PhD thesis in Computer Science written by David Eduardo Pinto Avendaño under the supervision of Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia) and Héctor Jiménez (Univ. Autónoma Metropolitana, México). The author was examined in July 2008 in Valencia by the following committee: Manuel Palomar Sanz (Univ. de Alicante), Alfonso Ureña López (Univ. de Jaén), Eneko Agirre (Univ. del Páıs Vasco), Benno ...

The aim of my PhD thesis is to propose a decentralized system for service management based on the social concept of homophily. The system provides self-organizing features, and it is established and maintained without supervision. Each agent manages autonomously events such as searching services, joining or leaving the system, which reduces the service management and the structure maintenance c...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Armando Suárez Cueto under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz, (Univ. of Alicante), and German Rigau Claramunt (Univ. of Basque Country). The author was examined in June 28th, 2004 by the commitee formed by Dr. Llúıs Padró Cirera (Politechnic University of Cataluña) , Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (Univ. of Alicante), Eneko Agirre Bengoa(Univ. of Basq...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Mónica Marrero Llinares at the University Carlos III of Madrid under the supervision of Dra. Sonia Sánchez Cuadrado and Dr. Jorge Morato Lara. The author was examined on 21st May 2013 by a committee formed by the doctors Juan Lloréns Morillo (University Carlos III of Madrid), Rafael Valencia Garćıa (University of Murcia) and Roberto Carniel (University ...

Preface The supervision of my research leading to this thesis was in the hands of Prof. Dr. G.J. Heckman. Gert, thank you for all your assistance and especially for your never-ending enthusiasm to explain the subtleties of group theory. I would also like to thank the second and third correctors, Dr. P. Wormer and Dr. B. Souvignier respectively, for their critical remarks and suggestions for imp...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Fernando Martínez Santiago under the supervision of Dr. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Univ. of Jaén). The author was examined in September 2004 by the commitee formed by Felisa Verdejo Maillo (UNED), Manuel Palomar Sanz (Univ. of Alicante), Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Univ. politécnica of Cataluña), José Carlos Gónzales Cristóbal (Univ. politécnica of Madrid)...

Review article of a PhD thesis submitted in 2022 to the Archaeological Doctoral Programme, School History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, under supervision Miklós Takács.The research behind dissertation comprises basic large-scale evaluation material record primarily Avar Period (7–9th-century) settlements. The study area is located Lower Tisza Region and southern part Körös-Maros Interflu...

This thesis presents new methods in two closely related areas of computer vision: human pose estimation, and gesture recognition in videos. In human pose estimation, we show that random forests can be used to estimate human pose in monocular videos. To this end, we propose a co-segmentation algorithm for segmenting humans out of videos, and an evaluator that predicts whether the estimated poses...

The success of deep learning based methods for computer vision comes at a cost. Most deep neural network models require a large corpus of annotated data for supervision. The process of obtaining such data is often time consuming and expensive. For example, the process of collecting bounding box annotations takes 26-42 seconds per box. This requirement poses a hindrance for extending these metho...

" This thesis is dedicated to my parents, Erica and all my dear friends. It wouldn't be possible to finish it without all the love I have received. " Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank: (i) Prof. Luca Benini for his high-level supervision and continuous support, in that no knowledge is possible without a master to follow; (ii) Ing.tino Ruggiero for his sincere friendship; (iii) All the...