João Ascenso Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Scientific area: Computers.

He has contributed with more than 60 papers to national and international conferences. • Local coordinator of an European project on future and emerging technologies in the visual sensor networks area. • Principal researcher of an FCT project dealing with distributed multi-view video coding for visual sensor networks.• High number of citations, with 2 articles with more than 300 citations, 1900 total citations and h-index of 20.• He has been an evaluator of… Show more He has contributed with more than 60 papers to national and international conferences. • Local coordinator of an European project on future and emerging technologies in the visual sensor networks area. • Principal researcher of an FCT project dealing with distributed multi-view video coding for visual sensor networks.• High number of citations, with 2 articles with more than 300 citations, 1900 total citations and h-index of 20.• He has been an evaluator of research projects in the framework of the Information Society Technologies EU Programme. • He is an active reviewer for several scientific journals (IEEE, IET and Eurasip) and international conferences. • His research interests include distributed video coding, scalable video coding, face recognition, video streaming and video indexing and retrieval. Show less

Responsible for the teaching and coordination of several courses:• Computer Networks: Foundations of Computer Networks, Local Area Networks, TCP/IP protocols (ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP e eMail).• Internet Networking: Switching (spanning tree and others) classic routing in IP networks (e.g. RIP, OSPF e BGP). Multicast protocols (IGMP, DVMRP, PIM-SM, PIM-DM).•Networks and Multimedia Communication Services: Speech and Voice Coding Fundamentals, H.323, SIP, audio… Show more Responsible for the teaching and coordination of several courses:• Computer Networks: Foundations of Computer Networks, Local Area Networks, TCP/IP protocols (ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP e eMail).• Internet Networking: Switching (spanning tree and others) classic routing in IP networks (e.g. RIP, OSPF e BGP). Multicast protocols (IGMP, DVMRP, PIM-SM, PIM-DM).•Networks and Multimedia Communication Services: Speech and Voice Coding Fundamentals, H.323, SIP, audio and video streaming (RTP/RTCP), QoS protocols (DiffServ/IntServ), queuing, CDNs.• Advanced Topics in Networking: Detailed study of wireless networking protocols such as 802.11b/g. Network address Translation. IPv6. Network management (SNMP). Show less

Teached courses such as Introduction to Information Science, Introduction to C Programming, Algorithms and Abstract Data Types, Operative Systems, Web Computing, Software Engineering and Pattern Recognition.

Ph.D., Telecommunications And Multimedia

Ph.D. Thesis about Wyner-Ziv video coding, a novel approach which exploits the source statistics partially or totally at the decoder.

M.Sc., Electrical And Computer Engineering

M.Sc. Thesis about "Fine Granular Scalable Video Coding"

E.E., Electrical Engineering

Thesis about Face Recognition Using PCA