Lluïsa Marsal at ISO Committee 268 in smart cities annual meeting29/07/2015
The ISO Committee 268 meeting took place in Grasmere, UK, on 9-11 June. Standardisation bodies from all over the world attended the event. Dr Marsal took part in the meeting on behalf of AENOR, an agency established by the Ministry for Industry in charge of Standards. The member of the IIiA presented the University of Girona's work on Human Rights in cities and its resulting...
eXiT and IdIBGi project wins VHIR innovative healthcare prize16/07/2015
NoaH, a project that improves home monitoring of premature born babies, won the second prize in the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Innovation Healthcare Contest. The prize, worth € 2,500, was awarded to Neonatologist at Home (NoaH) in the category of innovation in healthcare practice. NoaH is a multidisciplinary research project jointly carried out by the eXiT research...
Two new theses on information theory applied to computer graphics14/07/2015
Last week the GILAB research group successfully defended two new theses in the field of information theory applied to computer graphics. On 9 July Màrius Vila presented the dissertation entitled "Information theory techniques for multimedia data classification and retrieval". On the following day Xavier Bonaventura defended his thesis "Perceptual information-theoretic measures...