User:Nwerneck

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Me playing bass

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3 Research
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[edit] Personal info

I'm brazilian, born in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG in 17/02/1981. I moved in 03/2005 to Campinas, SP.

[edit] Professional info

I graduated in Electrial Engineering at the UFMG in the end of 2004, and I'm currently at grad school in UNICAMP.

Since teenager I have always helped my mother in her informatic consulting firm. My first official job was as intern at a R&D company called Excegen, trying to identify genetic patterns in oxes. At UNICAMP I had a brief participation in a project related to the new digital television standard, and nowdays I have a scholarship from CAPES.

Me studying at the CEFALA, UFMG

This user is a mad scientist.

[edit] Research

Nobody needs schools, titles or approval to be a scientist. You just need the scientific method! I am a scientist. But I also like to see myself as a philosopher of Epistemology, Psychology and Cognitive Science that life turned into an engineer.

I also believe you don't need to be humble, or ask excuses when you say you are a scientist or a philosopher. We are not talking about nobility titles and status ratings. What matters is what you do, and not what you say you do, or what other people say you do.

My main research interests are signal processing, information theory, (artificial) intelligence, pattern recognition and mathematical/physical modelling of human behaviour in general. I contribute to a research group called CEFALA at UFMG.

My current (2005) research is focused first on the perception of the overdrive distortion. I may extend the studies to the perception of reverberation and to computational music composition, always highly concerned with electronic, hard-rock and electric-blues music.

This user maintains a blog called LIFO

[edit] Articles

I write a lot of stuff that will end up in "history's garbage can" (I stole that from a Freeman Dyson text). I have a blog in portuguese, called LIFO.

Some of my articles get published sometimes...

PUBLISHED

One about the implementation of a program that generates a 3D model of a talking head from speech signals
Other about perception of overdrive, in the II SMCT

UNPUBLISHED

One about a way to encode high-quality regions in JPEG files exploring the overflow in the multiplication at the decoder.
Other I will write about applying blind equalisation to vowels, to find an impulsive excitation signal (IF I don't see any other article about this :D )