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  • Name

    Carlos Ferreira
  • Role

    Senior Researcher
  • Since

    01st January 2010
002
Publications

2024

Map-matching methods in agriculture

Authors
Silva, A; Mendes Moreira, J; Ferreira, C; Costa, N; Dias, D;

Publication
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Abstract
In this paper, a solution to monitor the location of humans during their activity in the agriculture sector with the aim to boost productivity and efficiency is provided. Our solution is based on map-matching methods, that are used to track the path spanned by a worker along a specific activity in an agriculture culture. Two different cultures are taken into consideration in this study olives and vines. We leverage the symmetry of the geometry of these cultures into our solution and divide the problem three-fold initially, we estimate a path of a worker along the fields, then we apply the map-matching to such path and finally, a post-processing method is applied to ensure local continuity of the sequence obtained from map-matching. The proposed methods are experimentally evaluated using synthetic and real data in the region of Mirandela, Portugal. Evaluation metrics show that results for synthetic data are robust under several sampling periods, while for real-world data, results for the vine culture are on par with synthetic, and for the olive culture performance is reduced.

2024

More (Enough) Is Better: Towards Few-Shot Illegal Landfill Waste Segmentation

Authors
Molina, M; Veloso, B; Ferreira, CA; Ribeiro, RP; Gama, J;

Publication
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications - ECAI 2024

Abstract
Image segmentation for detecting illegal landfill waste in aerial images is essential for environmental crime monitoring. Despite advancements in segmentation models, the primary challenge in this domain is the lack of annotated data due to the unknown locations of illegal waste disposals. This work mainly focuses on evaluating segmentation models for identifying individual illegal landfill waste segments using limited annotations. This research seeks to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive model evaluation to contribute to environmental crime monitoring and sustainability efforts by proposing to harness the combination of agnostic segmentation and supervised classification approaches. We mainly explore different metrics and combinations to better understand how to measure the quality of this applied segmentation problem.

2023

Modeling the Ink Tuning Process Using Machine Learning

Authors
Costa, C; Ferreira, CA;

Publication
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2023 - 24th International Conference, Évora, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023, Proceedings

Abstract
Paint bases are the essence of the color palette, allowing for the creation of a wide range of tones by combining them in different proportions. In this paper, an Artificial Neural Network is developed incorporating a pre-trained Decoder to predict the proportion of each paint base in an ink mixture in order to achieve the desired color. Color coordinates in the CIELAB space and the final finish are considered as input parameters. The proposed model is compared with commonly used models such as Linear Regression, Random Forest and Artificial Neural Network. It is important to note that the Artificial Neural Network was implemented with the same architecture as the proposed model but without incorporating the pre-trained Decoder. Experimental results demonstrate that the Artificial Neural Network with a pre-trained Decoder consistently outperforms the other models in predicting the proportions of paint bases for color tuning. This model exhibits lower Mean Absolute Error and Root Mean Square Error values across multiple objectives, indicating its superior accuracy in capturing the complexities of color relationships. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

2022

The CirCor DigiScope Dataset: From Murmur Detection to Murmur Classification

Authors
Oliveira, J; Renna, F; Costa, PD; Nogueira, M; Oliveira, C; Ferreira, C; Jorge, A; Mattos, S; Hatem, T; Tavares, T; Elola, A; Rad, AB; Sameni, R; Clifford, GD; Coimbra, MT;

Publication
IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

Abstract
Cardiac auscultation is one of the most cost-effective techniques used to detect and identify many heart conditions. Computer-assisted decision systems based on auscultation can support physicians in their decisions. Unfortunately, the application of such systems in clinical trials is still minimal since most of them only aim to detect the presence of extra or abnormal waves in the phonocardiogram signal, i.e., only a binary ground truth variable (normal vs abnormal) is provided. This is mainly due to the lack of large publicly available datasets, where a more detailed description of such abnormal waves (e.g., cardiac murmurs) exists. To pave the way to more effective research on healthcare recommendation systems based on auscultation, our team has prepared the currently largest pediatric heart sound dataset. A total of 5282 recordings have been collected from the four main auscultation locations of 1568 patients, in the process, 215780 heart sounds have been manually annotated. Furthermore, and for the first time, each cardiac murmur has been manually annotated by an expert annotator according to its timing, shape, pitch, grading, and quality. In addition, the auscultation locations where the murmur is present were identified as well as the auscultation location where the murmur is detected more intensively. Such detailed description for a relatively large number of heart sounds may pave the way for new machine learning algorithms with a real-world application for the detection and analysis of murmur waves for diagnostic purposes.

2022

The robustness of Random Forest and Support Vector Machine Algorithms to a Faulty Heart Sound Segmentation

Authors
Oliveira, J; Nogueira, DM; Ferreira, CA; Jorge, AM; Coimbra, MT;

Publication
44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, EMBC 2022, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 11-15, 2022

Abstract
Cardiac auscultation is the key exam to screen cardiac diseases both in developed and developing countries. A heart sound auscultation procedure can detect the presence of murmurs and point to a diagnosis, thus it is an important first-line assessment and also cost-effective tool. The design automatic recommendation systems based on heart sound auscultation can play an important role in boosting the accuracy and the pervasiveness of screening tools. One such as step, consists in detecting the fundamental heart sound states, a process known as segmentation. A faulty segmentation or a wrong estimation of the heart rate might result in an incapability of heart sound classifiers to detect abnormal waves, such as murmurs. In the process of understanding the impact of a faulty segmentation, several common heart sound segmentation errors are studied in detail, namely those where the heart rate is badly estimated and those where S1/S2 and Systolic/Diastolic states are swapped in comparison with the ground truth state sequence. From the tested algorithms, support vector machine (SVMs) and random forest (RFs) shown to be more sensitive to a wrong estimation of the heart rate (an expected drop of 6% and 8% on the overall performance, respectively) than to a swap in the state sequence of events (an expected drop of 1.9% and 4.6%, respectively).

Supervised
thesis

2023

Modelação do Processo de Afinação de Tintas através de Algoritmos de Machine Learning

Author
CATARINA MORIM DA COSTA

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2023

Análise de padrões de consumo e desenvolvimento de um sistema de recomendação de produtos

Author
JOÃO MIGUEL LEITE MARTINS

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2022

Avaliação de Jogadores e Equipas de Basquetebol usando Machine Learning

Author
LUÍS RODOLFO NOGUEIRA E SILVA

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2022

Machine Learning Aplicado à Teoria de Portefólio

Author
GONÇALO MENESES DE SOUSA

Institution
IPP-ISEP

2022

ANÁLISE E MODELAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE AÇÕES

Author
MÁRIO ROBERTO DOS REIS GOMES

Institution
IPP-ISEP