Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicações Lecturer, Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal
I am a Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações and a Lecturer (Docente) at the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, working in the Pattern and Image Analysis group (Thematic Line on Information and Data Sciences). My research focuses on computer vision, biometric recognition, person re-identification, and machine learning systems that stay reliable in unconstrained visual conditions — including aerial-ground and extreme far-distance scenarios. Before moving to Portugal I worked in industry as a Senior Data Scientist, and I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from SRTM University, India.
Call for Papers — Guest Editor, IEEE T-BIOM Special Issue on Human Recognition in Aerial Surveillance. Deadline 15 December 2026; targeted publication Q4 2027. Open track plus extended versions of AERO-HPR @ CVPR 2026 and VReID-XFD @ WACV 2026. Submit via the T-BIOM portal, article type AERO-HPR. Contact: Kien Nguyen, Huy Nguyen.
Awarded Outstanding Reviewer at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (IEEE-TBIOM) — recognised for exceptional contributions to the peer review process.
Ranked 2nd place in the Cross-View Re-Identification track at the CodaBench Competition.
NTIRE 2026 Challenge @ CVPR 2026 — Ranked 7th out of 51 teams in the Image Shadow Removal Challenge and 6th out of 24 teams in the Image Denoising Challenge (noise level=50). First international collaboration work with Praful Hambarde (Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi, India).
The VReID-XFD Workshop at WACV 2026 @Tucson, Arizona, USA is a Wrap All papers are now freely accessible via IEEE Xplore and CVF Open Access..
Joined Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) as a Researcher in the Pattern and Image Analysis group, Thematic Line on Information and Data Sciences.
New preprint: Human Re-ID Meets LVLMs — What can we expect? — comparing ChatGPT-4o, Gemini-2.0-Flash, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Qwen-VL-Max to state-of-the-art ReID models.
Paper published in Electronics: Toward automated fabric defect detection: A survey of recent computer vision approaches.
Paper published in Quantum Information Processing: A Laplacian-based Quantum Graph Neural Network for Semi-Supervised Learning.
Paper published in Image and Vision Computing: Image-based human re-identification — Which covariates are actually (the most) important?.
Started as Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Beira Interior, leading projects on biometric recognition at extreme ranges.
Designing recognition systems that keep working at large scale, long range, and across camera domains.
Understanding and mitigating the covariates that break recognition systems in real, unconstrained environments.
Transferring research into practical systems — from smart manufacturing to healthcare document processing.
A complete and up-to-date list is also on Google Scholar.
As Co-supervisor
As Co-supervisor