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I’m a Ph.D. in Computer Science with extensive research and teaching experience, and a science communicator through the Peixe Babel channel on Youtube. My research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, and applications for social good.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
It's not pornography, it's abuse! Exploring visual cues for the classification of child sexual abuse imagery
M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2019
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
On modeling context from objects with a Long Short-Term Memory for indoor scene recognition
B.Sc. in Information Systems, 2015
Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB), Brazil
Módulo de transição dinâmico entre os movimentos de andar e chutar aplicado a robôs humanoides simulados em ambiente 3D

✍🏻 Recent Publications

Mastering Scene Understanding: Scene Graphs to the Rescue

Carlos Caetano, Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro, Camila Laranjeira, Gabriel Oliveira Dos Santos, Artur Barros, Caio Petrucci, Andreza Aparecida Dos Santos, João Macedo, Gil Carvalho, Fabrício Benevenuto, Jefersson A. Dos Santos, Sandra Avila

In Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI 2024)

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Automatic mapping of high-risk urban areas for Aedes aegypti infestation based on building facade image analysis

Camila Laranjeira, Matheus Pereira, Raul Oliveira, Gerson Barbosa, Camila Fernandes, Patricia Bermudi, Ester Resende, Eduardo Fernandes, Keiller Nogueira, Valmir Andrade, José Alberto Quintanilha, Jefersson a Dos Santos, Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto

In PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2024)

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YOLOV7 for Mosquito Breeding Grounds Detection and Tracking

Camila Laranjeira, Daniel Andrade, Jefersson A. Dos Santos

In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Challenges and Workshops (ICIPCW 2023)

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A systematic review on open-set segmentation

Ian Nunes, Camila Laranjeira, Hugo Oliveira, Jefersson a Dos Santos

In Computers & Graphics (2023)

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Seeing without Looking: Analysis Pipeline for Child Sexual Abuse Datasets

Camila Laranjeira, João Macedo, Sandra Avila, Jefersson A. Dos Santos

In ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (FAccT 2022)

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📚 Teaching

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Introdução a Programação de Computadores (2018.2, 2019.1)
Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados I (2018.2)
Programação e Desenvolvimento de Software II (2022.2)

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-MG)
Inteligência Artificial (2022.1)
Introdução a Computação (2022.1)
Programação e Desenvolvimento de Software I (2022.1)

Alura
Deep Learning com PyTorch
1. Introdução a Redes Neurais
2. Treinando uma Rede Neural
3. Redes Neurais Convolucionais
4. Redes Neurais Recorrentes

Talks, Podcasts, etc.