Nome / Name
José Manuel de Castro Torres
Graus Académicos / Academic Degrees
Posição Profissional Actual/ Current Professional Position
Ensino / Teaching
Páginas públicas das disciplinas / Public course
webpages
Material disponivel: programas, apontamentos, exercícios, testes e
trabalhos, maioritariamente em portugês / Available
material: syllabus, handouts, exercises, exams and homework, mostly in
portuguese.
Investigação / Research
Áreas de Investigação / Current Research
Areas
- Pesquisa de informação Multimedia / Multimedia
Information Retrieval
- Meta-informação sobre conteúdos multimédia / Multimedia Content Metadata
- Imagem Digital: aquisição, armazenamento, descrição, pesquisa e
processamento / Digital Image: aquisition, storage,
description, search and processing
- Vídeo Digital: aquisição, armazenamento, descrição, pesquisa e
processamento / Digital Video: aquisition, storage,
description, search and processing
- Multimédia / Generic Multimedia
Projectos de investigação / Research projects
Name: VIDION Video Digital On-Line
(http://newton.inescn.pt/projects/vidion/index.html)
Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Program: PRAXISXXI/3.1b-proj. em consórcio
Team Leader: Artur Pimenta Alves
Start: April 1997 End: September 1999
Entity: Inesc-Porto (http://www.inescporto.pt)
Description:
The goal of VIDION is to propose a strategy for the evolution towards the
digital domain of the complete RTP archive. The project will develop a
small-scale archive to be used by the news service of RTP.
Name: METAMEDIA - Metadata for Multimedia Archives
Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Program: PRAXIS/C/EEI/13208/1998
Team Leader: Gabriel Torcato David
Start:.July 1999 End: July 2000
Entity: Inesc-Porto (http://www.inescporto.pt)
Description:
This project developed an information meta-model for a multimedia archive. The
project congregated the experience of the archivists with the technological
component of automatically extraction and description of low-level features
from the multimedia content. Another goal of the project has been the
development of a prototype for the photographic archive integrating the
obtained results.
Name: Archivum (http://usoft.inescn.pt/unit/projects.html)
Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Program: PRAXIS
Team Leader: Gabriel Torcato David
Start: January 1996 End: December 1998
Entity: Inesc-Porto (http://www.inescporto.pt)
Description:
This project intends to study the applicability of object-oriented technologies
in modelling and implementation of databases for archival description systems
in accordance with international standards, as well as the development of the
temporal dimension for the representation and querying of such systems
Name: Sintext - Text Synthesiser
Team Leader: Pedro Barbosa
Start: September 1998 End: July 1999
Entity: UFP (http://www.ufp.pt)
Description:
This project intends to develop a tool to help the writer in the generation of
his texts like poems, essays, stories, and others
(http://www.ufp.pt/units/cetic/sintext.htm).
Publicações / Publications
Master Thesis
Reports:
- Torres, José Manuel,
"Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces for Visual Information Retrieval", First
Year PhD Report, September 2000, Lancaster University, England.
- Torres, José Manuel,
"Visual Information Retrieval through Interactive Multimedia Queries",
Second Year PhD Report, March 2002, Lancaster University, England.
Articles in conference with referee
- Torres, José, Parkes,
Alan, Corte-Real, Luis. Region-Based Relevance Feedback in Concept-Based
Image Retrieval. Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis
for Multimedia Interactive Services, Lisboa, Portugal, Abril (2004).
- Torres, José and Parkes, Alan, A Modular Framework for Visual Object
Information Retrieval. 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for
Multimedia Interactive Services, U.K., April (2003).
- Gabriel David, Maria Cristina Ribeiro, José Torres, Ademar Aguiar
Metadata for the Preservation and Retrieval of Multimedia Components, ECAI
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, 2000.
- Cristina Ribeiro,
Gabriel David, José Manuel Torres, Susana Gaio Combining context and
contents description in multimedia archives, accepted in DRH99 - Digital
Resources for Humanities conference, to be held at King's College London,
12-15 September 1999.
Articles in workshop with referee
- José Manuel Torres, Partilha de Semântica Multimédia, XML: Aplicações e
Tecnologias Associadas, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, Fevereiro (2003).
- José Manuel
Torres, Alan Parkes User modelling and adaptivity in visual information
retrieval systems, Workshop on Computational Semiotics for New Media,
University of Surrey, UK, June 29-30, 2000,
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/newMedia.
Articles in journal with referee
- Pedro Barbosa, José Manuel Torres: O Computador como Máquina Semiótica,
Revista de Comunicação e linguagens, May - 2001, Num.29, Relógio D´Água
Editores.
- José
Manuel Torres, Pedro Barbosa Sintext-Web: um gerador de texto automático
como instrumento computacional de criação literária, UFP Magazine,
September, 2000, Num. 5, Universidade Fernando Pessoa.
Presentations in scientific meetings:
- Torres, José Manuel, Intelligent multimodal interfaces for visual
information retrieval, European project Moumir, 29 of Mars 2001, Lisbon,
Portugal.
Co-authored Books:
- Pedro Barbosa, José Manuel Torres, O Motor Textual - livro infinito,
2000, Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa.
Posters in conference with referee:
Contributions to the Standard MPEG 7 - (Multimedia Content Description
Interface) from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
- Title: "Generic DS (description scheme) for Video description"
Authors: Jose Torres, Paula Viana, Gabriel David, Cristina Ribeiro, Susana
Gaio
Meeting: MPEG-7 evaluation AHG
Type of document: Proposal
Local: Lancaster, UK
Date: 1/2/1999
- Title: "Generic DS (description scheme) for Photo and Textual document
archive descriptions" Authors: Jose Torres, Paula Viana, Gabriel David,
Cristina Ribeiro, Susana Gaio
Meeting: MPEG-7 evaluation AHG
Type of document: Proposal
Local: Lancaster, UK
Date: 1/2/1999
Email: j t o r r e s @ u f p . e d u . p t
Praça 9 de Abril, 349
4249-004 Porto-Portugal
telefone: 225071300
fax: 225508269
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