Armando J. Pinho

Position	Associate professor
Group	Signal Processing Laboratory
Transverse Activity	Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics, Transverse Activity on Innovative Biomedical Technologies
Status	Integrated member
Country	Portugal
Students	Diogo Pratas, Luís Matos
Former PhD Students	Vera Afreixo, António J. R. Neves
Former Masters Students	Show list
Courses	Information Theory
Projects	CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, COMODIE, DNA-Profiles, FCM-DNA, LANGG, RACE
Events	EUSIPCO 2011, ICASSP 2009, ICASSP 2011, ICIP 2011
Proposals
Personal Page	http://www.ieeta.pt/~ap

Publications

Books

• Hélder Araújo, Ana Maria Mendonça, Armando J. Pinho, María Inés Torres. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Proceedings of IbPRIA 2009. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, June 2009

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. GReEn: a tool for efficient compression of genome resequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research, December 2011 (IF 2010: 7.836)
• Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho. Minimal Absent Words in Four Human Genome Assemblies. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 12, p. e29344, December 2011 (IF 2010: 4.411)
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, António J. R. Neves, Carlos A C Bastos. On the representability of complete genomes by multiple competing finite-context (Markov) models. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 6, p. e21588, June 2011 (IF 2010: 4.411)
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Genome analysis with distance to the nearest dissimilar nucleotide. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 275, no. 1, p. 52-58, April 2011 (IF 2010: 2.371)
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho, Daniel A. Martins, Bernardo Cunha. An efficient omnidirectional vision system for soccer robots: from calibration to object detection. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 399-410, March 2011 (IF 2010: 0.944)
• Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Minimal absent words in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. PLoS ONE, vol. 6, no. 1, p. e16065, January 2011 (IF 2010: 4.411)
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Genome analysis with inter-nucleotide distances. Bioinformatics, vol. 25, no. 23, p. 3064-3070, December 2009 (IF 2009: 4.926) (IF 2010: 4.877)
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. On finding minimal absent words. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 137, May 2009 (IF 2009: 3.428) (IF 2010: 3.028)
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossless compression of microarray images using image-dependent finite-context models. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 194-201, February 2009 (IF 2009: 3.540) (IF 2010: 3.639)
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. A three-state model for DNA protein-coding regions. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 11, p. 2148-2155, November 2006 (IF 2006: 2.302) (IF 2010: 1.782)
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. On the relation between Memon's and the modified Zeng's palette reordering methods. Image and Vision Computing, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 534-540, May 2006 (IF 2006: 1.171) (IF 2010: 1.525)
• Armando J. Pinho, António R. C. Paiva, António J. R. Neves. On the use of standards for microarray lossless image compression. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 563-566, March 2006 (IF 2006: 2.302) (IF 2010: 1.782)
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. A survey on palette reordering methods for improving the compression of color-indexed images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 11, p. 1411-1418, November 2004 (IF 2004: 2.011) (IF 2010: 2.606)
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves. A note on Zeng's technique for color reindexing of palette-based images. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 232-234, February 2004 (IF 2004: 0.995) (IF 2010: 1.165)
• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Armando J. Pinho. Why does histogram packing improve lossless compression rates?. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 8, p. 259-261, August 2002 (IF 2002: 0.824) (IF 2010: 1.165)
• Armando J. Pinho. An online preprocessing technique for improving the lossless compression of images with sparse histograms. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 5-7, January 2002 (IF 2002: 0.824) (IF 2010: 1.165)
• Armando J. Pinho. Adaptive context-based arithmetic coding of arbitrary contour maps. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 4-6, January 2001 (IF 2001: 0.679) (IF 2010: 1.165)
• Armando J. Pinho. A JBIG-based approach to the encoding of contour maps. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 936-941, May 2000 (IF 2000: 2.078) (IF 2010: 2.606)
• Armando J. Pinho. A method for encoding region boundaries based on transition points. Image and Vision Computing, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 213-218, March 1998 (IF 1998: 0.431) (IF 2010: 1.525)
• Armando J. Pinho. Image compression based on quadtree segmentation and artificial neural networks. Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 11, p. 1029-1031, May 1993 (IF 2010: 1.001)

Other articles in journals

• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Inter-nucleotide distances in the human genome: an analysis of the whole-genome and protein-coding distributions. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 3, 2011
• António J. R. Neves, Daniel A. Martins, Armando J. Pinho, José Luís Azevedo. An efficient real-time hybrid vision system for soccer robots. Robótica, no. 74, p. 4-9, 2009

Articles in proceedings of conferences

• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia. Computation of the normalized compression distance of DNA sequences using a mixture of finite-context models. Bioinformatics 2012: International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 2012
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. Complexity Profiles of DNA Sequences Using Finite-Context Models. Information Quality in e-Health: 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Graz, Austria, vol. LNCS 7058, p. 75-82, November 2011
• Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho. Analysis of patterns in S. pombe genome through compression-based complexity profiles. Proc. of the 17th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossy-to-lossless compression of microarray images using expectation pixel values. Proc. of the 17th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2011, Porto, Portugal, October 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Image similarity using the normalized compression distance based on finite context models. Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP 2011, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Finding unknown repeated patterns in images. Proc. of the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona, Spain, p. 584-588, August 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Sara Pinto Garcia. Symbolic to numerical conversion of DNA sequences using finite-context models. Proc. of the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona, Spain, p. 2024-2028, August 2011
• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Armando J. Pinho, Carlos A C Bastos. A probabilistic image analysis problem and random linear equations. Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, SSP 2011, Nice, France, p. 325-328, June 2011
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Bacteria DNA sequence compression using a mixture of finite-context models. Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, SSP 2011, Nice, France, p. 125-128, June 2011
• Diogo Pratas, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Luís Matos. DNA synthetic sequences generation using multiple competing Markov models. Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, SSP 2011, Nice, France, p. 133-136, June 2011
• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Bruno Jesus, José M. N. Vieira, Armando J. Pinho. Random block-angular matrices for distributed data storage. Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, p. 3180-3183, May 2011
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Compressing the human genome using exclusively Markov models. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, PACBB 2011, Salamanca, Spain, vol. 93, p. 213-220, April 2011
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Distances between dinucleotides in the human genome. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, PACBB 2011, Salamanca, Spain, vol. 93, p. 205-211, April 2011
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Analysis of DNA sequences using finite-context modelling and compression. Proc. of the 16th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2010, Vila Real, Portugal, October 2010
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Carlos A C Bastos. DNA synthetic sequences generated by finite-context models. Proc. of the 16th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2010, Vila Real, Portugal, October 2010
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossless compression of microarray images based on background/foreground separation. Proc. of the 16th Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2010, Vila Real, Portugal, October 2010
• Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, António J. R. Neves, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. Exploring homology using the concept of three-state entropy vector. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 5th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2010, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, vol. LNBI 6282, p. 161-170, September 2010
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Paulo J S G Ferreira. DNA inter-nucleotide distances. Challenges in Bioinformatics, JB-2009, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 1, November 2009
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Finite-context modeling of DNA sequences. Challenges in Bioinformatics, JB-2009, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 141, November 2009
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Microarray image coding using finite-context models. Challenges in Bioinformatics, JB-2009, Lisbon, Portugal, p. 109, November 2009
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Chapters in books

• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Compression of microarray images. Signal Processing, Sebastian Miron (Ed.), INTECH, p. 429-448, March 2010
• Armando J. Pinho, António J. R. Neves, Daniel A. Martins, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Finite-context models for DNA coding. Signal Processing, Sebastian Miron (Ed.), INTECH, p. 117-130, March 2010
• António J. R. Neves, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau, João Silva, Frederico Santos, Gustavo Corrente, Daniel A. Martins, Nuno Figueiredo, Artur Pereira, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo Pedreiras. CAMBADA soccer team: from robot architecture to multiagent coordination. Robot Soccer, Vladan Papic (Ed.), INTECH, p. 19-45, January 2010
• Paulo Pedreiras, F. Teixeira, N. Ferreira, Luís Almeida, Armando J. Pinho, F. Santos. A real-time framework for the vision subsystem in autonomous mobile robots. Vision Systems: Applications, G. Obinata, A. Dutta (Ed.), In-Tech Education and Publishing, p. 83-100, 2007
• António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho, Gustavo Corrente. An Omnidirectional Vision System for Soccer Robots. Progress in Artificial Intelligence, José Maia Neves, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Manuel Machado (Ed.), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 499-507, December 2007