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Author T. Widemann; Xavier Otazu edit  doi
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  Title Titanias radius and an upper limit on its atmosphere from the September 8, 2001 stellar occultation Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication International Journal of Solar System Studies Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 199 Issue 2 Pages 458–476  
  Keywords Occultations; Uranus, satellites; Satellites, shapes; Satellites, dynamics; Ices; Satellites, atmospheres  
  Abstract On September 8, 2001 around 2 h UT, the largest uranian moon, Titania, occulted Hipparcos star 106829 (alias SAO 164538, a V=7.2, K0 III star). This was the first-ever observed occultation by this satellite, a rare event as Titania subtends only 0.11 arcsec on the sky. The star's unusual brightness allowed many observers, both amateurs or professionals, to monitor this unique event, providing fifty-seven occultations chords over three continents, all reported here. Selecting the best 27 occultation chords, and assuming a circular limb, we derive Titania's radius: View the MathML source (1-σ error bar). This implies a density of View the MathML source using the value View the MathML source derived by Taylor [Taylor, D.B., 1998. Astron. Astrophys. 330, 362–374]. We do not detect any significant difference between equatorial and polar radii, in the limit View the MathML source, in agreement with Voyager limb image retrieval during the 1986 flyby. Titania's offset with respect to the DE405 + URA027 (based on GUST86 theory) ephemeris is derived: ΔαTcos(δT)=−108±13 mas and ΔδT=−62±7 mas (ICRF J2000.0 system). Most of this offset is attributable to a Uranus' barycentric offset with respect to DE405, that we estimate to be: View the MathML source and ΔδU=−85±25 mas at the moment of occultation. This offset is confirmed by another Titania stellar occultation observed on August 1st, 2003, which provides an offset of ΔαTcos(δT)=−127±20 mas and ΔδT=−97±13 mas for the satellite. The combined ingress and egress data do not show any significant hint for atmospheric refraction, allowing us to set surface pressure limits at the level of 10–20 nbar. More specifically, we find an upper limit of 13 nbar (1-σ level) at 70 K and 17 nbar at 80 K, for a putative isothermal CO2 atmosphere. We also provide an upper limit of 8 nbar for a possible CH4 atmosphere, and 22 nbar for pure N2, again at the 1-σ level. We finally constrain the stellar size using the time-resolved star disappearance and reappearance at ingress and egress. We find an angular diameter of 0.54±0.03 mas (corresponding to View the MathML source projected at Titania). With a distance of 170±25 parsecs, this corresponds to a radius of 9.8±0.2 solar radii for HIP 106829, typical of a K0 III giant.  
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  Publisher ELSEVIER Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0019-1035 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ Wid2009 Serial 1052  
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Author Niki Aifanti; Angel Sappa; N. Grammalidis; Sotiris Malassiotis edit  openurl
  Title Advances in Tracking and Recognition of Human Motion Type Book Chapter
  Year 2009 Publication Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume I Issue 2nd edition Pages 65–71  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ASG2009 Serial 1143  
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Author Mohammad Rouhani edit  openurl
  Title 3D Data Fitting and Tracking for Real Time Applications Type Report
  Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 138 Issue 138 Pages  
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  Address Barcelona, Spain  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes invisible;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Rou2009 Serial 1150  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Jordi Vitria; D. Gatica-Perez edit  doi
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  Title You are Fired! Nonverbal Role Analysis in Competitive Meetings Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume Issue Pages 1949–1952  
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  Abstract This paper addresses the problem of social interaction analysis in competitive meetings, using nonverbal cues. For our study, we made use of ldquoThe Apprenticerdquo reality TV show, which features a competition for a real, highly paid corporate job. Our analysis is centered around two tasks regarding a person's role in a meeting: predicting the person with the highest status and predicting the fired candidates. The current study was carried out using nonverbal audio cues. Results obtained from the analysis of a full season of the show, representing around 90 minutes of audio data, are very promising (up to 85.7% of accuracy in the first case and up to 92.8% in the second case). Our approach is based only on the nonverbal interaction dynamics during the meeting without relying on the spoken words.  
  Address Taipei, Taiwan  
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  ISSN 1520-6149 ISBN 978-1-4244-2353-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICASSP  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVG2009 Serial 1154  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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  Title Psychophysical measurements to model inter-colour regions of colour-naming space Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 031106 (8 pages)  
  Keywords image processing; Analysis  
  Abstract JCR Impact Factor 2009: 0.391
In this paper, we present a fuzzy-set of parametric functions which segment the CIE lab space into eleven regions which correspond to the group of common universal categories present in all evolved languages as identified by anthropologists and linguists. The set of functions is intended to model a color-name assignment task by humans and differs from other models in its emphasis on the inter-color boundary regions, which were explicitly measured by means of a psychophysics experiment. In our particular implementation, the CIE lab space was segmented into eleven color categories using a Triple Sigmoid as the fuzzy sets basis, whose parameters are included in this paper. The model’s parameters were adjusted according to the psychophysical results of a yes/no discrimination paradigm where observers had to choose (English) names for isoluminant colors belonging to regions in-between neighboring categories. These colors were presented on a calibrated CRT monitor (14-bit x 3 precision). The experimental results show that inter- color boundary regions are much less defined than expected and color samples other than those near the most representatives are needed to define the position and shape of boundaries between categories. The extended set of model parameters is given as a table.
 
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ PBV2009 Serial 1157  
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Author Mikhail Mozerov; Ariel Amato; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez edit  doi
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  Title Solving the Multi Object Occlusion Problem in a Multiple Camera Tracking System Type Journal
  Year 2009 Publication Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 165-171  
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  Abstract An efficient method to overcome adverse effects of occlusion upon object tracking is presented. The method is based on matching paths of objects in time and solves a complex occlusion-caused problem of merging separate segments of the same path.  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1054-6618 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ MAR2009a Serial 1160  
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Author Carlo Gatta; Juan Diego Gomez; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Toward robust myocardial blush grade estimation in contrast angiography Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages 249–256  
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  Abstract The assessment of Myocardial Blush Grade after primary angioplasty is a precious diagnostic tool to understand if the patient needs further medication or the use of specifics drugs. Unfortunately, the assessment of MBG is difficult for non highly specialized staff. Experimental data show that there is poor correlation between MBG assessment of low and high specialized staff, thus reducing its applicability. This paper proposes a method able to achieve an objective measure of MBG, or a set of parameters that correlates with the MBG. The method tracks the blush area starting from just one single frame tagged by the physician. As a consequence, the blush area is kept isolated from contaminating phenomena such as diaphragm and arteries movements. We also present a method to extract four parameters that are expected to correlate with the MBG. Preliminary results show that the method is capable of extracting interesting information regarding the behavior of the myocardial perfusion.  
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ GGC2009 Serial 1161  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Carlo Gatta; Angel Serrano; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Enhancing In-Vitro IVUS Data for Tissue Characterization Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages 241–248  
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  Abstract Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) data validation is usually performed by comparing post-mortem (in-vitro) IVUS data and corresponding histological analysis of the tissue, obtaining a reliable ground truth. The main drawback of this method is the few number of available study cases due to the complex procedure of histological analysis. In this work we propose a novel semi-supervised approach to enhance the in-vitro training set by including examples from in-vivo coronary plaques data set. For this purpose, a Sequential Floating Forward Selection method is applied on in-vivo data and plaque characterization performances are evaluated by Leave-One-Patient-Out cross-validation technique. Supervised data inclusion improves global classification accuracy from 89.39% to 91.82%.  
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009a Serial 1162  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Learning Photometric Invariance from Diversified Color Model Ensembles Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 22nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume Issue Pages 565–572  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Color is a powerful visual cue for many computer vision applications such as image segmentation and object recognition. However, most of the existing color models depend on the imaging conditions affecting negatively the performance of the task at hand. Often, a reflection model (e.g., Lambertian or dichromatic reflectance) is used to derive color invariant models. However, those reflection models might be too restricted to model real-world scenes in which different reflectance mechanisms may hold simultaneously. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to derive color invariance by learning from color models to obtain diversified color invariant ensembles. First, a photometrical orthogonal and non-redundant color model set is taken on input composed of both color variants and invariants. Then, the proposed method combines and weights these color models to arrive at a diversified color ensemble yielding a proper balance between invariance (repeatability) and discriminative power (distinctiveness). To achieve this, the fusion method uses a multi-view approach to minimize the estimation error. In this way, the method is robust to data uncertainty and produces properly diversified color invariant ensembles. Experiments are conducted on three different image datasets to validate the method. From the theoretical and experimental results, it is concluded that the method is robust against severe variations in imaging conditions. The method is not restricted to a certain reflection model or parameter tuning. Further, the method outperforms state-of- the-art detection techniques in the field of object, skin and road recognition.  
  Address Miami (USA)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-3992-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2009 Serial 1169  
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Author Pau Baiget; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez edit  doi
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  Title Generation of Augmented Video Sequences Combining Behavioral Animation and Multi Object Tracking Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 473–489  
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  Abstract In this paper we present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. The resulting framework allows to generate video sequences involving behavior-based virtual agents that react to real agent behavior and has applications in education, simulation, and in the game and movie industries. We show the performance of the proposed approach in an indoor and outdoor scenario simulating human and vehicle agents. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

We present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
 
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  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ BFR2009 Serial 1170  
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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  doi
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  Title Color Constancy Algorithms: Psychophysical Evaluation on a New Dataset Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 031105–9  
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  Abstract The estimation of the illuminant of a scene from a digital image has been the goal of a large amount of research in computer vision. Color constancy algorithms have dealt with this problem by defining different heuristics to select a unique solution from within the feasible set. The performance of these algorithms has shown that there is still a long way to go to globally solve this problem as a preliminary step in computer vision. In general, performance evaluation has been done by comparing the angular error between the estimated chromaticity and the chromaticity of a canonical illuminant, which is highly dependent on the image dataset. Recently, some workers have used high-level constraints to estimate illuminants; in this case selection is based on increasing the performance on the subsequent steps of the systems. In this paper we propose a new performance measure, the perceptual angular error. It evaluates the performance of a color constancy algorithm according to the perceptual preferences of humans, or naturalness (instead of the actual optimal solution) and is independent of the visual task. We show the results of a new psychophysical experiment comparing solutions from three different color constancy algorithms. Our results show that in more than a half of the judgments the preferred solution is not the one closest to the optimal solution. Our experiments were performed on a new dataset of images acquired with a calibrated camera with an attached neutral grey sphere, which better copes with the illuminant variations of the scene.  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ VPV2009a Serial 1171  
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Author Antonio Clavelli; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit  url
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  Title Text Segmentation in Colour Posters from the Spanish Civil War Era Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume Issue Pages 181 - 185  
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  Abstract The extraction of textual content from colour documents of a graphical nature is a complicated task. The text can be rendered in any colour, size and orientation while the existence of complex background graphics with repetitive patterns can make its localization and segmentation extremely difficult.
Here, we propose a new method for extracting textual content from such colour images that makes no assumption as to the size of the characters, their orientation or colour, while it is tolerant to characters that do not follow a straight baseline. We evaluate this method on a collection of documents with historical
connotations: the Posters from the Spanish Civil War.
 
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ ClK2009 Serial 1172  
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke edit  doi
isbn  openurl
  Title A Recursive Embedding Approach to Median Graph Computation Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 7th IAPR – TC–15 Workshop on Graph–Based Representations in Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 5534 Issue Pages 113–123  
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  Abstract The median graph has been shown to be a good choice to infer a representative of a set of graphs. It has been successfully applied to graph-based classification and clustering. Nevertheless, its computation is extremely complex. Several approaches have been presented up to now based on different strategies. In this paper we present a new approximate recursive algorithm for median graph computation based on graph embedding into vector spaces. Preliminary experiments on three databases show that this new approach is able to obtain better medians than the previous existing approaches.  
  Address Venice, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  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 978-3-642-02123-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GBR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ FKV2009 Serial 1173  
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa edit  doi
isbn  openurl
  Title Median Graph Computation by means of a Genetic Approach Based on Minimum Common Supergraph and Maximum Common Subraph Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages 346–353  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Given a set of graphs, the median graph has been theoretically presented as a useful concept to infer a representative of the set. However, the computation of the median graph is a highly complex task and its practical application has been very limited up to now. In this work we present a new genetic algorithm for the median graph computation. A set of experiments on real data, where none of the existing algorithms for the median graph computation could be applied up to now due to their computational complexity, show that we obtain good approximations of the median graph. Finally, we use the median graph in a real nearest neighbour classification showing that it leaves the box of the only-theoretical concepts and demonstrating, from a practical point of view, that can be a useful tool to represent a set of graphs.  
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ FVS2009c Serial 1174  
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Author Albert Gordo; Ernest Valveny edit  doi
isbn  openurl
  Title A rotation invariant page layout descriptor for document classification and retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)  
  Volume Issue Pages 481–485  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Document classification usually requires of structural features such as the physical layout to obtain good accuracy rates on complex documents. This paper introduces a descriptor of the layout and a distance measure based on the cyclic dynamic time warping which can be computed in O(n2). This descriptor is translation invariant and can be easily modified to be scale and rotation invariant. Experiments with this descriptor and its rotation invariant modification are performed on the Girona archives database and compared against another common layout distance, the minimum weight edge cover. The experiments show that these methods outperform the MWEC both in accuracy and speed, particularly on rotated documents.  
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ GoV2009a Serial 1175  
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