Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions: Recent submissions
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Human body analysis using depth data
Human body analysis is one of the broadest areas within the computer vision field. Researchers have put a strong effort in the human body analysis area, specially over the last decade, due to the technological improvements ...
Contribution to spectrum management in cognitive radio networks: a cognitive management framework
To overcome the current under-utilization of spectrum resources, the CR (Cognitive Radio) paradigm has gained an increasing interest to perform the so-called Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). In this respect, Cognitive Radio ...
MIMO designs for filter bank multicarrier and multiantenna systems based on OQAM
From the perspective of increasingly data rate requirements in mobile communications, it is deemed necessary to do further research so that the future goals can be reached. To that end, the radio-based communications are ...
Optimization of emerging extended FTTH WDM/TDM PONs and financial overall assessment
Optical access technology has experienced a boost in the last years, thanks to the continuously migrating multimedia services that are offered over the internet. Though the technologies used for deploying Fiber-To-The-x ...
Acoustic event detection and localization using distributed microphone arrays
Automatic acoustic scene analysis is a complex task that involves several functionalities: detection (time), localization (space), separation, recognition, etc. This thesis focuses on both acoustic event detection (AED) ...
Image segmentation evaluation and its application to object detection
The first parts of this Thesis are focused on the study of the supervised evaluation of image segmentation algorithms. Supervised in the sense that the segmentation results are compared to a human-made annotation, known ...
Distributed consensus algorithms for wireless sensor networks: convergence analysis and optimization
Wireless sensor networks are developed to monitor areas of interest with the purpose of estimating physical parameters or/and detecting emergency events in a variety of military and civil applications. A wireless sensor ...
Hyperspectral image representation and processing with binary partition trees
The optimal exploitation of the information provided by hyperspectral images requires the development of advanced image processing tools. Therefore, under the title Hyperspectral image representation and Processing with ...
Parametric region-based foreround segmentation in planar and multi-view sequences
Foreground segmentation in video sequences is an important area of the image processing that attracts great interest among the scientist community, since it makes possible the detection of the objects that appear in the ...
Design of isofrequency reconfigurable repeaters
The advances in the communications systems has brought new requirements and challenges in terms of compactness and efficient systems that looking for increase the signal coverage area. The reconfigurable antennas are a ...
Terahertz integrated antenna arrays for imaging applications
Terahertz is the portion of the spectrum that covers a frequency range between 300 GHz - 3 THz. This frequency band has proven its potential for imaging applications thanks to the good compromise between spatial resolution ...
Ground plane booster antenna technology for wireless handheld devices
This thesis is framed in the field of mobile communications and more particularly in handset antennas. The wireless industry is constantly growing, which entails challenging handset antenna specifications. Handset antennas ...
Design rules and optimization of electro-optic modulators based on coplanar waveguides
Electro-optical traveling wave modulators (EO-TWM) are basic building blocks of the optical communications industry which is leading a revolution in the way we communicate, work and live. As a result, the demand for ...
WDM/TDM PON bidirectional networks single-fiber/wavelength RSOA-based ONUs layer 1/2 optimization
This Thesis proposes the design and the optimization of a hybrid WDM/TDM PON at the L1 (PHY) and L2 (MAC) layers, in terms of minimum deployment cost and enhanced performance for Greenfield NGPON. The particular case of ...
Characterization and design of coherent optical OFDM transmission systems based on Hartley Transform
Nowadays, due to huge deployment of optical transport networks, a continuous increase towards higher data rates up to 100 Gb/s and beyond is observed. Furthermore, an evolution of the current optical networks is forecasted, ...
Reconfigurable pixel antennas for communications
The explosive growth of wireless communications has brought new requirements in terms of compactness, mobility and multi-functionality that pushes antenna research. In this context, recon gurable antennas have gained a lot ...
Millimeter-wave and terahertz imaging techniques
This thesis presents the development and assessment of imaging techniques in the millimeterwave (mmW) and terahertz frequency bands. In the first part of the thesis, the development of a 94 GHz passive screener based on a ...
Digital design and experimental validation of high-performance real-time OFDM systems
The goal of this Ph.D. dissertation is to address a number of challenges encountered in the digital baseband design of modern and future wireless communication systems. The fast and continuous evolution of wireless ...
GNSS reflectometry for land remote sensing applications
Soil moisture and vegetation biomass are two essential parameters from a scienti c and economical point of view. On one hand, they are key for the understanding of the hydrological and carbon cycle. On the other hand, soil ...
Collaborative beamforming schemes for wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting capabilities
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have attracted considerable attention in the research community. Their development, induced by technological advances in microelectronics, wireless networking and battery fabrication, ...
