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Hector Laria Mantecon will defended his dissertation on July 8, 2025, on CVC’s Conference Room. 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 limit their practical applications, including efficient knowledge transfer, consistent 3D-aware … Read more

Asma Bensalah will defended her dissertation on April 28, 2025, on CVC’s Conference Room. 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 and computer vision. In particular, optimizing costs related to stroke … 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

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, 202, 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

Danna Xue successfully defended her dissertation on Computer Science on July 11, 2024, and she is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? In multi-image processing, leveraging semantic information is essential for content-aware operations and ensuring consistency across images. However, this presents challenges in obtaining high-precision semantic … Read more

Albin Soutif–Cormerais defended his PhD thesis on May 23, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? The use of deep learning has become increasingly popular in the last years in many application fields such as the ones of computer vision and natural language … Read more