Scholar
Amanda Duarte
Google Scholar ID: TEQbjmgAAAAJ
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Citations & Impact
Citations
924
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
19
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper Publications: CVPR'22 'Sign Language Video Retrieval with Free-Form Textual Queries'; CVPR'21 'How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language'; Outstanding Reviewer award for ICCV2021; Co-Chair for organizing LatinX in AI workshop at NeurIPS’21; Release of How2Sign dataset.
Research Experience
- Before starting her PhD, she was involved in a variety of research projects, including multimodal data collection and annotation, speech-conditioned image generation, underwater robot localization and navigation, and underwater image restoration.
Education
- PhD Candidate: Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Supervisors: Prof. Jordi Torres and Prof. Xavier Giró; Master's: Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil, Computer Engineering; Bachelor's: Instituto Federal Sul-rio-grandense, Systems Analysis.
Background
- Research Interests: Access to information for sign language users, specifically developing systems that enable automatic translation of online content (e.g., speech in videos or texts) into sign language representations. Currently leading the Speech2Signs project, focusing on the task of automatic speech to sign language translation.
Miscellany
- First language is Portuguese, fluent in English and Spanish, able to understand Catalan, and learning American Sign Language (ASL); passionate about travel, photography, and art, especially watercolor painting.
