Locatelli, Fabiano (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
One of the possible ways to address the constantly increasing amount of heterogeneous and variable internet traffic is the evolution of the current optical networks towards a more flexible, open, and ...
Pascual De La Puente, Santiago (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Deep learning has affected the speech processing and generation fields in many directions. First, end-to-end architectures allow the direct injection and synthesis of waveform samples. Secondly, the ...
Pujol Miró, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
The ability to capture depth information form an scene has greatly increased in the recent years. 3D sensors, traditionally high cost and low resolution sensors, are being democratized and 3D scans of ...
Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized ...
Liesegang Maria, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)
In the last few years, a lot of effort has been put into the development of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G). Given the vast heterogeneity of devices coexisting in these networks, new ...
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 ...
Oro García, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)
Recently, facial recognition systems have become extremely popular and deployments of this technology are now ubiquitous. Applications ranging from access control to automated surveillance of video feeds ...
Raafat, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)
The rapid growth of wireless industry opens the door to several use cases such as internet of things and device-to-device communications, which require boosting the reliability and the spectral efficiency ...
Tabares Giraldo, Jeison (Date of defense: 2021-09-08)
Worldwide, the coherent technologies have revolutionized the optical communication systems, significantly increasing the capacity of the fiber channel owing to transmission of advanced modulation formats ...
Ardanuy Della, Antoni (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
This thesis aims at exploring the limits of low peak-power, low-cost, all-semiconductor, compact lidars (laser radars) for range-resolved remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The systems ...