Castellví Fernández, Quim (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Most physical ablation modalities for cancer treatment are focal and are based on thermal damage. Despite their regular clinical use as an alternative to surgical resection, their thermal principle of ...
Ramírez Jávega, Miquel (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)
Plan recognition is the problem of inferring the goals and plans of an agent after partially observing its behavior. This is the inverse of planning, the problem of finding the actions that need to ...
Özaslan, Tan Hakan (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
L’estudi de l’expressivitat musical és un camp molt actiu en la computació musical. El seu interès ve donat per diverses motivacions: entendre i modelitzar l’expressivitat musical; identificar els ...
Lazcano, Vanel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In this thesis we tackle two problems, namely, the data interpolation prob- lem in the context of depth computation both for images and for videos, and the problem of the estimation of the apparent ...
Mille, Simon (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
The present Ph.D. thesis addresses the problem of deep data-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG), and in particular the role of proper corpus annotation schemata for stochastic sentence realization. ...
Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the ...
Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...
Paun, Bruno (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
The role of trabeculations and their normal morphological expression in the human heart is still unclear. Clinical studies have shown that excessive trabeculation can cause heart failure due to diastolic ...
Sánchez Martínez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
This thesis focuses on the development of machine learning tools to better characterize the cardiac anatomy and function in the context of heart failure, and in particular their extension to consider ...
Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical ...