Prof. Nuno Gonçalves is researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra and Tenured Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computers Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He received his MsC and PhD degrees in 2002 and 2008, respectively from the University of Coimbra.
His main research areas are computer vision, biometrics, machine-readable codes, security printing, computer graphics and machine learning, with special emphasis to biometrics and steganography for ID and travel documents. He has scientific publications in the following topics: visual coding (machine-readable codes), steganography, object recognition, facial recognition and diagnosis, biometrics, documents security, augmented and virtual reality, reflections for image rendering, light field cameras, omnidirectional vision, non-central cameras, calibration, optics, camera models, motion estimation, pose estimation, web information systems, sports vision, legged robotics, amongst others. He was the Principal Investigator of a closed project, funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, in non-central camera models for computer graphics and computer-aided surgery and he is currently Coordinator of seven projects with the industry (funded by the INCM - Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office) in the area of security elements involving: biometrics, machine readable codes (with some applications in virtual and augmented reality), security unique marks in printing labels, security unique marks in assay contrasts in artifacts of precious metals and processing of human faces in 3D by using several types of cameras. He is inventor of four patents. Since 2018 he is also Innovation Manager in INCM where he coordinates projects in areas such as: authentication and security printing, biometrics, robotics, industry 4.0, among other areas.