Biography

With 20+ years of experience in Software Engineering plus a strong passion and know-how in the Artificial Intelligence field, Mr. Wilder Rodrigues has contributed extensively to the AI community in The Netherlands. He is currently an Ambassador of the City.AI Global Community, representing the Amsterdam.AI and Utrecht.AI chapters. In addition to that, he was one of 30 finalists of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, along with the t2h2o.com team; father of the SineReLU activation function, which is part of Keras framework; and Senior Data Scientist at Vodafone-Ziggo.

Talk

Beyond Facial Emotion Recognition

In this talk, Wilder will introduce the audience to a new, augmented, Facial Emotion Recognition dataset and a Deep Learning model. With its basis on the FER 2013 dataset, used by a Kaggle(1) competition and also referenced in the paper by Ian Goodfellow et al(2), Challenges in Representation Learning: A report on three machine learning contests; Wilder augmented the FER2013 32,298 images by adding the Celeb Dataset(3), which contains 202,599 images of celebrity faces, exploring the magnitude of gradients around edge corners by extracting extra features from the faces using the Histogram of Gradients.

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