The doctoral research work of Joana Cabral Costa, a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Beira Interior, has been distinguished with the Best Poster Award at the 18th edition of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), held in Spain.
Joana Cabral Costa is conducting the PhD thesis: “Defense Mechanism for Adversarial Attacks in Computer Vision”, under the supervision of our researchers Pedro Inácio and Hugo Proença.
The award-winning paper, co-authored by Tiago Roxo (IT/UBI), Hugo Proença (IT/UBI), and Pedro Inácio (IT/UBI) from the Department of Computer Science, received the “Best Poster Award Certificate” from the INSTICC and the conference organizers.
Entitled “ZQBA: Zero Query Black Box Adversarial Attack”, the research is part of an Artificial Intelligence project focused on making AI techniques more robust against adversarial attacks. The proposed approach explores the internal representations of deep neural networks, differing from traditional methods that typically require thousands of interactions with the same model.
ICAART is a highly regarded international conference dedicated to Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Artificial Intelligence, bringing together hundreds of researchers from around the world each year. The distinction highlights the quality and international relevance of the research being developed in Portugal and at UBI.
The 18th edition of ICAART took place in Marbella between March 5 and 7, 2026.
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