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    Aspects of implicit and explicit human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information 

    Girardin, Fabien (Date of defense: 2009-07-14)

    El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también cómo nos relacionamos ...

    Aspects of personal information valuation in web browsing and mobile communication 

    Carrascal Ruiz, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-01-26)

    The goal of this dissertation is to provide insights into how web and mobile phone call users assign value to their personal information. Two user studies are presented. The first one used a refined Experience Sampling ...

    Assessing creativity in computer music ensembles: a computational approach 

    Comajuncosas, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    Over the last decade Laptop Orchestras and Mobile Ensembles have proliferated. As a result, a large body of research has arisen on infrastructure, evaluation, design principles and compositional methodologies for Computer ...

    Assessing the digital well-being of educational technologies supported by learning analytics 

    Hakami, Eyad (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)

    The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that underpin human life ...

    Assessing the impact of music recommendation diversity on listeners 

    Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

    This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, because the world music ...

    Audio content processing for automatic music genre classification : descriptors, databases, and classifiers 

    Guaus, Enric (Date of defense: 2009-09-21)

    Aquesta tesi versa sobre la classificació automàtica de gèneres musicals, basada en l'anàlisi del contingut del senyal d'àudio, plantejant-ne els problemes i proposant solucions. Es proposa un estudi de la ...

    Audio source separation for music in low-latency and high-latency scenarios 

    Marxer Piñón, Ricard (Date of defense: 2013-09-09)

    Aquesta tesi proposa mètodes per tractar les limitacions de les tècniques existents de separació de fonts musicals en condicions de baixa i alta latència. En primer lloc, ens centrem en els mètodes amb un baix cost ...

    Audio-visual deep learning methods for musical instrument classification and separation 

    Slizovskaia, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)

    In music perception, the information we receive from a visual system and audio system is often complementary. Moreover, visual perception plays an important role in the overall experience of being exposed to a music ...

    Automated cardiac MR image analysis for population imaging 

    Albà, Xènia (Date of defense: 2017-04-21)

    La pràctica clínica i la investigació generen grans quantitats de registres mèdics, incloent-hi imatges. No obstant això, molta informació que podria millorar l'assistència sanitària continua sent inaccessible. Es necessiten ...

    Automated processes and intelligent tools in CG media production 

    Romeo, Marco (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    La producció moderna dels mitjans descansa de forma important sobre continguts generats per ordinador, tals com animacions 3D, i efectes visuals digitals. Aquests actius complexos poblen videojocs, pel•lícules, televisió, ...

    Automatic and deliberate control of action: an embodied perspective of artificial and biological brains 

    Maffei, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)

    Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations are at the ...

    Automatic assessment of singing voice pronunciation: a case study with Jingju music 

    Gong, Rong (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Online learning has altered music education remarkable in the last decade. Large and increasing amount of music performing learners participate in online music learning courses due to the easy-accessibility and boundless ...

    Automatic characterization and generation of music loops and instrument samples for electronic music production 

    Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)

    Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio offer vast collections ...

    Automatic generation of descriptive related work reports 

    AbuRa'ed, Ahmed Ghassan Tawfiq (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)

    A related work report is a section in a research paper which integrates key information from a list of related scientific papers providing context to the work being presented. Related work reports can either be descriptive ...

    Automatic musical instrument recognition from polyphonic music audio signals 

    Fuhrmann, Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2012-01-25)

    En aquesta tesi presentem un mètode general per al reconeixement automàtic d’instruments musicals partint d’un senyal d’àudio. A diferència de molts enfocs relacionats, el nostre evita restriccions artificials o artificioses ...

    Automatic reconstruction of complex dynamical networks 

    Grau Leguia, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-03-15)

    Un problema principal de la ciència de xarxes és com reconstruir (inferir) la topologia d’una xarxa real a partir de senyals mesurades de les seves unitats internes. Entendre la arquitectura d’una xarxa complexa és clau, ...

    Automating crowd simulation: from parameter tuning to dynamic context-to-policy adaptation 

    Cabrero Daniel, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)

    Computer-generated crowds are becoming more and more frequent in films, video games and safety assessment applications. Many crowd simulation algorithms exist to address the needs of this diverse range of industries. Even ...

    Behavioral and neural correlates of logical inferences 

    Martín Salguero, Ana María (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)

    The aim of the dissertation is to explore behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of elementary deductive processes in infants and adults. To this purpose, we introduce a novel non-verbal task presenting scenes ...

    Belief tracking for multi-agent planning 

    Kominis, Filippos (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)

    Classical planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions that achieve a desired goal from an initial state, assuming deterministic actions. Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) on the other hand, provides formal ...

    Between logic and language, a quest for primitives of thought: investigations on the origin of logical operators and their relationship with language 

    Canudas Grabolosa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)

    In this thesis we focus on the relationship between language and logic, to try to find potential primitives of thought. We depart from a well-established linguistic theory (the theory of exhaustification), which claims ...