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Ricardo Cruz has worked on a wide range of machine learning topics, with particular emphasis on theoretical aspects of deep learning and computer vision -- with 20+ publications and 100+ citations in such topics as: • adapting ranking models for class imbalance; • making convolutional neural networks invariant to background; • making them faster by adjusting the computational effort to each image; • losses for ordinal regression. He is a Post-doc Researcher on autonomous driving at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, and he has been a researcher at INESC TEC since 2015, where his research earned him the computer science PhD in 2021. He has a BSc in computer science and a MSc in applied mathematics. He is frequently invited to teach at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, where he earned a pedagogic award.

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  • Name

    Ricardo Pereira Cruz
  • Role

    Assistant Researcher
  • Since

    01st October 2013
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Publications

2024

Active Supervision: Human in the Loop

Authors
Cruz, RPM; Shihavuddin, ASM; Maruf, MH; Cardoso, JS;

Publication
PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS, COMPUTER VISION, AND APPLICATIONS, CIARP 2023, PT I

Abstract
After the learning process, certain types of images may not be modeled correctly because they were not well represented in the training set. These failures can then be compensated for by collecting more images from the real-world and incorporating them into the learning process - an expensive process known as active learning. The proposed twist, called active supervision, uses the model itself to change the existing images in the direction where the boundary is less defined and requests feedback from the user on how the new image should be labeled. Experiments in the context of class imbalance show the technique is able to increase model performance in rare classes. Active human supervision helps provide crucial information to the model during training that the training set lacks.

2024

YOLOMM - You Only Look Once for Multi-modal Multi-tasking

Authors
Campos, F; Cerqueira, FG; Cruz, RPM; Cardoso, JS;

Publication
PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS, COMPUTER VISION, AND APPLICATIONS, CIARP 2023, PT I

Abstract
Autonomous driving can reduce the number of road accidents due to human error and result in safer roads. One important part of the system is the perception unit, which provides information about the environment surrounding the car. Currently, most manufacturers are using not only RGB cameras, which are passive sensors that capture light already in the environment but also Lidar. This sensor actively emits laser pulses to a surface or object and measures reflection and time-of-flight. Previous work, YOLOP, already proposed a model for object detection and semantic segmentation, but only using RGB. This work extends it for Lidar and evaluates performance on KITTI, a public autonomous driving dataset. The implementation shows improved precision across all objects of different sizes. The implementation is entirely made available: https://github.com/filipepcampos/yolomm.

2024

Condition Invariance for Autonomous Driving by Adversarial Learning

Authors
Silva, DTE; Cruz, RPM;

Publication
PROGRESS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION, IMAGE ANALYSIS, COMPUTER VISION, AND APPLICATIONS, CIARP 2023, PT I

Abstract
Object detection is a crucial task in autonomous driving, where domain shift between the training and the test set is one of the main reasons behind the poor performance of a detector when deployed. Some erroneous priors may be learned from the training set, therefore a model must be invariant to conditions that might promote such priors. To tackle this problem, we propose an adversarial learning framework consisting of an encoder, an object-detector, and a condition-classifier. The encoder is trained to deceive the condition-classifier and aid the object-detector as much as possible throughout the learning stage, in order to obtain highly discriminative features. Experiments showed that this framework is not very competitive regarding the trade-off between precision and recall, but it does improve the ability of the model to detect smaller objects and some object classes.

2024

Weather and Meteorological Optical Range Classification for Autonomous Driving

Authors
Pereira, C; Cruz, RPM; Fernandes, JND; Pinto, JR; Cardoso, JS;

Publication
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

Abstract

2024

A case study on phishing detection with a machine learning net

Authors
Bezerra, A; Pereira, I; Rebelo, MA; Coelho, D; de Oliveira, DA; Costa, JFP; Cruz, RPM;

Publication
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS

Abstract
Phishing attacks aims to steal sensitive information and, unfortunately, are becoming a common practice on the web. Email phishing is one of the most common types of attacks on the web and can have a big impact on individuals and enterprises. There is still a gap in prevention when it comes to detecting phishing emails, as new attacks are usually not detected. The goal of this work was to develop a model capable of identifying phishing emails based on machine learning approaches. The work was performed in collaboration with E-goi, a multi-channel marketing automation company. The data consisted of emails collected from the E-goi servers in the electronic mail format. The problem consisted of a classification problem with unbalanced classes, with the minority class corresponding to the phishing emails and having less than 1% of the total emails. Several models were evaluated after careful data selection and feature extraction based on the email content and the literature regarding these types of problems. Due to the imbalance present in the data, several sampling methods based on under-sampling techniques were tested to see their impact on the model's ability to detect phishing emails. The final model consisted of a neural network able to detect more than 80% of phishing emails without compromising the remaining emails sent by E-goi clients.

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2023

Introducing Domain Knowledge to Scene Parsing in Autonomous Driving

Author
Rafael Valente Cristino

Institution
UP-FEUP

2023

Uncertainty-Driven Out-of-Distribution Detection in 3D LiDAR Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

Author
José António Barbosa da Fonseca Guerra

Institution
UP-FEUP