Papers
A. Almeida, P. Vicente, A. Bernardino, "Where is my hand? Deep hand segmentation for visual self-recognition in humanoid robots", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 145, 2021, 103857, ISSN 0921-8890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2021.103857
M. Carvalho, J. Avelino, A. Bernardino, R. Ventura and P. Moreno, "Human-Robot greeting: tracking human greeting mental states and acting accordingly," 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021, pp. 1935-1941, https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9635894
A. R. C. Pagaimo and P. Moreno, "Exploring tactile sensing to perform the power grasp of a human-robot handshake," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Tomar, Portugal, Abril 2023, pp. 56-62, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC58346.2023.10129544
M. H. Lee, D. P. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, A. Bernardino, S. Bermúdez i Badia. "Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-Stroke Survivors", International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022, pp 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00883-0
Hun Lee, M., Siewiorek, D.P., Smailagic, A. et al. "Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive personalized social robot to monitor and coach post-stroke rehabilitation exercises". User Model User-Adap Inter 33, 545–569 (March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-022-09348-5
M. Lee, A. Bernardino, D. Siewiorek , “Designing an Intelligent System to Monitor & Explain Abnormal Patterns of Older Adults”, ASSETS, October, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597638.3614501
A. R. Cóias, M. H. Lee, A. Bernardino, A. Smailagic, “Skeleton Tracking Solutions for a Low-cost Stroke Rehabilitation Support System”, ICORR, September, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304749
G. Mesquita, A. Rita Cóias, A. Dubrawski, A. Bernardino, “Frame-level real-time assessment of stroke rehabilitation exercises from video-level labeled data: Task-specific vs. Foundation Models”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2025 (accepted) https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ist13761/shared/havatar/GM_EMBC_25.pdf
N. M. Caldeira Miguéns Diogo and P. Moreno, "Active Health Data Collection Using Social Robot", 2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT61475.2024.10796933
Marques, J., Faria, F., Machado, R., Cardoso, H., Bernardino, A., Moreno, P.. "Active Collection of Well-Being and Health Data in Mobile Devices". In: Fred, A., Sansone, C., Gusikhin, O., Madani, K. (eds) Deep Learning Theory and Applications. DeLTA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1858. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37317-6_2
R. Machado, H. Cardoso, A. Bernardino, P. Moreno (2022), “Active Data Collection of Health Data in Mobile Devices”. International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications (DeLTA 2022), pp 160-167. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011300700003277
A. Dias, L. Simões, P. Moreno and A. Bernardino, "Active Gaze Control for Foveal Scene Exploration," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, United Kingdom, September 2022, pp. 115-120, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962223
L. Simoes, A. Bernardino, “Active Perception: Scene Exploration using Foveal Vision”, EgoVIP Workshop at IROS 2021, September 2021, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZURVfENBvbKr-N9kCBOZu25BlCnMCndj/view?usp=sharing
J. Luzio, A. Bernardino, and P. Moreno López, "Semba-Fast: Semantic-Based Bayesian Attention Applied to Foveal Active Visual Search Tasks", 2025. Preprint Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5143184 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5143184
F. Melo and P. Moreno, "Socially Reactive Navigation Models for Mobile Robots," ICARSC 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARSC55462.2022.9784789
Carlos A. Silva, Sedat Dogru and Lino Marques, “Mobile Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments Taking into Account Obstacle Motion in Costmap Construction”. ROBOT 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21065-5_20
Carlos A. Silva, Sedat Dogru and Lino Marques, “Improving Energy Performance of Camera Lidar Fusion by Intermittent Human Detection for Social Navigation”, ROBOT 2023: Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58676-7_10
R. Ribeiro, P. Moreno, “Socially reactive navigation models for mobile robots in dynamic environments”, ROBOT 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58676-7_18
H.J. Araujo, P. Miraldo, N. Crombez, “Localization and Navigation with Omnidirectional Images”, in “Omnidirectional Vision: From Theory to Applications”, P. Vasseur, F. Morbidi (Eds.), Wiley-ISTE, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-394-25643-3.
B. Rocha, P. Moreno, A. Bernardino, “Cross-View Generalization in Action Recognition: Feature Design for Transitioning from Exocentric to Egocentric Views”, ROBOT 2023, October, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58676-7_13
C. Cardoso and A. Bernardino, "Exploiting a Statistical Body Model for Handover Interaction Primitives," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, United Kingdom, September 2022, pp. 314-319, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962217
C. Cardoso, A. Bernardino. "Bayesian Interaction Primitives for Robot to Human Handover with Giver-Egocentric Observations". EgoVIP Workshop at IROS 2021, September 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZURVfENBvbKr-N9kCBOZu25BlCnMCndj/view?usp=sharing
T. Salazar, M. S. Santos, H. Araujo, P. H. Abreu, “FAWOS: Fairness-Aware Oversampling Algorithm Based on Distributions of Sensitive Attributes”, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 81370-81379, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3084121
T. Salazar, M. Fernandes, H. Araujo, P. Abreu, “FAIR-FATE: Fair Federated Learning with Momentum”, Computational Science – ICCS 2023, 23rd International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3–5, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_37
O. Ferraz, H. Araujo, V. Silva, G. Falcao, “Benchmarking Convolutional Neural Network Inference on Low-Power Edge Devices”, ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095003
R. Magalhães, A. Bernardino (2023), “Quantifying Object Detection Uncertainty in Autonomous Driving with Test-Time Augmentation”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2023), June 2023, pp 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/IV55152.2023.10186713
M. F. Jaramillo-Morales, Sedat Dogru, Lino Marques, “Energy Optimal Speed Profiles for a Differential Drive Mobile Robot with Payload”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, 204, 17, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-024-02590-4
M. Monteiro, A. Bernardino, H. S. Pinto, “BYTECounter: Improving Vehicle Turning-Movement Counting”, International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023), pp 3456-3462. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10421880
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, “DeLiVoTr: Deep and light-weight voxel transformer for 3D object detection”, Intelligent Systems with Applications, Vol. 22, 2024, 200361, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200361
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, "RetFormer: Embracing Point Cloud Transformer With Retentive Network," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/TIV.2024.3417260
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, “DDet3D: embracing 3D object detector with diffusion”, Appl. Intell. 55, 283, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-024-06045-1
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, “Li3DeTr: A LiDAR Based 3D Detection Transformer”, Proc. 2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2-7 Jan. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV56688.2023.00423.
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, “DAFDeTr: Deformable Attention Fusion Based 3D Detection Transformer”, Proc. ROBOVIS2024-Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2077, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59057-3_19
Martins P, Silva JS, Bernardino A. Multispectral Facial Recognition in the Wild. Sensors. June 2022; 22(11):4219. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22114219
A. Prakash, S. Thejaswin, A. Nambiar, A. Bernardino (2023), “Adapt-FuseNet: Context-aware Multimodal Adaptive Fusion of Face and Gait Features using Attention Techniques for Human Identification”, IEEE IJCB 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCB57857.2023.10448765
A. Prakash, S. Thejaswin, A. Nambiar, A. Bernardino, “Exploring Fusion Techniques and Explainable AI on Adapt-FuseNet: Context-adaptive Fusion of Face and Gait for Person Identification”, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 6(4):515-527, October 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBIOM.2024.3405081
F. Loureiro, J. Avelino, P. Moreno, A. Bernardino. Detecting Human-Robot Interaction Failures Through Egocentric Visual Head-Face Analysis. EgoVIP Workshop at IROS 2021, September 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZURVfENBvbKr-N9kCBOZu25BlCnMCndj/view?usp=sharing
Loureiro, F., Avelino, J., Moreno, P., Bernardino, A. (2022). Self-perception of Interaction Errors Through Human Non-verbal Feedback and Robot Context. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR February 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_42
N. Greggio, A. Bernardino, “Unsupervised incremental estimation of Gaussian mixture models with 1D split moves”, Pattern Recognition, 150, 110306, June 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110306
N. Greggio, R. Bastianello and A. Bernardino, "Efficient Greedy Unsupervised Learning of Multivariate Mixture Models with Moment-Based Splitting," SIMPAR, Palermo, Italy, 2025, pp. 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1109/SIMPAR62925.2025.10979141
N. Greggio, A. Bernardino, “Principal Direction 2-Gaussian Fit”, ICPRAM, 1:209-317, 2025, Porto, Portugal, https://doi.org/10.5220/0013250400003905
A. E. Gonçalves, P. Moreno, J. Forlizzi, L. Garcia Marques, A. Bernardino, “Non-Verbal Cues on Robot-Group Persuasion”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), 1000-1006. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611310
J. Avelino, P. Moreno, F. Correia, L. Garcia-Marques, R. Ventura, A. Bernardino, “Evaluating Greeting Models for Human-Robot Engagement During First Encounters”, International Journal of Social Robotics, 17:297-314, January 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01213-w
B. Nogueira, H. Simão, A. Bernardino, J. Forlizzi, T. Guerreiro (2025) “Putting the Age in Agency: A Case Study of an Older Adult Controlling a Telepresence Robot in a Family Setting”, ACM DIS Conference, PWiP, (accepted) https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV56688.2023.00423
Other Publications
G. Erabati, H. Araujo, "MOSNet: A light-weight Moving Object Segmentation Network for Autonomous Driving", Proceedings of the 27th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Univ. Évora, November 5, 2021. https://aprp.pt/wp-content/uploads/proceedings_recpad2021.pdf
E. Curto, H. Araujo, "Evaluation of different depth cameras technologies in transparent and semitransparent scenes", Proceedings of the 27th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Univ. Évora, November 5, 2021. https://aprp.pt/wp-content/uploads/proceedings_recpad2021.pdf
F. Lourenço, H. Araujo, “Evaluation of the Accuracy of Pose Estimation on Relative Pose”, Proceedings of the 27th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Univ. Évora, November 5, 2021. https://aprp.pt/wp-content/uploads/proceedings_recpad2021.pdf
G. Serrano, M. Fialho, J. Ribeiro-Gomes, J.Pinto, B. J. N. Guerreiro, A. Bernardino, R. Cunha (2024), “Physics-Informed Neural Network for Multirotor Slung Load Systems Modeling”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), 12592-12598. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610582
M. Teixeira, A. John van Opstal, A. Bernardino, “Using the soft actor-critic algorithm to generate rapid eye movements with an unconstrained 6DOF biomimetic robotic eye”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2025 (accepted) https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ist13761/shared/havatar/MT_EMBC_25.pdf
J.F. Felizardo, A. Bernardino, A. John van Opstal, “Computational Model of the Cochlear Implant User’s Auditory System”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2025 (accepted) https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ist13761/shared/havatar/JFF_EMBC_25.pdf
A. Araújo, A. Vourvopoulos, A. Bernardino , “STAR-eX: A Student-Teacher Assistive Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Post-Stroke Mirror Therapy Hand Hemiplegia”, International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2025 (accepted) https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ist13761/shared/havatar/AA_EMBC_25.pdf
PhD Theses
João Manuel Caeiro Avelino, “Robots meet people: socially-aware engagement behaviors”, Instituto Superior Técnico, May 2023. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/WbWJ4RcpmvtGu9Gqda87bTA0RoK1mTRGJWng
Gopi Krishna Erabati, "Learning to Perceive : Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving", PhD Thesis, University of Coimbra, February 2025. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/118420
MSc Theses
Fernando António Azinheira de Ramos Loureiro, "Detecting Interaction Failures through Emotional Feedback and Robot Context", Instituto Superior Técnico, October 2021. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec/dissertacao/1128253548922840
Bruno Miguel Ribeiro Marta, "Human Pose Data Capture Systems for Training Fitness Apps", Instituto Superior Técnico, December2021. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec/dissertacao/565303595502839
Luís Doutor Simões, “Active Perception: Scene Exploration using Foveal Vision”, Instituto Superior Técnico, September 2021. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec/dissertacao/1409728525633187
Tiago Miguel Madaleno de Oliveira, “Virtual Reality for Study of Cognitive-Motor Interference in upper-limb tasks using unobtrusive Hand Tracking”, Instituto Superior Técnico, June 2022. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/846778572214236
Simão Pedro Santiago Mateus Soares, “Virtual Reality for Stroke Rehabilitation with unobtrusive Hand Tracking and immersive bimanual training task”. Instituto Superior Técnico, June 2022. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/846778572214264
Carlos André Seara da Silva, “Robot navigation in highly dynamic environments”, Universidade de Coimbra. September 2022. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/114129
Marco António Silva Ornelas, “Speaker Detection Methods for Mobile Robots using Face and Speech Signals”, Instituto Superior Técnico, November 2022. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/1972678479055358
Ana Rita Caldeira Pagaimo, “Exploring tactile sensing to perform the power grasp of a human-robot handshake”, Instituto Superior Técnico, May 2022. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/846778572214252
Alexandra Esperança Gonçalves, "Non-Verbal Cues on Robot-Group Persuasion", Instituto Superior Técnico, June 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom21/dissertacao/1128253548923730
Bernardo Alves Rocha, "Cross-View Generalization in Action Recognition", Instituto Superior Técnico, Junho 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/1972678479056114
Ricarte Alexandre Lima Pereira de Sousa Ribeiro, “Socially reactive navigation models for mobile robots in dynamic environments”, June 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/283828618790823
Madalena Raposo de Lima, “Estudo da Aplicabilidade dos Exercogs na Plataforma PEPE em Séniores que Frequentam Estruturas de Apoio à Pessoa Idosa” (in portuguese), Univ. Católica / ISPA November 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44686
João Paulo de Abrantes Raio e Lucas Lavrador, “Post-Stroke Gait Rehabilitation Assistive System”, IST November 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/565303595503713
Afonso Maria Soares Moita de Deus Araújo. “SMART Hand Rehabilitation after Stroke”. IST December 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/2817103409184915
César Mateus Caires Batista Rosa. “Leveraging Mirror Geometry for Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Human Body Pose in Rehabilitation Therapy”. IST December 2024. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/authors/ist195929/records?lang=pt
Gonçalo Cachinho Matias da Silva Matos. “Active Visual Object Search for Mobile Robots”. IST December 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/2817103409184968
Nuno Miguel Caldeira Miguéns Diogo. “Active Health Data Collection Using Social Robot”. IST May 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/283828618791058
Ricardo Alexandre Ramos Rodrigues. “Effectiveness of a Humorous Robot in Reducing Anxiety in Clinical Procedures”. IST November 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/2817103409184970
João Francisco Mendes da Costa Felizardo. “Computational Auditory Process Simulator for Optimising the Parameters of Cochlear Implants”. IST November 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meec21/dissertacao/3098578385895554
Miguel Estevens Teixeira. “How does the brain control the eye movements? An analysis-by-synthesis approach”. IST November 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meft21/dissertacao/283828618790993