Browsing by Contributor "Northeastern University"
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ADAPT: An adaptive directional antenna protocol for medium access control in terahertz networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityTerahertz (THz) band communications are emerging as a key technology for the next generation of wireless communications, with the potential to realize ultra-broadband Terabit-per-second (Tbps) links. However, the unique ... -
Adaptive localization and tracking of objects in a sensor network
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-12-18)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used to monitor physical or environmental conditions, and to pass their data through the network to a central location. These networks have applications in diverse areas including ... -
Advanced Spatial Temporal Regularization for Inverse Electrocardiography (ECG)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-07-23)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Heart diseases are the first cause of Mortality in the world. The percentage of the deceased who dies because of a cardiac infarction rises every year. Therefore, an early identification of typical signs may be ... -
Analyzing and Modelling Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-06-30)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityEnglish: Energy harvesting is envisaged as an enabling technology to meet the growing energy demands of the 21st century. The current state of the art allows tapping into several physical and naturally existing sources, ... -
Arquitectura para la gestión de una red distribuida de radios programables
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-10-08)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
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Building a Parameterized 4D Cardiac Model with Respiratory Motion from 2D MR Time Series
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-06)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityAtrial fibrillation (AF) is a growing problem in modern societies with an enormous impact in both short term quality of life and long term survival. A recently developed promising approach to cure AF uses radiofrequency ... -
Cancelación Digital en un Sistema Full-Duplex operando bajo el estándar 802.11
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-05)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
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Causal Discovery with Energy-Based Models
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-05-26)
Master thesis
Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityDiscovery of causal relations from observational data is a key step toward system's understanding. Standard causal discovery methods fit a new model whenever a new causal graph is presented. Recent works propose to take ... -
Channel characterization and signal propagation studies for wireless galvanic coupled body sensors
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.), 2013-12-16)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLES`] New medical procedures involving continuous patient monitoring through human body sensors are becoming commonplace with micro-scale implanted sensors transferring information to on-surface macro-scale sensors for ... -
Comparison of Low-order 4D Dynamical Models for Cardiac Respiratory Motion using MRI
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Northeastern University, 2011-12-18)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityEnglish: cardiovascular diseases account for more than one third of the annual mortal rate in western countries. Although AF does not directly lead to mortality is pointed as one of the possible causes of stroke. Recent ... -
Deep learning and domain adaptation for autism spectrum disorder youth aggressive episode prediction
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityEls joves amb Trastorn de l'Espectre Autista (TEA) sovint presenten un comportament impredictible i agressiu cap a altres persones o fins i tot cap a ells mateixos, aïllant-los de les activitats socials i educatives del ... -
Distributed multi-target tracking in a wireless sensor network using diffusion strategies and adaptive combiners
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-09)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decision
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityLas redes de sensores inalámbricos se han ido usando cada vez más en los últimos años debido a su capacidad de observar el entorno, procesar datos y tomar decisiones. Estas características han ganado importancia en el ... -
EEG Dynamic Analysis in Epilepsy Source Localization
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-12-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Our aim in this project is to study the spatio-temporal structures present in EEG epilepsy record- ings to uncover dynamic patterns that could be of use in the Source Localization problem, among other applications. ... -
Exploring Methods to Enhance Appearance-Based Video Object Tracking using Dynamics Theory
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-02)
Master thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityThe task of Video Object Tracking has for a long time received attention within the field of Computer Vision, and many different approaches have tried to tackle its challenges, being the ones based on appearance and motion ... -
Grasp prediction with convolutional neural networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-08)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityThis thesis explores the application of a deep learning computer vision approach for grasp classification in order to improve hand prosthesis control. First, a criterion based on prehensile human hand is adopted and object ... -
Impact of mobile transmitter sources on radio frequency energy harvesting
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-09-05)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Wireless energy harvesting sensors networks constitute a new paradigm, where the motes deployed in the field are no longer constrained by the limited battery resource, but are able to recharge themselves through ... -
Modeling temporal dependency of brain responses to rapidly presented stimuli in ERP based BCIs
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts), 2013-12-13)
Bachelor thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Brain computer interface technologies aim, among a number of possible goals, to help people with motor and speech disabilities to communicate through a computer using the electrical activity in the brain, allowing ... -
Multi-User Ultra-Massive MIMO for very high frequency bands (mmWave and THz): a resource allocation problem
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-04-02)
Master thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityA dynamic subarray allocation for multi-user massive MIMO systems working in very high frequency bands (mmWave and THz) is proposed as a promising technique to unleash the capacity limits in future cellular networks capable ... -
Physical Layer Design for Wireless Galvanic Coupled Body Sensors
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-12-07)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern University[ANGLÈS] Rapid advances in miniaturization and automated health control point to the widespread use of implanted micro-scale sensors in the near future, which will measure physiological conditions and report back data ... -
Self-supervised video object segmentation using generative adversarial networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06)
Master thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Northeastern UniversityVideo Object Segmentation is arguably one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. Training a model in a supervised manner in this task requires a high number of manually labelled data, which is extremely ...