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2012

Rodrigues, J.M.F., Lam, R., du Buf, J.M.H. (2012) Cortical 3D Face and Object Recognition Using 2D Projections, accepted for Int. J. of Creative Interfaces & Computer Graphics. (pdf)

Saleiro, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2012) Minimalistic Vision-based Cognitive SLAM, accepted for 4th Int. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Special Session Intelligent Robotics (ICAART-SSIR2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, 6-8 Fev. (pdf)

José, J., Rodrigues, J.M.F., du Buf, J.M.H. (2012) Visual navigation for the blind: path and obstacle detection, accepted for Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, 6-8 Fev. (pdf)

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2012) Local object gist: meaningful shapes and spatial layout at a very early stage of visual processing, accepted for Gestalt Theory. (pdf)

2011

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) Disparity energy model using a trained neuronal population, Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Signal Proc. and Info. Technology (ISSPIT 2011), Bilbao, Spain, 14-17 Dec. pp. 287-292 (pdf)

Farrajota, M., Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) Disparity energy model with keypoint disparity validation, Proc. 17th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Porto, Portugal, 28 Oct.. pp. 70-71 (pdf)

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) Local gist vision of man-made objects, Web Proc. IV Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto, Italy, 27-29 Oct. [http://events.unitn.it/en/cimec-raw2011] (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H., Barroso, J., Rodrigues, J.M.F.,  Paredes, H., Farrajota, M., Fernandes, H., José, J., Teixiera, V., Saleiro, M. (2011) The SmartVision navigation prototype for blind users, JDCTA: International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 351 - 361. doi : 10.4156/jdcta.vol5.issue5.39 (pdf)

José, J., Farrajota, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F., du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) The SmartVision local navigation aid for blind and visually impaired persons, JDCTA: International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 362 - 375. doi : 10.4156/jdcta.vol5.issue5.40 (pdf)

Rodrigues, J.M.F., Lam, R. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) Cortical 3D Face recognition framework, Proc. V Ibero-American Symposium in Computer Graphics (SIACG 2011), Faro, Portugal, 1-3 June, pp. 81-87. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J.M.F., du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) A cortical framework for scene categorization. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2011), Vilamoura, Portugal, 5-7 March, pp. 364-371. (pdf)

Farrajota, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F., du Buf, J.M.H. (2011) Optical flow by multi-scale annotated keypoints: A biological approach, Proc. Int. Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2011), Rome, Italy, 26-29 January, pp. 307-315.  (pdf)

2010

 José, J., Farrajota, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F., du Buf, J.M.H. (2010) A vision system for detecting paths and moving obstacles for the blind, Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI 2010), Oxford, United Kingdom, 25-26 November, pp. 175-182.  (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H., Barroso, J., Rodrigues, J.M.F.,  Paredes, H., Farrajota, M., Fernandes, H., José, J., Teixiera, V., Saleiro, M. (2010) The SmartVision navigation prototype for the blind, Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI 2010), Oxford, United Kingdom, 25-26 November, pp. 167-174. (pdf)

Saleiro, M., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2010) Cognitive robotics: a new approach to simultaneous localisation and mapping, Proc. 16th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recogn. (RECPAD 2010), Vila Real, Portugal, October 29, 2 pp.  (pdf)

Sousa, R., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2010) Recognition of facial expressions by cortical multi-scale line and edge coding, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2010), Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, 21-23 June, Vol. 1, Springer LNCS 6111, pp. 415-424.  (pdf)

Castells, D., Rodrigues, J.M.F. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2010) Obstacle detection and avoidance on sidewalks, Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2010), Angers, France, 17-21 May, Vol. 2, pp. 235-240. (pdf)

2009

Farrajota, M., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) Multi-scale keypoint annotation - a biological approach. Proc. 15th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recogn. (RECPAD 2009), Aveiro, Portugal, October 23, 3 pp. (pdf)

Sousa, R., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H (2009) Correlates of facial expressions in the primary visual cortex. Proc. Bernstein Conf. on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN 2009), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 30 Sept. - 2 Oct., pp. 85-86. Abstract in: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.10.2009.14.076  (pdf)

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) Object segregation and local gist vision using low-level geometry. Proc. 32nd Europ. Conf. on Visual Perception (ECVP 2009), Regensburg, Germany, August 24-28, Perception Vol. 38 Suppl, pp. 41-42. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) A cortical framework for invariant object categorization and recognition. Cognitive Processing, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 243-261. doi: 10.1007/s10339-009-0262-2. (pdf)

Saleiro, M., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) Automatic hand or head gesture interface for individuals with motor impairments, senior citizens and young children. Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI 2009), Lisbon, Portugal, June 3-5, pp. 165-171. (pdf)

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) Focus of attention and region segregation by low-level geometry. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2009), Lisbon, Portugal, February 5-8, Vol. 2, pp. 267-272. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2009) Multi-scale lines and edges in V1 and beyond: brightness, object categorization and recognition, and consciousness. BioSystems, Vol. 95, pp. 206-226. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.10.006 (pdf)

2008

Martins, J.A., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2008) Region segregation and saliency using colour information. Proc. 14th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recogn. (RECPAD 2008), Coimbra, Portugal, October 31, 2 pp. (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H. and Rodrigues, J. (2008) Brightness perception: one simple model explains most if not all effects. Proc. 31st Europ. Conf. on Visual Perception (ECVP 2008), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 24-28, Perception Vol. 37 Suppl, pp. 62. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J., Almeida, D., Martins, J.A., Lam, R. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2008) An integrated framework for combining gist vision with object segregation, categorisation and recognition. Proc. 31th Europ. Conf. on Visual Perception (ECVP 2008), Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 24-28, Perception Vol. 37 Suppl, pp. 117-118. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. (2008) Integrated multi-scale architecture of the cortex with application to computer vision. Doctoral Thesis, University of the Algarve, Portugal, 156 pp.  (pdf)

Almeida, D., Nunes, S., Carvalho, J., Brito, V., Rodrigues, J. and  du Buf, J.M.H. (2008) Fine arts edutainment: the amateur painter. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2008), Funchal, Portugal, January 22-25, pp 262-267.(pdf)

2007

Cunha, J., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2007) Face normalization using multi-scale cortical keypoints. Proc. 13rd Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recogn. (RECPAD 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, October 26, 2 pp. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2007) Invariant multi-scale object categorisation and recognition. Proc. 3rd Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), Girona, Spain, June 6-8, Springer LNCS 4477, pp. 459-466. (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H. and Rodrigues, J. (2007) Image Morphology: from perception to rendering. Image - Journal of Interdisciplinary Image Science, Special Edition: Computational Visualistics and Picture Morphology, February, Vol. 5,  pp. 98-116, http://www.bildwissenschaft.org/VIB/journal/. (pdf)

2006

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Face recognition by cortical multi-scale line and edge representations. Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2006), Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, 18-20 September, Springer LNCS 4142, pp. 329-340. (pdf)

Nunes, S.,  Almeida, D., Brito, V., Carvalho, J., Rodrigues, J. and  du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Perception-based painterly rendering: functionality and interface design. Proc. Ibero-American Symp. in Computer Graphics (SIACG 2006), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 5-7, pp. 53-60. (pdf)

Nunes, S., Almeida, D., Rodrigues, J., du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Object categorisations using templates constructed from multi-scale line and edge representations. Proc. Workshop Visual Categorisation and Image Management Systems, University of Sunderland (VCIM 2006), UK, June 28, pp. 14-15. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Multi-scale keypoints in V1 and beyond: object segregation, scale selection, saliency maps and face detection. BioSystems, Vol. 86, pp. 75-90, doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.02.019 (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H., Rodrigues, J., Nunes, S., Almeida, D., Brito, V. and Carvalho, J. (2006) Painterly rendering using human vision.  Virtual - Portuguese Journal of Computer Graphics, Special Edition: Advances of Computer Graphics in Portugal 2005, July, Vol. AICG 2005 , pp. 12, http://virtual.inesc.pt/. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Face segregation and recognition by cortical multi-scale line and edge coding. Proc. 6th Int. Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS 2006), Paphos, Cyprus, May 23-24, pp. 5-14. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Cortical object segregation and categorization by multi-scale line and edge coding. Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2006), Setúbal, Portugal, February 25-28, Vol. 2, pp. 5-12. (pdf)

Lam, R.,  Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2006) Looking through the eyes of the painter: from visual perception to non-photorealistic rendering. Proc. 14th Int. Conf. in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2006), Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30 - February 3, pp. 147-154. (pdf)

2005

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Multi-scale keypoints in V1 and face detection. Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Brain, Vision and Artif. Intell.(BV&AI 2005), Naples, Italy,  October 19-21, Springer LNCS 3704, pp. 205-214. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Improved line/edge detection and visual reconstruction. Proc. 13th Portuguese Computer Graphics Meeting (13EPCG 2005), Vila Real, Portugal, October 12-14, pp. 179-184. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J., Almeida, D., Nunes, S., Lam R. and  du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Building the what and where systems: multi-scale lines, edges and keypoints. Proc. Workshop on Active Vision VII (7WAV 2005), University of Reading, Reading, UK,  September 12, pp. 8. (pdf)

Lam, R., Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Artistic rendering of the visual cortex. Proc. 2nd Workshop Luso-Galaico de Artes Digitais (ARTECH 2005), Vila-Nova-Cerveira, Portugal, August 27, pp. 65-78. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Multi-scale keypoint hierarchy for Focus-of-Attention and object detection. 28th Europ. Conf. on Visual Perception (ECVP 2005), Coruña, Spain, August 22-26, Perception Vol. 34 Suppl, pp. 240. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2005) Multi-scale cortical keypoint representation for attention and object detection. Proc. 2nd Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA2005), Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, Springer LNCS 3523, pp. 255-262. (pdf)

2004

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2004) Visual cortex frontend: integrating lines, edges, keypoints and disparity. Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2004), Porto, Portugal,  29 Sept. – 1 Oct., Springer LNCS 3211, pp. 664-671. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2004) A vision frontend with a new disparity model, Web Proc. Early Cognitive Vision Workshop (ECOVISION 2004). Isle of Skye, Scotland,  28 May – 1 June, pp. 6, http://www.cn.stir.ac.uk/ecovision-ws/schedule.php. (pdf)

Santos, J. and Rodrigues, J. (2004) Sistema de reconhecimento de matrículas. Tecnovisão, ed. Escola Superior Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve,  Vol. 15, pp. 37-40. (pdf)

du Buf, J.M.H and Rodrigues, J. (2004) Arquitectura do córtex visual com aplicações na visão por computador. NERA, Loulé,Portugal, 24-27 de Março (Poster). (pdf)

-2000

du Buf, J.M.H and Rodrigues, J. (2000) Simple brightness models with lowpass and Gabor filters. 23rd Europ. Conf. on Visual Perception (ECVP 2000), Groningen, The Netherlands, August 28-30, Perception Vol. 29 Suppl 52c. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J., Loke, R.E. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2000) Fast Segmentation of 3D data using an octree. Proc. 11th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD 2000), Porto, Portugal, May 11-12, pp 185-189. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (2000) Segmentação de dados 3D. Tecnovisão, ed. Escola Superior Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve,  Vol. 10, pp. 5-8. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. and du Buf, J.M.H. (1999) Segmentação de imagens acústicas. Tecnovisão, ed. Escola Superior Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve, Vol. 9, pp. 19-22. (pdf)

Rodrigues, J. (1998) Image segmentation in 3D. Master Thesis, University of the Algarve, Portugal, pp. 101. (pdf)