João F. C. Mota

About Me

My research interests include optimization theory and algorithms, machine learning, data science, multimodal signal processing, distributed algorithms, control theory, and network science.

I'm Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, and I'm with

More information also available on my Google Scholar profile and Heriot-Watt research profile.

Open PhD position: AI for Robust Compression

Journal publications

Multimodal Image Super-resolution via Joint Sparse Representations induced by Coupled Dictionaries.
P. Song, X. Deng, J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, P. L. Dragotti, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, in press, 2019.
link, preprint, arXiv
Heterogeneous Networked Data Recovery from Compressive Measurements Using a Copula Prior.
N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, E. Zimos, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 65, No. 12, pp. 5333-5347, 2017.
link, preprint, arXiv
Compressed Sensing with Prior Information: Strategies, Geometry, and Bounds.
J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 63, No. 7, pp. 4472-4496, 2017.
link, preprint, arXiv, code
Multi-Modal Dictionary Learning for Image Separation With Application In Art Investigation.
N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, B. Cornelis, M. R. D. Rodrigues, I. Daubechies.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 751-764, 2017.
link, preprint, arXiv
Adaptive-Rate Reconstruction of Time-Varying Signals with Application in Compressive Foreground Extraction.
J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, V. Cevher, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 64, No. 14, pp. 3651-3666, 2016.
link, paper, arXiv, code
Fast Desynchronization For Decentralized Multichannel Medium Access Control.
N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, G. Smart, Y. Andreopoulos.
IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 63, No. 9, pp. 3336-3349, 2015.
link, preprint, arXiv
Distributed Optimization With Local Domains: Applications in MPC and Network Flows.
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 60, No. 7, pp. 2004-2009, 2015.
link, preprint, arXiv, code for solver, code
D-ADMM: A Communication-Efficient Distributed Algorithm For Separable Optimization.
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 61, No. 10, pp. 2718-2723, 2013.
link, preprint, arXiv, code
Distributed Basis Pursuit .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 1942-1956, 2012.
link, arXiv, preprint, code.

IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award (2015)

Conference publications

Single Image Super-Resolution via CNN Architectures and and TV-TV Minimization.
M. Vella, J. F. C. Mota.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'19), Cardiff, 2019.
arXiv, preprint
Robust Super-Resolution via Deep Learning and TV Priors.
M. Vella, C. Rickman, J. F. C. Mota.
International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'19), Toulouse, 2019.
link, preprint
Coupled Dictionary Learning for Multi-Contrast MRI Resolution.
P. Song, L. Weizman, J. F. C. Mota, Y. C. Eldar, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece, 2018.
link, preprint, supplementary material
Data Aggregation and Recovery for the Internet of Things: A Compressive Demixing Approach.
E. Zimos, J. F. C. Mota, E. Tsiligianni, M. R. D. Rodrigues, N. Deligiannis.
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
link, preprint
A framework for learning affine transformations for multimodal sparse reconstruction.
J. F. C. Mota, E. Tsiligianni, N. Deligiannis.
Wavelets and Sparsity XVII, SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, 2017.
link, preprint
Reweighted L1-norm minimization with guarantees: An incremental measurement approach to sparse reconstruction .
J. F. C. Mota, L. Weizman, N. Deligiannis, Y. C. Eldar, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'17), Lisbon, 2017.
link, preprint
Joint Multicontrast MRI Reconstruction .
L. Weizman, J. F. C. Mota, P. Song, N. Deligiannis, Y. C. Eldar, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'17), Lisbon, 2017.
link, preprint
Coupled Dictionary Learning For Multimodal Image Super-Resolution .
P. Song, J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Washington D.C., 2016.
link, preprint
Measurement Matrix Design For Compressive Sensing With Side Information at the Encoder .
P. Song, J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Palma de Mallorca, 2016.
link, preprint
Internet-of-Things Data Aggregation Using Compressed Sensing with Side Information .
E. Zimos, J. F. C. Mota, M. R. D. Rodrigues, N. Deligiannis.
IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2016.
link, preprint
X-Ray Image Separation via Coupled Dictionary Learning .
N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, B. Cornelis, M. R. D. Rodrigues, I. Daubechies.
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, Arizona, 2016.
link, preprint arXiv
Bayesian Compressed Sensing with Heterogeneous Side Information .
E. Zimos, J. F. C. Mota, M. R. D. Rodrigues, N. Deligiannis, .
Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 191-200, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2016.
preprint
Reference-Based Compressed Sensing: A Sample Complexity Approach .
J. F. C. Mota, L. Weizman, N. Deligiannis, Y. C. Eldar, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Shanghai, 2016.
link, preprint
Dynamic Sparse State Estimation Using L1-L1 Minimization: Adaptive-Rate Measurement Bounds, Algorithms and Applications .
J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, A. C. Sankaranarayanan, V. Cevher, M. R. D. Rodrigues.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, 2015.
link, preprint
Decentralized Multichannel Medium Access Control: Viewing Desynchronization as a Convex Optimization Method .
N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, G. Smart, Y. Andreopoulos.
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing (IPSN), Seattle, 2015.
link
Decentralized time-synchronized channel swapping .
G. Smart, N. Deligiannis, J. F. C. Mota, Y. Andreopoulos .
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing (IPSN), Seattle, 2015.
link
Compressed Sensing with Side Information: Geometrical Interpretation and Performance Bounds .
J. F. C. Mota, N. Deligiannis, M. Rodrigues.
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Atlanta, 2014.
Session: Information Processing for Big Data.
link, preprint, arXiv
D-ADMM Based Distributed MPC with input-output models .
R. P. Costa, J. M. Lemos, J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier.
IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Antibes, France, 2014.
Part of IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control.
link, preprint
A Unified Algorithmic Approach to Distributed Optimization .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Austin, 2013.
link, preprint
Distributed Compressed Sensing Algorithms: Completing the Puzzle .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Austin, 2013.
link, preprint
Efficient Distributed Algorithms For Structured Optimization Problems .
J. F. C. Mota, J. Xavier, P. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Sensor Networks, CPSWeek, Philadelphia, 2013.
extended abstract
Distributed ADMM for Model Predictive Control and Congestion Control .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5110-5115, Maui, 2012.
link, preprint
ADMM For Consensus On Colored Networks .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp.5116-5121, Maui, 2012.
link, preprint
D-ADMM: A Distributed Algorithm For Compressed Sensing and Other Separable Optimization Problems .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2869-2872, Kyoto, 2012.
link, preprint
Basis Pursuit in Sensor Networks .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2916-2919, Prague, 2011.
link, preprint
Efficient Methods For Point Matching With Known Camera Orientation .
J. F. C. Mota and P. M. Q. Aguiar.
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), pp. 210-219, Póvoa de Varzim, 2010.
link, preprint
Distributed Algorithms For Basis Pursuit .
J. F. C. Mota, J. M. F. Xavier, P. M. Q. Aguiar, M. Püschel.
International Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'09), Saint-Malo, 2009.
link, preprint

Theses

Communication-Efficient Algorithms For Distributed Optimization .
Phd Thesis.
Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2013.
link, arXiv, CMU link

An explanation of my PhD research: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jmota/DADMM/

Distributed Algorithms For Sparse Approximation .
MSc Thesis.
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2008.
link

Contact

João Mota .
EM 3.22 .
Heriot-Watt University .
Edinburgh EH14 4AS .
United Kingdom

Email: j.mota (at) hw.ac.uk