CiTIUS also transferred several software licenses in this period, 70% of them to international companies, and created 2 spin-offs, Situm and Imagames. CiTIUS collaborates with relevant companies such as Indra, Finsa, Everis, Babcock International, Johnson&Johnson or Mestrelab Research, among others.

CiTIUS research lines related to Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning – https://citius.usc.es/pc/aprendizaxe-automatico

CiTIUS research objectives in this area are the following:

• Design and application of models or methods for classification, regression and optimization.
• Symbolic learning (rules, decision trees…) and sub-symbolic (neural networks, support vector machines, deep learning, genetic programming…)
• On-line continuous learning in multi-device systems
• Data mining and text mining
• Process mining
• Analysis and interpretation of signals, image and videos

Natural Language Technologies – https://citius.usc.es/pc/tecnoloxias-da-linguaxe-natural

In the area of Natural Language Technologies (NLT), CiTIUS researchers do research on models and develop technologies for many NLP state of the art tasks, such as:

• NLP for information extraction, language analysis, relation extraction, sentence similarity…
• Information retrieval and search technologies
• Semantic representation with ontologies
• Big data to text systems: NLG from data
• Intelligent data analytics for NLP: machine learning, data mining, imprecise knowledge and reasoning
• High performance computing and big data technologies for NLP
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Artificial vision – https://citius.usc.es/pc/vision-artificial-2018

CiTIUS research objectives in this area include:

• Pattern recognition in images and videos.
• New approaches for the segmentation of complex images.
• Development of new visual attention computational models.
• Biometric recognition based on incremental and continuous learning.
• Detection and tracking of very small objects by means of deep learning techniques.
• Processing of images obtained from RGB, multispectral and hyperspectral sensors (registration, classification, domain adaptation, changes detection …).

Robotics – https://citius.usc.es/pc/robots-persoais

The main research lines of this area are:

• Development of algorithms to increase the adaptive capacity of robots, allowing them to learn from the user and from their own experience.
• Training the robot for visual perception: development of artificial vision algorithms in order to enable the robot for Scene Recognition and Feature Identification, as it explores the field.
• Indoor Mapping and positioning, through multi-sensory information.
• Autonomy and advanced navigation in complicated, non-structured or predefined areas.

E-Health – https://citius.usc.es/pc/e-saude-2018

CiTIUS research in this area focuses on:

• Prevention, through the design and automatisation of processes that stimulate the adoption of healthy life habits, adaptable to patient’s conditions and routines;
• Diagnosis, based on an analysis of multiple factors to improve current decision-making processes and the establishment of new processes to address diseases;
• Treatment, through the proposal of new methods, techniques and tools to improve patient’s adherence to the prescribed treatment to attain maximum efficacy, and the analysis of medicine interactions in patients with multiple diseases;
• Monitoring, focused on the acquisition and processing of physiological signals, both unidimensional and multidimensional, in order to assess the status and pathophysiological evolution of the patient.

Additional information

Website: https://citius.usc.es/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/citiususc/

Contact: www.citius.usc.es/contacto