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Awards

  • H. Silva, IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award, This award recognizes an individual who has had a significant impact on the engineering-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accomplishments of the candidate should be of “significant importance” and should have made a distinguishing contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country/region., 01-12-2023
  • A. Nogueira, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Nomination for best student paper, Nomination for the best student paper award at INForum2022, 8-9 September 2022, Guarda, Portugal The paper was one of the four nominees (over a total of 38 papers), 01-09-2022
  • A. Nogueira, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Best Poster Award, ICPRAM 2022 Best Poster Award, 01-02-2022
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, Fellow of the EURASIP, Fellow of the European Society for Signal Processing, 01-01-2021
  • E. Félix, P. Morouço, P.L. Correia, H. Silva, Prémio Ciências do Desporto - Treino Desportivo, Comité Olímpico de Portugal, Vencedor do Prémio "Ciências do Desporto" na categoria de "Treino Desportivo". Prémio atribuído pelo Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP) e pela Fundação Millennium bcp, com a parceria da revista Visão. Em 2019 reuniu mais de 60 trabalhos submetidos à análise do júri de especialistas. Trabalho: "Desenvolvimento de uma unidade de medida inercial de baixo custo para controlo e avaliação do treino de nadadores" Autores: Eduardo Félix, Pedro Morouço, Paulo Lobato Correia, Hugo Silva, 01-09-2020
  • D. Osório, E. Teixeira, F. Pimentel-Santos, H. Silva, H. Gamboa, C. Quaresma, Best Paper Award at DoCEIS 2020, Best Paper Award at DoCEIS 2020, with the work 'Development and Validation of an Experimental Protocol to Evaluate Posture Control', 01-07-2020
  • H. Silva, Career Award alumniIPS, Every year, the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal distinguishes a graduate that, for personal or professional merit, has gathered achievements that constitute a reference for the students and the community., 01-10-2018
  • L. Zhuang, J. Bioucas-Dias, Third prize of student paper contest in 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Third prize of student paper contest IGARSS 2018 is presented to Lina Zhuang for the paper "Hy-demosaicing: Hyperspectral Blind Reconstruction From Spectral Subsampling"., 01-07-2018
  • H. Silva, 1st place at the European Commission Innovation Radar Prize in the "Industrial and Enabling Tech" Category, BITalino was distinguished by the European Commission's DG-CONNECT as the best european development in the "Industrial and Enabling Tech" category at the Innovation Radar Awards 2017, 01-11-2017
  • L. Zhuang, L. Gao, B. Zhang, J. Bioucas-Dias, Best student paper award at SPIE Remote Sensing and Security+Defence International Symposia 2017, Paper, entitled "Hyperspectral image denoising and anomaly detection based on low-rank and sparse representations", has been selected as winning presentation of the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Remote Sensing and Security+Defence International Symposia, Warsaw, Poland 2017. The paper, written by Lina Zhuang and her supervisor José M. Bioucas-Dias, introduces a robust Hyperspectral image denoising method in presence of outliers. It is a collaboration with researchers Lianru Gao and Bing Zhang from Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences., 01-09-2017
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, Prémio Científico Universidade de Lisboa/Santander Universidades, Prémio Científico ULisboa/Santander Universidades, in the area of Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering , prize awarded to the Ulisboa researcher with the highest scientific impact, according to the ISI Science Citation Index, in the period 2012-2016,, 01-09-2017
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, IEEE GRSS David Landgrebe Award, "For outstanding contributions in the field of remote sensing image analysis", 01-06-2017
  • H. Silva, A. L. N. Fred, Featured Researcher at the Sparks “Beyond the Lab: The DIY Science Revolution” Exhibition, To complement the stories of common citizens contributing to scientific research and the artworks presented in ‘Beyond the Lab: The DIY science revolution’, each venue hosting the exhibition presents a local example of how RRI is or can be applied in research in the field of medicine and healthcare. Sparks partners have worked within local partnerships with researchers, universities, NGOs and citizens to identify the object or the research that would be featured in the local corner of the exhibition. Our work with BITalino was the selected showcase in Portugal., 01-01-2017
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, IEEE Fellow, "For contributions to imaging inverse problems in remote sensing", 31-12-2016
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, IAPR Pierre Devijver Award, This award commemorates Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition, who left us all in 1996. The recipient is be selected from among outstanding scientists who have contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition., 01-12-2016
  • H. Silva, RP-edisoft Pereira, P. Pires, 2nd place at PixelsCamp (former CodeBits), These awards recognised the best projects developed during the 3 days hackathon Pixels Camp (former Codebits), which is one of the biggest national tech-events. The devised project, dubbed Wolverino, is a multimodal plug & play controller for artificial limbs, human augmentation and/or animatronics pieces, which can use muscle signals or remote control over a mobile app to trigger specific actions on the pieces. Wolverino´s target audience are people with prosthetic limbs, cosplayers and bio-hackers. The award has been assigned to a working demo application inspired by the claws of the world famous Marvel Comics character Wolverine., 01-10-2016
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, EURASIP Technical Achievment Award, "The Technical Achievement Award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society, as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact in this field." http://www.eurasip.org/newsletter/newsletter_2016-01a.html#SocietyAwards, 01-01-2016
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researcher 2015, Quoting from http://highlycited.com/ webpage: “... About three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers–ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact”., 01-01-2016
  • F. Condessa, J. Bioucas-Dias, J. Kovacevic Kovacevic, Best student paper award (1st place), The Mikio Takagi Student Prize (MTStP) is to recognize a student who has presented an outstanding paper at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Awarded to the paper "Supervised Hyperspectral Image Segmentation with Rejection," authored by Filipe Condessa, José Bioucas-Dias, and Jelena Kovačević., 01-07-2015
  • G. Martin Martin, J. Bioucas-Dias, A. Plaza, Melhor Tese de Doutoramento Ibérico em Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação, O Prémio “Melhor Tese de Doutoramento Ibérico em Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação” é atribuído anualmente pela AISTI ao melhor trabalho de Tese de Doutoramento, elaborado no âmbito das áreas científicas dos Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação e áreas afins, com vista a estimular a inovação científica e o rigor do trabalho de investigação, bem como proceder à divulgação de trabalhos científicos de elevada qualidade. Na edição de 2014 foram recebidas 33 candidaturas, tendo sido selecionadas 8 para a fase final, das quais foi selecionada a tese vencedora pelo júri constituído por reputados professores e investigadores da Península Ibérica. Saiu vencedor Gabriel Martín Hernández, com a Tese “Design and implementation of new methods for spatial preprocessing prior to spectral unmixing of remotely sensed hyperspectral data, realizada no Departamento de Tecnologia dos Computadores e das Comunicações da Universidade da Extremadura, sob orientação científica de Antonio Plaza Miguel da Universidade da Extremadura e de José Bioucas Dias da Universidade de Lisboa., 01-06-2015
  • H. Silva, 1st place at Prémio Inovação Jovem Engenheiro 2014, Ordem dos Engenheiros, 01-05-2015
  • A. Veganzones, M. Simões, G. Licciardi, J. Bioucas-Dias, J. Chanussot, "Top 10%" papers at ICIP 2014, The paper "Hyperspectral Super-Resolution of Locally Low Rank Images From Complementary Multisource Data" was recognized as one of the "Top 10%" papers at ICIP 2014, based on reviewer scores and recommendations., 01-10-2014
  • H. Silva, Most Innovative Product/Technology (1st place), MIT Portugal - E3 Forum, 01-05-2014
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, S. Wright, R. Nowak, 2014 Walter R. G. Baker Award, 2014 Walter R. G. Baker Award, for the paper "Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation", published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009., 01-01-2014
  • H. Silva, A. P. Alves Alves, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, I. Montalvão, L. Alegre, Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, Best Paper Award at SouthCHI 2013, with the work 'Towards the Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments', 01-07-2013
  • A. L. N. Fred, H. Silva, A. Lourenço, 1st Prize of contest INOVPORTUGAL, 1st Prize on the portuguese contest of innovation and entrepreneurship, INOVPORTUGAL, with the project VITALIDI, 01-05-2013
  • S. Vinga, A. M. Carvalho, A. P. Francisco, L. M. S. Russo, J. S. Almeida, Highly accessed article, for the paper, Pattern matching through Chaos Game Representation: Bridging numerical and discrete data structures for biological sequence analysis, by BioMed Central, 01-01-2012
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, S. Wright, R. Nowak, 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for the paper "Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation", published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2009., 01-12-2011
  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, H. Silva, Prémio Engenheiro Jaime Filipe, This award, promoted by the Portuguese Social Security Institute, distinguishes yearly the most innovative and autonomy enabling solution within the domain of rehabilitation engineering, and at a National level it currently stands as the highest recognition in this field., 01-12-2011
  • H. Silva, A. Lourenço, A. L. N. Fred, JBF Filipe, Best Paper Award at USAB 2011, Best Paper Award at the USAB 2011 conference, with the work ''Clinical Data Privacy and Customization via Biometrics Based on ECG Signals'', 01-11-2011
  • A. M. Carvalho, A. L. Oliveira, Highly accessed article, for the paper GRISOTTO: A greedy approach to improve combinatorial algorithms for motif discovery with prior knowledge, by BioMed Central, 01-11-2011
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, "Prémio UTL/Santander-Totta, in the area of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science", Prize awarded to the UTL researcher with the highest scientific impact, according to the ISI Science Citation Index, in the period 2005-2009, 01-12-2010
  • M. Lucas da Silva, C. Simões, H. Silva, F. Botelho, Exame Informática Software Award (Honorable Mention), ''The Best of Technological Portugal'' by Exame Informática is a conference aimed at the distinction of individuals and companies that stand out in Portugal, and in the world, in the field of new technologies., 01-11-2010
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, Excellence in Teaching, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST., 01-09-2010
  • H. Gamboa, H. Silva, Silva, ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Life Sciences Award, The ISCTE-IUL MIT Portugal Competition — launched by ISCTE-IUL in partnership with MIT School of Engineering, the Deshpande Center, and the MIT Sloan School of Management — aims to foster the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in Portugal., 01-09-2010
  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, Biggest Innovation Award, Hit Barcelona is a unique global event with a format that integrates spaces dedicated to knowledge, revolutionary ideas and great business opportunities., 01-06-2010
  • H. Gamboa, Silva, H. Silva, Portugal Startup Award, Ignite Portugal is a set of events open to the participation of all that spin around the topics of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship and technology., 01-05-2010
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, "Prémio UTL/Santander-Totta, in the area of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science", Honorable mention - Scientific UTL/Santander Awards - to distinguish researchers postdoctoral grantees that have published in the last five years in journals analysed in ISI Web of Science. Technical University of Lisbon/Santander Awards., 01-12-2009
  • M. A. T. Figueiredo, Prémio UTL/Santander-Totta, in the area of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Prize awarded to the UTL researcher with the highest scientific impact, according to the ISI Science Citation Index, in the period 2002-2006., 01-12-2007
  • J. Dias, J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Blind estimation of motion-blur parameters for image deconvolutio, Best paper award, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 01-06-2007
  • J. Bioucas-Dias, J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Blind estimation of motion blur parameters for image deconvolution, Best paper award, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis , 01-06-2007 ., 01-01-2007
  • M. Rabbat, M. A. T. Figueiredo, R. Nowak, Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS'2006, Student Paper Honorable Mention., Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS'2006, Student Paper Honorable Mention, for the paper Inferring Network Structure from Co-Occurrences., 04-12-2006
  • A. L. N. Fred, A. K. Jain, Best Paper Award in Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies, Best Paper Award in Pattern Recognition and Basic Technologies presented to Ana Fred for the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition paper "Learning Pairwise Similarity for Data Clustering", issued by the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 21-08-2006
  • H. Silva, Prémio Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Award for recognized academic merit during the pursuit and completion of the Sc. B. degree., 01-09-2005
  • H. Silva, Bolsa de Estudo por Mérito, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Scholarship for academic merit, 01-09-2004
  • A. Ferreira, Inês Simas Best Student Paper, Inês Simas Best Student Paper at ConfTele2003, 01-06-2003