Nov 7, 2019A week of Computer Vision in Seoul: My ICCV 2019 HighlightsNote: Thanks to everyone that commented and suggested changes to the original draft of this post. Highlights are biased towards my current interests in information retrieval in large scale live videos. I think ICCV2019 was one of the best conferences I’ve been so far. Some of my friends even said…Machine Learning4 min read
Oct 14, 2018Ganhando experiência em uma nova área de trabalho sem pedir permissão pra ninguémQuem nunca tentou começar uma nova carreira em um ramo da Ciência da Computação cujas posições de trabalho requerem experiência? Mesmo nas posições Junior, as expectativas podem ser altas. Eu observei isso nas áreas de pesquisa e desenvolvimento de machine learning e data science. Inclusive ouvi pessoas me perguntando como…Trabalho5 min read
Jan 28, 2018MVE Series: Playing Catch with Keras and an Evolution StrategyWhenever I want to learn a new machine learning method, I write a single file example with a Minimum Viable Experiment (MVE). Last time I did an MVE to learn RL and Q-Learning. This time I want to learn Evolution Strategies. Before I show you the code I came up…Machine Learning2 min read
Jun 4, 2017How do self driving cars drive? Part 1: Lane keeping assistYou’re sold on self driving cars (SDC), right? You’ve read so much about the future of mobility and how disruptive self driving cars can be. …Self Driving Cars6 min read
May 20, 2017Towards a Scientific Method for Self-Driving Cars ResearchWe need well designed methods for progress in both Academia and industry. For example, the recent Deep Learning trend started in Academia as an approach to improve Machine Learning performance in well known tasks. After years of Academic validation, Deep Learning graduated to a systems problem and is widely adopted…Self Driving Cars4 min read
Mar 19, 2017So your company wants to do AI?Machine Learning, and more so Deep Learning, is so popular now that it is being referred as AI itself. Gladly, your startup just got funded or your new team budget was approved! Now you will be doing Deep Learning as well. You already had fun with Keras, Imagenet, etc. That…Artificial Intelligence5 min read
Mar 23, 2016AlphaGo, Tesla, Oculus and the next step of AI in everyday lifeHumans just got beaten by computers again. This time in the board game Go, playing against a program called AlphaGo that was developed by Google DeepMind. Here we ponder possible further applications of the technology behind AlphaGo in our lives. …Machine Learning6 min read