Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis group
HuPBA Computer Vision Center Webpage
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Group members
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Marc Oliu received the Technical Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Universitat de Girona, Girona, in 2010. He finished his Master degree in Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and his PhD degree at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is interested in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Fields.
Master Thesis: Head pose recovery and shape estimation in still images, UB-URV-UPC, 2014. Slides |
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Albert Clapés received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2012. He obtained the Master degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2014 at UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), UB and URV. He did the PhD on action recognition. His reserch interests include computer vision applied to human behavior analysis and human-computer interaction.
Master Thesis: A flexible descriptive framework for the visual analysis of humans: a modality-independent approach, 2014. |
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Sorina Georgiana Smeureanu received her BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 2016, and her MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence at the same university, in 2018. After a three months internship at the Computer Vision Center in Barcelona, she decided to start a Ph.D. at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her research interests include Computer Vision applied to human behavior analysis. Email: sorinasmeureanu (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Cristina Palmero received her Bachelor degree in Audiovisual Telecommunication Systems Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2011. She studied her Master degree in Artificial Intelligence at Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She defended her PhD in gaze estimation via deep learning at Universitat de Barcelona in 2024. She is mainly interested in signal and image processing and computer vision techniques applied to human behavior analysis, scene understanding and robotics.
Master Thesis: Trimodal Human Body Segmentation, UB-URV-UPC, 2014. Slides Email: c (dot) palmero (dot) cantarino (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Meysam Madadi received his Bachelor degree in Software Engineering at BuAli Sina university of Hamedan and M.S. degree in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He did research on human pose recovery and human behavior analysis for his master thesis Extraction of body soft-biometry from 3D videos using Kinect. He is interested in generating and developing new algorithms in these topics applying the knowledge in computer vision and retrieval systems besides machine learning, algorithms design in artificial intelligence, statistics, and linear algebra.
PhD Thesis: Human Segmentation, Pose Estimation and Applications, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2017. Slides |
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Julio C. S. Jacques Junior is a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), member of the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis group (HuPBA), and a researcher collaborator at University of Barcelona (UB), ChaLearn and ChaLearn Looking At People. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, 2017-2020) and at University of Barcelona (UB, 2016-2017). He has been collaborating with the organization of Workshops and Challenges organized by ChaLearn LAP at high impact conferences such as ECCV’16, ICPR’16, CVPR/IJCNN’17, NeurIPS’19, ECCV’20, FG’20 and CVPR’21. He received his MS degree in Applied Computing (UNISINOS, Brazil) and his PhD degree in Computer Science (PUCRS, Brazil). His research interests include, between others, computer vision-based applications with special attention in visual human behavior analysis.
Email: juliojj (at) gmail (dot) com Personal webpage |
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Hugo Bertiche Argila obtained the Bachelor degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2015. Later, he received the MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in 2017. Finally, he obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), as a member of the Human Pose and Behaviour Analysis (HuPBA). His Ph.D. began with focus on Computer Vision and 3D human pose and shape recovery through deep learning. He quickly transitioned to 3D clothing in human centric domains, which is more strongly aligned with his interests: deep learning, computer graphics and physics. Hugo believes deep learning has barely scratched the surface of its potential within the 3D garment domain and he is eager to see what we all will be able to build in the future.
Master Thesis: Comparison of motion-based approaches for multi-modal action and gesture recognition from RGB-D, UPC-URV-Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. Slides. |
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Javier Selva Castelló received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2015. Two years later he got his MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat Rovila i Virgili (URV). He completed his Ph.D at the Universitat de Barcelona. His main research interests include Computer Vision and Natural Language processing, specially with self-supervised and multi-modal approaches. He is interested in understanding and analyzing learning algorithms for a more informed development of new Machine Learning techniques.
Master Thesis: A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Future Frame Video Prediction, UB-UPC-URV, 2018. Slides |
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Zejian Zhang received his Bachelor degree in Automation and Control Technology from Central South University, China, in 2010. He worked as an electronic engineer for two years, and later joined a scientific publishing house where he worked as Managing Editor for open access journals. He obtained his Master degree in Computer Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2019. Currently he is a PhD student at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Email: zejian202 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Rubén Ballester received his Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2021, and the Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering master at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2022. He is a research assistant specialized whose main research interests are applied topology, discrete mathematics, algorithms and deep learning theory.
2017 – 2021 – HuPBA Research assistant Master Thesis: Improving neural networks using topological data analysis, UPC, Master of Science in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering, 2022. Best master award. |
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Hunor Laczko received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary in 2019. After this he completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Triple Master’s Degree in Image Processing and Computer Vision at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary), University of Bordeaux (France) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2021. He did his master thesis in cooperation with the Computer Vision Center. Currently he is a PhD at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in the topic of 3D garment animation.
Master Thesis: 4D garment generation through surface decomposition, Erasmus Mundus Master in Image Processing and Computer Vision, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, 2021 |
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German Barquero graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 2020, which included a research stay in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for 1 year. In 2021, he obtained an MSc in Computer Vision from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently starting a PhD at Universitat de Barcelona. His research interests include computer vision and deep learning applied to human behavior analysis and forecasting.
Webpage: https://barquerogerman.github.
Email: barquerogerman (at) gmail (dot) com |
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David Pujol received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2020. Two years later, he got his MSc in Innovation and Research in Informatics also from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). During this time he completed two academic exchanges both at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) and at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. Currently he is a PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) working on video understanding applications.
Webpage: https://davidpujol.github.io/ |
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Yudong Yan received his Bachelor degree in Electronic Packaging Technology at Xidian University, Xi’an, China in 2017, and Master degree in Automatic Systems Engineering and Industrial Electronics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain in 2020. After three years working on Smart Agriculture in a farm robot company, he started the PhD at Universitat de Barcelona. His main research direction is individual identification, tracking, and behavior analysis in animal field.
Email: yudongyan1995(at)outlook(dot) |
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Artur Xarles received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Statistics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2021. In 2022 he obtained an MSc in Fundamental Principles of Data Science from Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Currently, he is a PhD student at UB. His main research interests include Computer Vision and its applications on video understanding in sports.
Master Thesis: Transformer-based Action Spotting in Soccer Videos, Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. Slides. Second Catalonia Award by the Catalan Association on Artificial Intelligence Email: arturxe(at)gmail(dot)com |
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Johnny Núñez Cano eceived his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Universitat de Barcelona in June 2021. In July 2022, he completed an MSc in Fundamental Principles of Data Science, also from the Universitat de Barcelona, followed by an MSc in Computer Vision at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, expected in September 2023. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision at the Universitat de Barcelona, with a focus on Human-Robot-Object Interactions, Generative AI, and 3D Vision. He is an active member of Jetson Research Lab and Robotics from Nvidia.
Email: johnnynuca14(at)gmail(dot)com Master Thesis: Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Hand Pose Denoising Models, Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. Slides. Master Thesis: Quantifying Suspicion: Advanced Trajectory Analysis for Loitering Anomaly Detection, UAB-UB-UPC-UPF-UOC, 2023. |
Past students and members
Mehdi Mirza-Mohammadi Master Thesis: Contextual Bag-of-Visual-Words and ECOC-Rank for Retrieval and Multi-class Object Recognition. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2009.
2009- Alberto Escudero – Research assistant
Oscar Lopes Master Thesis: Real-time Hand Pose Recognition using Depth Sensors combined with Spherical Shape Model Descriptor. Computer Vision Center, 2012. Slides.
Miguel Pousa Master Thesis: Spherical Blurred Shape Model for Hand Pose Recognition. Computer Vision Center, 2012
2009-2013 – Mario Gorga – Research assistant
2013 – Albert Marieges – Research assistant
2014 – Vicent Roig – Research assistant
2014 – Guillermo Blasco – Research assistant
2014 – David Corto – Research assistant
2014 – Andres Cenci – Research assistant
Eloi Puertas PhD Thesis: Generalized Stacked Sequential Learning. Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. Slides.
Carlos Puig Master Thesis: Automatic Performance Analysis in Trampoline from RGB-Depth Data. Computer Vision Center, 2014. Slides. Poster. Video Sample.
Oscar Amoros Master Thesis: Parallel error-correcting output codes classification in volume visualization: parallelism for AI and AI for parallelism. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2014. Slides.
2015 – Lukasz Romaszko – Research assistant
Mikkel Thøgersen Master Thesis: Segmentation of rgb-d indoor scenes by stacking random forests and conditional random fields.Aalborg University, 2015. Slides.
Pablo Pardo Master Thesis: Automatic Real and Apparent Age Estimation in Still Images. Slides. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2015
2015 – Marc Pomar – Research assistant
2015 – 2016 Sergi Delgado – Research assistant
Xavier Perez-Sala Master Thesis: Vision-based Navigation and Reinforcement Learning Path Finding for Social Robots. Slides. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2010. PhD Thesis: Extending Procrustes Analysis: Building Multi-view 2-D Models from 3-D Human Shape Samples. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2015.
Antonio Hernández-Vela Master Thesis: Pose and Face Recovery via Spatio-temporal GrabCut Human Segmentation, Computer Vision Center, 2010. PhD Thesis: From pixels to gestures: learning visual representations for human analysis in color and depth data sequences. Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. Slides.
Miguel Ángel Bautista Master Thesis: Sublinear Evolutionary Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes Best Catalonia Award by the Catalan Association on Artificial Intelligence. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2011. PhD Thesis: Learning Error-Correcting Representations for Multi-Class Problems, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. Slides. Best PhD Award
Gerard Canal Camprodon Master Thesis: Human multi-robot interaction based on gesture recognition. Slides. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC. Slides. Best Catalonia Award by the Catalan Association on Artificial Intelligence
Pouya Ahmadmonfared Master Thesis: RGB-D Graph Based Human Body Segmentation for Mattress Recommendation, Computer Vision Center, 2016.
Mohammad Ali Bagheri PhD Thesis: Ensemble Learning for Visual Recognition. Dalhousie University, 2016. Slides.
Marco Bella Master Thesis: Hybrid CNN+LSTM for Face Recognition in Videos. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2016. Slides.
Miguel Reyes Master Thesis: Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis from RGB and Depth Maps, UPC-URV-Universitat de Barcelona, 2011. PhD Thesis: Human Pose Analysis and Gesture Recognition from Depth Maps: Methods and Applications, 2016. Slides.
2016-2017 – Maryam Asadi – PhD research stay
2016-2017 – Oriol Suils – Research assistant
Xavier Serra Master Thesis: Face recognition using Deep Learning, UPC-URV-Universitat de Barcelona, 2017.
Andrei Polzounov Master Thesis: WordFences: Text Localization and Recognition, UPC-URV-Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. Slides.
Víctor Ponce-López Master Thesis: Multi-modal Human Gesture Recognition combining Dynamic Programming and Probabilistic Methods. Slides. Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2012. PhD Thesis: Evolutionary Bags of Space-time Features for Human Analysis. 2016. Slides.
Frederic Sampedro PhD Thesis: Automatic image quantification strategies in clinical nuclear medicine and neuroradiology. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. 2017. Slides. Best PhD Award
Egils Avots Master Thesis: Garment retexturing using Kinect V2.0, University of Tartu, Robotics and Computer Engineering, 2017. Slides.
Valentin Ramirez Master Thesis: First Approach on Automated Psychomorphological Analysis Implementation via Computer Vision, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017.
Deividas Skiparis Master Thesis: Semantic face segmentation from video streams in the wild, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2017. Slides.
2017 – Julien Bonnier – Research stay
2017 – Mohamed Llyes – Research stay
Gonzalo Benito Master Thesis: Comparing classical and deep approaches for face recognition in a smartgym application, CVC-UAB-UPC-UPF, 2017. Slides.
Vicent Roig Master Thesis: Multimodal 2DCNN action recognition from RGB-D Data with Video Summarization, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2017. Slides.
Martí Soler Master Thesis: Recovering missing data from human body images, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2018. Slides.
Juanjo Rubio Guillamon Master Thesis: Deep Learning for Infrastructure Damage Categorization, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPCa, 2018.
Daniel Natanael Garcia Zapata Master Thesis: Deep Learning for Expression Recognition in Image Sequences, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2018. Slides.
Juan Luis Rosa Ramos Master Thesis: Deep Learning for Universal Emotion Recognition in Still images, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPCa, 2018. Slides.
Juan Borrego Master Thesis: Fully Convolutional Architectures for Multi-Part Body Segmentation, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2018. Slides.
Xenia Salinas Master Thesis: Spatio-Temporal Emotion Recognition, 2018. 2018 – Research assistant
2018-2021 – Swathikiran Sudhakaran – Research stay, Postdoc
2018 – Zhengying Liu – Research stay
2018 – 2021 Pau Buch-Cardona – Research assistant
Ricardo Darío Pérez Master Thesis: Multiple attribute analysis for deep learning based apparent personality analysis, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPCa, 2018
2019 – Noor Ul Huda – Research stay
Pau Bramon Master Thesis: Deep 3D Pose Regression of Real Objects, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2019. Slides.
Santiago Mazagatos Master Thesis: Multi-Scale Super Resolution With Blind De-noising Using Residual Learning For Digital Art, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2019. Slides.
Pablo Arcos Master Thesis: Virtual Try-on with Generative Adversarial Networks, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2019.
Pablo Lazaro Master Thesis: Non-acted Multi-view Audio-Visual Dyadic Interactions Project: Multi-modal Local Non-verbal Emotion Recognition in Dyadic Scenarios and Audio Speaker Segmentation, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Ruben Barco Master Thesis: Non-acted Multi-view Audio-Visual Dyadic Interactions Project: Multi-modal Recurrent Non-verbal Emotion Recognition in Dyadic Scenarios, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Andreu Masdeu Master Thesis: Non-acted Multi-view Audio-Visual Dyadic Interactions Project: Multitask Learning for Facial Attributes Analysis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Aleix Casellas Master Thesis: Non-acted Multi-view Audio-Visual Dyadic Interactions Project: Human Pose Recovery in Multi-view Dyadic Interactions, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Daniel Sánchez Master Thesis: ECOC and Graph Cuts Segmentation of Human Limbs, UB-URV-UPC, 2014. Slides. PhD Thesis: Human Body Parts Segmentation via Stacked and Multi-task Learning, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019.
Josep Famadas Master Thesis: Generative Video Face Reenactment by AUs and Gaze Regularization, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2019.
Guillermo Bernárdez Gil Master Thesis: Log-Distributional Approach for Learning Covariate Shift Ratios, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2019. Slides.
2019 – Alexa Moseguí – Research assistant
Alberto López Sánchez Master Thesis: Spatio-temporal Gaze Estimation for Human-Machine and Human-Human Interaction, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2020. Slides.
Daniel Vilanova Gonzalez Master Thesis: Spatio-temporal Face and Body Modelling in Multi-view Dyadic Setups, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2020.
Ciprian Adrian Corneanu Master Thesis: Facial Expression Analysis of Neurologically Impaired Children, CVC, 2015. Slides. PhD Thesis: Improving Performance and Interpretability in Recognizing Facial Action Units with Deep Neural Networks, 2019. Slides.
Italo Vidal Master Thesis: Deep Regression of Social Signals in Dyadic Scenarios, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2020. Slides.
Razieh Rastgoo PhD Thesis: Accuracy improvement of word sign language recognition using deep learning, Semnan University, 2020.
Wafa Bouzouita – Research stay. Master Thesis: 3D Garment Reconstruction from a Single RGBA image, Université Paris-Saclay, ENSTA Paris, 2020.
Penny Tarling – Master Thesis: Deep Learning to Count Fish in Sonar Images, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021.
Jason Klimack Master Thesis: A Study on Different Architectures on a 3D Garment Reconstruction Network, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2021. Slides.
Eric Cañas Tarrasón Master Thesis: Super Resolution Microscopy with Deep Learning, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2021.
David Curto Jano Master Thesis: Personality Regression from Multimodal Dyadic Data, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2021.
Albert Rial Farras Master Thesis: RGB to 3D garment reconstruction using UV map representations, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2021.
2021 – Sergi Cliville Sanchez – Research assistant
Emilio Tylson Baixauli Master Thesis: SSSGAN: Satellite Style and Structure Generative Adversarial Networks, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021.
Rachel Trimble Master Thesis: Detecting incipient cognitive dysfunction in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease subjects, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021.
David Farré Master Thesis: From the Visual Analysis of Movement to Principled Models of Motivated Movement, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021.
David Farré Master Thesis: From the Visual Analysis of Movement to Principled Models of Motivated Movement: An Optimal Control Problem, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021.
Michael Birkholz Master Thesis: Weakly-Supervised RGB-Based 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2022.
Iñaki Erregue Álvarez-Buhilla Master Thesis: Machine Learning Particle Classifier for Water Cherenkov Detectors, Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. Slides.
Sergi Cirera-Rocosa Master Thesis: Semantic Segmentation of Petri Dishes for UTI Diagnostics, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2022.
Miguel Castrillo Melguizo Master Thesis: Characterization of wastewater methane emission sources with computer vision and remote sensing, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2022.
Arya Farkhondeh Master Thesis: Towards Self-Supervised Gaze Estimation, Sapienza Universita di Roma, 2022.
Nikita Belooussov Master Thesis: Generating Sign Language Videos using DDPM, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2022. Slides.
Otis Carpay Master Thesis: Sampling Methods for Activation Correlation Graphs to Predict Neural Network Generalization Using Topological Data Analysis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2023.
Bernhard Bockenhoff Master Thesis: Exploration of 2D human pose stimation in the context of aquatic safety, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2023.
Ramon Mateo Navarro Master Thesis: Automated Diagn of Symptomatic and Asyptomatic Achilles Tendon Ruptures Using CT images and AI, Universitat de Barcelona-URV-UPC, 2023.
Miquel Romero Blanch Master Thesis: 3D human detection from lidar sensors, UAB-UB-UPC-UPF-UOC, 2023.
2023 – Gerard Ortega – Research assistant
2023 – Christian Ingwersen – Research stay
Carlos Martin Isla PhD Thesis: Automatic Cardiac Segmentation of Complex Morphologies, Modalities, and Tissues Using Deep Learning, Universitat de Barcelona, 2024
Pablo Ruiz Master Thesis: Text-Driven Multi-Himan Motion Generation, UAB-UB-UPC-UPF-UOC, 2024.
Leonardo Bocchi Master Thesis: Self-Supervised 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Videos via Implicit Representation, Universitat de Barcelona, 2024. Slides.
Alex Pujol Master Thesis: Motion Binary Latent Diffusion, Universitat de Barcelona, 2024. Slides.
Albert Compte Prades Master Thesis: Animal Tracking and Identification in Smart Farms, UAB-UB-UPC-UPF-UOC, 2024.
Alex Pujol Master Thesis: Fundamental Principles of Binary Latent Diffusion Models, Master in Advanced Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, 2024.