Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-04-11)
A new fast and progressive set-partitioning image compression parallel algorithm with Region Of Interest (ROI) which outputs an embedded bit oriented rate-distortion optimized stream and addresses very ...
Peñalver Monfort, Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
This thesis studies the problem of autonomously grasping an unknown object in an underwater scenario using an I-AUV. Firstly, a new approach to autonomously obtain an accurate and complete 3D reconstruction ...
Castelló Gimeno, Adrián (Date of defense: 2018-10-02)
Lightweight thread (LWT) libraries have been developed to tackle fine-grained and dynamic software requirements. These libraries are based on the concept of threads that are managed in the user-space. This ...
Catalán Pallarés, Sandra (Date of defense: 2018-02-06)
This dissertation targets two important problems. The first one is the design of low-level DLA kernels for architectures comprising two (or more) classes of cores. The main question we have to address ...
Iserte Agut, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
This proposal addresses, from two different approaches, the improvement of data centers productivity through an efficient resource management. On the one hand, the combination of GPU remote virtualization ...
Valls Pla, Xavier (Date of defense: 2018-10-19)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is generating Physics data at an unprecedented rate that is expected to continue increasing in the future. This situation results in increasing demands in computation ...
Rubert Escuder, Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-10-08)
Artificial manipulation has been one of the main areas of interest in robotics for decades. Finding a proper grasp to seize objects and design robotic hands capable of such grasps are two of the main ...