Activity report
Members of LAIA@UIB are participating in the CET for the proposal of a new Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence.
Supervision:
- PhD Supervision and Defense: "Quantitative Morphological Analysis of Erythrocytes Using Mathematical Functions," in collaboration with the University of Oriente, Cuba.
- PhD Supervision: XIA 4 MIA FPI-CAIB 2020 contract.
- PhD Supervision: Medical Image Analysis Using Automatic and HbC Methods, partially funded by the EU.
- PhD Supervision: Approaches to Morphological Analysis of Red Blood Cells Using Artificial Intelligence in Shape Space as Support for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Sickle Cell Disease, in collaboration with the University of Oriente, Cuba.
- Student Collaborator: 1 during the academic year 2022-2023.
Project Grants and Participation:
- (KA220-HED) Project: CHARLIE - Challenging Bias in Big Data User for AI and Machine Learning.
- Proposed Course: New Challenges in the Digitization of the Balearic Tourism Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Economics, and Law (planned for 2023).
- Participation in Project PID2019-104829RA-I00 - EXPLAINING. (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
- Participation in Project PID2020-113870GB-I00 - HESOCODICE (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
- Participation in COST Action 19130 - Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a Transparent Financial Industry.
- Participation in COST ACTION CA19122 European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics.
- Participation in the Project "Training in Medical Image Analysis and Acceleration through Specific Hardware," XCI call for grants for university cooperation projects for development – 2019.
- Proposed Project SR22-00039 EXPLAIN TRUANCY, "la Caixa" Foundation 2022 Social Research.
- Proposed Project TED2021-131410B-I00 ASSES ME, Projects for Ecological and Digital Transition 2021.
- Proposed Project: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Decision Support in Wholesale Booking of Tourism Services, R&D grants to address the challenges of tourist destinations.
- Proposed Project drepanIA - Approaches to Morphological Analysis of Red Blood Cells Using Artificial Intelligence in Shape Space as Support for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Sickle Cell Disease, 1st Call for Research Grants for Research and Development 2022-23.
- Proposed Project: Creation of a Skin Lesion Database with Different Phototypes and Development of Algorithms for Recognition, 1st Call for Research Grants for Research and Development 2022-23.
- Proposed Project: MSCA DN Digital Finance through the COST Action 19130 - Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a Transparent Financial Industry.
- Proposed Project: Artificial Intelligence and Law: Intellectual Property, Data Protection, and Liability, Call for Research and Development Grants 2022-23.
- Proposal for a Specific Development Action: Responsibility for Damages Caused by Artificial Intelligence Agents: Especially, Analysis of the European Regulation Proposal on Artificial Intelligence.
- Proposed Project: Legal Challenges of Implementing Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Legal Sector, R&D Grants to Address the Challenges of Tourist Destinations.
- Proposed R&D Project: Artificial Intelligence and Law: Analysis of Liability for Damages Caused by the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems (IARES).
- Participation in the Proposal for the Regional Chair in AI Sustainability and Health.
- Participation in the Proposal for an AI Chair, national call.
- Participation in proposals submitted by UIB for the Balearic Islands' Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
- Proposal from Illa Docs SL for the expert scientific consultancy project grants from FUEIB.
- Collaboration on the IAMúsica project: AI in musical interpretation at the Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands.
Publications:
- Marrero-Fernandez, P.D., Buades-Rubio, J.M., Jaume-i-Capó, A., Ren, T.I. (2022). An Approach for Selecting the Most Explanatory Features for Facial Expression Recognition. Applied Sciences.
- Miró-Nicolau, M., Moyà-Alcover, G., & Jaume-i-Capó, A. (2022). Evaluating Explainable Artificial Intelligence for X-ray Image Analysis. Applied Sciences.
- Galmés, B., Moyà-Alcover, G., Bibiloni, P., Varona, J., & Jaume-i-Capó, A. (2022). Geometric-based nail segmentation for clinical measurements. Multimedia Tools and Applications.
- Perales, F. J., Ramis, S., Buades, J. M., Manresa-Yee, C., & Jaume, A. (2022). A natural face to face interaction using social robotics. In EDULEARN22 Proceedings (pp. 1417-1421). IATED.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Past, Present, and Future of the European Regime of Liability for Artificial Intelligence Systems, in Digital Law and New Technologies, Aranzadi (Thomson Reuters), (pp. 1049-1070).
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Analysis of the Concept, European Regulations, and Key Problematic Aspects of Artificial Intelligence System Liability, in Criminal Policy, Tirant lo Blanch, (forthcoming).
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Current Trends in Cybercrime: Criminal Responses to Phishing, Ransomware, and DoS, the Three Main Cyber Threats Since the Pandemic, in Legal Contributions to the Platform Economy, Aranzadi, (pp. 165 to 192).
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel and Varona Gómez, Javier. (2021) Popular Science Article: Emotional Artificial Intelligence: What Machines Will Never Learn, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/inteligencia-artificial-emocional-lo-que-las-maquinas-nunca-podran-aprender-170605.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Popular Science Article: Sabotage, Extortion, or Fraud? The Challenge of Prosecuting Ransomware Cyberattacks as Crimes, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/sabotaje-ciberextorsion-o-estafa-el-reto-de-castigar-los-ciberataques-de-ransomware-como-delitos-192034.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2023) Popular Science Article: The Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Through Six Real Cases, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/los-retos-juridicos-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-a-traves-de-seis-casos-reales-200850#comment_2901644.
Proposals:
- Proposal for 1 contract in the INVESTIGO program.
- Proposal for 2 contracts in the SOIB Research and Innovation program.
Attendance and Collaborations:
- Attendance at the Congress organized by the University of Alicante: "Artificial Intelligence in Tort Law
," on May 23 and 24, 2022.
- Collaboration on research with ESIGELEC: Processing of Agreements.
- Organization of the 1st Networking Day for the Transfer of AI Applications to Businesses and Society in the Balearic Islands (JAIA2022), October 28, 2022, as part of the FUEIB's Innovation and Transfer Grant.
- Participation in an Information Session on Advanced Teleassistance, October 26, 2022, Sa Riera Building (UIB, FUEIB, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Sports).
- Participation in the UIB-Cluster Meetings Cycle. GSBit Meeting: Projects Related to Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Mining, December 14, 2022.
- Participation in the Balearic AI Ecosystem Day, Cercle d'Economia de Mallorca, December 21, 2022.
- Organization and participation in the Seminar "Digital Platforms: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, and Cryptoassets" on December 19, 2022.
- Design of the LAIA@UIB logo.
- Creation of the LAIA@UIB website laia.uib.cat.
- Together with the UIB Communication Service, 12 press releases have been published.
- Meetings have been held with 5 companies to define and understand the priorities and challenges to be addressed using AI.
Educational Materials on AI:
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) MOOC. The Legal Framework of Artificial Intelligence. IASAC Project.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022-2023) The Legal Framework of Artificial Intelligence. IASAC Project.
Participation in Congresses, Conferences, and Seminars:
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Lecture. Transparency Principle and Artificial Intelligence: Traceability and Explainability in the Liability of Artificial Intelligence Systems, Congress on Artificial Intelligence and Tort Law, University of Alicante.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Invited Lecture: Cybercrime: From Computer Systems to AI, 2nd edition of the International Online Congress on the Right to Personal Data Protection, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Communication. Technical-Legal Perspective on Ransomware Attacks: A Highly Dangerous Digital Threat to E-Commerce Platforms, 2nd International Congress on Digital Law, University of Salamanca.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Invited Lecture. Current Trends in Cybercrime: Criminal Responses to Phishing, Ransomware, and DoS, the Three Main Cyber Threats to Digital Platforms After the Pandemic, Seminar for Doctoral Students at the Faculty of Law, University of the Balearic Islands.
- Montserrat Sánchez-Escribano, María Isabel. (2022) Lecture. Cybersecurity and Cybercrime, at the Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, and Cryptoassets Day, University of the Balearic Islands.
- 1st Prize: "Development of a Virtual Reality System for Phantom Limb Syndrome Treatment" to R. Gil supervised by F.J. Perales.
- TalenTIC - Informática El Corte Inglés, 2021. 1st Prize for the Master's Thesis: "Automatic Text Summarization Using a Filter-Based Approach" to M.A. Gheatta supervised by J. Varona.
- Participation in the COST Action 19130 - Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance - Towards a Transparent Financial Industry.
- Participation in COST ACTION CA19122 European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics.
- Erasmus+ Higher Education Program (KA220-HED): CHARLIE - Challenging Bias in Big Data for AI and Machine Learning.
- Participation in defining the new curriculum for the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science track in the Computer Engineering Degree program.
- Members of LAIA@UIB are participating in the Student Council for the proposal of a new Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence.
- Grant and participation in the PID2019-104829RA-I00 project - EXPLAINING (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
- Grant and participation in the PID2020-113870GB-I00 project - HESOCODICE (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
- Submission of the EXPLAIN EDUCATION project proposal to the GOIB call.
Publications:
- "Balance Measurement Using Microsoft Kinect v2: Towards Remote Evaluation of Patients with the Functional Reach Test." Published in Applied Sciences, 11(13), 6073.
- "A Multitasking Learning Framework for Dermoscopic Image Analysis" by L. Talavera-Martínez, P. Bibiloni, M. González-Hidalgo. Presented at the Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, pp. 34-44.
- "How Do Different Tasks Influence Each Other’s Learning? Case Study in Dermoscopic Images" by L. Talavera-Martínez, P. Bibiloni, M. González-Hidalgo. Presented at the 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1755-1759.
- "Impulsive Noise Removal with an Adaptive Weighted Arithmetic Mean Operator for Any Noise Density" by M. González-Hidalgo, S. Massanet, A. Mir, D. Ruiz-Aguilera. Published in Applied Sciences, 11(2), 560.
- "Hair Segmentation and Removal in Dermoscopic Images Using Deep Learning" by L. Talavera-Martínez, P. Bibiloni, M. González-Hidalgo. Published in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 2694-2704, 2021.
Supervision and Collaborating Students:
- Supervision of Collaborating Students: 2 during the 2021-2022 academic year.
- Supervision of Bachelor's Theses (TFG), Master's Theses (TFM), and PhD Theses:
- PhD Supervision: XIA 4 MIA FPI-CAIB 2020 contract.
- Master's Thesis Supervision: NonoAI: Solving Nonograms Using a Combination of Neural Networks and Computer Vision.
- Master's Thesis Supervision: Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning Policies Applied to a Bipedal Agent.
- Master's Thesis Supervision: Artificial Intelligence Models Applied to the Game 'Hungry Geese'.
- Master's Thesis Supervision: Data Modeling for Fall Detection in Vision-Based Systems.
- Master's Thesis Supervision: Machine Learning Models for Automatic Segmentation of Brain Lesions in MRI Images.
- Supervision: Comparative Study of Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms.
- Bachelor's Thesis Supervision: Can an AI Learn to Play a Video Game?
- Bachelor's Thesis Supervision: "Deep Learning Models for the Classification of Red Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood Samples to Aid in the Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Anemia: A Comparative Study."
- Bachelor's Thesis Supervision: "Comparative Study of Inpainting Algorithms."
- Bachelor's Thesis Supervision: "Study of Multiclass Machine Learning Models and Superpixel Segmentation. Application to Automatic Post-Surgical Wound Segmentation."