Enrique G. Ortiz

Work

Shipped systems, published research, and things built out of curiosity. Each entry carries the problem, the approach, and the number that mattered.

Synthetic Data for Redaction Detectors

Diffusion-based synthesis with VLM-guided auto-labeling — supplied 30% of all training data and cut research-to-production from 8 months to 2–3.

Product2025

Multi-Object Detection and Tracking Standard

An org-wide standard for detection and tracking, adopted across three research and product teams.

Product2024

CLIP Exercise Recognition

Zero-shot exercise recognition from still images and video, built on OpenAI CLIP — no labelled training set required.

Side project2021

Driver Awareness

A demo built on our detection and facial-analysis APIs — in-cabin attention from gaze and head pose.

Product2018

License Plate Recognition

Deep LPR system improving on the legacy pipeline by 20% in production.

Product2018

DAGER: Deep Age, Gender and Emotion Recognition

State-of-the-art age, gender and emotion recognition — outperforming competitors including Microsoft by a large margin.

Product2017

Car Make, Model and Color Recognition

Fine-grained vehicle attribute recognition from a single frame, in traffic.

Product2017
Parent-Offspring Resemblance

Parent-Offspring Resemblance

CVPR 2014 — determining family resemblance via gated autoencoders.

Research2014
Video Face Recognition

Video Face Recognition

CVPR 2013 — mean sequence sparse representation classification on movie trailers.

Research2013
Face Recognition for Web-Scale Datasets

Face Recognition for Web-Scale Datasets

CVIU 2013 — open-universe face identification with a 100× speedup over the base method.

Research2013