// Igor Barbosa

Hi, I am Igor Barbosa.

I earned my Bachelor’s Degree with a laurel medal of honor in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in December, 2008 from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais – PUC Minas, one of the most renowned private universities in Brazil. In each of my first nine semesters, I earned formal recognition as best student in the course based on academic achievement, grades, character, and work-ethic. During my fourth Semester I joined the Robotics Laboratory and its automation and robotics study group. In the next four semesters I participated in two scientific initiation projects. The first received State funding for product development of a portable audio transmitter, and the second was funded by the university to design an evaluation board to support the study of digital image processing in hardware. My assistance with the automation of a Cartesian robot, resulted in a publication in the symposium of the Brazilian Association of Engineering and Mechanical Sciences (ABCM). Based on my contributions to this lab and those projects, the Robotics Laboratory coordinator, Dr. Denilson Laudares Rodrigues, invited me to join his company, Celer Biotechnology, as a R&D Engineer. The experience in the company taught me how to work under pressure, apply research toward life improvement and interact with a multidisciplinary team while I also learned about product development.
An Erasmus Mundus Masters in Vision and Robotics scholarship allowed me to continue my studies in computer vision and robotics over the last two years. I earned this scholarship as one of eighteen students selected worldwide to participate in this VIBOT program. During this master I studied in three different universities and lived in four different countries after working my master thesis in the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). During the master, my interest on the way computer vision solutions perceive people grew stronger as I developed a real time facial recognition software. This interest was boosted as I watched the popularization and the capabilities of RGBD cameras. My master thesis focuses in this area: person (re-)identification using RGBD cameras and soft biometrics cues.
Biometrics.

My Publications:

· Automation of a Cartesian Positioner for tracking a pyranometer during evaluation test of the emitted irradiance uniformity by a continuous  solar simulator, ABCM Symposium Series in Mechatronics – Vol. 3 – pp.813-820 , Oliveira et al.  || Available Online: http://www.abcm.org.br