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- Using Artificial Intelligence to Prevent Drowsiness Based on Facial RecognitionPublication . Azevedo, Daniel; Guedes, Damiana; Santos, Gonçalo; Soares, Francisco; Lopes, PedroIn Portugal, in 2017, there were 34,416 accidents on the roads. It is estimated that the second major cause of accidents is driver fatigue. In this way, over the years, legislation has been created to mitigate the problem. In parallel with the European Union, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has encouraged the automotive industry to develop systems embedded in vehicles to increase their safety and mitigate this and other problems.This approach is intended to be an intermediate solution, as to be the in-between the security of a system embedded in a vehicle and the accessibility of a mobile system. In this way, the project aims to be as cheap, fast and applicable as possible. Using Face API technology provided by Microsoft, it is possible to have access to a set of features based on artificial intelligence, accomplishing tasks previously unthinkable, or very costly.
- An Application for Studying Tandem Repeats in Orthologous GenesPublication . Lousado, José; Oliveira, José; Moura, Gabriela; Santos, ManuelSeveral authors have being suggesting that the occurrence of amino acids repeats in some genes are implied in human diseases. We aim to investigate if these repetitions, which one can observe in humans, also exist in orthologous genes of several organisms, and how they have evolved along time. However, for this kind of study, it is necessary to use different databases and computation methods that are not integrated in any specific tool. In this paper, we present a bioinformatics application, supported by Web Services, that allows to conduct comparative analysis studies for various organisms, along the evolutionary chain.
- Analysing the Evolution of Repetitive Strands in GenomesPublication . Lousado, José; Oliveira, José; Moura, Gabriela; Santos, ManuelThe analysis of genomes and proteomes of the various organisms allow us to observe its behaviour in the evolution of species. In this study, we focus our attention on a particular aspect of this analysis: the conservation of specific codon and amino acid repetitions in orthologous genes belonging to eukaryotic organisms that are representative of different stages of species evolution. Since it is known that these repeats in humans are the cause of various neurodegenerative diseases, among others, this study help explaining if there is conservation or repression of such repetitions in the specialization process, and if there is any relationship between these repetitions and diseases in advanced live beings.