Amanda Duarte

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PhD Candidate | amanda.duarte@upc.edu |
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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
“Wav2Pix: Speech-conditioned Face Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks”, in ICASSP, Brighton, UK, 2019.![]() |
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“Cross-modal Neural Sign Language Translation”, in Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - Doctoral Symposium, Nice, France, 2019.![]() |
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“Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval”, in ECCV 2018 Women in Computer Vision Workshop, Munich, Germany, 2018.![]() |
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“Towards Speech to Sign Language Translation”, in ECCV 2018 Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language, 2018.![]() |
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“Temporal-aware Cross-modal Embeddings for Video and Audio Retrieval”, in NIPS 2017 Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2017.![]() |
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Other top
“Wav2Pix: Enhancement and Evaluation of a Speech-conditioned Image Generator”. 2019. | ,Ms Thesis |
“Block-based Speech-to-Speech Translation”. 2018.![]() |
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Projects top
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Cross-modal Deep Learning between Vision, Language, Audio and Speech | European | Oct 2018 | Sep 2020 |
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Speech2Signs: Spoken to Sign Language Translation using Neural Networks | Other | Nov 2017 | Nov 2018 |
Teaching top
Acronym | Title | Level | College |
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DLCV | Deep Learning for Computer Vision | Master in Telecommunications Engineering (MET) | ETSETB Telecom BCN |