Ganiler, Onur (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
This thesis deals with the detection of new multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. This disease is characterized by the presence of lesions in the brain, ...
Campos Dausà, Ricard (Date of defense: 2014-06-02)
Underwater maps are an important source of information for the scientific community, since mapping the seafloor is the starting point for underwater exploration. The advance of range scanning methodologies ...
Galceran Yebenes, Enric (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)
This thesis proposes new methods to find collision-free paths allowing an AUV to cover an area of the ocean floor with its sensors, which is known as coverage path planning. First, we propose a coverage ...
Shihavuddin, A.S.M. (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
This thesis addresses the problem of automated underwater optical image characterization. Remote underwater optical sensing allows the collection and storage of vast amounts of data for which manual ...
Mallios, Angelos (Date of defense: 2014-05-15)
This thesis presents the development of a localization and mapping algorithm for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). It is based on probabilistic scan matching of raw sonar scans within a pose-based ...