André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda (F811-146F-4EE9)

Curriculum Vitae

André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda

André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrotechnical Engineering from Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal, in 2013 and 2016, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2021. He has been a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações since 2011, where he currently holds a Post-Doctoral position. His main research interests include multimedia signal processing and coding, with particular focus on point cloud coding with deep learning. He has authored several publications in top conferences and journals in this field, and is actively contributing to the standardization efforts of JPEG and MPEG on learning-based point cloud coding.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda

Citation names

Guarda, André
Guarda, André F. R.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F811-146F-4EE9
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5996-1074

Email addresses

andre.guarda@lx.it.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://www.it.pt/Members/Index/21911 (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/02 - 2021/11 Concluded	Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Pass with Distinction and Honour
2016 Concluded	Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal "Contributions to HEVC Prediction for Medical Image Compression" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2013 Concluded	Engenharia Eletrotécnica (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal "ProMap - Processamento de mapas de profundidade para compressão de vídeo 3D" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01 - 2024/12	Postdoc (Research)	Instituto de Telecomunicações Delegação de Leiria, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/01 - 2024/12	Deep learning-based Point Cloud Representation PTDC/EEI-COM/1125/2021 Post-doc Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2021/04/30	Efficient lossy and lossless compression of point clouds SFRH/BD/118218/2016 PhD Student Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/12 - 2017/02	Efficient lossy and lossless compression of point clouds Projeto UID/50008 Research Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/04/01 - 2016/07/31	MEDICOMP - Spatiotemporal compression of volumetric medical images UID/EEA/50008/2013 Research Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações Delegação de Leiria, Portugal	Instituto de Telecomunicações Concluded
2014/09/15 - 2015/03/31	UDICMI - Ultra High Definition Image Communication for Medical Imaging QREN CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002022 Scientific Initiation Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações Delegação de Leiria, Portugal	QREN Concluded
2013/09/15 - 2014/09/14	UDICMI - Ultra High Definition Image Communication for Medical Imaging QREN CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002022 Scientific Initiation Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações Delegação de Leiria, Portugal	QREN Concluded
2011/10/01 - 2012/09/30	Evaluation of the use of video-plus-depth cameras - Integration into Research Grant Fellow Instituto de Telecomunicações Delegação de Leiria, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper

Seleem, Abdelrahman; Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-Based Compressed Domain Point Cloud Classification". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kuala Lumpur, 2023.
Published • 10.1109/icip49359.2023.10222160
Ruivo, Manuel; Guarda, André; Pereira, Fernando. "Learning-Based Rate Control for Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kuala Lumpur, 2023.
Published • 10.1109/icip49359.2023.10222811
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Point Cloud Geometry and Color Coding in a Learning-Based Ecosystem for JPEG Coding Standards". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kuala Lumpur, 2023.
Published • 10.1109/icip49359.2023.10222190
Ruivo, Manuel; Guarda, André; Pereira, Fernando. "Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding Rate Control". Paper presented in Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, 2023.
Published • 10.1109/dcc55655.2023.00079
Seleem, Abdelrahman; Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Impact of Conventional and Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding on Deep Learning-based Classification Performance". Paper presented in IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Naples, 2022.
Published • 10.1109/ism55400.2022.00016
Coelho, Luis; Guarda, André; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Joint Geometry and Color Coding: Designing a Perceptually-Driven Differentiable Training Distortion Metric". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, Naples, 2022.
Published • 10.1109/bigmm55396.2022.00011
Ruivo, Manuel; Guarda, André; Pereira, Fernando. "Double-Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding with Adaptive Super-Resolution". Paper presented in European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, Lisbon, 2022.
Published • 10.1109/euvip53989.2022.9922784
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Point Cloud Geometry Scalable Coding With a Single End-to-End Deep Learning Model". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, 2020.
10.1109/ICIP40778.2020.9191021
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding with Resolution Scalability". Paper presented in IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Tampere, 2020.
10.1109/MMSP48831.2020.9287060
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding: RD Control Through Implicit and Explicit Quantization". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), London, 2020.
10.1109/icmew46912.2020.9106022
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Coding: a Behavior and Performance Study". Paper presented in IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), Rome, 2019.
10.1109/EUVIP47703.2019.8946211
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Point Cloud Coding: Adopting a Deep Learning-based Approach". Paper presented in Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Ningbo, 2019.
10.1109/PCS48520.2019.8954537
Guarda, André; Bioucas-Dias, José; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Improving Point Cloud to Surface Reconstruction with Generalized Tikhonov Regularization". Paper presented in IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Luton, 2017.
10.1109/MMSP.2017.8122287
Santos, João M.; Guarda, André; da Silva Cruz, Luis A.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sérgio M. M.. "Compression of medical images using MRP with bi-directional prediction and histogram packing". Paper presented in Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Nuremberg, 2016.
10.1109/PCS.2016.7906386
Santos, João M.; Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sérgio M. M.. "Contributions to Lossless Coding of Medical Images using Minimum Rate Predictors". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Quebec City, 2015.
10.1109/ICIP.2015.7351340
Guarda, André; Santos, João M.; Graziosi, Danilo B.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sérgio M. M.. "A Novel Trilateral Finter Technique for Depth Map Processing in 3D Video Coding". Paper presented in 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), Budapest, 2014.
10.1109/3DTV.2014.6874731

Journal article

Guarda, André; Ruivo, Manuel; Coelho, Luís; Seleem, Abdelrahman; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Coding and Super-Resolution: a Joint Geometry and Color Approach". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2023): 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2023.3338081.
Published • 10.1109/tmm.2023.3338081
Abdelrahman Seleem; André F. R. Guarda; Nuno M. M. Rodrigues; Fernando Pereira. "Deep Learning-Based Compressed Domain Multimedia for Man and Machine: A Taxonomy and Application to Point Cloud Classification". IEEE Access (2023): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3332599.
10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3332599
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Adaptive Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding". IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing 15 2 (2021): 415-430. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/30381.
10.1109/JSTSP.2020.3047520
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Neighborhood Adaptive Loss Function for Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Coding with Implicit and Explicit Quantization". IEEE Multimedia - - (2020): -------. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/30380.
10.1109/MMUL.2020.3046691
Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. "Constant Size Point Cloud Clustering: a Compact, Non-Overlapping Solution". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 23 1 (2020): 77-91. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/29909.
10.1109/TMM.2020.2974325
Guarda, André; João Santos; da Silva Cruz, Luis A.; Pedro A. Amado Assuncao; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Faria, Sérgio M. M.. "A Method to Improve HEVC Lossless Coding of Volumetric Medical Images". Signal Processing: Image Communication 59 (2017): 96-104. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/20309.
10.1016/j.image.2017.02.002

Other

Other output

DL-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding Software Availability. MPEG document number: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG7 M57556. 2021. Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando.
DL-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding Software Availability. JPEG document number: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG1 M92003. 2021. Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando.
IT/IST/IPLeiria Response to the Call for Evidence on JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding. JPEG document number: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG1 M90019. 2021. Guarda, André; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M.; Pereira, Fernando. https://www.it.pt/Publications/NonRefereedPublication/51.