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Up one levelLimelight | Tiago Soares da Costa
In a universe of over 700 employees, there are many months in which the performance of more than one collaborator is worthy of note in the “Limelight” section. Proof of that is that oftentimes we have more than one person nominated. For that reason, we decided to change the rules: as of edition No. 144, BIP will highlight all nominees each month, and all will be equal in merit.
North-American researcher at INESC TEC to prepare Digitópia Collective concert
The North-American researcher is currently collaborating in the project “Bridging the gap between performers and the audience using networked smartphones”, whose result will be three music pieces to be presented at INESC TEC’s anniversary concert, on 26 October of this year. The audience will be participating in the even using their smartphones, providing an interesting environment between the audience and the performers.
INESC TEC technology allows users to watch 3D concerts and choose most interesting perspective
The “Personalized Multiview Environment”, developed at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) together with FEUP as part of the research line “Media, Arts & Technologies (MAT)”, enables immersive personalised experiences, presenting 3D contents to the users based on their preferences. These preferences are perceived according to the image area that the user focuses on at any instant. This prototype can be used in different areas, such as music, education, health, or tourism.
INESC TEC showcases innovative technologies in Open Day
On 6 May, INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) organised an Open Day to show companies and the general public innovative technologies in the fields of health, sea, music, multimedia, wireless networks, security, media and smartphones. This initiative marks the beginning of the 30th anniversary celebrations of INESC TEC in Porto.
Papers by CTM researchers published in international journals
Researchers from INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) have published six more papers in international journals.
INESC TEC creates game based on tags to facilitate access to large video archives
TAG4VD is the name of the game created by INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and the Porto School of Engineering (ISEP) to facilitate the management of and access to large video archives. This collaborative annotation system, based on web and HTML5 technology, will be particularly useful to professionals who produce contents or work for TV stations, museums, and others, thus reducing the financial and human resources costs usually associated with archive management.
INESC TEC project makes it possible to understand factors that influence time clients spend in shops
The time that customers spend in shops is influenced by the temperature, noise and service provided. This is the conclusion of RETAIL PRO, a research project which provided an integrated strategic platform to manage work environments.
INESC TEC develops app that knows the preferences of users
INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) is developing an app for Android that makes it possible to understand the users’ musical preferences, and the most interesting news and films for them, in an automatic and non-invasive way. The app is called CAMR (Context-Aware Personalized Multimedia Recommendations for Mobile Users) and is being developed as part of the MAT – Media Arts and Technology research programme.
INESC TEC makes communications in Space more efficient
In January 2015, INESC TEC started working on European project SCREEN (Space Cognitive Radio for Electromagnetic Environment maNagement), where the goal is to take cognitive radio to Space, thus exploring the benefits that this technology has already demonstrated on land. The project has a total budget of about one million euros.
INESC TEC joins European communications consortium
Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (iBROW) is the name of a project in which INESC TEC is involved where the goal is to develop new, low-cost, and energy-efficient wireless transmitters capable of supporting the increasing requirements in data transmission. The project started in January 2015 and is being developed by a consortium of 11 partners.
INESC TEC makes communications in Space more efficient
In January, INESC TEC kicked off the European project SCREEN (Space Cognitive Radio for Electromagnetic Environment maNagement), where the goal is to take the concept of cognitive radio to Space, exploring the benefits that this technology has demonstrated on land. The project has a budget of one million euros.
INESC TEC in European Consortium on communications
Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (iBROW) is the name of the new project in which INESC TEC is involved. The goal with the project is to develop new, low-cost and energy efficient wireless transceivers capable of dealing with the increasing data transmission requirements. The project kicked off in January 2015 and brings together a group of 11 partners.
INESC TEC Centre awards research ideas in internal competition
INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) has awarded three innovative project ideas which will be developed throughout the ear.
Five papers by CTM researchers published in international journals
Music, movement, bridge and dam monitoring, wearable devices to monitor gait, algorithms for breast cancer diagnosis systems and image segmentation are the themes of the papers published in international journals by researchers of INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) in 2014.
INESC TEC paper receives “Best Student Paper Award”
The paper “oAdaBoost – An AdaBoost Variant for Ordinal Classification”, written by João Costa (former collaborator) and Jaime Cardoso, of INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), received a “Best Student Paper Award” at the 2015 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM).
Pydi Ganga concludes PhD
Pydi Ganga, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia, has concluded, on 19 December, her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
INESC TEC researcher is finalist of Sonae Media Art Award
Rui Penha, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), is one of the five finalists of the first edition of the Sonae Media Art Award, which awards national artistic creations in the area of media art.
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