The NIS Workshop will for the first time feature both senior and junior members, presenting the most exciting research we have in our cluster. The workshop will take place in the morning and afternoon, divided into the four NIS research lines (RLs).
Note that the following program is tentative and subject to change. More details will be added to this page when possible.
09:00-09:10 – Opening Ceremony – João Claro
09:10-09:20 – NIS overview – Aníbal Matos
09:20-09:35 – NIS Sensing RL Scientific Overview – Paulo Marques
09:35-10:05 – NIS Sensing RL PhD Student Presentations:
Tiago Ferreira – “Optical Analogues in Nematic Liquid Crystals”
João Maia – “Monolithic Silica Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Micromachining”
Miguel Ferreira – “Study of Fiber Laser in Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy”
Elodie Lopes – “Video EEG and PerceptTM PC Deep Brain Neurostimulator Fine-Grained Synchronization for Multimodal Neurodata Analysis”
10:05-10.35 – NIS Sensing RL Discussion (moderator: Pedro Jorge)
10:35-10:45 – Coffee break
10:45-11:00 – NIS Communications RL Scientific Overview – Luís Pessoa
11:00-11:30 – NIS Communications RL PhD Student Presentations:
Tiago Costa – “Delivering Seamless Content Adaptation Through Intelligent View Prediction”
Joana Tavares – “Phase-conjugated Twin Waves for MDM Systems”
Bilal Hussain – “5G Antennas on Flexible Substrate Using Sierpinski Fractals”
André Coelho – “Traffic-aware Gateway Placement in Flying Networks”
11:30-12.00 – NIS Communications RL Discussion (moderator: Hélder Fontes)
12:00-14:00 – Lunch break
14:00-14:15 – NIS Computer Vision RL Scientific Overview – Hélder Oliveira
14:15-14:45 – NIS Computer Vision RL PhD Student presentations:
Mohsen Saffari – “Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Dropout with Informative Kernel Determinantal Point Process”
Tânia Melo – “Medical Image Synthesis through Deep Generative Models”
João Teixeira – “Effects of GAN Augmentation on Breast MRI Segmentation”
João Pinto – “The Secure Triplet Loss: A Unifying Framework for Biometric Security”
14:45-15.15 – NIS Computer Vision RL Discussion (moderator: Aurélio Campilho)
15:15-15:25 – Coffee break
15:25-15:40 – NIS Autonomous Systems RL Scientific Overview – Aníbal Matos
15:40-16:10 – NIS Autonomous Systems RL PhD Student Presentations:
Alexandra Nunes – “Mapping from 2D Sonar Data”
Ana Gaspar – “Evaluation of Bags of Binary Words for Place Recognition in Underwater Environment”
António Ferreira – “Underwater Sonar Scan Matching”
Vitor Minhoto – “Man-Machine Symbiosis: A proof of concept”
16:10-16:40 – NIS Autonomous Systems RL Discussion (moderator: André Dias)
16:40-17:40 – Remarks for the Future
Duarte Dias – “Edge-Inteligence at NIS – Exploring strategic synergies to pursuit a common research line”
Roundtable – Américo Azevedo, Ana Filipa Sequeira, João Paulo Cunha, José Almeida, Pedro Jorge, Rui Campos, Vítor Tavares
17:50 – Best PhD Student Awards and Closing Ceremony – José Manuel Mendonça