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Author Patricia Marquez; H. Kause; A. Fuster; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; L. Florack; Debora Gil; Hans van Assen
Title Factors Affecting Optical Flow Performance in Tagging Magnetic Resonance Imaging Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 8896 Issue Pages 231-238
Keywords Optical flow; Performance Evaluation; Synthetic Database; ANOVA; Tagging Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Abstract Changes in cardiac deformation patterns are correlated with cardiac pathologies. Deformation can be extracted from tagging Magnetic Resonance Imaging (tMRI) using Optical Flow (OF) techniques. For applications of OF in a clinical setting it is important to assess to what extent the performance of a particular OF method is stable across di erent clinical acquisition artifacts. This paper presents a statistical validation framework, based on ANOVA, to assess the motion and appearance factors that have the largest in uence on OF accuracy drop.
In order to validate this framework, we created a database of simulated tMRI data including the most common artifacts of MRI and test three di erent OF methods, including HARP.
Address Boston; USA; September 2014
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Publisher Springer International Publishing 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 978-3-319-14677-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference STACOM
Notes IAM; ADAS; 600.060; 601.145; 600.076; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MKF2014 Serial 2495
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Author Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
Title Fast Structural Matching for Document Image Retrieval through Spatial Databases Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 9021 Issue Pages
Keywords Document image retrieval; distance transform; MSER; spatial database
Abstract The structure of document images plays a signi cant role in document analysis thus considerable e orts have been made towards extracting and understanding document structure, usually in the form of layout analysis approaches. In this paper, we rst employ Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) to eciently extract stable document structural elements in terms of a dendrogram of key-regions. Then a fast structural matching method is proposed to query the structure of document (dendrogram) based on a spatial database which facilitates the formulation of advanced spatial queries. The experiments demonstrate a signi cant improvement in a document retrieval scenario when compared to the use of typical Bag of Words (BoW) and pyramidal BoW descriptors.
Address Amsterdam; September 2014
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Area Expedition Conference SPIE-DRR
Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2014a Serial 2496
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Author Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
Title Embedding Document Structure to Bag-of-Words through Pair-wise Stable Key-regions Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 2903 - 2908
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Abstract Since the document structure carries valuable discriminative information, plenty of efforts have been made for extracting and understanding document structure among which layout analysis approaches are the most commonly used. In this paper, Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) is employed to efficiently extract the document structure as a dendrogram of key-regions which roughly correspond to structural elements such as characters, words and paragraphs. Inspired by the Bag
of Words (BoW) framework, we propose an efficient method for structural document matching by representing the document image as a histogram of key-region pairs encoding structural relationships.
Applied to the scenario of document image retrieval, experimental results demonstrate a remarkable improvement when comparing the proposed method with typical BoW and pyramidal BoW methods.
Address Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2014b Serial 2497
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Author German Ros; Sebastian Ramos; Manuel Granados; Amir Bakhtiary; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Vision-based Offline-Online Perception Paradigm for Autonomous Driving Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 231 - 238
Keywords Autonomous Driving; Scene Understanding; SLAM; Semantic Segmentation
Abstract Autonomous driving is a key factor for future mobility. Properly perceiving the environment of the vehicles is essential for a safe driving, which requires computing accurate geometric and semantic information in real-time. In this paper, we challenge state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms for building a perception system for autonomous driving. An inherent drawback in the computation of visual semantics is the trade-off between accuracy and computational cost. We propose to circumvent this problem by following an offline-online strategy. During the offline stage dense 3D semantic maps are created. In the online stage the current driving area is recognized in the maps via a re-localization process, which allows to retrieve the pre-computed accurate semantics and 3D geometry in realtime. Then, detecting the dynamic obstacles we obtain a rich understanding of the current scene. We evaluate quantitatively our proposal in the KITTI dataset and discuss the related open challenges for the computer vision community.
Address Hawaii; January 2015
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Area ACDC Expedition Conference WACV
Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RRG2015 Serial 2499
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Author Jorge Bernal; Debora Gil; Carles Sanchez; F. Javier Sanchez
Title Discarding Non Informative Regions for Efficient Colonoscopy Image Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 1st MICCAI Workshop on Computer-Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 8899 Issue Pages 1-10
Keywords Image Segmentation; Polyps, Colonoscopy; Valley Information; Energy Maps
Abstract In this paper we present a novel polyp region segmentation method for colonoscopy videos. Our method uses valley information associated to polyp boundaries in order to provide an initial segmentation. This first segmentation is refined to eliminate boundary discontinuities caused by image artifacts or other elements of the scene. Experimental results over a publicly annotated database show that our method outperforms both general and specific segmentation methods by providing more accurate regions rich in polyp content. We also prove how image preprocessing is needed to improve final polyp region segmentation.
Address Boston; USA; September 2014
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Publisher Springer International Publishing 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 978-3-319-13409-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CARE
Notes MV; IAM; 600.044; 600.047; 600.060; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGS2014b Serial 2503
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Author Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; Miquel Ferrer; Fernando Vilariño
Title Impact of Keypoint Detection on Graph-based Characterization of Blood Vessels in Colonoscopy Videos Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication CARE workshop Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Colonoscopy; Graph Matching; Biometrics; Vessel; Intersection
Abstract We explore the potential of the use of blood vessels as anatomical landmarks for developing image registration methods in colonoscopy images. An unequivocal representation of blood vessels could be used to guide follow-up methods to track lesions over different interventions. We propose a graph-based representation to characterize network structures, such as blood vessels, based on the use of intersections and endpoints. We present a study consisting of the assessment of the minimal performance a keypoint detector should achieve so that the structure can still be recognized. Experimental results prove that, even by achieving a loss of 35% of the keypoints, the descriptive power of the associated graphs to the vessel pattern is still high enough to recognize blood vessels.
Address Boston; USA; September 2014
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Notes MV; DAG; 600.060; 600.047; 600.077;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ NBF2014 Serial 2504
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Author Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Robust Head Gestures Recognition for Assistive Technology Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 8495 Issue Pages 152-161
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Abstract This paper presents a system capable of recognizing six head gestures: nodding, shaking, turning right, turning left, looking up, and looking down. The main difference of our system compared to other methods is that the Hidden Markov Models presented in this paper, are fully connected and consider all possible states in any given order, providing the following advantages to the system: (1) allows unconstrained movement of the head and (2) it can be easily integrated into a wearable device (e.g. glasses, neck-hung devices), in which case it can robustly recognize gestures in the presence of ego-motion. Experimental results show that this approach outperforms common methods that use restricted HMMs for each gesture.
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-07490-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes LAMP; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TSR2014b Serial 2505
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Author Marc Serra; Olivier Penacchio; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Dimitris Samaras
Title The Photometry of Intrinsic Images Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 1494-1501
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Abstract Intrinsic characterization of scenes is often the best way to overcome the illumination variability artifacts that complicate most computer vision problems, from 3D reconstruction to object or material recognition. This paper examines the deficiency of existing intrinsic image models to accurately account for the effects of illuminant color and sensor characteristics in the estimation of intrinsic images and presents a generic framework which incorporates insights from color constancy research to the intrinsic image decomposition problem. The proposed mathematical formulation includes information about the color of the illuminant and the effects of the camera sensors, both of which modify the observed color of the reflectance of the objects in the scene during the acquisition process. By modeling these effects, we get a “truly intrinsic” reflectance image, which we call absolute reflectance, which is invariant to changes of illuminant or camera sensors. This model allows us to represent a wide range of intrinsic image decompositions depending on the specific assumptions on the geometric properties of the scene configuration and the spectral properties of the light source and the acquisition system, thus unifying previous models in a single general framework. We demonstrate that even partial information about sensors improves significantly the estimated reflectance images, thus making our method applicable for a wide range of sensors. We validate our general intrinsic image framework experimentally with both synthetic data and natural images.
Address Columbus; Ohio; USA; June 2014
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Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes CIC; 600.052; 600.051; 600.074 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SPB2014 Serial 2506
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Author M. Danelljan; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Michael Felsberg; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Adaptive color attributes for real-time visual tracking Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 1090 - 1097
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Abstract Visual tracking is a challenging problem in computer vision. Most state-of-the-art visual trackers either rely on luminance information or use simple color representations for image description. Contrary to visual tracking, for object
recognition and detection, sophisticated color features when combined with luminance have shown to provide excellent performance. Due to the complexity of the tracking problem, the desired color feature should be computationally
efficient, and possess a certain amount of photometric invariance while maintaining high discriminative power.
This paper investigates the contribution of color in a tracking-by-detection framework. Our results suggest that color attributes provides superior performance for visual tracking. We further propose an adaptive low-dimensional
variant of color attributes. Both quantitative and attributebased evaluations are performed on 41 challenging benchmark color sequences. The proposed approach improves the baseline intensity-based tracker by 24% in median distance precision. Furthermore, we show that our approach outperforms
state-of-the-art tracking methods while running at more than 100 frames per second.
Address Nottingham; UK; September 2014
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Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes CIC; LAMP; 600.074; 600.079 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DKF2014 Serial 2509
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga
Title Color Vision, Computational Methods for Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 1-11
Keywords Color computational vision; Computational neuroscience of color
Abstract The study of color vision has been aided by a whole battery of computational methods that attempt to describe the mechanisms that lead to our perception of colors in terms of the information-processing properties of the visual system. Their scope is highly interdisciplinary, linking apparently dissimilar disciplines such as mathematics, physics, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. Since the sensation of color is a feature of our brains, computational approaches usually include biological features of neural systems in their descriptions, from retinal light-receptor interaction to subcortical color opponency, cortical signal decoding, and color categorization. They produce hypotheses that are usually tested by behavioral or psychophysical experiments.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Dieter Jaeger; Ranu Jung
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-1-4614-7320-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Par2014 Serial 2512
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Author Adriana Romero; Carlo Gatta; Gustavo Camps-Valls
Title Unsupervised Deep Feature Extraction Of Hyperspectral Images Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 6th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Convolutional networks; deep learning; sparse learning; feature extraction; hyperspectral image classification
Abstract This paper presents an effective unsupervised sparse feature learning algorithm to train deep convolutional networks on hyperspectral images. Deep convolutional hierarchical representations are learned and then used for pixel classification. Features in lower layers present less abstract representations of data, while higher layers represent more abstract and complex characteristics. We successfully illustrate the performance of the extracted representations in a challenging AVIRIS hyperspectral image classification problem, compared to standard dimensionality reduction methods like principal component analysis (PCA) and its kernel counterpart (kPCA). The proposed method largely outperforms the previous state-ofthe-art results on the same experimental setting. Results show that single layer networks can extract powerful discriminative features only when the receptive field accounts for neighboring pixels. Regarding the deep architecture, we can conclude that: (1) additional layers in a deep architecture significantly improve the performance w.r.t. single layer variants; (2) the max-pooling step in each layer is mandatory to achieve satisfactory results; and (3) the performance gain w.r.t. the number of layers is upper bounded, since the spatial resolution is reduced at each pooling, resulting in too spatially coarse output features.
Address Lausanne; Switzerland; June 2014
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Area Expedition Conference WHISPERS
Notes MILAB; LAMP; 600.079 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RGC2014 Serial 2513
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera
Title Análisis de la expresión oral y gestual en proyectos fin de carrera vía un sistema de visión artificial Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication ReVisión Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages
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Abstract La comunicación y expresión oral es una competencia de especial relevancia en el EEES. No obstante, en muchas enseñanzas superiores la puesta en práctica de esta competencia ha sido relegada principalmente a la presentación de proyectos fin de carrera. Dentro de un proyecto de innovación docente, se ha desarrollado una herramienta informática para la extracción de información objetiva para el análisis de la expresión oral y gestual de los alumnos. El objetivo es dar un “feedback” a los estudiantes que les permita mejorar la calidad de sus presentaciones. El prototipo inicial que se presenta en este trabajo permite extraer de forma automática información audiovisual y analizarla mediante técnicas de aprendizaje. El sistema ha sido aplicado a 15 proyectos fin de carrera y 15 exposiciones dentro de una asignatura de cuarto curso. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad del sistema para sugerir factores que ayuden tanto en el éxito de la comunicación así como en los criterios de evaluación.
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ISSN 1989-1199 ISBN Medium
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Notes HuPBA; MILAB;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011d Serial 2514
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Author P. Wang; V. Eglin; C. Garcia; C. Largeron; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title A Coarse-to-Fine Word Spotting Approach for Historical Handwritten Documents Based on Graph Embedding and Graph Edit Distance Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 3074 - 3079
Keywords word spotting; coarse-to-fine mechamism; graphbased representation; graph embedding; graph edit distance
Abstract Effective information retrieval on handwritten document images has always been a challenging task, especially historical ones. In the paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine handwritten word spotting approach based on graph representation. The presented model comprises both the topological and morphological signatures of the handwriting. Skeleton-based graphs with the Shape Context labelled vertexes are established for connected components. Each word image is represented as a sequence of graphs. Aiming at developing a practical and efficient word spotting approach for large-scale historical handwritten documents, a fast and coarse comparison is first applied to prune the regions that are not similar to the query based on the graph embedding methodology. Afterwards, the query and regions of interest are compared by graph edit distance based on the Dynamic Time Warping alignment. The proposed approach is evaluated on a public dataset containing 50 pages of historical marriage license records. The results show that the proposed approach achieves a compromise between efficiency and accuracy.
Address Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ WEG2014a Serial 2515
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Joan Mas; Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora; Anna Cabre
Title A Bimodal Crowdsourcing Platform for Demographic Historical Manuscripts Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage Conference Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 103-108
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Abstract In this paper we present a crowdsourcing web-based application for extracting information from demographic handwritten document images. The proposed application integrates two points of view: the semantic information for demographic research, and the ground-truthing for document analysis research. Concretely, the application has the contents view, where the information is recorded into forms, and the labeling view, with the word labels for evaluating document analysis techniques. The crowdsourcing architecture allows to accelerate the information extraction (many users can work simultaneously), validate the information, and easily provide feedback to the users. We finally show how the proposed application can be extended to other kind of demographic historical manuscripts.
Address Madrid; May 2014
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2588-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference DATeCH
Notes DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FLM2014 Serial 2516
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Author P. Wang; V. Eglin; C. Garcia; C. Largeron; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title A Novel Learning-free Word Spotting Approach Based on Graph Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 207-211
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Abstract Effective information retrieval on handwritten document images has always been a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel handwritten word spotting approach based on graph representation. The presented model comprises both topological and morphological signatures of handwriting. Skeleton-based graphs with the Shape Context labelled vertexes are established for connected components. Each word image is represented as a sequence of graphs. In order to be robust to the handwriting variations, an exhaustive merging process based on DTW alignment result is introduced in the similarity measure between word images. With respect to the computation complexity, an approximate graph edit distance approach using bipartite matching is employed for graph matching. The experiments on the George Washington dataset and the marriage records from the Barcelona Cathedral dataset demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art structural methods.
Address Tours; France; April 2014
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference DAS
Notes DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ WEG2014b Serial 2517
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