
Department: Image and Signal Analysis Group
Position: Principal Researcher, Professor, Head of Group
Address: Akademijos st. 4, room 623, Vilnius
Tel: +370 5 210 9328
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Scientific and Pedagogical Background
Received Ph. D. in the field of Informatics Engineering in 2010 by defending thesis "Development and Application of Methods in the Graphical Ophthalmological and Thermovisual Data Analysis."
Supervisors: Vydūnas Šaltenis (2005-2007), Gintautas Dzemyda (2007-2010).
Defend committee members: prof. habil. dr. Antanas Čenys, prof. dr. Romas Baronas, prof. dr. Algidas Basevičius, prof. habil. dr. Romualdas Baušys, prof. habil. dr. Laimutis Telksnys, prof. dr. Olga Kurasova, prof. habil. dr. Rimantas Šeinauskas.
Research Work
Scientific interest includes but not limited to digital signal processing, machine learning, deep learning methods development and application for object recognition, segmentation, retrieval, description, denoising in visual/audio data. Medical data analysis and deep learning models development for cancerous tissue segmentation and evaluation from MRI, whole-slide images.
Scientific publications
The main publications ower last 5 years:
- Jurkus, Robertas; Venskus, Julius; Treigys, Povilas. Application of coordinate systems for vessel trajectory prediction improvement using a recurrent neural networks (2023) Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI). DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106448. JIF: 8.0 | CiteScore: ~9.5–11 | SJR: 1.652 (Q1)
- Karlauskas, Kasparas; Gelšvartas, Julius; Treigys, Povilas. Point cloud data mining with HD map priors for making synthetic forest datasets (2025) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3593827. JIF: 5.3 | CiteScore: ~6.4 | SJR: 1.349 (Q1)
- Vaitulevičius, Aleksas; Bernatavičienė, Jolita; Markevičiūtė, Jurgita; Naruševičiūtė, Ieva; Trakymas, Mantas; Treigys, Povilas. Advancements in prostate zone segmentation: integrating attention mechanisms into the nnU‑Net framework (2024) Machine Learning: Science and Technology (IOP). DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/ad7f24. JIF: 4.6 | CiteScore: 7.7 | SJR: 1.119 (Q1)
- Morkūnas, Mindaugas; Žilėnaitė, Dovilė; Laurinavičienė, Aida; Treigys, Povilas; Laurinavičius, Arvydas. Tumor collagen framework from bright‑field histology images predicts overall survival of breast carcinoma patients (2021) Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94862-6. JIF: 3.9 | CiteScore: ~6.7–6.9 | SJR: 0.874 (Q1, Multidisciplinary)
- Jurkus, Robertas; Venskus, Julius; Markevičiūtė, Jurgita; Treigys, Povilas. Enhancing maritime safety: estimating collision probabilities with trajectory prediction boundaries using deep learning models (2025) Sensors (MDPI). DOI: 10.3390/s25051365. JIF: 3.5 | CiteScore: 7.3 | SJR: 0.764
The list of all publications can be viewed here
Scientific and other projects
Project management:
- Program under the “Universities Excellence Initiative” project “Development and Validation of Machine Learning Methods Using Prepared Datasets” 2023‑2027. Project Leader.
- Postdoctoral Project “Investigating speech in the presence of noise interferences employing signal processing and machine learning methods”, 2021-07-2023.07 Supervisor.
- Eye fundus database development. Vilnius Region Biomedical Research Committee approval no.:158200-18/11-1057-572. Principal investigator. Project duration 11-2018 – 10-2030.
- Erasmus+ project "Partnerships to Ensure Risk Management in Practice” 2015-1-LV01-KA203-013436. 2015-2016
Ongoing projects:
- Lithuanian Research Council funded project “Noise‑reduction diffusion probabilistic models for ECG arrhythmia classification and atrial fibrillation (AFIB) detection” No. S‑ITP‑25‑9, 2025‑2027.
- Program under the “Universities Excellence Initiative” project “Development and Validation of Machine Learning Methods Using Prepared Datasets” 2023‑2027. Project Leader.
- Eye fundus database development. Vilnius Region Biomedical Research Committee approval no.:158200-18/11-1057-572. Principal investigator. Project duration 11-2018 – 10-2030.
Older projects:
- Postdoctoral Project “Investigating speech in the presence of noise interferences employing signal processing and machine learning methods”, 2021-07-2023.07
- National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC, H2020, Project duration 01-09-2020 – 31-08-2022. Project Reference: 951732. Teamlead at Vilnius University Faculty of mathematics and informatics.
- COST action CA15124 "A new Network of European BioImage Analysts to advance life science imaging" member of the management committee. 05.2016 - 05.2020
- Eurostars project "Production Effectiveness Navigator, E!6232, PEN“. 2011-2014
- Lithuanian State Studies foundation Project: "Information technology tools of clinical decision support and citizens wellness for e.Health system (No. B-07019)" 2007-2009
- Lithuanian State Studies foundation Project: "Development of special data mining methods to explore the anisotropy of texture’s temperatures of the heart (No. T-08153)”. 2008
- Lithuanian State Studies foundation Project: "Information technologies for human health – support for clinical decisions (eHealth), IT health (No. C-03013)”. 2003-2006
Presentations at Scientific Conferences, Seminars
2025
Karlauskas, Kasparas; Treigys, Povilas. Entropy-based pre-filtering of high-density forest point clouds for individual tree detection algorithms // SSTD'25: Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on spatial and temporal data, 25–27 August 2025, Osaka, Japan. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. ISBN 9798400720949. p. 137–140. DOI: 10.1145/3748777.3748806.
Naudžiūnas, Tautvydas; Perminaitė, Guoda; Treigys, Povilas. Hyperparameters optimization for diffraction ring detection in magnetic tweezers experiment data // 2025 IEEE 12th workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE), 15–17 May 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2025. ISBN 9781665465625. eISBN 9781665496889. ISSN 2689-7334. eISSN 2689-7342. p. [1–5]. DOI: 10.1109/AIEEE66149.2025.11050771.
Malūkaitė, Jaunė; Treigys, Povilas; Bernatavičienė, Jolita. Enhancing arrhythmia detection using an ensemble of transformer models for heartbeat classification // Machine learning, optimization, and data science: 10th international conference, LOD 2024 Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, 22–25 September 2024 : revised selected papers. Part II. Cham : Springer, 2025. ISBN 9783031824838. eISBN 9783031824845. p. 312–322. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15509). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82484-5_23.
2024
Vaitulevičius, Aleksas; Bernatavičienė, Jolita; Treigys, Povilas. nnU‑Net: investigation of attention mechanism for prostate zone segmentation task // The 12th International Conference on E‑Health and Bioengineering (EHB 2024), 14–15 November 2024, Iasi, Romania. New York : IEEE, 2024. ISBN 9798331532154. eISBN 9798331532147. p. [1–4]. DOI: 10.1109/EHB64556.2024.10805724.
Venskus, Julius; Jurkus, Robertas; Treigys, Povilas. A complex network approach to marine traffic interaction modeling: feature extraction for real‑time traffic awareness // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, 28–30 November 2024, Druskininkai, Lithuania. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024. eISBN 9786090711125. (Vilnius University Proceedings, vol. 52). p. 120. DOI: 10.15388/DAMSS.15.2024.
Naudžiūnas, Tautvydas; Perminaitė, Guoda; Treigys, Povilas. Exploring techniques for diffraction ring detection in molecular research // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, 28–30 November 2024, Druskininkai, Lithuania. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024. eISBN 9786090711125. (Vilnius University Proceedings, vol. 52). p. 111. DOI: 10.15388/DAMSS.15.2024.
Deinoravičiūtė, Urtė; Markevičiūtė, Jurgita; Treigys, Povilas. Cointegration of functional time series // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, 28–30 November 2024, Druskininkai, Lithuania. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024. eISBN 9786090711125. (Vilnius University Proceedings, vol. 52). p. 23–24. DOI: 10.15388/DAMSS.15.2024.
Dastgeer, Sobia; Treigys, Povilas. Transforming black‑box models into explainable AI for breast cancer recognition // DAMSS: 15th conference on data analysis methods for software systems, 28–30 November 2024, Druskininkai, Lithuania. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024. eISBN 9786090711125. (Vilnius University Proceedings, vol. 52). p. 19–20. DOI: 10.15388/DAMSS.15.2024.
Treigys, Povilas; Karlauskas, Kasparas. Geometry and deep learning‑based methods comparison for segmentation of trees in aerial laser scan point clouds // EURO 2024: 33rd European conference on operational research (EURO XXXIII), 30 June – 3 July 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen : DIS Congress, 2024. ISBN 9788793458260. p. 256. Prieiga per internetą: program-euro33.pdf.
Malūkaitė, Jaunė; Bernatavičienė, Jolita; Treigys, Povilas. Arrhythmia classification from ECG signals using transformers and data balancing techniques // Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai: konferencijos darbai, 10 May 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024. eISSN 2783‑784X. p. 90–97. DOI: 10.15388/LMITT.2024.13.
2023
Parengtas straipsnis ir stendinis pranešimas, tema: „Categorical Data Encoding Techniques for Recursive Multi-Step Prediction of Vessel Trajectory“. International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE 2023), held in Gran Canaria, 12-14 July, 2023 (Spain).
Čiapas, Bernardas; Treigys, Povilas. Self-checkout product class verification using center loss approach // WSCG 2023: 31. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Plzen, Czech Republic, May 15 – 19, 2023 : proceedings. Pilsen : University of West Bohemia, 2023. eISBN 9788086943329. p. 21-28. (Computer Science Research Notes CSRN, ISSN 2464-4617, eISSN 2464-4625 ; vol. 3301). DOI: 10.24132/CSRN.3301.4
Stankevičius, Dominykas; Treigys, Povilas. Investigation of machine learning methods for colour audio noise suppression // 2023 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 20–23 June 2023, Aveiro, Portugal. New York : IEEE, 2023. ISBN 9798350305272. eISBN 9789893347928. eISSN 2166-0727. p. [1-6]. DOI: 10.23919/CISTI58278.2023.10211742.
2022
Povilas Treigys Studies and Research at Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. About the Distance and Ability to Decide, April 29th. Palanga
Povilas Treigys ISPGAYA University Erasmus+ Staff visit, Seminar on Mathematical Morphology and Image Processing, May 23 - 27, Porto, Portugal.
Povilas Treigys, Jonas Stankevičius VoxelNet for 3D Linear Objects Detection in PointClouds, Euro 2022, ESPOO, July 3-6, Finland.
Povilas Treigys Detecting Cancerous Regions in DCE MRI using Functional Data, XGboost and Neural Networks, FEDCSIS 2022, September 3-7, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2021
Povilas Treigys „CLIENT STORY: The renewed VU MIF High Performance Computing Cluster is open to science and business" May 12, Vilnius, Novian, Technology and resilience.
2020
Povilas Treigys, „Software Development: Problems and Practice" February 7-9 d. Vilnius,Lithuania, Litexpo, Study Expo.
2019
Jurgita Markevičiūtė, Povilas Treigys, „Today's Luck: Data Science and Information technologies“, February 9th. Vilnius, Lithuania, Litexpo, Study Expo.
Povilas Treigys „Software Develoment: Today's Practice“, national conference „Studies and Scientific Collaboration at Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics“, Palanga, Lithuania, April 5-7.
Povilas Treigys, „Signal analysis methods“, University of Almeria, Erasmus+ programme, Almeria, May 8-14, Spain
Jurgita Markevičiūtė, Povilas Treigys, „Discussion with the Data, what Data Can Tell Us“, Ukmergės Antano Smetonis gymnasium, Ukmergė, Lithuania, September 16
JJurgita Markevičiūtė, Povilas Treigys, „Discussion with the Data, what Data Can Tell Us“, Druskininkų Ryto gymnasium, Druskininkai, Lithuania, September 18
2018
Mindaugas Morkūnas, Povilas Treigys "On Signal Analysis", BIBM – the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Madrid, Spain 05-07.12.2018
2017
Mindaugas Morkūnas, Povilas Treigys, Arvydas Laurinavičius, Jolita Bernatavičienė "Whole-slide Pathology Images Spatial Mapping of Intra-tumor Genetic Heterogeneity", NEUBIAS2020: network of European bioimage analysts, Lisbon, Portugal 15-17.02.2017
2016
Povilas Treigys, Vytautas Jakstys, Virginijus Marcinkeviscius „Lateral Chromatic Aberration Correction in Digital Eye Fundus Images“, EURO 2016: 28th European conference on operational research, Poznań 3–6.07.2016
Science Communication
2017
Vilniaus universitete – naujos bakalauro studijų programos (in Lithuanian), http://l24.lt/lt/svietimas/item/191316-vilniaus-universitete-naujos-bakalauro-studij-programos
2019
Robotinių procesų automatizavimas Lietuvoje: galimybės ir iššūkiai (in Lithuanian), http://mif.vu.lt/lt3/kas-vyksta-fakultete/naujienos/fakulteto-naujienos/2666-robotini%C5%B3-proces%C5%B3-automatizavimas-lietuvoje-galimyb%C4%97s-ir-i%C5%A1%C5%A1%C5%ABkiai
Pokalbis su duomenimis: ką jie man gali pasakyti (in Lithuanian), https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/mokslas-ir-it/11/1097181/pokalbis-su-duomenimis-ka-jie-man-gali-pasakyti
2020
Automation of robotic processes in Lithuania, https://bindustry.eu/automation-of-robotic-processes-in-lithuania/
2021
Building a world-class research community, https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/solutions/business-solutions/customer-stories-case-studies/dell-technologies-customer-profile-vilnius-university.pdf
Nauji įrenginiai Vilniaus universitete leis išplėsti mokslinių tyrimų ribas medicinos srityje (in Lithuanian), https://www.delfi.lt/uzsakomasis-turinys/verslo-poziuris/nauji-irenginiai-vilniaus-universitete-leis-isplesti-moksliniu-tyrimu-ribas-medicinos-srityje.d?id=87069105
2022
VU Informaticsi pasitelkę dirbtinį intelektą ketina užkirsti kelią širdies ir kraujagyslių ligoms (in Lithuanian),https://www.delfi.lt/login/progresas/mokslas/vu-Informaticsi-imasi-sirdies-ir-kraujagysliu-ligu-pasitelke-dirbtini-intelekta.d?id=90025115
2023
Article in the press about quantum technologies (in Lithuanian), https://naujienos.vu.lt/vu-mokslininkai-apie-kvantines-technologijas-dabar-reikia-igyti-ziniu-kad-ateityje-galetume-isnaudoti-milziniska-potenciala/
Public discussion at the IBM booth in Poznań during IMPACT 2023 with Voica Radescu and Alessandro Currioni, https://www.psnc.pl/psnc-at-the-impact-2023-conference/
Presentation of science and studies at the Palanga Teachers’ Conference, http://mif.vu.lt/lt3/kas-vyksta-fakultete/seminarai-mokytojams#2023-m-konferencija-palangoje-studijos-ir-mokslas-vu-matematikos-ir-informatikos-fakultete
Presentation of science and studies at the Techin event (2023-10-24), https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=TECHINmokymocentras&set=a.832268235566149
Media statement about AI in school curricula, https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/mokslas-ir-it/11/2048647/apie-privaloma-dirbtinio-intelekto-mokyma-mokyklose-ar-mes-galime-uzsimerkti-kai-ateina-naujoves
Presentation of science and studies at Vilnius Study Fair 2023-03-31
Presentation of science and studies at Kaunas Study Fair 2023-01-19
Presentation of science and studies at Klaipėda Study Fair 2023-02-22
2024
Participated in the project “Lesson with a University Lecturer” – 8 lectures (Winter–Spring / Autumn 2024). The perceptron: beginning of the AI era.
Participated in organizing the Informatics Olympiad, which took place in Vilnius, Šaltinių 1A, during the first week of May 2024.
Article in the press about machine learning and the data center in the magazine “Did You Know That” 2024-10.
2025
Presentation: “Digital CO2 footprint: how does our online activity pollute the environment?” Link
What is a supercomputer, how does it look and work? What does it take to maintain it? Link
Teacher seminar: “About the supercomputer and how to use it” Link
Participated in the project “Lesson with a University Lecturer” – 4 lectures (Winter–Spring / Autumn 2025).
Participation in Open Source Guidelines working group
Participation in qualification and attestation requirements working group
External evaluation visit for Software Engineering study field (Feb 18, 2025) – presented material and technical study base. Protocol No. (7.17 E) 15600-KT-184.
Informatics PhD admission committee (Apr 15, 2025) – Protocol No. (7.17 E) 15600-KT-202.
Informatics Engineering PhD admission committee.
Member of Informatics PhD committee Link
Member of ISI study program committee Link
IT resources organization for NCPC programming contest quarterfinal.
IT resources organization for preparation for world programming contest.
IT resources organization for Saturday informatics olympiad school.
Article based on bachelor and master theses: Naudžiūnas, Tautvydas; Perminaitė, Guoda; Treigys, Povilas. Hyperparameters optimization for diffraction ring detection in magnetic tweezers experiment data // 2025 IEEE 12th workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE), May 15-17, 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania. DOI: 10.1109/AIEEE66149.2025.11050771
Editorial board and Reviewing
Reviewer of the internationals:
- Informatica
- Nonlinear analysis
- Baltic Journal of Modern Computing
- MDPI Sensors
- MDPI Electronics
Teaching Activities
Courses taught:
from 2005 till 2016 docent at Vilniaus kolegija / University of Applied Sciences department of Software Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Design Patterns
- Programming (C, C++, C#, .Net)
- Databases (Oracle, MySql)
- System modelling (UML)
from 2016 till 2018 assoc. prof. at VilniusTech (former Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) department of Information Systems
- Software Engineering
- Software Development Process
- Software Quality Assurance
from 2018 till 2019:
- Software Development Process
from 2019 till now assoc. prof. at Vilnius University Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
- Deep neural networks
- Image analysis
- Database Management Systems
- Database Design
PhD Related Information
Leads PhD Students:
- Sobia Dastgeer "Enhancing Breast Cancer Recognition using Vision Transformer and Explainable AI", 2024-2028
- Kasparas Karlauskas „Three-dimensional point cloud analysis and object recognition", 2023-2027
- Aleksas Vaitulevičius „Research and modelling of digital signals for the detection of cancerous areas of tissue in different MRI modalities", 2021-2025
Defended PhD students:
- Robertas Jurkus "Maritime Traffic Awareness Evaluation Using Deep Neural Networks", 2020-2024
- Bernardas Čiapas „Barcodeless Food Products Recognition for Retail Self-checkout Service“ 2019-2023
- Mindaugas Morkūnas „Development of Tumor Microenvironment-Oriented Digital Pathology Methods for Whole Slide Image Segmentation and Classification“ 2016-2020
- Julius Venskus „Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods for Sea Traffic Anomaly Detection“ 2016-2020
Participation in PhD committees:
- Vytautas Paura „Hyperspectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Data Gathered Using an UAV“ 2025
- Olesia Pozdniakova „"Research of Service Level Agreement Aware Autoscaling Algorithms for Containerized Cloud-Native Applications" 2025
- Justas Kazanavičius „Research on Legacy Monolith Applications Decomposition Into Microservice Architecture“ 2024
- Paulius Gudžius „Automated Machine Learning for Accurate and Low-latency Object Recognition in Optical Satellite Imagery“ 2023
- Tadas Danielius „Changepoint detection using p-variation of CUSUM process“ 2023
- Andrius Vytautas Misiukas Misiūnas „Investigation of automatic EEG analysis algorithms“ 2020
- Giedrius Stabingis „Statistical decisions for spatial Information in digital images“ 2019
- Vytautas Jakštys „Application of Contour Detection Methods to Lateral Chromatic Aberration Reduction in Eye Fundus Images and Road Surface Defect Detection“ 2018
- Tatjana Liogienė „Hierarchical Classification of Speech Emotions“ 2017
- Jevgenij Tichonov „Classification-based compression solutions of digital images“ 2017
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