Summer Solstice Celebration

ISR researchers will get together on July 22 at 6PM, for the Summer Solstice Celebration. The Summer Solstice has been celebrated for centuries and plays a central role in the realm of scientific endeavour. ISR researchers and collaborators will celebrate the phenomenon as a preparation for the vacation period as well as to seek inspiration for the second […]

IBM Scientific Award 2015

Ricardo Cabral was awarded the IBM Scientific Prize 2015 for his PhD thesis entitled “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning.” The thesis was supervised by Professors João Paulo Costeira (SIPg), Alexandre Bernardino (VisLab) and Fernando de la Torre (CMU) . The IBM Scientific prize is awarded every year in Portugal and it is highly prestigious […]

New PhD – Susana Brandão

Susana Brandão defended her PhD Thesis, entitled Heat Based Descriptors For Multiple 3D View Object Recognition, on June 22 2015 at CMU. The thesis supervisors were Profs João Paulo Costeira (SIPg) and Manuela Veloso (CMU). The thesis was developed in the framework of the CMU-Portugal Program.   This thesis contributes to the field of object recognition […]

SPR Best PhD Thesis Award

The Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica (Portuguese Society for Robotics) awards every year the Best Doutoral dissertation in the scientific areas of robotics and related domains.  The SPR-2015 prize was awarded to Dr Bruno Damas with a thesis entitled Learning and Sensorimotor Coordination of Anthropomorphic Robotic Systems defended in October 2014, developed in the Computer and Robot Vision Lab […]