Daniel Simões Lopes
Biography
Daniel Simões Lopes is a tenured Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor at Técnico Lisboa and an Integrated Researcher at ITI/LARSyS. He is also a Research Collaborator at INESC ID. He holds a degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Lisbon and graduated in computational engineering under the UT Austin|Portugal Program framework. He teaches Computer Graphics (undergraduate) and Virtual Reality (graduate) courses at the educational level. Currently, he co-supervises 5 PhD students and has graduated 35+ master students.
At ITI/LARSyS, he directs the Lab of xReality, which investigates novel XR interfaces with applications in 3D content creation and medical scenarios and improved Computer Graphics techniques to better interact in the Metaverse. He authored 50+ scientific papers at top venues. He also participated in 9 national research projects, being the principal investigator in 2. He is a member of the ACM. His main research interests are collision detection, motion processing, extended reality, and medical interfaces.
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2022
Eliciting Privacy Expectations for Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings Journal Article
In: Available at SSRN 4084600, 2022.
2021
An immersive educational tool for dental implant placement: A study on user acceptance Journal Article
In: Int. J. Medical Informatics, vol. 146, pp. 104342, 2021.
A Deep Learning Approach to Recognize Human Activity Using Inertial Sensors and Motion Capture Systems Proceedings Article
In: FSDM, pp. 250–256, IOS Press, 2021.
Exploring Bi-Directional Pinpointing Techniques for Cross-Reality Collaboration Proceedings Article
In: VR Workshops, pp. 264–270, IEEE, 2021.
3D Reconstruction from CT Images Using Free Software Tools Book Section
In: Digital Anatomy: Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 135–157, Springer International Publishing Cham, 2021.
A Tool for Collaborative Anatomical Dissection Journal Article
In: Digital Anatomy: Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 41, 2021.
A Tool for Collaborative Anatomical Dissection Book Section
In: Digital Anatomy: Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 41–58, Springer International Publishing Cham, 2021.
Estimating anatomically plausible segment orientations using a kinect one sensor Journal Article
In: Annals of Medicine, vol. 53, no. sup1, pp. S143–S144, 2021.
Motion envelopes: unfolding longitudinal rotation data from walking stick-figures Journal Article
In: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, pp. 1–12, 2021.
From A-Pose to AR-Pose: Animating Characters in Mobile AR Proceedings Article
In: SIGGRAPH Happy Hour, pp. 4:1–4:2, ACM, 2021.