Andrews Cordolino Sobral, Ph.D.
Education
2013 - 2017 Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of La Rochelle (L3I/MIA), France.
2014 and 2015 (2 x 3 months) Doctoral research stage at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), Barcelona, Spain.
2010 - 2012 M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia (Polytechnic School), Brazil.
2004 - 2009 B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the AREA1 Engineering School, Brazil.
Thesis
2013/Sep - 2017/May Ph.D. thesis: "Robust low-rank and sparse decomposition for moving object detection: from matrices to tensors" (Slideshare) (Full-text)
2010/Mar - 2012/Dec M.Sc. thesis: "Highway traffic congestion classification using holistic properties"
2004/Jun - 2009/Jun B.Sc. project: "RAVE: A robot platform for research and development in mobile robotics using r/c car"
Honors & Awards
2013/Jun - Third place on Poster Presentation of the IX Workshop de Visão Computacional (WVC'2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Authors: Sobral, A.
2013/Feb - Best Paper Award of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA'2013), Innsbruck, Austria. Authors: Sobral, A; Oliveira, L; Schnitman, L; Souza, F.
2011/Apr - First place on INOVA-BASE Entrepreneurship competition in ERBASE 2011, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Team: Sobral, A; Grimaldo, J; Oliveira, L; Schnitman, L.
2009/Jul - Awarded with a Merit Diploma as Outstanding Student of Computer Engineering course at AREA1 Engineering School, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Invited Talks
2016 - Recent advances in low-rank and sparse decomposition for moving object detection. RFIA 2016, workshop/atelier: Enjeux dans la détection d’objets mobiles par soustraction de fond. (Slideshare)
2014 - Matrix and Tensor Tools for Computer Vision. (Slideshare)
2014 - Lab. XLIM-SIC - Inside video action recognition frameworks. (PDF)
2014 - Lab. MIA - Background Modelling based on Incremental and Multi-feature Tensor Subspace Learning. (PDF)
2013 - Highway Traffic Congestion Classification using Holistic Properties. (English)(Portuguese)
2008 - AREA1 Engineering Day - Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio.
2008 - IEEE RNR - Transforming a Radio Control Car (RC Car) in an Autonomous Mobile Robot.
Event Participation
2015 - Seminar “Programmation Python pour le calcul scientifique”, du 27 au 29 Mai 2015, à La Rochelle, France.
2014 - Seminar “Traitement et analyse statistique des données massives (BigData)”, du 19 au 21 Novembre 2014, à Poitiers, France. (PDF)
2014 - Seminar “Reconnaissance d’actions et de comportements dans des séquences d’images”, 3 Octobre 2014, à La Rochelle, France.
2012 - Higher Education School at Brazilian Conference on Automation (CBA'2012), Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil. (Web)