Ventura Royo, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)
The first part of this dissertation focuses on an analysis of the spatial context in semantic image segmentation. First, we review how spatial context has been tackled in the literature by local features ...
Giménez Febrer, Pere Joan (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
In matrix completion, the objective is to recover an unknown matrix from a small subset of observed entries. Most successful methods for recovering the unknown entries are based on the assumption that ...
Hu, Zhongbo (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
lnSAR has been proved its unprecedented ability and merits of monitoring ground deformation on large scale with centimeter to millimeter scale accuracy. However, several factors affect the reliability ...
Yam Ontiveros, Luis Eduardo (Date of defense: 2016-09-21)
Over the last decades, environmental and socio-economic factors have generated interest on the observation of the ocean. Thus, the monitoring of maritime human activity has become crucial for the ...
Irazabal Bengoa, Mikel (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)
The heterogeneous services with stringent requirements that are envisioned to co-exist under the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G), inexorably challenge the current Long-Term Evolution (LTE) ...
Ruiz-de-Azua Ortega, Joan Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)
The space is experiencing a revolution due to the em ergence of satellite services to satisfy environmental, socio-econom ic, and geo-political demands. Earth Observation satellite systems have become ...
Schulz, Henrik (Date of defense: 2017-03-02)
The transcription of spontaneous speech still poses a challenge to state-of-the-art methods for automatic speech recognition. The present thesis describes the comprehensive development of a large ...
Ghahabi Esfahani, Omid (Date of defense: 2018-05-29)
Over the last few years, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art technique in speaker and language recognition. Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) technology have improved the quality of i-vectors ...
Martín González, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-04-30)
The dynamic behavior of the traffic demand, due to the advent of technologies such as cloud services or Internet of Things (IoT), is increasing. In fact, heterogeneous connections with different ...
Ramírez Jávega, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)
The main goal of this thesis is to develop lossless compression schemes for analog and binary sources. All the considered compression schemes have as common feature that the encoder can be represented ...