I’ve worked as a researcher at Artificial Intelligence Lab. Recod.ai of the Instituto de
Computação (IC) at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) since
mid-2024 [1], previously as a postdoctoral researcher [2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17]. For
a great part of 2019, I have been in a short-time postdoctoral research at Politecnico
di Milano (Polimi) in Italy investigating forensic problems in the context of open-set
scenarios [8, 18].
Through Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) I had obtained the bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science [25]. During the bachelors, I had worked mainly with
digital image processing in the specific problem of vehicle license plate location [21,
22] and I concluded my education studying the Haskell functional programming
language for image processing [25].
As extra work, I have some collaborations — also in machine learning — in medical
problems [12, 13, 28], estimation of geolocation through images [19, 20],
and on the development of a framework for machine learning experiments
[10].
| [1] | Salavati, Soroor; Mendes
Júnior, Pedro; Rocha, Anderson; Ferreira, Alexandre (2025),
“Adaptive loss optimization for enhanced learning performance:
application to image-based rock classification”, Neural Computing
and Applications. 37(8):6199–6215. BibTeX |
| [2] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Salavati, Soroor; Linares, Óscar;
Gonçalves, Maiara; Zampieri, Marcelo; Ferreira, Vitor; Castro,
Manuel; Werneck, Rafael; Moura, Renato; de Morais, Elayne;
Esmin, Ahmed; Lusquino Filho, Leopoldo; Schiozer, Denis;
Ferreira, Alexandre; Davolio, Alessandra; Rocha, Anderson
(2024), “Rock-type classification: A (critical) machine-learning
perspective”, Computers & Geosciences. 193:105730. BibTeX
Code |
| [3] | Lusquino Filho, Leopoldo; Werneck, Rafael; Castro, Manuel;
Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Lustosa Filho, Augusto; Zampieri,
Marcelo; Linares, Óscar; Moura, Renato; de Morais, Elayne;
Amaral, Murilo; Salavati, Soroor; Loomba, Ashish; Esmin,
Ahmed; Gonçalves, Maiara; Schiozer, Denis; Ferreira, Alexandre;
Davolio, Alessandra; Rocha, Anderson (2024), “A multi-modal
approach for mixed-frequency time series forecasting”, Neural
Computing and Applications. (online) BibTeX |
| [4] | Castro, Manuel; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Soriano-Vargas,
Aurea; Werneck, Rafael; Gonçalves, Maiara; Lusquino Filho,
Leopoldo; Moura, Renato; Zampieri, Marcelo; Linares, Óscar;
Ferreira, Vitor; Ferreira, Alexandre; Davolio, Alessandra;
Schiozer, Denis; Rocha, Anderson (2023), “Time series causal
relationships discovery through feature importance and ensemble
models”, Scientific Reports. 13:11402. BibTeX Preprint |
| [5] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Boult, Terrance; Wainer, Jacques;
Rocha, Anderson (2022), “Open-Set Support Vector Machines”,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.
52(6):3785–3798. BibTeX arXiv Supplementary Material Code |
| [6] | Werneck, Rafael; Prates, Raphael; Moura, Renato; Gonçalves,
Maiara; Castro, Manuel; Soriano-Vargas, Aurea;
Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Hossain, Manzur; Zampieri, Marcelo;
Ferreira, Alexandre; Davolio, Alessandra; Schiozer, Denis; Rocha,
Anderson (2022), “Data-driven deep-learning forecasting for oil
production and pressure”, Journal of Petroleum Science and
Engineering. 210:109937. BibTeX |
| [7] | Soriano-Vargas, Aurea; Werneck, Rafael; Moura, Renato;
Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Prates, Raphael; Castro, Manuel;
Gonçalves, Maiara; Hossain, Manzur; Zampieri, Marcelo;
Ferreira, Alexandre; Davolio, Alessandra; Hamann, Bernd;
Schiozer, Denis; Rocha, Anderson (2021), “A visual analytics
approach to anomaly detection in hydrocarbon reservoir time
series data”, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
206:108988. BibTeX |
| [8] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Bondi, Luca; Bestagini, Paolo; Tubaro,
Stefano; Rocha, Anderson (2019), “An in-depth study on open-set
camera model identification”, IEEE Access. 7:180713–180726.
BibTeX arXiv Supplementary Material Errata |
| [9] | Neira, Manuel; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Rocha, Anderson;
Torres, Ricardo (2018), “Data-fusion techniques for open-set
recognition problems”, IEEE Access. 6:21242–21265. BibTeX |
| [10] | Werneck, Rafael; de Almeida, Waldir; Stein, Bernardo; Pazinato,
Daniel; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Penatti, Otávio; Rocha,
Anderson; Torres, Ricardo (2018), “Kuaa: A unified framework
for design, deployment, execution, and recommendation of
machine learning experiments”, Elsevier Future Generation
Computer Systems. 78(1):59–76. BibTeX |
| [11] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; de Souza, Roberto; Werneck, Rafael;
Stein, Bernardo; Pazinato, Daniel; de Almeida, Waldir; Penatti,
Otávio; Torres, Ricardo; Rocha, Anderson (2017), “Nearest
neighbors distance ratio open-set classifier”, Springer Machine
Learning. 106(3):359–386. BibTeX Dataset |
| [12] | Pazinato, Daniel; Stein, Bernardo; de Almeida, Waldir; Werneck,
Rafael; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Penatti, Otávio; Torres,
Ricardo; Menezes, Fábio; Rocha, Anderson (2016), “Pixel-level
tissue classification for ultrasound images”, IEEE Journal of
Biomedical and Health Informatics. 20(1):256–267. BibTeX |
| [13] | Penatti, Otávio; Werneck, Rafael; de Almeida, Waldir; Stein,
Bernardo; Pazinato, Daniel; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Torres,
Ricardo; Rocha, Anderson (2015),
“Mid-level image representations for real-time heart view plane
classification of echocardiograms”, Elsevier Computers in Biology
and Medicine. 66:66–81. BibTeX Honored Papers 2015 |
| [14] | Werneck, Rafael; Lusquino Filho, Leopoldo; Lustosa Filho,
Augusto; Loomba, Ashish; Gonçalves, Maiara; Esmin, Ahmed;
Salavati, Soroor; de Morais, Elayne; Mendes Júnior, Pedro;
Zampieri, Marcelo; Amaral, Murilo; Linares, Óscar; Castro,
Manuel; Moura, Renato; Schiozer, Denis; Ferreira, Alexandre;
Davolio, Alessandra; Rocha, Anderson (2024), “Watch
the Reservoir! Improving Short-Term Production Forecast
Through Transformers”, In: SPE Europe Energy Conference and
Exhibition. pp. 1–14. BibTeX |
| [15] | Ferreira, Vitor; Castro,
Manuel; Moura, Renato; Werneck, Rafael; Zampieri, Marcelo;
Gonçalves, Maiara; Linares, Óscar; Salavati, Soroor; Lusquino
Filho, Leopoldo; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Ferreira, Alexandre;
Davolio, Alessandra; Schiozer, Denis; Rocha, Anderson (2023),
“A New Hybrid Data-Driven and Model-Based Methodology
for Improved Short-Term Production Forecasting”, In: OTC
Offshore Technology Conference. pp. 1–18. BibTeX |
| [16] | Gonçalves, Maiara; Hossain, Manzur; Soriano-Vargas, Aurea;
Castro, Manuel; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Salavati, Soroor;
Moura, Renato; Ferreira, Vitor; Schiozer, Denis; Davolio,
Alessandra (2022), “Use of Production Data to Assess
Correlation & Interwell Connectivity”, In: Rio Oil and Gas Expo
and Conference. pp. 305–306. BibTeX |
| [17] | Lusquino Filho, Leopoldo; Werneck, Rafael; Mendes Júnior,
Pedro; Castro, Manuel; Pereira, Eduardo; Moura, Renato;
Ferreira, Vitor; Ferreira, Alexandre; Davolio, Alessandra; Rocha,
Anderson (2022), “Oil Production and Pressure Multimodal
Forecasting Integrating High-Frequency Production Data”, In:
Rio Oil and Gas Expo and Conference. pp. 308–309. BibTeX |
| [18] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Bondi, Luca; Bestagini, Paolo; Rocha,
Anderson; Tubaro, Stefano (2019), “A PRNU-based method
to expose video device compositions in open-set setups”, In:
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). pp.
96–100. BibTeX ICIP Session Details |
| [19] | Li, Lin; Muñoz, Javier; Almeida, Jurandy; Calumby, Rodrigo;
Penatti, Otávio; Dourado, Ícaro; Nogueira, Keiller; Mendes
Júnior, Pedro; Pereira, Luís; Pedronette, Daniel; dos Santos,
Jefersson; Gonçalves, Marcos; Torres, Ricardo (2015), “RECOD
@ Placing Task of MediaEval 2015”, In: MediaEval 2015
Workshop. pp. 1–3. |
| [20] | Li, Lin; Penatti, Otávio; Almeida, Jurandy; Chiachia, Giovani;
Calumby, Rodrigo; Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Pedronette,
Daniel; Torres, Ricardo (2014), “Multimedia geocoding: The
RECOD 2014 approach”, In: MediaEval 2014 Workshop. pp. 1–2. |
| [21] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Neves, José Maria; Tavares, Andrea;
Menotti, David (2011), “Towards an automatic vehicle access
control system: License plate location”, In: IEEE International
Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). pp.
2916–2921. BibTeX Code Datasets |
| [22] | Mendes Júnior, Pedro; Neves, José Maria; Menotti, David
(2010), “Em rumo a um sistema automático de controle de
acesso de veículos automotivos: Localização de placas de
identificação”, In: Workshop of Undergraduate Work, Conference
on Graphics, Patterns and Image (SIBGRAPI). pp. 1–6. BibTeX
Accepted Contributions |