André Filipe Rodrigues Guarda

André Guarda

Academic position:	Post. Doc.
Joining date:	01-09-2016
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr

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Address: IT Branch – Leiria
Morro do Lena - Alto do Vieiro
Leiria
2411 - 901
Tel: 244820340
Fax: 244820310

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-5996-1074

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 26-11-2021
MSc, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 19-05-2016
Licenciatura, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 30-07-2013

Academic Activities

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Deep Learning-based Scalable Point Cloud Coding, PhD Student, Mohammadreza Ghafari, Expected conclusion 12-2027

3Supervision of MSc theses

As Co-supervisor

Learning-based point cloud geometry and color coding, MSc Student, Luís Adriano Martins Pinto Coelho, Concluded 11-2022
Learning-based point cloud geometry coding: integrating sampling tools for increased RD performance, MSc Student, Manuel Maria de Ornelas Marques Ruivo, Concluded 11-2022
Learning-based point cloud geometry and color coding, MSc Student, Luís Guilherme Berenguer Todo Bom, Concluded 07-2022

Publications

4Papers in Journals

A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Neighborhood Adaptive Loss Function for Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Coding with Implicit and Explicit Quantization, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 107 - 116, July, 2021,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Adaptive Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 415 - 430, February, 2021,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Constant Size Point Cloud Clustering: a Compact, Non-Overlapping Solution, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 77 - 91, December, 2020,
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A. Guarda, João M. Santos, L. A. S. C. Cruz, P.A. Assunção, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, A Method to Improve HEVC Lossless Coding of Volumetric Medical Images, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 59, No., pp. 96 - 104, November, 2017,
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13Papers in Conferences

L. Coelho, A. Guarda, F. Pereira, Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Joint Geometry and Color Coding: Designing a Perceptually-Driven Differentiable Training Distortion Metric, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data BigMM, Naples, Italy, December, 2022,
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A. Seleem, A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Impact of Conventional and Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding on Deep Learning-based Classification Performance, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Naples, Italy, December, 2022,
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M. Ruivo, A. Guarda, F. Pereira, Double-Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding with Adaptive Super-Resolution, IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2022,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Point Cloud Geometry Scalable Coding With a Single End-to-End Deep Learning Model, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Vol., pp. 3354 - 3358, October, 2020,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Geometry Coding with Resolution Scalability, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP, Tampere, Finland, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, September, 2020,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Deep Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Coding: RD Control Through Implicit and Explicit Quantization, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), London, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, July, 2020,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Point Cloud Coding: Adopting a Deep Learning-based Approach, Picture Coding Symp., Ningbo, China, Vol., pp. 1 - 5, November, 2019,
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A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Deep Learning-based Point Cloud Coding: a Behavior and Performance Study, IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 34 - 39, October, 2019,
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A. Guarda, J. Bioucas-Dias, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, Improving Point Cloud to Surface Reconstruction with Generalized Tikhonov Regularization, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Luton, United Kingdom, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, October, 2017,
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João M. Santos, A. Guarda, L. A. S. C. Cruz, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, Compression of medical images using MRP with bi-directional prediction and histogram packing, Picture Coding Symp., Nuremberg, Germany, Vol., pp. 1 - 5 - https://doi.org/10.1109/PCS.2016.7906386, December, 2016,
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S.M.M. Faria, João M. Santos, A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Contributions to Lossless Coding of Medical Images using Minimum Rate Predictors, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Quebec City, Canada, Vol., pp. 2935 - 2939 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2015.7351340, September, 2015,
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A. Guarda, João M. Santos, L. A. S. C. Cruz, P.A. Assunção, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, Orientation dependent inter-slice prediction for volumetric medical images, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
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A. Guarda, João M. Santos, D. B. G. Graziosi, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, A Novel Trilateral Filter Technique for Depth Map Processing in 3D Video Coding, 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 4 - https://doi.org/10.1109/3DTV.2014.6874731, July, 2014,
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1Non-refereed Publications

A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, F. Pereira, IT/IST/IPLeiria Response to the Call for Evidence on JPEG Pleno Point Cloud Coding, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG1 M90019, January 2021,
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Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
Deep-PCR	Deep learning-based Point Cloud Representation	FCT	01-01-2022	31-12-2024

IT Member Profile

André Guarda

Scientific Achievements

As Co-supervisor

As Co-supervisor

Currently running projects1