Google Latin America Research Award Recipients 2016 Bringing Down Barriers: Including Blind People in Cooperative Modeling Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão and Leandro Luque, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Reliable Automated Melanoma Screening for the Real World Eduardo Alves do Valle Junior and Michel Silva Fornaciali, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Learning Dynamic Action Units for Threedimensional Facial Expression Recognition [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Pablo Arbelaez and Andrés Felipe Romero, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Lowcost Autonomous Stations for Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Glaciers Jorge ArigonyNeto and Guilherme Tomaschewski Netto, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil Improving DwellFree Eye Typing Techniques Using a Noisy ModelBased Approach Maria da Graça Campos Pimentel and Raíza T. S. Hanada, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Automatic Generation of Video Synopsis with Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks Rodrigo Coelho Barros and Jônatas Wehrmann, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Automated Generation of Tutorials from Q&A Sites Marcelo de Almeida Maia and Adriano Mendonça Rocha, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Private Computation in the Cloud [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Diego de Freitas Aranha and Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Using Search Engine Idea to Repurpose Approved Drugs as Antibiotics Marcos Augusto dos Santos and Rita SilvérioMachado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Prognosis in a Box: Computational Characterization of Mental States Diego Fernández Slezak and Facundo Carrillo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Multimodal Assistive Domotics Including Augmentative and Alternative Communication Teodiano Freire BastosFilho and Alexandre Bissoli, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil Boosting OutofBag Estimators for Learning to Rank [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Marcos André Gonçalves; Clebson C. A. de Sá, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Beyond Relevance: Addressing Novelty, Diversity and Personalization in Tag Recommendation [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Jussara Marques de Almeida and Fabiano Muniz Belém, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Mapping Graffiti from Google Street View Data Ricardo Matsumura de Araujo and Glauco Roberto Munsberg, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil Hot Spot Mining from CaseControl Trajectories Wagner Meira Junior and Roberto C.S.N.P. Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Automatic Reasoning about Contractual Clauses Felipe Meneguzzi and João Paulo Aires, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Engineering Compressed Random Access Memories Gonzalo Navarro and Joshimar Córdova, Universidad de Chile DiscussionBased Entity Representation Pedro Olmo Stancioli Vaz de Melo and Túlio Corrêa Loures, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Improving Deep Reinforcement Learning through Knowledge Transfer [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Anna Helena Reali Costa and Ruben Glatt, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Automated DataDriven Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy Anderson Rocha and José Ramon Trindade Pires, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Interconnected Dual Biosensor for Type II Diabetes Mellitus [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Catalina Elizabeth Stern Forgach and Jehú López Aparicio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Gradual Security Typing for the Web [EXTENSION OF 2015 AWARD] Éric Tanter and Raimil Cruz, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Predicting Zika Epidemics Using Social and Vectorial Contact Networks Edgar Emmanuel Vallejo Clemente; Héctor Manuel Sánchez Castellanos, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México Facilitate the Diagnostics of Tuberculosis in Low Resources Settings Using Mobile Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Mirko Zimic and Jorge Coronel, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Perú
