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Alexandra Pereira Nunes completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering on 2024/10/22 from the University of Porto Faculty of Engineering and Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2017 from the University of Porto. She is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science and an Invited Assistant Professor at FEUP. Published 3 articles in specialized journals. Participates and/or participated as a Research Fellow in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering Sciences and Technologies with an emphasis on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on Robotics. She interacted with 15 collaborators who co-authored scientific works in her professional activities. In her Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the contextualization of scientific and technological production are: Dataset; Odometry; Computer vision; computer vision; machine learning; classification; segmentation; mosaicking.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandra Pereira Nunes

Citation names

  • Nunes, Alexandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A010-29AB-FC53
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4142-3144

Email addresses

  • apn@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • INESC TEC. Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
  • Rua David Mourão Ferreira, 25, RC Esq, 4435-202, Rio Tinto, Gondomar, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Robotics and Automatic Control

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/10/22
Concluded
Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Major in Robótica
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Underwater Reconstruction and Object Recognition" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017
Concluded
Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"Mapeamento e odometria visual em ambiente subáquatico " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/12/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2023/11/02 - 2024/11/30 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2023/11/01 Research Assistant (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2017/05/02 - 2019/08/31 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/03/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/02/28 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Other

Designation Funders
2018 - Current AutoMon
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Research Fellow
Concluded
2017 - Current STRONGMAR
692427
Research Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Gaspar, AR; Nunes, A; Matos, A. "Limit Characterization for Visual Place Recognition in Underwater Scenes". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_6
  2. Nunes, A; Gaspar, AR; Matos, A. "Comparative Study of Semantic Segmentation Methods in Harbour Infrastructures". 2023.
    10.1109/oceanslimerick52467.2023.10244570
  3. Gaspar, AR; Nunes, A; Matos, A. "Visual Place Recognition for Harbour Infrastructures Inspection". 2023.
    10.1109/oceanslimerick52467.2023.10244576
  4. Alexandra Nunes; Ana Rita Gaspar; Anibal Matos. "Occupancy Grid Mapping from 2D SONAR Data for Underwater Scenes". 2021.
    10.23919/oceans44145.2021.9705764
  5. Gaspar, AR; Nunes, A; Matos, A. "Evaluation of Bags of Binary Words for Place Recognition in Challenging Scenarios". 2021.
    10.1109/icarsc52212.2021.9429799
  6. Nunes A.; Gaspar A.R.; Matos A.. "Critical object recognition in underwater environment". 2019.
    10.1109/oceanse.2019.8867360
  7. Gaspar, AR; Nunes, A; Pinto, A; Matos, A. "Comparative Study of Visual Odometry and SLAM Techniques". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_38
Journal article
  1. Alexandra Nunes; Aníbal Matos. "Improving Semantic Segmentation Performance in Underwater Images". Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11122268.
    10.3390/jmse11122268
  2. Nunes, Alexandra. "Urban@CRAS dataset: Benchmarking of visual odometry and SLAM techniques". Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2018): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889018301386.
    10.1016/j.robot.2018.08.004
  3. Pereira Nunes, A; Silva Gaspar, AR; M. Pinto, A; Castilho Matos, A. "A mosaicking technique for object identification in underwater environments". Sensor Review (2018):
    10.1108/sr-04-2018-0089
Magazine article
  1. Nunes, A; Matos, A. "Three-dimensional mapping in underwater environment", U.Porto Journal of Engineering, 2019
    10.24840/2183-6493_005.002_0002