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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

Shun Yao successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on November 7, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Our real world is located in the physical space field, however, humans need to quantify physical properties in computer vision applications. For example, we … Read more

Sergi García Bordils successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on October 21, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Scene-Text Recognition (STR) is a sub-field of computer vision that tackles the problem of text localization and recognition in natural images. Since scene-text provides … Read more

Alex Gómez Villa successfully defended her PhD thesis on October 14, 2024, and she is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an enormous impact across diverse application fields, from autonomous driving to drug discovery. This progress is predominantly driven by deep learning, … Read more

Mohammad Altillawi successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on October 11, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Localizing a camera from a single image in a previously visited area enables applications in many fields, such as robotics, autonomous driving, and augmented/virtual … Read more

Yixiong Yang successfully defended his PhD thesis on September 13, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? This thesis aims to develop a comprehensive solution to make image light effects both understandable and editable by leveraging intrinsic decomposition and relighting techniques. The challenges … Read more