Plinio Moreno

Plinio Moreno

Former Collaborator

Research Fellow

Position: Post-Doc Researcher

Computer and Robot Vision Lab (VisLab)

tp.aobsilu.ocincet.rsi@oinilp

Phone :+351-218418298

Office: 7.09

Personal Page

Mechanical Engineer and Computer Scientist (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia), with a master in Computer Science (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computers Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico). My research falls in the intersection between Machine Learning, AI, robotics and computer vision. I am involved in Robotics-based projects that address social interaction, healthcare and object manipulation.
[1] Dimitrios Dimou, José Santos-Victor, Plinio Moreno, "Robotic hand synergies for in-hand regrasping driven by object information", Auton Robot 47, 453–464 , 2023
[2] Andrea Farabbi, Patrícia Figueiredo, Fabiola Ghiringhelli, Luca Mainardi, João Sanches, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, Athanasios (Thanos) Vourvopoulos, "Investigating the impact of visual perspective in a motor imagery-based brain-robot interaction: A pilot study with healthy participants", Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, Sec. Neurotechnology and Systems Neuroergonomics Volume 4 - 2023, 2023
[3] Plinio Moreno, João Marques, "Online Fall Detection Using Wrist Devices", Sensors 2023, 23(3), 1146, 2023
[4] Clebeson Canuto, Plinio Moreno, Jorge Samatelo, Raquel Vassallo, José Santos-Victor, "Action anticipation for collaborative environments: The impact of contextual information and uncertainty-based prediction", Neurocomputing, vol. 444, pp. 301-318, July, 2021
[5] Luis Almeida, Plinio Moreno, "Uncertainty and heuristics for underactuated hands: grasp pose selection based on the ppotential grasp robustness metric", SN Applied Sciences, 3, Article number: 681, May, 2021
[6] Clebeson Canuto, Plinio Moreno, J. Samatelo, Raquel Vassallo, José Santos-Victor, "Action Anticipation for Collaborative Environments: The Impact of Contextual Information and Uncertainty-Based Prediction", Neurocomputing, Elsevier (in Press), 2020 - PDF
[7] Rui Figueiredo, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, Helder Araujo, "A robust and efficient framework for fast cylinder detection", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 117, pp. 17, 2019 - PDF
[8] Francisco Melo, Alberto Sardinha, David Belo, Marta Couto, Miguel Faria, Anabela Farias, H. Gamboa, Cátia Jesus, Mithun Kinarullathil, Pedro Lima, Luís Luz, André Mateus, Isabel Melo, Plinio Moreno, Daniel Osório, A. Paiva, Jhielson Pimentel, João Rodrigues, Pedro Sequeira, Rubén Solera-Ureña, Miguel Vasco, Manuela Veloso, Rodrigo Ventura, "Project INSIDE: Towards Autonomous Semi-Unstructured Human-Robot Social Interaction in Autism Therapy", Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Volume 96, Pages 198-216, 2019
[9] João Avelino, T. Paulino, Carlos Cardoso, Ricardo Nunes, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Towards natural handshakes for social robots: human-aware hand grasps using tactile sensors", Journal of Behavioral Robotics, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 221-234, 2018
[10] Plinio Moreno, Laura Antanas, Marion Neumann, Rui Figueiredo, Kristian Kersting, José Santos-Victor, Luc De Raedt, "Semantic and geometric reasoning for robotic grasping: a probabilistic logic approach", Autonomous Robots, Vol 41, pp 1–26, Springer US, 2018
[11] B. Moldovan, Plinio Moreno, D. Nitti, José Santos-Victor, L. De Raedt, "Relational Affordances for Multiple-Object Manipulation", Autonomous Robot, pp. 1-16, May, 2017
[12] Miguel Aragão, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Middleware Interoperability for Robotics: A ROS–YARP Framework", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol. 3, October, 2016
[13] Plinio Moreno, Dario Figueira, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "People and mobile robot classification through spatio-temporal analysis of optical flow", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 6, September, 2015
[14] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Efficient pose estimation of rotationally symmetric objects", Neurocomputing, Vol. 150, Part A, pp. 126 - 135, February, 2015
[15] Plinio Moreno, "Introducing fuzzy decision stumps in boosting through the notion of neighbourhood", IET Computer Vision, 6(3), 2012 - PDF
[16] A. Sanfeliu, J. Andrade-Cetto, M. Barbosa, R. Bowden, J. Capitan, A. Corominas, A. Gilbert, J. Illingworth, L. Merino, J. M. Mirats, Plinio Moreno, A. Ollero, João Sequeira, Matthijs Spaan, "Decentralized Sensor Fusion for Ubiquitous Networking Robotics in Urban Areas", Sensors, 10(3):22742314, 2010
[17] Plinio Moreno, "Improving the SIFT descriptor with smooth derivative filters", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 30 , Issue 1, pp. 18-26 , 2009
[1] João Marques, Francisco Faria, Ana Rita Machado, Heitor Cardoso, Alexandre Bernardino, Plinio Moreno, "Active Collection of Well-Being and Health Data in Mobile Devices", DeLTA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1858. Springer, Cham., 2023
[1] Inês Carvalho, Eduarda Vaz, Heitor Cardoso, Plinio Moreno, "Data Augmentation Based on Virtual Wrist Devices for Fall Detection", Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1814. Springer, Cham, 2023
[2] Plinio Moreno, Beatriz Paula , "Learning to search for and detect objects in foveal images using deep learning", 11th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2023, 2023 - PDF
[3] S. Mohammadi, Nuno Duarte, Dimitris Dimou, Y. Wang, Matteo Taiana, P. Morerio, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, Alessio Del Bue, José Santos-Victor, "3DSGrasp: 3D Shape-Completion for Robotic Grasp", Proc. of ICRA 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, London, UK (accepted), 2023
[4] João Andrade, Plinio Moreno, "Improving the Estimation of Object mass from images", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), 2023
[5] Ana Rita Pagaimo, Plinio Moreno, "Exploring tactile sensing to perform the power grasp of a human-robot handshake", IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Tomar, Portugal, 2023
[6] Dimitris Dimou, José Santos-Victor, Plinio Moreno, "Grasp Pose Sampling for Precision Grasp Types with Multi-fingered Robotic Hands", IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2022) Japan, 2022 - PDF
[7] Martim Pereira, Dimitris Dimou, Plinio Moreno, "In-Hand Manipulation of Unseen Objects Through 3D Vision", ROBOT2022: Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 589. Springer, Cham, pp. 163—174, 2022
[8] João Balão, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Benchmarking shape completion methods for robotic grasping", IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 223-230, 2022
[9] Mariana Fernandes, Plinio Moreno, "Open-domain Conversational Agent based on Pre-trained Transformers for Human-Robot Interaction", Proc. of DeLTA 2022 - 3rd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
[10] Ana Machado, Heitor Cardoso, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Active Data Collection of Health Data in Mobile Devices", Proc. of DeLTA 2022 - 3rd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022
[11] Francisco Raposo Melo, Plinio Moreno, "Socially Reactive Navigation Models for Mobile Robots", Proc. of ICARSC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, 2022
[12] Carlos Simões, Plinio Moreno, "3D Estimation of Visual Focus of Attention", Proc. of ICARSC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, 2022
[13] Eduarda Vaz, Heitor Cardoso, Plinio Moreno, "Evaluation of Fall Detection Approaches based on Virtual Devices: Leveraging on Motion Capture Data in Unity environments", Proc. of BIOSIGNALS 2022 - 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (online) , 2022
[14] João Avelino, Plinio Moreno, João Correia, "Pedestrian Intention Anticipation with Uncertainty Based Decision for Autonomous Driving", Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Italy, 2022, pp. 1-5, 2022
[15] Fernando Loureiro, João Avelino, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Detecting Human-Robot Interaction Failures Through Egocentric Visual Head-Face Analysis", EgoVIP - Egocentric vision for interactive perception, learning, and control, Workshop at IROS 2021, 2021
[16] Manuel Carvalho, João Avelino, Alexandre Bernardino, Rodrigo Ventura, Plinio Moreno, "Human-Robot greeting: tracking human greeting mental states and acting accordingly", Proc. of IROS 2021 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Prague, Czech Republic , 2021
[17] Dimitris Dimou, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Learning Conditional Postural Synergies for Dexterous Hands: A Generative Approach Based on Variational Auto-Encoders and Conditioned on Object Size and Category", Proc. of ICRA 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi'an, China, 2021
[18] Alexandre Filipe, Alexandre Bernardino, Plinio Moreno, "Learning to Grasp Objects in Virtual Environments through Imitation.", 26th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition. Évora, 2020 (poster), 2020
[19] Gonçalo Cunha, Alexandre Bernardino, Pedro Vicente, Ricardo Ribeiro, Plinio Moreno, "Active robot Learning for Efficient Body-Schema Online Adaptation", 26th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition. Évora, 2020 (poster), 2020
[20] A. Nunes, Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, "Learning to search for objects in images from human gaze sequences", Proc. of ICIAR 2020 - 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Virtual Conference, 2020
[21] Manuel Serra, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Action-conditioned Benchmarking of Robotic Video Prediction Models: a Comparative Study", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, (Virtual Conference) , 2020
[22] L. Almeida, Plinio Moreno, "Potential grasp robustness for underactuated hands: New heuristics and uncertainty considerations", Proc. of ICARSC 2020 - The 20th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Virtual Conference, 2020
[23] R. Livramento, João Avelino, Plinio Moreno, "Natural data-driven approaching behaviors of humanoid mobile robots for f-formations", Proc. of ICARSC 2020 - The 20th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Virtual Conference , 2020
[24] Atabak Dehban, João Borrego, Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "The Impact of Domain Randomization on Object Detection: A Case Study on Parametric Shapes and Synthetic Textures", Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019
[25] João Avelino, F. Correia, J. Catarino, P. Ribeiro, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, A. Paiva, "The Power of a Hand-shake in Human-Robot Interactions", Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Madrid, Spain, 2018
[26] J. Borrego, Rui Figueiredo, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "A Generic Visual Perception Domain Randomisation Framework for Gazebo", Proc. of ICARSC 2018 - 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. Torres Vedras, Portugal, 2018
[27] F. Azevedo, J. Carmona, T. Paulino, Plinio Moreno, "Estimating objects’ weight in precision grips using skin-like sensors", Proc. of ROBOT 2017 - 3rd Iberian Robotics Conference, Seville, Spain, 2017
[28] L. Antanas, A. Dries, Plinio Moreno, L. De Raedt, "Relational Affordance Learning for Task-Dependent Robot Grasping", Proc. of ILP 2017 - 27th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Orléans, France, 2017
[29] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Robust cylinder detection and pose estimation using 3D point cloud information", Proc. of ICARSC 2017 - IEEE 17th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Coimbra, Portugal, 2017
[30] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Automatic object shape completion from 3D point clouds for object manipulation", Proc. of VISAPP 2017 - 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Porto, Portugal, 2017
[31] João Avelino, Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "On the perceptual advantages of visual suppression mechanisms for dynamic robot systems", Proc. of BICA 2016 - 7th International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, New York City, USA; Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 88, pp. 1–7, Elsevier, 2016
[32] Ricardo Nunes, Ricardo Beira, Plinio Moreno, Luis Vargas, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino, Miguel Aragão, Duarte Aragão, Rui Figueiredo, "Vizzy: A humanoid on wheels for assistive robotics", Proc. of ROBOT 2015 - 2nd Iberian Robotics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
[33] L. Antanas, Plinio Moreno, L. De Raedt, "Relational Kernel-based grasping with numerical features", Proc. of ILP 2015 - 25th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Kyoto, Japan, 2015 - PDF
[34] G. Chliveros, Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, M. Pateraki, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, P. Trahanias, "A Framework for 3D Object Identification and Tracking", Proc. of VISAPP 2014 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 672 - 677, 2014
[35] B. Moldovan, Plinio Moreno, M. van Otterlo, "On the Use of Probabilistic Relational Affordance Models for Sequential Manipulation Tasks in Robotics", Proc. of ICRA 2013 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013 - PDF
[36] M. Neumann, Plinio Moreno, L. Antanas, R. Garnett, K. Kersting, "Graph Kernels for Object Category Prediction in Task-Dependent Robot Grasping", Proc. of MLG 2013 - 11th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Chicago, IL, USA, 2013 - PDF
[37] Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Waving detection using the FuzzyBoost algorithm and flow-based features", Proc. of ICIAR 2013 - 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, 2013 - PDF
[38] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Fast 3D object recognition of rotationally symmetric objects", Proc. of IbPRIA 2013 - 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Madeira, Portugal, 2013 - PDF
[39] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Multi-Object Detection and Pose Estimation in 3D Point Clouds: A Fast Grid-Based Bayesian Filter", Proc. of ICRA 2013 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013 - PDF
[40] Rui Figueiredo, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Fast performance 3D object recognition: Dealing with rotationally symmetric objects", Proc. of RecPad 2012 - 18th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Coimbra, Portugal, 2012 - PDF
[41] Rui Figueiredo, A. Shukla, D. Aragao, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, A. Billard, "Reaching and Grasping Kitchenware Objects", Proc. of SII 2012 - IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, Fukuoka, Japan, 2012 - PDF
[42] B. Moldovan, José Santos-Victor, M. van Otterlo, Plinio Moreno, L. Raedt, "Learning relational affordance models for robots in multi-object manipulation tasks", Proc.of ICRA 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, pp. 4878-4883, 2012 - PDF
[43] M. Neumann, R. Garnett, Plinio Moreno, N. Patricia, K. Kersting, "Propagation kernels for partially labeled graphs", ICML 2012 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012 - PDF
[44] B. Moldovan, M. van Otterlo, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, L. De Raedt, "Statistical Relational Learning of Object Affordances for Robotic Manipulation", Proc. of LIP 2011 - International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Windsor Great Park, UK, 2011 - PDF
[45] Plinio Moreno, Pedro Ribeiro, José Santos-Victor, "Feature Selection for tracker-less human activity recognition", Proc. of ICIAR 2011 - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Burnaby, BC, Canada, 2011 - PDF
[46] Plinio Moreno, Pedro Ribeiro, José Santos-Victor, "Feature Set Search Space for FuzzyBoost Learning", Proc. of IbPRIA 2011 - Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 2011 - PDF
[47] Pedro Ribeiro, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Unsupervised and Online Update of Boosted Temporal Models: The UAL2Boost", Proc. of ICMLA 2010 - 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Washington, USA, 2010
[48] João Sequeira, Plinio Moreno, "ISRobotNet: A Testbed for Sensor and Robot Network Systems", Proc. of IROS 2009 - The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009 - PDF
[49] Plinio Moreno, "Waving detection using the local temporal consistency of flow-based features for real-time applications", Proc. of ICIAR 2009 - 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Halifax, Canada, 2009 - PDF
[50] Plinio Moreno, "Optical flow based detection in mixed human robot environments", Proc. of ISVC 2009 - 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2009
[51] N. Perez de la Blanca, "A comparative study of local descriptors for object category recognition: SIFT vs HMAX", Proc. of IbPRIA2007 - 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, 2007 - PDF
[52] Plinio Moreno, "Detecting Luggage Related Behaviors Using a New Temporal Boost Algorithm", Proc. of PETS 2007 - 10th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, in conjunction with ICCV 2007 - 11th International Conference on Computer Vision, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007 - PDF
[53] Plinio Moreno, "Boosting with Temporal Consistent Learners: An Application to Human Activity Recognition", Proc. of ISVC 2007 - 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, 2007 - PDF
[54] Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Model Based Selection and Classification of Local Features for Recognition Using Gabor Filters", Proc. ICIAR2006 - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal , 2006 - PDF
[55] T. List, "Comparison of target detection algorithms using adaptive background models", Proc. VS-PETS2005 - 2ndJoint IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, Beijing, China, 2005 - PDF
[56] Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Appearance based salient point detection with intrinsic scale frequency descriptor", Proc. VIIP2003 - 3rd IASTED Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, Benidorm, Spain, 2005 - PDF
[57] Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, "Gabor Parameter Selection For Local Feature Detection", Proc. IBPRIA2005 - 2nd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Estoril, Portugal, 2005 - PDF
[58] V. J. Traver, Alexandre Bernardino, Plinio Moreno, José Santos-Victor, "Appearance-based object detection in space-variant images: a multi-model approach", Proc. ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Porto, Portugal, 2004 - PDF
[1] Plinio Moreno, "Object component models using Gabor filters for visual recognition", Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal, 2008 - PDF
[1] Plinio Moreno, Beatriz Paula , "Learning to search for and detect objects in foveal images using deep learning", 11th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2023, 2023 - PDF
[2] Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor, Rodrigo Ventura, Kristian Kersting, "Robots that Learn and Reason: Towards Learning Logic Rules from Noisy Data", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
[3] João Avelino, Ricardo Ribeiro, Hugo Simão, Plinio Moreno, Rui Figueiredo, Nuno Duarte, Ricardo Nunes, Alexandre Bernardino, Martina Čaić, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder , "Experiments with Vizzy as a Coach for Elderly Exercise", Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching (PREC) workshop at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018). Chicago, USA, 2019
[4] João Avelino, T. Paulino, Carlos Cardoso, Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, "Human-aware natural handshaking using tactile sensors for Vizzy, a social robot", 2nd Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics at IEEE RO-MAN 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

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