Pourasghar-Lafmejani, Masoud (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)
Model-based Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) is a major theoretical topic that is becoming increasingly to one of the most significant key features to increase safety and reliability of complex ...
Jordanić, Mislav (Date of defense: 2017-12-05)
Extraction of neuromuscular information is an important and extensively researched issue in biomedical engineering. lnformation on muscle control can be used in numerous human-machine interfaces and ...
Camargo Forero, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
Supercomputing, also known as High Performance Computing (HPC), is almost everywhere (ubiquitous), from the small widget in your phone telling you that today will be a sunny day, up to the next great ...
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 ...
Prettico, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
Quantum Information Theory (QIT) studies how information can be processed and transmitted when encoded on quantum states. Practically, it can be understood as the effort to generalize Classical Information ...
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, ...
Soto Vargas, Javier E. (Date of defense: 2014-07-02)
This dissertation describes a novel unconventional self-adaptive hardware architecture with capacity for parallel processing. For scalability issues, this bioinspired architecture is based on a regular ...
Duatis Juárez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
The aim of this work is to improve the reliability and safety of complex critical control systems by contributing to the systematic application of fault diagnosis. In order to ease the utilization of ...
Lluís, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-07-13)
Syntactic Dependency Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) are two main problems in Natural Language Understanding. Both tasks are closely related and can be regarded as parsing on top of a given ...
Simó Serra, Edgar (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Understanding humans from photographs has always been a fundamental goal of computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as detecting the location of individuals by means of bounding boxes. ...