Browsing Programa de Doctorat en Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions by Title

MAC design and analysis for MU-MIMO and full-duplex enabled wireless networks

Liao, Ruizhi (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)

IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life at homes and working ...

Machine learning and deep neural networks approach to modelling musical gestures

Cabrera Dalmazzo, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)

Gestures can be defined as a form of non-verbal communication associated with an intention or an emotional state articulation. They are not only intrinsically part of the human language, but also explain specific details ...

A machine learning approach to computer modeling of musical expression for performance learning and practice

Muneratti Ortega, Fábio José (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

Aquesta tesi tracta sobre el disseny i la implementació de sistemes informàtics per a l'execució musical expressiva (CSEMP), explorant diferents mètodes de l'aprenentatge automàtic i reflexionant sobre el paper de l'estructura ...

Machine learning methods for understanding social media communication: modeling irony and emojis

Barbieri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)

In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning methods, able to recognize ...

Machine learning to support exploring and exploiting real-world clinical longitudinal data

Nogueira, Mariana (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)

Following-up on patient evolution by reacquiring the same measurements over time (longitudinal data) is a crucial component in clinical care dynamics, as it creates opportunity for timely decision making in preventing ...

Making tabletops useful with applications, frameworks and multi-tasking

Fernandez Julià, Carles (Date of defense: 2015-01-22)

The progressive appearance of affordable tabletop technology and devices urges humancomputer interaction researchers to provide the necessary methods to make this kind of devices the most useful to their users. Studies ...

Map-less inventory and location for an RFID-based robot

Casamayor Pujol, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)

This thesis presents a new paradigm for RFID-based inventory robots. This map-less operation increases the operative autonomy of the robots as they no longer require a mapping step. This new paradigm is based on the ...

Mechanistic insights into the large-scale dynamics underlying different brain states

Jobst, Beatrice M. (Date of defense: 2018-05-11)

Brain activity during rest exhibits a robust intrinsic spatio-temporal structure characterized by correlated patterns of neural activity. The study of the brain in altered states of vigilance or drug-induced brain states ...

Mechano-biochemical systems modelling for patient stratification in osteoarthritis

Segarra-Queralt, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-22)

This doctoral thesis presents two different computational approaches to explore mechanistically chondrocyte dysregulation and identify biomarkers, to better understand patient stratification systems in primary knee ...

Melody extraction from polyphonic music signals

Salamon, Justin J. (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)

Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology, and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and millions of tracks through cloud-based ...

Methods for face detection and adaptive face recognition

Pavani, Sri-Kaushik (Date of defense: 2010-07-21)

The focus of this thesis is on facial biometrics; specifically in the problems of face detection and face recognition. Despite intensive research over the last 20 years, the technology is not foolproof, which is why we do ...

Microcontrolled injectable stimulators based on electronic rectification of high frequency current bursts

Becerra Fajardo, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)

Neuroprostheses based on dense networks of wireless microstimulators have been proposed in the past for restoring movement in paralysis patients. Yet existing implantable microstimulators are too bulky and invasive for ...

Mining arguments in scientific abstracts: Application to argumentative quality assessment

Accuosto, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)

Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in natural language, a task that has been recognized as particularly challenging in the scientific domain. In this work we propose SciARG, ...

MIRages: an account of music audio extractors, semantic description and context-awareness, in the three ages of MIR

Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)

This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical reflection along ...

Modeling instrumental gestures: an analysis/synthesis framework for violin bowing

Maestre Gómez, Esteban (Date of defense: 2009-11-12)

Aquest treball presenta una metodologia per modelar el gest instrumental en la interpretació amb instruments musicals d'excitació contínua. En concret, la tesi tracta el control d'arc en interpretació clàssica de violí. ...

Modeling timbre for neural singing synthesis: methods for data-efficient, reduced effort voice creation, and fast and stable inference

Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and an entire range of ...