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, 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
Guillermo Torres successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on March 19, 2024, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Currently, there is a growing trend in cancer cases, with lung cancer leading in cancer-related deaths and ranking second in new cases, just behind … Read more
Rubèn Pérez Tito successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on November 13, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task where given an image and a natural language question, the objective is to generate a natural … Read more
