Torrent Palomeras, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)
This thesis deals with the simultaneous detection and segmentation for generic objects in images. The proposed approach is based on building a dictionary of patches, which defines the object and allows ...
Vidal Garcia, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Autonomous underwater vehicles are used nowadays in many applications. One of the applications is mapping of a particular area of the ocean. Quen the robot needs to cover the area of interest and no ...
Castillón Sánchez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
Accurate underwater 3D perception is essential to advance towards the automation of expensive, dangerous and/or time-consuming tasks, such as the inspection, maintenance and repair of off-shore ...
Shihavuddin, A.S.M. (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
This thesis addresses the problem of automated underwater optical image characterization. Remote underwater optical sensing allows the collection and storage of vast amounts of data for which manual ...
Martínez Álvarez, David (Date of defense: 2024-07-05)
Urban water networks serve as lifelines for densely populated areas, ensuring access to clean water for drinking, sanitation, and industrial purposes. These infrastructures form the backbone of urban ...
Ávila Garzón, Cecilia (Date of defense: 2018-06-12)
The adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) has been continuously growing and with it the need to addressing the diversity of students’ learning needs. Because of that, OER should meet with ...
Segovia Silvero, Juan (Date of defense: 2011-12-15)
This thesis studies robustness against large-scale failures in communications networks. If failures are isolated, they usually go unnoticed by users thanks to recovery mechanisms. However, such mechanisms ...
Esteba Masjuan, Joan (Date of defense: 2023-10-19)
Underwater robotics has undergone significant development in recent years. It has been applied to a wide range of sectors, such as the mapping of areas of interest, the collection of scientific data, ...
Camelo Botero, Miguel Hernando (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
This research work explores the use of the Greedy Geometric Routing (GGR) schemes to solve the scalability problem of the routing systems in Internet-like networks and several families of Data Center ...
Vallicrosa Massaguer, Guillem (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) true autonomy capabilities in complex unknown environments, have not yet been fully achieved because of the lack of online algorithms that can solve fundamental ...