Tiago Maritan

Tiago Maritan is a Professor at the Informatics Center and a Digital Video Applications (LAViD) researcher at the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), Brazil. He coordinates the VLibras Suite project (vlibras.gov.br), an open machine translation platform for LIBRAS for the Web, Digital TV, Cinema, and mobile devices, installed on more than 100 thousand Websites, including the websites of the Federal Government, Federal Chamber, Federal Senate. With VLibras, he received the National Web Accessibility Award 2016 (Todos@Web 2016), offered by CGI.br and NIC.br, in the Applications/Assistive Technology category, and the Latam Smart City Award 2018, in the "Society Equitable and Collaborative" category. Since 2019, he has been a Productivity Fellow in Technological Development and Innovative Extension (DT)-Level 2 of the CNPQ. He has experience in Accessibility in Computer Systems, Assistive Technology, Distributed Multimedia Systems, and Digital TV, working mainly on the following topics: machine translation into LIBRAS, automatic generation of audio description and Digital TV.