I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, Vision Group, under the supervision of Lourdes Agapito since November 2008. I'm currently working on 3D deformation models for Non-rigid Structure from Motion.

In October 2008 I received my integrated Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. I also spent one semester in the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, as an ERASMUS student. My Masters thesis was entitled Articulated 3D human modelling from motion capture systems.



Publications

:: Automated Articulated Structure and 3D Shape Recovery from Point Correspondences
  Joao Fayad, Chris Russell, Lourdes Agapito
  13th International Conference on Computer Vision,
  Barcelona, Spain, 2011 (ICCV 2011).
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:: Energy Based Multiple Model Fitting for Non-Rigid Structure from Motion
  Chris Russell, Joao Fayad, Lourdes Agapito
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
  Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 2011 (CVPR 2011).
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:: Piecewise Quadratic Reconstruction of Non-Rigid Surfaces from Monocular Sequences
  Joao Fayad, Lourdes Agapito, Alessio Del Bue
  European Conference in Computer Vision, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 2010 (ECCV 2010).
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:: Curvature Estimation for Sparse Point Clouds Applied to Non-Rigid Shape Reconstruction
  Jean-Marie Favreau, Joao Fayad, Lourdes Agapito
  3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, Paris, France, 2010 (3DPVT 2010).
  [PDF]

:: Non-Rigid Structure from Motion using Quadratic Deformation Models
  Joao Fayad, Alessio Del Bue, Lourdes Agapito, Pedro M.Q. Aguiar
  British Machine Vision Conference, London, UK, 2009 (BMVC 2009).
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:: Human Body Modelling Using Quadratic Deformations
  Joao Fayad, Alessio Del Bue, Lourdes Agapito, Pedro M.Q. Aguiar 
  7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.
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:: A Weighted Factorization Approach for Articulated Motion Modelling
  Joao Fayad, Alessio Del Bue, Pedro M.Q. Aguiar
  Multibody Dynamics, Warsaw, Poland, 2009.
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:: Articulated Motion Analysis from Motion Capture Data
  Joao Fayad, Alessio Del Bue, Pedro M.Q. Aguiar
  International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanis and Biomedical Engineering,
  Porto, Portugal, 2008 (CMBBE 2008).
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Teaching Assistant

:: Academic year 2009 - 2010
   Procedural Programming (DCS100)
   Object Oriented Programming

:: Academic year 2010 - 2011
   Procedural Programming (DCS100)
   Image and Video Processing (ELE(M)023)