João Pedro Moreira Ferreira
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Software Engineer | M.Sc. Computer Vision | Ph.D. Student

I am Software Engineer at Eldorado Research Institute and currently a Ph.D. student in VeRLab UFMG.

Previously I worked as a professor at UNIFESO. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science, specializing in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. My Master's dissertation focused on GANs and GCNs. During my Master's, I also worked as a Software Developer on a Petrobras-funded project, exploring SLAM techniques and robotics solutions.

Curriculum Vitae
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Education
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Ph.D. Student
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
  • Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei
    Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei
    B.S. in Computer Science
Experience
  • Eldorado Research Institute
    Software Analyst
    Dec. 2020 - present
  • UNIFESO
    Professor
    Mar. 2022 - Mar. 2025
  • UFMG/VeRLab/Petrobras
    Developer/Scholarship
    Dec. 2018 - Dec. 2020
Honors & Awards
  • Best M.Sc. Dissertation Award in Graphics, Patterns and Image
    SIBGRAPI 2021
  • Finalist of the Best M.Sc. Dissertation Award
    Brazilian Computer Society's Congress 2021
  • Honorable Mention Paper Award
    SVR 2017
News
2025
Happy to share that I start the Ph.D.! Will be working with Professor Erickson at my old lab Education
May 12
Selected Publications (view all )
Empowering Sign Language Communication: Integrating Sentiment and Semantics for Facial Expression Synthesis
Empowering Sign Language Communication: Integrating Sentiment and Semantics for Facial Expression Synthesis

Rafael Azevedo, Thiago M. Coutinho, João P. M. Ferreira, Thiago L. Gomes, Erickson R. Nascimento

Computer & Graphics 2024 en

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[Paper] [Code] [arXiv]

Synthesizing Realistic Human Dance Motions Conditioned by Musical Data using Graph Convolutional Networks.
Synthesizing Realistic Human Dance Motions Conditioned by Musical Data using Graph Convolutional Networks.

João P. M. Ferreira, Renato Martins, Erickson R. Nascimento

Dissertation | SIBIGRAPI | CSBC 2021 en Best M.Sc. Dissertation SIBIGRAPI Finalist Best M.Sc. Thesis in Brazilian
Computing Society`s Contest

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[Dissertation] [CSBC] [SIBIGRAPI]

A Shape-Aware Retargeting Approach to Transfer Human Motion and Appearance in Monocular Videos
A Shape-Aware Retargeting Approach to Transfer Human Motion and Appearance in Monocular Videos

Thiago L. Gomes, Renato Martins, João P. M. Ferreira, Rafael Azevedo, Guilherme Torres, Erickson R. Nascimento

IJCV 2021 en

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[Paper] [Project] [Code] [arXiv]

Learning to dance A graph convolutional adversarial network to generate realistic dance motions from audio
Learning to dance A graph convolutional adversarial network to generate realistic dance motions from audio

João P. M. Ferreira, Thiago M. Coutinho, Thiago L. Gomes, José F. Neto, Rafael Azevedo, Renato Martins, Erickson R. Nascimento

Computer & Graphics 2020 en

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[Paper] [Project] [Video] [Code] [arXiv]

Do As I Do Transferring Human Motion and Appearance between Monocular Videos with Spatial and Temporal Constraints
Do As I Do Transferring Human Motion and Appearance between Monocular Videos with Spatial and Temporal Constraints

Thiago L. Gomes, Renato Martins, João P. M. Ferreira, Erickson R. Nascimento

WACV 2020 en

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[Paper] [Project] [Video] [arXiv]

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