A journey of computer vision in sports: from tracking to orientation-base metrics 

    Arbués Sangüesa, Adrià (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-08)

    Although tracking data have completely revolutionized the whole data science paradigm in sports competitions with the largest economic resources, its use in a European context is still unexplored. In this thesis, three ...

    Knowing what you know: a pedagogical model based on learners’ metacognitive abilities 

    Blancas Muñoz, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-15)

    Students’ metacognition, that is, the ability to accurately assess one’s skill level and to update one’s internal model of those skills, is a crucial educational factor, as it can help students selfregulate their learning. ...

    Knowledge acquisition in the information age: the interplay between lexicography and natural language processing 

    Espinosa-Anke, Luis (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-14)

    Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence aimed at understanding and generating language as close as possible to a human’s. Today, NLP benefits substantially of large amounts of unnanotated ...

    Knowledge extraction and representation learning for music recommendation and classification 

    Oramas Martín, Sergio (Fecha de defensa: 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 biographies, album ...

    Knowledge-based probabilistic modeling for tracking lyrics in music audio signals 

    Dzhambazov, Georgi (Fecha de defensa: 2017-06-28)

    This thesis proposes specific signal processing and machine learning methodologies for automatically aligning the lyrics of a song to its corresponding audio recording. The research carried out falls in the broader field ...

    La celebració mediàtica de la Victòria a la Rússia post-soviètica. Anàlisi transversal dels observables de l'hegemonia en la commemoració televisiva de la Victòria sobre l'Alemanya nazi 

    Guerrero Solé, Frederic (Fecha de defensa: 2011-10-04)

    La present tesi doctoral té com a objectiu l’anàlisi de la commemoració televisiva de la Victòria sobre l’Alemanya nazi a la Rússia post-soviètica. En particular, l’anàlisi es centra en la retransmissió de la desfilada ...

    Lagragian duality for efficient large-scale reinforcement learning 

    Bas Serrano, Joan (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-28)

    Reinforcement learning is an expanding field where very often there is a mismatch between the high performance of the algorithms and their poor theoretical justification. For this reason, there is a need of algorithms ...

    Large scale image retrieval base on user generated content 

    Olivares Ríos, Ximena (Fecha de defensa: 2011-03-02)

    Los sistemas online para compartir fotos proporcionan una valiosa fuente de contenidos generado por el usuario (UGC). La mayor a de los sistemas de re- cuperaci on de im agenes Web utilizan las anotaciones textuales ...

    Large-scale online learning under partial feedback 

    Olkhovskaya, Julia (Fecha de defensa: 2022-02-11)

    La toma secuencial de decisiones con incertidumbre cubre una amplia clase de problemas. Las aplicaciones reales requieren que los algoritmos sean computacionalmente eficientes y escalables. Nosotros estudiamos un rango ...

    Learning from a robot: creating synthetic psychologically plausible agents 

    Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-07)

    Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially interact with ...

    Learning mechanisms of uncertainty and neuromodulation 

    Puigbò Llobet, Jordi-Ysard (Fecha de defensa: 2019-10-01)

    Learning systems are, by default, adaptive. Experience shapes the parame- ters of artificial systems, as well as it changes the connectivity of biological brains. Nonetheless, our attempts to create artificial learning ...

    Learning of meaningful visual representations for continuous lip-reading 

    Fernández López, Adriana (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-04)

    In the last decades, there has been an increased interest in decoding speech exclusively using visual cues, i.e. mimicking the human capability to perform lip-reading, leading to Automatic Lip-Reading (ALR) systems. ...

    Learning representations for medical image diagnosis: impact of curriculum training and architectural design 

    Jiménez Sánchez, Amelia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-14)

    This thesis investigates two key aspects of learning deep-based image representations for medical diagnosis. The two are confronted with common challenges of medical image databases, namely, the limited number of samples, ...

    Left atrial parameterisation and multi-modal data analysis: application to atrial fibrillation 

    Núñez García, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-21)

    Many aspects related to the pathogenesis and progression of atrial fibrillation (AF) are still not fully understood. In this thesis we have contributed with (1) an automatic framework to segment the left atrium (LA) from ...

    Los títulos de crédito como marco de la obra fílmica: [1958-1969] 

    Rey Benito, Endika (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-20)

    Los títulos de crédito son secuencias que cumplen con una función estructural del relato fílmico siendo, a su vez, parte representante del hecho cinematográfico. Su carácter de firma autoral e identificador general integra ...

    MAC design and analysis for MU-MIMO and full-duplex enabled wireless networks 

    Liao, Ruizhi (Fecha de defensa: 2014-10-06)

    IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life at homes and working ...

    Machine learning and deep neural networks approach to modelling musical gestures 

    Cabrera Dalmazzo, David (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-02)

    Gestures can be defined as a form of non-verbal communication associated with an intention or an emotional state articulation. They are not only intrinsically part of the human language, but also explain specific details ...

    A machine learning approach to computer modeling of musical expression for performance learning and practice 

    Muneratti Ortega, Fábio José (Fecha de defensa: 2022-03-11)

    Aquesta tesi tracta sobre el disseny i la implementació de sistemes informàtics per a l'execució musical expressiva (CSEMP), explorant diferents mètodes de l'aprenentatge automàtic i reflexionant sobre el paper de l'estructura ...

    Machine learning methods for understanding social media communication: modeling irony and emojis 

    Barbieri, Francesco (Fecha de defensa: 2018-01-25)

    In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning methods, able to recognize ...

    Machine learning to support exploring and exploiting real-world clinical longitudinal data 

    Nogueira, Mariana (Fecha de defensa: 2020-10-05)

    Following-up on patient evolution by reacquiring the same measurements over time (longitudinal data) is a crucial component in clinical care dynamics, as it creates opportunity for timely decision making in preventing ...