Moacir Ponti

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Moacir Antonelli Ponti received his PhD (2008) and MSc (2004) degrees at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. During 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK. He was principal investigator of projects funded by Brazilian research agencies CNPq and FAPESP as well as international ones e.g. UGPN. Additionally, he got a Latin America Research Award from Google in 2017. Author of more than 40 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences, his current research interests include signal, image and video processing, in particular representation learning, feature extraction and deep learning.