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Ester Vidaña-Vila, PhD

Welcome to My Research Webpage

I am a lecturer and researcher, member of the Human-Environment Research (HER) group at La Salle Campus Barcelona, Ramon Llull University.

My research focuses on acoustic event detection and classification in multiple environments using machine learning and deep learning techniques.

Academic background:

PhD in Automatic Acoustic Event Classification

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llul University, 2018 - 2022

Thesis title:“Acoustic event detection and classification in urban environments using low-cost devices” (Excellent - Cum Laude)

Defense date: 6 April 2022

Master's Degree in Philosophy and Humanities

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2023 - Present

Master's Degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2017-2018

Awarded as best student of the promotion

Thesis title: “Scalable system for real-time acoustic monitoring of partially dependent people in distributed environments” (A with Honours)

Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, majoring in Audiovisual Systems

La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University, 2012-2017

Thesis title: “An authomatic audio classifier for Picidae bird species” (A with Honours)

Scientific collaborations:

Guest editor of the Special Issue , "Intelligent Industrial Internet of Things: From Theory to Real-World Applications"

Technical Program Committee of the conferences Cloud2Things 2022, Cloud2Things 2023 and MetaCom23.

Reviewer of the journals Bioacoustics, IJERPH and Applied Sciences.

Co-coordinator of DCASE challenge Task 5 (2022-2023).