Sabir, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2020-11-10)
This thesis addresses the problem of improving text spotting systems, which aim to detect and recognize text in unrestricted images (e.g. a street sign, an advertisement, a bus destination, etc.). The ...
Hakoniemi, Tuomas (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis concerns the proof complexity of algebraic and semialgebraic proof systems Polynomial Calculus, Sums-of-Squares and Sherali-Adams. The most studied complexity measure for these systems ...
Sànchez-Ferreres, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)
In the era of digital transformation, an increasing number of organizations are start ing to think in terms of business processes. Processes are at the very heart of each business, and must be understood ...
Rahmani, Vahid (Date of defense: 2020-11-18)
Pathfinding for autonomous agents and robots has been traditionally driven by finding optimal paths. Where typically optimality means finding the shortest path between two points in a given environment. ...
Mena-Yedra, Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
This thesis has addressed the design and development of an integrated system for real-time traffic forecasting based on machine learning methods. Although traffic prediction has been the driving motivation ...
Jurado Gómez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
We are facing a global climate crisis that is demanding a change in the status quo of how we produce, distribute and consume energy. In the last decades, this is being redefined through Smart Grids(SG), ...
Zambrana Seguí, Maria del Carme (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)
(English) High-throughput omics technologies produce large-scale heterogeneous data that provide complementary views of the underlying complexity of the studied organism. To exploit these new data to ...
Renedo Mirambell, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
(English) This thesis presents a systematic approach to validate the results of clustering methods on weighted networks, particularly for the cases where the existence of a community structure is unknown. ...
Álvarez de la Campa Crespo, Mercè (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) Virtual reality (VR) allows not only to easily change the perceived scenario but also to control several factors associated with the sense of being in an embodied virtual avatar that would not ...
Blondel, Gilles (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)
(English) This thesis focuses on the discovery of causal relations and on the prediction of causal effects. Regarding causal discovery, this thesis introduces a novel and generic method to learn causal ...