bio

Francisco Maçãs
Researcher
Instituto Superior Técnico
Franciso Maçãs is a master’s civil engineering student, specializing in urbanism, transports and systems.
Currently, he is working on his thesis, entitled “Using computer vision to extract pedestrian urban indicators”, in the scope of the project Streets4All. It explores the abilities and capacities of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help automatically obtain urban indicators from static videos.
Research Interests:
- Urban mobility
- Active modes
- AI for urban space analysis