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Author Onur Ferhat edit   pdf
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  Title Eye-Tracking with Webcam-Based Setups: Implementation of a Real-Time System and an Analysis of Factors Affecting Performance Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 172 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Computer vision, eye-tracking, gaussian process, feature selection, optical flow  
  Abstract In the recent years commercial eye-tracking hardware has become more common, with the introduction of new models from several brands that have better performance and easier setup procedures. A cause and at the same time a result of this phenomenon is the popularity of eye-tracking research directed at marketing, accessibility and usability, among others.
One problem with these hardware components is scalability, because both the price and the necessary expertise to operate them makes it practically impossible in the large scale. In this work, we analyze the feasibility of a software eye-tracking system based on a single, ordinary webcam. Our aim is to discover the limits of such a system and to see whether it provides acceptable performances.
The significance of this setup is that it is the most common setup found in consumer environments, off-the-shelf electronic devices such as laptops, mobile phones and tablet computers. As no special equipment such as infrared lights, mirrors or zoom lenses are used; setting up and calibrating the system is easier compared to other approaches using these components.
Our work is based on the open source application Opengazer, which provides a good starting point for our contributions. We propose several improvements in order to push the system's performance further and make it feasible as a robust, real-time device. Then we carry out an elaborate experiment involving 18 human subjects and 4 different system setups. Finally, we give an analysis of the results and discuss the effects of setup changes, subject differences and modifications in the software.
 
  Address Bellaterra  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Fernando Vilariño  
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  Notes MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2012; IAM @ iam @ Fer2012 Serial 2165  
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Author Pedro Martins; Paulo Carvalho; Carlo Gatta edit   pdf
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  Title Stable Salient Shapes Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Abbreviated Journal (up)  
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  Area Expedition Conference DICTA  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MCG2012b Serial 2166  
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Author Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke; Alicia Fornes edit   pdf
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  Title On the Correlation of Graph Edit Distance and L1 Distance in the Attribute Statistics Embedding Space Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7626 Issue Pages 135-143  
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  Abstract Graph embeddings in vector spaces aim at assigning a pattern vector to every graph so that the problems of graph classification and clustering can be solved by using data processing algorithms originally developed for statistical feature vectors. An important requirement graph features should fulfil is that they reproduce as much as possible the properties among objects in the graph domain. In particular, it is usually desired that distances between pairs of graphs in the graph domain closely resemble those between their corresponding vectorial representations. In this work, we analyse relations between the edit distance in the graph domain and the L1 distance of the attribute statistics based embedding, for which good classification performance has been reported on various datasets. We show that there is actually a high correlation between the two kinds of distances provided that the corresponding parameter values that account for balancing the weight between node and edge based features are properly selected.  
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  Publisher Springer-Berlag, Berlin Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-34165-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference SSPR&SPR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GVB2012c Serial 2167  
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Author Rui Hua; Oriol Pujol; Francesco Ciompi; Marina Alberti; Simone Balocco; Josepa Mauri; Petia Radeva edit   pdf
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  Title Stent Strut Detection by Classifying a Wide Set of IVUS Features Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Computed Assisted Stenting Workshop Abbreviated Journal (up)  
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  Address Nice, France  
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  Area Expedition Conference STENT  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HPC2012 Serial 2169  
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Author Adela Barbulescu; Wenjuan Gong; Jordi Gonzalez; Thomas B. Moeslund; Xavier Roca edit   pdf
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  Title 3D Human Pose Estimation Using 2D Body Part Detectors Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 2484 - 2487  
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  Abstract Automatic 3D reconstruction of human poses from monocular images is a challenging and popular topic in the computer vision community, which provides a wide range of applications in multiple areas. Solutions for 3D pose estimation involve various learning approaches, such as support vector machines and Gaussian processes, but many encounter difficulties in cluttered scenarios and require additional input data, such as silhouettes, or controlled camera settings. We present a framework that is capable of estimating the 3D pose of a person from single images or monocular image sequences without requiring background information and which is robust to camera variations. The framework models the non-linearity present in human pose estimation as it benefits from flexible learning approaches, including a highly customizable 2D detector. Results on the HumanEva benchmark show how they perform and influence the quality of the 3D pose estimates.  
  Address Tsubuka, Japan  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICPR  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BGG2012 Serial 2172  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; A.Assoum; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Automatic Dimensionality Estimation for Manifold Learning through Optimal Feature Selection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7626 Issue Pages 575-583  
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  Abstract A very important aspect in manifold learning is represented by automatic estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality. Unfortunately, this problem has received few attention in the literature of manifold learning. In this paper, we argue that feature selection paradigm can be used to the problem of automatic dimensionality estimation. Besides this, it also leads to improved recognition rates. Our approach for optimal feature selection is based on a Genetic Algorithm. As a case study for manifold learning, we have considered Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE) and Locally Linear Embedding (LLE). The effectiveness of the proposed framework was tested on the face recognition problem. Extensive experiments carried out on ORL, UMIST, Yale, and Extended Yale face data sets confirmed our hypothesis.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-34165-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference SSPR&SPR  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DAR2012 Serial 2174  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika edit   pdf
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  Title Out-of-Sample Embedding by Sparse Representation Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7626 Issue Pages 336-344  
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  Abstract A critical aspect of non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques is represented by the construction of the adjacency graph. The difficulty resides in finding the optimal parameters, a process which, in general, is heuristically driven. Recently, sparse representation has been proposed as a non-parametric solution to overcome this problem. In this paper, we demonstrate that this approach not only serves for the graph construction, but also represents an efficient and accurate alternative for out-of-sample embedding. Considering for a case study the Laplacian Eigenmaps, we applied our method to the face recognition problem. Experimental results conducted on some challenging datasets confirmed the robustness of our approach and its superiority when compared to existing techniques.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-34165-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference SSPR&SPR  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2012c Serial 2175  
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu edit  doi
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  Title Image compression algorithm based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees: an introduction of the Hi-SET coder Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-6  
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  Abstract In this work we present an effective and computationally simple algorithm for image compression based on Hilbert Scanning of Embedded quadTrees (Hi-SET). It allows to represent an image as an embedded bitstream along a fractal function. Embedding is an important feature of modern image compression algorithms, in this way Salomon in [1, pg. 614] cite that another feature and perhaps a unique one is the fact of achieving the best quality for the number of bits input by the decoder at any point during the decoding. Hi-SET possesses also this latter feature. Furthermore, the coder is based on a quadtree partition strategy, that applied to image transformation structures such as discrete cosine or wavelet transform allows to obtain an energy clustering both in frequency and space. The coding algorithm is composed of three general steps, using just a list of significant pixels. The implementation of the proposed coder is developed for gray-scale and color image compression. Hi-SET compressed images are, on average, 6.20dB better than the ones obtained by other compression techniques based on the Hilbert scanning. Moreover, Hi-SET improves the image quality in 1.39dB and 1.00dB in gray-scale and color compression, respectively, when compared with JPEG2000 coder.  
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  ISSN 1945-7871 ISBN 978-1-61284-348-3 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICME  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MoO2011a Serial 2176  
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu edit  openurl
  Title Image coder based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication Data Compression Conference Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 470-470  
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  Abstract In this work we present an effective and computationally simple algorithm for image compression based on Hilbert Scanning of Embedded quadTrees (Hi-SET). It allows to represent an image as an embedded bitstream along a fractal function. Embedding is an important feature of modern image compression algorithms, in this way Salomon in [1, pg. 614] cite that another feature and perhaps a unique one is the fact of achieving the best quality for the number of bits input by the decoder at any point during the decoding. Hi-SET possesses also this latter feature. Furthermore, the coder is based on a quadtree partition strategy, that applied to image transformation structures such as discrete cosine or wavelet transform allows to obtain an energy clustering both in frequency and space. The coding algorithm is composed of three general steps, using just a list of significant pixels.  
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  Area Expedition Conference DCC  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MoO2011b Serial 2177  
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Author Olivier Penacchio; Laura Dempere-Marco; Xavier Otazu edit   pdf
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  Title A Neurodynamical Model Of Brightness Induction In V1 Following Static And Dynamic Contextual Influences Type Abstract
  Year 2012 Publication 8th Federation of European Neurosciences Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 6 Issue Pages 63-64  
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  Abstract Brightness induction is the modulation of the perceived intensity of an area by the luminance of surrounding areas. Although striate cortex is traditionally regarded as an area mostly responsive to ensory (i.e. retinal) information,
neurophysiological evidence suggests that perceived brightness information mightbe explicitly represented in V1.
Such evidence has been observed both in anesthetised cats where neuronal response modulations have been found to follow luminance changes outside the receptive felds and in human fMRI measurements. In this work, possible neural mechanisms that ofer a plausible explanation for such phenomenon are investigated. To this end, we consider the model proposed by Z.Li (Li, Network:Comput. Neural Syst., 10 (1999)) which is based on neurophysiological evidence and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual infuences, i.e. layer 2-3 pyramidal cells, interneurons, and horizontal intracortical connections. This model has reproduced other phenomena such as contour detection and preattentive segmentation, which share with brightness induction the relevant efect of contextual infuences. We have extended the original model such that the input to the network is obtained from a complete multiscale and multiorientation wavelet decomposition, thereby allowing the recovery of an image refecting the perceived intensity. The proposed model successfully accounts for well known psychophysical efects for static contexts (among them: the White's and modifed White's efects, the Todorovic, Chevreul, achromatic ring patterns, and grating induction efects) and also for brigthness induction in dynamic contexts defned by modulating the luminance of surrounding areas (e.g. the brightness of a static central area is perceived to vary in antiphase to the sinusoidal luminance changes of its surroundings). This work thus suggests that intra-cortical interactions in V1 could partially explain perceptual brightness induction efects and reveals how a common general architecture may account for several different fundamental processes emerging early in the visual processing pathway.
 
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PDO2012b Serial 2181  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika edit   pdf
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  Title Pose-Invariant Face Recognition in Videos for Human-Machine Interaction Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 12th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7584 Issue Pages 566.575  
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  Abstract Human-machine interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the communities of computer vision and robotics. In this context, face recognition algorithms (used as primary cue for a person’s identity assessment) work well under controlled conditions but degrade significantly when tested in real-world environments. This is mostly due to the difficulty of simultaneously handling variations in illumination, pose, and occlusions. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for robust pose-invariant face recognition for human-robot interaction based on the real-time fitting of a 3D deformable model to input images taken from video sequences. More concrete, our approach generates a rectified face image irrespective with the actual head-pose orientation. Experimental results performed on Honda video database, using several manifold learning techniques, show a distinct advantage of the proposed method over the standard 2D appearance-based snapshot approach.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33867-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCVW  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2012e Serial 2182  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Analysis and Recognition of Facial Expressions in Videos Using Facial Shape Deformation Type Book Chapter
  Year 2012 Publication Facial Expressions: Dynamic Patterns, Impairments and Social Perceptions Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 157-178  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher NOVA Publishers Place of Publication Editor S.E. Carter  
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  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DoR2012 Serial 2183  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez edit  doi
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  Title Photometric Invariance by Machine Learning Type Book Chapter
  Year 2012 Publication Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7 Issue Pages 113-134  
  Keywords road detection  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher iConcept Press Ltd Place of Publication Editor Theo Gevers, Arjan Gijsenij, Joost van de Weijer, Jan-Mark Geusebroek  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-0-470-89084-4 Medium  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AlL2012 Serial 2186  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Y. LeCun; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Semantic Road Segmentation via Multi-Scale Ensembles of Learned Features Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 12th European Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops and Demonstrations Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7584 Issue Pages 586-595  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Semantic segmentation refers to the process of assigning an object label (e.g., building, road, sidewalk, car, pedestrian) to every pixel in an image. Common approaches formulate the task as a random field labeling problem modeling the interactions between labels by combining local and contextual features such as color, depth, edges, SIFT or HoG. These models are trained to maximize the likelihood of the correct classification given a training set. However, these approaches rely on hand–designed features (e.g., texture, SIFT or HoG) and a higher computational time required in the inference process.
Therefore, in this paper, we focus on estimating the unary potentials of a conditional random field via ensembles of learned features. We propose an algorithm based on convolutional neural networks to learn local features from training data at different scales and resolutions. Then, diversification between these features is exploited using a weighted linear combination. Experiments on a publicly available database show the effectiveness of the proposed method to perform semantic road scene segmentation in still images. The algorithm outperforms appearance based methods and its performance is similar compared to state–of–the–art methods using other sources of information such as depth, motion or stereo.
 
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-33867-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCVW  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ALG2012; ADAS @ adas Serial 2187  
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Author Jordi Roca; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  url
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  Title What is constant in colour constancy? Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 6th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume Issue Pages 337-343  
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  Abstract Color constancy refers to the ability of the human visual system to stabilize
the color appearance of surfaces under an illuminant change. In this work we studied how the interrelations among nine colors are perceived under illuminant changes, particularly whether they remain stable across 10 different conditions (5 illuminants and 2 backgrounds). To do so we have used a paradigm that measures several colors under an immersive state of adaptation. From our measures we defined a perceptual structure descriptor that is up to 87% stable over all conditions, suggesting that color category features could be used to predict color constancy. This is in agreement with previous results on the stability of border categories [1,2] and with computational color constancy
algorithms [3] for estimating the scene illuminant.
 
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  ISSN ISBN 9781622767014 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CGIV  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number RVP2012 Serial 2189  
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