Basta, Christine Raouf Saad (Date of defense: 2022-10-14)
(English) Gender bias is a dangerous form of social bias impacting an essential group of people. The effect of gender bias is propagated to our data, causing the accuracy of the predictions in models ...
Khan, Umair (Date of defense: 2021-01-11)
In speaker recognition, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art unsupervised technique over the last few years, whereas x-vectors is becoming the state-of-the-art supervised technique, these days. ...
Girbau Xalabarder, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-03-17)
Since less than a decade ago, deep learning techniques started to dominate many different fields, revolutionizing the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Seeing their potential, industrial sectors ...
Escolano Peinado, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
This thesis aims to study different language-specific approaches for Multilingual Machine Translation without parameter sharing and their properties compared to the current state-of-the-art based on ...
Casas Manzanares, Noé (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
Language is an organic construct. It emanates from the need for communication and changes through time, influenced by multiple factors. The resulting language structures are a mix of regular syntactic ...
Locatelli, Fabiano (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
One of the possible ways to address the constantly increasing amount of heterogeneous and variable internet traffic is the evolution of the current optical networks towards a more flexible, open, and ...
Pascual De La Puente, Santiago (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Deep learning has affected the speech processing and generation fields in many directions. First, end-to-end architectures allow the direct injection and synthesis of waveform samples. Secondly, the ...
Pujol Miró, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-09-18)
The ability to capture depth information form an scene has greatly increased in the recent years. 3D sensors, traditionally high cost and low resolution sensors, are being democratized and 3D scans of ...
Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized ...
Liesegang Maria, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-11-07)
In the last few years, a lot of effort has been put into the development of the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G). Given the vast heterogeneity of devices coexisting in these networks, new ...