Kalalas, Charalampos (Date of defense: 2018-07-19)
The next-generation electric power system, known as smart grid, relies on a robust and reliable underlying communication infrastructure to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution. Cellular ...
Zenginis, Ioannis (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Energy and transportation sectors are going through major changes as a result of technological advances, depletion of fossil fuels and climate change. With regard to the energy sector, the future smart ...
Datsika, Eftychia (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
As numerous mobile applications and over-the-top (OTT) services emerge and mobile Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous, the provision of high quality of service (QoS) is more challenging for mobile ...
Querol Borràs, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) signals are undesired signals that degrade or disrupt the performance of a wireless receiver. RFI signals can be troublesome for any receiver, but they are especially ...
Lin, Xiao (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
In this thesis, we study RGB-D based segmentation problems from different perspectives in terms of the input data. Apart from the basic photometric and geometric information contained in the RGB-D data, ...
Ghahabi Esfahani, Omid (Date of defense: 2018-05-29)
Over the last few years, i-vectors have been the state-of-the-art technique in speaker and language recognition. Recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) technology have improved the quality of i-vectors ...
Chaparro Danon, David (Date of defense: 2018-10-15)
Human activity leads to environmental changes which threaten the vegetation. Global warm ing trends, deforestation and land cover, or modified Earth's surface albedo, are sorne examples of these ...