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Paulo Costa is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science Engineering, at the Superior School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic of Leiria (Portugal), and actually teaching and being responsible for several curricular units. At the present, he is a researcher at the Informatics and Communications Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. He received the PhD degree in 2017 by the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and the bachelor’s and master’s degrees by the University of Coimbra. His main research topics are image processing and computer vision, specifically in segmentation, pattern recognition (feature extraction) in the field of object recognition using ANN, HMM and simulation techniques. He is the author of several articles in magazines and conferences in areas related to accessibility and computer vision, having also participated in several projects related to these areas. Other research interests include assistive technologies for the visually impaired and ITS services.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Paulo Costa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1012-2474-2C4D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5952-2709
Google Scholar ID
5ydm91gAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
7201895673

Email addresses

  • paulo.costa@ipleiria.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 244820300 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão. Campus 2, Morro do Lena - Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4163, 2411-901, Leiria, Leiria, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017
Concluded
 Informática (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
 Aprovado c/ distinção e louvor
2005
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 Muito Bom
1990 - 1994
Concluded
 Engenharia Física (Licenciatura)
Major in Ramo Instrumentação
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 Bom
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
1998 - 2017 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024 - Current Director of the Technological Specialisation Course in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2017 - Current Integrated Member Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/31 - 2023/06/30 STC 4.0 HP - New Generation of Stoneware Tableware in Ceramic 4.0 by High Pressure Casting Robot work cell
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069654
Researcher
European Regional Development Fund
2020/04 - 2023/03 SmartSIGN S2X (SI I&DT Empresas em Copromoção nº 39693) da SNSV e IPLeiria
Project nº39693
Researcher
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2021/03/01 - 2022/02/28 VARCam - Virtual and Augmented Reality Cameras
Exploratory Projects Contest 2021 - CIIC
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2007 - 2010 SmartVision: active vision for the blind
FCT PTDC/EIA/73633/2006
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Costa, Paulo. "P Costa, H Fernandes, J Barroso, H Paredes, LJ Hadjileontiadis, "Obstacle detection and avoidance module for the blind", Proceedings of the World Automation Congress (WAC), 2016, 1-6. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7582990/)". 2016.
  2. Costa, Paulo. "Paulo Costa, Hugo Paredes, Vitor Filipe, João Barroso, (2014). "Integrating Computer Vision Object Recognition with Location Based Services for the Blind". 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 22 - 27 June 2014, Creta Maris, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050914000040).". 2014.
  3. Costa, Paulo. "Fernandes, H.; Filipe, V.; Costa, P.; Barroso, J.. 2013. "Location based services for the blind supported by RFID technology". 5th International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-Exclusion, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain. Published by Procedia Computer Science. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050914000040)". 2013.
  4. Costa, Paulo. "Paulo Costa; Hugo Fernandes; Paulo Martins; João Barroso; Leontios Hadjileontiadis; (2012). "Obstacle detection using stereo imaging to assist the navigation of visually impaired people". DSAI 2012 - 4th International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, Porto, Portugal, 2012. ISBN: 978-989-704-089-4.". 2012.
  5. Costa, Paulo. "Costa, P.; Fernandes H.; Vasconcelos, V.; Coelho, P.; Barroso, J.; Hadjileontiadis, L.; (2011). "Landmarks detection to assist the navigation of visually impaired people", proceedings of HCI International 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6763/2011, 293-300, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21616-9_33.". 2011.
  6. Costa, Paulo. "Fernandes, H., Costa, P., Filipe, V., Hadjileontiadis, L., Barroso, J., (2010) "Stereo Vision in blind navigation assistance", Proceedings of the World Automation Congress 2010 - WAC2010, Kobe, Japan. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5665579&queryText%3Dbarroso+douro).". 2010.
  7. Costa, Paulo. "Paulo Costa, Hugo Fernandes, João Barroso, Paulo Coelho, and Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis, (2010) "Fiducials Marks detection to Assist Visually Impaired peoble Navigation", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI2010), Oxford, United Kingdom.". 2010.
  8. Costa, Paulo. "Costa, P., Barroso, J., Coelho, P. and Hadjileontiadis, L., (2009) "Advanced Image Processing for Computer Vision Systems for Visually Impaired Navigation", Proc. International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, Lisbon, Portugal, June 3-5.". 2009.
  9. Costa, Paulo. "Penedo, A., Costa, P., Fernandes, H., Pereira, A. and Barroso, J. (2009) "Image segmentation in systems of stereo vision for visually impaired people", Proc. International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion, Lisbon, Portugal, June 3-5.". 2009.
Journal article
  1. Costa, Paulo. "Fábio Gaspar, Daniel Carreira, Nuno Rodrigues, Rolando Miragaia, José Ribeiro, Paulo Costa, António Pereira. “Synthetic image generation for effective deep learning model training for ceramic industry applications”. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 143, 1 March 2025, 110019, ISSN 0952-1976. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.110019)". (2025):
  2. Costa, Paulo. "Daniel Carreira, Nuno Rodrigues, Rolando Miragaia, Paulo Costa,José Ribeiro, Fábio Gaspar, António Pereira. “A branched Convolutional Neural Network for RGB-D image classification of ceramic pieces”. Applied Soft Computing, 12 August 2024, 112088, ISSN 1568-4946. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2024.112088)". (2024):
  3. Costa, Paulo. "Cumbajin, E.; Rodrigues, N.; Costa, P.; Miragaia, R.; Frazão, L.; Costa, N.; Fernández-Caballero, A.; Carneiro, J.; Buruberri, L.H.; Pereira, "A. Systematic Review on Deep Learning with CNNs Applied to Surface Defect Detection". J. Imaging 2023, 9, 193. (https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9100193)". (2023):
  4. Costa, Paulo. "Cumbajin, E.; Rodrigues, N.; Costa, P.; Miragaia, R.; Frazão, L.; Costa, N.; Fernández-Caballero, A.; Carneiro, J.; Buruberri, L.H.; Pereira, "A. Systematic Review on Deep Learning with CNNs Applied to Surface Defect Detection". J. Imaging 2023, 9, 193. (https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9100193)". (2023):
  5. Costa, Paulo. "1. Cumbajin E, Rodrigues N, Costa P, Miragaia R, Frazão L, Costa N, Fernández-Caballero A, Carneiro J, Buruberri LH, Pereira A. A Real-Time Automated Defect Detection System for Ceramic Pieces Manufacturing Process Based on Computer Vision with Deep Learning. Sensors. 2024; 24(1):232. (https://doi.org/10.3390/s24010232)". (2023):
  6. Costa, Paulo. "Gaspar F., Guerreiro V., Loureiro P., Costa P., Mendes S. and Rabadão C., "Prototype to Increase Crosswalk Safety by Integrating Computer Vision with ITS-G5 Technologies". Information 2020, 11(11), 503. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11110503". (2020):
  7. Costa, Paulo. "Fernandes, H., Costa P., Filipe, V., Paredes, H., Barroso, "A review of assistive spatial orientation and navigation technologies for the visually impaired", International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-017-0570-8". (2017):
  8. Costa, Paulo. "Costa, P.; Barroso J.; Fernandes, H.; Hadjileontiadis, L.; (2012). "Using Peano-Hilbert space filling curves for fast bidimensional ensemble EMD realization", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 21 August 2012. (https://asp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1687-6180-2012-181).". (2012):
  9. Costa, Paulo. "Costa, P.; Fernandes, H.; Vasconcelos, V.; Coelho, P.; Barroso, J.; Hadjileontiadis, L.; (2011) "Fiducials marks detection to assist visually impaired people navigation", JDCTA: International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 342-350, AICIT, 2011, doi:10.4156/jdcta.vol5.issue5.38.". (2011):
Journal issue
  1. Costa, Paulo. "Rodrigues, Nuno; Paulo Costa. "Machine Intelligence in Image and Video Analysis". Applied Sciences 12 16". (2022):
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Desenvolvimento de Software para Marketplaces
Supervisor
 Master in Computer Science - Mobile Computing
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2022 - Current Vulnerability Management Gamification
Supervisor
 Master in Computer Science - Mobile Computing
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2022 - Current E-Watcher
Supervisor
 Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2022 - Current Deteção automática de defeitos em peças cerâmicas
Co-supervisor
 Master in Computer Science - Mobile Computing
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2021 - Current Internship at Be One Solutions
Supervisor
 Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics (Master)
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022 BEDRIVEN: PLATAFORMA DE MOBILIDADE
(Thesis) Arguer
 João Daniel Oliveira Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 Manutenção de equipamentos hospitalares - Estágio na Empresa ATM/HCP
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Raquel Oliveira Calisto Albuquerque (Master)
2020 SERVIÇO WEB PARA CLASSIFICAR IMAGENS HISTOLÓGICAS DO CANCRO DA MAMA
(Thesis) Arguer
 Daniel Filipe de Oliveira Loja (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Águeda, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022 - Current SETIT 2022 - Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications Genoa, Italy

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/07/29 - Current Member of the jury for the evaluation and selection of candidates for the award of 1 research grant Project: STC 4.0 HP - New Generation of Stoneware Tableware in Ceramic 4.0 by High Pressure Casting Robot work cell Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal
2022/06/27 - Current Member of the jury for the evaluation and selection of candidates for the award of 1 research grant Project: STC 4.0 HP - New Generation of Stoneware Tableware in Ceramic 4.0 by High Pressure Casting Robot work cell Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal
2021/10/27 - Current Member of the jury for the evaluation and selection of candidates for the award of 1 research grant Project: VARCam - Virtual and Augmented Reality Cameras Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal
2021/06/18 - Current Member of the jury for the evaluation and selection of candidates for the award of 1 research grant Project: STC 4.0 HP - New Generation of Stoneware Tableware in Ceramic 4.0 by High Pressure Casting Robot work cell Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal
2020/07/28 - Current Member of the jury for the evaluation and selection of candidates for the award of 1 research grant Project: SmartSIGN S2X - Desenvolvimento de sinalização rodoviária inteligente Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Centro de Investigação em Informática e Comunicações, Portugal