Rafael Rodrigues

Academic position:	PhD Student
Joining date:	01-01-2016
Roles in IT:	PhD Student
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Multimedia Signal Processing – Cv

IT Branch – Covilhã
Faculdade de Engenharia
Covilhã
6201-001
Tel: +351 969 401 265
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https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9481-9601

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

MSc, Universidade da Beira Interior, 20-11-2012
Licenciatura, Universidade da Beira Interior, 26-07-2010

Thesis Information

DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES, Universidade da Beira Interior, PhD Student, Rafael Rodrigues, Supervisor: A. Pinheiro, jan-2016 - set-2026

Publications

4Papers in Journals

J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, Performance Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Lossy Point Cloud Geometry Compression Coding Solutions, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, No., pp. 76000 - 76015, 2025 | Full text (PDF 27 MBs) | BibTex
Rafael Rodrigues, L. Lévêque, J. Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, H. Jebbari Jebbari, M. Outtas, L. Zhang, A. Chetouani Chetouani, S. Al-Juboori Al-Juboori, M. Martini, A. Pinheiro, Objective quality assessment of medical images and videos: review and challenges, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 84, No. 25, pp. 29915 - 29948, October, 2024,
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Rafael Rodrigues, P.P. Pocta, H. M. Melvin, M. Bernardo, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, Audiovisual quality of live music streaming over mobile networks using MPEG-DASH, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 79, No. --, pp. 24595 - 24619, June, 2020,
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Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, R. Braz, M. Sousa, J. Moutinho, A Two-Step Segmentation Method for Breast Ultrasound Masses Based on Multi-resolution Analysis, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 1737 - 1748, June, 2015 | BibTex

15Papers in Conferences

J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, SUBJECTIVE QUALITY EVALUATION OF POINT CLOUDS USING A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Hyderabad, India, Vol., pp. -, April, 2025 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, JPEG Pleno Learning Based Point Cloud Coding: Bitrate Tradeoff Between Geometry and Attributes Analysis, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Covilha, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024 | Full text (PDF 915 KBs) | BibTex
Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, Using Texture Features for the Segmentation of Skeletal Muscles of the Thigh in Dixon MRI, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023 | Full text (PDF 347 KBs) | BibTex
J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, Learning based point cloud compression: A stability analysis, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023 | BibTex
J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, JPEG PLENO LEARNING-BASED POINT CLOUD CODING: A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023 | Full text (PDF 8 MBs) | BibTex
M. Testolina, D. Lazzarotto, Rafael Rodrigues, S. Mohammadi, J. Ascenso, A. Pinheiro, T.E. Ebrahimi, On the Performance of Subjective Visual Quality Assessment Protocols for Nearly Visually Lossless Image Compression, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada, October, 2023,
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Rafael Rodrigues, S. Quijano-Roy, R. Carlier, A. Pinheiro, SEVERITY CLASSIFICATION IN CASES OF COLLAGEN VI-RELATED MYOPATHY WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND HANDCRAFTED TEXTURE FEATURES, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Bordeaux, France, Vol., pp. -, October, 2022 | Full text (PDF 415 KBs) | BibTex
J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, Quality Evaluation of Machine Learning-based Point Cloud Coding Solutions, International Workshop on Advances in Point Cloud Compression, Processing and Analysis, ACM Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal, October, 2022,
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J. Prazeres, Rafael Rodrigues, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, On the stability of point cloud machine learning based coding, IEEE European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, September, 2022 | Full text (PDF 13 MBs) | BibTex
Rafael Rodrigues, M. Banda, M. Tordjman, D. Gómez-Andrés, S. Quijano-Roy, R. Carlier, A. Pinheiro, Texture Analysis of T1-weighted Turbo Spin-Echo MRI for the Diagnosis and Follow-up of Collagen VI-related Myopathy, IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Conference online, April, 2021,
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Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, A Quality of Recognition Case Study: Texture-based Segmentation and MRI Quality Assessment, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, A Coruña, Spain, September, 2019,
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L. Lévêque, H. Liu, S. Baraković, J. Husić, L. Platisa, A. Kumcu, M. Martini, Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, M. Outtas, L. Zhang, AS Skodras, On the Subjective Assessment of the Perceived Quality of Medical Images and Videos, IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Sardinia, Italy, May, 2018,
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Rafael Rodrigues, P.P. Pocta, H. M. Melvin, M. Sousa, A. Pinheiro, MPEG DASH - Some QoE-based insights into the tradeoff between audio and video for live music concert streaming under congested network conditions, IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 8, pp. 0 - 0, June, 2016,
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Rafael Rodrigues, R. Braz, M. Sousa, J. Moutinho, A. Pinheiro, Towards Breast Ultrasound Image Segmentation using Multi-resolution Pixel Descriptors, International Conf. on Pattern Recognition - ICPR, Tsukuba, Japan, Vol. 21, pp. 2833 - 2836, November, 2012,
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Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, A Two-stage Mass Segmentation Method for Breast Ultrasound Images, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 85 - 87, October, 2012,
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2Non-refereed Publications

Rafael Rodrigues, A. Pinheiro, Segmentation of skeletal muscle in thigh Dixon MRI based on texture analysis, 2019,
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Rafael Rodrigues, A. Perkis, C. Timmerer, S. Baraković, J. Husić, S. Bech, S. Bosse, J. Botev, K. Brunnström, L. A. S. C. Cruz, K. Moor, A. Saibanti, W. Durnez, S. Egger-Lampl, U. Engelke, T. Falk, A. Hameed, A. Hines, T. Kojic, D. Kukolj, E. Liotou, D. Milovanovic, S. Möller, N. Murray, B. Naderi, M. Sousa, S. Perry, A. Pinheiro, A. Pinilla, A. Raake, S. Agrawal, U. Reiter, R. Schatz, P. Schelkens, S. Schmidt, S. Sabet, A. Singla, L. Skorin-Kapov, M. Suznjevic, S. Uhrig, S. Vlahović, J. Voigt-Antons, S. Zadtootaghaj, QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx), 2020,
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Other Contributions

1Refereeing Journals

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
2015, 1 review(s);

1Refereeing Conferences

IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP
2015, 1 review(s);

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