The main problem this work addresses is the real-time recognition of gestures, particularly in the complex domain of artistic performance. By recognizing the performer gestures, one is able to map them to diverse controls, from lightning control to the creation of visuals, sound control or even...

Probabilistic graphical models, by making conditional independence assumptions, can represent complex joint distributions in a factorized form. However, in large problems graphical models often run into two issues. First, in non-treelike graphs, computational issues frustrate exact inference....

The objective of this thesis is to design a relative navigation and guidance system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for vision-based control applications. The vision-based navigation, guidance and control has been one of the most focused on research topics for the automation of UAVs. This is...