22/07/2025

Computer Vision Thematic Session is a highlight at CBM.

Imagem do paper "Arte de tampa de garrafa por meio de agrupamento e atribuição ideal de cores", de Leonardo Sacht

With 14 presentations and participation from researchers from various institutions, the Computer Vision area will be highlighted at the 35th Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium , which begins next Monday (28) at IMPA. Coordinated by researchers Tiago Novello, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Luiz Velho, from Visgraf (IMPA's Computer Graphics Laboratory), the presentations will focus on the areas of computer vision, artificial intelligence and computer graphics, and promise to bring together everything from theoretical works to practical applications linked to industry and society.

“We are resuming the Computer Graphics thematic session at the Colloquium after more than ten years, which reflects the current importance of the area in Mathematics, driven by the advancement of AI and machine learning,” highlights Tiago Novello. The researcher believes that the session also plays an important role in bringing together different academic profiles. “It will be a great opportunity to connect people who are working on similar topics, both from the point of view of research and applications. The program brings together works that directly link cutting-edge research to practice, and this brings students and young researchers closer to the most current developments in the field,” he concluded.

The program features prominent names such as André Araujo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who will present an overview of multimodal models, machine learning, and advances in computer vision related to Gemini technology, the company's AI system. Another guest is researcher Léo Ribeiro, from ICMC-USP, who will talk about Project Araceli — an initiative that develops AI solutions to combat child sexual abuse, in partnership with the Federal Police, USP, UFMG, and Unicamp.

The program also includes Esteban Clua (UFF), with a lecture on virtual reality and games, and Leonardo Sacht, an IMPA alumnus, who will show how computer graphics techniques can be used to create art with bottle caps. The Pi Center (IMPA's Center for Projects and Innovation) will present a project under development focused on the automated reading of answer sheets for the OBMEP (Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools).

With the participation of researchers from PUC-Rio, FGV, UFRJ, UFF, ICMC-USP, IMPA, among other institutions, as well as postgraduate students. The presentations take place on Monday (28) and Tuesday (29), during the Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium. Check out the full program here .