Co-advised thesis in ETSETB mobility program

December 2013

Classic thesis

Classic thesis + mobility

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Co-advised thesis + mobility

Co-advised thesis

Video HyperlinkingBenoit Huet (EURECOM Sophia-Antipolis, France), Xavier Giró (UPC)

Video HyperlinkingBenoit Huet (EURECOM Sophia-Antipolis, France), Xavier Giró (UPC)

When: Spring 14 (no Erasmus), Fall 14 or Spring 15Target: METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Suggest related videos after a search.○ Multimedia analysis.

● Goals○ Submission to MediaEval 2014

● Candidate Requirements○ English

Retrieval of Videogames RecordingsMathias Lux (Klagenfurt, Austria), Xavier Giró (UPC)

Retrieval of Videogames RecordingsMathias Lux (Klagenfurt, Austria), Xavier Giró (UPC)

When: Spring 14 (no Erasmus), Fall 14 or Spring 15Target: AV, CITTEL & METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Transfer classic video retrieval techniques to

videos of games (eg. twitch.tv, hitbox.tv).○ Multimedia analysis.

● Goals○ Build a retrieval system for video recordings

of games.● Candidate Requirements

○ Java & English

Crowdsourced Object Segmentation with a GameVincent Charvillat (Toulouse, France), Oge Marques (FAU, USA), Xavier Giró (UPC)

Crowdsourced Object Segmentation with a GameVincent Charvillat (Toulouse, France), Oge Marques (FAU, USA), Xavier Giró (UPC)

When: Spring 14 (no Erasmus), Fall 14 or Spring 15Target: AV, CITTEL & METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Humans in the object segmentation loop.○ Gamification to capture user interaction.

● Goals○ Study on User Effort vs Segmentation Quality○ Extension to video○ Submission to CrowdMM 2014.

● Candidate Requirements○ Matlab & English

CPMC

EEG for Object Segementation in Natural ImagesEva Mohedano and Noel O’Connor (Dublin City University), Xavier Giró (UPC)

EEG for Object Segementation in Natural ImagesEva Mohedano and Noel O’Connor (Dublin City University), Xavier Giró (UPC)

When: Fall 2014Target: AV, CITTEL & METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Humans in the object segmentation loop.○ EEGs to capture user interaction.

● Goals○ Study on User Effort vs Segmentation Quality

● Candidate Requirements○ Matlab & Good English

Super-resolution of imagesAxel Kochale & Jordi Salvador (Technicolor Hannover, Germany), Javier Ruiz Hidalgo (UPC)

Super-resolution of imagesAxel Kochale & Jordi Salvador (Technicolor Hannover, Germany), Javier Ruiz Hidalgo (UPC)

When: Spring 14 (no Erasmus), Fall 14Target: AV & METContact: j.ruiz@upc.edu

● Description○ Antialiasing robust upscaling○ Super-resultion in multi-camera

enviroments● Goals

○ Build novel techniques to upscale images

● Candidate Requirements○ C/C++, matlab & English

Inhouse proposals● Also some proposals in case you prefer not to leave...

Object Detection on Multiscale Image SegmentationsXavier Giró (UPC)

When: Fall 2014, Spring 2015Target: AV, CITTEL & METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Bottom-up feature extraction.○ Top-down selective search.

● Goals○ Assess the benefits of this approach in terms

of computation and accuracy.● Candidate Requirements

○ C/C++

Social Multimedia and StorytellingXavier Giró (UPC)

When: Fall 2014, Spring 2015Target: AV, CITTEL & METContact: xavier.giro@upc.edu

● Description○ Summarise a story with online content.○ Multimedia analysis.

● Goals○ Capture and mix images from on social

networks.○ Assess with MediaEval 2014 data

● Candidate Requirements○ Python/C++ & English

Final words

● Presented requirements (dates, programming skills, degrees…) are orientative.

● You have time to improve the required skills before your departure.

● Contact professor and/or apply if you feel motivated by the topic.

Thank you !

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