Browsing Programa de Doctorat en Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions by Title

Pairing-based non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments and applications

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, we explore how efficient ...

Parametric analysis of ambisonic audio: a contributions to methods, applications and data generation

Pérez López, Andrés (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)

Due to the recent advances in virtual and augmented reality, ambisonics has emerged as the de facto standard for immersive audio. Ambisonic audio can be captured using spherical microphone arrays, which are becoming ...

Patterns of spike synchrony in neural field models

Esnaola Acebes, Jose M. (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)

Els models neuronals de camp mig són descripcions fenomenològiques de l'activitat de xarxes de neurones espacialment organitzades. Gràcies a la seva simplicitat, aquests models són unes eines extremadament útils per a ...

Perceived consistency and coherence in collaborative story worlds

Tapscott, Alan (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)

Current information technologies allow users to interact and collaborate to create fictional realities. In this thesis, we explore the role of perceived consistency and coherence in the collaborative creation of fictional ...

Perceptually-inspired gamut mapping for display and projection tecnologies

Zamir, Syed Waqas (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)

The cinema and television industries are continuously working in the development of image features that can provide a better visual experience to viewers; these image attributes include large spatial resolution, high ...

Performance evaluation of safety critical ITS-G5 V2V communications for cooperative driving Applications

Lyamin, Nikita (Date of defense: 2019-01-30)

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are aiming to provide innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated ...

Phase-based signal analysis measures applied to electroencephalographic recordings from epilepsy patients

Espinoso Palacín, Anaïs (Date of defense: 2023-12-12)

This thesis presents new phase-based signal analysis techniques to study brain dynamics from patients with pharmacoresistant focalonset epilepsy. We analyze electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings from seizure and ...

Plan recognition as planning

Ramírez Jávega, Miquel (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)

Plan recognition is the problem of inferring the goals and plans of an agent after partially observing its behavior. This is the inverse of planning, the problem of finding the actions that need to be done in order to ...

Prediction-based strategies for reducing data transmissions in the loT

Martins Dias, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)

Predictions about the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the next years are optimistic. The number of interconnected devices will continue to grow exponentially, as well as the amount of data that they report. Part ...

The Principles of advanced virtual reality-based neurorehabilitation how the training in virtual reality and based on principles can support the recovery and diagnosis of disabilities after stroke

Maier, Martina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)

The increase in stroke survivors poses a global challenge for the current health care system. The way that standard therapy is provided today impacts long-term disability and dependency in ADL insufficiently. The associated ...

Probabilistic models for human judgments about uncertainty in intuitive inference tasks

Schustek, Philipp (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)

Updating beliefs to maintain coherence with observational evidence is a cornerstone of rationality. This entails the compliance with probabilistic principles which acknowledge that real-world observations are consistent ...

Program synthesis for generalized planning

Segovia Aguas, Javier (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)

Generalized planning is the problem of finding an algorithm-like solution called generalized plan to multiple planning instances. The two main tasks to perform in generalized planning are synthesizing and validating ...

Proximal junctional failure stratification in adult spine surgery using 3D patient-specific finite element models

Rasouligandomani, Morteza (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)

Adult Spine Deformity (ASD) leads to abnormal spine curvature causing imbalance, pain, and fall risk. Spinal surgery is common but carries the risk of Mechanical Complications (MC), notably Proximal Junctional Failure ...

Public visualization displays of citizen data: design, impact and implications

Valkanova, Nina (Date of defense: 2014-12-17)

The constant development of ubiquitous computing has enabled the pervasive integration of sensing and display technologies in everyday public settings. Urban digital screens are increasingly dominating the visual cityscape, ...

Quality-efficiency trade-offs in machine learning applied to text processing

Liaghat, Zeinab (Date of defense: 2017-03-09)

Nowadays, the amount of available digital documents is rapidly growing, expanding at a considerable rate and coming from a variety of sources. Sources of unstructured and semi-structured information include the World ...

Quantification of the influence of detailed endocardial structures on human cardiac haemodynamics and electrophysiology using HPC

Sacco, Federica (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)

In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As an example, the Food ...

Radio Resource Management strategies based hopfield neural networks

Garcia Garcia, Núria (Date of defense: 2009-05-25)

Esta tesis doctoral se enmarca en la temática de Gestion de Recursos Radioelectricos en los sistemas de comunicaciones móviles, 3G, B3G y 4G. Como es ampliamente conocido los recursos radios son escasos, particularmente ...

Re-thinking human-computer interaction research and design with a growing ageing population: widening contexts of technology use, changing the subject and object of design

Righi, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

This dissertation analyses, reflects on, and re-thinks the way in which Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research is conducted with a growing ageing population. This dissertation draws upon a 5-year research-through design ...

Re-thinking large scale hate speech identification: beyond common NLP conventions and supervised machine learning

Teixeira Fortuna, Paula Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)

The detection of hate speech in online spaces is traditionally conceptualized as a classification task that uses Machine Learning (ML)-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In accordance with this ...

Reading out neural populations: shared variability, global fluctuations and information processing

Romero Arandia, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2017-06-19)

Entendre l'origen i la funció de l'activitat de poblacions neuronals, i com aquesta activitat es relaciona amb els estímuls sensorials, les decisions o les accions motores és un gran repte per les neurociències. En ...