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GIVA students win best thesis and paper awards at SIBGRAPI 2026
Priscylla Maria won Best PhD Thesis, Karelia Salinas received an honorable mention, Vitor Matias won Best Master's Dissertation, and Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation received a paper honorable mention at SIBGRAPI 2026.
GIVA will present 9 papers and 2 tutorials at SIBGRAPI/SVR/SBGAMES 2026
GIVA has two tutorials and nine papers at the joint SIBGRAPI, SVR, and SBGAMES 2026 meetings in Goiânia.
Moacir Ponti and Márcus Costa publish at BMVC 2026
Moacir Ponti and Márcus Costa had 3D-MRL accepted as a poster at BMVC 2026, with Vitor Matias and Jeová Farias.
Leo Ribeiro and Clara Ernesto publish at ACM FAccT 2026
Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro and undergraduate researcher Clara Ernesto de Carvalho published a paper at the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), with co-authors Carlos Caetano, Sandra …
Leo Ribeiro and Clara Ernesto publish at CVPR 2026
Leo Ribeiro and Clara Ernesto published CSA-Graphs, a privacy-preserving structural dataset for child sexual abuse research, at a CVPR 2026 workshop.
Moacir Ponti and Jorge Franco publish at ICLR 2026
Moacir Ponti and Jorge Franco published Differentiable Lifting for Topological Neural Networks at ICLR 2026.
Thomas Peron receives the São Carlos Science and Technology Prize
Thomas Peron received the São Carlos Science and Technology Prize in the Junior Researcher category for 2024. The award recognizes his research at ICMC-USP on complex networks, nonlinear dynamics, and data visualization. …
Moacir Ponti listed among the world's top 2% scientists
Moacir Antonelli Ponti was listed among the world’s top 2% most influential scientists in the standardized citation indicators compiled by Elsevier BV and Stanford University, in the 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions. The …
Moacir Ponti and Edresson Casanova receive Best PhD Dissertation Award at PROPOR 2024
Moacir Antonelli Ponti and his former PhD student Edresson Casanova received the Best PhD Dissertation Award at PROPOR 2024, the International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese. The prize recognizes …
Leo Ribeiro publishes Scene Designer in Multimedia Tools and Applications
Leo Ribeiro and Moacir Ponti published Scene Designer, a compositional sketch-based image retrieval method, in Multimedia Tools and Applications.
Jean Ponciano publishes LegalVis in IEEE TVCG
Jean Ponciano co-authored LegalVis, an IEEE TVCG system for exploring precedent citations in legal documents.
Lucas Valem publishes gait recognition survey in ACM Computing Surveys
Lucas Valem co-authored an ACM Computing Surveys article on deep learning for gait recognition.
Jean Ponciano publishes LargeNetVis in IEEE TVCG
Jean Ponciano co-authored LargeNetVis, an IEEE TVCG system for exploring large temporal networks through community taxonomies.
Maria Oliveira publishes materials science review in Discover Materials
Maria Oliveira co-authored a Discover Materials review on big data and machine learning for materials science.
Moacir Ponti receives the INTERSPEECH 2021 COVID-19 Cough Sub-Challenge Prize
Moacir Antonelli Ponti received the COVID-19 Cough Sub-Challenge Prize at INTERSPEECH 2021, as part of the Stefan Steidl Computational Paralinguistics Award. The challenge asked teams to detect COVID-19 from cough …
Maria Oliveira and Sherlon Silva receive Honorable Mention at IHC 2021
Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira and student Sherlon da Silva received the Research Track Honorable Mention Award at IHC 2021, the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, with co-author …
Leo Ribeiro publishes Sketchformer at CVPR 2020
Leo Ribeiro and Moacir Ponti published Sketchformer, a transformer representation for sketches, at CVPR 2020.
Maria Oliveira and Diego Cintra receive Best Poster Award at IVAPP 2020
Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira and student Diego Silva Cintra received the Best Poster Award at IVAPP 2020 (Information Visualization Theory and Applications), together with co-authors Alan Valejo and Alneu Lopes. …
João Neto publishes retinal segmentation in IEEE TIP
João Neto published a method for segmenting cellular retinal images in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Lucas Valem publishes unsupervised retrieval in IEEE TIP
Lucas Valem published an IEEE TIP paper on unsupervised hypergraph-based manifold ranking for multimedia retrieval.
João Neto publishes mandible segmentation in The Visual Computer
João Neto published a Visual Computer paper on mandible and skull segmentation in cone-beam CT using super-voxels and graph clustering.
Moacir Ponti receives the Google Latin America Research Award
Moacir Antonelli Ponti received the Google Latin America Research Award (2017–2018). The award supported his research at GIVA / ICMC-USP in machine learning and representation learning.
Thomas Peron publishes Kuramoto review in Physics Reports
Thomas Peron co-authored a Physics Reports review of the Kuramoto model on complex networks.
Thomas Peron: paper among the ten most-cited in Latin America in physics
A paper by Thomas Peron was listed among the ten most-cited in Latin America in physics. The recognition was reported by FAPESP and highlights the impact of GIVA research in complex networks and nonlinear dynamics. …
Thomas Peron publishes explosive synchronization in Physical Review Letters
Thomas Peron published a Physical Review Letters paper on cluster explosive synchronization in complex networks.
Maria Oliveira publishes visual data mining survey in IEEE TVCG
Maria Oliveira published a highly cited IEEE TVCG survey on visual data exploration and visual data mining.