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    Hierarchical information representation and efficient classification of gene expression microarray data 

    Bosio, Mattia (Date of defense: 2014-06-27)

    In the field of computational biology, microarryas are used to measure the activity of thousands of genes at once and create a global picture of cellular function. Microarrays allow scientists to analyze expression of many ...

    Hierarchical region based processing of images and video sequences: application to filtering, segmentation and information retrieval 

    Garrido Ostermann, Luís (Date of defense: 2002-06-14)

    Este trabajo estudia la utilidad de representaciones jerárquicas basadas en regiones para el procesado de imagen y de secuencias de vídeo. Las representaciones basadas en regiones ofrecen una forma de realizar un primer ...

    High-resolution deformation measurement using "Persistent Scatterer Interferometry" 

    Devanthéry Arasa, Núria (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) is a group of advanced differential interferometric SAR techniques that are used to measure and monitor terrain deformation. Different PSI techniques have been proposed in the last ...

    High-resolution space-borne and ground-based SAR persistent scatterer interferometry for landslide monitoring 

    Iglesias González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)

    Every year, with the onset of spring rains and snow melting, landslides represent one of the major threats to human life and infrastructures in natural environments. In this context, different surveying techniques, such ...

    Higher-order statistics applications in image sequence processing 

    Sayrol Clols, Elisa (Date of defense: 1994-10-27)

    Aqueta tesi tracta dues aplicacions dels estadístics d'ordre superior al tractament d'imatges.En primer lloc, es proposa l'ús de mètodes basats en estadístics d'ordre superior per a larestauració d'imatges. Primerament, ...

    Human body analysis using depth data 

    Suau Cuadros, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)

    Human body analysis is one of the broadest areas within the computer vision field. Researchers have put a strong effort in the human body analysis area, specially over the last decade, due to the technological improvements ...

    Hyperspectral image representation and processing with binary partition trees 

    Valero Valbuena, Silvia (Date of defense: 2012-12-09)

    The optimal exploitation of the information provided by hyperspectral images requires the development of advanced image processing tools. Therefore, under the title Hyperspectral image representation and Processing with ...

    Image Compression based on Perceptual Coding Techniques 

    Casas Pla, Josep Ramon (Date of defense: 1996-03-29)

    En aquesta tesi s'estudien els mètodes de codificació d'imatges i seqüències de vídeo des del punt de vista de la forma en què el sistema visual humà percep i entén la informació visual. La rellevància d'aquest estudi ...

    Image segmentation evaluation and its application to object detection 

    Pont Tuset, Jordi (Date of defense: 2014-02-19)

    The first parts of this Thesis are focused on the study of the supervised evaluation of image segmentation algorithms. Supervised in the sense that the segmentation results are compared to a human-made annotation, known ...

    IMPACT OF CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION ON THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF MULTIANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 

    Payaró Llisterri, Miquel (Date of defense: 2007-02-14)

    Al llarg d'aquesta última dècada, s'ha produit un creixement constant en la demanda d'elevades taxes de transmissió de dades que han de suportar les aplicacions sobre comunicacions sense fils. Entre les diferents solucions ...

    Improving statistical machine translation through adaptation and learning 

    Henriquez Q., Carlos A. (Date of defense: 2014-03-07)

    With the arrival of free on-line machine translation (MT) systems, came the possibility to improve automatic translations with the help of daily users. One of the methods to achieve such improvements is to ask to users ...

    Impulsive noise cancellation and channel estimation in power line communication systems 

    Shrestha, Deep (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)

    Power line communication (PLC) is considered as the most viable enabler of the smart grid. PLC exploits the power line infrastructure for data transmission and provides an economical communication backbone to support the ...

    Injection of linguistic knowledge into neural text generation models 

    Casas Manzanares, Noé (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)

    Language is an organic construct. It emanates from the need for communication and changes through time, influenced by multiple factors. The resulting language structures are a mix of regular syntactic and morphological ...

    Integrated IT and SDN Orchestration of multi-domain multi-layer transport networks 

    Mayoral López de Lerma, Arturo (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)

    Telecom operators networks' management and control remains partitioned by technology, equipment supplier and networking layer. In some segments, the network operations are highly costly due to the need of the individual, ...

    Interferometric GNSS-R processing : modeling and analysis of advanced processing concepts for altimetry 

    Martín Alemany, Francisco (Date of defense: 2015-07-14)

    This PhD dissertation is focused on the use of the opportunity signals from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), that scatter-off the Earth's surface for perform ocean mesoscale altimetry (the so called GNSS-R ...

    Interferometric orbit determination for geosynchronous earth sensing missions 

    Nicolás Álvarez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2023-05-16)

    (English) Future Geosynchronous Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEOSAR) missions will provide permanent monitoring of continental areas of the planet with revisit times of less than 24 h. Several GEOSAR missions have been studied ...

    Introducing linguistic knowledge into statistical machine translation. 

    Gispert Ramis, Adrià (Date of defense: 2007-01-26)

    Aquesta tesi està dedicada a l'estudi de la utilització de informació morfosintàctica en el marc dels sistemes de traducció estocàstica, amb l'objectiu de millorar-ne la qualitat a través de la incorporació de informació ...

    Investigation of continuous-wave range-resolved lidar systems for gas detection and concentration measurement 

    Batet Torrell, Óscar (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)

    The techniques for detection of the atmosphere constituents and their distribution in the space have evolved in the last years driven by needs in the environmental, meteorological and climate science fields and backed by ...

    Investigation of reflective optical network units for bidirectional passive optical access networks 

    Arellano Pinilla, Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-07-25)

    Esta investigación está conducida a la resolución del problema de encontrar soluciones rentables para el despliegue de redes de fibra hasta el hogar (Fibre to the Home - FTTH). En una red de FTTH, el equipo transmisor-receptor ...

    Knowledge graph population from news streams 

    Fernández Cañellas, Dèlia (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)

    (English) Media producers publish large amounts of multimedia content online - both text, audio, image and video. As the online media market grows, the management and delivery of contents becomes a challenge. Semantic ...