Armando J. Pinho

Position	Full professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Information Systems and Processing
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students	Vera Afreixo, João M. Carvalho, Morteza Hosseini, Luís Matos, Vahid Mokhtari, António J. R. Neves, Diogo Pratas
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Information Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory
Projects
Past projects	CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, COMODIE, Cloud Thinking, DNA-Profiles, Docapesca-SI, FCM-DNA, Identity Verification, LANGG, NETDIAMOND, NRCD, NeuroPath, RACE, RD-Connect, RETIOT, SAICT, SOCA - Smart Open Campus, StrassVision, TO2
Events	EUSIPCO 2011, ICASSP 2009, ICASSP 2011, ICIP 2011, IbPRIA'2017
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0002-9164-0016
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Contact information

Armando J. Pinho
IEETA / DETI
Universidade de Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Phone: +351 234 370520
Fax: +351 234 370545
E-mail: ap [at] ua [dot] pt

Short biography

I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1964. I received the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering degree from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1988, the Master's degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering from IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1991 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro, in 1996.

I am a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro, and a researcher at the Information Systems and Processing group of the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro - IEETA. From Sep 2009 until Dec 2021, I was the scientific coordinator and director of IEETA. From Nov 2013 until Mar 2022, I was a member of the Ethics Standing Committee for Research Affairs of the University of Aveiro (and president of this Committee from Nov 2019 until Mar 2022). Currently, I am a member of the Scientific Council of the University of Aveiro and a member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro.

My main research activity is in the area of data compression, image compression, data models, Kolmogorov complexity and application of data models to computational biology.

Publications

Books

• Armando J. Pinho, Petia Georgieva, Luís F. Teixeira, Joan Andreu Sánchez. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Proceedings of the 10th Conference, IbPRIA 2022. Springer, Aveiro, Portugal, May 4-6, May 2022
• Hélder Araújo, Ana Maria Mendonça, Armando J. Pinho, María Inés Torres. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Proceedings of 4th Conference, IbPRIA 2009. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, June 2009

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Chunyu Tan, Liming Zhang, Tao Qian, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Statistical n-best AFD based Sparse Representation for ECG Biometric Identification. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, October 2021
• Mariana S. Ramos, João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. On the Impact of the Data Acquisition Protocol on ECG Biometric Identification. Sensors, vol. 21, p. 4645, July 2021 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Milton Silva, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. AC2: An Efficient Protein Sequence Compression Tool Using Artificial Neural Networks and Cache-Hash Models. Entropy, vol. 23, no. 5, p. 530, April 2021 [IF 2018: 2.419 (Q2, 28/81)]
• Jorge Miguel Silva, Diogo Pratas, Rui Antunes, Sérgio Matos, Armando J. Pinho. Automatic analysis of artistic paintings using information-based measures. Pattern Recognition, p. 107864, February 2021 [IF 2018: 5.165 (Q1, 10/202)]
• Milton Silva, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Efficient DNA sequence compression with neural networks. GigaScience, vol. 9, no. 11, p. giaa119, November 2020 [IF 2020: 6.520 (Q1, 10/71)] [IF 2018: 4.688 (Q1, 13/69)]
• João Almeida, Armando J. Pinho, José Luís Oliveira, Olga Fajarda, Diogo Pratas. GTO: A toolkit to unify pipelines in genomic and proteomic research. SoftwareX, vol. 12, p. 100535, July 2020
• Gisela Pinto, João M. Carvalho, Filipa Barros, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Multimodal Emotion Evaluation: A Physiological Model for Cost-Effective Emotion Classification. Sensors, vol. 20, no. 12, p. 3510, June 2020 [IF 2018: 3.031 (Q1, 15/61)]
• Joaquı́n Garcı́a-Sobrino, Armando J. Pinho, Joan Serra-Sagristà. Competitive segmentation performance on near-lossless and lossy compressed remote sensing images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 834-838, May 2020 [IF 2018: 3.534 (Q1, 7/28)]
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Burkhard Morgenstern, Armando J. Pinho. Smash++: an alignment-free and memory-efficient tool to find genomic rearrangements. GigaScience, vol. 9, no. 5, May 2020 [IF 2020: 6.520 (Q1, 10/71)] [IF 2018: 4.688 (Q1, 13/69)]
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Jorge Miguel Silva, Armando J. Pinho. A reference-free lossless compression algorithm for DNA sequences using a competitive prediction of two classes of weighted models. Entropy, vol. 21, p. 1074, November 2019 [IF 2018: 2.419 (Q2, 28/81)]
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel Silva. Distribution of Distances Between Symmetric Words in the Human Genome: Analysis of Regular Peaks. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 367--372, September 2019 [IF 2018: 1.418 (Q3, 40/59)]
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. AC: A Compression Tool for Amino Acid Sequences. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 68-76, March 2019 [IF 2018: 1.418 (Q3, 40/59)]
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Diogo Pratas, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Extended-Alphabet Finite-Context Models. Pattern Recognition Letters, no. 112, p. 49-55, September 2018 [IF 2018: 2.810 (Q2, 50/134)]
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Gonçalo Grilo, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel Silva, Tânia Caetano, João Carneiro, Filipe Pereira. Metagenomic Composition Analysis of an Ancient Sequenced Polar Bear Jawbone from Svalbard. Genes, vol. 9, no. 9, p. 445, September 2018 [IF 2018: 3.331 (Q2, 61/174)]
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Cryfa: a secure encryption tool for genomic data. Bioinformatics, p. bty645, July 2018 [IF 2018: 4.531 (Q1, 4/59)]
• Diogo Pratas, Raquel Silva, Armando J. Pinho. Comparison of Compression-Based Measures with Application to the Evolution of Primate Genomes. Entropy, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 393, May 2018 [IF 2018: 2.419 (Q2, 28/81)]
• Susana Brás, Jacqueline H. Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Biometric and emotion identification: an ECG compression based method. Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9:467, April 2018 [IF 2018: 2.129 (Q2, 40/137)]
• Ana H. M. P. Tavares, Jakob Raymaekers, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Raquel Silva, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Paula Brito, Vera Afreixo. Comparing reverse complementary genomic words based on their distance distributions and frequencies. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 1-11, March 2018 [IF 2018: 1.418 (Q3, 40/59)]
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning Robot Tasks with Loops from Experiences to Enhance Robot Adaptability. Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 99, p. 57-66, November 2017 [IF 2017: 1.952 (Q2, 56/132)] [IF 2018: 2.810 (Q2, 50/134)]
• Ana H. M. P. Tavares, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel Silva, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Vera Afreixo. DNA word analysis based on the distribution of the distances between symmetric words. Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 728, April 2017 [IF 2018: 4.011 (Q1, 15/69)]
• ...further results

Other articles in journals

• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Sara Pinto Garcia, Armando J. Pinho. Inter-STOP symbol distances for the identification of coding regions. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 230, November 2013
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Inter-dinucleotide distances in the human genome: an analysis of the whole-genome and protein-coding distributions. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 3, September 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

Chapters in books

• Susana Brás, João M. Carvalho, Filipa Barros, Claudia Figueiredo, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. An Information-Theoretical Method for Emotion Classification. XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019. IFMBE Proceedings, Henriques J., Neves N., de Carvalho P. (Ed.), Springer, Cham, vol. 76, 2020
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of Biomedical Images Based on Image Decomposition. Applications of Digital Signal Processing through Practical Approach, Sudhakar Radhakrishnan (Ed.), INTECH, p. 125-158, October 2015
• Andreas Holzinger, Matthias Hörtenhuber, Christopher Mayer, Martin Bachler, Siegfried Wassertheurer, Armando J. Pinho, David Koslicki. On entropy-based data mining. Interactive Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics, Andreas Holzinger, Igor Jurisica (Ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 8401 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), p. 209-226, 2014
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. Compressing resequencing data with GReEn. Deep Sequencing Data Analysis, Noam Shomron (Ed.), Humana Press, vol. 1038 (Methods in Molecular Biology), p. 27-37, July 2013
• 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

Articles in conference proceedings

• João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Entropy-Based ECG Biometric Identification. Entropy 2021: The Scientific Tool of the 21st Century, Porto, Portugal, p. 1, May 2021
• Vahid Mokhtari, Roman Manevich, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning the Scope of Applicability for Task Planning Knowledge in Experience-Based Planning Domains. Proc. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2019), p. Not known yet, November 2019
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Clustering DNA sequences by relative compression. 25th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad, Porto, Portugal, October 2019
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. A Probabilistic method to find and visualize distinct regions in protein sequences. Proceedings of the 27th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2019, A Coruña, Spain, September 2019
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Armando J. Pinho. Detection and Characterization of Local Inverted Repeats Regularities. Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 13th International Conference (PACBB 2019), Ávila, Spain, vol. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1005, June 2019
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Armando J. Pinho. GeCo2: An Optimized Tool for Lossless Compression and Analysis of DNA Sequences. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Avila, Spain, p. 137-145, June 2019
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Armando J. Pinho. Visualization of Similar Primer and Adapter Sequences in Assembled Archaeal Genomes. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Avila, Spain, p. 129-136, June 2019
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Myocardial infarction detection using a compression-based approach. Journal of Statistics on Health Decision -- Special Issue - Statistics on Health Decision Making: state of the art, Aveiro, Portugal, vol. 1, May 2019
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Compression-Based Classification of ECG Using First-Order Derivatives. 10th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2018, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Guimarães, Portugal, vol. 273, p. 27-36, March 2019
• Ana Teixeira, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel Silva. Evolutionary insights from the comparative analysis of hominid genomes. Proceedings of the 24th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad2018, Coimbra, October 2018
• Catarina Figueiredo, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Raquel Silva. Identification of antifungal targets using alignment-free methods. Proceedings of the 24th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad2018, Coimbra, October 2018
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas. An Application of Data Compression Models to Handwritten Digit Classification. International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems. Springer, Cham., p. 487-495, September 2018
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Metagenomic composition analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA from the Isle of Wight. 26th edition of the European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2018, Rome, Italy, September 2018
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. A DNA sequence corpus for compression benchmark. PACBB 2018 - 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Toledo, Spain, June 2018
• Carlos A C Bastos, Vera Afreixo, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Armando J. Pinho. An analysis of symmetric words in human DNA: adjacent vs non-adjacent word distances. PACBB 2018 - 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Toledo, Spain, June 2018
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Armando J. Pinho. Compression of amino acid sequences. PACBB 2018 - 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Toledo, Spain, June 2018
• Manuel Gaspar, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. NET-ASAR: a tool for DNA sequence search based on data compression. PACBB 2018 - 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Toledo, Spain, June 2018
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. An Approach to Robot Task Learning and Planning with Loops. Proc. 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2017), p. 6033-6038, 2017
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning and Planning of Robot Tasks with Loops. Proc. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC’2017), p. 296-301, 2017
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. The Impact of Noise Removal on a Compression-based ECG Biometric Identification System. 23rd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Lisboa, October 2017
• ...further results