Silva Pereira, Silvana (Date of defense: 2012-01-26)
Wireless sensor networks are developed to monitor areas of interest with the purpose of estimating physical parameters or/and detecting emergency events in a variety of military and civil applications. ...
Palma Lázgare, Israel Romualdo (Date of defense: 2011-10-24)
New and future telecommunication networks are and will be broadband type. The existing terrestrial and space radio communication infrastructures might be supplemented by new wireless networks that make ...
Lange Vega, Diego (Date of defense: 2014-07-17)
This Ph.D. thesis addresses remote sensing of the atmosphere by means of lidar and S-band clear-air weather radar, and related data signal processing. Active remote sensing by means of these instruments ...
Alcoverro Vidal, Marcel (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
The analysis of human motion from visual data is a central issue in the computer vision research community as it enables a wide range of applications and it still remains a challenging problem when ...
Pont Tuset, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-02-19)
The first parts of this Thesis are focused on the study of the supervised evaluation of image segmentation algorithms. Supervised in the sense that the segmentation results are compared to a human-made ...