Rafael Padilla was born in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil in 1984. He received his Electrical Engineering degree from the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) in 2007, and a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) in 2012. He is currently pursuing a D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ). Former evangelist of Nokia and Microsoft technologies, he has professional experience in industrial engineering, test engineering, mobile, and system development. He is a visiting lecturer at universities teaching topics related to programming and mobile development. His research fields include computer vision, image processing, machine learning, and digital signal processing.
Wesley L. Passos was born in Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1991. He is currently pursuing his D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ). He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) in 2019, and a B.Sc. in Control and Automation Engineering from Centro Federal de Educação Tecnologica (CEFET/RJ) in 2016. He won the Google Latin America Research Awards (LARA) in 2019 and 2020. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and big data.
Thadeu Luiz Barbosa Dias was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1994. He has a B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (POLI/UFRJ) and a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at COPPE (PEE/COPPE/UFRJ) in 2020. His research interests include digital signal processing, image processing, machine learning, and information geometry.
Sergio L. Netto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his B.Sc. (cum laude) degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree from COPPE/UFRJ in 1992, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1996, all in electrical engineering. Since 1997, he has been with the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Poli/UFRJ, and since 1998, he has been with the Program of Electrical Engineering, COPPE/UFRJ. He is the co-author (with P. S. R. Diniz and E. A. B. da Silva) of Digital Signal Processing: System Analysis and Design (Cambridge University Press, second edition, 2010). His research and teaching interests lie in areas of digital signal processing, adaptive filtering, speech processing, information theory, computer vision, and machine learning.
Eduardo A. B. da Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his Electronics Engineering degree from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Brazil, in 1984, a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the University of Essex, England, in 1995. He has been a professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1989. He is the co-author of the book “Digital Signal Processing: System Analysis and Design”, published by Cambridge University Press. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals. His research interests lie in the fields of signal and image processing, signal compression, 3D videos, computer vision, light fields, and machine learning, together with its applications to telecommunications and the oil and gas industry. He is the co-editor of the future standard ISO/IEC CD 21794-2, JPEG Pleno Plenoptic Image Coding System, and is currently the Requirements Vice Chair of JPEG.