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 ...
Ramirez-Ruiz, Jorge (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
The idea of optimal decision-making presupposes certain features about the agent and their environment. This thesis examines two common assumptions in disciplines that study natural and artificial ...
Vitoria Carrera, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Restoration of a high-quality image from a degraded recording is an important problem in early vision processing. In this thesis, we tackle three image restoration problems: image inpainting, colorization, ...
Sanabre, Carles (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
The evaluation of the technical features of websites using analysis systems has proven to be very effective to measure its quality. However, we still lack tools that treat and evaluate the quality of ...
Zamir, Syed Waqas (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
The cinema and television industries are continuously working in the development of image features that can provide a better visual experience to viewers; these image attributes include large spatial ...
Oramas Martín, Sergio (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
In this thesis, we address the problems of classifying and recommending music present in large collections. We focus on the semantic enrichment of descriptions associated to musical items (e.g., artists ...
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 ...