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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
VINICIUS CORRÊA ALVES DA SILVA

Citation names

  • SILVA, VINICIUS

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
601C-EEEB-4478
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0082-343X

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Mirroring and recognizing emotions through facial expressions for a Robokind platform" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/21 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/03/01 - Current Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/06/27 - 2017/02/10 Engineer in the area of In circuit test (ICT). Aptiv Automotive Systems Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Santos, P.; Silva, V.; Sena Esteves, J.; Pereira, A.P.; Soares, F.. HiZeca: A Serious Game for Emotions Recognition. 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-030-79168-1_35
  2. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Pereira, A.P.; Matos, D.. Adequacy of Game Scenarios for an Object with Playware Technology to Promote Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_44
  3. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Pereira, A.P.. PlayCube: Designing a Tangible Playware Module for Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-02053-8_80
  4. Santos, P.; Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Simões, A.. Facial Virtual Tracking: A System to Mirror Emotions. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-30244-3_7
  5. Silva, V.; Ramos, J.; Soares, F.; Novais, P.; Arezes, P.; Sousa, F.; Silva, J.; Santos, A.. iBoccia: A framework to monitor the Boccia gameplay in elderly. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_48
  6. Silva, V.; Leite, P.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Costa, S.. Imitate me!—preliminary tests on an upper members gestures recognition system. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-43671-5_32
  7. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Figueiredo, J.; Santos, C.; Pereira, A.P.. Happiness and sadness recognition system—preliminary results with an Intel RealSense 3D sensor. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-43671-5_33
Book chapter
  1. SILVA, VINICIUS. "Building a Behaviour Architecture: An Approach for Promoting Human-Robot Interaction". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-319-91334-6_6
  2. SILVA, VINICIUS. "An Application to Promote Emotional Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-030-02762-9_30
  3. SILVA, VINICIUS. "Building a Hybrid Approach for a Game Scenario Using a Tangible Interface in Human Robot Interaction". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-030-02762-9_25
Conference paper
  1. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Vercelli, G.. "Human action recognition using an image-based temporal and spatial representation". 2020.
    10.1109/ICUMT51630.2020.9222408
  2. Calado, A.; Marcutti, S.; Silva, V.; Vercelli, G.; Novais, P.; Soares, F.. "Towards a virtual coach for boccia: Developing a virtual augmented interaction based on a boccia simulator". 2020.
  3. Silva, V.; Queirós, S.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Matos, D.. "A supervised autonomous approach for robot intervention with children with autism spectrum disorder". 2019.
    10.5220/0007958004970503
  4. Calado, A.; Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Novais, P.; Arezes, P.. "Ball detection for boccia game analysis". 2019.
    10.1109/CoDIT.2019.8820308
  5. Figueira, C.; Silva, J.; Santos, A.; Sousa, F.; Silva, V.; Ramos, J.; Soares, F.; Novais, P.; Arezes, P.. "iBoccia: Monitoring elderly while playing Boccia gameplay". 2017.
  6. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.. "Mirroring and recognizing emotions through facial expressions for a RoboKind platform". 2017.
    10.1109/ENBENG.2017.7889480
  7. Silva, V.; Ramos, J.; Soares, F.; Novais, P.; Arezes, P.; Figueira, C.; Silva, J.; Santos, A.; Sousa, F.. "A wearable and non-wearable approach for gesture recognition-Initial results". 2017.
    10.1109/ICUMT.2017.8255120
  8. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Figueiredo, J.; Leao, C.P.; Santos, C.; Pereira, A.P.. "Real-time emotions recognition system". 2016.
    10.1109/ICUMT.2016.7765357
  9. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.. "Mirroring emotion system-on-line synthesizing facial expressions on a robot face". 2016.
    10.1109/ICUMT.2016.7765359
  10. Silva, V.; Leite, P.; Soares, F.; Lopes, G.; Esteves, J.S.; Garrido, P.. "Controlling an equilibrist lego robot". 2015.
Journal article
  1. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Leão, C.P.; Esteves, J.S.; Vercelli, G.. "Skeleton driven action recognition using an image-based spatial-temporal representation and convolution neural network". Sensors 21 13 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85108441065&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/s21134342
  2. Silva, V.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.; Santos, C.P.; Pereira, A.P.. "Fostering emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder". Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 5 10 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85115823661&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/mti5100057
  3. Soares, F.O.; Costa, S.C.; Santos, C.P.; Pereira, A.P.S.; Hiolle, A.R.; Silva, V.. "Socio-emotional development in high functioning children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a humanoid robot". Interaction Studies 20 2 (2019): 205-233. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85073035500&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1075/is.15003.cos
  4. SILVA, VINICIUS. "Developing a framework for promoting physical activity in a Boccia game scenario". (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2018.1538816.
    10.1080/21681163.2018.1538816
  5. Vilaça, R.; Ramos, J.; Silva, V.; Sepúlveda, J.; Esteves, J.S.. "Mobile platform motion control system based on human gestures". International Journal of Mechatronics and Applied Mechanics 2017 1 (2017): 267-273. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029814404&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  6. Freitas, H.; Costa, P.; Silva, V.; Pereira, A.P.; Soares, F.; Esteves, J.S.. "Using a humanoid robot as the promoter of the interaction with children in the context of educational games". International Journal of Mechatronics and Applied Mechanics 2017 1 (2017): 282-288. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029816957&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Distinctions

Award

2021 Best Abstract
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016 Best Student Paper Award
IEEE, United States
2015 Best Paper Award of The 2015 International Conference of Computer Science and Engineering
International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong SAR China