Yolanda Blanco-Archilla

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Ingeniería Audiovisual Y Comunicaciones

This article aims to describe two different project-based learning (PBL) experiences using NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) projects, and complemented with a volunteer program abroad (in Honduras and Kenya). The integration of the projects within the framework of the courses was promoted within a context of a project-based engineering school. Th...

A set of multidisciplinary integration projects has been held at the Polytechnic School of the European University of Madrid in the year 2013-2014: this new philosophy of work at School has been called "Project Based Engineering School" (PBES). All the students developed an entire project over several subjects in each course of every degree. In thi...

En este artículo se presentará parte del trabajo desarrollado dentro de un proyecto interdepartamental sobre innovación docente en el desarrollo de competencias genéricas en los estudiantes. Este trabajo se hizo siguiendo la metodología de investigaciónacción, pues ésta nos permitía a los profesores indagar en la mejora de nuestra práctica docente...

It’s widely accepted in the technological sector the importance of, not only the knowledge, but also skills and competencies. The employers look for candidates able to work in a team, able to approach the problems, with the capacity to analyse and resolve problems, under the constant renewal of knowledge and competencies. Due to this question intro...

Según las declaraciones de Bolonia [1] y de Bergen [2], el EEES pretende conseguir preparar al estudiante para el mercado laboral, proporcionándole competencias y formándole para una ciudadanía activa. Desde hace tiempo la formación en competencias transversales (también llamadas personales o generales) es una de las nuevas facetas que debe afronta...

The technological sector looks for professionals able to work in a team, able to approach the problems, with the capacity to analyse and resolve problems, under the constant renewal of knowledge and competencies. In this communication a group of readers of the “Information and Communications Technology” area intended to give a clear guide to the is...

Los sondeos en el mercado laboral dejan constancia del tipo de profesionales que están siendo demandados por las empresas del sector tecnológico. Cada vez en mayor medida se requieren personas con capacidades y habilidades cognitivas y sociales que van más allá de lo meramente técnico. Por citar un ejemplo, se buscan personas que sepan trabajar en...

La construcción del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) para el 2010 comporta grandes transformaciones que hay que asumir tanto desde el punto de vista de la gestión académica como de la intervención docente en las aulas. Los cambios necesarios en la docencia no son posibles sin la acción coordinada del equipo docente implicado. Partimos d...

Spatial multiplexing is currently one of the most promising techniques exploiting the spatial dimension to increase data rates. Most of existing methods are based on coherent detection techniques that imply multichannel estimation. This procedure, especially for time-varying channels, increases the overhead rate due to the periodical training requi...

The main goal of this paper is to review the fundamental ideas of the method called “ICA with OS”. We review a set of alternative statistical distances between distributions based on the Cumulative Density Function (cdf). In particular, these gaussianity distances provide new cost functions whose maximization perform the extraction of one independe...

In this paper we propose and analyze a set of alternative statistical distances between distributions based on the cumulative density function instead of traditional probability density function. In particular, these new Gaussian distances provide new cost functions whose maximization performs the extraction of one independent component at each suc...

In this paper we propose an alternative statistical Gaussianity measure whose optimization provides the extraction of one non-gaussian independent component at each stage of an ICA procedure; this measure is based on the Cumulative Density Function (cdf) instead of traditional distribution distances over Probability Density Functions (pdf’s). Addit...

In this paper, we consider the problem of blind separation of instantaneous mixtures of two continuous sources collected by two sensors. In most of the approaches devoted to this task it is involved an independence measure based on two statistical functions: if the probability density function (pdf) is invoked, the independence measure is related t...

This paper discusses a novel method called 'ICA with OS' ('Independent Component Analysis with Order Statistics') to solve the vital problem of Blind Source Separation. The key of the procedure is a new alternative Gaussianity measure estimated by Order Statistics of the cdf (cumulative density function) instead of the common pdf (probability densi...

Blind source separation problem whose solution is vital in numerous applications in communications. We are proposing a multistage procedure to separate N original sources from N instantaneous mixtures. The goal is to extract the parameters of the unknown mixture in a deflation approach. In each stage of the procedure a novel cost function is applie...