
David Freire
@davidsfreire
Associate professor @ULPGC. Researcher @ROC_SIANI. AI for sports, affective computing, art and biometrics. Opinions are my own.
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http://davidfreire.github.io 18-05-2009 15:44:08
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Excited to share our latest work: "Visual Question Answering Models for Zero-Shot Pedestrian Attribute Recognition: A Comparative Study" 🚶♂️🤖. Check it out! @otsedom1 ROC SIANI CM SIANI ULPGC ULPGC Research #ILUSOS Javier Lorenzo Daniel Hernández Link: doi.org/10.1007/s42979…


🚨 Exciting news! The October issue of IEEE Biometrics newsletter is out! Dive into fascinating reports, featuring an in-depth look by Albert Ali Salah on FG 2024. Check it out: ieee-biometrics.org/publications/n… IEEE Biometrics


👂Excited to share our work on advancing ear sketches for biometric recognition—a collaborative effort with @ulpgc, Univ. Beira Interior, and univerzalj. Grateful to all colleagues involved! 🙌 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.imav… ULPGC Research



Great energy at the Open Days of @ulpgc and E. Informática ULPGC! Future engineers getting a first-hand look at their potential home. Inspiring to see so much talent and curiosity in one place! #FutureEngineers #ULPGC #OpenDay 🚀🚀


🚨 Big congrats to our graduate Sara Lis Almonacid for winning the 1st Prize Cátedra Telefónica! 🏆 Her brilliant project on detecting Frank’s Sign, a potential marker for cardiovascular risk. Well done, Sara! 👏💡 Cátedra Telefónica ULPGC @ulpgc E. Informática ULPGC


🚨 Official: Our paper “Predicting Soccer Penalty Kick Direction Using Human Action Recognition” has been ACCEPTED at #ICIAP2025! ⚽✅ An incredible honor, and a great chance to meet world-class Italian researchers during the event. Here we go! 🇮🇹🔬📄 #ComputerVision

🎉 Our paper "Mapping Emotions in the Brain: A Bi-Hemispheric Neural Model with Explainable Deep Learning" has been accepted at the Neuro-Inspired AI Workshop #ICIAP2025 2025! Proud collaboration between ULPGC 🇪🇸, Univ. of Lodz 🇵🇱 & 3S Holding 🇪🇪 #ICIAP2025 #NeuroAI #XAI


New article in New Scientist by Chris Stokel-Walker based on our paper on predicting penalty shot direction, accepted at #ICIAP2025. Huge thanks to Chris Stokel-Walker for his kindness and professionalism.

🎉 Exciting news! Our paper "Wrong Face, Wrong Move: The Social Dynamics of Emotion Misperception in Agent-Based Models" has been accepted for presentation at #ABMHuB2025! 🚀 Looking forward to the workshop! ALIFE Conference 2025 ABMHuB'22 Workshop