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	Author	Jialuo Chen; M.A.Souibgui; Alicia Fornes; Beata Megyesi
	Title	A Web-based Interactive Transcription Tool for Encrypted Manuscripts			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2020	Publication	3rd International Conference on Historical Cryptology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	52-59
	Keywords
	Abstract	Manual transcription of handwritten text is a time consuming task. In the case of encrypted manuscripts, the recognition is even more complex due to the huge variety of alphabets and symbol sets. To speed up and ease this process, we present a web-based tool aimed to (semi)-automatically transcribe the encrypted sources. The user uploads one or several images of the desired encrypted document(s) as input, and the system returns the transcription(s). This process is carried out in an interactive fashion with the user to obtain more accurate results. For discovering and testing, the developed web tool is freely available.
	Address	Virtual; June 2020
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	HistoCrypt
	Notes	DAG; 600.140; 602.230; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CSF2020			Serial	3447
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	Author	Gabriel Villalonga
	Title	Leveraging Synthetic Data to Create Autonomous Driving Perception Systems			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2021	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Manually annotating images to develop vision models has been a major bottleneck since computer vision and machine learning started to walk together. This has been more evident since computer vision falls on the shoulders of data-hungry deep learning techniques. When addressing on-board perception for autonomous driving, the curse of data annotation is exacerbated due to the use of additional sensors such as LiDAR. Therefore, any approach aiming at reducing such a timeconsuming and costly work is of high interest for addressing autonomous driving and, in fact, for any application requiring some sort of artificial perception. In the last decade, it has been shown that leveraging from synthetic data is a paradigm worth to pursue in order to minimizing manual data annotation. The reason is that the automatic process of generating synthetic data can also produce different types of associated annotations (e.g. object bounding boxes for synthetic images and LiDAR pointclouds, pixel/point-wise semantic information, etc.). Directly using synthetic data for training deep perception models may not be the definitive solution in all circumstances since it can appear a synth-to-real domain shift. In this context, this work focuses on leveraging synthetic data to alleviate manual annotation for three perception tasks related to driving assistance and autonomous driving. In all cases, we assume the use of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to develop our perception models. The first task addresses traffic sign recognition (TSR), a kind of multi-class classification problem. We assume that the number of sign classes to be recognized must be suddenly increased without having annotated samples to perform the corresponding TSR CNN re-training. We show that leveraging synthetic samples of such new classes and transforming them by a generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on the known classes (i.e. without using samples from the new classes), it is possible to re-train the TSR CNN to properly classify all the signs for a ∼ 1/4 ratio of new/known sign classes. The second task addresses on-board 2D object detection, focusing on vehicles and pedestrians. In this case, we assume that we receive a set of images without the annotations required to train an object detector, i.e. without object bounding boxes. Therefore, our goal is to self-annotate these images so that they can later be used to train the desired object detector. In order to reach this goal, we leverage from synthetic data and propose a semi-supervised learning approach based on the co-training idea. In fact, we use a GAN to reduce the synthto-real domain shift before applying co-training. Our quantitative results show that co-training and GAN-based image-to-image translation complement each other up to allow the training of object detectors without manual annotation, and still almost reaching the upper-bound performances of the detectors trained from human annotations. While in previous tasks we focus on vision-based perception, the third task we address focuses on LiDAR pointclouds. Our initial goal was to develop a 3D object detector trained on synthetic LiDAR-style pointclouds. While for images we may expect synth/real-to-real domain shift due to differences in their appearance (e.g. when source and target images come from different camera sensors), we did not expect so for LiDAR pointclouds since these active sensors factor out appearance and provide sampled shapes. However, in practice, we have seen that it can be domain shift even among real-world LiDAR pointclouds. Factors such as the sampling parameters of the LiDARs, the sensor suite configuration onboard the ego-vehicle, and the human annotation of 3D bounding boxes, do induce a domain shift. We show it through comprehensive experiments with different publicly available datasets and 3D detectors. This redirected our goal towards the design of a GAN for pointcloud-to-pointcloud translation, a relatively unexplored topic. Finally, it is worth to mention that all the synthetic datasets used for these three tasks, have been designed and generated in the context of this PhD work and will be publicly released. Overall, we think this PhD presents several steps forward to encourage leveraging synthetic data for developing deep perception models in the field of driving assistance and autonomous driving.
	Address	February 2021
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Antonio Lopez;German Ros
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-122714-2-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Vil2021			Serial	3599
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	Author	Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
	Title	Product graph-based higher order contextual similarities for inexact subgraph matching			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	76	Issue		Pages	596-611
	Keywords
	Abstract	Many algorithms formulate graph matching as an optimization of an objective function of pairwise quantification of nodes and edges of two graphs to be matched. Pairwise measurements usually consider local attributes but disregard contextual information involved in graph structures. We address this issue by proposing contextual similarities between pairs of nodes. This is done by considering the tensor product graph (TPG) of two graphs to be matched, where each node is an ordered pair of nodes of the operand graphs. Contextual similarities between a pair of nodes are computed by accumulating weighted walks (normalized pairwise similarities) terminating at the corresponding paired node in TPG. Once the contextual similarities are obtained, we formulate subgraph matching as a node and edge selection problem in TPG. We use contextual similarities to construct an objective function and optimize it with a linear programming approach. Since random walk formulation through TPG takes into account higher order information, it is not a surprise that we obtain more reliable similarities and better discrimination among the nodes and edges. Experimental results shown on synthetic as well as real benchmarks illustrate that higher order contextual similarities increase discriminating power and allow one to find approximate solutions to the subgraph matching problem.
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	Notes	DAG; 602.167; 600.097; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DLB2018			Serial	3083
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	Author	Beata Megyesi; Bernhard Esslinger; Alicia Fornes; Nils Kopal; Benedek Lang; George Lasry; Karl de Leeuw; Eva Pettersson; Arno Wacker; Michelle Waldispuhl
	Title	Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	Cryptologia	Abbreviated Journal	CRYPT
	Volume	44	Issue	6	Pages	545-559
	Keywords	automatic decryption; cipher collection; historical cryptology; image transcription
	Abstract	Many historians and linguists are working individually and in an uncoordinated fashion on the identification and decryption of historical ciphers. This is a time-consuming process as they often work without access to automatic methods and processes that can accelerate the decipherment. At the same time, computer scientists and cryptologists are developing algorithms to decrypt various cipher types without having access to a large number of original ciphertexts. In this paper, we describe the DECRYPT project aiming at the creation of resources and tools for historical cryptology by bringing the expertise of various disciplines together for collecting data, exchanging methods for faster progress to transcribe, decrypt and contextualize historical encrypted manuscripts. We present our goals and work-in progress of a general approach for analyzing historical encrypted manuscripts using standardized methods and a new set of state-of-the-art tools. We release the data and tools as open-source hoping that all mentioned disciplines would benefit and contribute to the research infrastructure of historical cryptology.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MEF2020			Serial	3347
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	Author	Juan Ignacio Toledo; Manuel Carbonell; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	Information Extraction from Historical Handwritten Document Images with a Context-aware Neural Model			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	86	Issue		Pages	27-36
	Keywords	Document image analysis; Handwritten documents; Named entity recognition; Deep neural networks
	Abstract	Many historical manuscripts that hold trustworthy memories of the past societies contain information organized in a structured layout (e.g. census, birth or marriage records). The precious information stored in these documents cannot be effectively used nor accessed without costly annotation efforts. The transcription driven by the semantic categories of words is crucial for the subsequent access. In this paper we describe an approach to extract information from structured historical handwritten text images and build a knowledge representation for the extraction of meaning out of historical data. The method extracts information, such as named entities, without the need of an intermediate transcription step, thanks to the incorporation of context information through language models. Our system has two variants, the first one is based on bigrams, whereas the second one is based on recurrent neural networks. Concretely, our second architecture integrates a Convolutional Neural Network to model visual information from word images together with a Bidirecitonal Long Short Term Memory network to model the relation among the words. This integrated sequential approach is able to extract more information than just the semantic category (e.g. a semantic category can be associated to a person in a record). Our system is generic, it deals with out-of-vocabulary words by design, and it can be applied to structured handwritten texts from different domains. The method has been validated with the ICDAR IEHHR competition protocol, outperforming the existing approaches.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 601.311; 603.057; 600.084; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TCF2019			Serial	3166
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	Author	Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika
	Title	Appearance-based Face Recognition Using A Supervised Manifold Learning Framework			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	465-470
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	Abstract	Many natural image sets, depicting objects whose appearance is changing due to motion, pose or light variations, can be considered samples of a low-dimension nonlinear manifold embedded in the high-dimensional observation space (the space of all possible images). The main contribution of our work is represented by a Supervised Laplacian Eigemaps (S-LE) algorithm, which exploits the class label information for mapping the original data in the embedded space. Our proposed approach benefits from two important properties: i) it is discriminative, and ii) it adaptively selects the neighbors of a sample without using any predefined neighborhood size. Experiments were conducted on four face databases and the results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms many linear and non-linear embedding techniques. Although we've focused on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be extended to other category of objects characterized by large variance in their appearance.
	Address	Breckenridge; CO; USA
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	Publisher	IEEE Xplore	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	1550-5790	ISBN	978-1-4673-0233-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RaD2012d			Serial	1890
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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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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	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	Y. Patel; Lluis Gomez; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Dynamic Lexicon Generation for Natural Scene Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2016	Publication	14th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	395-410
	Keywords	scene text; photo OCR; scene understanding; lexicon generation; topic modeling; CNN
	Abstract	Many scene text understanding methods approach the endtoend recognition problem from a word-spotting perspective and take huge benet from using small per-image lexicons. Such customized lexicons are normally assumed as given and their source is rarely discussed. In this paper we propose a method that generates contextualized lexicons for scene images using only visual information. For this, we exploit the correlation between visual and textual information in a dataset consisting of images and textual content associated with them. Using the topic modeling framework to discover a set of latent topics in such a dataset allows us to re-rank a xed dictionary in a way that prioritizes the words that are more likely to appear in a given image. Moreover, we train a CNN that is able to reproduce those word rankings but using only the image raw pixels as input. We demonstrate that the quality of the automatically obtained custom lexicons is superior to a generic frequency-based baseline.
	Address	Amsterdam; The Netherlands; October 2016
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECCVW
	Notes	DAG; 600.084			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PGR2016			Serial	2825
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	Author	Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	Saliency Estimation Using a Non-Parametric Low-Level Vision Model			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	433-440
	Keywords	Gaussian mixture model;ad hoc parameter selection;center-surround inhibition windows;center-surround mechanism;color appearance model;convolution;eye-fixation data;human vision;innate spatial pooling mechanism;inverse wavelet transform;low-level visual front-end;nonparametric low-level vision model;saliency estimation;saliency map;scale integration;scale-weighted center-surround response;scale-weighting function;visual task;Gaussian processes;biology;biology computing;colour vision;computer vision;visual perception;wavelet transforms
	Abstract	Many successful models for predicting attention in a scene involve three main steps: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. However, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. In this paper we show that an efficient model of color appearance in human vision, which contains a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism, can be generalized to obtain a saliency model that outperforms state-of-the-art models. Scale integration is achieved by an inverse wavelet transform over the set of scale-weighted center-surround responses. The scale-weighting function (termed ECSF) has been optimized to better replicate psychophysical data on color appearance, and the appropriate sizes of the center-surround inhibition windows have been determined by training a Gaussian Mixture Model on eye-fixation data, thus avoiding ad-hoc parameter selection. Additionally, we conclude that the extension of a color appearance model to saliency estimation adds to the evidence for a common low-level visual front-end for different visual tasks.
	Address	Colorado Springs
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	ISSN	1063-6919	ISBN	978-1-4577-0394-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MVO2011			Serial	1757
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; O. Pujol; Petia Radeva; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
	Title	Blurred Shape Model for Binary and Grey-level Symbol Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	30	Issue	15	Pages	1424–1433
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	Abstract	Many symbol recognition problems require the use of robust descriptors in order to obtain rich information of the data. However, the research of a good descriptor is still an open issue due to the high variability of symbols appearance. Rotation, partial occlusions, elastic deformations, intra-class and inter-class variations, or high variability among symbols due to different writing styles, are just a few problems. In this paper, we introduce a symbol shape description to deal with the changes in appearance that these types of symbols suffer. The shape of the symbol is aligned based on principal components to make the recognition invariant to rotation and reflection. Then, we present the Blurred Shape Model descriptor (BSM), where new features encode the probability of appearance of each pixel that outlines the symbols shape. Moreover, we include the new descriptor in a system to deal with multi-class symbol categorization problems. Adaboost is used to train the binary classifiers, learning the BSM features that better split symbol classes. Then, the binary problems are embedded in an Error-Correcting Output Codes framework (ECOC) to deal with the multi-class case. The methodology is evaluated on different synthetic and real data sets. State-of-the-art descriptors and classifiers are compared, showing the robustness and better performance of the present scheme to classify symbols with high variability of appearance.
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	Notes	HuPBA; DAG; MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009a			Serial	1180
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	Author	Maria Ines Torres; Javier Mikel Olaso; Cesar Montenegro; Riberto Santana; A.Vazquez; Raquel Justo; J.A.Lozano; Stephan Schogl; Gerard Chollet; Nazim Dugan; M.Irvine; N.Glackin; C.Pickard; Anna Esposito; Gennaro Cordasco; Alda Troncone; Dijana Petrovska Delacretaz; Aymen Mtibaa; Mohamed Amine Hmani; M.S.Korsnes; L.J.Martinussen; Sergio Escalera; C.Palmero Cantariño; Olivier Deroo; O.Gordeeva; Jofre Tenorio Laranga; E.Gonzalez Fraile; Begoña Fernandez Ruanova; A.Gonzalez Pinto
	Title	The EMPATHIC project: mid-term achievements			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	629-638
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	Abstract	Maria Ines Torres; Javier Mikel Olaso, César Montenegro, Riberto Santana, A. Vázquez, Raquel Justo, J. A. Lozano, Stephan Schlögl, Gérard Chollet, Nazim Dugan, M. Irvine, N. Glackin, C. Pickard, Anna Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Alda Troncone, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Aymen Mtibaa, Mohamed Amine Hmani, M. S. Korsnes, L. J. Martinussen, Sergio Escalera, C. Palmero Cantariño, Olivier Deroo, O. Gordeeva, Jofre Tenorio-Laranga, E. Gonzalez-Fraile, Begoña Fernández-Ruanova, A. Gonzalez-Pinto
	Address	Rhodes Greece; June 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	PETRA
	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TOM2019			Serial	3325
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	Author	Raul Gomez; Lluis Gomez; Jaume Gibert; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Learning from# Barcelona Instagram data what Locals and Tourists post about its Neighbourhoods			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	15th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	11134	Issue		Pages	530-544
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	Abstract	Massive tourism is becoming a big problem for some cities, such as Barcelona, due to its concentration in some neighborhoods. In this work we gather Instagram data related to Barcelona consisting on images-captions pairs and, using the text as a supervisory signal, we learn relations between images, words and neighborhoods. Our goal is to learn which visual elements appear in photos when people is posting about each neighborhood. We perform a language separate treatment of the data and show that it can be extrapolated to a tourists and locals separate analysis, and that tourism is reflected in Social Media at a neighborhood level. The presented pipeline allows analyzing the differences between the images that tourists and locals associate to the different neighborhoods. The proposed method, which can be extended to other cities or subjects, proves that Instagram data can be used to train multi-modal (image and text) machine learning models that are useful to analyze publications about a city at a neighborhood level. We publish the collected dataset, InstaBarcelona and the code used in the analysis.
	Address	Munich; Alemanya; September 2018
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECCVW
	Notes	DAG; 600.129; 601.338; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GGG2018b			Serial	3176
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	Author	Murad Al Haj; Carles Fernandez; Zhanwu Xiong; Ivan Huerta; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
	Title	Beyond the Static Camera: Issues and Trends in Active Vision			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2011	Publication	Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue	2	Pages	11-30
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	Abstract	Maximizing both the area coverage and the resolution per target is highly desirable in many applications of computer vision. However, with a limited number of cameras viewing a scene, the two objectives are contradictory. This chapter is dedicated to active vision systems, trying to achieve a trade-off between these two aims and examining the use of high-level reasoning in such scenarios. The chapter starts by introducing different approaches to active cameras configurations. Later, a single active camera system to track a moving object is developed, offering the reader first-hand understanding of the issues involved. Another section discusses practical considerations in building an active vision platform, taking as an example a multi-camera system developed for a European project. The last section of the chapter reflects upon the future trends of using semantic factors to drive smartly coordinated active systems.
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	Publisher	Springer London	Place of Publication		Editor	Th.B. Moeslund; A. Hilton; V. Krüger; L. Sigal
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-0-85729-996-3	Medium
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AFX2011			Serial	1814
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	Author	Sergio Vera; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Debora Gil
	Title	Optimal Medial Surface Generation for Anatomical Volume Representations			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2012	Publication	Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications	Abbreviated Journal	LNCS
	Volume	7601	Issue		Pages	265-273
	Keywords	Medial surface representation; volume reconstruction
	Abstract	Medial representations are a widely used technique in abdominal organ shape representation and parametrization. Those methods require good medial manifolds as a starting point. Any medial surface used to parametrize a volume should be simple enough to allow an easy manipulation and complete enough to allow an accurate reconstruction of the volume. Obtaining good quality medial surfaces is still a problem with current iterative thinning methods. This forces the usage of generic, pre-calculated medial templates that are adapted to the final shape at the cost of a drop in volume reconstruction. This paper describes an operator for generation of medial structures that generates clean and complete manifolds well suited for their further use in medial representations of abdominal organ volumes. While being simpler than thinning surfaces, experiments show its high performance in volume reconstruction and preservation of medial surface main branching topology.
	Address	Nice, France
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Yoshida, Hiroyuki and Hawkes, David and Vannier, MichaelW.
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title	Lecture Notes in Computer Science	Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-33611-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	STACOM
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ VGG2012b			Serial	1988
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	Author	Sergio Vera; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Debora Gil
	Title	A medial map capturing the essential geometry of organs			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	ISBI Workshop on Open Source Medical Image Analysis software	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1691 - 1694
	Keywords	Medial Surface Representation, Volume Reconstruction,Geometry , Image reconstruction , Liver , Manifolds , Shape , Surface morphology , Surface reconstruction
	Abstract	Medial representations are powerful tools for describing and parameterizing the volumetric shape of anatomical structures. Accurate computation of one pixel wide medial surfaces is mandatory. Those surfaces must represent faithfully the geometry of the volume. Although morphological methods produce excellent results in 2D, their complexity and quality drops across dimensions, due to a more complex description of pixel neighborhoods. This paper introduces a continuous operator for accurate and efficient computation of medial structures of arbitrary dimension. Our experiments show its higher performance for medical imaging applications in terms of simplicity of medial structures and capability for reconstructing the anatomical volume
	Address	Barcelona,Spain
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	Publisher	IEEE	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	1945-7928	ISBN	978-1-4577-1857-1	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ISBI
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ VGG2012a			Serial	1989
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