People
João Nuno Correia
Member
Evolutionary and Complex SystemsResearch interests
Artificial IntelligenceEvolutionary Computation
Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition
Computer Vision
Computational Creativity
Short Bio
João Correia is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra and a researcher of the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the same university. He was also an Invited Assistant at the Lusófona University of Lisbon.He holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology from the University of Coimbra. He also holds a MSc and BS in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra. His main research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Computational Creativity. He is involved in different international program committees of International conferences of the area of Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Art and Creativity and reviewer for different conferences and journals for the mentioned areas. He was also chair of the International Conference of Evolutionary Art Music and Design conference. Furthermore, he has authored and co-authored several articles on the different International Conferences and journals on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation and is involved in national and international projects.
National Projects
ACCELERATION - Automatic Artificial Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Detection
Past Projects
SBIRC - Based Image Retrieval and Classification
ConCreTe - Concept Creation Technology
Study and visualization of the mobility in urban spaces
Journal Articles
2019
(3 publications)- Xiao, P. and Toivonen, H. and Gross, O. and Amilcar Cardoso and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado and Martins, P. and Gonçalo Oliveira, H, and Rahul Sharma and A. M. Pinto and Díaz, A. and Francisco, V. and Gervás, P. and Hervás, R. and León, C. and Forth, J. and Purver, M. and Wiggins, G. and Bohanec, M. and Lavrac, N. and Miljkovic, D. and Podpecan, V. and Pollak, S. and Urbancic, T. and Znidarsic, M. and Velde, F.v.d. and Battersby, S. , "Conceptual Representations for Concept Creation", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 52, 2019
- Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Conceição, R. and Pimenta, M.J.M. and Tomé, B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Penousal Machado , "Automatic Design of Artificial Neural Networks for Gamma-Ray Detection", IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 110531-110540, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Tiago Martins and Correia, J. and Costa, E. and Penousal Machado , "Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User's Preferences and Novelty", Complexity, vol. 2019, 2019 [ DOI ]
2016
(1 publication)- Carballal, A. and Santos, A. and Romero, J.J. and Penousal Machado and Correia, J. and Pena, M.L.C. , "Distinguishing Paintings from Photographs by Complexity Estimates", Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 27, pp. 1-13, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(2 publications)- Penousal Machado and Romero, J.J. and Nadal, M. and Santos, A. and Correia, J. and Carballal, A. , "Computerized measures of visual complexity", Acta Psychologica, vol. 160, pp. 43-57, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Penousal Machado and Vinhas, A. and Correia, J. and Ekart, A. , "Evolving Ambiguous Images.", AI Matters, vol. 2, pp. 7-8, 2015
2014
(1 publication)Conference Articles
2020
(10 publications)- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs", in EvoAPPS2020, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Exploring the evolution of GANs through quality diversity", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Correia, J. and Ferreira, F. , "Designing Cable-Stayed Bridges with Genetic Algorithms", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 2020
- Correia, J. and Ferreira, F. and Maçãs, C. , "Cable-Stayed Bridge Optimization Solution Space Exploration", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '20 Companion), July 8--12, 2020, Canc’un, Mexico, 2020
- Fernandes, P. and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Evolutionary Latent Space Exploration of Generative Adversarial Networks", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 23rd European Conference, EvoApplications 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs", in Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 23rd European Conference, EvoApplications 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Exploring the Evolution of GANs through Quality Diversity", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Tiago Martins and Correia, J. and S. Rebelo and Bicker, J. and Penousal Machado , "Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation", in Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design - 9th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2020, Held as Part of EvoStar 2020, Seville, Spain, April 15-17, 2020, Proceedings, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Lopes, Daniel and Penousal Machado and Correia, J. , "Adea – Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in Typeface Design", in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2020 [ DOI ]
- Lopes, Daniel and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in the Graphic Design Workflow", in 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2020), 2020
2019
(3 publications)- Correia, J. and Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado , "Evolutionary Data Augmentation for Deep Face Detection", in GECCO '19 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Pages 163-164 , 2019 [ DOI ]
- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "COEGAN: evaluating the coevolution effect in generative adversarial networks", in GECCO 2019, 2019 [ DOI ]
- João Miguel Cunha and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Martins, P. and Penousal Machado , "Emojinating: Evolving Emoji Blends", in Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. (EvoMUSART 2019), 2019 [ DOI ]
2018
(1 publication)2016
(3 publications)- Tiago Martins and Correia, J. and Costa, E. and Penousal Machado , "Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2016
- Correia, J. and Tiago Martins and Martins, P. and Penousal Machado , "X-Faces The eXploit Is Out There", in Proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 2016
- Vinhas, A. and Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Ekart, A. and Penousal Machado , "Fitness and Novelty in Evolutionary Art", in 2016 International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music and Art (EvoMUSART), 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(4 publications)- Tiago Martins and Correia, J. and Costa, E. and Penousal Machado , "Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design", in Colin Johnson and Adrian Carballal and João Correia editors , Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Penousal Machado and Vinhas, A. and Correia, J. and Ekart, A. , "Evolving Ambiguous Images", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015 , 2015
- Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Martins, P. and Penousal Machado , "Evolving Families of Shapes", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015, 2015, pp. 4134-4135, 2015
- Amilcar Cardoso and Martins, P. and Assunção, F. and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "A Distributed Approach to Computational Creativity", in 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC’2015, 2015
2014
(2 publications)- Penousal Machado and Correia, J. , "Semantic Aware Methods for Evolutionary Art", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '14, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 12-16, 2014. Proceedings , 2014
- Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Semantic Operators for Evolutionary Art", in Semantic Methods in Genetic Programming (SMGP) Workshop at Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2014 conference Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13 September 2014; Organizers: Colin Johnson, Krzysztof Krawiec, Alberto Moraglio and Michael O’Neill., 2014
2013
(2 publications)- Correia, J. and Penousal Machado and Romero, J.J. and Carballal, A. , " Feature Selection and Novelty in Computational Aesthetics", in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design - Second International Conference, EvoMUSART 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 3-5, 2013. Proceedings, volume 7834 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 133-144, Springer, 2013
- Correia, J. and Penousal Machado and Romero, J.J. and Carballal, A. , "Evolving Figurative Images Using Expression–Based Evolutionary Art", in Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), pages 24-31, Sydney, Australia June 12-14 , 2013
2012
(3 publications)- Penousal Machado and Correia, J. and Romero, J.J. , "Improving Face Detection", in Alberto Moraglio and Sara Silva and Krzysztof Krawiec and Penousal Machado and Carlos Cotta editors, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2012, volume 7244, pages 73-84, Malaga, Spain, 2012. Springer Verlag, 2012
- Penousal Machado and Correia, J. and Romero, J.J. , "Expression-Based Evolution of Faces", in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2012, Malaga, Spain, 2012. Spri, vol. 7247, 2012
- Correia, J. and Penousal Machado and Romero, J.J. , "Improving Haar Cascade Classifiers Through the Synthesis of New Training Examples", in Soule, T. and Moore, J.H. editors. 2012. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO ’12, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-11, 2012, Companion Material Proceedings. GECCO (Companion) (2012), 2012
Edited Books
2017
(1 publication)- Correia, J. and Ciesielski, V. and Liapis, A. , Proceedings of the 6th International Conference Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 19–21, 2017 , "Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design", vol. 10198, 2017 [ DOI ]
2016
(1 publication)2015
(1 publication)2014
(1 publication)- Romero, J.J. and McDermott, J. and Correia, J. , Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2015, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014 , "Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design", vol. 8601, 2014 [ DOI ]
Book Chapters
2020
(1 publication)- Costa, V. and Lourenço, Nuno and Correia, J. and Penousal Machado , "Neuroevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks", in Natural Computing Series, vol. 1, pp. 293-322, 2020 [ DOI ]