RESEARCH

Nonparametric estimation, manifold learning, computer vision and machine learning in general, with broad applications, such as network traffic analysis, motion tracking in video sequences and intelligent transportation systems.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Jorge Silva, "Motion Tracking on Manifolds", PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, 2007.
• Silva, Marques, Jorge, Abrantes, Osório, Gomes, Braga, "Evaluation of an LPR-based Enforcement System on Portuguese Motorways", Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Transportation Systems (ITSC 2006), Toronto, 2006.
• Silva, Marques, Lemos, "Selecting Landmark Points for Sparse Manifold Learning", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2005), Vancouver, 2005
• Silva, Marques, Lemos, "Non-Linear Dimension Reduction with Tangent Bundle Approximation", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Philadelphia, 2005.
• Silva, Marques, Lemos, "Motion Tracking in Manifolds with Tangent Bundle Approximation", Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Non-Linear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2004), Stuttgart, 2004.
• Silva, Marques, Lemos, "A Geometric Approach to Motion Tracking on Manifolds", Proceedings of the 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2003), Rotterdam, 2003.