A new book authored by Professor Francisco Vaz, titled Codificação de fala para Telecomunicações (2024), has been published by UA Editora and is now available in open access on our Institutional Repository (RIA). The book provides a chronological overview of human speech coding systems, from the PCM system of the early 1970s to the latest […]
Last Wednesday, an event took place at IEETA to celebrate its 25th anniversary. This moment brought together several generations of IEETA members, from its founders to current members, including master and PhD students – the past, present, and (hopefully) future. The day started with a bonding and get-together activity with pitch presentations and games for […]
Last Friday, the APRP Spring Meeting took place at IEETA, with a full room! Eduardo Castro from LTPlabs spoke about the challenges of developing multi-agent generative artificial intelligence systems in the business setting. João Pereira, currently doing his PhD, at FCT NOVA Lisboa and in collaboration with DeepNeuronic, provided with and overview and current developments […]
IEETA is proud to announce that Armando J. Pinho, one of our researchers and a former coordinator of the unit, has been awarded the title of APRP Fellow by the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP). This prestigious distinction recognizes his outstanding contributions to the field of pattern recognition and data science, as well as […]
Beatriz Sousa Santos, a professor in the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics(DETI) of Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro), has been elected a fellow of the Eurographics association in recognition of her significant contributions to this association and to the field of Computer Graphics (and related areas), as well as her central role in the community. […]
The Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) Aveiro is organizing the 10th edition of the BEST Course, focusing on “Data Science: From UnDATAble to a Perfect Match”, from July 24th to 31st, at the Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro). For the eight-day event, participants will attend various classes, with topics including classic Machine Learning algorithms […]
Last week, Carolina Almeida, a master’s student in biomedical engineering, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Melecon conference. Her work introduces a novel heart rate variability (HRV) detection system based on mobile photoplethysmography (PPG) acquisition. This innovation led to a proof-of-concept study demonstrating the feasibility of using mobile PPG-derived HRV as a […]
Today, we celebrate a special occasion: the 25th anniversary of the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, IEETA. For the past 25 years, IEETA has been a place of innovation, hard work, and important contributions to science and society. However, our journey started before that, in 1985, with a primary focus on information […]
It is called GermIrrad, and it is a robot that autonomously disinfects public spaces, even when they are being used by people, using ultraviolet radiation and non-harmful chemical solutions to human health. Developed at the University of Aveiro (UA), the robot is capable of mapping the environment, determining an efficient disinfection trajectory, executing that trajectory […]
O desenho, implementação e validação de modelos de previsão de preços no mercado das telecomunicações, desenvolvidos no Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro (IEETA, DETI e LASI), foi reconhecida pela Data Science Portuguese Association (DSPA). A equipa de investigação incluiu os investigadores Sónia Gouveia e Armando Pinho, e os estudantes da MIEET Vitória […]
The University of Aveiro (UA), through a team of researchers from IEETA led by Joaquim Sousa Pinto, has developed the Integrated Citizen Registration and Statistics System (SIREC), a new computerized civil registration system for Guinea-Bissau. This initiative aims to modernize and streamline the country’s civil registration processes, enhancing the accuracy and accessibility of citizen records. […]
The RoboCup 2023 (https://2023.robocup.org/en/home/) took place in Bordeaux, France, from July 5th to 10th. The RoboCup is the most important global competition for robots and its main objective is to promote research and development in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. To this end, teams from universities around the world are challenged to compete in various domains […]
The FC Portugal team, a collaboration between Universidade de Aveiro and Universidade do Porto, has won the Soccer Simulation 3D League at RoboCup 2024! In a gripping final match, FC Portugal emerged victorious with a score of 5-3 against magmaOffenburg from Germany. The success didn’t stop there. FC Portugal also claimed top honors in the […]
From the 18th until the 20th of April, ESTG – Politécnico de Leiria organized the JOCLAD 2024 – a conference organized by CLAD (Portuguese Association of Data Analysis and Classification). IEETA members were present at the conference on several fronts. The following four articles were presented in the conference, with at least one IEETA member […]