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20162026
most citedOn the Cross-dataset Generalization in License Plate Recognition

77 citations

35 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Corruption as a self-sustained collective state in political systems

Nuno Crokidakis, Jaime L. C. da C. Filho

Political corruption is often interpreted as the result of individual misconduct or isolated institutional failures. However, persistent corruption patterns observed in real-world…

physics.soc-ph2026★ 2 cited

Opinion dynamics under electoral shocks in competitive campaigns

Jaime L. C. da C. Filho, Nuno Crokidakis

We propose a computational framework for modeling opinion dynamics in electoral competitions that combines two realistic features: voter memory and exogenous shocks. The population…

cs.AI2026

Propositional Abduction via Only-Knowing: A Non-Monotonic Approach

Sanderson Molick, Vaishak Belle

The paper introduces a basic logic of knowledge and abduction by extending Levesque logic of only-knowing with an abduction modal operator defined via the combination of basic epis…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Sufficient conditions for unbounded superradiance in black hole spacetimes sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics

Marco A. A. de Paula, Luiz C. S. Leite, Luís C. B. Crispino

Recently, it has been reported that black holes (BHs) sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) can trigger unbounded superradiance, i. e., the total absorption cross section -- t…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

The time-dependent quantum harmonic oscillator: a pedagogical approach via the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical invariant method

Stanley S. Coelho, Lucas Queiroz, Danilo T. Alves

In quantum mechanics courses, students often solve the Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator with time-independent parameters. However, time-dependent quantum harmonic o…

physics.hist-ph2024★ 2 cited

Interseções entre a Física e os saberes da tradição ceramista

Samuel Antonio Silva do Rosario, Carlos Aldemir Farias da Silva

The growing interaction between traditional knowledge and formal sciences emerges as a relevant field of research. In this perspective, the aim of this article is to investigate th…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Superradiant instability of a charged regular black hole

Sam R. Dolan, Marco A. A. de Paula, Luiz C. S. Leite +1

We show that a charged, massive scalar field in the vicinity of an electrically-charged Ayón-Beato-García (ABG) regular black hole has a spectrum of quasibound states that (in a ce…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Scattering by stringy black holes

Sérgio V. M. C. B. Xavier, Carolina L. Benone, Luiz C. S. Leite +1

We study the scattering of axially incident massless scalar waves by a charged and rotating black hole solution from heterotic string theory called the Kerr-Sen black hole. We comp…

cs.CV2023★ 18 cited

Leveraging Model Fusion for Improved License Plate Recognition

Rayson Laroca, Luiz A. Zanlorensi, Valter Estevam +2

License Plate Recognition (LPR) plays a critical role in various applications, such as toll collection, parking management, and traffic law enforcement. Although LPR has witnessed…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Unraveling the connection between high-order magnetic interactions and local-to-global spin Hamiltonian in non-collinear magnetic dimers

Ramon Cardias, Jhonatan dos Santos Silva, Anders Bergman +7

A spin Hamiltonian, which characterizes interatomic interactions between spin moments, is highly valuable in predicting and comprehending the magnetic properties of materials. A de…

math.CO2023

Corrigendum to "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]

Mitre C. Dourado, Vitor S. Ponciano, Rômulo L. O. da Silva

In this corrigendum, we give a counterexample to Theorem 5.2 in "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]. We also present a polynomia…

gr-qc2023★ 9 cited

Parametrized black holes: Scattering investigation

Renan B. Magalhães, Luiz C. S. Leite, Luís C. B. Crispino

We study the scattering of light-like geodesics and massless scalar waves by a static Konoplya-Zhidenko black hole, considering the case that the parametrized black hole solution c…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Explanations Based on Item Response Theory (eXirt): A Model-Specific Method to Explain Tree-Ensemble Model in Trust Perspective

José Ribeiro, Lucas Cardoso, Raíssa Silva +3

In recent years, XAI researchers have been formalizing proposals and developing new methods to explain black box models, with no general consensus in the community on which method…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Global Semantic Descriptors for Zero-Shot Action Recognition

Valter Estevam, Rayson Laroca, Helio Pedrini +1

The success of Zero-shot Action Recognition (ZSAR) methods is intrinsically related to the nature of semantic side information used to transfer knowledge, although this aspect has…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Squeezed coherent states for a free particle with time-varying mass

A. S. Pereira, A. S. Lemos, F. A. Brito

We obtain the squeezed coherent states (SCS) for a free particle with exponentially time-varying mass. We write these states in terms of the squeeze and displacement parameters on…

gr-qc2022★ 9 cited

Scattering properties of charged black holes in nonlinear and Maxwell's electrodynamics

Marco A. A. de Paula, Luiz C. S. Leite, Luís C. B. Crispino

We investigate the scattering properties of a massless scalar field in the background of a charged Ayón-Beato-García regular black hole solution. Using a numerical approach, we com…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Generalized para-Bose states

A. S. Pereira, A. S. Lemos, F. A. Brito

In this paper, we construct integrals of motion in a para-Bose formulation for a general time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian, which, in its turn, commutes with the reflection oper…

cs.CV2022★ 77 cited

On the Cross-dataset Generalization in License Plate Recognition

Rayson Laroca, Everton V. Cardoso, Diego R. Lucio +2

Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems have shown remarkable performance on license plates (LPs) from multiple regions due to advances in deep learning and the increasi…

gr-qc2021

Scattering by deformed black holes

Renan B. Magalhães, Luiz C. S. Leite, Luís C. B. Crispino

Obtaining black hole solutions in alternative theories of gravity can be a difficult task due to cumbersome field equations that arise in many of such theories. In order to study t…

cs.CV2021★ 12 cited

Tell me what you see: A zero-shot action recognition method based on natural language descriptions

Valter Estevam, Rayson Laroca, David Menotti +1

This paper presents a novel approach to Zero-Shot Action Recognition. Recent works have explored the detection and classification of objects to obtain semantic information from vid…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Localization transition induced by programmable disorder

Jaime L. C. da C. Filho, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Andreia Saguia +3

We investigate the occurrence of many-body localization (MBL) on a spin-1/2 transverse-field Ising model defined on a Chimera connectivity graph with random exchange interactions a…

quant-ph2021★ 7 cited

Time-dependent coherent squeezed states in a nonunitary approach

A. S. Pereira, A. S. Lemos

In this work, we have applied the integrals of motion method in a nonunitary approach and so obtained the time-dependent displacement and squeezed parameters of the coherent squeez…

gr-qc2020★ 53 cited

Electrically charged black holes in linear and nonlinear electrodynamics: Geodesic analysis and scalar absorption

Marco A. A. Paula, Luiz C. S. Leite, Luís C. B. Crispino

Along the last decades, several regular black hole (BH) solutions, i.e., singularity-free BHs, have been proposed and associated to nonlinear electrodynamics models minimally coupl…

cs.DM2020★ 5 cited

On the monophonic rank of a graph

Mitre C. Dourado, Vitor S. Ponciano, Rômulo L. O. da Silva

A set of vertices of a graph is if every induced path joining two vertices of is contained in . The of , $\…