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
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
Bonifaz Stuhr 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? Unsupervised representation learning aims at finding methods that learn representations from data without annotation-based signals. Abstaining from annotations not only leads to economic benefits … Read more
Pioneer Award 2023 Diego Velázquez successfully defended his dissertation on Computer Science on July 14, 2023, and he is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Dr. Velázquez was recognized with a Pioneer Award for the commercial orientation of his thesis by the CERCA Institute – Centres de Recerca de Catalunya – on December … Read more
Yi Xiao successfully defended her dissertation on Computer Science on July 10, 2023, and she is now Doctor of Philosophy by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. What is the thesis about? In autonomous driving, artificial intelligence (AI) processes the traffic environment to drive the vehicle to a desired destination. Currently, there are different paradigms that address … Read more