Working areas

The research activity of the Signal Processing Section is framed in the research group in Digital Signal Processing. In spite of using a commune knowledge basis, the final application of the tools articulates in three areas different enough, corresponding to three of the four areas of knowledge in which the section is divided:

¬ Digital Signal Processing
¬ Computer Vision
¬ Speech Processing

We can portray the lines of research of the group according with the application areas that they approach, keeping always coherence in the used tools. So, we work in three lines clearly differentiated: Digital Signal Processing, Speech Technologies and Computer Vision. Let's see a brief description of the used techniques, the research topic for each of them and, especially, the areas where they are being applied.

All three research lines are giving projects of industry technology transfer to as a result, being of great interest in the society. We can highlight an example for each line: control parameters extraction of the dummy-boys in automotive security, text to speech converter for blind people and automatic medical diagnosis in mammary gland biopsies for the cancer detection and classification.

All the group uses Digital Signal Processing tools, in spite of applying them in quite different areas. Meanwhile, there is a support group for the real-time implementation based on Digital Signal Processors (DSP).

¬ Digital Signal Processors

There is a fourth research line corresponding to educational improvement (before called e-learning) also working in the section. Tools are used in a combined multimedia and Signal Processing software way in this research line, in order to generate applications and new work methods to help the student to assimilating the ideas and concepts associated with the subjects taught by the section teachers.

¬ Educational Improvement