Personal identification

Full name

Júlio Castro Lopes

Citation names

• Castro Lopes, Júlio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

CC12-FD7E-D0BC

ORCID iD

0000-0003-3354-8956

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2027 Ongoing	Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020 - 2022 Concluded	Visão por Computador (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Human Action and Facial Expressions Recognition in a VR game" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2017 - 2020 Concluded	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal	16

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - 2027/02	Bolsa de Investigação	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação em Digitalização e Robótica Inteligente, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação em Digitalização e Robótica Inteligente, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/06 - Current	Centro para a Valorização do Barroso Património Agrícola Mundial - Valor Barroso ValorBarroso PhD Student Fellow
2022/09 - 2022/11	xFORMAL - Informal and Non-Formal E-Learning for Cultural Heritage 101008184 Researcher Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação em Digitalização e Robótica Inteligente, Portugal	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021 - 2024	GreenHealth - Estratégias digitais e baseadas em ativos biológicos para melhorar o bem-estar e promover a saúde verde Norte-01-0145-FEDER-000042 Research Fellow Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação em Digitalização e Robótica Inteligente, Portugal	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023 - 2024	Artixram null Other	Ongoing
2023/02 - 2023/06	OpenZDM Horizon Europe - HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 Other	Ongoing

Publications

Conference paper	Ana Sofia Rodrigues; Júlio Castro Lopes; Rui Pedro Lopes. "Eye Importance in Facial Expression Recognition". 2024. 10.1109/segah61285.2024.10639602 Júlio Castro Lopes; Isaac Van-Deste; Rui Pedro Lopes. "Exploring Human Action Recognition for Rehabilitation Game Application". 2024. 10.1109/segah61285.2024.10639556 youssef bel haj yahia; Castro Lopes, Júlio; Eduardo Bezerra; Pedro João Rodrigues; Rui Pedro Lopes. "Assessing the 3D Position of a Car with a Single 2D Camera Using Siamese Networks". Paper presented in OL2A 2022, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53036-4_7 Jecé Xavier Neto; Castro Lopes, Júlio; Thiago França Naves; Rui Pedro Lopes. "User-Centered Dashboard Design in Serious VR Game for Cognitive Rehabilitation". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (CCCE 2024), 2024. Published Júlio Castro Lopes; João Vieira; Isaac Van-Deste; Rui Pedro Lopes. "An Architecture for Capturing and Synchronizing Heart Rate and Body Motion for Stress Inference". Paper presented in 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2023. 10.1109/segah57547.2023.10253815 Júlio Castro Lopes; João Vieira; Alexandre Antunes; Leonel Deusdado; Rui Pedro Lopes. "Automatic Annotation of Heart Rate Sequences". Paper presented in 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2023. 10.1109/segah57547.2023.10253814 Deusdado, Leonel; Lopes, Rui Pedro; Antunes, Alexandre ; Castro Lopes, Júlio. "Measuring Vital Signs for Virtual Reality Health Application". Paper presented in ICICT 2023, Londres, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-981-99-3243-6_50 Castro Lopes, Júlio; Lopes, Rui Pedro. "A Review of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Methods for Serious Games". Paper presented in OL2A 2022, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-23236-7_11 Rodrigues, Ana Sofia Figueiredo; Castro Lopes, Júlio; Lopes, Rui Pedro; Teixeira, Luís F.. "Classification of Facial Expressions Under Partial Occlusion for VR Games". Paper presented in OL2A 2022, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-23236-7_55 Castro Lopes, Júlio; Rodrigues, Pedro João Soares. "Techniques to Reject Atypical Patterns". Paper presented in OL2A 2022, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-23236-7_1
Conference poster	Lima, Arthur A J; HERNANDEZ, ZULIMAR; Figueiredo, Tomás de; Lopes, Rui Pedro; Castro Lopes, Júlio; Paz González, Antonio. "A Literature Review on the Use of ESA Satellite Data for Soil Organic Carbon Estimation Models with Artificial Intelligence Tools". Paper presented in ESA Symposium on Earth Observation for Soil Protection and Restoration, 2024.
Journal article	Youssef Yahia; Júlio Castro Lopes; Rui Pedro Lopes. "Computer Vision Algorithms for 3D Object Recognition and Orientation: A Bibliometric Study". Electronics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12204218. 10.3390/electronics12204218

Award

2024	2 place solution in the hackathon: ESA EO4SoilProtection 2024: Predicting SOC Density ESA Centre for Earth Observation, Italy
2023	Best Poster Award - Paper: Automatic Annotation of Heart Rate Sequences 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, Greece