Ricardo Cabral

Ricardo S. Cabral received a joint PhD between Carnegie Mellon and ISR/IST-Lisbon. He was co-advised by Fernando de la Torre, João Paulo Costeira and Alexandre Bernardino. He received his Master's degree in ECE at IST-Lisbon and a research grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation, in 2009, for work in correspondence methods for structure from motion.

He received an outstanding academic achievement award in 2008 from IST-Lisbon, where he worked in several projects, including video handling for the 2012 London Olympics.

His research focuses on Computer Vision and Machine Learning, specifically in object localization and classification, as well as meta-data estimation for images and video. He is also a member of the Human Sensing Lab (http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu/) and of the PrintART project (http://printart.isr.ist.utl.pt), which aims to provide Artists and Art Historians with Computer Vision tools.

In the Summer of 2011, he was with the R&D Department of Industrial Light and Magic developing the next generation of special effects for the Movie industry. In the Summer of 2012, he was with Google Lightfield team researching and developing core computer vision techniques for Google Maps.