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Author Veronica Romero; Alicia Fornes; Enrique Vidal; Joan Andreu Sanchez
Title Using the MGGI Methodology for Category-based Language Modeling in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 15th international conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract (up) Handwritten marriage licenses books have been used for centuries by ecclesiastical and secular institutions to register marriages. The information contained in these historical documents is useful for demography studies and
genealogical research, among others. Despite the generally simple structure of the text in these documents, automatic transcription and semantic information extraction is difficult due to the distinct and evolutionary vocabulary, which is composed mainly of proper names that change along the time. In previous
works we studied the use of category-based language models to both improve the automatic transcription accuracy and make easier the extraction of semantic information. Here we analyze the main causes of the semantic errors observed in previous results and apply a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI to improve the semantic accuracy of the language model obtained. Using this language model, full handwritten text recognition experiments have been carried out, with results supporting the interest of the proposed approach.
Address Shenzhen; China; October 2016
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Notes DAG; 600.097; 602.006 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RFV2016 Serial 2909
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Author Wenjuan Gong; Xuena Zhang; Jordi Gonzalez; Andrews Sobral; Thierry Bouwmans; Changhe Tu; El-hadi Zahzah
Title Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Images: A Comprehensive Survey Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS
Volume 16 Issue 12 Pages 1966
Keywords human pose estimation; human bodymodels; generativemethods; discriminativemethods; top-down methods; bottom-up methods
Abstract (up) Human pose estimation refers to the estimation of the location of body parts and how they are connected in an image. Human pose estimation from monocular images has wide applications (e.g., image indexing). Several surveys on human pose estimation can be found in the literature, but they focus on a certain category; for example, model-based approaches or human motion analysis, etc. As far as we know, an overall review of this problem domain has yet to be provided. Furthermore, recent advancements based on deep learning have brought novel algorithms for this problem. In this paper, a comprehensive survey of human pose estimation from monocular images is carried out including milestone works and recent advancements. Based on one standard pipeline for the solution of computer vision problems, this survey splits the problem into several modules: feature extraction and description, human body models, and modeling
methods. Problem modeling methods are approached based on two means of categorization in this survey. One way to categorize includes top-down and bottom-up methods, and another way includes generative and discriminative methods. Considering the fact that one direct application of human pose estimation is to provide initialization for automatic video surveillance, there are additional sections for motion-related methods in all modules: motion features, motion models, and motion-based methods. Finally, the paper also collects 26 publicly available data sets for validation and provides error measurement methods that are frequently used.
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Notes ISE; 600.098; 600.119 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GZG2016 Serial 2933
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Alicia Fornes; Jordi Cucurull; Josep Llados
Title Election Tally Sheets Processing System Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 364-368
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Abstract (up) In paper based elections, manual tallies at polling station level produce myriads of documents. These documents share a common form-like structure and a reduced vocabulary worldwide. On the other hand, each tally sheet is filled by a different writer and on different countries, different scripts are used. We present a complete document analysis system for electoral tally sheet processing combining state of the art techniques with a new handwriting recognition subprocess based on unsupervised feature discovery with Variational Autoencoders and sequence classification with BLSTM neural networks. The whole system is designed to be script independent and allows a fast and reliable results consolidation process with reduced operational cost.
Address Santorini; Greece; April 2016
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Notes DAG; 602.006; 600.061; 601.225; 600.077; 600.097 Approved no
Call Number TFC2016 Serial 2752
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Author L. Calvet; A. Ferrer; M. Gomes; A. Juan; David Masip
Title Combining Statistical Learning with Metaheuristics for the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Market Segmentation Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Computers & Industrial Engineering Abbreviated Journal CIE
Volume 94 Issue Pages 93-104
Keywords Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem; market segmentation applications; hybrid algorithms; statistical learning
Abstract (up) In real-life logistics and distribution activities it is usual to face situations in which the distribution of goods has to be made from multiple warehouses or depots to the nal customers. This problem is known as the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem (MDVRP), and it typically includes two sequential and correlated stages: (a) the assignment map of customers to depots, and (b) the corresponding design of the distribution routes. Most of the existing work in the literature has focused on minimizing distance-based distribution costs while satisfying a number of capacity constraints. However, no attention has been given so far to potential variations in demands due to the tness of the customerdepot mapping in the case of heterogeneous depots. In this paper, we consider this realistic version of the problem in which the depots are heterogeneous in terms of their commercial o er and customers show di erent willingness to consume depending on how well the assigned depot ts their preferences. Thus, we assume that di erent customer-depot assignment maps will lead to di erent customer-expenditure levels. As a consequence, market-segmentation strategiesneed to be considered in order to increase sales and total income while accounting for the distribution costs. To solve this extension of the MDVRP, we propose a hybrid approach that combines statistical learning techniques with a metaheuristic framework. First, a set of predictive models is generated from historical data. These statistical models allow estimating the demand of any customer depending on the assigned depot. Then, the estimated expenditure of each customer is included as part of an enriched objective function as a way to better guide the stochastic local search inside the metaheuristic framework. A set of computational experiments contribute to illustrate our approach and how the extended MDVRP considered here di ers in terms of the proposed solutions from the traditional one.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title CIE
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ISSN 0360-8352 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CFG2016 Serial 2749
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Author Iiris Lusi; Sergio Escalera; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
Title Human Head Pose Estimation on SASE database using Random Hough Regression Forests Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10165 Issue Pages
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Abstract (up) In recent years head pose estimation has become an important task in face analysis scenarios. Given the availability of high resolution 3D sensors, the design of a high resolution head pose database would be beneficial for the community. In this paper, Random Hough Forests are used to estimate 3D head pose and location on a new 3D head database, SASE, which represents the baseline performance on the new data for an upcoming international head pose estimation competition. The data in SASE is acquired with a Microsoft Kinect 2 camera, including the RGB and depth information of 50 subjects with a large sample of head poses, allowing us to test methods for real-life scenarios. We briefly review the database while showing baseline head pose estimation results based on Random Hough Forests.
Address Cancun; Mexico; December 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference ICPRW
Notes HuPBA; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ LEA2016b Serial 2910
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Author Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Qigang Gao; Sergio Escalera
Title Action Recognition by Pairwise Proximity Function Support Vector Machines with Dynamic Time Warping Kernels Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 29th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9673 Issue Pages 3-14
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Abstract (up) In the context of human action recognition using skeleton data, the 3D trajectories of joint points may be considered as multi-dimensional time series. The traditional recognition technique in the literature is based on time series dis(similarity) measures (such as Dynamic Time Warping). For these general dis(similarity) measures, k-nearest neighbor algorithms are a natural choice. However, k-NN classifiers are known to be sensitive to noise and outliers. In this paper, a new class of Support Vector Machine that is applicable to trajectory classification, such as action recognition, is developed by incorporating an efficient time-series distances measure into the kernel function. More specifically, the derivative of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance measure is employed as the SVM kernel. In addition, the pairwise proximity learning strategy is utilized in order to make use of non-positive semi-definite (PSD) kernels in the SVM formulation. The recognition results of the proposed technique on two action recognition datasets demonstrates the ourperformance of our methodology compared to the state-of-the-art methods. Remarkably, we obtained 89 % accuracy on the well-known MSRAction3D dataset using only 3D trajectories of body joints obtained by Kinect
Address Victoria; Canada; May 2016
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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Area Expedition Conference AI
Notes HuPBA;MILAB; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGE2016b Serial 2770
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Author Fatemeh Noroozi; Marina Marjanovic; Angelina Njegus; Sergio Escalera; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
Title Fusion of Classifier Predictions for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract (up) In this paper is presented a novel multimodal emotion recognition system which is based on the analysis of audio and visual cues. MFCC-based features are extracted from the audio channel and facial landmark geometric relations are
computed from visual data. Both sets of features are learnt separately using state-of-the-art classifiers. In addition, we summarise each emotion video into a reduced set of key-frames, which are learnt in order to visually discriminate emotions by means of a Convolutional Neural Network. Finally, confidence
outputs of all classifiers from all modalities are used to define a new feature space to be learnt for final emotion prediction, in a late fusion/stacking fashion. The conducted experiments on eNTERFACE’05 database show significant performance improvements of our proposed system in comparison to state-of-the-art approaches.
Address Cancun; Mexico; December 2016
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Call Number Admin @ si @ NMN2016 Serial 2839
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Stan Sclaroff
Title Poselet-basedContextual Rescoring for Human Pose Estimation via Pictorial Structures Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 118 Issue 1 Pages 49–64
Keywords Contextual rescoring; Poselets; Human pose estimation
Abstract (up) In this paper we propose a contextual rescoring method for predicting the position of body parts in a human pose estimation framework. A set of poselets is incorporated in the model, and their detections are used to extract spatial and score-related features relative to other body part hypotheses. A method is proposed for the automatic discovery of a compact subset of poselets that covers the different poses in a set of validation images while maximizing precision. A rescoring mechanism is defined as a set-based boosting classifier that computes a new score for each body joint detection, given its relationship to detections of other body joints and mid-level parts in the image. This new score is incorporated in the pictorial structure model as an additional unary potential, following the recent work of Pishchulin et al. Experiments on two benchmarks show comparable results to Pishchulin et al. while reducing the size of the mid-level representation by an order of magnitude, reducing the execution time by 68 % accordingly.
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Publisher Springer US Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
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Notes HuPBA;MILAB; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HES2016 Serial 2719
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; J. Chazalon; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Filtrage de descripteurs locaux pour l'amélioration de la détection de documents Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Colloque International Francophone sur l'Écrit et le Document Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Local descriptors; mobile capture; document matching; keypoint selection
Abstract (up) In this paper we propose an effective method aimed at reducing the amount of local descriptors to be indexed in a document matching framework.In an off-line training stage, the matching between the model document and incoming images is computed retaining the local descriptors from the model that steadily produce good matches. We have evaluated this approach by using the ICDAR2015 SmartDOC dataset containing near 25000 images from documents to be captured by a mobile device. We have tested the performance of this filtering step by using ORB and SIFT local detectors and descriptors. The results show an important gain both in quality of the final matching as well as in time and space requirements.
Address Toulouse; France; March 2016
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Notes DAG; 600.084; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RCO2016 Serial 2755
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title Sparse representation over learned dictionary for symbol recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal SP
Volume 125 Issue Pages 36-47
Keywords Symbol Recognition; Sparse Representation; Learned Dictionary; Shape Context; Interest Points
Abstract (up) In this paper we propose an original sparse vector model for symbol retrieval task. More speci cally, we apply the K-SVD algorithm for learning a visual dictionary based on symbol descriptors locally computed around interest points. Results on benchmark datasets show that the obtained sparse representation is competitive related to state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, our sparse representation is invariant to rotation and scale transforms and also robust to degraded images and distorted symbols. Thereby, the learned visual dictionary is able to represent instances of unseen classes of symbols.
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2016 Serial 2946
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Author Jun Wan; Yibing Zhao; Shuai Zhou; Isabelle Guyon; Sergio Escalera
Title ChaLearn Looking at People RGB-D Isolated and Continuous Datasets for Gesture Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Worshops Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract (up) In this paper, we present two large video multi-modal datasets for RGB and RGB-D gesture recognition: the ChaLearn LAP RGB-D Isolated Gesture Dataset (IsoGD)and the Continuous Gesture Dataset (ConGD). Both datasets are derived from the ChaLearn Gesture Dataset
(CGD) that has a total of more than 50000 gestures for the “one-shot-learning” competition. To increase the potential of the old dataset, we designed new well curated datasets composed of 249 gesture labels, and including 47933 gestures manually labeled the begin and end frames in sequences.Using these datasets we will open two competitions
on the CodaLab platform so that researchers can test and compare their methods for “user independent” gesture recognition. The first challenge is designed for gesture spotting
and recognition in continuous sequences of gestures while the second one is designed for gesture classification from segmented data. The baseline method based on the bag of visual words model is also presented.
Address Las Vegas; USA; July 2016
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Area Expedition Conference CVPRW
Notes HuPBA;MILAB; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ WZZ2016 Serial 2771
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Author Youssef El Rhabi; Simon Loic; Brun Luc; Josep Llados; Felipe Lumbreras
Title Information Theoretic Rotationwise Robust Binary Descriptor Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 368-378
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Abstract (up) In this paper, we propose a new data-driven approach for binary descriptor selection. In order to draw a clear analysis of common designs, we present a general information-theoretic selection paradigm. It encompasses several standard binary descriptor construction schemes, including a recent state-of-the-art one named BOLD. We pursue the same endeavor to increase the stability of the produced descriptors with respect to rotations. To achieve this goal, we have designed a novel offline selection criterion which is better adapted to the online matching procedure. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated on two standard datasets, where our descriptor is compared to BOLD and to several classical descriptors. In particular, it emerges that our approach can reproduce equivalent if not better performance as BOLD while relying on twice shorter descriptors. Such an improvement can be influential for real-time applications.
Address Mérida; Mexico; November 2016
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Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.097; 600.086 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLL2016 Serial 2871
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Author Q. Bao; Marçal Rusiñol; M.Coustaty; Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; C.D. Tran; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Delaunay triangulation-based features for Camera-based document image retrieval system Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-6
Keywords Camera-based Document Image Retrieval; Delaunay Triangulation; Feature descriptors; Indexing
Abstract (up) In this paper, we propose a new feature vector, named DElaunay TRIangulation-based Features (DETRIF), for real-time camera-based document image retrieval. DETRIF is computed based on the geometrical constraints from each pair of adjacency triangles in delaunay triangulation which is constructed from centroids of connected components. Besides, we employ a hashing-based indexing system in order to evaluate the performance of DETRIF and to compare it with other systems such as LLAH and SRIF. The experimentation is carried out on two datasets comprising of 400 heterogeneous-content complex linguistic map images (huge size, 9800 X 11768 pixels resolution)and 700 textual document images.
Address Santorini; Greece; April 2016
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 600.084; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRC2016 Serial 2757
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Author C. Butakoff; Simone Balocco; F.M. Sukno; C. Hoogendoorn; C. Tobon-Gomez; G. Avegliano; A.F. Frangi
Title Left-ventricular Epi- and Endocardium Extraction from 3D Ultrasound Images Using an Automatically Constructed 3D ASM Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization Abbreviated Journal CMBBE
Volume 4 Issue 5 Pages 265-280
Keywords ASM; cardiac segmentation; statistical model; shape model; 3D ultrasound; cardiac segmentation
Abstract (up) In this paper, we propose an automatic method for constructing an active shape model (ASM) to segment the complete cardiac left ventricle in 3D ultrasound (3DUS) images, which avoids costly manual landmarking. The automatic construction of the ASM has already been addressed in the literature; however, the direct application of these methods to 3DUS is hampered by a high level of noise and artefacts. Therefore, we propose to construct the ASM by fusing the multidetector computed tomography data, to learn the shape, with the artificially generated 3DUS, in order to learn the neighbourhood of the boundaries. Our artificial images were generated by two approaches: a faster one that does not take into account the geometry of the transducer, and a more comprehensive one, implemented in Field II toolbox. The segmentation accuracy of our ASM was evaluated on 20 patients with left-ventricular asynchrony, demonstrating plausibility of the approach.
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Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BBS2016 Serial 2449
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Author Mariella Dimiccoli; Jean-Pascal Jacob; Lionel Moisan
Title Particle detection and tracking in fluorescence time-lapse imaging: a contrario approach Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Journal of Machine Vision and Applications Abbreviated Journal MVAP
Volume 27 Issue Pages 511-527
Keywords particle detection; particle tracking; a-contrario approach; time-lapse fluorescence imaging
Abstract (up) In this work, we propose a probabilistic approach for the detection and the
tracking of particles on biological images. In presence of very noised and poor
quality data, particles and trajectories can be characterized by an a-contrario
model, that estimates the probability of observing the structures of interest
in random data. This approach, first introduced in the modeling of human visual
perception and then successfully applied in many image processing tasks, leads
to algorithms that do not require a previous learning stage, nor a tedious
parameter tuning and are very robust to noise. Comparative evaluations against
a well established baseline show that the proposed approach outperforms the
state of the art.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ DJM2016 Serial 2735
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