Giró i Nieto, Xavier (Date of defense: 2012-05-31)
This thesis addresses the problem of visual object retrieval, where a user formulates a query to an image database by providing one or multiple examples of an object of interest. The presented techniques ...
Yazdani, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-07-07)
Recent developments in optical communication systems have increased the performance of optical networks. Low attenuation fiber optics, high spectral purity lasers and optical amplifiers, among others, ...
Henriquez Q., Carlos A. (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
With the arrival of free on-line machine translation (MT) systems, came the possibility to improve automatic translations with the help of daily users. One of the methods to achieve such improvements ...
Iza Paredes, Christian (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
The growing demand to improve road safety and optimize road traffic has generated great interest in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANETs). Serious traffic accidents can cause financial losses, physical ...
Salcedo Bosch, Andreu (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
(English) Remote sensing of the atmosphere is widely used by the wind energy industry to both assess future wind farms deployment sites as well as to improve their operation. With the rising interest ...
Selseleh Jonban, Mansour (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
(English) Nowadays, distributed energy resources are widely used to supply demand in micro grids especially in green buildings. These resources are usually connected by using power electronic converters, ...
López Bueno, David (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
(English) The power amplifier (PA) is a core element in the radio transmitters to support the required mobile and fixed broadband communication link ranges. However, the PA is a power-hungry and nonlinear ...
Mezher, Ahmad Mohamad (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
Ad hoc networks have attracted much attention from the research community over the last years and important technical advances have risen as a consequence. These networks are foreseen as an important ...
Arellano Espitia, Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)
(English) In recent years, there has been significant attention from both the academic and industry sectors towards condition-based maintenance of rotating systems. This attention stems from the high ...
Fernández Cañellas, Dèlia (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)
(English) Media producers publish large amounts of multimedia content online - both text, audio, image and video. As the online media market grows, the management and delivery of contents becomes a ...