• Conflict monitoring and attentional adjustment duringbinocular rivalry

  Drew, Alice; Torralba, Mireia; Ruzzoli, Manuela; Morís Fernández, Luis, 1982-; Sabaté, Alba; Pápai, Márta Szabina, 1987-; Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970- (Wiley, 2021)

  To make sense of ambiguous and, at times, fragmentary sensory input, the brain must rely on a process of active interpretation. At any given moment, only one of several possible perceptual representations prevails in our ...
• Survey on 3D face reconstruction from uncalibrated images

  Morales, Araceli; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Sukno, Federico Mateo (Elsevier, 2021)

  Recently, a lot of attention has been focused on the incorporation of 3D data into face analysis and its applications. Despite providing a more accurate representation of the face, 3D facial images are more complex to ...
• New privacy practices for blockchain software

  Bellés-Muñoz, Marta; Baylina, Jordi; Daza, Vanesa; Muñoz-Tapia, José L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)

  In this article, we present the software tools we have implemented to bring complex privacy technologies closer to developers and to facilitate the implementation of privacyenabled blockchain applications
• How well do hate speech, toxicity, abusive and offensive language classification models generalize across datasets?

  Fortuna, Paula; Soler Company, Juan; Wanner, Leo (Elsevier, 2021)

  A considerable body of research deals with the automatic identification of hate speech and related phenomena. However, cross-dataset model generalization remains a challenge. In this context, we address two still open ...
• Arc-shaped pitch contours facilitate item recognition in non-human animals

  Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-; Crespo Bojorque, Paola, 1985- (Elsevier, 2021)

  Acoustic changes linked to natural prosody are a key source of information about the organization of language. Both human infants and adults readily take advantage of such changes to discover and memorize linguistic patterns. ...
• On the angular momentum and spin of generalized electromagnetic field for r-vectors in (k, n) space-time dimensions

  Martínez, Alfonso, 1973-; Colombaro, Ivano; Font Segura, Josep (Springer, 2021)

  This paper studies the relativistic angular momentum for the generalized electromagnetic field, described by r-vectors in (k, n) space-time dimensions, with exterioralgebraic methods. First, the angular-momentum tensor is ...
• Photorealistic style transfer for video

  Zabaleta, Itziar; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Elsevier, 2021)

  This work proposes an efficient example-based photorealistic style transfer algorithm for video. Given a source unprocessed video and a reference image color graded by an artist, we describe an automatic algorithm to ...
• Corpora compilation for prosody-informed speech processing

  Öktem, Alp; Farrús, Mireia; Bonafonte, Antonio (Springer, 2021)

  Research on speech technologies necessitates spoken data, which is usually obtained through read recorded speech, and specifically adapted to the research needs. When the aim is to deal with the prosody involved in speech, ...
• AToM: active topology monitoring for the bitcoin peer-to-peer network

  Franzoni, Francesco; Salleras, Xavier; Daza, Vanesa (Springer, 2021)

  Over the past decade, the Bitcoin P2P network protocol has become a reference model for all modern cryptocurrencies. While nodes in this network are known, the connections among them are kept hidden, as it is commonly ...
• Mixed reality or LEGO game play? Fostering social interaction in children with Autism

  Sayis, Batuhan; Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Parés, Narcís, 1966- (Springer, 2021)

  This study extends the previous research in which it has been shown that a mixed reality (MR) system fosters social interaction behaviours (SIBs) in children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). When comparing this system ...
• Phase irregularity: a conceptually simple and efficient approach to characterize electroencephalographic recordings from epilepsy patients

  Espinoso Palacín, Anaïs; Andrzejak, Ralph Gregor (American Physical Society, 2022)

  The severe neurological disorder epilepsy affects almost 1% of the world population. For patients who suffer from pharmacoresistant focal-onset epilepsy, electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings are essential for the ...
• ZPiE: Zero-knowledge proofs in embedded systems

  Salleras, Xavier; Daza, Vanesa (MDPI, 2021)

  Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are cryptographic primitives allowing a party to prove to another party that the former knows some information while keeping it secret. Such a premise can lead to the development of numerous ...
• FORT: right-proving and attribute-blinding self-sovereign authentication

  Salleras, Xavier; Rovira, Sergi; Daza, Vanesa (MDPI, 2022)

  Nowadays, there are a plethora of services that are provided and paid for online, such as video streaming subscriptions, car-share, vehicle parking, purchasing tickets for events, etc. Online services usually issue tokens ...
• El papel de los espacios como facilitadores del aprendizaje colaborativo: Estudio cualitativo en Grados en Ingeniería y Másteres TIC de la UPF

  Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia; Moreno, Verónica; Hernández Leo, Davinia (CIDUI Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació, 2021)

  Este artículo presenta los resultados obtenidos en un análisis realizado en estudios de grado y master (ámbitos de ingeniería y TIC) de la UPF enfocado en el papel que juegan los espacios colaborativos de aprendizaje ...
• Saraga: Open Datasets for Research on Indian Art Music

  Srinivasamurthy, Ajay; Gulati, Sankalp; Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier (The Ohio State University Libraries, 2021)

  We introduce two large open data collections of Indian Art Music, both its Carnatic and Hindustani traditions, comprising audio from vocal concerts, editorial metadata, and time-aligned melody, rhythm, and structure ...
• Audio and music analysis on the web using Essentia.js

  Correya, Albin Andrew; Marcos Fernández, Jorge; Joglar-Ongay, Luis; Alonso Jiménez, Pablo; Serra, Xavier; Bogdanov, Dmitry (Ubiquity Press, 2021)

  Open-source software libraries have a significant impact on the development of Audio Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems. Despite the abundance of such tools, there is a lack of an extensive and ...
• Enhanced word embedding variations for the detection of substance abuse and mental health issues on social media writings

  Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana; Largeron, Christine; Tissier, Julien; Baeza Yates, Ricardo; Freire, Ana (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)

  Substance abuse and mental health issues are severe conditions that affect millions. Signs of certain conditions have been traced on social media through the analysis of posts. In this paper we analyze textual cues that ...
• Characterization of anorexia nervosa on social media: textual, visual, relational, behavioral, and demographical analysis

  Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana; Freire, Ana; Baeza Yates, Ricardo; Sanz Lamora, Nadia; Álvarez, Aida; González Rodríguez, Alexandre; Lozano Rochel, Meritxell; Llobet Vives, Roger; Velazquez, Diego Alejandro; Gonfaus, Josep Maria; Gonzàlez, Jordi (JMIR Publications, 2021)

  Background: Eating disorders are psychological conditions characterized by unhealthy eating habits. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is defined as the belief of being overweight despite being dangerously underweight. The psychological ...
• Diversity by design in music recommender systems

  Porcaro, Lorenzo; Castillo, Carlos; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Ubiquity Press, 2021)

  Music Recommender Systems (Music RS) are nowadays pivotal in shaping the listening experience of people all around the world. Partly driven by the commercial application of this technology, music recommendation research ...
• Effects of visual and auditory feedback in violin and singing voice pitch matching tasks

  Blanco, Angel David; Tassani, Simone; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2021)

  Auditory-guided vocal learning is a mechanism that operates both in humans and other animal species making us capable to imitate arbitrary sounds. Both auditory memories and auditory feedback interact to guide vocal learning. ...

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