Armando J. Pinho

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Information Systems and Processing
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students	João M. Carvalho, Morteza Hosseini
Former PhD students	Vera Afreixo, Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Diogo Pratas
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Information Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory
Projects	NETDIAMOND, RETIOT, SOCA - Smart Open Campus
Past projects	CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, COMODIE, Cloud Thinking, DNA-Profiles, FCM-DNA, Identity Verification, LANGG, NRCD, NeuroPath, RACE, RD-Connect, SAICT, StrassVision
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

ORCID

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.

Currently, I am an Associate Professor with habilitation 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. I am also the current director of IEETA.

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

• 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

• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. AC: A Compression Tool for Amino Acid Sequences. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, February 2019 [IF 2017: 0.796 (Q4, 54/59)]
• 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 2017: 1.952 (Q2, 56/132)]
• 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 2017: 3.191 (Q2, 68/171)]
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. Cryfa: a secure encryption tool for genomic data. Bioinformatics, p. bty645, July 2018 [IF 2017: 5.481 (Q1, 3/59)]
• 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 2017: 2.305 (Q2, 22/78)]
• Susana Brás, Jacqueline H. Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Biometric and emotion identification: an ECG compression based method. Frontiers in Psychology, April 2018 [IF 2017: 2.089 (Q2, 39/135)]
• 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 2017: 0.796 (Q4, 54/59)]
• 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)]
• 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
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Experience-Based Planning Domains: an Integrated Learning and Deliberation Approach for Intelligent Robots. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 463-483, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.512 (Q3, 17/26)] [IF 2017: 1.583 (Q3, 17/26)]
• M. Hernandez-Cabronero, I. Blanes, Armando J. Pinho, M. Marcellin, J. Serra-Sagrista. Progressive Lossy-to-Lossless Compression of DNA Microarray Images. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 5, p. 698-702, May 2016 [IF 2016: 2.528 (Q2, 83/262)]
• M. Hernandez-Cabronero, I. Blanes, Armando J. Pinho, M. Marcellin, J. Serra-Sagrista. Analysis-driven lossy compression of DNA microarray images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 35, no. 2, p. 654-664, February 2016 [IF 2016: 3.942 (Q1, 36/262)]
• Diogo Pratas, Raquel Silva, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. An alignment-free method to find and visualise rearrangements between pairs of DNA sequences. Scientific Reports, vol. 5, p. 10203, May 2015 [IF 2015: 5.228 (Q1, 7/63)]
• Raquel Silva, Diogo Pratas, Luísa Castro, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Three minimal sequences found in Ebola virus genomes and absent from human DNA. Bioinformatics, vol. 31, no. 15, p. 2421-2425, April 2015 [IF 2015: 5.766 (Q1, 3/56)] [IF 2017: 5.481 (Q1, 3/59)]
• Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. MAFCO: A compression tool for MAF files. PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 3, p. e0116082, March 2015 [IF 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)] [IF 2017: 2.766 (Q1, 15/64)]
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas. MFCompress: a compression tool for FASTA and multi-FASTA data. Bioinformatics, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 117-118, January 2014 [IF 2014: 4.981 (Q1, 3/57)] [IF 2017: 5.481 (Q1, 3/59)]
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues. XS: a FASTQ read simulator. BMC Research Notes, vol. 7, no. 40, January 2014
• Armando J. Pinho, Sara Pinto Garcia, Diogo Pratas, Paulo J S G Ferreira. DNA sequences at a glance. PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 11, p. e79922, November 2013 [IF 2013: 3.534 (Q1, 8/55)] [IF 2017: 2.766 (Q1, 15/64)]
• Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. The breakdown of word symmetry in the human genome. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 335, p. 153-159, October 2013 [IF 2013: 2.303 (Q1, 10/52)]
• Manuel J. Duarte, Armando J. Pinho. Bacterial DNA sequence compression models using artificial neural networks. Entropy, vol. 15, p. 3435-3448, August 2013 [IF 2013: 1.564 (Q2, 29/78)] [IF 2017: 2.305 (Q2, 22/78)]
• ...further results

Other articles in journals

• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. A Survey on Data Compression Methods for Biological Sequences. Information, vol. 7, no. 4, October 2016
• 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

• 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

• 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
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Armando J. Pinho. Cryfa: a tool to compact and encrypt FASTA files. PACBB 2017 - 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Porto, Portugal, vol. AISC 616, p. 305-312, June 2017
• Ana H. M. P. Tavares, Jakob Raymaekers, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Raquel Silva, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Paula Brito, Vera Afreixo. Dissimilar symmetric word pairs in the human genome. PACBB 2017 - 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Porto, Portugal, vol. AISC 616, p. 248-256, June 2017
• João M. Carvalho, Susana Brás, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Impact of the acquisition time on ECG compression-based biometric identification systems. IbPRIA 2017 - 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Faro, Portugal, vol. LNCS 10255, p. 169-176, June 2017
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. On the approximation of the Kolmogorov complexity for DNA sequences. IbPRIA 2017 - 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Faro, Portugal, vol. LNCS 10255, p. 259-266, June 2017
• Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. On the role of inverted repeats in DNA sequence similarity. PACBB 2017 - 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Porto, Portugal, vol. AISC 616, p. 228-236, June 2017
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Armando J. Pinho. Substitutional tolerant Markov models for relative compression of DNA sequences. PACBB 2017 - 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Porto, Portugal, vol. AISC 616, p. 265-272, June 2017
• Diogo Pratas, Morteza Hosseini, Raquel Silva, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Visualization of distinct DNA regions of the modern human relatively to a Neanderthal genome. IbPRIA 2017 - 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Faro, Portugal, vol. LNCS 10255, p. 235-242, June 2017
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Gathering and Conceptualizing Plan-Based Robot Activity Experiences. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference IAS-13, vol. AISC 302, p. 993-1005, 2016
• Filipe Teixeira, Armando J. Pinho. Boosting Compression-based Classifiers for Authorship Attribution. Proceedings of the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• ...further results