Amanda Duarte

Position	e-mail
PhD Candidate	amanda.duarte@upc.edu

Office	Phone
C6 E201	+34 934054282.

Biography

Amanda Duarte is a PhD candidate at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) under the supervision of Prof. Jordi Torres and Prof. Xavier Giró.

In 2015, she graduated in Systems Analysis at Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense Câmpus Pelotas (IFSul) in Brazil spending one year at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) in the United States as part of an exchange program. She obtained her Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Furg) under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho and Prof. Paulo Lilles Jorge Drews Junior working with the Automation and Intelligent Robotics (NAUTEC) group. During the summer of 2017, she was a visiting student at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Her current research interests lie in the area of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Neural Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Video Generation, Video Understanding, Multi-modal Learning.

For more information, visit her personal webpage.

News

[12/2017]: Presenting our work Temporal-aware Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval at Woman in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop 2017.
[10/2017]: Accepted as a student volunteer at NIPS 2017.
[09/2017]: Awarded with a Caffe2 Research Grant by Facebook.
[09/2017]: Teaching assistant of the first NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Workshop as part of the University Ambassador Program.

Conference Papers top

In Press
A. Duarte, “Cross-modal Neural Machine Translation for Sign Language Translation”, in ACM Multimedia Doctoral Consortium, Nice, France, In Press. Google Scholar BibTex

2019
A. Duarte, Roldán, F., Tubau, M., Escur, J., Pascual-deLaPuente, S., Salvador, A., Mohedano, E., McGuinness, K., Torres, J., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., “Wav2Pix: Speech-conditioned Face Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks”, in ICASSP, Brighton, UK, 2019. DOI Google Scholar BibTex (4.42 MB)

2018
D. Surís, Duarte, A., Salvador, A., Torres, J., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., “Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval”, in ECCV 2018 Women in Computer Vision Workshop, Munich, Germany, 2018. DOI Google Scholar BibTex (1.07 MB)
A. Duarte, Camli, G., Torres, J., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., “Towards Speech to Sign Language Translation”, in ECCV 2018 Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language, 2018. Google Scholar BibTex (142.48 KB)

2017
A. Duarte, Surís, D., Salvador, A., Torres, J., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., “Temporal-aware Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval”, in NIPS 2017 Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2017. Google Scholar BibTex (155.1 KB)

Other top

2019
M. Tubau, “Wav2Pix: Enhancement and Evaluation of a Speech-conditioned Image Generator”. 2019. Google Scholar BibTex	Ms Thesis

2018
S. Roca, “Block-based Speech-to-Speech Translation”. 2018. Google Scholar BibTex (505.01 KB)	Ms Thesis

Projects top

	Cross-modal Deep Learning between Vision, Language, Audio and Speech	European	Oct 2018	Sep 2020
	Speech2Signs: Spoken to Sign Language Translation using Neural Networks	Other	Nov 2017	Nov 2018

Teaching top

Acronym	Title	Level	College
DLCV	Deep Learning for Computer Vision	Master in Telecommunications Engineering (MET)	ETSETB Telecom BCN

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