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Alexandre Bernardino

Alexandre Bernardino

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Computer Science

D-Index
38
Citations
7423
World Ranking
10109
National Ranking
29

Overview

Alexandre Bernardino is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal and has a significant record in computer science and engineering research, with a particular focus on computer vision, robotics, and safety systems.

Their research spans multiple specialized subfields, including:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

Bernardino's work covers a range of topics, prominently:

  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Fire Detection and Safety Systems
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning

Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Sensors
  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Bernardino has collaborated extensively with several scholars, including:

  • Plínio Moreno
  • Min Hun Lee
  • Daniel P. Siewiorek
  • Asim Smailagic
  • Milad Niknejad

Representative recent publications include:

  • "Future Scenarios of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Based on a CA-Markov Simulation Model: Case of a Mediterranean Watershed in Morocco," 2023, Remote Sensing
  • "Roombots extended: Challenges in the next generation of self-reconfigurable modular robots and their application in adaptive and assistive furniture," 2020, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • "Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors," 2022, International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Co-Design and Evaluation of an Intelligent Decision Support System for Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Fire images classification based on a handcraft approach," 2022, Expert Systems with Applications

The publications reveal a blend of applied robotics, rehabilitation technologies, environmental monitoring, and computer vision applications.

Best Publications

  • The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development

    Giorgio Metta;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori;Giulio Sandini

  • Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory--Motor Coordination to Imitation

    L. Montesano;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Design of the robot-cub (iCub) head

    R. Beira;M. Lopes;M. Praca;J. Santos-Victor

  • Unifying Nuclear Norm and Bilinear Factorization Approaches for Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition

    Ricardo Cabral;Fernando De la Torre;Joao P. Costeira;Alexandre Bernardino

  • Matrix Completion for Weakly-Supervised Multi-Label Image Classification

    Ricardo Cabral;Fernando De la Torre;Joao Paulo Costeira;Alexandre Bernardino

  • Matrix Completion for Multi-label Image Classification

    Ricardo S. Cabral;Fernando Torre;Joao P. Costeira;Alexandre Bernardino

  • A review of log-polar imaging for visual perception in robotics

    V. Javier Traver;Alexandre Bernardino

  • Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub

    J. Ruesch;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Hornstein

  • Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

    Lorenzo Jamone;Emre Ugur;Angelo Cangelosi;Luciano Fadiga

  • Mosaic-based navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles

    N.R. Gracias;S. van der Zwaan;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Detection and classification of highway lanes using vehicle motion trajectories

    J. Melo;A. Naftel;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Clinical Decision Making on Rehabilitation Assessment

    Min Hun Lee;Daniel P. P. Siewiorek;Asim Smailagic;Alexandre Bernardino

  • Binocular tracking: integrating perception and control

    A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Improving the SIFT descriptor with smooth derivative filters

    Plinio Moreno;Alexandre Bernardino;José Santos-Victor

  • Low-cost 3-axis soft tactile sensors for the human-friendly robot Vizzy

    Tiago Paulino;Pedro Ribeiro;Miguel Neto;Susana Cardoso

  • Gabor parameter selection for local feature detection

    Plinio Moreno;Alexandre Bernardino;José Santos-Victor

  • Gait-based Person Re-identification: A Survey

    Athira Nambiar;Alexandre Bernardino;Jacinto C. Nascimento

  • Visual station keeping for floating robots in unstructured environments

    Sjoerd van der Zwaan;Alexandre Bernardino;José Santos-Victor

  • Semi-supervised multi-feature learning for person re-identification

    Dario Figueira;Loris Bazzani;Ha Quang Minh;Marco Cristani

  • Modeling affordances using Bayesian networks

    L. Montesano;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • A Data Set for Airborne Maritime Surveillance Environments

    Ricardo Ribeiro;Goncalo Cruz;Jorge Matos;Alexandre Bernardino

Frequent Co-Authors

José Santos-Victor
José Santos-Victor Instituto Superior Técnico
Asim Smailagic
Asim Smailagic Carnegie Mellon University
Cecilia Laschi
Cecilia Laschi National University of Singapore
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Manuel Lopes
Manuel Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Susana Cardoso
Susana Cardoso Instituto Superior Técnico
Fernando De la Torre
Fernando De la Torre Carnegie Mellon University
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Jorge S. Marques
Jorge S. Marques Instituto Superior Técnico

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