Sales Mendes

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• Phd
• Professor at University of Salamanca

The study focused on designing a portable, objective device for assessing and addressing Cervical Motor Control (CMC) impairments. This device is based on a proposed architecture that employs advanced technology to evaluate and enhance patients’ CMC. During a pilot study with 10 participants, the device’s feasibility and usability were verified, in...

This study introduces a pioneering approach for treating balance disorders, integrating advanced computer vision and engaging gamification techniques within a multi-agent system framework. Balancing disorders significantly impair quality of life, manifesting through symptoms like dizziness and muscle weakness. Addressing this, we developed a platfo...

Racket sports, such as tennis, badminton and squash, require accurate technique and detailed performance analysis to improve player performance. However, the lack of accurate and portable tools for monitoring and analysing movement in these sports presents a problem for players and coaches. To address this problem, a new wearable device has been de...

Balance and motor skills are essential for quality of life, and therapeutic training is fundamental for their improvement. Through new technologies, work has begun to be developed that use these technologies to improve these treatments and carry out better control over the patient. A platform has been developed that provides adapted exercises for b...

In retail, it is necessary to collect data on different aspects, including shopping trolleys, to improve various features e.g. efficiency, effectiveness, user experience, and security. The continuous advances in artificial intelligence allow the creation of systems that make tasks easier and cheaper. For this reason, this project presents the detec...

Robotics is a growing area in the daily life of users and especially in industry. In recent years, many developments have been made to create and improve new techniques for handling objects with articulated robotic arms. The industrial sector is currently the most interested in including more automated processes. Thanks to the great evolution of ar...

Nowadays there is a great interest in the development of devices capable of differentiating between different smells either for quality control in food or beverages or for the detection of smells in enclosed spaces and to be able to act accordingly. This paper presents a case study for the evaluation of new gas sensors for aroma identification. A p...

Due to the increasing urban development, it has become important for municipalities to permanently understand land use and ecological processes, and make cities smart and sustainable by implementing technological tools for land monitoring. An important problem is the absence of technologies that certify the quality of information for the creation o...

Currently, virtual reality is booming and growing, being an attractive and unique technology in concept. This paper seeks to show the possible use of this technology for learning in the elderly. Specifically, it seeks to teach the operation of a bank teller, combining the possibility of learning in freedom or being guided through different steps wh...

Loss of balance and difficulty walking are two of the main alterations of MS (Multiple Sclerosis). The therapeutic intervention that has given the best results is training through several modes of therapeutic exercise and training different muscular systems. This study proposes the development of a system together with a low-cost device that facili...

In the music domain, tags are commonly used to categorize the different songs a user listens to on streaming services such as Spotify or Deezer. Different types of tags have been used, such as those related to the musical genre, others related to the emotions evoked by the song, and others related to the user's context of action or activity. These...

A soundscape is a sound description of a concrete environment. Therefore, the soundscapes are always connected to a visual component, as it might capture sounds from an urban city, a countryside, or a domestic place. In this work, we present a system that generate soundscapes from images. Firstly, we recognize some objects in the image. In a second...

Nowadays, alerting people when they are at risk is quite well developed. Applications carry out Alerts, which warn family members or friends of your location and inform them that you need help. This alerting process is beneficial, although there are occasions when the alert must reach people outside our immediate circle to help us, for example, in...

Traditionally, text-to-speech has helped people overcome decoding difficulties with learning or hearing disabilities. Thanks to technological advances, consuming content in which learners use text and audio is more common. However, sign language allows an improvement in the transfer of knowledge and the integration of students with functional diver...

The use of computer vision techniques to detect objects in images has grown in recent years. These techniques are especially useful to automatically extract and analyze information from an image or a sequence of them. One of the problems addressed by computer vision is multi-object tracking over frames sequences. To know the path and direction of o...

The home-based cardiac rehabilitation program with guided exercise seems a complement to the usual post-acute cardiac rehabilitation. Regarding the new pandemic situation, different methods of telerehabilitation have been implemented around the world, being virtual cardiac rehabilitation (VCR). To address this situation, an application that offers...

Parking is something fundamental in all cities and every day it becomes more and more so due to the increase in the use of vehicles. That is why the use of parking lots is essential for all people who use the car. In this paper, we will show an application for the automatic management of parking lots, where users can use it to carry out all the nec...

Nowadays artificial intelligence models increase in complexity and people tend to doubt how these systems work and how vulnerable they are when they use these systems. The systems indeed use user data, nonetheless, it is possible to reduce this data with techniques like one-shot learning. This study aims to compare how one-shot learning works in fa...

Tradition is the hallmark of every culture. This paper presents a traditional electronic instrument based on the three-hole flutes native to Spain, and specifically to Salamanca. The device has remote connection with smartphones, so it can send and receive information from an application developed for this device. To generate the different notes, i...

Nowadays, Virtual Reality, commonly known as VR, is becoming more and more popular and accessible for everyone. The main purpose of this paper is to explain ways in which virtual reality can influence people emotions. This experiment will be conducted by using a horror VR game where some users will explain their feelings while playing a demo. The g...

There is growing concern among users of computer systems about how their data is handled. In this sense, IT (Information Technology) professionals are not unaware of this problem and are looking for solutions to meet the requirements and concerns of their users. During the last few years, various techniques and technologies have emerged that allow...

The need to estimate the orientation between frames of reference is crucial in spacecraft navigation. Robust algorithms for this type of problem have been built by following algebraic approaches, but data-driven solutions are becoming more appealing due to their stochastic nature. Hence, an approach based on convolutional neural networks in order t...

The increase in irrigated crop areas, especially in countries such as Spain and Italy, has led to an increase in technological solutions for monitoring the irrigation. Furthermore, the centre pivot irrigation systems used in these crops have facilitated the daily work of farmers in recent years, however, the monitoring of these systems and the repo...

Currently, there are more than 1.55 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Spain. Of these, it is estimated that around 45% will present respiratory complications, which represents approximately 620,000 patients who will need respiratory rehabilitation. The health system has no resources for this huge quantity of patients after the hospital disch...

A proposta deste trabalho é focada na melhora da eficiência autonômica em veículos elétricos individuais utilizados em grande cidades. Para realizar estas melhoras, desenvolvemos uma arquitetura que faz uso de diferentes algoritmos de optimização de rotas oferecendo alternativas para o usuário. Para tanto, consideramos os tempos máximos de percurso....

O principal objetivo deste trabalho é o desenvolvimento de ferramentas e métodos automatizados que auxiliem na simulação para projetos de computadores quânticos. Com a finalidade de alcançar o objetivo, esta pesquisa inclui, a criação de circuitos quânticos, o cálculo do near time (redução do tempo entre a ocorrência de um evento e o uso dos dados p...

A utilização de drones está aumentando para os novos campos de aplicações, desde a agricultura à segurança. Uma destas aplicações é a medição sonora ou audiovisual em áreas de difícil acesso. Em este trabalho apresentamos a aplicação e o algoritmo que emprega mecanismos de Blind Source Separation (BSS) para a separação das fontes de ruído. O algori...

Physical activity is the main element affecting students’ cognitive-motor skills. In several studies, it has been shown that physical exercise has a positive influence on health as well as offering an improvement in intellectual performance. In this paper, a new teaching methodology that encourages physical activity is proposed and discussed. To ac...

The usage of drones is increasingly spreading into new fields of application, ranging from agriculture to security. One of these new applications is sound recording in areas of difficult access. The challenge that arises when using drones for this purpose is that the sound of the recorded sources must be separated from the noise produced by the dro...

The application of ubiquitous computing has increased in recent years, especially due to the development of technologies such as mobile computing, more accurate sensors, and specific protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the trends in this area of research is the use of context awareness. In agriculture, the context involves the enviro...

Featured Application Featured Application: The present work is a potential application for improve the rehabilitation process using remote supervision. Abstract There are more than 800 million people in the world with chronic diseases. Many of these people do not have easy access to healthcare facilities for recovery. Telerehabilitation seeks to p...

An increase in the irrigation demand has been projected in Europe, especially in the countries with the highest proportion of irrigated agricultural areas, such as Italy and Spain. This has led to advances in the field of irrigation systems, as center pivot systems which have facilitated the labor of farmers because of their automation. However, th...

In recent years, maintenance work on public transport routes has drastically decreased in many countries due to difficult economic situations. The various studies that have been conducted by groups of drivers and groups related to road safety concluded that accidents are increasing due to the poor conditions of road surfaces, even affecting the con...

The current situation with COVID-19 is changing our courses of action toward ensuring health security. This is particularly crucial in airports, which usually receive more than 300,000 travellers in one single day. In this work, we present an Internet of Things (IoT) network to monitor the status of toilets and improve their maintenance. The system...

Traditional physiotherapy rehabilitation systems are evolving into more advanced systems based on exoskeleton systems and Virtual Reality (VR) environments that enhance and improve rehabilitation techniques and physical exercise. In addition, due to current connected systems and paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT) or Ambient Intelligent...

With the evolution of technology over the years, it has become possible to develop intelligent environments based on the concept of the Internet of Things, distributed systems, and machine learning. Such environments are infused with various solutions to solve user demands from services. One of these solutions is the Ubiquitous Privacy (UBIPRI) mid...

With the evolution of technology over the years, it has become possible to develop intelligent environments based on the concept of the Internet of Things, distributed systems, and machine learning. Such environments are incorporated with various solutions to solve user demands from services. One of these solutions is UBIPRI middleware, whose centr...

With the growing number of heterogeneous resource-constrained devices connected to the Internet, it becomes increasingly challenging to secure the privacy and protection of data. Strong but efficient cryptography solutions must be employed to deal with this problem, along with methods to standardize secure communications between these devices. The...

Automatic vehicle tracking systems ease the completion of numerous tasks in different fields. Moreover they can automatically capture information, this feature allows to perform location tasks. These systems can be implemented at airports, in shopping centers and in other large buildings; in this way, wireless network scans will serve as a basis fo...

Social systems have gained relevance during the last decade, trying to provide intelligent environments where humans and machines collaborate to resolve a social problem. The main objective of this paper is to obtain an intelligent system specifically designed to help dependent and/or visually disabled people to count money more easily by using a m...

Sensing systems in combination with treatment tools and intelligent information management are the basis on which the cities and urban environments of the future will be built. Progress in the research and development of these new and intelligent scenarios is essential to achieve the objectives of efficiency, integration, sustainability, and qualit...