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... Artur Jorge Ferreira

Researcher

Artur Ferreira

Academic position: Researcher
Joining date: 01-10-1999
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Information and Data Sciences
Group: Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

Email: Send Email
Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

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Bio

Artur Ferreira EE (1999), MSc (2003), PhD (2014) is coordinating professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Lisbon, Portugal. His main research interests include biometrics, digital signal processing, artifical inteligence, big data, pattern recognition, machine learning, feature selection, and feature discretization techniques. He serves as an editorial board member for the Applied Soft Computing Journal. He has authored, co-authored and reviewed many journal and conference papers. He is also a member of the Portuguese Pattern Recognition Association (APRP).


Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 24-02-2014
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 10-03-2003
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 01-09-1999
  • Undergraduate, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 31-07-1997
  • Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, 27-10-1999, Professor Coordenador
  • Machine Learning
  • Feature Selection
  • Feature Discretization
  • Pattern Recognition
As Supervisor
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Feature Discretization with Relevance and Mutual Information Criteria, Chapter in, Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 318, A. Fred and M. De Marsico, Springer, 2015
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Boosting Algorithms: A Review of Methods Theory, and Applications, Chapter in, Ensemble Learning: Methods and Applications, Cha Zhang and Yunqian Ma, Springer, 2012
  • A. Ferreira, P. M. Marques, Echo Cancellation for Hands-Free Systems, Chapter in, Adaptive Filtering, Lino García Morales, In-Tech, 2011
  • A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, B.P. Pinto, J.T. Tendeiro, Tuning Iris Recognition for Noisy Images, Chapter in, BIOSTEC 2009, CCIS-Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 52, A. Fred, J. Filipe, H. Gamboa, Springer, Berlin, 2010
  • A. Ferreira, A. L. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, On the Suitability of Suffix Arrays for Lempel-Ziv Data Compression, Chapter in, ICETE 2008 - CCIS-Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 48, J. Filipe and M. Obaidat, Springer, Berlin, 2009
  • A. Ferreira, An Interactive Dashboard for Statistical Analysis of Intensive Care Unit COVID-19 Data, biomedinformatics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 454 - 476, February, 2024,
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  • C.R.P. Palma, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Explainable Machine Learning for Malware Detection on Android Applications, Information, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 25 - 25, January, 2024,
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  • A. Nogueira, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Machine Learning Pipeline for Cancer Detection on Microarray Data: The Role of Feature Discretization and Feature Selection, biomedinformatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 585 - 604, August, 2023,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Incremental filter and wrapper approaches for feature discretization, Neurocomputing, Vol. 123, No. 1, pp. 60 - 74, January, 2014,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, An unsupervised approach to feature discretization and selection, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 3048 - 3060, September, 2012,
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  • A.V.C. Carreiro, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, S. Madeira, Towards a classification approach using meta-biclustering: impact of discretization in the analysis of expression time series, Journal of integrative bioinformatics, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. -- - --, July, 2012,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Efficient Feature Selection Filters for High-Dimensional Data, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 33, No. 13, pp. 1794 - 1804, June, 2012,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, On the use of independent component analysis for image compression, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 378 - 389, June, 2006 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Union and Intersection K-fold Feature Selection, INSTICC International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. 360 - 367, February, 2025,
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  • C. R. Rekowski, I. Pinto, T. Fonseca, R. Araújo, A. Ferreira, C. Calado, L. B. Bento, Trends in COVID-19 Patient Characteristics and Mortality Throughout the Pandemic: Insights from a Portuguese Single-Centre Study, International Conference on Challenges in Engineering, Medical, Economics and Education: Research & Solutions CEMEERS-24, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, December, 2024,
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  • J. Valido, D. Albuquerque, A. Ferreira, DPC Antão, Electric Vehicle Driving Range Prediction with Neural Networks, Academia Militar Portuguese conference in pattern recognition RECPAD, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024,
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  • A. Moreira, A. Ferreira, N. Leite Leite, Prediction of Alzheimer disease from handwriting tasks with explainability techniques, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, September, 2024,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Mutual Information Based Discretization-Selection Technique, INSTICC International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, February, 2024,
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  • C.R.P. Palma, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A study on the role of feature selection for malware detection on Android applications, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023,
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  • R.D. Dias, A. Ferreira, I. Pinto, C.G. Geraldes, C. R. Rekowski, L. B. Bento, An interative dashboard for statistical analysis of COVID-19 data for PREMO project, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Coimbra, Portugal, October, 2023,
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  • C.R.P. Palma, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, On the use of machine learning techniques to detect malware in mobile applications, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, September, 2023,
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  • L. Loureiro, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, Building a Dataset for Trip Style Assessment Based on Real Trip Data, INSTICC International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA) DATA, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 287 - 294, July, 2023,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Union k-Fold Feature Selection on Microarray Data, INSTICC International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA) DATA, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. 540 - 547, July, 2023,
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  • D. Albuquerque, A. Ferreira, DPC Antão, Estimating Electric Vehicle Driving Range with Machine Learning, INSTICC International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. 336 - 343, February, 2023,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Leveraging Explainability with K-Fold Feature Selection, INSTICC International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. 458 - 465, February, 2023,
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  • D. Albuquerque, A. Ferreira, DPC Antão, Electric Vehicle Driving Range Prediction: an Approach with Machine Learning, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Leiria, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2022,
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  • L. Loureiro, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, Finding Driver Styles on Driver Behavior Data with Unsupervised Learning, RECPAD Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad RECPAD, Leiria, Portugal, October, 2022,
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  • A. Nogueira, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Explaining Cancer Detection on Microarray Data: a Machine Learning Approach, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Guarda, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, September, 2022,
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  • A. Nogueira, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Step Towards the Explainability of Microarray Data for Cancer Diagnosis with Machine Learning Techniques, International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Conference online, Vol., pp. 362 - 369, February, 2022,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, On the Improvement of Feature Selection Techniques: The Fitness Filter, INSTICC International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Conference online, February, 2021,
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  • D. Bicho, A. Ferreira, N. Datia, Classification of Not Suitable for Work Images: A Deep Learning Approach for Arquivo.pt, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Evora, Portugal, October, 2020,
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  • A. Cerca, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, Increasing Road Safety with Machine Learning - A Fatigue and Drowsiness Detection System, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Evora, Portugal, October, 2020,
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  • A. Cerca, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, A Study on Compression Techniques for off-the-person Electrocardiogram Signals, IEEE Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering ENBENG, Lisboa, Portugal, February, 2019 | BibTex
  • M. Nunes, A. Ferreira, N. Leite Leite, Examination Timetabling Automation using Hybrid Metaheuristics, CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Lisboa, Portugal, December, 2016 | BibTex
  • R. Leitão, A. Ferreira, T. Dias, Fingerprint Recognition System With Hardware Acceleration, CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, lisbon, Portugal, December, 2016 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Exploiting the Bin-Class Histograms for Feature Selection on Discrete Data, Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Vol. LNCS9117, pp. 345 - 353, June, 2015 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Efficient Supervised Relevance Criteria Tailored to Discrete Features, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Covilha, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2014,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A comparison between Shannon’s, Renyi’s, and Tsallis Mutual Information for Feature Selection, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Covilha, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2014,
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  • J.F. Freitas, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A. T. Teixeira, M. D. Dias, Enhancing Multimodal Silent Speech Interfaces with Feature Selection, ISCA - Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH, Singapore, Singapore, Vol. --, pp. 1169 - 1173, September, 2014,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Supervised Feature Discretization with a Dynamic Bit-Allocation Strategy, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2013,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, An Incremental Bit Allocation Strategy for Supervised Feature Discretization, Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Funchal, Portugal, Vol. LNCS7887, pp. 526 - 534, June, 2013,
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  • P. M. Marques, A. Ferreira, F. Fortes, S. P. Sampaio, Bistatic Passive Radar Demonstrator using COTS, NATO RTO Specialists Meeting on Passive Radar, challenges concerning theory and practice in military applications, Szczecin, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. tbd - tbd, May, 2013 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Relevance and Mutual Information-Based Feature Discretization, International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, February, 2013,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Relevance-based Linde-Buzo-Gray Approach for Supervised Feature Discretization, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2012,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Supervised Feature Discretization by Mutual Information Maximization, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, October, 2012,
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  • P. M. Marques, A. Ferreira, F. Fortes, S. P. Sampaio, A LOW-COST BISTATIC PASSIVE RADAR DEMONSTRATOR, NATO - Workshop on Passive Radar ECM, EPM Critical Aspects, Athens, Greece, Vol. 1, pp. tbd - tbd, October, 2012,
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  • T.T. Tam, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, Automatic Foldering of Email Messages: a Combination Approach, European Conf. on Information Retrieval - ECIR, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. 7224, pp. 232 - 243, April, 2012,
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  • A.V.C. Carreiro, A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, S. Madeira, Prognostic prediction using clinical expression time series: Towards a supervised learning approach based on meta-biclusters, International Conf. on Practical Applications of Computational Biology - PACBB, Salamanca, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, March, 2012,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A dynamic wrapper method for feature discretization and selection, International Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, vilamoura, Portugal, Vol., pp. 103 - 112, February, 2012,
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  • T.T. Tam, A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, Automatic Email Foldering with Supervised Learning - Addressing the Class Imbalance Problem, Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, A. L. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Lempel-Ziv sliding window update with suffix arrays, Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Compressed learning for text categorization, Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Feature Discretization and Selection in Microarray Data, International Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR, Paris, France, Vol. 1, pp. 465 - 469, October, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Feature Selection and Discretization for Microarray and Other Biological Data, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 60 - 65, September, 2011,
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  • P. M. Marques, A. Ferreira, S. P. Sampaio, A pedagogical passive RADAR using DVB-S signals, IEEE, KIEES Asia-Pacific International Conf. on Synthetic Aperture Radar - APSAR, Seoul, Korea, South, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. . - ., September, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Unsupervised Joint Feature Discretization and Selection, Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, June, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Efficient Unsupervised Feature Selection for Sparse Data, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, April, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Unsupervised Feature Selection for Sparse Data, European Symp. on Artificial Neural Networks - ESANN, Bruges, Belgium, Vol. 1, pp. 339 - 344, April, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, A. L. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Sliding Window Update Using Suffix Arrays, IEEE Data Compression Conference - DCC, Snowbird, UT, USA, United States, Vol. --, pp. 456 - 456, March, 2011,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Text Classification: A Compressed Learning Approach, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Vila Real, Portugal, October, 2010,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Technique for Unsupervised Feature Discretization and Selection, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Vila Real, Portugal, October, 2010,
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  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Feature Transformation and Reduction for Text Classification, International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, Funchal, Portugal, Vol., pp. 72 - 81, June, 2010,
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  • A. Ferreira, J. Bioucas-Dias, M. A. T. Figueiredo, An Experiment on Feature Selection for Sparse Data, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2009,
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  • A. Ferreira, A. L. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, On the use of suffix arrays for memory-efficient Lempel-Ziv data compression, IEEE Data Compression Conference - DCC, Snowbird, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 444 - 444, March, 2009,
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  • A. Ferreira, A. Lourenço, B.P. Pinto, J.T. Tendeiro, Modifications and Improvements on Iris Recognition, INSTICC International Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 72 - 79, January, 2009,
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  • A. Ferreira, P. M. Marques, An Efficient Long Distance Echo Canceller', International Conf. on Signals and Electronic Systems - ICSES, Krakow, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. 331 - 334, September, 2008 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, A. L. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Suffix Arrays: a competitive choice for fast Lempel-Ziv Compression, INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 5 - 12, July, 2008 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Boosting of (very) weak learners, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, May, 2007 | BibTex
  • P. M. Marques, A. Ferreira, Long Distance Real-Time Echo Cancellation, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 597 - 600, April, 2007 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Hybrid generative/discriminative training of radial basis function networks, European Symp. on Artificial Neural Networks - ESANN, Brugges, Belgium, April, 2006 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, A Global Training Algorithm for Radial Basis Functions Neural Networks, Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores do ISEL, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -- - --, November, 2005 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Image compression using orthogonalised independent components bases, IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, September, 2003 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Class-adapted image compression using independent component analysis, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2003 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Coding images of specific classes using independent component analysis, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, June, 2003 | BibTex
  • A. Ferreira, DPC Antão, Hierarquia de Classes para Suporte da Compressão de Dados, Jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores do ISEL, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -- - --, October, 1999 | BibTex

Closed Projects1

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
EvaClue Evidence Accumulation in Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning: a Cluster Ensemble Approach FCT/PTDC 01-01-2010 01-03-2013
  • 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
  • A. Ferreira, Inês Simas Best Student Paper, Inês Simas Best Student Paper at ConfTele2003, 01-06-2003
  • Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence ASPAI, Scientific Committee, 2021
  • International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications NCTA, Scientific Committee, 2021
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security ICAIS, Scientific Committee, 2021
  • CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Organizing Committee, 2016
  • CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Organizing Committee, 2013
  • CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Organizing Committee, 2011
  • IBERSENSOR - Ibero-American Congress on Sensors, Organizing Committee, 2010
  • IV Jornadas de Engenharia Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores - JETC08, Organizing Committee, 2008
  • Editorial Board, Applied Soft Computing Journal, 01-02-2017 - today
  • Editorial Board, i-ETC : ISEL Academic Journal of Electronics, Telecomunications and Computers, 01-01-2012 - 31-12-2022
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
    2017, 2 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2009, 2 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
  • Applied Soft Computing Journal
    2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 3 review(s); 2015, 2 review(s); 2014, 1 review(s);
  • Information Sciences
    2015, 1 review(s);
  • Pattern Recognition
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    2017, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s);
  • Applied Computing and Informatics
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • i-ETC : ISEL Academic Journal of Electronics, Telecomunications and Computers
    2017, 4 review(s);
  • Intrnl. Journal of Remote Sensing
    2017, 2 review(s);
  • Journal of Marine Science and Technology
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • Machine Learning
    2017, 2 review(s);
  • Optimization and Engineering
    2018, 1 review(s);
  • Neurocomputing
    2012, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
  • BMC Bioinformatics
    2012, 1 review(s);
  • Intrnl. Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
    2012, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    2005, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    2006, 1 review(s);
  • INSTICC international Joint Conf. on Computational Intelligence - IJCCI
    2017, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Data Compression Conference - DCC
    2010, 1 review(s);
  • CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers
    2016, 1 review(s);
  • Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications NCTA
    2010, 1 review(s);

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