Palacios Verdes, Héctor Luis (Date of defense: 2009-12-03)
Conformant planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions for achieving a goal in the presence of uncertainty in the initial state and state transitions. While few practical problems are ...
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 ...
Sfairopoulou, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-07-28)
In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Link Adaptation mechanisms, which choose the transmission rate of each node, provoke unexpected and random variations on the effective channel capacity. When these changes are ...
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 ...
Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct ...
Hakami, Eyad (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that ...
Pindado, Zaira (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, ...
Dovelos, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Undoubtedly, spectrum scarcity constitutes the main bottleneck of current wireless networks. It is therefore imperative to move beyond the sub-6 GHz band in order to overcome this limitation. Toward ...
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 ...