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The VISIGRAPP 2025 - 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - took place in Porto, in late February. It brought together more than 380 researchers and professionals interested in keeping up with and discussing theoretical advances and applications in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Visualisation - the main themes of the co-located conferences VISAPP, GRAPP, HUCAPP, and IVAPP, respectively. One of the co-chairs of this conference was INESC TEC researcher A. Augusto de Sousa.
27th March 2025
It's hard to think of current technologies or innovations that do not resort to Language Models (LM) or Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their presence in various society domains - some with significant relevance, like the legal or healthcare sectors - raise issues (and concerns) that often end up focusing on the same question: are LM-based technologies reaching all communities? Recently, two scientific papers featuring INESC TEC - both accepted at AAAI, an A* conference - sought to address some of the challenges in this new era, which directly influence the Portuguese language.
28th February 2025
The seasonality of search queries in search engines could be a factor for online businesses to consider if they seek to improve the ranking of their results. A new demo-paper featuring INESC TEC explored the creation of a database to present the Occasion-aware Recommender solution.
26th February 2025
INESC TEC researchers developed a study that aims to make adaptive variational quantum algorithms more efficient, thus reducing computational costs and make quantum computing more accessible and efficient.
21st February 2025
Alexandra Ramôa, Ana Neri and Bruna Salgado, INESC TEC researchers in the field of quantum computing – together with Sara Franco, INL researcher – won second place in the PQHack 2025 competition, as the Team Quantum SHEmulation. The results achieved have potential application in neuroscience, seismology, ecology, and finance.
17th February 2025
The main goal of the PTicola project was to expand and build new Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities for the Portuguese language. The results of this project - which include, for example, an English/European Portuguese translator and a PT-BR/PT-PT language variety identifier - address the gap in NLP resources available for PT-PT compared to PT-BR.
14th February 2025
FRODDO - this is the name of the project that will improve the safety and robustness of autonomous and connected systems, e.g., self-driving cars, through the development and testing of technological solutions, thus supporting user-centred mobility. INESC TEC is one of the partners of this European project, with a funding of almost six million euros, under the Horizon Europe programme.
07th February 2025
Daniela Pedrosa, INESC TEC's researcher, took on the position of editing manager responsible for the publications of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), after four years as publication chairon the organising committee of the conference promoted by the association.
04th February 2025
Five years have passed since INESC TEC and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in Japan, signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This scientific cooperation agreement, focused on advanced computing, led to major opportunities for mobility, joint publications and the exchange of knowledge and experiences, thus bringing the Portuguese and Japanese R&D ecosystems closer together – particularly in High-Performance Computing (HPC). Recently, the two institutes renewed the MoU and will continue to work together to boost research in advanced computing.
03rd February 2025
How can collaboration between networks improve AI and immersive environments education? And how can this education model address the environmental, technological, and social changes we face today? How does society prepare to live, learn and work in these new realities? The project "Network Ecosystem in the OnLIFE Education Paradigm in the Age of Artificial Intelligences" focuses on addressing these questions, boosting networked research and leveraging training in contexts ecologically interconnected with Generative AI.
27th January 2025
The event (in Vila Real) brought together national and international experts in the field of computer graphics; it's worth highlighting the keynote speech by Augusto de Sousa, INESC TEC researcher, and the presentation of the Professor José Luís Encarnação Award, which acknowledged the Institute's research.
17th December 2024
For a week, Alicia Oliveira and Beatriz Cepa left INESC TEC's laboratories in Braga and went to Barcelona - the city that welcomed the ACM Summer School. The researchers explored some of the elemental HPC concepts and realised that - in a context dominated by computer science - their training in biomedical engineering was an asset.
31st October 2024