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 ...
Mata Miquel, Christian (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
Prostate and breast cancer are the most common cause of cancers in men and women, respectively. Medical imaging plays an important role in breast and prostate cancer detection and evaluation. Then to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bernal Moyano, Jose (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
The quantification of cerebral atrophy is fundamental in neuroinformatics since it permits diagnosing brain diseases, assessing their progression, and determining the effectiveness of novel treatments ...
Torrent Palomeras, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-07-08)
This thesis deals with the simultaneous detection and segmentation for generic objects in images. The proposed approach is based on building a dictionary of patches, which defines the object and allows ...
Aguirre Guerrero, Daniela (Date of defense: 2019-05-15)
This Thesis focuses on the problem of generic routing in Cayley Graphs(CGs). These graphs are a geometric representation of algebraic groups and have been used as topologies of a wide variety of ...
Hurtós Vilarnau, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2014-10-30)
Vehicle operations in underwater environments are frequently compromised by poor visibility conditions. In this thesis, we propose an end-to-end mosaicing framework tailored to the characteristics of ...