31 Result(s)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Model Based Control System for Outdoor Swimming Pools

Swimming pools are closely associated to leisure activities, especially in touristic areas, and both indoor and outdoor swimming pools can be found worldwide in large quantities. With their fast growth, an inc...

Cristiano Cabrita, Jailson Carvalho… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2024)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Analysis of Dynamic Compaction Effects – Tavira Case Study

Ground vibrations are associated with different types of elastic waves propagating on the ground, and wave propagation depends on the soil stiffness, dum** and distance from the source. Urban activities also...

Elisa M. J. da Silva, Miguel Oliveira in Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering II (2023)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Santa Catarina’s Tiles: An Artisanal Heritage to Preserve. Manufacturing Process and Characteristics

The heritage related to the artisanal production of ceramic building materials, was officially recognized in 1999 by ICOMOS, with the “Charter of Vernacular Built Heritage”. From the beginning of the XX centur...

Miguel Oliveira, Marta Marçal Gonçalves, Elisa da Silva, Fátima Farinha… in INCREaSE 2023 (2023)

Article

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) affects DNA integrity and retina structure in zebrafish larvae

Monitoring the potential risk of herbicides in non-target organisms is a crucial issue for environmental safety. 2,4-D is an herbicide of high environmental relevance that has been shown to exert toxic effects...

Sonia Gaaied, Miguel Oliveira… in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2022)

Chapter

Multimodal Sensor Calibration Approaches in the ATLASCAR Project

An important issue in smart cities is intelligent mobility. In this line, the ATLASCAR project started in 2009 as a challenge to transpose to a real car many perception and navigation techniques developed for ...

Vitor Santos, Paulo Dias, Miguel Oliveira… in ICT Applications for Smart Cities (2022)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Tomato Detection Using Deep Learning for Robotics Application

The importance of agriculture and the production of fruits and vegetables has stood out mainly over the past few years, especially for the benefits for our health. In 2021, in the international year of fruit ...

Tiago Cerveira Padilha, Germano Moreira… in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (2021)

Article

Multiorgan histopathological changes in the juvenile seabream Sparus aurata as a biomarker for zinc oxide particles toxicity

Zinc oxide nanoparticles are widely used in some domains (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals optical devices, and agricultural field) due to their physical, optical, and antimicrobial properties. However, the release ...

Asfina Beegam, Maria Lopes, Tiago Fernandes… in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2020)

Article

2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid herbicide effects on zebrafish larvae: development, neurotransmission and behavior as sensitive endpoints

Assessment of pesticides toxicity using zebrafish early life stages is relevant for aquatic systems safety. This study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) on zebr...

Sonia Gaaied, Miguel Oliveira… in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2020)

Chapter and Conference Paper

A General Approach to the Extrinsic Calibration of Intelligent Vehicles Using ROS

Intelligent vehicles are complex systems which often accommodate several sensors of different modalities. This paper proposes a general approach to the problem of extrinsic calibration of multiple sensors of ...

Miguel Oliveira, Afonso Castro… in Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Confer… (2020)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Shallow and Deep Gamification in Mathematics Trails

Mobile Math Trails for Europe (MoMaTrE) is an ongoing project with the objective of conceptualizing and develo** a fully gamified platform for creating, organizing and executing mathematics trails. We prese...

Iwan Gurjanow, Miguel Oliveira, Joerg Zender… in Games and Learning Alliance (2019)

Article

Functionally graded additive manufacturing to achieve functionality specifications of osteochondral scaffolds

Mario Monzón, Chaozong Liu, Sara Ajami, Miguel Oliveira… in Bio-Design and Manufacturing (2018)

Article

Effects of acute handling stress on short-term central expression of orexigenic/anorexigenic genes in zebrafish

Physiological mechanisms driving stress response in vertebrates are evolutionarily conserved. These mechanisms involve the activation of both the hypothalamic-sympathetic-chromaffin cell (HSC) and the hypothal...

Raul Cortés, Mariana Teles, Miguel Oliveira… in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry (2018)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Scene Representations for Autonomous Driving: An Approach Based on Polygonal Primitives

In this paper, we present a novel methodology to compute a 3D scene representation. The algorithm uses macro scale polygonal primitives to model the scene. This means that the representation of the scene is gi...

Miguel Oliveira, Vítor Santos… in Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Confer… (2016)

Chapter and Conference Paper

A Hybrid Top-Down Bottom-Up Approach for the Detection of Cuboid Shaped Objects

While bottom-up approaches to object recognition are simple to design and implement, they do not yield the same performance as top-down approaches. On the other hand, it is not trivial to obtain a moderate num...

Rafael Arrais, Miguel Oliveira, César Toscano… in Image Analysis and Recognition (2016)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Robotics: Using a Competition Mindset as a Tool for Learning ROS

In this article, a course that explores the potential of learning ROS using a collaborative game world is presented. The competitive mindset and its origins are explored, and an analysis of a collaborative gam...

Valter Costa, Tiago Cunha, Miguel Oliveira… in Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Confer… (2016)

Article

Behavior of colloidal gold nanoparticles in different ionic strength media

The increased applications of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) may lead to environmental release and transport to estuarine environments where NPs are expected to aggregate/agglomerate with increasing ionic stre...

Ângela Barreto, Luis G. Luis, Ana V. Girão… in Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2015)

Article

Interactive Open-Ended Learning for 3D Object Recognition: An Approach and Experiments

3D object detection and recognition is increasingly used for manipulation and navigation tasks in service robots. It involves segmenting the objects present in a scene, estimating a feature descriptor for the ...

S. Hamidreza Kasaei, Miguel Oliveira… in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2015)