Programa de Doctorat en Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions

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Facilitating interpersonal synchrony in children: designing embodied mixed reality experiences to facilitate and asses prosocial behaviours in neurodiverse children 

Galí Pérez, Olga (Date of defense: 2024-12-12)

This thesis is focused on how full-body interactive design in multi-user Mixed Reality environments can support Interpersonal Synchrony (IPS) strategies to promote prosocial attitudes and behaviors in children. This ...

Multi-link operation for low-latency 

Carrascosa Zamacois, Marc (Date of defense: 2024-12-10)

Next generation applications will have strict network requirement, such as higher throughput and low latency. As Wi-Fi continues to grow, it needs to adapt to these new requirements. This thesis focuses on latency reduction ...

The Cost of sybils 

Mazorra, Bruno (Date of defense: 2024-12-10)

This thesis explores Sybil strategies in decentralized and anonymous systems, focusing on blockchain technology. Combining blockchain insights with game theory, mechanism design, and machine learning, the research analyzes ...

Optimization of transportation services for persons with reduced mobility 

Portell Penadés, Laura (Date of defense: 2024-11-29)

Aquesta tesi aborda l'optimització dels serveis de transport per a persones amb mobilitat reduïda, centrant-se en el Servei Municipal de Transport Especial de Barcelona. Els sistemes de transport accessibles són essencials ...

A High-performance computational framework for multiscale and multiphysics modelling of the intervertebral disc 

LIALIOS, DIMITRIOS (Date of defense: 2024-12-10)

This thesis develops a multiscale and multiphysics model of the intervertebral disc (IVD); it focuses on three main axes regarding: Mechanical response: It introduces a compatible porohyperelastic framework capable of ...

Design, development, and deployment of real-time drum accompaniment systems 

Haki, Behzad (Date of defense: 2024-12-04)

This dissertation examines the generation of real-time symbolic drum accompaniments, with a particular focus on live improvisation contexts. While the research does occasionally focus on the audio domain, the majority of ...

Empowering educators' inspiration during the learning design process with citizen science data and technology-enhanced learning 

Calvera Isabal, Miriam (Date of defense: 2024-11-19)

The creation of learning designs (LD) represents a pivotal aspect of pedagogical practice, as it entails the integration of subject-matter knowledge with the pedagogical expertise of individual educators. Furthermore, ...

High resolution 3D modelling of lumbar spine from MRI using deep learning 

Ranganathan, Sai Natarajan Thrissur (Date of defense: 2024-10-29)

This thesis addresses the growing problem of degenerative disorders of the intervertebral discs (IVD). Intervertebral Disc Degeneration (IDD) represents a progressive degradation of the IVDs compromising their biomechanical ...

Industrial augmented reality prototypes in the field of art authoring, dissemination, and consumption tools for artistic content on mobile devices with a focus generation Z 

Pérez Gómez, Antonia (Date of defense: 2024-10-22)

The advent of spatial content and increasingly advanced mixed reality devices is set to revolutionise the manner in which we interact with digital content, becoming the predominant human-computer interface in the ...

Deep audio representation learning for music using weak supervision 

Alonso Jiménez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2024-10-03)

Music audio tagging is the Music Information Retrieval task of assigning one or multiple labels to an audio signal. Current state-of-the-art music taggers rely on deep learning approaches, which offer high performance ...

Violin perfomance analysis using weak supervision 

Tamer, Nazif Can (Date of defense: 2024-10-02)

This thesis investigates the development of core Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies for Violin Performance Analysis, addressing both data and label scarcity. To mitigate data scarcity, the Violin Repertoire ...

Striking a balance global impact of the local regulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance in cortical networks 

Páscoa dos Santos, Francisco (Date of defense: 2024-09-06)

The study of complex systems has unraveled the basic principles underlying the emergence of collective behaviors in networks of interacting units. Following this framework, we suggest that excitatory-inhibitory balance ...

Normalizing flows for neuroimaging research 

Masias Bruns, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-07-08)

Psychotic disorders are characterized by poorly understood pathophysiological mechanisms, with a remarkable heterogeneity among patients, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. This results in a lack of definitive ...

Cinematic volume rendering solutions for the advanced exploration of medical images 

Baseer, Irum (Date of defense: 2024-07-04)

Medical visualization, commonly used in clinical routine for exploring cardiac data, is based on traditional techniques including multiplanar reformations, maximum intensity projection, and volume rendering that rely ...

Contributions to fully homomorphic encryption 

Rovira Cisterna, Sergi (Date of defense: 2024-05-29)

In recent years, the field of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has become one of the main pilars for privacy-preserving technologies. However, many challenges still remain to be tackled before this technology can be ...

Promoting socio-emotional interactions and regulation in computer supported collaborative learning: design, implementation and evaluation of technology features and affordances to facilitate the socio-emotional side of CSCL 

Velamazán Martínez, Mariano (Date of defense: 2024-05-16)

This thesis, a compendium of publications, aims at contributing knowledge to better design CSCL tools for promoting socioemotional interactions and regulation. We started with a field study in which we observed groups ...

Beyond the spectrum: prosodic, noise-enhanced and self-supervised features for speech recognition 

Cámbara Ruiz, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2024-04-02)

This dissertation investigates three methods for improving speech recognition in challenging conditions, focusing on feature enhancement and extending beyond spectral features. First, it demonstrates that incorporating ...

Blockchains in the real world: an interdisciplinary perspective on enchancing security and adoption 

Ramos, Simona (Date of defense: 2024-03-18)

This thesis investigates the complex nature of the blockchain ecosystem, where technology, law, and economics intersect across layers and applications. By offering an interdisciplinary perspective on blockchains, we seek ...

Characterization of left atrial hemodynamics with 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging, in-silico models and deep learning 

Morales Ferez, Xabier (Date of defense: 2024-04-26)

Although the left ventricle has traditionally held the spotlight as the primary determinant of cardiovascular disease prognosis, the characterization of left atrial hemodynamics is increasingly being recognized as a ...

Large scale off-policy and offline learning 

Gabbianelli, Germano (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)

Reinforcement Learning (RL), a subfield of machine learning and artifical intelligence, is a learning paradigm where an artificial agent learns to reach a predefined goal by trying to maximize a reward signal while ...

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