Franzoni, Federico (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
During the last decade, cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial industry. In these systems, participants communicate by means of a peer-to-peer protocol. Today, many of such protocols take ...
Salleras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Telecommunication systems such as mobile communications are evolving over time, and thanks to that, many digital services have arisen in the last decade. Usually, these services ask their users to provide ...
Bellés Muñoz, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)
In recent years, zero-knowledge proofs have come to play a crucial role in distributed systems where there is no trust between the parties involved. Most popular proof systems are for the NP-complete ...
Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and ...
Butti, Silvia (Date of defense: 2022-10-20)
This thesis focuses on the complexity of the fixed-template Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and its variants. Our contributions are two-fold. On the one hand, we study how closure of the space of ...
Fernández López, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
In the last decades, there has been an increased interest in decoding speech exclusively using visual cues, i.e. mimicking the human capability to perform lip-reading, leading to Automatic Lip-Reading ...
Aspandi Latif, Decky (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
Automatic Facial Analysis is one of the most important field of computer vision due to its significant impacts to the world we currently live in. Among many applications of Automatic Facial Analysis, ...
Karimi-Haghighi, Marzieh (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
We try to address some challenges in structured risk assessment tools in two application areas of recidivism risk in criminal justice and dropout risk in higher education domain. Using Machine Learning ...
Perera Bel, Enric (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Diverses teràpies mèdiques es basen en l’electroporació. Entre d’altres, l’electroporació s'usa per al tractament de tumors sòlids. Com que només afecta les cèl·lules i la matriu extracel·lular queda ...
Silva Velón, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-11)
In this thesis, we present some public-key cryptographic schemes. This work is divided in two halves. The rst half deals with zero-knowledge proofs in the classical setting and under falsi able ...