willams de lima

Scientific R&D Project Leader @ Voxar Labs.

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Hi, I’m Willams (or Will), an R&D Scientific Project Manager specializing in human behavior recognition at Voxar Labs, part of the Centro de Informática in Recife, Brazil. My work centers on using behavioral analytics, particularly human behavior recognition, to address real-world challenges across industries like automotive, healthcare, and business. Currently, my research focuses on fairness and responsible AI in the context of self-driving vehicles.

I hold a PhD from the Federal University of Pernambuco 🇧🇷 and am an active member of the LatinX in AI community, which aims to bridge academia, industry, and underrepresented communities to advance AI innovation. I’m also involved in other AI communities, including Google Research@São Paulo, and regularly contribute as a reviewer for prestigious conferences such as ISMAR, SIBGRAPI, and IEEE Intercon, as well as for renowned journals.

news

Sep 06, 2024 Visited Volkswagen Trucks and Bus and Stellantis factories in Rio de Janeiro, discussing potential new R&D partnerships
Jun 20, 2024 Visited HP/Poly in Austin, TX and gave a talk about vision-language models
Jun 18, 2024 Elected General Chair for the LXCV Workshop @ CVPR 2025! :sparkles:
Jun 17, 2024 Attending CVPR 2024 @ Seattle, WA!
Apr 25, 2024 I’m co-chairing the LXAI social @ FAccT
Apr 01, 2024 Three works from my students accepted into CVPR workshops: LatinX in CV and Women in Computer Vision!
Mar 25, 2024 Registered patent with Samsung
Mar 22, 2024 Officially a PhD in Computer Science! :sparkles:
Mar 13, 2024 Invited talk at HP Brazil
Jan 19, 2024 Happy to serve as a mentor for the Google CSR Explore - LatAm Undergraduate Research Program
Jan 15, 2024 Happy to serve as Program Committee for the LatinX in CV Workshop @ CVPR 2024
Jan 12, 2024 Welcoming Maria Luisa Leandro Lima as a new master student under my supervision!

selected publications

  1. pre-print
    A fast multiple cue fusing approach for human emotion recognition
    Willams Costa, David Macêdo, Cleber Zanchettin, and 3 more authors
    Available at SSRN 4255748, 2022
  2. appl.sci
    A survey on datasets for emotion recognition from vision: Limitations and in-the-wild applicability
    Willams Costa, Estefanı́a Talavera, Renato Oliveira, and 4 more authors
    Applied Sciences, 2023
  3. CVPR-W
    High-level context representation for emotion recognition in images
    Willams Lima Costa, Estefania Talavera, Lucas Silva Figueiredo, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2023