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Author | Sergio Escalera; Eloi Puertas; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol | ||||
Title | Multimodal laughter recognition in video conversations | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 110–115 | ||
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Abstract | Laughter detection is an important area of interest in the Affective Computing and Human-computer Interaction fields. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal methodology based on the fusion of audio and visual cues to deal with the laughter recognition problem in face-to-face conversations. The audio features are extracted from the spectogram and the video features are obtained estimating the mouth movement degree and using a smile and laughter classifier. Finally, the multi-modal cues are included in a sequential classifier. Results over videos from the public discussion blog of the New York Times show that both types of features perform better when considered together by the classifier. Moreover, the sequential methodology shows to significantly outperform the results obtained by an Adaboost classifier. | ||||
Address | Miami (USA) | ||||
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ISSN | 2160-7508 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-3994-2 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | CVPR | ||
Notes | MILAB;HuPBA | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009c | Serial | 1188 | ||
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Author | Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria | ||||
Title | Visual Content Layer for Scalable Recognition in Urban Image Databases, Internet Multimedia Search and Mining | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 1616–1619 | ||
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Abstract | Rich online map interaction represents a useful tool to get multimedia information related to physical places. With this type of systems, users can automatically compute the optimal route for a trip or to look for entertainment places or hotels near their actual position. Standard maps are defined as a fusion of layers, where each one contains specific data such height, streets, or a particular business location. In this paper we propose the construction of a visual content layer which describes the visual appearance of geographic locations in a city. We captured, by means of a Mobile Mapping system, a huge set of georeferenced images (> 500K) which cover the whole city of Barcelona. For each image, hundreds of region descriptions are computed off-line and described as a hash code. This allows an efficient and scalable way of accessing maps by visual content. | ||||
Address | New York (USA) | ||||
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-1-4244-4291-1 | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | ICME | ||
Notes | OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BER2009 | Serial | 1189 | ||
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Author | Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | Recoding Error-Correcting Output Codes | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 8th International Workshop of Multiple Classifier Systems | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | 5519 | Issue | Pages | 11–21 | |
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Abstract | One of the most widely applied techniques to deal with multi- class categorization problems is the pairwise voting procedure. Recently, this classical approach has been embedded in the Error-Correcting Output Codes framework (ECOC). This framework is based on a coding step, where a set of binary problems are learnt and coded in a matrix, and a decoding step, where a new sample is tested and classified according to a comparison with the positions of the coded matrix. In this paper, we present a novel approach to redefine without retraining, in a problem-dependent way, the one-versus-one coding matrix so that the new coded information increases the generalization capability of the system. Moreover, the final classification can be tuned with the inclusion of a weighting matrix in the decoding step. The approach has been validated over several UCI Machine Learning repository data sets and two real multi-class problems: traffic sign and face categorization. The results show that performance improvements are obtained when comparing the new approach to one of the best ECOC designs (one-versus-one). Furthermore, the novel methodology obtains at least the same performance than the one-versus-one ECOC design. | ||||
Address | Reykjavik (Iceland) | ||||
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-642-02325-5 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | MCS | ||
Notes | MILAB;HuPBA | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009d | Serial | 1190 | ||
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Author | Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa | ||||
Title | A Novel Approach to Geometric Fitting of Implicit Quadrics | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | 5807 | Issue | Pages | 121–132 | |
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Abstract | This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the geometric distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric curve/surface. The proposed estimation is based on the height of a tetrahedron, which is used as a coarse but reliable estimation of the real distance. The estimated distance is then used for finding the best set of quadric parameters, by means of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, which is a common framework in other geometric fitting approaches. Comparisons of the proposed approach with previous ones are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results. | ||||
Address | Bordeaux, France | ||||
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-642-04696-4 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | ACIVS | ||
Notes | ADAS | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ RoS2009 | Serial | 1194 | ||
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Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell | ||||
Title | Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 12th International Conference on Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 979 - 986 | ||
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Abstract | Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. The subsequent stages of the process: feature detection, feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information. | ||||
Address | Kyoto, Japan | ||||
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ISSN | 1550-5499 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-4420-5 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | ICCV | ||
Notes | CIC | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | CAT @ cat @ SWV2009 | Serial | 1196 | ||
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Author | Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer | ||||
Title | Physics-based Edge Evaluation for Improved Color Constancy | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 22nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 581 – 588 | ||
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Abstract | Edge-based color constancy makes use of image derivatives to estimate the illuminant. However, different edge types exist in real-world images such as shadow, geometry, material and highlight edges. These different edge types may have a distinctive influence on the performance of the illuminant estimation. | ||||
Address | Miami, USA | ||||
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ISSN | 1063-6919 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-3992-8 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | CVPR | ||
Notes | CAT;ISE | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | CAT @ cat @ GGW2009 | Serial | 1197 | ||
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Author | Jose Manuel Alvarez; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez | ||||
Title | Automatic Ground-truthing using video registration for on-board detection algorithms | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 4389 - 4392 | ||
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Abstract | Ground-truth data is essential for the objective evaluation of object detection methods in computer vision. Many works claim their method is robust but they support it with experiments which are not quantitatively assessed with regard some ground-truth. This is one of the main obstacles to properly evaluate and compare such methods. One of the main reasons is that creating an extensive and representative ground-truth is very time consuming, specially in the case of video sequences, where thousands of frames have to be labelled. Could such a ground-truth be generated, at least in part, automatically? Though it may seem a contradictory question, we show that this is possible for the case of video sequences recorded from a moving camera. The key idea is transferring existing frame segmentations from a reference sequence into another video sequence recorded at a different time on the same track, possibly under a different ambient lighting. We have carried out experiments on several video sequence pairs and quantitatively assessed the precision of the transformed ground-truth, which prove that our approach is not only feasible but also quite accurate. | ||||
Address | Cairo, Egypt | ||||
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ISSN | 1522-4880 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-5653-6 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | ICIP | ||
Notes | ADAS | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ ADS2009 | Serial | 1201 | ||
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Author | Enric Marti; Jaume Rocarias; Ricardo Toledo; Aura Hernandez-Sabate | ||||
Title | Caronte: plataforma Moodle con gestion flexible de grupos. Primeras experiencias en asignaturas de Ingenieria Informatica | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 461–468 | ||
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Abstract | En este artículo se presenta Caronte, entorno LMS (Learning Management System) basado en Moodle. Una característica importante del entorno es la gestión flexible de grupos en una asignatura. Entendemos por grupo un conjunto de alumnos que realizan un trabajo y uno de ellos entrega la actividad propuesta (práctica, encuesta, etc.) en representación del grupo. Hemos trabajado en la confección de estos grupos, implementando un sistema de inscripción por contraseña.
Caronte ofrece un conjunto de actividades basadas en este concepto de grupo: encuestas, tareas (entrega de trabajos o prácticas), encuestas de autoevaluación y cuestionarios, entre otras. Basada en nuestra actividad de encuesta, hemos definido una actividad de Control, que permite un cierto feedback electrónico del profesor sobre la actividad de los alumnos. Finalmente, se presenta un resumen de las experiencias de uso de Caronte sobre asignaturas de Ingeniería Informática en el curso 2007-08. |
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Address | Barcelona, Spain | ||||
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-84-692-2758-9 | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | JENUI | ||
Notes | IAM;RV;ADAS | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | IAM @ iam @ MRT2009 | Serial | 1202 | ||
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Author | Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Angel Serrano; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | On in-vitro and in-vivo IVUS data fusion | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | 202 | Issue | Pages | 147-156 | |
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Abstract | The design and the validation of an automatic plaque characterization technique based on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) usually requires a data ground-truth. The histological analysis of post-mortem coronary arteries is commonly assumed as the state-of-the-art process for the extraction of a reliable data-set of atherosclerotic plaques. Unfortunately, the amount of data provided by this technique is usually few, due to the difficulties in collecting post-mortem cases and phenomena of tissue spoiling during histological analysis. In this paper we tackle the process of fusing in-vivo and in-vitro IVUS data starting with the analysis of recently proposed approaches for the creation of an enhanced IVUS data-set; furthermore, we propose a new approach, named pLDS, based on semi-supervised learning with a data selection criterion. The enhanced data-set obtained by each one of the analyzed approaches is used to train a classifier for tissue characterization purposes. Finally, the discriminative power of each classifier is quantitatively assessed and compared by classifying a data-set of validated in-vitro IVUS data. | ||||
Address | Cardona (Spain) | ||||
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-1-60750-061-2 | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | CCIA | ||
Notes | MILAB;HuPBA | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009d | Serial | 1204 | ||
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Author | Nicola Bellotto; Eric Sommerlade; Ben Benfold; Charles Bibby; I. Reid; Daniel Roth; Luc Van Gool; Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
Title | A Distributed Camera System for Multi-Resolution Surveillance | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Keywords | 10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289413 | ||||
Abstract | We describe an architecture for a multi-camera, multi-resolution surveillance system. The aim is to support a set of distributed static and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras and visual tracking algorithms, together with a central supervisor unit. Each camera (and possibly pan-tilt device) has a dedicated process and processor. Asynchronous interprocess communications and archiving of data are achieved in a simple and effective way via a central repository, implemented using an SQL database. Visual tracking data from static views are stored dynamically into tables in the database via client calls to the SQL server. A supervisor process running on the SQL server determines if active zoom cameras should be dispatched to observe a particular target, and this message is effected via writing demands into another database table. We show results from a real implementation of the system comprising one static camera overviewing the environment under consideration and a PTZ camera operating under closed-loop velocity control, which uses a fast and robust level-set-based region tracker. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its feasibility to multi-camera systems for intelligent surveillance. | ||||
Address | Como, Italy | ||||
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Area | Expedition | Conference | ICDSC | ||
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Call Number | ISE @ ise @ BSB2009 | Serial | 1205 | ||
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Author | Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | Face-to-face social activity detection using data collected with a wearable device | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | 5524 | Issue | Pages | 56–63 | |
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Abstract | In this work the feasibility of building a socially aware badge that learns from user activities is explored. A wearable multisensor device has been prototyped for collecting data about user movements and photos of the environment where the user acts. Using motion data, speaking and other activities have been classified. Images have been analysed in order to complement motion data and help for the detection of social behaviours. A face detector and an activity classifier are both used for detecting if users have a social activity in the time they worn the device. Good results encourage the improvement of the system at both hardware and software level | ||||
Address | Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal | ||||
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-642-02171-8 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | IbPRIA | ||
Notes | MILAB;HuPBA | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009b | Serial | 1206 | ||
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Author | Mikhail Mozerov; Ariel Amato; Xavier Roca | ||||
Title | Occlusion Handling in Trinocular Stereo using Composite Disparity Space Image | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 19th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Vision | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 69–73 | ||
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Abstract | In this paper we propose a method that smartly improves occlusion handling in stereo matching using trinocular stereo. The main idea is based on the assumption that any occluded region in a matched stereo pair (middle-left images) in general is not occluded in the opposite matched pair (middle-right images). Then two disparity space images (DSI) can be merged in one composite DSI. The proposed integration differs from the known approach that uses a cumulative cost. A dense disparity map is obtained with a global optimization algorithm using the proposed composite DSI. The experimental results are evaluated on the Middlebury data set, showing high performance of the proposed algorithm especially in the occluded regions. One of the top positions in the rank of the Middlebury website confirms the performance of our method to be competitive with the best stereo matching. | ||||
Address | Moscow (Russia) | ||||
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-5-317-02975-3 | Medium | ||
Area | Expedition | Conference | GRAPHICON | ||
Notes | ISE | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ISE @ ise @ MAR2009b | Serial | 1207 | ||
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Author | Pau Baiget | ||||
Title | Modeling Human Behavior for Image Sequence Understanding and Generation | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Abstract | The comprehension of animal behavior, especially human behavior, is one of the most ancient and studied problems since the beginning of civilization. The big list of factors that interact to determine a person action require the collaboration of different disciplines, such as psichology, biology, or sociology. In the last years the analysis of human behavior has received great attention also from the computer vision community, given the latest advances in the acquisition of human motion data from image sequences.
Despite the increasing availability of that data, there still exists a gap towards obtaining a conceptual representation of the obtained observations. Human behavior analysis is based on a qualitative interpretation of the results, and therefore the assignment of concepts to quantitative data is linked to a certain ambiguity. This Thesis tackles the problem of obtaining a proper representation of human behavior in the contexts of computer vision and animation. On the one hand, a good behavior model should permit the recognition and explanation the observed activity in image sequences. On the other hand, such a model must allow the generation of new synthetic instances, which model the behavior of virtual agents. First, we propose methods to automatically learn the models from observations. Given a set of quantitative results output by a vision system, a normal behavior model is learnt. This results provides a tool to determine the normality or abnormality of future observations. However, machine learning methods are unable to provide a richer description of the observations. We confront this problem by means of a new method that incorporates prior knowledge about the enviornment and about the expected behaviors. This framework, formed by the reasoning engine FMTL and the modeling tool SGT allows the generation of conceptual descriptions of activity in new image sequences. Finally, we demonstrate the suitability of the proposed framework to simulate behavior of virtual agents, which are introduced into real image sequences and interact with observed real agents, thereby easing the generation of augmented reality sequences. The set of approaches presented in this Thesis has a growing set of potential applications. The analysis and description of behavior in image sequences has its principal application in the domain of smart video--surveillance, in order to detect suspicious or dangerous behaviors. Other applications include automatic sport commentaries, elderly monitoring, road traffic analysis, and the development of semantic video search engines. Alternatively, behavioral virtual agents allow to simulate accurate real situations, such as fires or crowds. Moreover, the inclusion of virtual agents into real image sequences has been widely deployed in the games and cinema industries. |
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Address | Bellaterra (Spain) | ||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca | |
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ Bai2009 | Serial | 1210 | ||
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Author | Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
Title | Exploiting Natural Language Generation in Scene Interpretation | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | Human–Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | 4 | Issue | Pages | 71–93 | |
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Publisher | Elsevier Science and Tech | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Call Number | ISE @ ise @ FBR2009 | Serial | 1212 | ||
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Author | Ivan Huerta; Michael Holte; Thomas B. Moeslund; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
Title | Detection and Removal of Chromatic Moving Shadows in Surveillance Scenarios | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | 12th International Conference on Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal ![]() |
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Volume | Issue | Pages | 1499 - 1506 | ||
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Abstract | Segmentation in the surveillance domain has to deal with shadows to avoid distortions when detecting moving objects. Most segmentation approaches dealing with shadow detection are typically restricted to penumbra shadows. Therefore, such techniques cannot cope well with umbra shadows. Consequently, umbra shadows are usually detected as part of moving objects. In this paper we present a novel technique based on gradient and colour models for separating chromatic moving cast shadows from detected moving objects. Firstly, both a chromatic invariant colour cone model and an invariant gradient model are built to perform automatic segmentation while detecting potential shadows. In a second step, regions corresponding to potential shadows are grouped by considering “a bluish effect” and an edge partitioning. Lastly, (i) temporal similarities between textures and (ii) spatial similarities between chrominance angle and brightness distortions are analysed for all potential shadow regions in order to finally identify umbra shadows. Unlike other approaches, our method does not make any a-priori assumptions about camera location, surface geometries, surface textures, shapes and types of shadows, objects, and background. Experimental results show the performance and accuracy of our approach in different shadowed materials and illumination conditions. | ||||
Address | Kyoto, Japan | ||||
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ISSN | 1550-5499 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-4420-5 | Medium | |
Area | Expedition | Conference | ICCV | ||
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | ISE @ ise @ HHM2009 | Serial | 1213 | ||
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