Eduardo Marques

PhD Student, Digital Media

Eduardo Marques holds a Bsc. in Engineering of Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro, and a Post-graduation in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments received at the University of Minho. At the same time, he developed his artistic skills through several courses based on traditional oil-acrilic painting, and drawing.

Professionally, he made part of the Iberian team that realized and produced the first 3D digital feature film in Portugal, and the first fulldome short movie. After that, he founded his own R&D company focused on the creation of digital solutions based on interdisciplinary research deep connected to computer games and digital arts. Along that period, he occupied two major roles: Art Director and Computer Graphics Developer. At the end of that exciting experience, he became part of the R&D department of Edigma.com,  owner of Displax. He participated in the development of a newly and innovative projective capacitive multitouch device, and was responsible for some computer vision research and solutions.

Briefly, his academic research and professional experience embrace interdisciplinary knowledge: from physical simulation environment, through 3D animation and game development, to analysis of human body gesture in space, to interactive technologies and natural user interfaces.

His PhD research treats awareness and management of three-dimensional physical space as key factors for enabling ambient intelligence environments, specially when supporting human activity. The emergent paradigm of Cross-reality is interpreted as an extension of human perception and interaction within this type of environments. A camera-based network is used to capture and analyze physical space to acquire important context-sensitive information capable of handling dynamic unconstrained changes into the analysis of human activity.

Eduardo José Marques Pereira
Phone: +351 914317679