Shape Classification Through Structured Learning of Matching Measures
(with Longbin Chen, Julian Mcauley, Tiberio Caetano and Matthew Turk)
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09).
Short Biography
I am currently a research scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York. I received a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MS in computer science from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a BS in computer engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil. My research interests include computer vision, graphics, computational photography, and machine learning. My publications have appeared in major computer vision/graphics conferences and journals, including ICCV, CVPR, SIGGRAPH, and PAMI. Throughout my graduate studies, I did research internships at Microsoft Research, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and IBM Research. In 2002, my MS thesis on wavelet subspace tracking was awarded in a nationwide contest in Brazil. In 2005, I was named by IBM as “Emerging Leader in Multimedia”, an award given to eight students selected from top universities in US. I am a member of the ACM and IEEE and have served as a program committee member of major computer vision conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.
As an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, I co-taught a course on Automatic Video Surveillance (Spring 2008). I am also an affiliate assistant professor at University of Washington (EE department), serving as a PhD co-advisor since July 2008. In addition to working on core research, I had a one-year assignment at IBM Global Technology Services as a senior software engineer to help the productization of the IBM Smart Surveillance System.
