Fernández López, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
In the last decades, there has been an increased interest in decoding speech exclusively using visual cues, i.e. mimicking the human capability to perform lip-reading, leading to Automatic Lip-Reading ...
Espinosa-Anke, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence aimed at understanding and generating language as close as possible to a human’s. Today, NLP benefits substantially of large ...
Keyder, Emil Ragip (Date of defense: 2010-12-17)
Classical planning is the problem of nding a sequence of actions that take an agent from an initial state to a desired goal situation, assuming deter- ministic outcomes for actions and perfect ...
Pereañez, Marco (Date of defense: 2017-09-21)
This thesis presents three original and complementary approaches to enhance the quality of Statistical Shape Models (SSMs), that improve the accuracy of medical image segmentation in challenging ...
Durany Vendrell, Jaume (Date of defense: 2016-09-14)
L’acústica de sales és la ciència encarregada d’estudiar la propagació del so en entorns tancats. La informació acústica de qualsevol entorn, coneguda com la resposta impulsional, s’expressa en termes ...
Sáez-Trumper, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of ...
Valkanova, Nina (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)
The constant development of ubiquitous computing has enabled the pervasive integration of sensing and display technologies in everyday public settings. Urban digital screens are increasingly dominating ...
Vujovic, Milica (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
Research has provided relevant advances in evidence-based design for productive learning. For example, in the field of collaborative learning, there is extensive evidence for some key learning design ...
Derkach, Dmytro (Date of defense: 2018-12-03)
Al llarg de les últimes dècades, l'anàlisi facial ha atret un interès creixent i considerable per part de la comunitat investigadora amb l’objectiu de millorar la interacció i la cooperació entre les ...
Lobo Quintero, René Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores motivation within Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP), focusing on the Pyramid CLFP. It investigates how incorporating game mechanics (GM) can foster both intrinsic ...