HISTORICAL THESIS DEFENCES 2002-2012 (pdf)
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Ph.D. Candidate: Tristan Whitmarsh
Director: Ph.D. Alejandro Frangi & Ph.D. Ludovic Humbert
Title: "3D Reconstruction of the proximal femur and lumbar vertebrae from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry for osteoporotic fracture risk assessment"
Date, time and location: pending (TBA)
Ph.D. Candidate: Joana R.B. Cabral
Director: Ph.D. Gustavo Deco
Title: "Brain Activity during rest. A signature of the underlying network dynamics"
Date, time and location: pending (TBA)
Ph.D. Candidate: Pedro Ernesto García
Director: Ph.D. Toni Guillamon (UPC)
Title: "Noise-induced reversals in bistable visual perception"
Date, time and location: June, 6th 2012 - 11:00 - Room 55.309 - Tanger building
Ph.D. Candidate: Miguel Ramirez
Director: Ph.D. Hector Geffner
Title: "Plan Recognition as Planning"
Date, time and location: May, 17th 2012 - 11:30 - Room 55.309 - Tanger building
Ph.D. Candidate: Nicolas Duchateau
Director: Ph.D. Alejandro Frangi & Ph.D. Mathieu De Craene
Title: "Statistical Atlases of Cardiac Motion and Deformation for the Characterization of CRT Responsers"
Date, time and location: May, 7th 2012 - 12:00 - Room 55.309 - Tanger building
Ph.D. Candidate: Ferdinand Fuhrmann
Director: Ph.D. Xavier Serra
Title: "Automatic Musical Instrument Recognition from Polyphonic Music Audio Signals"
Date, time and location: April, 25th 2012 - 9:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger building
Ph.D. Candidate: Mohamed Sordo
Director: Ph.D. Xavier Serra & Ph.D. Oscar Celma
Title: "Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A Computational Approach"
Date, time and location: February, 27th 2012 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Alexandre Albore
Director: Ph.D. Hector Geffner
Title: "Translation-based approaches to Automated Planning with Incomplete Information and Sensing"
Date, time and location: February, 22nd 2012 - 11:30 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Patricia Santos
Director: Ph.D. Davinia Hernández-Leo & Ph.D. Josep Blat
Title: "Computing-Based Testing Conceptual Model, Implementations and Experiments extending IMS QTI"
Date, time and location: December, 20th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Larissa Albantakis
Director: Ph.D. Gustavo Deco
Title: "Decision-making beyond "left or right". A computational study on the neurophysiology behind multiple-choice decision-making and choice reevaluation"
Date, time and location: November, 29th 2011 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Cyril Laurier
Director: Ph.D. Xavier Serra
Title: "Automatic Classification of Musical Mood by Content-Based Analysis "
Date, time and location: October, 19th 2011 - 13:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Sira Ferradans
Director: Ph.D. Vicent Caselles & Ph.D. Marcelo Bertalmío
Title: "Color Image Processing Problems in Digital Photography"
Date, time and location: September, 29th 2011 - 11:00 h. - Auditorium of Communication Campus-Poblenou
Ph.D. Candidate: Cristina González Caro
Director: Ph.D. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Title: "Supervised Identification of the User Intent of Web Search Queries"
Date, time and location: September, 27th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Liliana Calderón
Director: PhD Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Title: "Unsupervised Identification of the User's Query Intent in Web Search""
Date, time and location: September, 27th 2011 - 10:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
PhD. Candidate: Martin Inderbitzin
Director: Ph.D. Paul Verschure
Title: "Embodied Models of Emotion. Verification of Psychological and Neurobiological Theories of Emotions Using Virtual and Situated Agents"
Date, time and location: September, 19th 2011 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Chong Zhang
Director: Ph.D. Alejandro Frangi & Ph.D. Maria Cruz Villa
Title: "Recovery of cerebrovascular morphodynamics from time-resolved rotational angiography"
Date, time and location: July, 28th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Michail Batikas
Director: Ph.D. Miquel Oliver & Ph.D. Esteve Almirall
Title: "SMEs Participation to free Libre Open Source Communities"
Date, time and location: July, 3rd 2011 - 15:30 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Mar Pérez Sanagustín
Director: Ph.D. Davinia Hernández-Leo & Ph.D. Josep Blat
Title: "Operationalization of collaborative blended learning scripts: a model, computational mechanisms and experiments"
Date, time and location: July, 1st 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Catalina Tobón
Director: Ph.D. Alejandro Frangi
Title: "Three-dimensional Statistical Shape Models for Multimodal Cardiac Image Analysis"
Date, time and location: June, 30th 2011 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Khan Wahid Ferdous
Director: Ph.D. Dolors Sala
Title: "An ID-based mutually authenticated edge-to-edge security architecture for bridged provider networks to secure layer-2 communications"
Date, time and location: June, 9th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.410 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Sylvain Le Groux
Director: Ph.D. Paul Verschure
Title: "Situated, perceptual, emotive and cognitive music systems: a psychologically grounded approach to interactive music composition"
Date, time and location: May, 19th 2011 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Daniel Chicharro
Director: Ph.D. Ralph G. Andrzejak
Title: "Characterization of Information and Causality Measures for the Study of Neuronal Data"
Date, time and location: April, 7th 2011 - 11:30 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Joan Serrà
Director: Ph.D. Xavier Serra
Title: "Identification of Versions of the same Musical Composition by Processing Audio Descriptions"
Date, time and location: March, 4th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Cristina Cano
Director: Ph.D. Miquel Oliver & Ph.D. Boris Bellalta
Title: "A Low Power Listening with Wake up after Transmissions MAC Protocol for WSNs"
Date, time and location: March, 4th 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Enric Meinhardt
Director: Ph.D. Vicent Caselles
Title: "Morphological and Statistical Techniques for the Analysis of 3D Images"
Date, time and location: March, 3rd 2011 - 12:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Gabriele Facciolo
Director: Ph.D. Vicent Caselles
Title: "Irregularly Sampled Image Restoration and Interpolation"
Date, time and location: March, 3rd 2011 - 10:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Carles Nicolau
Director: Ph.D. Dolors Sala
Title: "Study of the Theoretical Bounds and Practical Limits of Time Synchronization Protocols using an Ethernet FPGA Platform"
Date, time and location: March, 2nd 2011 - 15:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Ximena Olivares
Director: Ph.D. Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Ph.D. Roelof Van Zwol
Title: "Large Scale Image Retrieval based on User Generated Content"
Date, time and location: March, 2nd 2011 - 11:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building
Ph.D. Candidate: Zenon Mathews
Director: Ph.D. Paul Verschure
Title: "Generic Neuromorphic Principles of Cognition and Attention for Ants, Humans and Real-world Artefacts: a Comparative Computational Approach "
Date, time and location: January, 12th 2011 - 10:00 h. - Room 55.309 - Tanger Building