Paulo Drews-Jr

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Paulo Drews-Jr is a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais(UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His doctoral dissertation focused on restoring images acquired in participating media applied to robotics. His master's thesis was focused on change detection and shape retrieval in 3D Maps. He graduated in Computer Engineering from the Federal Univesity of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil. His main research interests are robotics, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He was a researcher at the ISR Coimbra's Mobile Robotics Lab, collaborating as a research fellow on the FP projects Prometheus and IRPS. He was also a visiting researcher in the Autonomous System Lab at QCAT-CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia, and a Guest Professor at the Robot Learning Lab of the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is an Associate Professor of the Center for Computational Science - C3 at the Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG and a Planning Coordinator of the iTec/FURG EMBRAPII Unit in Robotic Systems and Automation. He is also a CNPq Research Fellow of Productivity in Technological Development and Innovative Extension (DT 2).