Paper accepted @ CVPR'22 June 2022

Our paper Sign Language Video Retrieval with Free-Form Textual Queries was accepted to be presented at CVPR 2022. [Project page] [PDF]

Outstanding Reviewer award Sept 2021

Happy to share that I was selected as an outstanding reviewer for ICCV2021.

Visiting student at Oxford University / Ecole des Ponts ParisTech Summer/Fall 2021

Excited to be virtually visiting Oxford University and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech doing research under the supervision of Dr. Samuel Albanie and Prof. Gül Varol.

Organizing LatinX in AI @ NeurIPS’21 Sept 2021

I will be a Co-Chair helping organizing the amazing LatinX in AI wokshop happening in conjuction with NeurIPS’21. I hope to see you online in December at the workshop!

The How2Sign dataset is now available June 2021

Our large-scale multimodal dataset for continuous American Sign Language is now available for download. Check out the dataset page for instructions on how to donwload it.

Paper accepted @ CVPR'21 March 2021

Our paper How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language was accepted at CVPR 2021! I will see you online in June. But in the meantime you can check out the video, poster and full paper in the project page.

Presenting at the SLRTP workshop August 2020

We will be presenting our recent works at the Sign Language Recognition, Translation & Production workshop at ECCV. Our dataset will be out soon!

• How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language [video]
• Can Everybody Sign Now? Exploring Sign Language Video Generation from 2D Poses
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Grounded Sequence to Sequence Transduction journal May 2020

The work done while participating at JSALT and collaborating with the Grounded Sequence to Sequence Transduction group was accepted to be published at the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. You can see our journal paper here.

Visiting student at CMU Spring 2019

I will be a visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University during the spring doing research under the supervision of Prof. Florian Metze at the LTI.

Wav2Pix at ICASSP 2019 May 2019

Our paper Wav2Pix: Speech-conditioned Face Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks was accepted at ICASSP 2019. Hope to see you in Brighton!
Our code is available on Github.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow - INPhINIT - ”La Caixa” Doctoral fellowship Oct 2018

Happy to annouce that I was award with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow thanks to the INPhINIT - ”La Caixa” Doctoral fellowship.
Thus, will also be joining the Barcelona Supercomputing Center during my PhD studies.

New start: PhD Student at UPC Oct 2018

I am very excited to announce that I am now a PhD student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the supervision of Prof. Jordi Torres and Prof. Xavier Giró.
I will be part of the Image Processing Group (GPI).

Presenting at SiVL 2018 Sep 2018

I will be presenting our work Towards Speech to Sign Language Translation at the Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language (SiVL) at ECCV.

Participating in the Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer JSALT workshop Summer 2018

I will be part of the Grounded Sequence-to-Sequence Transduction team during the six-week-long research program on Machine Learning for Speech, Language and Computer Vision Technology during the JSALT workshop at John Hopkins University.

Presenting at WiML 2017 Dec 2017

I will be presenting our work Temporal-aware Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval at Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop .

Facebook/Caffe2 research award Oct 2017

Happy to announce that our project “Speech2Signs: Spoken to Sign Language Translation using Neural Networks won 1 out of 5 Caffe2 research awards.
Thus, I will be joining UPC as reserach assistant.
Thanks Facebook Research and Academic Relations Program.

Visiting Student at BSC/UPC Sep - Dec 2017

I will be a visiting student at Barcelona Computing Center (BSC) - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) working on cross-modal retrieval.
Thanks Severo Ochoa Mobility Program

Master in Computer Engineering April 2017

I received my master's in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande.
Thesis title: Dataset Generation for Computer Vision and Performance Analysis of Image Restoration Methods Applied to Underwater Environments.
My Master's thesis is available in Portuguese.

TURBID Dataset is now Available Fev 2017

Our dataset for evaluating underwater image restoration methods is available!