Trulls Fortuny, Eduard (Date of defense: 2015-02-20)
Local features have become an essential tool in visual recognition. Much of the progress in computer vision over the past decade has built on simple, local representations such as SIFT or HOG. SIFT in ...
Simó Serra, Edgar (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Understanding humans from photographs has always been a fundamental goal of computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as detecting the location of individuals by means of bounding boxes. ...