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 ...
Agraz Bujan, Fernando (Date of defense: 2012-10-01)
Current network infrastructures are supported on a layered model whereby heterogeneous data traffic can be seamlessly transported. In this architecture, where client/server relationships are established ...
Fernández Aymerich, Ismael (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
There is a lack on ocean dynamics understanding, and that lead oceanographers to the need of acquiring more reliable data to study ocean characteristics. Oceanographic measurements are difficult and ...
Novillo Parales, Francisco Vicente (Date of defense: 2013-06-04)
The growing need for wireless connectivity is pushing the massive adoption and usage of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 standard (Wi-Fi), leading to dense deployments of ...
Fabra Cervellera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
This work evaluates the potential use of signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) that scatter off the Earth surface for the retrieval of geophysical information from the cryosphere. ...
Polyàkova, Tatyana V. (Date of defense: 2015-03-13)
This thesis focuses on the phonetic transcription in the framework of text-to-speech conversion, especially on improving adaptability, reliability and multilingual support in the phonetic module. The ...
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 ...
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 ...