Pons Freixes, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
Water is the most important resource for living on planet Earth, covering more than 70% of its surface. The oceans represent more than 97% of the planet total water and they are where more than the 99.5% ...
Nadal Reixats, Laia (Date of defense: 2014-11-21)
Due to the increasing global IP traffic and the exponential growing demand for broadband services, optical networks are experimenting significant changes. Advanced modulation formats are being implemented ...
Sharifi, Leila (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Energy has been emerged as a first-class computing resource in modern systems. The trend has primarily led to the strong focus on reducing the energy consumption of data centers, coupled with the growing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wolf, Martin (Date of defense: 2013-11-11)
If speech is acquired by a close-talking microphone in a controlled and noise-free environment, current state-of-the-art recognition systems often show an acceptable error rate. The use of close-talking ...
Gregori Casas, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
Over the last few decades, transistor miniaturization has enabled a tremendous increase in the processing capability of commercial electronic devices, which, combined with the reduction of production ...
Pastore, Adriano (Date of defense: 2014-07-26)
The present thesis studies information rates for reliable transmission of information over fading channels in the realistic situation where the receiver has only imperfect channel-state knowledge. Of ...
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 ...