An Introduction to Silent Speech Interfaces / SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology (PDF)

project CARL: Communication, Action, Reasoning and Learning in Robotics; has supervised 8 concluded PhDs (including João Freitas PhD defended in 2015) and 50 Masters; and co-authored more than two hundred publications (books, book chapters, international journals and proceedings of international conferences).







Miguel Sales Dias holds a bachelor (1985) and a master (1988) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (1998) from ISCTE-IUL where he was an Associated Professor until 2005, holding currently an Invited Associated Professor position, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality, Ambient Assisted Living and Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction. Since November 2005, he is the Director of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and Natural User Interaction Technologies of Microsoft Corporation in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC). He is regularly commissioned by the European Commission for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author or editor of 11 scientific books or journal editions, 12 indexed papers in international journals, 26 chapters in indexed international books, 144 other publications, workshops or keynotes in international conferences. Since 1992 he has participated or participates in 33 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP), and 15 National (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT). He has supervised 5 concluded Phds. He obtained 5 scientific prizes. He is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA and IEEE; editorial boards of several journal; several Program Committees of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech technologies, Accessibility and Ambient Assisted Living. He was President of ADETTI, an ISCTE-IUL associated R&D research center. He was Vice-president and Secretary of the Portuguese Group of Computer Graphics, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter.





Samuel Silva graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in 2003, completed an MSc (pre-Bologna) in the same area in 2007 and obtained his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 2012, all by University of Aveiro. His main research interests include medical imaging processing and analysis, data and information visualization, and human computer interaction, areas in which he (co-) authored eleven articles in international peer reviewed journals and more than 50 papers in international peer reviewed conferences. As a researcher, at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (Portugal), S. Silva has been actively involved in several national and international R&D projects spanning the areas of Ambient Assisted Living, Multimodal Interaction and Speech Production.