Hi! I’m Rodolfo, a PhD researcher in Deep Learning and 3D Motion at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), graduating in 2024. Currently, I work as an AI Researcher at Articul8, developing domain-specific LLMs and efficient fine-tuning pipelines.

My interests include:

• Large Language Models
• Machine learning and generative modelling
• Computer animation and behavioral AI
• Motion Capture and computer graphics
• Virtual and augmented reality

Some of my work

News

• August 2024 Our paper Gesture Area Coverage to Assess Gesture Expressiveness and Human-Likeness was accepted at GENEA Workshop 2024 ICMI 2024.

• August 2024 Our paper Benchmarking Speech-Driven Gesture Generation Models for Generalization to Unseen Voices and Noisy Environments was accepted at GENEA Workshop 2024 ICMI 2024.

• May 2024 I, along with other Unicamp students and Professor José Mario de Martino, recently participated in Qualcomm’s University Platforms Symposium. At the symposium, I had the opportunity to present our research on developing sign language avatars for use in XR environments.

• Nov 2023 I’m glad to announce that UNICAMP hosted the 12th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (ArtsIT 2023) in November.

• Oct 2023 I presented the paper Gesture Generation with Diffusion Models Aided by Speech Activity Information at the ICMI 2023 in Paris, France.

• Sep 2023 I released the first version of the bvhsdk python library. bvhsdk is a small but versatile Python library for students and researchers designed for the management of BVH files. The library is available in PyPI, the code and documentation are also available.

• Aug 2023 Our paper Gesture Generation with Diffusion Models Aided by Speech Activity Information was accepted at ICMI 2023 as part of the GENEA Challenge 2023.

• Dec 2022 Our team from FEEC/UNICAMP, in partnership with Qualcomm, showcased a demonstration of the sign language avatar from the TAS project using the AR ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses at the IEEE Globecom 2022. This demonstration was conducted under the guidance of Prof. José Mario De Martino.

• Nov 2022 I participated in the organizing committee of the EADCA 2022.

• Jul 2022 We submitted our side-project aitmospheric to the 1st hackathon of The Sound of AI. Code is available.

• Nov 2020 I participated in the organizing committee of the EADCA 2020 and presented our work titled Síntese de Gestos por Voz em Agentes Virtuais (Speech-driven Gesture Generation in Virtual Agents).

• Oct 2020 I gave a talk titled Computer Animation: Applications and New Technologies for UNASP to Computer Engineering and Information Systems students.

• Aug 2019 I defended my MSc thesis Motion Retargeting Preserving Spatial Relationship.

• Oct 2018 I gave a talk about our research Signing Avatar in Virtual Reality at the 20th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR 2018).