Derzu Omaia
Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Paraíba, Brazil
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Top SchoolDerzu Omaia is a computer science professor at the Federal University of Paraíba with nine years of professional experience and a PhD from the Federal University of Pernambuco. He combines academic leadership and teaching with practical software development experience dating back to early roles in industry, including a developer position at Dynavideo. His work spans research and graduate supervision as well as curriculum development, informed by a master's from UFPB and long-term engagement in Brazilian higher education. Based in Paraíba, he maintains an active professional presence (derzu.com.br) that bridges academic research and applied software engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who brings rigorous doctoral-level thinking to hands-on student mentorship and project delivery.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, Computer Science, Doctor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de PernambucoMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
astra10
webcam-capture10
android10
normal10
depth10
android-intent9
twitter9
java9
webcam9
opencv9
bitmap9
webar9
smooth9
skeleton9
camera9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derzu/BodySkeletonTracker
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Human body skeleton detection an tracking from video camera in real time. It was developed for an Orbbec Astra camera DRGB (Depth-RGB), uses the OpenNI2 driver, it also works with Asus Xtion and Prime sense. It works with normal webcam too, in the case of background is smooth and white.
Contributions:46 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
cameravideoastrawhitereal-time
derzu/RotationForest
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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