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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...