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 ...
Henriquez Q., Carlos A. (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)
With the arrival of free on-line machine translation (MT) systems, came the possibility to improve automatic translations with the help of daily users. One of the methods to achieve such improvements ...
Sales Zaragozá, Vicente (Date of defense: 2017-10-25)
A new passive optical network (PON) for access, making use of ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing (UDWDM) by densely spacing channels by a few gigahertz and introducing the "wavelength-to-the-user" ...
Luque Serrano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-12-21)
This thesis verses about the research conducted in the topic of speaker recognition in real conditions like as meeting rooms, telephone quality speech and radio and TV broadcast news. The main objective ...
Barragán Cuesta, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)
This Ph.D. thesis focuses on: (i) the design and integration of a polarimetric channel for the multi-spectral Raman lidar station of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Remote Sensing, ...
Mendoza Montoya, Jesús Fabián (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)
The recent technological advances in the satellite domain such as the use of High Throughput Satellites (HTS) with throughput rates that are magnitudes higher than with previous ones, or the use of large ...
Rubio López, Javier (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
his dissertation proposes novel techniques for assigning resources of wireless networks by considering that the coverage radii are small, implying that some power consumption sinks not considered so far ...
Alonso González, Alberto (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
This thesis deals with the processing of different types of multidimensional SAR data for distinct applications. Instead of handling the original pixels of the image, which correspond to very local ...
López Méndez, Adolfo (Date of defense: 2012-12-10)
Human motion analysis is as a broad area of computer vision that has strongly attracted the interest of researchers in the last decades. Motion analysis covers topics such as human motion tracking and ...
Pham, Thi Quynh Anh (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
The power efficiency and linearity of radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) are critical in wireless communication systems. The main scope of PA designers is to build the RF PAs capable to maintain ...