Clapés i Sintes, Albert (Date of defense: 2019-02-04)
Action recognition is a very challenging and important problem in computer vision. Researchers working on this field aspire to provide computers with the ability to visually perceive human actions – ...
Ponce López, Víctor (Date of defense: 2016-06-02)
The representation (or feature) learning has been an emerging concept in the last years, since it collects a set of techniques that are present in any theoretical or practical methodology referring to ...
Bertiche Argila, Hugo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
[eng] Machine learning has experienced a soar thanks to the proliferation of deep learning based methodologies. 3D vision is one of the many fields that benefited from this trend. Within this domain, I ...
Puertas i Prats, Eloi (Date of defense: 2014-11-04)
Over the past few decades, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become a very useful tool in tasks where designing and programming explicit, rule-based algorithms are infeasible. Some ...
Corneanu, Cipiran Adrian (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Facial expressions are vital ways of communication between humans in social contexts. They are used as conversational markers and they convey information about affective and cognitive state. Many ...
Hernández-Vela, Antonio (Date of defense: 2015-03-09)
The visual analysis of humans from images is an important topic of interest due to its relevance to many computer vision applications like pedestrian detection, monitoring and surveillance, human-computer ...
Selva Castelló, Javier (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)
[eng] With the aim of creating artificial systems capable of mirroring the nuanced understanding and interpretative powers inherent to human cognition, this thesis embarks on an exploration of the ...