Fuhrmann, Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2012-01-25)
En aquesta tesi presentem un mètode general per al reconeixement automàtic d’instruments musicals partint d’un senyal d’àudio. A diferència de molts enfocs relacionats, el nostre evita restriccions ...
Betella, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
Due to the complexity of the natural world, scientific studies on cognitive, behavioral and physiological phenomena are typically conducted under strict laboratory conditions. Nonetheless, recent ...
Pons Puig, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Automatic music and audio tagging can help increase the retrieval and re-use possibilities of many audio databases that remain poorly labeled. In this dissertation, we tackle the task of music and audio ...
Sadek, Rida (Date of defense: 2012-12-07)
Video editing and object recognition are two significant fields in computer vi- sion: the first has remarkably assisted digital production and post-production tasks of a digital video footage; the ...
Calderón-Benavides, Liliana (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
This doctoral work focuses on identifying and understanding the intents that motivate a user to perform a search on the Web. To this end, we apply machine learning models that do not require more ...
Buehlmann, Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)
Les oscil·lacions d'activitat neuronal són un fenomen omnipresent a l'escorça cerebral. La funció d'aquestes oscil·lacions, però, no està clara. ¿Són només un epifenomen de les elevades taxes de descàrrega ...
Coleman, Graham Keith (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Sampling, as a musical or synthesis technique, is a way to reuse recorded musical expressions. In this dissertation, several ways to expand sampling synthesis are explored, especially mosaicing synthesis, ...
Şentürk, Sertan (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis addresses several shortcomings on the current state of the art methodologies in music information retrieval (MIR). In particular, it proposes several computational approaches to automatically ...
Landry, Pascal (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
This thesis focuses on defining a set of design strategies to develop and assess video games that foster physical activity, commonly referred to as exergames. Regular physical activity is essential for ...
Saenger Amoore, Victor Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-02-26)
The activity of the brain at rest reveals an intricate functional architecture and yet, the underlying mechanisms generating it are still not well understood. Whole-brain computational models have turned ...