Francisco Simões

I am an assistant professor at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. I am also a researcher at Voxar Labs/CIn-UFPE and Visual Computing Lab/DC-UFRPE, and the coordinator of the special committee on virtual reality (CE-RV) of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC).

My research focuses on Spatial Intelligence. I use computer vision (CV) and deep learning techniques to understand better spaces to allow both sensing (e.g., visual inspection, pedestrian detection) and interaction (e.g., virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, and metaverse applications). Multiple research questions arise from this goal: How can we reduce (or remove) the need for real training data in real-world vision applications? How can we improve the accuracy of methods by exploring multiple cues/information? How can we make CV in a privacy-preserving context?

News

  • [2024] I started a new position as Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
  • [2024] 1 Paper published at WACV 2024 (h5-index: 95): Attention Modules Improve Image-Level Anomaly Detection for Industrial Inspection: A DifferNet Case Study.
  • [2023] 1 Paper published at International Journal of Remote Sensing (Impact factor: 3.4): InsPLAD: A Dataset and Benchmark for Power Line Asset Inspection in UAV Images.
  • [2023] 1 Paper published at SVR 2023: Automating the audit of the Brazilian electronic ballot operation: A new dataset for 6DoF pose estimation of the voter terminal based on domain randomization.
  • [2023] 1 Paper published at VISAPP 2023: FedBID and FedDocs: A Dataset and System for Federated Document Analysis.
  • [2023] 1 Paper published at IEEE ACCESS (Impact factor: 3.476): Towards VR in VR: Assessing Engagement and Social Interaction in a Virtual Conference.

Current MSc/PhD students (Co-advisory at Voxar Labs with prof. Veronica Techrieb)

Former PhD students and postdocs

  • Kelvin Cunha, Technical Leader, CIn-Softex Robotics Residency Project;