News & Events
INESC TEC starts project SECRETS on photovoltaic energy
The Institut de Recherche en Energie et Solarie Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN) in Morocco has recently approved project SECRETS – “L’Intégration intelligente de l’énergie photovoltaïque au réseau de consommation domestique avec le développement d’applications spécifiques au contexte marocain”, as part of the call InnoPV.
HASLab/INESC TEC starts European project on Big Data
In February, the High-Assurance Software (HASLab), INESC TEC’s Privileged Partner, will start working on the European project LeanBigData (Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics). The main goal is to solve three great challenges of analytical processing in Big Data: the cost, in terms of resources, of scaling big data analytics for streaming and static data sources; the lack of integration of the existing technologies to manipulate Big Data and high response times; and the insufficient end-user support leading to extremely lengthy big data analysis cycles. INESC TEC’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) is also participating in this project.
INESC TEC participates in European project on smart grids
INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), represented by the researcher Nuno Fidalgo, participated in the kick-off meeting of the European project ELECTRA (European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities), which took place on 18 and 19 December in Milan, at the facilities of the Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE).
INESC TEC brings international conference to Porto
INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) is organising the 3rd edition of the International Conference on Dynamics, Games and Science (DGS III 2014), which will take place at the University of Porto between 17 and 21 February 2014.
INESC TEC receives Best Paper Award
A group of researchers from INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM) and Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) received a Best Paper Award for their paper “Built-in Self-Testing Infrastructure and Methodology for an EMG Signal Capture Module”. The article was presented at the GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 conference, which took place between 17 and 22 November, in Lisbon.
INESC TEC workshop discusses immersive media
Perceptual and audio-visual immersion, multisensory interaction, participatory or 3D and multiview systems were some of the themes discussed during the first international workshop on “Immersive Media Experiences 2013”, co-organised by INESC TEC.
INESC TEC publishes book on project CONVERGENCE
Enhancing the Internet with the CONVERGENCE System is the title of the book that was published as part of European project CONVERGENCE, in which INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit participated (UTM).
INESC TEC looking at Mars
INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) has recently concluded the first prototype of a system with Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) technology, which measures the properties of reflected light in order to obtain information, such as distance and the 3D shape of a certain object.
INESC TEC researcher publishes paper in NeuroImage
The paper “Connectivity patterns of pallidal DBS electrodes in focal dystonia: A diffusion tensor tractography study”, co-written by the researcher and leader of INESC TEC’s group BRAIN (Biomedical Research And INnovation), João Paulo Cunha, will be published in January in the scientific journal NeuroImage, one of the most important publications in the brain functioning area.
INESC TEC researcher receives award
Diogo Varajão, researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), received an award from the ABB Portugal, a company that develops power and automation technology. The researcher received the 2013 ABB Award for his MSc dissertation, titled "Carregador Bidirecional para Veículos Elétricos Baseado em Andar de Conversão Matricial" (Bidirectional Charger for Electric Vehicles Based on a Matrix Converter), for which he received the highest score (20 out of 20).
Tomorrow Options announces name change and launches in the US
Tomorrow Options, a body dynamics company delivering cutting-edge connected health and fitness products that evaluate body position and movement to improve human function, has announced it changed its name to Kinematix (www.kinematix.pt), and launched in the US with a fully-owned US subsidiary in Boston.
INESC TEC paper wins third place in competition for young researchers
Two researchers from INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) won third place in the Young Investigator Competition, sponsored by the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), with their paper “Towards a Dependable Cardiovascular Surveillance System”.
INESC TEC researchers win “Fumio Harashima Best Paper Award in Factory Automation”
Paulo Portugal and Francisco Vasques, researchers at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), won the “Fumio Harashima Best Paper Award in Factory Automation”, with their paper titled “GLHOVE: A Framework for Uniform Coverage Monitoring using Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks”.
INESC TEC researcher leads best Portuguese startup of the year
AuditMark, a company incubated at the University of Porto’s Science and Technology Park and led by Pedro Fortuna, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), was considered the best Portuguese startup of the year by EuroCloud Portugal. The young company located in the city of Porto was chosen for its groundbreaking work in the area of web application code protection.
INESC TEC researcher is the new president of ISMIR
Fabien Gouyon, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) is the new President-Elect of The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) for 2014/2015. The researcher will hold this position until he becomes president of the association in 2016/2017.
INESC TEC researcher is President of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition
On 1 November, Jaime Cardoso, researcher at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), was chosen to be the new president of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP). The election was held during the general meeting of the APRP, as part of the National Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD), in which the UTM participated.
INESC TEC team wins competition on methods to detect liveness in the iris
A team of researchers from INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) won the “LivDet Iris 2013” competition, which took place between June and July of this year. As part of the competition, participants compared different methodologies to detect liveness in iris recognition systems. The results were announced at the “IEEE BTAS 2013- Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems”, which took place in the United States between 29 September and 2 October.
Kinematix opens Boston office, raises $2.6M Series B
Portugal-based Kinematix announced Tuesday it has raised $2.6 million in Series B funding and opened its U.S. headquarters in Boston. The company offers health and fitness products that evaluate body position and movement.
Best Iberian dissertation belongs to INESC TEC researcher
José Luís Silva, a researcher at INESC TEC’s High Assurance Software (HASLab), is the winner of the 1st edition of the AISTI award (Iberian Association of Information Systems and Technology) for “Best Iberian Dissertation on Information Systems and Technology”. The INESC TEC researcher was the winner in a total of 27 applications.
LIAAD/INESC TEC wins 1st place in finances and data mining competition
A team with members from INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) and from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP) has recently won a competition on credit rating as part of the conference BRICS-CCI & CBIC 2013 - Countries Congress on Computational Intelligence, which took place between 3 June and 19 August. The results were announced during the conference’s closing session in Brazil on 10 September.
