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Valter Costa is a PhD researcher in Computer Vision at INEGI. Currently, he develops artificial vision solutions for the industry, including object identification and recognition, visual inspection, object tracking and thermographic video/image processing . During his PhD he developed a patented technology - WO2018078600 - for anti-counterfeiting of wines based on the recognition of images of cork stoppers. For two years, he worked on the development of electronic products in the area of embedded electronic systems, microcontrollers and the development of PCBs, also at INEGI. During his academic career, he was a teaching assistant at FEUP in two programming units, having acquired a lot of experience at this level. Still, he is a robotics enthusiast having participated several times in the Portuguese Robotics Open having won the 1st place in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 in the autonomous driving competition.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Valter Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Valter

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F1E-8F6B-1335
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4769-8843
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j8V2ECEAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id
P-4665-2016
Scopus Author Id
57020955900

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09 - 2020/04
Concluded
 Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (Doutoramento)
Major in Computer Vision
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Vision Methods to Find Uniqueness Within a Class of Objects" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2009/09 - 2015/07
Concluded
 Master in Electrical and Computers Engineering (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Robotics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Projeto e casos de estudo em robótica educativa envolvendo visão em tempo real" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/09 - 2014/07 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/11 - 2017/07 Electrical Engineering - Electronic product development Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal
2014/01 - 2014/06 Scientific Initiation Scholarship - Robotics Tutor at High School Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/11/01 - 2019/04/30 SciTech – Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries – Research Line: Advanced Materials Processing
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022_1
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2014/06/30 Robôs em movimento - LIACC
PEC 137
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/05/01 - Current FIBR3D - Processos híbridos baseados em Fabrico Aditivo de compósitos de matriz termoplástica reforçados com fibras longas ou contínuas
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016414
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - Current MAGIC_4.0 - Afinação de grão por correntes eletromagnéticas rotativas e tecnologias da indústria 4.0 para a fundição por cera perdida
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-038128
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Costa, V.; Cebola, P.; Sousa, A.; Reis, A.. Design hints for efficient robotic vision - Lessons learned from a robotic platform. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_56
  2. Costa, V.; Cunha, T.; Oliveira, M.; Sobreira, H.; Sousa, A.. Robotics: Using a competition mindset as a tool for learning ROS. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-27146-0_58
Book chapter
  1. Costa, V; Rossetti, RJ; Sousa, A. "Simulator for Teaching Robotics, ROS and Autonomous Driving in a Competitive Mindset". 2019.
    10.4018/978-1-5225-8060-7.ch033
Conference paper
  1. Costa, V; Cebola, P; Tavares, P; Morais, V; Sousa, A. "Teaching Mobile Robotics Using the Autonomous Driving Simulator of the Portuguese Robotics Open". 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-35990-4_37
  2. Valter Costa; Armando Sousa; Ana Reis. "CBIR for a wine anti-counterfeiting system using imagery from cork stoppers". 2018.
    10.23919/cisti.2018.8399225
  3. Costa, V; Sousa, A; Reis, A. "Image-Based Object Spoofing Detection". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-030-05288-1_15
  4. Costa, V; Santos, D; Sousa, A. "SQUIRLROB: A DO IT YOURSELF ARDUINO AND SMARTPHONE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PLATFORMS FOR ROBOTICS EDUCATION". 2018.
    10.21125/inted.2018.1068
  5. Costa, V; Resende, J; Sousa, P; Sousa, A; Lau, N; Reis, L. "FOSTERING EFFICIENT LEARNING IN THE TECHNICAL FIELD OF ROBOTICS BY CHANGING THE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING COMPETITION OF THE PORTUGUESE ROBOTICS OPEN". 2017.
    10.21125/iceri.2017.2049
  6. Costa, V.; Rossetti, R.J.F.; Sousa, A.. "Autonomous driving simulator for educational purposes". 2016.
    10.1109/CISTI.2016.7521461
  7. Costa, V; Sousa, A; Cunha, T; Morais, C. "ROBOTICS: A TEACHING TOOL FOR STEM EDUCATION IN HIGH SCHOOL". 2015.
Journal article
  1. Ricardo Fitas; Bernardo Rocha; Valter Costa; Armando Sousa. "Design and Comparison of Image Hashing Methods: A Case Study on Cork Stopper Unique Identification". Journal of Imaging (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7030048.
    10.3390/jimaging7030048
  2. Valter Costa; Armando Sousa; Ana Reis. "Cork as a Unique Object: Device, Method, and Evaluation". Applied Sciences (2018): http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/11/2150.
    10.3390/app8112150
  3. Costa, V; Cebola, P; Sousa, A; Reis, A. "Design of an Embedded Multi-Camera Vision System-A Case Study in Mobile Robotics". ROBOTICS (2018):
    10.3390/robotics7010012
  4. Costa, V; Sousa, A; Reis, A. "Preventing Wine Counterfeiting by Individual Cork Stopper Recognition Using Image Processing Technologies". JOURNAL OF IMAGING (2018):
    10.3390/jimaging4040054
  5. Costa, V.; Rossetti, R.; Sousa, A.. "Simulator for teaching robotics, ROS and autonomous driving in a competitive mindset". International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 13 4 (2017): 19-32. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028771359&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4018/ijthi.2017100102

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Ramos Costa Valter Joaquim; Miranda De Sousa Armando Jorge; Lourenço Reis Ana Rosanete; Celina Robert Loyens Dirk Gerard. 2018. "Device And Method For Identifying A Cork Stopper, And Respective Kit".
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/02 - 2020/07 Sistema de Auxílio à Colagem no Processo de Fundição por Cera Perdida
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07 Computer Vision System for Tactode Programming
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/09 Inspeção Visual Automática de Peças Fundidas
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/02 Optical Character Recognition of Alphanumeric Codes of Ceramic Bowls used in Lost-wax Casting
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/02 - 2018/09 Visão artificial na inspeção e caraterização de defeitos superficiais em peças fundidas
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/07 Vision-based Feature matching as a tool for Robotic Localization
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019/07/19 Análise Temporal da Ocupação de Indivíduos numa Cena por Visão Computacional
(Thesis) Arguer
 Mauro Costa Soares (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2019 1st place in Portuguese Robotics Open - Autonomous Driving competition
2018 1st place in Portuguese Robotics Open - Autonomous Driving competition
2017 1st place in Portuguese Robotics Open - Autonomous Driving competition