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Sergio Escalera, Alicia Fornes, Oriol Pujol, Josep Llados, & Petia Radeva. (2011). Circular Blurred Shape Model for Multiclass Symbol Recognition. TSMCB - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part B) (IEEE), 41(2), 497–506.
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. The feature extraction is performed by capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. The shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, where a prior blurring degree defines the level of distortion allowed in the symbol, making the descriptor tolerant to irregular deformations. Moreover, the descriptor is rotation invariant by definition. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor in both the multiclass symbol recognition and symbol detection domains. In order to perform the symbol detection, the descriptors are learned using a cascade of classifiers. In the case of multiclass categorization, the new feature space is learned using a set of binary classifiers which are embedded in an error-correcting output code design. The results over four symbol data sets show the significant improvements of the proposed descriptor compared to the state-of-the-art descriptors. In particular, the results are even more significant in those cases where the symbols suffer from elastic deformations.
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Jordi Vitria, M. Bressan, & Petia Radeva. (2006). Bayesian classification of cork stoppers using class-conditional independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part C), 36(6).
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Jordi Vitria, M. Bressan, & Petia Radeva. (2007). Bayesian classification of cork stoppers using class-conditional independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part C), 37(1): 32–38 (ISI 0,482).
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Marc Oliu, Ciprian Corneanu, Kamal Nasrollahi, Olegs Nikisins, Sergio Escalera, Yunlian Sun, et al. (2016). Improved RGB-D-T based Face Recognition. BIO - IET Biometrics, 5(4), 297–303.
Abstract: Reliable facial recognition systems are of crucial importance in various applications from entertainment to security. Thanks to the deep-learning concepts introduced in the field, a significant improvement in the performance of the unimodal facial recognition systems has been observed in the recent years. At the same time a multimodal facial recognition is a promising approach. This study combines the latest successes in both directions by applying deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) to the multimodal RGB, depth, and thermal (RGB-D-T) based facial recognition problem outperforming previously published results. Furthermore, a late fusion of the CNN-based recognition block with various hand-crafted features (local binary patterns, histograms of oriented gradients, Haar-like rectangular features, histograms of Gabor ordinal measures) is introduced, demonstrating even better recognition performance on a benchmark RGB-D-T database. The obtained results in this study show that the classical engineered features and CNN-based features can complement each other for recognition purposes.
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Frederic Sampedro, & Sergio Escalera. (2015). Spatial codification of label predictions in Multi-scale Stacked Sequential Learning: A case study on multi-class medical volume segmentation. IETCV - IET Computer Vision, 9(3), 439–446.
Abstract: In this study, the authors propose the spatial codification of label predictions within the multi-scale stacked sequential learning (MSSL) framework, a successful learning scheme to deal with non-independent identically distributed data entries. After providing a motivation for this objective, they describe its theoretical framework based on the introduction of the blurred shape model as a smart descriptor to codify the spatial distribution of the predicted labels and define the new extended feature set for the second stacked classifier. They then particularise this scheme to be applied in volume segmentation applications. Finally, they test the implementation of the proposed framework in two medical volume segmentation datasets, obtaining significant performance improvements (with a 95% of confidence) in comparison to standard Adaboost classifier and classical MSSL approaches.
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