Millán, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)
In many applications, one would like to perform calculations on smooth manifolds of dimension d embedded in a high-dimensional space of dimension D. Often, a continuous description of such manifold is ...
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 ...
Balle Pigem, Borja de (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)
The present thesis addresses several machine learning problems on generative and predictive models on sequential data. All the models considered have in common that they can be de ned in terms of ...
Rozo, Leonel (Date of defense: 2013-06-11)
One of the main challenges in Robotics is to develop robots that can interact with humans in a natural way, sharing the same dynamic and unstructured environments. Such an interaction may be aimed at ...
Rabiei, Nima (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
Limit analysis is relevant in many practical engineering areas such as the design of mechanical structure or the analysis of soil mechanics. The theory of limit analysis assumes a rigid, perfectly-plastic ...
Renedo Mirambell, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
(English) This thesis presents a systematic approach to validate the results of clustering methods on weighted networks, particularly for the cases where the existence of a community structure is unknown. ...