Ph.D. candidate Jesus Perez-Martin

jeperez@dcc.uchile.cl

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Computer Science, University of Chile and Research Assistant at Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). My current research interests are Computer Vision, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, Vision and Language, and Machine Learning. I am working on applications like video captioning and video generation from texts. Other of my research interests are the object, face, and action recognition.

Research Projects

Video-Text Translation

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Chile
2018 - Present

Memes in Chilean social networks, an analysis

Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)
2019 - Present

Large scale Face Recognition

Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV)
2015 - 2018

Detección de sombrero y alineación de los hombros en una imagen de rostro paraevaluar su calidad

Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV)
2014 - 2015

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Deep Learning

Computer Science Department, University of Chile
Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019

Teaching Assistant, Natural Language Processing

Computer Science Department, University of Chile
Autumn 2021

Instructor Professor, Programming and Algorithms

Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, University of Havana
2017-2018

Publications, Conference Papers and Workshops

A Comprehensive Review of the Video-to-Text Problem

Artificial Intelligence Reviews
Jesus Perez-Martin, Benjamin Bustos, Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães, Ivan Sipiran, Jorge Pérez, Grethel Coello Said
2021

Visual-Syntactic Embedding for Video Captioning

LXCV @ CVPR
Jesus Perez-Martin, Benjamin Bustos, Jorge Pérez
2021

Improving Video Captioning with Temporal Composition of a Visual-Syntactic Embedding

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV’21)
Jesus Perez-Martin, Benjamin Bustos, Jorge Pérez
2021

IMFD_IMPRESEE at TRECVID 2020: Description Generation by Visual-Syntactic Embedding

TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID'20)
Jesus Perez-Martin, Benjamin Bustos, Jorge Pérez, Juan Manuel Barrios
2020

Attentive Visual Semantic Specialized Network for Video Captioning

25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'20)
Posters Session of CIFAR Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning Summer School
Jesus Perez-Martin, Benjamin Bustos, Jorge Pérez
2020

Semantic Search of Memes on Twitter

International Communication Association (ICA 2020)
Jesús Pérez-Martín, Benjamin Bustos and Magdalena Saldana
2020

IMFD_IMPRESEE at TRECVID 2019: Ad-Hoc Video Search and Video To Text

TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID'19)
Rodrigo Hernandez, Jesús Pérez-Martín, Nicolas Bravo, Juan Manuel Barrios, Benjamin Bustos
2019

Matching and Ranking and Description Generation Techniques for Video-to-Text

2nd Workshop of Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data
Jesús Pérez-Martín, Nicolás Bravo, Grethel Coello and Benjamin Bustos
2019

Detecting Hats in Face Images with Uniform Background

Cuban Journal of Computer Science (RCCI)
Jesús Pérez-Martín and Yenisel Plasencia Claña
[pdf]
2016

Evaluation of the Face Images Quality Parameters: Aligned Shoulders and Hat Presence

16th International Convention and Fair in Informatics
Jesús Pérez-Martín, Yenisel Plasencia Calaña and Heydi Méndez-Vázquez
[pdf] [slides]
2016

Determining Shoulders Alignment in Face Images with Uniform Background

XIII National Convention of Pattern Recognition (RECPAT)
Jesús Pérez-Martín and Yenisel Plasencia Calaña
2015

Detecting Hats in Face Images With Uniform Background

XIII National Convention of Pattern Recognition (RECPAT)
Jesús Pérez-Martín and Yenisel Plasencia Calaña
2015

Reviewer for Conferences

LatinX in CV Research at CVPR 2021 (LXCV @ CVPR'21)
2021
30th The Web Conference (WWW'21)
2020
27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'21)
2020
26th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'20)
2019

Awards

  • CIFAR Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning Summer School - 2020 [certificate]
  • Operational Expenses of the Doctoral Thesis Project - PhD. in Computer Science - National Doctoral Scholarship - National Research and Development Agency (ANID) - 2020
  • Full Scholarship - PhD. in Computer Science - National Doctoral Scholarship - National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) - 2018
  • Best Junior Researcher 2016 - CENATAV
  • Best Paper of RECPAT 2015 - Detecting Hats in Face Images With Uniform Background