António Pinheiro [Email: pinheiro@ubi.pt ] is an Associate Professor at U.B.I. (Universidade da Beira Interior), Covilha, Portugal and a researcher at I.T. (Instituto de Telecomunicações), Portugal. He received the BSc (Licenciatura) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from I.S.T, Portugal in 1988 and the PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from University of Essex, U.K. in 2002.
He has lectured several courses on Signal and Image Processing and on Digital Systems Design and Microprocessors. Currently, his research interests are on Image Processing, Multimedia Quality Evaluation, Emerging 3D Imaging Technologies, and Medical Image Analysis. He was a Portuguese representative of the European Union Actions COST 292, COST IC1003 - QUALINET, COST IC1206 - DE-ID, COST BM1304 - MYO-MRI and COST CA16103 - PARENCHIMA. He is a Portuguese delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29, involved with JPEG standardisation committee, where he is currently the Communication Subgroup chair. He was host and organiser of the 100th JPEG meeting, organizer and presenter of the tutorial in ACM Multimedia 2021 Conference"Plenoptic Quality Assessment: The JPEG Pleno Experience", the technical program co-chair of QoMEX 2015, the special session co-chair of QoMEX 2016, organizer of the "special session on Quality Assessment" at MMSP2014 and special session on "Challenges in Point Cloud Technology" at EUVIP 2022 , and co-organizer of the "Image Compression Grand Challenge" at ICIP 2016 and Special Session "Evaluation of Current and Future Image Compression Technologies" at PCS 2015. He is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is a senior member of IEEE.