Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)
(English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be ...
Chamorro Hernández, William Oswaldo (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
(English) Event-based cameras are novel sensors with a bio-inspired design that exhibit a high dynamic range and extremely low latency. They sensing principle is different than the one of conventional ...
San Miguel Tello, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-09-04)
(English) Although robotic platforms have been used for a wide range of purposes, recent advances in robot autonomy raise the opportunity of bringing them closer to humans. This implies that, under any ...
Corona Puyane, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-11-16)
(English) Understanding humans in images has been a long-standing goal in Computer Vision. Recently, modelling and generation of virtual humans has become a popular area of research spurred by the success ...
Andriella, Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)
(English) There are 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050. While there are no pharmacological treatments for this syndrome, behavioural therapy ...
Cecilia Piñol, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)
(English) Critical energy challenges are forcing a rapid modification of the current energy infrastructure. lndeed, larger renewable energy penetration, more distributed generation and storage, and ...
Martí Saumell, Josep (Date of defense: 2024-04-30)
(English) Aerial manipulators, which commonly take the form of multirotors with attached robotic limbs, primarily employ their limbs for pure manipulation tasks and do not rely on them during aerial ...
Wang, Bin (Date of defense: 2022-10-19)
(English) In this thesis, the dynamic model for the piezoelectric cantilever beam is build by using partial differential equation (PDE). To facilitate the parameter estimation procedure and the controller ...
Trapiello Fernández, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
(English) Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) constitute a new generation of control systems that seeks a better integration between computation and physical processes. However, the notable advances of these ...