 - 2011	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1941-0042)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2009 - 2009	IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1558-2361)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2009 - 2009	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1941-0077)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2008 - 2008	International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (1687-7586)	Hindawi Limited
2008 - 2008	EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (1687-5281)	Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
2008 - 2008	Signal Processing Image Communication (0923-5965)	Elsevier
2007 - 2007	IEEE Communications Letters (1558-2558)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2007 - 2007	IET Image Processing (1751-9667)	Institution of Electrical Engineers
2007 - 2007	Journal of Computer Science and Technology (1860-4749)	Springer-Verlag

Distinctions

Award

2019	Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
2012	Best Reviewer Award at 2012 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing

Other distinction

2021	Best Paper Award Finalist at 2021 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
2018	Top 8% Reviewer at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
2017	Best Paper Award Finalist at 2017 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing