João Paulo Costeira is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST). He is also a researcher at the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR) in the area of computer vision with special interests on 3D reconstruction from video, image matching and recognition. He coordinates a thematic area in the ISR-Laboratório Associado which focus on the development of algorithms for signal and image processing. He was a visiting scientist at the Vision and Autonomous Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University from 1992-1995. He obtained his PhD at IST in 1995 (Adv. J. Sentieiro and Takeo Kanade), MSc (1989) and BSc (1985).