Università della Svizzera italiana

Deep learning for 3D hand biometric systems

Svoboda, Jan ; Bronstein, Michael (Dir.) ; Masci, Jonathan (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO007.

Hands are an indispensable part of human bodies used in our everyday life to express ourselves and manipulate the surrounding world. Moreover, a hand contains highly- unique characteristics that allow for distinguishing among different individuals. Though fingerprints are widely-known for this, the hand also has a unique geometric shape, palmprint, and vein structure. The shapes of a hand and...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Towards adaptive and autonomous humanoid robots : from vision to actions

Leitner, Jürgen ; Schmidhuber, Jürgen (Dir.) ; Förster, Alexander (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014INFO020.

Although robotics research has seen advances over the last decades robots are still not in widespread use outside industrial applications. Yet a range of proposed scenarios have robots working together, helping and coexisting with humans in daily life. In all these a clear need to deal with a more unstructured, changing environment arises. I herein present a system that aims to overcome the...