Paulo Correia
Senior Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal.
Paulo Lobato Correia is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He is a Senior
Researcher of the Multimedia Signal Processing research group of Instituto de
Telecomunicações, and Senior Member of the IEEE.
Paulo Correia coordinated the participation in several national and international research
projects, dealing with image and video analysis and processing. For instance, he was Vice-Chair
of the Management Committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Action IC1106: "Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age" (2014–2016).
He is Editor in Chief of IET Biometrics for the term 2020–2025. He was Subject Editor (for
Multimedia papers) of the Elsevier Signal Processing Journal (2018–2020). He was Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2006–2014), of
the Elsevier Signal Processing Journal (2005–2017), and of IET Biometrics (2013–2019). He has
been Guest Editor of several special issues for scientific journals such as IET Biometrics or
Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters, and cooperated in many conference organizing committees,
as general chair, program chair, finance chair or special sessions chair, among others.
He is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the European Signal Processing Association
(EURASIP), and was the elected chairman of EURASIP’s Technical Area Committee on
“Biometrics, Data Forensics and Security” for the term 2018–2020.
He is president of the Portuguese standardization committee on Biometrics (CT226), for the
period 2023-2025.
He has co-authored more than 140 journal and conference papers.
The main research interests are about video analysis and processing, with emphasis on
biometrical signal analysis, targeting recognition, sports, medical and forensic applications.