Cartas Ayala, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2020-11-01)
Egocentric action recognition consists in determining what a wearable camera user is doing from his perspective. Its defining characteristic is that the person himself is only partially visible in the ...
Aghaei, Maedeh (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
Wearable photo-cameras offer a hands-free way to record images from the camera- wearer perspective of daily experiences as they are lived, without the necessity to interrupt recording due to the device ...
Miralles Barrachina, Felip (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
Our healthcare systems are facing sustainability challenges caused by a demographic shift with ageing, chronicity and disability growing in our society. A novel healthcare paradigm should be founded on ...
Talavera Martínez, Estefanía (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
Describing people’s lives has become a hot topic in several disciplines. Lifelogging appeared in the 1960s as the process of recording and tracking personal activity data generated by the daily behaviour ...
Aguilar, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
Several computer vision approaches have been proposed for tackling food analysis problems, due to the challenging problem it poses, the ease collection of food images, and its numerous applications to ...
Bolaños Solà, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-04-09)
The world of Machine Learning and Computer Vision has experienced a revolution since the last years. The appearance of Deep Learning algorithms and Convolutional Neural Networks, altogether with the ...
Alberti, Marina (Date of defense: 2013-02-21)
In this thesis, several methods for the automatic analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) sequences are presented, aimed at assisting physicians in the diagnosis, the assessment of the intervention ...
Drozdzal, Michal (Date of defense: 2014-05-16)
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a technique for inner-visualization of the entire small intestine and, thus, offers an interesting perspective on intestinal motility. The two major drawbacks of this ...
Pezzano, Giuseppe (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)
[eng] During the last few years, AI development in deep learning has been going so fast that even important researchers, politicians, and entrepreneurs are signing petitions to try to slow it down. The ...