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William Robson Schwartz is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a significant concentration in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Media Technology, Signal Processing, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's recent publications cover various topics related to advanced neural network applications and vision systems. These include:

  • An efficient and layout-independent automatic license plate recognition system based on the YOLO detector (2021, IET Intelligent Transport Systems)
  • Human activity recognition based on smartphone and wearable sensors using multiscale DCNN ensemble (2020, Neurocomputing)
  • Discriminative Layer Pruning for Convolutional Neural Networks (2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing)
  • Super-resolution of license plate images using attention modules and sub-pixel convolution layers (2023, Computers & Graphics)
  • Simple and efficient pose-based gait recognition method for challenging environments (2020, Pattern Analysis and Applications)

Their main topics of work include vehicle license plate recognition, advanced neural network applications, advanced vision and imaging, anomaly detection techniques and applications, face recognition and analysis, biometric identification and security, and gait recognition and analysis.

William Robson Schwartz has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Rafael Henrique Vareto, David Menotti, Rayson Laroca, Jessica Sena, and Valfride Nascimento.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Pattern Analysis and Applications, Neurocomputing, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • ECG-based heartbeat classification for arrhythmia detection

    Eduardo José da S. Luz;William Robson Schwartz;Guillermo Cámara-Chávez;David Menotti

  • Human detection using partial least squares analysis

    William Robson Schwartz;Aniruddha Kembhavi;David Harwood;Larry S. Davis

  • Deep Representations for Iris, Face, and Fingerprint Spoofing Detection

    David Menotti;Giovani Chiachia;Allan Pinto;William Robson Schwartz

  • A Robust Real-Time Automatic License Plate Recognition Based on the YOLO Detector

    Rayson Laroca;Evair Severo;Luiz A. Zanlorensi;Luiz S. Oliveira

  • Learning Discriminative Appearance-Based Models Using Partial Least Squares

    William Robson Schwartz;Larry S. Davis

  • A Robust Real-Time Automatic License Plate Recognition based on the YOLO Detector

    Rayson Laroca;Evair Severo;Luiz A. Zanlorensi;Luiz S. Oliveira

  • Multi-scale gray level co-occurrence matrices for texture description

    Fernando Roberti de Siqueira;William Robson Schwartz;Helio Pedrini

  • Competition on counter measures to 2-D facial spoofing attacks

    Murali Mohan Chakka;Andre Anjos;Sebastien Marcel;Roberto Tronci

  • Histograms of Optical Flow Orientation and Magnitude and Entropy to Detect Anomalous Events in Videos

    Rensso Victor Hugo Mora Colque;Carlos Caetano;Matheus Toledo Lustosa de Andrade;William Robson Schwartz

  • SkeleMotion: A New Representation of Skeleton Joint Sequences based on Motion Information for 3D Action Recognition

    Carlos Caetano;Jessica Sena;Franeois Bremond;Jefersson A. Dos Santos

  • Face Spoofing Detection Through Visual Codebooks of Spectral Temporal Cubes

    Allan Pinto;Helio Pedrini;William Robson Schwartz;Anderson Rocha

  • An Efficient and Layout-Independent Automatic License Plate Recognition System Based on the YOLO detector

    Rayson Laroca;Luiz A. Zanlorensi;Gabriel R. Gonçalves;Eduardo Todt

  • An efficient and layout-independent automatic license plate recognition system based on the YOLO detector

    Rayson Laroca;Luiz A. Zanlorensi;Gabriel Resende Gonçalves;Eduardo Todt

  • Face spoofing detection through partial least squares and low-level descriptors

    William Robson Schwartz;Anderson Rocha;Helio Pedrini

  • Using Visual Rhythms for Detecting Video-Based Facial Spoof Attacks

    Allan Pinto;William Robson Schwartz;Helio Pedrini;Anderson de Rezende Rocha

  • Skeleton Image Representation for 3D Action Recognition Based on Tree Structure and Reference Joints

    Carlos Caetano;Francois Bremond;William Robson Schwartz

  • Dynamic Multicontext Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Based on Convolutional Networks

    Keiller Nogueira;Mauro Dalla Mura;Jocelyn Chanussot;William Robson Schwartz

  • Video-Based Face Spoofing Detection through Visual Rhythm Analysis

    Allan da Silva Pinto;Helio Pedrini;William Schwartz;Anderson Rocha

  • The 2nd competition on counter measures to 2D face spoofing attacks

    I. Chingovska;J. Yang;Z. Lei;D. Yi

  • Face Identification Using Large Feature Sets

    W. R. Schwartz;Huimin Guo;Jonghyun Choi;L. S. Davis

  • Thermal-to-visible face recognition using partial least squares.

    Shuowen Hu;Jonghyun Choi;Alex L. Chan;William Robson Schwartz

  • Learning Deep Off-the-Person Heart Biometrics Representations

    Eduardo José da Silva Luz;Gladston J. P. Moreira;Luiz S. Oliveira;William Robson Schwartz

  • A robust and scalable approach to face identification

    William Robson Schwartz;Huimin Guo;Larry S. Davis

  • 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

    Stephen Gould;Richard Fulton;Daphne Koller;Ido Leichter

  • Deep Representations for Iris, Face, and Fingerprint Spoofing Detection

    David Menotti;Giovani Chiachia;Allan Pinto;William Robson Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry S. Davis
Larry S. Davis University of Maryland, College Park
Anderson Rocha
Anderson Rocha State University of Campinas
François Brémond
François Brémond French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Mauro Dalla Mura
Mauro Dalla Mura Grenoble Alpes University
Jocelyn Chanussot
Jocelyn Chanussot Grenoble Alpes University
Mario F. M. Campos
Mario F. M. Campos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Alexandre X. Falcão
Alexandre X. Falcão State University of Campinas
Luiz S. Oliveira
Luiz S. Oliveira Federal University of Paraná
Guillaume Gravier
Guillaume Gravier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David Harwood
David Harwood University of Maryland, College Park

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