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	Author	Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	New Opportunities for Computer Vision-Based Assistive Technology Systems for the Visually Impaired			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Computer	Abbreviated Journal	COMP
	Volume	47	Issue	4	Pages	52-58
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	Abstract	Computing advances and increased smartphone use gives technology system designers greater flexibility in exploiting computer vision to support visually impaired users. Understanding these users' needs will certainly provide insight for the development of improved usability of computing devices.
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	ISSN	0018-9162	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TSR2014a			Serial	2317
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	Author	Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika
	Title	Embedding new observations via sparse-coding for non-linear manifold learning			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	47	Issue	1	Pages	480-492
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	Abstract	Non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques are affected by two critical aspects: (i) the design of the adjacency graphs, and (ii) the embedding of new test data-the out-of-sample problem. For the first aspect, the proposed solutions, in general, were heuristically driven. For the second aspect, the difficulty resides in finding an accurate mapping that transfers unseen data samples into an existing manifold. Past works addressing these two aspects were heavily parametric in the sense that the optimal performance is only achieved for a suitable parameter choice that should be known in advance. In this paper, we demonstrate that the sparse representation theory not only serves for automatic graph construction as shown in recent works, but also represents an accurate alternative for out-of-sample embedding. Considering for a case study the Laplacian Eigenmaps, we applied our method to the face recognition problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed out-of-sample embedding, experiments are conducted using the K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Kernel Support Vector Machines (KSVM) classifiers on six public face datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed model is able to achieve high categorization effectiveness as well as high consistency with non-linear embeddings/manifolds obtained in batch modes.
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RaD2013b			Serial	2316
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	Author	Cesar Isaza; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Rendering ground truth data sets to detect shadows cast by static objects in outdoors			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Multimedia Tools and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	MTAP
	Volume	70	Issue	1	Pages	557-571
	Keywords	Synthetic ground truth data set; Sun position; Shadow detection; Static objects shadow detection
	Abstract	In our work, we are particularly interested in studying the shadows cast by static objects in outdoor environments, during daytime. To assess the accuracy of a shadow detection algorithm, we need ground truth information. The collection of such information is a very tedious task because it is a process that requires manual annotation. To overcome this severe limitation, we propose in this paper a methodology to automatically render ground truth using a virtual environment. To increase the degree of realism and usefulness of the simulated environment, we incorporate in the scenario the precise longitude, latitude and elevation of the actual location of the object, as well as the sun’s position for a given time and day. To evaluate our method, we consider a qualitative and a quantitative comparison. In the quantitative one, we analyze the shadow cast by a real object in a particular geographical location and its corresponding rendered model. To evaluate qualitatively the methodology, we use some ground truth images obtained both manually and automatically.
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	Publisher	Springer US	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1380-7501	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ISR2014			Serial	2229
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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
	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
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TSR2014b			Serial	2505
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	Author	Xim Cerda-Company; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu
	Title	Which tone-mapping is the best? A comparative study of tone-mapping perceived quality			Type	Abstract
	Year	2014	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	43	Issue		Pages	106
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	Abstract	Perception 43 ECVP Abstract Supplement High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging refers to the methods designed to increase the brightness dynamic range present in standard digital imaging techniques. This increase is achieved by taking the same picture under dierent exposure values and mapping the intensity levels into a single image by way of a tone-mapping operator (TMO). Currently, there is no agreement on how to evaluate the quality of dierent TMOs. In this work we psychophysically evaluate 15 dierent TMOs obtaining rankings based on the perceived properties of the resulting tone-mapped images. We performed two dierent experiments on a CRT calibrated display using 10 subjects: (1) a study of the internal relationships between grey-levels and (2) a pairwise comparison of the resulting 15 tone-mapped images. In (1) observers internally matched the grey-levels to a reference inside the tone-mapped images and in the real scene. In (2) observers performed a pairwise comparison of the tone-mapped images alongside the real scene. We obtained two rankings of the TMOs according their performance. In (1) the best algorithm was ICAM by J.Kuang et al (2007) and in (2) the best algorithm was a TMO by Krawczyk et al (2005). Our results also show no correlation between these two rankings.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ECVP
	Notes	NEUROBIT; 600.074			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CPO2014			Serial	2527
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	Author	Manuel Graña; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Special Issue on Bioinspired and knowledge based techniques and applications			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Neurocomputing	Abbreviated Journal	NEUCOM
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-3
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GrR2015			Serial	2598
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	Author	Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu; Alireza Bosaghzadeh
	Title	Facial expression recognition based on multi observations with application to social robotics			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	Emotional and Facial Expressions: Recognition, Developmental Differences and Social Importance	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	153-166
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	Abstract	Human-robot interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the social robotics community. One crucial aspect is represented by the affective communication which comes encoded through the facial expressions. In this chapter, we propose a novel approach for facial expression recognition, which exploits an efficient and adaptive graph-based label propagation (semi-supervised mode) in a multi-observation framework. The facial features are extracted using an appearance-based 3D face tracker, viewand texture independent. Our method has been extensively tested on the CMU dataset, and has been conveniently compared with other methods for graph construction. With the proposed approach, we developed an application for an AIBO robot, in which it mirrors the recognized facial expression.
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	Publisher	Nova Science publishers	Place of Publication		Editor	Bruce Flores
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DRB2015			Serial	2720
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	Author	Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Joaquin Salas
	Title	Head-gestures mirroring detection in dyadic social linteractions with computer vision-based wearable devices			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Neurocomputing	Abbreviated Journal	NEUCOM
	Volume	175	Issue	B	Pages	866–876
	Keywords	Head gestures recognition; Mirroring detection; Dyadic social interaction analysis; Wearable devices
	Abstract	During face-to-face human interaction, nonverbal communication plays a fundamental role. A relevant aspect that takes part during social interactions is represented by mirroring, in which a person tends to mimic the non-verbal behavior (head and body gestures, vocal prosody, etc.) of the counterpart. In this paper, we introduce a computer vision-based system to detect mirroring in dyadic social interactions with the use of a wearable platform. In our context, mirroring is inferred as simultaneous head noddings displayed by the interlocutors. Our approach consists of the following steps: (1) facial features extraction; (2) facial features stabilization; (3) head nodding recognition; and (4) mirroring detection. Our system achieves a mirroring detection accuracy of 72% on a custom mirroring dataset.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.072; 600.068;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TRM2016			Serial	2721
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	Author	Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Joaquin Salas
	Title	Assessing the Influence of Mirroring on the Perception of Professional Competence using Wearable Technology			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing	Abbreviated Journal	TAC
	Volume	9	Issue	2	Pages	161-175
	Keywords	Mirroring; Nodding; Competence; Perception; Wearable Technology
	Abstract	Nonverbal communication is an intrinsic part in daily face-to-face meetings. A frequently observed behavior during social interactions is mirroring, in which one person tends to mimic the attitude of the counterpart. This paper shows that a computer vision system could be used to predict the perception of competence in dyadic interactions through the automatic detection of mirroring events. To prove our hypothesis, we developed: (1) A social assistant for mirroring detection, using a wearable device which includes a video camera and (2) an automatic classifier for the perception of competence, using the number of nodding gestures and mirroring events as predictors. For our study, we used a mixed-method approach in an experimental design where 48 participants acting as customers interacted with a confederated psychologist. We found that the number of nods or mirroring events has a significant influence on the perception of competence. Our results suggest that: (1) Customer mirroring is a better predictor than psychologist mirroring; (2) the number of psychologist’s nods is a better predictor than the number of customer’s nods; (3) except for the psychologist mirroring, the computer vision algorithm we used worked about equally well whether it was acquiring images from wearable smartglasses or fixed cameras.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.072;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MTR2016			Serial	2826
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	Author	H. Martin Kjer; Jens Fagertun; Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Rasmus R. Paulsena
	Title	Free-form image registration of human cochlear uCT data using skeleton similarity as anatomical prior			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Patter Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	76	Issue	1	Pages	76-82
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	Notes	IAM; 600.060			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MFV2017b			Serial	2941
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	Author	Oscar Argudo; Marc Comino; Antonio Chica; Carlos Andujar; Felipe Lumbreras
	Title	Segmentation of aerial images for plausible detail synthesis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Computers & Graphics	Abbreviated Journal	CG
	Volume	71	Issue		Pages	23-34
	Keywords	Terrain editing; Detail synthesis; Vegetation synthesis; Terrain rendering; Image segmentation
	Abstract	The visual enrichment of digital terrain models with plausible synthetic detail requires the segmentation of aerial images into a suitable collection of categories. In this paper we present a complete pipeline for segmenting high-resolution aerial images into a user-defined set of categories distinguishing e.g. terrain, sand, snow, water, and different types of vegetation. This segmentation-for-synthesis problem implies that per-pixel categories must be established according to the algorithms chosen for rendering the synthetic detail. This precludes the definition of a universal set of labels and hinders the construction of large training sets. Since artists might choose to add new categories on the fly, the whole pipeline must be robust against unbalanced datasets, and fast on both training and inference. Under these constraints, we analyze the contribution of common per-pixel descriptors, and compare the performance of state-of-the-art supervised learning algorithms. We report the findings of two user studies. The first one was conducted to analyze human accuracy when manually labeling aerial images. The second user study compares detailed terrains built using different segmentation strategies, including official land cover maps. These studies demonstrate that our approach can be used to turn digital elevation models into fully-featured, detailed terrains with minimal authoring efforts.
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	ISSN	0097-8493	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MSIAU; 600.086; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ACC2018			Serial	3147
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	Author	Gemma Rotger; Felipe Lumbreras; Francesc Moreno-Noguer; Antonio Agudo
	Title	2D-to-3D Facial Expression Transfer			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2008 - 2013
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	Abstract	Automatically changing the expression and physical features of a face from an input image is a topic that has been traditionally tackled in a 2D domain. In this paper, we bring this problem to 3D and propose a framework that given an input RGB video of a human face under a neutral expression, initially computes his/her 3D shape and then performs a transfer to a new and potentially non-observed expression. For this purpose, we parameterize the rest shape –obtained from standard factorization approaches over the input video– using a triangular mesh which is further clustered into larger macro-segments. The expression transfer problem is then posed as a direct mapping between this shape and a source shape, such as the blend shapes of an off-the-shelf 3D dataset of human facial expressions. The mapping is resolved to be geometrically consistent between 3D models by requiring points in specific regions to map on semantic equivalent regions. We validate the approach on several synthetic and real examples of input faces that largely differ from the source shapes, yielding very realistic expression transfers even in cases with topology changes, such as a synthetic video sequence of a single-eyed cyclops.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RLM2018			Serial	3232
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	Author	Carola Figueroa Flores; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Joost Van de Weijer; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Saliency for fine-grained object recognition in domains with scarce training data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	94	Issue		Pages	62-73
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	Abstract	This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an existing CNN architecture which is used to modulate the standard bottom-up visual features from the original image input, acting as an attentional mechanism that guides the feature extraction process. The main aim of the proposed approach is to enable the effective training of a fine-grained recognition model with limited training samples and to improve the performance on the task, thereby alleviating the need to annotate a large dataset. The vast majority of saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline. Our proposed pipeline allows to evaluate saliency methods for the high-level task of object recognition. We perform extensive experiments on various fine-grained datasets (Flowers, Birds, Cars, and Dogs) under different conditions and show that saliency can considerably improve the network’s performance, especially for the case of scarce training data. Furthermore, our experiments show that saliency methods that obtain improved saliency maps (as measured by traditional saliency benchmarks) also translate to saliency methods that yield improved performance gains when applied in an object recognition pipeline.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.109; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FGW2019			Serial	3264
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	Author	Mohammad N. S. Jahromi; Pau Buch Cardona; Egils Avots; Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
	Title	Privacy-Constrained Biometric System for Non-cooperative Users			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Entropy	Abbreviated Journal	ENTROPY
	Volume	21	Issue	11	Pages	1033
	Keywords	biometric recognition; multimodal-based human identification; privacy; deep learning
	Abstract	With the consolidation of the new data protection regulation paradigm for each individual within the European Union (EU), major biometric technologies are now confronted with many concerns related to user privacy in biometric deployments. When individual biometrics are disclosed, the sensitive information about his/her personal data such as financial or health are at high risk of being misused or compromised. This issue can be escalated considerably over scenarios of non-cooperative users, such as elderly people residing in care homes, with their inability to interact conveniently and securely with the biometric system. The primary goal of this study is to design a novel database to investigate the problem of automatic people recognition under privacy constraints. To do so, the collected data-set contains the subject’s hand and foot traits and excludes the face biometrics of individuals in order to protect their privacy. We carried out extensive simulations using different baseline methods, including deep learning. Simulation results show that, with the spatial features extracted from the subject sequence in both individual hand or foot videos, state-of-the-art deep models provide promising recognition performance.
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	Notes	HuPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ NBA2019			Serial	3313
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	Author	Daniela Rato; Miguel Oliveira; Vitor Santos; Manuel Gomes; Angel Sappa
	Title	A sensor-to-pattern calibration framework for multi-modal industrial collaborative cells			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	Abbreviated Journal	JMANUFSYST
	Volume	64	Issue		Pages	497-507
	Keywords	Calibration; Collaborative cell; Multi-modal; Multi-sensor
	Abstract	Collaborative robotic industrial cells are workspaces where robots collaborate with human operators. In this context, safety is paramount, and for that a complete perception of the space where the collaborative robot is inserted is necessary. To ensure this, collaborative cells are equipped with a large set of sensors of multiple modalities, covering the entire work volume. However, the fusion of information from all these sensors requires an accurate extrinsic calibration. The calibration of such complex systems is challenging, due to the number of sensors and modalities, and also due to the small overlapping fields of view between the sensors, which are positioned to capture different viewpoints of the cell. This paper proposes a sensor to pattern methodology that can calibrate a complex system such as a collaborative cell in a single optimization procedure. Our methodology can tackle RGB and Depth cameras, as well as LiDARs. Results show that our methodology is able to accurately calibrate a collaborative cell containing three RGB cameras, a depth camera and three 3D LiDARs.
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	Publisher	Science Direct	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	MSIAU; MACO			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ROS2022			Serial	3750
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