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João Tiago Ribeiro Pinto. Completed the M.Sc. in Bioengineering - Biomedical Engineering in 2017 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022 at Universidade do Porto. Is currently Research Engineer at Vision-Box. Published 13 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books. Co-supervised 16 MSc dissertation(s). Has received 5 awards and/or honors. Participated as PhD Student Fellow in 2 projects, Research Fellow in 1 project, and Researcher in 3 projects. Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics. In their professional activities interacted with 88 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Signal Processing; Biosignals; Recognition; Template Security; Performance; Template Update; Biometrics; Wellbeing; Deep Learning.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Tiago Ribeiro Pinto

Citation names

  • Pinto, João Ribeiro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5F13-BBF3-1A46
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4956-5902
Google Scholar ID
hhF9Q8kAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
57195383702

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/12/21
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"Seamless Multimodal Biometrics for Continuous Personalised Wellbeing Monitoring" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2017
Concluded
 Mestrado em Bioengenharia - Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Continuous Biometric Identification on the Steering Wheel" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/08 - Current Researcher (Research) Vision-Box, Portugal
2022/04/19 - 2023/12/31 Researcher (Research) Bosch Portugal, Portugal
2017/10/10 - 2022/04/18 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/08/16 - 2018/07/01 MSc Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/02/01 - 2021/12/31 Easy Ride: Experience is everything
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039334
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2018/09/30 CHIC - Cooperative Holistic view on Internet and Content
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Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10/02 - 2023/12/31 ATLAS - Trusted Autonomous Navigation
01/RPA/2022-C679908640-00009887
Researcher
Submitted
2022/04/19 - 2023/09/30 THEIA: Automated Perception Driving
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047264
Researcher
Bosch Portugal, Portugal
Concluded
2019/06/01 - 2021/09/30 AUTOMOTIVE - Detecção automática multimodal de sonolência para veículos inteligentes
PTDC/EEI-EEE/30707/2017
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01 - 2019/12 INESC TEC - INESC Tecnologia e Ciência
154759UID
UID/EEA/50014/2019
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pinto, João Ribeiro; Cardoso, Jaime S.; Lourenço, André. "Deep Neural Networks for Biometric Identification Based on Non-Intrusive ECG Acquisitions". In The Biometric Computing: Recognition and Registration, 217-234. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019.
    Published • 10.1201/9781351013437-11
Conference paper
  1. Pinto, JR; Carvalho, P; Pinto, C; Sousa, A; Capozzi, L; Cardoso, JS. "Streamlining Action Recognition in Autonomous Shared Vehicles with an Audiovisual Cascade Strategy". 2022.
    10.5220/0010838900003124
  2. Neto, PC; Boutros, F; Pinto, JR; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS; Bengherabi, M; et al. "OCFR 2022: Competition on Occluded Face Recognition From Synthetically Generated Structure-Aware Occlusions". 2022.
    10.1109/ijcb54206.2022.10007963
  3. Arthur Matta; Pinto, João Ribeiro; Cardoso, Jaime S.; João Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Mixture-Based Open World Face Recognition". Paper presented in 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'21), 2021.
    Accepted • 10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_62
  4. Pinto, João Ribeiro. "MFR 2021: Masked Face Recognition Competition". 2021.
    10.1109/ijcb52358.2021.9484337
  5. Neto, PC; Boutros, F; Pinto, JR; Saffari, M; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "My Eyes Are Up Here: Promoting Focus on Uncovered Regions in Masked Face Recognition". 2021.
    10.1109/biosig52210.2021.9548320
  6. Capozzi, L; Carvalho, P; Sousa, A; Pinto, C; Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS. "Impact of Visual Noise in Activity Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks - An Experimental Approach". 2021.
    10.1109/prml52754.2021.9520734
  7. Neto, PC; Boutros, F; Pinto, JR; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "FocusFace: Multi-task Contrastive Learning for Masked Face Recognition". Paper presented in Workshop on Face and Gesture Analysis for COVID-19 (FG4COVID19), 2021.
    10.1109/fg52635.2021.9666792
  8. Leonardo Capozzi; João Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso; Ana Rebelo. "End-to-End Deep Sketch-to-Photo Matching Enforcing Realistic Photo Generation". Paper presented in 25th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’21), 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-93420-0_42
  9. Leonardo Capozzi; João Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso; Ana Rebelo. "Optimizing Person Re-Identification Using Generated Attention Masks". Paper presented in 25th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP’21), 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-93420-0_24
  10. Pinto, JR; Goncalves, T; Pinto, C; Sanhudo, L; Fonseca, J; Goncalves, F; Carvalho, P; et al. "Audiovisual Classification of Group Emotion Valence Using Activity Recognition Networks". Paper presented in 2020 IEEE 4th International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS), Genova, 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/ipas50080.2020.9334943
  11. Pinto, João Ribeiro. "Secure Triplet Loss for End-to-End Deep Biometrics". 2020.
    10.1109/iwbf49977.2020.9107958
  12. Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS. "Self-Learning with Stochastic Triplet Loss". 2020.
    10.1109/ijcnn48605.2020.9206799
  13. Sequeira, AF; Silva, W; Pinto, JR; Gonçalves, T; Cardoso, JS. "Interpretable Biometrics: Should We Rethink How Presentation Attack Detection is Evaluated?". 2020.
    10.1109/iwbf49977.2020.9107949
  14. Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS. "Explaining ECG Biometrics: Is It All In The QRS?". 2020.
  15. Pinto, João. "Don't You Forget About Me: A Study on Long-Term Performance in ECG Biometrics". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-31321-0_4
  16. Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS. "An End-to-End Convolutional Neural Network for ECG-Based Biometric Authentication". 2019.
    10.1109/btas46853.2019.9185990
  17. Pinto, João. "A Uniform Performance Index for Ordinal Classification with Imbalanced Classes". 2018.
    10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489327
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Pinto, João Ribeiro; Jaime S. Cardoso. "ECG Biometrics". In Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, 2021.
    In press • 10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1517-1
Journal article
  1. Celso Pereira; Ricardo Cruz; João N. D. Fernandes; Pinto, João Ribeiro; Jaime S. Cardoso. Corresponding author: Celso Pereira. "Weather and Meteorological Optical Range Classification for Autonomous Driving". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (2024):
    Open access • In press • 10.1109/TIV.2024.3387113
  2. Luís Emanuel Pereira Pinto Fernandes; João Fernandes; Mariana Calado; João Ribeiro Pinto; Ricardo Cerqueira; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Intrinsic Explainability for End-to-End Object Detection". IEEE Access (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3347038.
    10.1109/access.2023.3347038
  3. Sofia C. Beco; João Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Electrocardiogram lead conversion from single-lead blindly-segmented signals". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2022): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-02063-6.
    10.1186/s12911-022-02063-6
  4. Neto, PCP; Pinto, JR; Boutros, F; Damer, N; Sequeira, AF; Cardoso, JS. "Beyond Masks: On the Generalization of Masked Face Recognition Models to Occluded Face Recognition". IEEE ACCESS (2022):
    10.1109/access.2022.3199014
  5. Neto, PC; Gonçalves, T; Pinto, JR; Silva, W; Sequeira, AF; Ross, A; Cardoso, JS. "Explainable Biometrics in the Age of Deep Learning". CoRR (2022):
  6. Capozzi, L; Barbosa, V; Pinto, C; Pinto, JR; Pereira, A; Carvalho, PM; Cardoso, JS. "Toward Vehicle Occupant-Invariant Models for Activity Characterization". IEEE ACCESS (2022):
    10.1109/access.2022.3210973
  7. Ana F. Sequeira; Tiago Gonçalves; Wilson Silva; João Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso. "An exploratory study of interpretability for face presentation attack detection". IET Biometrics (2021): https://doi.org/10.1049/bme2.12045.
    10.1049/bme2.12045
  8. Pinto, Joao Ribeiro; Correia, Miguel V.; Cardoso, Jaime S.; Joao Ribeiro Pinto; Miguel V. Correia; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Secure Triplet Loss: Achieving Cancelability and Non-Linkability in End-to-End Deep Biometrics". IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (2021): 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tbiom.2020.3046620.
    In press • 10.1109/tbiom.2020.3046620
  9. Esteves, T; Pinto, JR; Ferreira, PM; Costa, PA; Rodrigues, LA; Antunes, I; Lopes, G; et al. "AUTOMOTIVE: A Case Study on AUTOmatic multiMOdal Drowsiness detecTIon for smart VEhicles". IEEE ACCESS (2021): 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3128016.
    10.1109/access.2021.3128016
  10. Sara P. Oliveira; João Ribeiro Pinto; Tiago Gonçalves; Rita Canas-Marques; Maria-João Cardoso; Hélder P. Oliveira; Jaime S. Cardoso. "Weakly-Supervised Classification of HER2 Expression in Breast Cancer Haematoxylin and Eosin Stained Slides". Applied Sciences 10 14 (2020): 4728-4728. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10144728.
    10.3390/app10144728
  11. Joao Ribeiro Pinto; Jaime S. Cardoso; Andre Lourenco. "Evolution, Current Challenges, and Future Possibilities in ECG Biometrics". IEEE Access 6 (2018): 34746-34776. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2849870.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2849870
  12. Pinto, João. "Towards a Continuous Biometric System Based on ECG Signals Acquired on the Steering Wheel". Sensors (2017): http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/10/2228.
    10.3390/s17102228
  13. Pinto, João. "A versatile method for bladder segmentation in computed tomography two-dimensional images under adverse conditions". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 231 9 (2017): 871-880. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954411917714294.
    10.1177/0954411917714294
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Pinto, João Ribeiro. "Seamless Multimodal Biometrics for Continuous Personalised Wellbeing Monitoring". PhD, Universidade do Porto, 2022.
  2. "Continuous Biometric Identification on the Steering Wheel". Master, Universidade do Porto, 2017.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/10/01 - 2023/11/16 Privacy-Preserving Face Detection: A Comprehensive Analysis of Face Anonymization Techniques
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Gonçalves de Andrade
 Ciência de Dados (Data Science) (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/07/14 Drawing the Line: Multimodal Lane Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles
Co-supervisor of Cláudia Maria Eira Ribeiro
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/10/14 Robust occupant action classification in shared autonomous vehicles
Co-supervisor of Vítor Hugo Pereira Barbosa
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/05/01 - 2022/07/26 Deep Implicit Representations in Autonomous Driving
Co-supervisor of João Pedro Pinto Mota
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/07/18 Inside Out: Fusing ECG and Face Information to Recognise Emotions
Co-supervisor of Mariana Silva Xavier
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/07/18 Going 2D: Exploring Learnable Bidimensional Representations for ECG Biometrics
Co-supervisor of Guilherme Tiritan Augusto Romano Barbosa
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/07/18 Deep Neural Networks for Face-based Emotion Recognition
Co-supervisor of Pedro Duarte Lopes
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/11/01 - 2022/07/07 Single-Wrist Electrocardiogram Acquisition Application in Biometrics
Co-supervisor of Erfan Omidvar
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/11/30 Sleepy Drivers: Drowsiness Monitoring Using ECG and Face Video
Co-supervisor of Telma Esteves
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/09/03 - 2021/07 Make My Heartbeat: Generation and Interlead Conversion of ECG Signals
Co-supervisor of Sofia Cardoso Beco
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2021/07 Feel My Heart: Emotion Recognition Using the Electrocardiogram
Co-supervisor of Inês Alexandra Teixeira Antunes de Magalhães
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/10/14 Open World Face Recognition
Co-supervisor of Arthur J. Matta
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/07/29 Changing Perspectives: Interlead Conversion in Electrocardiographic Signals
Co-supervisor of Carolina M. B. R. Afonso
 Engenharia de Redes e Sistemas Informáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/07/22 Face Recognition For Forensic Applications: Methods for Matching Facial Sketches to Mugshot Pictures
Co-supervisor of Leonardo G. Capozzi
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/07/22 Head Pose Estimation for Facial Biometric Recognition Systems
Co-supervisor of João Manuel Guedes Ferreira
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/09/17 - 2019/07/17 Don't You Forget About Me: Enhancing Long Term Performance in Electrocardiogram Biometrics
Co-supervisor of Gabriel C. Lopes
 Bioengenharia (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/03/22 Robust Detection and Tracking of Players and Ball in Padel Matches: A Computer Vision Approach
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Pedro Fontes Vilhena e Mascarenhas (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/10/03 Learning to detect defects in industrial production lines from a few examples
(Thesis) Main arguer
 André Filipe Vila Chã Afonso (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/10/03 Don’t look away! Keeping the human in the loop with a interactive active learning platform
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Fábio Manuel Taveira da Cunha (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/09/13 Application of Explainable AI in Deep Learning Models
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mariana Margalho Alves Calado (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/02/22 Synthetic Data in Semantic Segmentation and Lane Estimation for Autonomous Driving
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Filipe Delgado Lemos de Matos (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 EAB Max Snijder Award
European Association for Biometrics (EAB), Netherlands
2021 Best Ph.D. Student Live Presentation
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2020 Computers Journal Best Paper Award
8th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2020), Portugal
2020 Best Session Paper
Fourth IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS 2020), Italy
2012 Prémio Católica 2012: Ciência e Saúde (1st Prize)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal