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Emanuele Vivoli will defend his PhD thesis on October 30, 2026. What is the thesis about? Comics present a uniquely challenging testbed for multimodal AI: their stylized visuals, dense text, unconventional layouts, and long-range narrative dependencies expose weaknesses in both specialized computer vision systems and large, general-purpose vision–language models (VLMs/MLLMs). Over the past three decades, … Read more

Mohamed Ramzy Ibrahim will defend his PhD thesis on October 29, 2026. What is the thesis about? Remote sensing has become a fundamental technology for Earth observation, supporting applications such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, urban analysis, and disaster management. However, the usefulness of satellite and aerial imagery is often limited by spatial resolution, which … Read more

Naveed Riad will defended his PhD thesis on May 26, 2026. What is the thesis about? Artificial Intelligence has become a cornerstone of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), where anticipating human behavior has a direct impact on road safety. Pedestrian intention prediction (PIP), which determines whether a pedestrian will cross in front of an ego-vehicle, is … Read more

Dipam Goswami will defended his PhD thesis on April 22, 2026. What is the thesis about? Neural networks are extensively used throughout computer vision for a wide range of tasks, where the networks are typically trained on datasets in a single training session. However, enabling these networks to learn continually is challenging as new data … Read more

Patricia Leonor Suárez Riofrío will defended her PhD thesis on March 24, 2026. What is the thesis about? Cross-domain image processing has emerged as a key research area in computer vision, driven by the need to overcome limitations posed by missing or inaccessible data from specialized sensors, which are often costly or unavailable. This field focuses … Read more

Yael Tudela will defended his PhD thesis on November 14, 2025. What is the thesis about? Colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention is heavily reliant on colonoscopy for the detection and removal of precancerous polyps. However, challenges persist in minimizing polyp miss-rates and in accurately characterizing polyp histology (e.g., adenoma, hyperplastic, sessile serrated lesion – SSL) in … Read more

Sanket Biswas will defended his PhD thesis on November 7, 2025. What is the thesis about? Understanding the visual and structural language of documents is central to Document AI. This thesis explores the hypothesis that layout acts as a latent language — a structured grammar that governs how information is arranged and interpreted in visually … Read more

Héctor Laria successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 8, 2025, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Deep generative models have revolutionized image synthesis, enabling unprecedented capabilities in content creation across diverse domains. Despite significant advances, these models face several fundamental challenges that … Read more

Asma Bensalah successfully defended her PhD thesis on April 28, 2025, and she is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? “While health has no price, it certainly has a cost. The scope of this thesis is to reduce costs related to health issues using artificial intelligence … Read more

Diego Porres Bustamante successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on December 5, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has accelerated the advancement of numerous fields, particularly where data and computational resources are readily accessible. This thesis explores two … Read more