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, Vahid Mokhtari
Former PhD students	Vera Afreixo, Luís Matos, António J. R. Neves, Diogo Pratas
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Information Theory
Projects	Identity Verification, NETDIAMOND, NRCD, RD-Connect, RETIOT
Past projects	CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, COMODIE, Cloud Thinking, DNA-Profiles, FCM-DNA, LANGG, NeuroPath, RACE, SAICT, StrassVision
Events	EUSIPCO 2011, ICASSP 2009, ICASSP 2011, ICIP 2011
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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

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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

• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning Robot Tasks with Loops from Experiences to Enhance Robot Adaptability. Pattern Recognition Letters, June 2017 [IF 2015: 1.586 (Q2, 59/130)]
• 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 2015: 5.228 (Q1, 7/63)]
• 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 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)]
• 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 2015: 1.661 (Q2, 95/257)]
• 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 2015: 3.756 (Q1, 13/257)]
• 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)]
• 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)]
• 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 2015: 5.766 (Q1, 3/56)]
• 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 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)]
• 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)]
• Luís Matos, Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho. A compression model for DNA multiple sequence alignment blocks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 5, p. 3189-3198, May 2013 [IF 2013: 2.650 (Q1, 14/135)]
• Sara Pinto Garcia, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Sérgio Santos, Diogo Pratas, Vera Afreixo, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Armando J. Pinho. A genomic distance for assembly comparison based on compressed maximal exact matches. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 793-798, May 2013 [IF 2013: 1.536 (Q1, 24/119)]
• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Bruno Jesus, José M. N. Vieira, Armando J. Pinho. The rank of random binary matrices and distributed storage applications. IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 151-154, January 2013 [IF 2013: 1.463 (Q2, 27/78)]
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Sara Pinto Garcia. GReEn: a tool for efficient compression of genome resequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 40, no. 4, p. e27, February 2012 [IF 2012: 8.278, 8.278 (Q1, Q1, 27/290, 27/290)]
• 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 2011: 4.092 (Q1, 12/85)] [IF 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)]
• 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 2011: 4.092 (Q1, 12/85)] [IF 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)]
• 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 2011: 2.208 (Q1, 11/47)]
• ...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

• 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, E. Menegatti, N. Michael, K. Berns, H. Yamaguchi (Ed.), Springer, vol. AISC 302, p. 993-1005, 2016
• 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

• 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
• 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
• Susana Brás, Jacqueline Ferreira, Sandra C. Soares, Armando J. Pinho. Compression Methods on Emotion Identification - Preliminary Study. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Marco Henriques, António J. R. Neves, Armando J. Pinho. Facial recognition based on image compression. Proceedings of the 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2016, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• João M. Carvalho, Armando J. Pinho, Susana Brás. Irregularity Detection in ECG signal using a semi-fiducial method. 22nd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), Aveiro, Portugal, October 2016
• Ana H.M.P. Tavares, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Carlos A C Bastos, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Paula Brito, Vera Afreixo. Detection of exceptional genomic words: a comparison between species. Proceedings of COMPSTAT 2016 (22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics), Oviedo, Spain, p. 255--266, August 2016
• Armando J. Pinho, Diogo Pratas, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Authorship attribution using relative compression. Proc. of the Data Compression Conference, DCC-2016, Snowbird, UT, p. 329-338, March 2016
• Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Efficient compression of genomic sequences. Proc. of the Data Compression Conference, DCC-2016, Snowbird, UT, p. 231-240, March 2016
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Experience-Based Robot Task Learning and Planning with Goal Inference. Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, London, England, p. 509--517, March 2016
• Diogo Pratas, Raquel Silva, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Detection and visualisation of regions of human DNA not present in other primates. Proceedings of the 21st Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RecPad 2015, Faro, Portugal, October 2015
• Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. Normalized relative compression (NRC) in ECG biometric identification. 21st Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad 2015), Faro, Portugal, October 2015
• Susana Brás, Armando J. Pinho. ECG Biometric Identification: A compression based approach. 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Milan, Italy, p. 5838-5841, August 2015
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, Gi Hyun Lim. Planning with Activity Schemata: Closing the Loop in Experience-Based Planning Domains. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), Vila Real, Portugal, April 2015
• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Armando J. Pinho. A method to detect repeated unknown patterns in an image. Proc. of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR-2014, Vilamoura, Portugal, vol. LNCS 8814, p. 12-19, October 2014
• ...further results