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| Author | Naila Murray | ||||
| Title | Predicting Saliency and Aesthetics in Images: A Bottom-up Perspective | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal  |
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| Abstract | In Part 1 of the thesis, we hypothesize that salient and non-salient image regions can be estimated to be the regions which are enhanced or assimilated in standard low-level color image representations. We prove this hypothesis by adapting a low-level model of color perception into a saliency estimation model. This model shares the three main steps found in many successful models for predicting attention in a scene: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. For such models, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. Our saliency model inherits a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism from the perception model on which it is based. This pooling mechanism has been fitted using psychophysical data acquired in color-luminance setting experiments. The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art at the task of predicting eye-fixations from two datasets. After demonstrating the effectiveness of our basic saliency model, we introduce an improved image representation, based on geometrical grouplets, that enhances complex low-level visual features such as corners and terminations, and suppresses relatively simpler features such as edges. With this improved image representation, the performance of our saliency model in predicting eye-fixations increases for both datasets.
In Part 2 of the thesis, we investigate the problem of aesthetic visual analysis. While a great deal of research has been conducted on hand-crafting image descriptors for aesthetics, little attention so far has been dedicated to the collection, annotation and distribution of ground truth data. Because image aesthetics is complex and subjective, existing datasets, which have few images and few annotations, have significant limitations. To address these limitations, we have introduced a new large-scale database for conducting Aesthetic Visual Analysis, which we call AVA. AVA contains more than 250,000 images, along with a rich variety of annotations. We investigate how the wealth of data in AVA can be used to tackle the challenge of understanding and assessing visual aesthetics by looking into several problems relevant for aesthetic analysis. We demonstrate that by leveraging the data in AVA, and using generic low-level features such as SIFT and color histograms, we can exceed state-of-the-art performance in aesthetic quality prediction tasks. Finally, we entertain the hypothesis that low-level visual information in our saliency model can also be used to predict visual aesthetics by capturing local image characteristics such as feature contrast, grouping and isolation, characteristics thought to be related to universal aesthetic laws. We use the weighted center-surround responses that form the basis of our saliency model to create a feature vector that describes aesthetics. We also introduce a novel color space for fine-grained color representation. We then demonstrate that the resultant features achieve state-of-the-art performance on aesthetic quality classification. As such, a promising contribution of this thesis is to show that several vision experiences – low-level color perception, visual saliency and visual aesthetics estimation – may be successfully modeled using a unified framework. This suggests a similar architecture in area V1 for both color perception and saliency and adds evidence to the hypothesis that visual aesthetics appreciation is driven in part by low-level cues. |
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| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Xavier Otazu;Maria Vanrell | |
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| Notes | CIC | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Mur2012 | Serial | 2212 | ||
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| Author | Jiaolong Xu; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Javier Marin; Daniel Ponsa | ||||
| Title | Learning a Multiview Part-based Model in Virtual World for Pedestrian Detection | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | Pages | 467 - 472 | ||
| Keywords | Pedestrian Detection; Virtual World; Part based | ||||
| Abstract | State-of-the-art deformable part-based models based on latent SVM have shown excellent results on human detection. In this paper, we propose to train a multiview deformable part-based model with automatically generated part examples from virtual-world data. The method is efficient as: (i) the part detectors are trained with precisely extracted virtual examples, thus no latent learning is needed, (ii) the multiview pedestrian detector enhances the performance of the pedestrian root model, (iii) a top-down approach is used for part detection which reduces the searching space. We evaluate our model on Daimler and Karlsruhe Pedestrian Benchmarks with publicly available Caltech pedestrian detection evaluation framework and the result outperforms the state-of-the-art latent SVM V4.0, on both average miss rate and speed (our detector is ten times faster). | ||||
| Address | Gold Coast; Australia; June 2013 | ||||
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| Publisher | IEEE | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 1931-0587 | ISBN | 978-1-4673-2754-1 | Medium | |
| Area | Expedition | Conference | IV | ||
| Notes | ADAS; 600.054; 600.057 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | XVL2013; ADAS @ adas @ xvl2013a | Serial | 2214 | ||
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| Author | Marina Alberti | ||||
| Title | Detection and Alignment of Vascular Structures in Intravascular Ultrasound using Pattern Recognition Techniques | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Abstract | In this thesis, several methods for the automatic analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound
(IVUS) sequences are presented, aimed at assisting physicians in the diagnosis, the assessment of the intervention and the monitoring of the patients with coronary disease. The basis for the developed frameworks are machine learning, pattern recognition and image processing techniques. First, a novel approach for the automatic detection of vascular bifurcations in IVUS is presented. The task is addressed as a binary classi cation problem (identifying bifurcation and non-bifurcation angular sectors in the sequence images). The multiscale stacked sequential learning algorithm is applied, to take into account the spatial and temporal context in IVUS sequences, and the results are re ned using a-priori information about branching dimensions and geometry. The achieved performance is comparable to intra- and inter-observer variability. Then, we propose a novel method for the automatic non-rigid alignment of IVUS sequences of the same patient, acquired at dierent moments (before and after percutaneous coronary intervention, or at baseline and follow-up examinations). The method is based on the description of the morphological content of the vessel, obtained by extracting temporal morphological pro les from the IVUS acquisitions, by means of methods for segmentation, characterization and detection in IVUS. A technique for non-rigid sequence alignment – the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm - is applied to the pro les and adapted to the speci c clinical problem. Two dierent robust strategies are proposed to address the partial overlapping between frames of corresponding sequences, and a regularization term is introduced to compensate for possible errors in the pro le extraction. The bene ts of the proposed strategy are demonstrated by extensive validation on synthetic and in-vivo data. The results show the interest of the proposed non-linear alignment and the clinical value of the method. Finally, a novel automatic approach for the extraction of the luminal border in IVUS images is presented. The method applies the multiscale stacked sequential learning algorithm and extends it to 2-D+T, in a rst classi cation phase (the identi- cation of lumen and non-lumen regions of the images), while an active contour model is used in a second phase, to identify the lumen contour. The method is extended to the longitudinal dimension of the sequences and it is validated on a challenging data-set. |
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| Address | Barcelona | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Simone Balocco;Petia Radeva | |
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| Notes | MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Alb2013 | Serial | 2215 | ||
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| Author | Sergio Escalera | ||||
| Title | Coding and Decoding Design of ECOCs for Multi-class Pattern and Object Recognition A | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Abstract | Many real problems require multi-class decisions. In the Pattern Recognition field,
many techniques have been proposed to deal with the binary problem. However, the extension of many 2-class classifiers to the multi-class case is a hard task. In this sense, Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) demonstrated to be a powerful tool to combine any number of binary classifiers to model multi-class problems. But there are still many open issues about the capabilities of the ECOC framework. In this thesis, the two main stages of an ECOC design are analyzed: the coding and the decoding steps. We present different problem-dependent designs. These designs take advantage of the knowledge of the problem domain to minimize the number of classifiers, obtaining a high classification performance. On the other hand, we analyze the ECOC codification in order to define new decoding rules that take full benefit from the information provided at the coding step. Moreover, as a successful classification requires a rich feature set, new feature detection/extraction techniques are presented and evaluated on the new ECOC designs. The evaluation of the new methodology is performed on different real and synthetic data sets: UCI Machine Learning Repository, handwriting symbols, traffic signs from a Mobile Mapping System, Intravascular Ultrasound images, Caltech Repository data set or Chaga’s disease data set. The results of this thesis show that significant performance improvements are obtained on both traditional coding and decoding ECOC designs when the new coding and decoding rules are taken into account. |
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| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Petia Radeva;Oriol Pujol | |
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| Notes | MILAB; HuPBA | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Esc2008b | Serial | 2217 | ||
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| Author | Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Daniel Kondermann | ||||
| Title | When Is A Confidence Measure Good Enough? | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 7963 | Issue | Pages | 344-353 | |
| Keywords | Optical flow, confidence measure, performance evaluation | ||||
| Abstract | Confidence estimation has recently become a hot topic in image processing and computer vision.Yet, several definitions exist of the term “confidence” which are sometimes used interchangeably. This is a position paper, in which we aim to give an overview on existing definitions,
thereby clarifying the meaning of the used terms to facilitate further research in this field. Based on these clarifications, we develop a theory to compare confidence measures with respect to their quality. |
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| Address | St Petersburg; Russia; July 2013 | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Link | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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| ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-642-39401-0 | Medium | |
| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICVS | ||
| Notes | IAM;ADAS; 600.044; 600.057; 600.060; 601.145 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ MGH2013a | Serial | 2218 | ||
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| Author | David Vazquez; Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa | ||||
| Title | Weakly Supervised Automatic Annotation of Pedestrian Bounding Boxes | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | CVPR Workshop on Ground Truth – What is a good dataset? | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | Pages | 706 - 711 | ||
| Keywords | Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation | ||||
| Abstract | Among the components of a pedestrian detector, its trained pedestrian classifier is crucial for achieving the desired performance. The initial task of the training process consists in collecting samples of pedestrians and background, which involves tiresome manual annotation of pedestrian bounding boxes (BBs). Thus, recent works have assessed the use of automatically collected samples from photo-realistic virtual worlds. However, learning from virtual-world samples and testing in real-world images may suffer the dataset shift problem. Accordingly, in this paper we assess an strategy to collect samples from the real world and retrain with them, thus avoiding the dataset shift, but in such a way that no BBs of real-world pedestrians have to be provided. In particular, we train a pedestrian classifier based on virtual-world samples (no human annotation required). Then, using such a classifier we collect pedestrian samples from real-world images by detection. After, a human oracle rejects the false detections efficiently (weak annotation). Finally, a new classifier is trained with the accepted detections. We show that this classifier is competitive with respect to the counterpart trained with samples collected by manually annotating hundreds of pedestrian BBs. | ||||
| Address | Portland; Oregon; June 2013 | ||||
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| Publisher | IEEE | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | CVPRW | ||
| Notes | ADAS; 600.054; 600.057; 601.217 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ VXR2013a | Serial | 2219 | ||
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| Author | Jiaolong Xu; David Vazquez; Sebastian Ramos; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa | ||||
| Title | Adapting a Pedestrian Detector by Boosting LDA Exemplar Classifiers | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | CVPR Workshop on Ground Truth – What is a good dataset? | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | Issue | Pages | 688 - 693 | ||
| Keywords | Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation | ||||
| Abstract | Training vision-based pedestrian detectors using synthetic datasets (virtual world) is a useful technique to collect automatically the training examples with their pixel-wise ground truth. However, as it is often the case, these detectors must operate in real-world images, experiencing a significant drop of their performance. In fact, this effect also occurs among different real-world datasets, i.e. detectors' accuracy drops when the training data (source domain) and the application scenario (target domain) have inherent differences. Therefore, in order to avoid this problem, it is required to adapt the detector trained with synthetic data to operate in the real-world scenario. In this paper, we propose a domain adaptation approach based on boosting LDA exemplar classifiers from both virtual and real worlds. We evaluate our proposal on multiple real-world pedestrian detection datasets. The results show that our method can efficiently adapt the exemplar classifiers from virtual to real world, avoiding drops in average precision over the 15%. | ||||
| Address | Portland; oregon; June 2013 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | CVPRW | ||
| Notes | ADAS; 600.054; 600.057; 601.217 | Approved | yes | ||
| Call Number | XVR2013; ADAS @ adas @ xvr2013a | Serial | 2220 | ||
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| Author | David Augusto Rojas | ||||
| Title | Colouring Local Feature Detection for Matching | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 133 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Notes | CIC | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Roj2009 | Serial | 2392 | ||
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| Author | Juan Diego Gomez | ||||
| Title | Toward Robust Myocardial Blush Grade Estimation in Contrast Angiography | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 134 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Gom2009 | Serial | 2393 | ||
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| Author | Olivier Penacchio | ||||
| Title | Relative Density of L, M, S photoreceptors in the Human Retina | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 135 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Pen2009 | Serial | 2394 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Boix | ||||
| Title | Learning Conditional Random Fields for Stereo | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 136 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Boi2009 | Serial | 2395 | ||
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| Author | Shida Beigpour | ||||
| Title | Physics-based Reflectance Estimation Applied to Recoloring | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 137 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Bei2009 | Serial | 2396 | ||
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| Author | Jaume Gibert | ||||
| Title | Learning structural representations and graph matching paradigms in the context of object recognition | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 143 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Gib2009 | Serial | 2397 | ||
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| Author | Jose Carlos Rubio | ||||
| Title | Graph matching based on graphical models with application to vehicle tracking and classification at night | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 144 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Notes | CIC | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Rub2009 | Serial | 2398 | ||
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| Author | Farshad Nourbakhsh | ||||
| Title | Colour logo recognition | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume | 145 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Corporate Author | Computer Vision Center | Thesis | Master's thesis | ||
| Publisher | Place of Publication | Bellaterra, Barcelona | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Nou2009 | Serial | 2399 | ||
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