Scholar
Hernán J. Maina
Google Scholar ID: wA3vqywAAAAJ
Ph.D. Student, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET
Citations & Impact
Citations
87
H-index
4
i10-index
1
Publications
16
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several preprint papers, including 'ROSA: Addressing text understanding challenges in photographs via Rotated Sampling' and 'Low-resource domain adaptation while minimizing energy and hardware resource consumption'.
Research Experience
- His research focuses on visual question answering (VQA) systems and the detection and recognition of written text in images, aimed at helping visually impaired people. During his Master's, he applied computer vision techniques to improve public transport accessibility for blind and low-vision users.
Education
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), supervised by Dra. Luciana Benotti; Master's degree with a thesis on real-time recognition of urban bus lines, supervised by Dr. Jorge Sánchez.
Background
- A Computer Scientist currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing (FaMAF) - National University of Córdoba (UNC) - Argentina. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, particularly in multimodal vision-and-language models to assist visually impaired individuals. Additionally, he is passionate about robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Miscellany
- Passionate about developing technology with real-world impact, especially in accessibility and inclusive design. Also an enthusiast of robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT), constantly exploring how these technologies can be integrated into intelligent systems that interact with the physical world.
