no code implementations • 26 Mar 2024 • Frederico Metelo, Stevo Racković, Pedro Ákos Costa, Cláudia Soares
Task offloading, crucial for balancing computational loads across devices in networks such as the Internet of Things, poses significant optimization challenges, including minimizing latency and energy usage under strict communication and storage constraints.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Ricardo Ferreira, Marta Guimarães, Filipa Valdeira, Cláudia Soares
Due to the importance of satellites for society and the exponential increase in the number of objects in orbit, it is important to accurately determine the state (e. g., position and velocity) of these Resident Space Objects (RSOs) at any time and in a timely manner.
no code implementations • 17 Nov 2023 • João Simões Catulo, Cláudia Soares, Marta Guimarães
Such a dense space environment increases the risk of collisions between space objects endangering the whole space population.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • João Funenga, Marta Guimarães, Henrique Costa, Cláudia Soares
The method offers the advantage of delivering interpretable, accurate, and complex models of orbital motion that can be employed for propagation or as inputs to predictive models for other variables of interest, such as atmospheric drag or the probability of collision in an encounter with a spacecraft or space objects.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2023 • Ricardo Ferreira, Cláudia Soares, Marta Guimarães
It is estimated that, in orbit, there are millions of fragments a few millimeters in size and thousands of inoperative satellites and discarded rocket stages.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Marta Guimarães, Cláudia Soares, Chiara Manfletti
Our proposed taxonomy and model offer a significant contribution to the ongoing efforts to mitigate the overall risks posed by the increasing number of RSOs in orbit.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Marta Guimarães, Cláudia Soares, Chiara Manfletti
In fact, the rate at which the CDMs are issued depends on the behaviour of the objects as well as on the screening process performed by third parties.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Marta Guimarães, Cláudia Soares, Chiara Manfletti
As a result, spacecraft collision avoidance procedures have become an essential part of satellite operations.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2023 • Diogo Lavado, Cláudia Soares, Alessandra Micheletti
Regularizing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is essential for improving generalizability and preventing overfitting.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2023 • Pedro Valdeira, Yuejie Chi, Cláudia Soares, João Xavier
Communication efficiency is a major challenge in federated learning (FL).
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2023 • Filipa Valdeira, Stevo Racković, Valeria Danalachi, Qiwei Han, Cláudia Soares
Our research focuses on medical referrals and aims to predict recommendations in different specialties of physicians for both new patients and those with a consultation history.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2023 • Diogo Lavado, Cláudia Soares, Alessandra Micheletti, Giovanni Bocchi, Alex Coronati, Manuel Silva, Patrizio Frosini
In this paper, we propose SCENE-Net, a low-resource white-box model for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation.
no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Gonçalo Mateus, Cláudia Soares, João Leitão, António Rodrigues
The use of machine learning for time series prediction has become increasingly popular across various industries thanks to the availability of time series data and advancements in machine learning algorithms.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2023 • Francisco Caldas, Cláudia Soares, Cláudia Nunes, Marta Guimarães
(2) When exactly and with what uncertainty will the next message arrive?
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2023 • Stevo Racković, Cláudia Soares, Dušan Jakovetić
The method applies to an arbitrary clustering of the face.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2023 • Stevo Racković, Cláudia Soares, Dušan Jakovetić, Zoranka Desnica
We propose a method to fit arbitrarily accurate blendshape rig models by solving the inverse rig problem in realistic human face animation.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2022 • Francisco Caldas, Cláudia Soares
Since the late 1950s, when the first artificial satellite was launched, the number of Resident Space Objects has steadily increased.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2022 • Francisco M. Caldas, Cláudia Soares
Emergency Departments (EDs) are a fundamental element of the Portuguese National Health Service, serving as an entry point for users with diverse and very serious medical problems.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2022 • Filipa Valdeira, Ricardo Ferreira, Alessandra Micheletti, Cláudia Soares
We propose a shape fitting/registration method based on a Gaussian Processes formulation, suitable for shapes with extensive regions of missing data.
no code implementations • 3 Feb 2022 • Filipa Valdeira, Cláudia Soares
In this work, we leverage a generative data model considering comparison noise to develop a fast, precise, and informative ranking algorithm from pairwise comparisons that produces a measure of confidence on each comparison.
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2022 • Pedro Valdeira, Cláudia Soares, João Xavier
Expectation Maximization (EM) is the standard method to learn Gaussian mixtures.
1 code implementation • 3 Jan 2022 • Bárbara Tavares, Cláudia Soares, Manuel Marques
Good knowledge of users' transition patterns is a decisive contribution to the quality and operability of the service.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2021 • Stevo Racković, Cláudia Soares, Dušan Jakovetić, Zoranka Desnica, Relja Ljubobratović
We present a novel approach for learning the inverse rig parameters at increased accuracy and decreased computational cost at the same time.
1 code implementation • 22 Aug 2020 • Filipa Valdeira, Ricardo Ferreira, Alessandra Micheletti, Cláudia Soares
Ears are a particularly difficult region of the human face to model, not only due to the non-rigid deformations existing between shapes but also to the challenges in processing the retrieved data.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2017 • Cláudia Soares, João Gomes, Beatriz Ferreira, João Paulo Costeira
LocDyn is robust: it rejects outlier noise, while the comparing methods succumb in terms of positioning error.