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    Visual Navigation in Unknown Environments 

    Vidal Calleja, Teresa Alejandra (Date of defense: 2007-07-13)

    Navigation in mobile robotics involves two tasks, keeping track of the robot's position and moving according to a control strategy. In addition, when no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem is even ...

    Visual object analysis using regions and local features 

    Ventura Royo, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-07-08)

    The first part of this dissertation focuses on an analysis of the spatial context in semantic image segmentation. First, we review how spatial context has been tackled in the literature by local features and spatial ...

    Visual understanding of human behavior: 3D pose, motion, actions and context 

    Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

    (English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be broken down into a ...

    Visualization and interpretability in probabilistic dimensionality reduction models 

    Tosi, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    Over the last few decades, data analysis has swiftly evolved from being a task addressed mainly within the remit of multivariate statistics, to an endevour in which data heterogeneity, complexity and even sheer size, driven ...

    Vivienda masiva en Shanghái (1840 -2012): la supervivencia del Movimiento Moderno en la China contemporánea 

    Remón Esteban, José Ángel (Date of defense: 2013-03-14)

    Shanghái es una ciudad que desde el comienzo de su historia urbana contemporánea se ha desarrollado en base a la construcción de vivienda masiva. Desde sus primeros modelos, que le dieron su identidad, denominados lilong, ...

    Vivienda moderna en chile 1945-1965, Bresciani, Valdes, Castillo, Huidobro 

    Weibel Fernández, Hugo Eduardo (Date of defense: 2008-11-10)

    El objeto de estudio de esta tesis es la vivienda unifamiliar de la oficina chilena Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo, Huidobro. <br/>Dentro del conjunto de su obra, dicha temática -que dio origen a sus encargos y cuyo diseño ...

    Vivienda y ciudad, un único proyecto : la unidad vecinal Exequiel González Cortés, 1960-1964 

    Becerra Ibáñez, José Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)

    Durant el segle XX, en l'eix de recerca de l'habitatge i la seva relació amb la ciutat, adquireixen protagonisme els models urbans que afronten la dimensió col·lectiva del projecte residencial, a partir de les formes ...

    Vías y entrevías : atributos y compromisos del distrito industrial de Tarragona 

    Zaguirre Fernández, Juan Manuel, 1969- (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)

    This research project arose from an interest in the foundational logic of Tarragona's industrial area, as well as a desire to evaluate the impact of episodes and phenomena in urban development and reveal attributes of this ...

    Voice source characterization for prosodic and spectral manipulation 

    Pérez Mayos, Javier (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)

    The objective of this dissertation is to study and develop techniques to decompose the speech signal into its two main components: voice source and vocal tract. Our main efforts are on the glottal pulse analysis and ...

    Voltage-source-inverters with legs connected in parallel 

    Capellá Frau, Gabriel José (Date of defense: 2015-03-26)

    The number of applications that require the use of power converters has been continually increasing in the last years on account of environmental and economical concerns. The power to be processed by these converters has ...

    La voluntad moderna en la vivienda unifamiliar : Caracas 1945-1965 

    Campos Arévalo, María Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)

    The first political trame of the Venezuela urban history, established by "La Comisión Municipal de Urbanismo"in 1937;"La Dirección de Urbanismo","El Plan Monumental de Caracas' in 1939 and the 1952 and 1954 Caracas planimetry ...

    Vom Bau der Kirche : formulazioni teoriche e strategie compositive di Rudolf Schwarz 

    Drago, Samuel Joseph (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)

    Despite Rudolf Schwarz is one of the leading figures of contemporary architecture, he is also one of the lesser-known both in his country and outside. However, to quote the words of Mies van der Rohe, the baumeister ...

    Vulnerabilidad del diámetro de ciertas familias de grafos 

    Simó Mezquita, Ester (Date of defense: 1995-07-14)

    En este trabajo hemos realizado un estudio completo sobre la vulnerabilidad del diámetro de dos familias de grafos:<br/><br/>Los grafos impares y los n-cubo plegados. En el caso de los grafos impares, hemos probado que la ...

    Vulnerabilidad sísmica de edificaciones esenciales. Análisis de su contribución al riesgo sísmico 

    Safina Melone, Salvador (Date of defense: 2003-02-21)

    El presente trabajo se dedica al estudio de la vulnerabilidad y riesgo sísmico de las edificaciones esenciales. Se destaca la relevante función que desempeñan en la atención y gestión de la emergencia debido a sismos y la ...

    Vulnerabilidad sísmica de edificios de acero 

    Bermúdez Mejía, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2010-10-08)

    En esta tesis se aplican los métodos estático no lineal y dinámico no lineal en el edificio prototipo y en otros seis representativos de las principales subclases de las estructuras de acero. Como resultado se expresan los ...

    Vulnerabilidad sísmica en edificaciones porticadas compuestas de acero y hormigón armado 

    Ugel Garrido, Ronald David (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)

    In this study it was assessed the seismic behavior of framed buildings with composite structure of steel and reinforced concrete (RC) in a specific configuration formed with lower levels with RC (primary structure) and ...

    Vulnerabilidad y daño sísmico de edificios porticados de hormigón armado, irregulares en planta, en Barquisimeto, Venezuela 

    Herrera Gonzalez, Reyes Indira (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)

    In this research, the seismic response, the vulnerability and the expected damage in rein-forced concrete residential buildings, with irregular plants, are analyzed. This irregularity is mainly due to inbound and outbound ...

    Vulnerabilidad y riesgo sísmico de edificios. Aplicación a entornos urbanos en zonas de amenaza alta y moderada. 

    Bonett Díaz, Ricardo León (Date of defense: 2003-12-15)

    Las nuevas tendencias en la Ingeniería Sísmica, reconocen la necesidad de evaluar la vulnerabilidad de los edificios en entornos urbanos. De hecho, es allí donde se concentra la mayor parte de la población mundial, las ...

    Wake-up radio systems : design, development, performance evaluation and comparison to conventional medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks 

    Oller i Bosch, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2015-03-06)

    During the recent years, the research related to Wake-up Radio (WuR) systems has gained noticeable interest. In WuR systems, a node initiating a communication first sends a Wake-up Call (WuC) by means of its Wake-up ...

    Walking with virtual humans : understanding human response to virtual humanoids' appearance and behaviour while navigating in immersive VR 

    Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)

    In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In our simulations, ...