The University of Barcelona (UB)was established in 1450 in Barcelona, Spain. It is ranked in the Top 200 Universities world-wide. UB has 109 departments and more than 5,000 full-time researchers. UB has over 240 research groups, and receives a significant number of national and European grants each year. The Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, Chemistry and Mathematics are acclaimed throughout Europe. UB has undergraduate, graduate and professional students totaling more than 62,000.
Computer Sciences
Reducing redundant information to find simplifying patterns in data sets and complex networks is a scientific challenge in many fields. Moreover, detecting the dimensionality of the data is still a hard-to-solve problem. ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Creating a machine learning agent to ease interactions between participants in virtual and augmented reality environments—such as the metaverse—in order to help them achieve their goals and address conflict situations ...
May 16, 2022
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Internet
In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research team of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS) analyzed the time evolution of real complex networks ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Security
A team from the Computer Vision Center (CVC) and the University of Barcelona has published the results of a study that evaluates the accuracy and bias in gender and skin color of automatic face recognition algorithms tested ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Research on virtual reality started in the eighties, but only now is the technology advanced to the point where it is becoming available to the public, and it can become a mass consumer product soon. However, there is almost ...
Apr 27, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Detecting dangerous gases in collapsed buildings due earthquakes or explosions and locating victims in hard-to-access places are among use scenarios of the Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle (SNAV), a nanodrone designed and created ...
Jul 24, 2019
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