Machine Intelligence and Data Science Laboratory
Some publications
Here you can find some of the recent publications from the MInDS team.
2026
A guideline for gesture recognition developers with triboelectric gloves: Key insights on handcrafted feature extraction approach
Thiago Simões Dias, José Jair Alves Mendes Junior, Heitor Silvério Lopes, Thiago Henrique Silva, Sérgio Francisco Pichorim
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Failure Profile Characterization in Heavy-Duty Trucks Using Fuzzy Clustering of Telemetry and Repair Data
Juliana Viscenheski, Ricardo Lüders, Heitor S. Lopes, Thiago H. Silva
Journal of Internet Services and Applications
A BERT-Based Approach for Gender Inference from Place Reviews: Applications to Urban Representativeness
J. Abate, F. D. Peixoto, J. F. Bald, M. Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
Workshop de Computação Urbana (COURB), Salvador, Brazil
When Plausible Is Not Realistic: Evaluating Human Mobility in LLM-Based Urban Simulation
G. H. Santos, A. C. Viana, Thiago H. Silva
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Riverside, CA, USA
En-AgentSociety: Observable and Reproducible LLM-Based Urban Simulation at Regional Scale
G. H. Santos, A. C. Viana, Thiago H. Silva
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Riverside, CA, USA
Comparing Gender-Labeled Urban Co-Visitation Networks Across U.S. Cities Using Google Places
J. Abate, M. Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
NetMob, Niterói, Brazil
Do LLM Agents Reproduce Human Mobility Laws?
G. H. Santos, A. C. Viana, Thiago H. Silva
NetMob, Niterói, Brazil
Fastkit-Mobility: A High-Performance, DataFrame-Agnostic Library for Mobility Analysis
G. H. Santos, A. C. Viana, L. Pappalardo, Thiago H. Silva
NetMob, Niterói, Brazil
User Profiling from Textual Data: A Systematic Literature Review
J. Abate, F. D. Peixoto, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WebMedia), Lavras, Brazil
Biometric and Demographic Pattern Mining in Electrocardiographic Signals: A Study with Machine Learning Algorithms
C. V. Matias, J. P. M. Lourencao, José Jair Alves Mendes Junior, H. Lopes, Thiago H. Silva
Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Biomédica (CBEB), Fortaleza, Brazil
Classifying Urban Venue Popularity Patterns: A Cross-Country Study of Time Series Methods
Carolina Idehama, Alexandre Amorim, Rodrigo Minetto, Thiago H. Silva
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Reykjavik, Iceland
Stable Behavior, Limited Variation: Persona Validity in LLM Agents for Urban Sentiment Perception
Neemias B. da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, Daniel Silver, Thiago H. Silva
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Reykjavik, Iceland
Machine Learning for Fingerprint Ridge Counting
Alexandre Nadolni Bonacim, Rodrigo Minetto, Mauricio Pamplona Segundo
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
A polygon-based method to minimize layer underfill voids by optimizing raster angle in material extrusion additive manufacturing
Neri Volpato, Arthur F. da Silva, Ian M. F. de Andrade, Felipe G. Di Nisio, Ricardo D. da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto
IEEE Access
Synthetic Aerial Image Generation with Controllable Diffusion Models for Pinus Segmentation under Data Scarcity
Thiago Justus, Rodrigo Minetto, Gilson Giraldi, Mauren Sguario
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Marbella, Spain
Online Industrial Sensor Drift Identification Using Anomaly Detection Methods
Bruno S. Silva, Clayton H. Costa, Bruna M. Mulinari, André E. Lazzaretti
IEEE Sensors Letters
Flexible Optical Macrocurvature Sensor Mounted on a Robotic Hand for Static Posture Recognition
Walter O. C. Flores, Marcia Muller, José L. Fabris, Uilian J. Dreyer, José J. A. Mendes Junior, André E. Lazzaretti
IEEE Sensors Letters
Learning-Based Motion Estimation for Autonomous Inspection Robots: Temporally Aligned IMU–RTK Data Fusion
J. M. Nishihara, J. H. C. Soares, G. Braglia, R. Rohrich, André Lazzaretti, A. S. Oliveira
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Genova, Italy
Target Kernel Design for Alignment-Based Multiple Kernel OneClass Classification
F. A. D. Amorim, André Lazzaretti, M. R. B. S. Delgado
Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Campo Grande, Brazil
Can Multimodal Large Language Models be Used for Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Modules?
J. P. Z. Cardozo, André Lazzaretti
Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, São Paulo, Brazil
2025
Modeling Interest Networks in Urban Areas: A Comparative Study of Google Places and Foursquare Across Countries
G. H. Santos, F. Gubert, M. Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Grandes Modelos de Linguagem Multimodais (MLLMs): Da Teoria à Prática
N. B. Silva, J. C. W. Scholz, J. Harrison, M. Delgado, R. Minetto, Thiago H. Silva
Grandes Modelos de Linguagem Multimodais (MLLMs): Da Teoria à Prática, SBC, Porto Alegre
Urban Perception Extraction from Texts Shared on Social Media: Framework and Applications
F. A. Santos, Thiago H. Silva, L. A. Villas
Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC), Natal, Brazil
CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender System for Cities and Neighborhoods
G. H. Santos, M. Delgado, Daniel Silver, Thiago H. Silva
International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Niagara Falls, Canada
Interest Networks (iNETs) for Cities: Cross-Platform Insights and Urban Behavior Explanations
G. H. Santos, M. Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-UMC), Toronto, Canada
Modeling Mobility with Graph Neural Networks to Predict Neighbourhood Culture
Thiago H. Silva, D. Silver
NetMob, Paris, France
Towards Predictive Maintenance of Heavy-Duty Trucks Exploring Telemetry and Warranty Data
Juliana R. Viscenheski, Ricardo Lüders, Heitor Lopes, Thiago H. Silva
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Lucca, Italy
DED-IM: A Novel Method for Mapping and Path Planning in Wire Arc Directed Energy Deposition
Matheus Antunes Chipanski, Tadeu Castro da Silva, Neri Volpato, Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Valdemar Rebelo R. Duarte, Telmo G. Santos, Rodrigo Minetto
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Innovative approaches to process 2D forms and cellular or porous structures via image processing in 3D printing
Rafael Voltolini, Maria Eduarda Adoryan Pazzini, Felipe Monclaro Puppi, Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, Neri Volpato
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Recursive Class Connectivity Classification (R3C) applied to Binary Image Segmentation for Improved Infant Fingerprint Enhancement
João Leonardo Harres Dall’Agnol, Luiz Fernando Puttow Southier, Jefferson Tales Oliva, Marcelo Teixeira, Rodrigo Minetto, Marcelo Filipak, Dalcimar Casanova, Érick Oliveira Rodrigues
IEEE Access
TSlicer: An optimal topology-based slicing algorithm for Z-monotone 3D meshes
Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Henrique Romaniuk Ramalho, Rodrigo Minetto, Neri Volpato, Jorge Stolfi
Computers & Graphics
Exploring Machine Learning and Remote Sensing Techniques for Mapping Pinus Invasion Beyond Crop Areas
Andrey Dias, Maria Eduarda Gianisella, Amanda Gonçalves, Rodrigo Minetto, Mauren Coelho de Andrade
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Porto, Portugal
Detection of Pavement Defects on Roads using a Multimodal YOLOv8 with Image and IMU Data
Arthur Polli, Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, USA
A Semi-Supervised Lightweight GAN-Based Method for Weld Defect Recognition in Industry
Rodrigo Minetto, André Gouthier Bicalho, Sylvio Biasuz Block, Marco Antônio Simões Teixeira, Ricardo Dutra da Silva, André Eugenio Lazzaretti
IEEE SENSORS, Vancouver, Canada
Explainable AI for Analyzing Behavioral Patterns in Serious Games: From Educational to Professional Training Contexts
Maria Fernanda Oliveira de Figueiredo, Ana Carolina Ataya, João Vitor Bezerra, Myriam Delgado, Cesar A. Tacla, Rita S. Julia, Gabrielly de Q. Pereira, Adriana A. Guimarães, Marcella Scoczynski
IEEE International Conference on Industry Applications (INDUSCON), São Sebastião, Brazil
A Survey on Open World Learning For Image Segmentation: Definitions, Challenges, and Directions
Anderson Brilhador, André Lazzaretti, Heitor Lopes
Learning and Nonlinear Models
2024
Culture Fingerprint: Identification of Culturally Similar Urban Areas Using Google Places Data
Fernanda R. Gubert, Gustavo Santos, Myriam Delgado, Daniel Silver, Thiago H Silva
ASONAM, Rende, Italy
Using Graph Neural Networks to Predict Local Culture
Thiago H. Silva, Daniel Silver
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Bubble reachers and uncivil discourse in polarized online public sphere
Jordan K Kobellarz, Milos Brocic, Daniel Silver, Thiago H Silva
PLOS ONE
REAL-UP: Urban Perceptions From LBSNs Helping Moving Real-Estate Market to the Next Level
Frances Santos, Thiago H. Silva, Leandro Villas
WWW (TheWebConf 24), Singapore
Integrating Social Media Data: Venues, Groups and Activities
Thiago H. Silva, Mark Fox
Expert Systems with Applications 2024
Sentinel-2 Active Fire Segmentation: Analyzing Convolutional and Transformer Architectures, Knowledge Transfer, Fine-Tuning and Seam-Lines
AM Fusioka, GHDA Pereira, BT Nassu, R Minetto
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Active Fire Segmentation: A Transfer Learning Study From Landsat-8 to Sentinel-2
AM Fusioka, GH de Almeida Pereira, BT Nassu, R Minetto
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
LoHi-WELD: a novel industrial dataset for weld defect detection and classification, a deep learning study, and future perspectives
SB Block, RD Da Silva, AE Lazzaretti, R Minetto
IEEE Access
Improving a tool-path optimisation method in material extrusion additive manufacturing by data clustering and collapsing
Neri Volpato, TR Weller, Rodrigo Minetto, Ricardo da Silva, FC Becheli
Progress in Additive Manufacturing
Regression Performance of Relational Fusion Networks on Urban Road Networks
Thales Cervi, Ricardo Luders, Thiago H Silva, Myriam Delgado
Courb, Niteroi, Brazil
Towards spatiotemporal integration of bus transit with data-driven approaches
Júlio Borges, Altieris M Peixoto, Thiago H Silva, Anelise Munaretto, Ricardo Luders
Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Predicting Highway Accident Severity in Brazil: Environmental Factors and Vehicle Features
Júlio Scholz, Yan Pinheiro, Thiago H Silva
Urbcom, Abu Dhabi
Metaheuristics and machine learning: an approach with reinforcement learning assisting neural architecture search
SMS Venske, CP de Almeida, MR Delgado
Journal of Heuristics
ACO-Pruning for Deep Neural Networks: A Case Study in CNNs
RS Dorighello, MR Delgado, R Lüders, DF Pigatto
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
Non-invasive muscle-machine interface open source project: wearable hand myoelectrical orthosis (MES-FES)
DP Campos, JJA Mendes Junior, PB Junior, AE Lazzaretti, LG Sartori, ...
Assistive Technology
A prototypical metric learning approach for open-set semantic segmentation on remote sensing images
A Brilhador, AE Lazzaretti, HS Lopes
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Open-Set Tattoo Semantic Segmentation
A Brilhador, RT Da Silva, CR Modinez-Junior, GDA Spadafora, HS Lopes, ...
IEEE Access
Edge Device for the Classification of Photovoltaic Faults Using Deep Neural Networks
AB Di Renzo, HRF de Morais, AE Lazzaretti, LVR de Arruda, HS Lopes, ...
Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems
High impedance fault classification in microgrids using a transformer-based model with time series harmonic synchrophasors under data quality issues
DAG Cieslak, M Moreto, AE Lazzaretti, JR Macedo-Júnior
Neural Computing and Applications
A Traffic-Aware Beacon Scheme for Cooperative Driving and Network Routing Trade-Off
AT Amaya, AAP Pohl, R Lüders
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Edge Device for the Classification of Photovoltaic Faults Using Deep Neural Networks
AB Di Renzo, HRF de Morais, AE Lazzaretti, LVR de Arruda, HS Lopes, ...
Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems
Event-Driven sEMG Feature Extraction for Classifying Ingestive Behavior in Ruminants
DP Campos, AE Lazzaretti, FL Bertotti, JAG Hill, ALF da Silveira
IEEE Sensors Letters
Machine Learning-Based Methods for Force Mapping With an Optical Fiber Sensing System
WOC Flores, V Carvalho, VH Martins, JL Fabris, M Muller, HS Lopes, ...
IEEE Sensors Letters
A New Lumped Parameter Modeling for Wind Farm Grounding Measurement Circuits Based on Clamp-on Ground Meters
AG Leal, AE Lazzaretti, HL López-Salamanca
Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems
LoHi-WELD: a novel industrial dataset for weld defect detection and classification, a deep learning study, and future perspectives
SB Block, RD Da Silva, AE Lazzaretti, R Minetto
IEEE Access
Sliding Window, Hierarchical Classification, Regression, and Genetic Algorithm for RFID Indoor Positioning Systems
EL Gomes, MSP Fonseca, AE Lazzaretti, A Munaretto, CR Guerber
Expert Systems with Applications
Machine Learning-Based Methods for Force Mapping With an Optical Fiber Sensing System
WOC Flores, V Carvalho, VH Martins, JL Fabris, M Muller, HS Lopes, ...
IEEE Sensors Letters
2023
Complex Causal Structures of Neighbourhood Change: Evidence From a Functionalist Model and Yelp Data
Thiago H. Silva, Daniel Silver
Cities
Higher education’s influence on social networks and entrepreneurship in Brazil
Michelle Reddy, Júlio C. Nardelli, Yuri L. Pereira, Marisa Vasconcelos, Thiago H. Silva, Leonardo B. Oliveira, Mark Horowitz
Social Network Analysis and Mining
Predicting mobility patterns based on profiles of social media users: tourists case study
HC de Mattos Senefonte, TH Silva, R Lüders
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WebMedia)
On strategies to help reduce contamination on public transit: a multilayer network approach
FR Gubert, P Santin, M Fonseca, A Munaretto, TH Silva
Applied Network Science
Evaluating Weather Influence on User Participation in a Crowd-sensing Application
IF Ribeiro, VF Calmon, TH Silva, CAS Santos, V Mota
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications
On strategies to help reduce contamination on public transit: a multilayer network approach
Fernanda Gubert, Priscila Santin, Mauro Fonseca, Anelise Munaretto, Thiago H Silva
Applied Network Science
Stochastic local search and parameters recommendation: a case study on flowshop problems
LM Pavelski, M Delgado, MÉ Kessaci, AA Freitas
International Transactions in Operational Research
Rat swarm optimizer adjusted by fuzzy inference system
ACK Ferrari, GV Leandro, LS Coelho, MRDBS Delgado
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems
Leveraging model fusion for improved license plate recognition
R Laroca, LA Zanlorensi, V Estevam, R Minetto, D Menotti
Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition
Deep learning and machine learning techniques applied to speaker identification on small datasets
E Manfron, JP Teixeira, R Minetto
International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications
Speaker recognition in door access control system
E Manfron, JP Teixeira, R Minetto
Symposium of Applied Science for
Do we train on test data? The impact of near-duplicates on license plate recognition
R Laroca, V Estevam, AS Britto, R Minetto, D Menotti
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Parallel tool-path generation for Additive Manufacturing: A GPU-based zigzag filling
RC Faust, R Minetto, N Volpato
Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Deep learning techniques applied to skin lesion classification
GM Silva, AE Lazzaretti, FC Monteiro
International Conference on Machine Learning, Control, and Robotics
Condition Assessment of AC Contactors Using Optical Fiber Sensors and Deep Learning
EH Dureck, D Benetti, AE Lazzaretti, HS Lopes, UJ Dreyer, DR Pipa, ...
SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference
Unsupervised open-world human action recognition
M Gutoski, AE Lazzaretti, HS Lopes
Pattern Analysis and Applications
Recognition, location, and depth estimation of objects in electrical substations
G Lexinoski, MAS Teixeira, AE Lazzaretti, LFRB Toledo, HS Lopes, ...
Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS)
An evaluation of image preprocessing in skin lesions detection
GM Silva, AE Lazzaretti, FC Monteiro
International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and …
Energy-aware IoT-based method for a hybrid on-wrist fall detection system using a supervised dictionary learning technique
F Othmen, M Baklouti, AE Lazzaretti, M Hamdi
Sensors
Caracterização de Grupos Políticos no Telegram Durante a Eleição Presidencial de 2022
JS Pinto, TH Silva
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web
Um Modelo de Simulação de Tráfego para Avaliação do Efeito de “Cruising for Parking” na Região Central de Curitiba
B Tebecherani, F Malucelli, R Lüders
VII Workshop de Computação Urbana
Algoritmo para detecção de itinerários do transporte público usando dados de gps dos Ônibus
JCN Borges, R Lüders, T Silva, A Munaretto
VII Workshop de Computação Urbana
AD8232 to biopotentials sensors: Open source project and benchmark
JJA Mendes Junior, DP Campos, LCAVD Biassio, PC Passos, PB Júnior, ...
Electronics
Features extraction and selection with the scattering transform for electrical load classification
EL de Aguiar, AE Lazzaretti, DR Pipa
Learn. Nonlinear Models