Carlos Bentes

Hello there!

I’m an AI generalist based in Estonia, with over a decade of experience building ML systems across diverse domains. Most recently I’ve focused on speech AI models for real-time translation, neural codec architectures, and multimodal LLM reasoning.

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latest posts

Mar 22, 2026	A-Maze
Feb 23, 2026	JEPA for audio encoding

selected publications

Pinch

JEPA-v0: a self-supervised audio encoder for real-time speech translation

Carlos Bentes

Feb 2026

Bib HTML

@misc{bentes2026jepa,
  title = {JEPA-v0: a self-supervised audio encoder for real-time speech translation},
  author = {Bentes, Carlos},
  year = {2026},
  month = feb,
  howpublished = {Pinch Research Blog},
}

IEEE JOE

Ship classification in TerraSAR-X images with convolutional neural networks

Carlos Bentes, Domenico Velotto, and Björn Tings

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Feb 2017

DOI Bib HTML

@article{bentes2017ship,
  title = {Ship classification in TerraSAR-X images with convolutional neural networks},
  author = {Bentes, Carlos and Velotto, Domenico and Tings, Bj{\"o}rn},
  journal = {IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering},
  volume = {43},
  number = {1},
  pages = {258--266},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1109/JOE.2017.2767106},
  publisher = {IEEE}
}

EUSAR

Ship-iceberg discrimination with convolutional neural networks in high resolution SAR images

Carlos Bentes, Anja Frost, Domenico Velotto, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European conference on synthetic aperture radar, Feb 2016

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@inproceedings{bentes2016ship,
  title = {Ship-iceberg discrimination with convolutional neural networks in high resolution SAR images},
  author = {Bentes, Carlos and Frost, Anja and Velotto, Domenico and Tings, Bjoern},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUSAR 2016: 11th European conference on synthetic aperture radar},
  pages = {1--4},
  year = {2016},
  organization = {VDE}
}

IGARSS

Target classification in oceanographic SAR images with deep neural networks: Architecture and initial results

Carlos Bentes, Domenico Velotto, and Susanne Lehner

In 2015 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS), Feb 2015

DOI Bib HTML

@inproceedings{bentes2015target,
  title = {Target classification in oceanographic SAR images with deep neural networks: Architecture and initial results},
  author = {Bentes, Carlos and Velotto, Domenico and Lehner, Susanne},
  booktitle = {2015 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS)},
  pages = {3703--3706},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326627},
  organization = {IEEE}
}