Moncusí Mercadé, Maria Angels (Date of defense: 2005-12-21)
La evolución de los procesadores siempre ha consistido en ir aumentando el rendimiento de estos, fijando como medida de este aumento de rendimiento la velocidad de proceso en la ejecución de las distintas ...
Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust ...
Reyes Ortiz, Jorge Luis (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a multidisciplinary research field that aims to gather data regarding people's behavior and their interaction with the environment in order to deliver valuable ...
Samà Monsonís, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-03)
This thesis presents the original contributions of the author on the field of human movement analysis from signals captured by accelerometers. These sensors are capable of converting acceleration from ...
Sanz Estapé, Gerard (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
The success in the application of any model-based methodology (e.g. design, control, supervision) highly depends on the availability of a well calibrated model. There is no best or unique solution for ...
Vaquero Gómez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)
With over 1.35 million fatalities related to traffic accidents worldwide, autonomous driving was foreseen at the beginning of this century as a feasible solution to improve security in our roads. ...
Avilés Rivero, Angélica Ivone (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)
Estimating and understanding motion from an image sequence is a central topic in computer vision. The high interest in this topic is because we are living in a world where many events that occur in the ...
Urra, Oiane (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability, with upper limb hemiparesis being one of the most common consequences. Regaining voluntary arm movement is one of the major goals of rehabilitation. ...
Prades Martell, Lledó (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)
This thesis is focused on the development of one-phase and multiphase models using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques to analyze biosystems behavior at mesoscale. In the first part, the ...
Moreira Sánchez, José (Date of defense: 2013-11-13)
A traceability or fingerprinting scheme is a cryptographic scheme that facilitates the identification of the source of leaked information. In a fingerprinting setting, a distributor delivers copies of ...