SPL report 2011

Ongoing Projects with PI - member of the SPL

Completed Projects with PI - member of the SPL

Books (in 2011)

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI (published in 2011)

• Silvia De Sanctis, Wilhelm M. Malloni, Werner Kremer, Ana Maria Tomé, Elmar W. Lang, Klaus-Peter Neidig, Hans Robert Kalbitzer. Singular spectrum analysis for an automated solvent artifact removal and baseline correction of 1D NMR spectra. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 210, no. 2, p. 177-183, June 2011 (IF 2010: 2.333)
• Moacir Ponti, Nelson D. A. Mascarenhas, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Claudio A. T. Suazo. Three-dimensional Noisy Image Restoration using Filtered Extrapolation and Deconvolution. Signal, Image and Video Processing, vol. 5, February 2011 (IF 2010: 0.617)
• 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)
• AS Peters, J Rémi, C Vollmar, J Gonzalez-Victores, João Paulo Cunha, S Noachtar. Dysprosody during epileptic seizures lateralizes to the non-dominant hemisphere. Neurology, vol. 77, p. 1482-1486, October 2011 (IF 2010: 8.017, 8.017)
• Paul L. Butzer, M. M. Dodson, Paulo J S G Ferreira, J. R. Higgins, O. Lange, P. Seidler, R. L. Stens. Multiplex signal transmission and the development of sampling techniques: the work of Herbert Raabe in contrast to that of Claude Shannon. Applicable Analysis, vol. 90, no. 3, p. 643-688, March 2011 (IF 2010: 0.633)
• Ana Rita Teixeira, Ana Maria Tomé, Elmar W. Lang. Unsupervised feature extraction via kernel subspace techniques. Neurocomputing, vol. 74, no. 5, p. 820-830, February 2011 (IF 2010: 1.429)
• Bruno Coimbra, Luis M. T. Jesus, P. Couto. Vowel Acoustics in Normal and Hearing Impaired Children with Cochlear Implant. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, vol. 75, no. S1, p. 46, May 2011 (IF 2010: 1.067)
• 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)
• Pedro Dias, Isabel Soares, John Klein, João Paulo Cunha, Glenn Roisman. Autonomic correlates of attachment insecurity in a sample of women with eating disorders. Attachment & Human Development, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 155-167, March 2011 (IF 2010: 1.426)
• João Simões, Luis M. T. Jesus, D. Voegeli, P. Couto, J. Fernandes, M. Morgado. Assessment of comatose patients: a Portuguese instrument based on the Coma Recovery Scale - Revised and using nursing standard terminology. Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 67, no. 5, p. 1129-1141, May 2011 (IF 2010: 1.540)
• M. Elena Domínguez-Jiménez, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Some extremal properties of Daubechies filters and other orthonormal filters. Signal Processing, vol. 91, no. 1, p. 85-89, January 2011 (IF 2010: 1.351)
• 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)
• L F N D Carramate, C A B Oliveira, A L M Silva, Augusto Silva, J M F dos Santos, J F C A Veloso. Energy weighting technique in Quantum Computed Tomography using a MPGD. Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 6, no. 2, p. C02002, February 2011 (IF 2010: 3.148)
• Jan Rémi, Philipp Wagner, Rebecca O'Dwyer, João Paulo Cunha, Christian Vollmar, Isabella Krotofil, Soheyl Noachtar. Ictal Head Turning in Frontal and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsia, vol. 52, no. 8, p. 1447-1451, August 2011 (IF 2010: 3.955)
• Emanuel Peres, Miguel Fernandes, Raul Morais, Carlos R Cunha, Juan López, Samuel G. Matos, Paulo J S G Ferreira, Manuel J. C. S. Reis. An autonomous intelligent gateway infrastructure for in-field processing in precision viticulture. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 78, no. 2, p. 176-187, September 2011 (IF 2010: 1.431)
• Mohammed S. Al-Rawi, João Paulo Cunha. Using multivariate pattern analysis to study how specific brain regions respond to different visual stimulation. Journal of Neurology, vol. 258, p. S167, May 2011 (IF 2010: 3.853)
• João Silva, Nuno Lau, António J. R. Neves, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, José Luís Azevedo. World modeling on an MSL robotic soccer team. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 411-422, March 2011 (IF 2010: 0.944)
• Paul L. Butzer, Paulo J S G Ferreira, J. R. Higgins, G. Schmeisser, R. L. Stens. The Summation Formulae of Euler-Maclaurin, Abel-Plana, Poisson, and their Interconnections with the Approximate Sampling Formula of Signal Analysis. Results in Mathematics, vol. 59, no. 3-4, p. 359-400, May 2011 (IF 2010: 0.345)
• Bruno Coimbra, Luis M. T. Jesus, P. Couto. Fricative Spectra in Normal and Hearing Impaired Children with Cochlear Implant. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, vol. 75, no. S1, p. 33, May 2011 (IF 2010: 1.067)
• 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)
• Raul Morais, Nuno M. Silva, Paulo M. Santos, Clara M. Frias, Jorge A. F. Ferreira, António M. Ramos, José A. O. Simões, José M. R. Baptista, Manuel J. C. S. Reis. Double permanent magnet vibration power generator for smart hip prosthesis. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, April 2011 (IF 2010: 1.933)
• Paul L. Butzer, Paulo J S G Ferreira, J. R. Higgins, S. Saitoh, G. Schmeisser, R. L. Stens. Interpolation and sampling: E. T. Whittaker, K. Ogura and their followers. Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 320-354, April 2011 (IF 2010: 1.747)
• Jan Rémi, João Paulo Cunha, Christian Vollmar, Ozgur Topçuoglu, Alexander Meier, Steffen Ulowetz, Pedro Beleza, Soheyl Noachtar. Quantitative Movement Analysis Differentiates Focal Seizures Characterized by Automatisms. Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 642-647, April 2011 (IF 2010: 1.994)
• José Baptista, Raul Morais, António L. G. Valente, Salviano F. S. P. Soares, Miguel Candeias, Manuel J. C. S. Reis. HarmoSim: A tool for harmonic distortion simulation and assessment of non-linear loads. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, June 2011 (IF 2010: 0.321)
• 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)
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Other articles in journals (published in 2011)

• Paulo J S G Ferreira, Rowland Higgins. The establishment of sampling as a scientific principle — a striking case of multiple discovery. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 58, no. 10, p. 1446-1450, November 2011
• Francisco Vaz, António J. S. Teixeira. O Codificador GSM a 13kbit/s. Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 281-287, June 2011
• Inês Silvestre, Isabel Guimarães, António J. S. Teixeira. Qualidade vocal em mulheres com diagnóstico de nódulos vocais: Estudo preliminar ( Voice quality on women with vocal nodules diagnosis: Preliminary study ). Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cérvico-Facial, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 69-78, June 2011
• Mário Rodrigues, Gonçalo Paiva Dias, António J. S. Teixeira. Criação e acesso a informação semântica aplicada ao governo electrónico. LinguaMática, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 55-68, December 2011
• Adelaide Freitas, Vera Afreixo, Miguel Pinheiro, José Luís Oliveira, Gabriela Moura, Manuel A.S. Santos. Improving the Performance of the Iterative Signature Algorithm for the Identification of Relevant Patterns. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 71-83, February 2011
• Ana Maria Tomé, Ana Rita Teixeira, António J. S. Teixeira, G.Miguel, Petia Georgieva, Elmar W. Lang. Linear Invariant Systems Theory for Signal Enhancement. Electrónica e Telecomunicações, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 290-294, June 2011
• 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

Chapters in books (published in 2011)

• Ana Maria Tomé, Ana Rita Teixeira, Elmar W. Lang. Subspace Techniques and Biomedical Time Series Analysis. Recent Advances in Biomedical Signal Processing, J.M. Górriz, Elmar W. Lang, Javier Ramirez (Ed.), Bentham Science, vol. 1, p. 48-59, 2011
• Petia Georgieva. Instrumentation and Process Control – Intelligent Process Control. Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences, Elsevier, vol. Second Edition, February 2011
• Luis A. Paz Suárez, Petia Georgieva, Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo. Model Predictive Control Strategies for Batch Sugar Crystallization Process. Advanced Model Predictive Control, Tao Zheng (Ed.), INTECH, vol. ISBN: 978-953-307-298-2, p. 225-244, 2011
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias, Carlos A C Bastos. Towards a Multimodal Silent Speech Interface for European Portuguese. Speech Technologies, INTECH, vol. Book 1, 2011
• Nuno Figueiredo, Filipe Silva, Petia Georgieva, Ana Maria Tomé. Advances in Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces for Control and Biometry. Recent Advances in Brain-Computer Interface Systems, Reza Fazel (Ed.), INTECH, p. 171-192, February 2011
• Ilídio Oliveira, Eduardo Dias, Luís Alves, João Barros, Jorge Silva, Miguel Monteiro, António Sousa Pereira, José Maria Fernandes, Aurélio Campinho, João Paulo Cunha. Extending a desktop endoscopic capsule video analysis tool used by doctors with advanced computing resources. IberGrid2011 5th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference, I. Campos Placencia, J. Marco de Lucas, J. Gomes, G. Barreira (Ed.), Spain: NetBiblo S.L., La Coruña, p. 156-168, 2011

Articles in proceedings of conferences (published in 2011)

• António J. S. Teixeira, Nelson Rocha, Miguel Sales Dias, Daniela Braga, Alexandra Queirós, Osvaldo Pacheco, José Alberto Fonseca, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Hugo Gamboa, Luós Corte-Real, João Fonseca, Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, António J. R. Neves, Paulo Bartolomeu, Catarina Oliveira, João Cunha, Carlos Pereira. A New Living Lab for Usability Evaluation of ICT and Next Generation Networks for Elderly@Home. AAL 2011 - 1st Int. Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications (In conjuction with BIOSTEC 2011), Rome, p. 85-97, January 2011
• Daniel Albuquerque, José M. N. Vieira, Sérgio Lopes, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Indoor Ultrasonic Transfer Function for Moving Objects. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Guimarães, Portugal, September 2011
• Daniel Albuquerque, José M. N. Vieira, Sérgio Lopes, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Indoor Ultrasonic Simulator for Moving Objects Using Fractional Delay Filters. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Guimarães, Portugal, September 2011
• Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Miguel Bacelar, Maria G. A. D. Reis, Daniela Meira, Maximino Bessa, Emanuel Peres, Raul Morais, António L. G. Valente, Salviano F. S. P. Soares, José Bulas-Cruz. Internet-based Collaborative E-Exercisebook System for Primary Math Teaching. IEEE CONATEL 2011 (II National Conference on Telecommunications), Arequipa, Peru, p. 7 pp., May 2011
• Maria G. A. D. Reis, Luciana Cabral, Daniela Meira, Emanuel Peres, Maximino Bessa, António L. G. Valente, Raul Morais, Salviano F. S. P. Soares, José Baptista, Ana Paula Aires, Joaquim Escola, José Bulas-Cruz, Manuel J. C. S. Reis. Um Estudo de Caso do Ensino da Matemática em Crianças com Paralisia Cerebral e Deficiência Mental no 1º CEB. XIII Conferência Interamericana de Educação Matemática (CIAEM), Recife, Brasil, 26-30, vol. ISBN: 978-85-63823-01-4, p. 1-12, June 2011
• Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Raul Morais, Carlos M. G. Pereira, Miguel Bacelar, Salviano F. S. P. Soares, António L. G. Valente, José Baptista, Paulo J S G Ferreira, José Bulas-Cruz. A low-cost system to detect bunches of grapes in natural environment from color images. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6915, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Het Pand, Ghent, Bélgica, p. 92-102, August 2011
• Nuno Figueiredo, Filipe Silva, Petia Georgieva, Ana Maria Tomé, Ana Rita Teixeira. IEETA Brain Computer Interface - Towards an adaptive BCI. Proceedings of RecPad2011, October 2011
• Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Raul Morais, C. Pereira, Salviano F. S. P. Soares, António L. G. Valente, J. Baptista, Paulo J S G Ferreira, J. Bulas-Cruz. Automatic detection of white grapes in natural environment using image processing. 6th Int Conf Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2011, Salamanca, Spain, vol. 87, p. 19-26, April 2011
• Joaquim Escola, Ana Paula Aires, Maria G. A. D. Reis, Manuel J. C. S. Reis. A integração das TI no Ensino da Matemática no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico em Portugal. XIII Conferência Interamericana de Educação Matemática (CIAEM), Recife, Brasil, 26-30, vol. ISBN: 978-85-63823-01-4, p. 1-12, June 2011
• Vishal Dwivedi, Perla Velasco-Elizondo, José Maria Fernandes, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl. An Architectural Approach to End User Orchestrations. Software Architecture: 5th European Conference, ECSA 2011, Essen, Germany, September 13-16, 2011. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Programming and Software Engineering), p. p 370-378, August 2011
• José Maria Fernandes, Sérgio Tafula, João Paulo Cunha. 3D-Video-fMRI: 3D motion tracking in a 3T MRI environment. M Kamel, A. Campilho (eds) ICIAR2011, vol. LNCS 6754, p. 59-67, 2011
• José Maria Fernandes, Sérgio Tafula, João Paulo Cunha. Different fMRI activations if a response box or a 3D movement tracking system is used. Human Brain Mapping 2011, Quebec City, Canada, 2011
• Márcio Colunas, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, João Paulo Cunha. DroidJacket: An Android-based application for first responders monitoring. Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on, p. 15-18, June 2011
• Márcio Colunas, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, João Paulo Cunha. Droid Jacket: Using an Android based smartphone for team monitoring. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011 7th International, p. 2157 - 2161, July 2011
• Francisco Xavier, José Maria Fernandes, Ilídio Oliveira, Guilherme Campos. Análise paralela de imagem endoscópica com recurso a GPU. INForum - Simpósio de Informática, 8/9 Setembro de 2011, Coimbra, Portugal, September 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
• 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
• Daniel Albuquerque, José M. N. Vieira, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Ultrasonic OFDM Pulse for Beacon Identification and Distance Measurement in Reverberant Environments. 1st Int. Conf. on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, March 2011
• Daniel Albuquerque, José M. N. Vieira, Carlos A C Bastos, Paulo J S G Ferreira. Ultrasonic OFDM Pulse Detection for Time of Flight Measurement Over White Gaussian Noise Channel. 1st Int. Conf. on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, Vilamoura, Portugal, March 2011
• Sérgio Soldado, José M. N. Vieira, Daniel Albuquerque, Teófilo Monteiro. Controlling The Reconstruction Error In Hybrid Filter Banks. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications, San Francisco, California USA, June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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SPL PhD theses(finalized in 2011)

• Luís Lança. Radiological Imaging in digital systems: the effect of exposure parameters in diagnostic quality and patient dose. PhD Thesis, University of Aveiro, March 2011
• João Simões. A Influência da Estimulação Auditiva na Pessoa em Coma. PhD Thesis, Secção Autónoma de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, November 2011
• Ana Rita Teixeira. Subspace-based techniques and applications. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, February 2011
• Emanuel Peres. Ponto de acesso multi-tecnologia para processamento local de dados e suporte a aplicações de viticultura de precisão. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal, February 2011
• Liliana da Silva Ferreira. Medical Information Extraction in European Portuguese / Extracção de Informação de Relatórios Médicos em Português Europeu. PhD Thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, July 2011