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Hi, I am Ricardo

Ricardo G. Sousa

With over a decade of experience in driving the development and successful launch of innovative AI platforms, I bring my passion for leveraging cutting-edge technologies and fostering innovation to help businesses harness the power of AI. I offer a range of AI services, including AI strategy development, machine learning implementation, and computer vision solutions. Reach out to learn more.

Projects

Face Liveness and Age Detections
Owner March 2024 - April 2024

Face liveness and age detection system, providing tools and models to identify real faces and estimate age from videos and images.

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Video Short (& Blog) Generator
Video Short (& Blog) Generator
Owner March 2024 - April 2024

The Video Shorts Generator (VSG) streamlines video and blog content creation for brands.

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Farfetch Chat R&D (formerly known as iFetch)
Farfetch Chat R&D (formerly known as iFetch)
Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator April 2020 - April 2023

Multimodal Conversational Agents for the Online Fashion Marketplace.

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ANI LaTeX Template
ANI LaTeX Template
Owner November 2022

ANI LaTeX Template CLS.

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Reject Option with Ordinal Learning Algorithms
Owner 2008-2012

Code for the paper “An Ordinal Data Method for the Classification with Reject Option”.

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Recent Posts

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Conversational Commerce: An Introduction

In April 2020 I have started working on a new project to revolutionize how customers shop. For that purpose, we have written a blog post introducing Farfetch Chat (previously known as iFETCH), a conversational AI technology with multimodal capabilities developed by FARFETCH in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA). Farfetch Chat aimed to revolutionize the online high-fashion sector by providing a “physical store”-like experience through natural interaction using both textual and visual data.

April 12, 2024 Read
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Core Competencies: An Introduction

What core competencies are? How do they enable businesses? Core competencies are a collection of skill sets that help to differentiate a professional and their competitive worth to the business and thus the market. Despite much research, it is still unknown what constitutes a winning formula. What should be highlighted is that a company that does not have collaborators who grow around their “core competencies” is unable to compete and create.

November 23, 2022 Read
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Meetings: An Introduction

Before Scheduling a Meeting There are certain preconditions for being successful in what meetings are related. First, remote working guidelines and no meeting day are sufficient but not necessary for a good practice of meetings coordination. Yet, the two patterns mentioned above include rituals that are key to a solid foundation. Follows essential principles that you need to have in mind before scheduling a meeting: Own your calendar - keep your calendar accurate (even, for the non-meeting event), be conscious of the different timezones;

November 22, 2020 Read

Publications

Task Conditioned BERT for Joint Intent Detection and Slot-filling
EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023
Tavares, Diogo Azevedo, Pedro Semedo, David Sousa, Ricardo Magalhaes, Joao

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Fill in the Blank for Fashion Complementary Outfit Product Retrieval: VISUM Summer School Competition
Machine Vision and Applications 2022
Rebelo, Ana Afonso, Carolina Cimarelli, Claudio Castro, Eduardo Moreira, Gabriel Yang, Hsiu-yu Hrga, Ingrid Rio-Torto, Isabel Ahmad, Javed Capozzi, Leonardo Ferreira, Mafalda Falcão Keswani, Monish Daoudi, Nadia Ferreira, Pedro M. Sousa, Ricardo Gamelas Beco, Sofia Gonçalves, Tiago Albuquerque, Tomé Silva, Wilson

Computer Vision Competition
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iFetch: Multimodal Conversational Agents for the Online Fashion Marketplace.
MuCAI'21: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, Virtual Event, China 20 October 2021
Sousa, Ricardo Gamelas Ferreira, Pedro Miguel Costa, Pedro Moreira Azevedo, Pedro Costeira, João Paulo Santiago, Carlos Magalhães, João Semedo, David Ferreira, Rafael Rudnicky, Alexander I. Hauptmann, Alexander G.

Machine Learning Conversational AI
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A Unified Model with Structured Output for Fashion Images Classification.
AI for Fashion Workshop, KDD 2018, London, United Kingdom 20 August 2018
Ferreira, Beatriz Quintino Baía, Luís Faria, João Sousa, Ricardo Gamelas

Computer Vision Image Search Online Shopping
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Measuring the Performance of Ordinal Classification
Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell. 2011
Cardoso, Jaime S. Sousa, Ricardo Gamelas

Machine Learning Ordinal Learning Metrics
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An Ordinal Data Method for the Classification with Reject Option
International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, USA December 13, 2009
Sousa, Ricardo Gamelas Mora, Beatriz Cardoso, Jaime S.

Machine Learning Ordinal Learning Metrics
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