Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)
To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in ...
Esnaola Acebes, Jose M. (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
Els models neuronals de camp mig són descripcions fenomenològiques de l'activitat de xarxes de neurones espacialment organitzades. Gràcies a la seva simplicitat, aquests models són unes eines extremadament ...
Gil Rodríguez, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
In this thesis we focus on two different image processing challenges: high dynamic range (HDR) image/video generation, and colour matching. In both cases, we redefine these tasks by taking into account ...
Schustek, Philipp (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)
Updating beliefs to maintain coherence with observational evidence is a cornerstone of rationality. This entails the compliance with probabilistic principles which acknowledge that real-world observations ...
Núñez García, Marta (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Many aspects related to the pathogenesis and progression of atrial fibrillation (AF) are still not fully understood. In this thesis we have contributed with (1) an automatic framework to segment the ...
Benkarim, Mohamed Oualid (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Nowadays, imaging of the human brain is vastly used in clinical settings and by the neuroscientific research community. There is an ever-increasing demand for novel biomedical image analysis approaches ...
Miron, Marius (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Humans are able to distinguish between various sound sources in their environment and selectively attend to specific ones. However, it is a difficult task to teach a computer to automatically separate ...
Santos-Pata, Diogo (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
Every animal on our planet wanders around when looking for something. Whether it is in search of food, a mate, or home, navigation is one of the most performed cognitive behaviors in Nature. Nevertheless, ...
Ghimpeteanu, Gabriela (Date of defense: 2018-01-23)
Noise acquisition is an unavoidable component when capturing photographs, even in the case of current state of the art cameras. This problem is even accentuated when the lighting conditions are not ...
Maffei, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations ...