Hugo Varandas

Current

• Engineer at Celfinet

Education

• Instituto Superior Técnico
• Instituto Superior Técnico
• Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• H.264 Shot Detection @ IST
• H.264 Shot Detection

Hugo Varandas’s Experience

• Engineer

  Celfinet

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Fixed Services and Solutions Department
  
  Assigned to the GPON FTTH deployment project team.

Hugo Varandas’s Education

• Instituto Superior Técnico

  Msc Thesis , Software Development for H.264 Digital Video Processing , 2008 — 2008

  Dissertation titled “Compressed Domain H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Shot Detection”.
  
  Goal: To develop a software capable of detecting shot transitions in H.264 compressed videos and to compare and improve the performance of different algorithms.
  
  Main competences acquired:
  - Programming experience using the .NET and DirectShow frameworks and APIs and the C# programming language.
  - Knowledge about the H.264 video coding standard and its encoded bit stream.

• Instituto Superior Técnico

  MsC , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 2003 — 2008

  Major in Telecommunications
  • Telecommunication and systems and networks – Optical transmission, xPON and FTTx, Digital subscriber line (xDSL), synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), digital switching...
  • Mobile communication systems – Cellular systems, radio network planning, GSM, UMTS...
  • Audio and video communications – Multimedia coding standards (JPEG, MPEG, H.26x), Digital Television (DVB)...
  • Computer Networks – Main architectures and protocols (HTTP; DNS; UDP; TCP; IP; RIP; IPv6; VPNs; NAT; WLAN...)...

• Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria

  High School , 2001 — 2003

Additional Information

Hugo Varandas’s Websites:

• H.264 Shot Detection @ IST
• H.264 Shot Detection

Hugo Varandas’s Groups:

•    Telecom Professionals
•    Associação dos Antigos Alunos do Instituto Superior Técnico - IST Alumni
•    FTTx - Fiber to the x

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