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Telecommunications and Multimedia

At CTM, our vision is to promote a lively and sustainable world where networked intelligence enables ubiquitous interaction with sensory-rich content. Our mission is to develop advanced systems and technologies to enable high capacity, efficient, and secure communications, media knowledge extraction, and immersive ubiquitous multimedia applications.

We work in 4 main areas of research: Optical and Electronic Technologies, Wireless Networks, Multimedia and Communications Technologies, and VCMI (Visual Computing and Machine Intelligence).

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Communications

INESC TEC hosted a Summer School that combined theory with practice to advance knowledge on 6G networks

Three days, 70 participants, a team of six tutors, and more than 10 internationally renowned speakers – this was the formula behind the Summer School, jointly organised by the projects CONVERGE (led by INESC TEC) and SLICES-PP. INESC TEC hosted this Summer School, which offered participants a hands-on experience in the development and testing of next-generation 6G networks.

19th August 2025

Communications

Is it possible to make the invisible visible through a demonstration? With INESC TEC, yes: using mixed reality

INESC TEC took central stage at one of the largest meetings of 5G, IoT, and 6G experts. At the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025, held in Poznan (Poland), the Institute made the invisible visible through a demonstration using mixed reality.

26th June 2025

Can we be sure that Douro wine really comes from the Douro? INESC TEC has the answer

Portuguese wine, Spanish honey, Greek olive oil, German meat, Nordic dairy and fish – what do they all have in common? They’re all part of WATSON, a project bringing blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, sensors, and geolocation systems to the table to improve the traceability of food products and help advance information and prevention to tackle fraud.

29th May 2025

Communications

Safer and smarter factories? INESC TEC at the forefront of developing digital transformation technologies for the industry sector

A project named MechEye is currently developing technologies aimed at improving safety in industrial environments, particularly in equipment’s use and operation.

26th May 2025

INESC TEC with five FCT exploratory projects approved in four R&D areas

Telecommunications and Multimedia, Applied Photonics, High-assurance Software and Advanced Computing Systems – these are the four domains that INESC TEC researchers will explore within the scope of the five projects that were approved through the Call for Exploratory Projects promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

02nd October 2024

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Featured Projects

MechEye

Industrial Machine Sentinel

2025-2025

PFAI4_6eD

Programa de Formação Avançada Industria 4 - 6a edição

2025-2025

PFAI4_5eD

Programa de Formação Avançada Industria 4 - 5a edição

2024-2024

ACOUSTNET

Acoustic Network for Enhanced Underwater Communication and Positioning

2024-2025

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Laboratories

Laboratory of Sound and Music Computing

Optical and Electronic Technologies Research Laboratory

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28Senior Researchers

2016

82Researchers

2016

2R&D Employees

2020

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