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Jose Maria Costa Pereira Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail code 0409 La Jolla, CA 92093-0409 EBU 1, Room 5101 Email: josecp at u c s d . e d u Phone: (858) 822-2105 CV: html

I'm currently a graduate student at the Statistical Visual Computing Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I've received a Licenciatura (5 years degree) in Computation and Systems Engineering from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto in 2000, and a MSc. in Computational Methods in Science and Engineering from a joint-venture of Faculdade de Ciencias and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto in 2003. I've worked for Vodafone Portugal in the Data Networks support group from October 2000 until August 2005, after which I've joined the IP Division in Alcatel-Lucent from September 2005 until August 2008.
Research:
	My current research is directed to image retrieval and annotation. I'm exploring object's natural contextual relations for image annotation. These will naturally expand to image retrieval. I'm also interested in image segmentation. In fact, the subjects are closely related. Some work I've been developing for the retrieval system at SVCL has shown to be a rudimentary segmentation. In the past I've developed an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) based method for Blind Source Separation (BSS) as part of my MSc. thesis.

Last update: 07/28/2009

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