Masias Moyset, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-07-28)
The use of automatic algorithms to detect astronomical sources (stars, galaxies, gas, dust or cosmic rays) becomes of great importance because of the increasing amount of astronomical images and the ...
Hernández Vega, Juan David (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
The most common applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) include imaging and inspecting different kinds of structures on the sea. Most of these applications require a priori information ...
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 ...
Rueda Pepinosa, Diego Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
Most of transportation networks interacts with other to support our modern society way of life. The proper performance of interdependent networks depends on the normal operation of the networks that are ...
Hernàndez Bes, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-06-15)
This thesis addresses the path planning problem for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) using homotopy classes to provide topological information on how paths avoid obstacles. Looking for a path within ...
Prados Gutiérrez, Ricard (Date of defense: 2013-05-02)
The fusion of several images of the same scene into a single and larger composite is known as photo-mosaic. Unfortunately, the seams along image boundaries are often noticeable, due to photometrical and ...
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 ...
Palomeras Rovira, Narcís (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
The presented work focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects concerning the design and development of a formal method to build a mission control system for autonomous underwater vehicles bringing ...
Ghose, Soumya (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)
Prostate segmentation in trans rectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates volume estimation, multi-modal image registration, surgical planing and image guided prostate ...
Baldiris Navarro, Silvia Margarita (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)
This thesis aim for promoting the learning objects economy by offering teacher the possibility of generating adaptive and standardized learning designs. The adaptation of the generated learning design ...