Matias Mendieta

I am a Ph.D. student in the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida, advised by Dr. Chen Chen. My research interests are in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, and autonomous systems.

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Intern Experience
Machine Learning Intern
Apple
Cupertino, CA. May 2023 - Aug. 2023

Investigated generative AI methods for image and video inpainting.

Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon AWS
Santa Clara, CA. May 2022 - Nov. 2022

Conducted computer vision research in self-supervised learning for geospatial foundation models.

Software Engineer Intern
IBM
Durham, NC. May 2018 - Aug. 2018

Designed, integrated, and tested full proxy functionality for a SASP load balancer simulator.

Publications
Towards Geospatial Foundation Models via Continual Pretraining
Matias Mendieta, Boran Han, Xingjian Shi, Yi Zhu, Chen Chen.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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PGFed: Personalize Each Client’s Global Objective for Federated Learning
Jun Luo, Matias Mendieta, Chen Chen, Shandong Wu.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
Oral Presentation
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FedPerfix: Towards Partial Model Personalization of Vision Transformers in Federated Learning
Guangyu Sun, Matias Mendieta, Jun Luo, Shandong Wu, Chen Chen.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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POSTER: A Pyramid Cross-Fusion Transformer Network for Facial Expression Recognition
Ce Zheng, Matias Mendieta, Chen Chen.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) AMFG Workshop, 2023.
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FeatER: An Efficient Network for Human Reconstruction via Feature Map-Based Transformer
Ce Zheng, Matias Mendieta, TaoJinnan Yang, Guo-Jun Qi, Chen Chen.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
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Local Learning Matters: Rethinking Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
Matias Mendieta, Taojiannan Yang, Pu Wang, Minwoo Lee, Zhengming Ding, Chen Chen.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
Best Paper Finalist, 33 out of 8161
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A Lightweight Graph Transformer Network for Human Mesh Reconstruction from 2D Human Pose
Ce Zheng, Matias Mendieta, Pu Wang, Aidong Lu, Chen Chen.
ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM), 2022.
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MutualNet: Adaptive ConvNet via Mutual Learning from Different Model Configurations
Taojiannan Yang, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Pu Wang, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Minwoo Lee, Tao Han, Mubarak Shah, Chen Chen.
IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021
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CARPe Posterum: A Convolutional Approach for Real-time Pedestrian Path Prediction
Matias Mendieta, Hamed Tabkhi.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
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3D Human Pose Estimation with Spatial and Temporal Transformers
Ce Zheng, Sijie Zhu, Matias Mendieta, Taojiannan Yang, Chen Chen, Zhengming Ding.
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
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Mez: An Adaptive Messaging System for Latency-Sensitive Multi-Camera Machine Vision at the IoT Edge
Anjus George, Arun Ravindran, Matias Mendieta, Hamed Tabkhi.
IEEE Access, 2021
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REVAMP2T: Real-time Edge Video Analytics for Multi-camera Privacy-aware Pedestrian Tracking
Christopher Neff*, Matias Mendieta*, Shrey Mohan, Mohammadreza Baharani, Sam Rogers, Hamed Tabkhi.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2020
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A Novel Application/Infrastructure Co-design Approach for Real-time Edge Video Analytics
Matias Mendieta, Christopher Neff, Daniel Lingerfelt, Christopher Beam, Anjus George, Sam Rogers, Arun Ravindran, Hamed Tabkhi.
IEEE SoutheastCon, 2019
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Measuring Compute-Reuse Opportunities for Video Processing Acceleration
Andrew Willis, Hamed Tabkhi, Matias Mendieta, Christopher Neff.
IEEE SoutheastCon, 2019
paper

Patents
Detection of Genuine Social Media Profiles
Al Chakra, Patricia Bui, Kaji Rashad, Matias Mendieta.
IBM. US10924499B2, 2018

A method, system and computer program product for performing the detection of genuine social media profiles.

Customizing Product Announcements Based on Product Usage
Al Chakra, Jerry Stevens, Matias Mendieta, Patricia Bui, Kaji Rashad.
IBM. US20200143385A1, 2018

A computer-implemented method that includes tracking usage history of a plurality of components of products


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