I am currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology. In 2001, I was awarded a PhD degree in Computer Vision in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, U.K. under the supervision of Professor Edwin R. Hancock. Prior to this, I  gained a Master of Science Degree with distinction in Computer Science (Image Processing) at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar-SP), Brazil in 1995. My first degree is in Mathematics from the University of Salvador, Brazil, 1992. My main research interests are in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition.  Ongoing research topics include 3D shape modeling, shape-from-texture and shape-from-shading, texture classification and segmentation, and object recognition.


Past Affiliations:
Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil            
 


                                                               
                                                    Vicon Motion Systems, U.K.