Spatial Modulation is a recently proposed multiantenna transmission scheme, designated as SM-MIMO, that associates information to the transmit antenna selection, thus enabling the reduction of the number of radiofrequency chains and , consequently, the implementation of less power consuming communication systems. The novel SM-MIMO communication scheme requires, at the receiver side, the development of new and efficient signal detection strategies of the optimal performance, is infeasible to implement due to the high computational cost. Sphere Decoding detectors (SD) are customarily applied to MIMO systems and attain optimal performance with lower computational cost.An SD algorithm, tailored following SM signal characteristics was deloped, resulting in computational cost reduction compared to ML detector and conventional MIMO SD algorithms. The hogh computational sensitivity of SD algorithms to the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) variation motivated the development of subboptimal detection techniques. Strategies based in group detection were propsed, and nested detection algorithms LA-M and MLA-C had their complexity and performance evaluated in different configurations and channel scenarios. A new family of detectors, that performs the detection of the transmit antenna combinations and the transmitted symbols in two distinct stages,was proposed, and List-BMP-LR-MMSE algorithm attained near -optimal detection performace with low computational complexity, less sensitive to SNR variation. Based on the two-stage detection strategy, a new low-complexity detector was developed to space-time coded SM systems.