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
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