Fernando Pereira, a researcher, and faculty member at Instituto Superior Técnico, has been honored with the Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award by the Signal Processing Society (SPS) during the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Seoul, South Korea.

The Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award recognizes dedication and significant contributions to the field of digital signal processing. Fernando Pereira’s research focuses on the representation of multimedia signals, with a special emphasis on visual signals. His work has significantly contributed to the understanding and efficient compression of data, essential for the development of immersive applications and new visual modalities such as light fields and point clouds.