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 ...
Varas González, David (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)
In this thesis, we exploit the hierarchical information associated with images to tackle two fundamental problems of computer vision: video object segmentation and video segmentation. In the first part ...
Castro-Arvizu, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)
Navigation and location technologies have been reaching in a major interest where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is mostly adopted. The limitation of this technology is that direct sky view ...
Ivonin, Leonid I. (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)
The problem of capturing human experience is relevant in many application domains. In fact, the process of describing and sharing individual experience lies at the heart of human culture. This advancement ...
Zhao, Feng, 1992- (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
Ground deformation measurements can provide valuable information for minimization of associated loss and damage caused by natural and environmental hazards. As a kind of remote sensing technique, ...
Bano, Sophia (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
The increasing availability of smartphones is facilitating people to capture videos of their experience when attending events such as concerts, sports competitions and public rallies. Smartphones are ...
Afaqui, Muhammad Shahwaiz (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
The explosive growth in usage of IEEE 802.11 based WLAN networks has resulted in dense deployments in diverse environments and has made the concept of anytime - anywhere data connectivity a realm of ...
Salvador, Amaia (Date of defense: 2019-06-27)
In the past decade, deep neural networks have revolutionized computer vision. High performing deep neural architectures trained for visual recognition tasks have pushed the field towards methods relying ...
Tseliou, Georgia (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
The complexity of operation and management of emerging cellular networks significantly increases, as they evolve to correspond to increasing QoS needs, data rates and diversity of offered services. Thus ...
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 ...