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Author T. Alejandra Vidal; A. Sanfeliu; Juan Andrade edit  openurl
  Title Autonomous Single Camera Exploration Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2006 Publication Jornada de Recerca en Automatica, Visio i Robotica Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ VSA2006c Serial 680  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva edit  openurl
  Title Traffic Sign Classification using Error Correcting Techniques Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 281–285  
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  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2007a Serial 909  
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Author Karla Lizbeth Caballero; Joel Barajas; Oriol Pujol edit  openurl
  Title Reconstructing IVUS Images for an Accurate Tissue Classification Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Special Sessions Issue Pages 113–119  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CBP2007 Serial 926  
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Author Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Carme Julia edit  openurl
  Title Una experiencia de PBL en la docencia de la asignatura de Graficos por Computador en Ingenieria Informatica Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2006 Publication IV Contreso Internacional de Docencia Universitaria e Innovacion Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 1 Issue Pages 375  
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  Call Number IAM @ iam @ MGJ2006b Serial 931  
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Author Javier Jimenez; Antonio Lopez; Joan Serrat edit  openurl
  Title Un enfoque ABP aplicado a Ingenieria del Software Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2007 Publication Seminario Internacional RED–U 2–07 para El desarrollo de la autonomia en el aprendizaje Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ JLS2007 Serial 937  
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Author David Masip; Agata Lapedriza; Jordi Vitria edit  openurl
  Title Face Verification Sharing Knowledge from Different Subjects Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 2 Issue Pages 268–289  
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  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP´07  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ MLV2007a Serial 995  
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Author Alfons Juan-Ciscar; Gemma Sanchez edit  openurl
  Title PRIS 2008. Pattern Recognition in Information Systems. Proceedings of the 8th international Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information systems – PRIS 2008, in conjunction with ICEIS 2008 Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ JuS2008 Serial 1054  
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Author Xavier Baro edit  openurl
  Title Probabilistic Darwin Machines: A New Approach to Develop Evolutionary Object Detection Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Ever since computers were invented, we have wondered whether they might perform some of the human quotidian tasks. One of the most studied and still nowadays less understood problem is the capacity to learn from our experiences and how we generalize the knowledge that we acquire. One of that unaware tasks for the persons and that more interest is awakening in different scientific areas since the beginning, is the one that is known as pattern recognition. The creation of models that represent the world that surrounds us, help us for recognizing objects in our environment, to predict situations, to identify behaviors... All this information allows us to adapt ourselves and to interact with our environment. The capacity of adaptation of individuals to their environment has been related to the amount of patterns that are capable of identifying.

This thesis faces the pattern recognition problem from a Computer Vision point of view, taking one of the most paradigmatic and extended approaches to object detection as starting point. After studying this approach, two weak points are identified: The first makes reference to the description of the objects, and the second is a limitation of the learning algorithm, which hampers the utilization of best descriptors.

In order to address the learning limitations, we introduce evolutionary computation techniques to the classical object detection approach.

After testing the classical evolutionary approaches, such as genetic algorithms, we develop a new learning algorithm based on Probabilistic Darwin Machines, which better adapts to the learning problem. Once the learning limitation is avoided, we introduce a new feature set, which maintains the benefits of the classical feature set, adding the ability to describe non localities. This combination of evolutionary learning algorithm and features is tested on different public data sets, outperforming the results obtained by the classical approach.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Vitria  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ Bar2009 Serial 1262  
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Author Agata Lapedriza edit  openurl
  Title Multitask Learning Techniques for Automatic Face Classification Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Automatic face classification is currently a popular research area in Computer Vision. It involves several subproblems, such as subject recognition, gender classification or subject verification.

Current systems of automatic face classification need a large amount of training data to robustly learn a task. However, the collection of labeled data is usually a difficult issue. For this reason, the research on methods that are able to learn from a small sized training set is essential.

The dependency on the abundance of training data is not so evident in human learning processes. We are able to learn from a very small number of examples, given that we use, additionally, some prior knowledge to learn a new task. For example, we frequently find patterns and analogies from other domains to reuse them in new situations, or exploit training data from other experiences.

In computer science, Multitask Learning is a new Machine Learning approach that studies this idea of knowledge transfer among different tasks, to overcome the effects of the small sample sized problem.

This thesis explores, proposes and tests some Multitask Learning methods specially developed for face classification purposes. Moreover, it presents two more contributions dealing with the small sample sized problem, out of the Multitask Learning context. The first one is a method to extract external face features, to be used as an additional information source in automatic face classification problems. The second one is an empirical study on the most suitable face image resolution to perform automatic subject recognition.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Vitria;David Masip  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ Lap2009 Serial 1263  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol edit  openurl
  Title Geometric and Structural-based Symbol Spotting. Application to Focused Retrieval in Graphic Document Collections Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Usually, pattern recognition systems consist of two main parts. On the one hand, the data acquisition and, on the other hand, the classification of this data on a certain category. In order to recognize which category a certain query element belongs to, a set of pattern models must be provided beforehand. An off-line learning stage is needed to train the classifier and to offer a robust classification of the patterns. Within the pattern recognition field, we are interested in the recognition of graphics and, in particular, on the analysis of documents rich in graphical information. In this context, one of the main concerns is to see if the proposed systems remain scalable with respect to the data volume so as it can handle growing amounts of symbol models. In order to avoid to work with a database of reference symbols, symbol spotting and on-the-fly symbol recognition methods have been introduced in the past years.

Generally speaking, the symbol spotting problem can be defined as the identification of a set of regions of interest from a document image which are likely to contain an instance of a certain queriedn symbol without explicitly applying the whole pattern recognition scheme. Our application framework consists on indexing a collection of graphic-rich document images. This collection is
queried by example with a single instance of the symbol to look for and, by means of symbol spotting methods we retrieve the regions of interest where the symbol is likely to appear within the documents. This kind of applications are known as focused retrieval methods.

In order that the focused retrieval application can handle large collections of documents there is a need to provide an efficient access to the large volume of information that might be stored. We use indexing strategies in order to efficiently retrieve by similarity the locations where a certain part of the symbol appears. In that scenario, graphical patterns should be used as indices for accessing and navigating the collection of documents.
These indexing mechanism allow the user to search for similar elements using graphical information rather than textual queries.

Along this thesis we present a spotting architecture and different methods aiming to build a complete focused retrieval application dealing with a graphic-rich document collections. In addition, a protocol to evaluate the performance of symbol
spotting systems in terms of recognition abilities, location accuracy and scalability is proposed.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Josep Llados  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ Rus2009 Serial 1264  
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Author Alicia Fornes edit  openurl
  Title Writer Identification by a Combination of Graphical Features in the Framework of Old Handwritten Music Scores Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The analysis and recognition of historical document images has attracted growing interest in the last years. Mass digitization and document image understanding allows the preservation, access and indexation of this artistic, cultural and technical heritage. The analysis of handwritten documents is an outstanding subfield. The main interest is not only the transcription of the document to a standard format, but also, the identification of the author of a document from a set of writers (namely writer identification).

Writer identification in handwritten text documents is an active area of study, however, the identification of the writer of graphical documents is still a challenge. The main objective of this thesis is the identification of the writer in old music scores, as an example of graphic documents. Concerning old music scores, many historical archives contain a huge number of sheets of musical compositions without information about the composer, and the research on this field could be helpful for musicologists.

The writer identification framework proposed in this thesis combines three different writer identification approaches, which are the main scientific contributions. The first one is based on symbol recognition methods. For this purpose, two novel symbol recognition methods are proposed for coping with the typical distortions in hand-drawn symbols. The second approach preprocesses the music score for obtaining music lines, and extracts information about the slant, width of the writing, connected components, contours and fractals. Finally, the third approach extracts global information by generating texture images from the music scores and extracting textural features (such as Gabor filters and co-occurence matrices).

The high identification rates obtained in the experimental results demonstrate the suitability of the proposed ensemble architecture. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first contribution on writer identification from images containing graphical languages.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Josep Llados;Gemma Sanchez  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ For2009 Serial 1265  
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Author Jose Antonio Rodriguez edit  openurl
  Title Statistical frameworks and prior information modeling in handwritten word-spotting Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Handwritten word-spotting (HWS) is the pattern analysis task that consists in finding keywords in handwritten document images. So far, HWS has been applied mostly to historical documents in order to build search engines for such image collections. This thesis addresses the problem of word-spotting for detecting important keywords in business documents. This is a first step towards the process of automatic routing of correspondence based on content.

However, the application of traditional HWS techniques fails for this type of documents. As opposed to historical documents, real business documents present a very high variability in terms of writing styles, spontaneous writing, crossed-out words, spelling mistakes, etc. The main goal of this thesis is the development of pattern recognition techniques that lead to a high-performance HWS system for this challenging type of data.

We develop a statistical framework in which word models are expressed in terms of hidden Markov models and the a priori information is encoded in a universal vocabulary of Gaussian codewords. This systems leads to a very robust performance in word-spotting task. We also find that by constraining the word models to the universal vocabulary, the a priori information of the problem of interest can be exploited for developing new contributions. These include a novel writer adaptation method, a system for searching handwritten words by generating typed text images, and a novel model-based similarity between feature vector sequences.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Gemma Sanchez;Josep Llados;Florent Perronnin  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Rod2009 Serial 1266  
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Author Agnes Borras edit   pdf
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  Title Contributions to the Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Pictorial Queries Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The broad access to digital cameras, personal computers and Internet, has lead to the generation of large volumes of data in digital form. If we want an effective usage of this huge amount of data, we need automatic tools to allow the retrieval of relevant information. Image data is a particular type of information that requires specific techniques of description and indexing. The computer vision field that studies these kind of techniques is called Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). Instead of using text-based descriptions, a system of CBIR deals on properties that are inherent in the images themselves. Hence, the feature-based description provides a universal via of image expression in contrast with the more than 6000 languages spoken in the world.
Nowadays, the CBIR is a dynamic focus of research that has derived in important applications for many professional groups. The potential fields of application can be such diverse as: the medical domain, the crime prevention, the protection of the intel- lectual property, the journalism, the graphic design, the web search, the preservation of cultural heritage, etc.
The definition on the role of the user is a key point in the development of a CBIR application. The user is in charge to formulate the queries from which the images are retrieved. We have centered our attention on the image retrieval techniques that use queries based on pictorial information. We have identified a taxonomy composed by four main query paradigms: query-by-selection, query-by-iconic-composition, query- by-sketch and query-by-paint. Each one of these paradigms allows a different degree of user expressivity. From a simple image selection, to a complete painting of the query, the user takes control of the input in the CBIR system.
Along the chapters of this thesis we have analyzed the influence that each query paradigm imposes in the internal operations of a CBIR system. Moreover, we have proposed a set of contributions that we have exemplified in the context of a final application.
 
  Address (up) Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Bellaterra Editor Josep Llados  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ Bor2009; IAM @ iam @ Bor2009 Serial 1269  
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Sergio Escalera edit  openurl
  Title Compact Evolutive Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications in the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 119-128  
  Keywords Ensemble of Dichotomizers; Error-Correcting Output Codes; Evolutionary optimization  
  Abstract The classi cation of large number of object categories is a challenging trend in the Machine Learning eld. In literature, this is often addressed using an ensemble of classi ers. In this scope, the Error-Correcting Output Codes framework has demonstrated to be a powerful tool for the combination of classi ers. However, most of the state-of-the-art ECOC approaches use a linear or exponential number of classi ers, making the discrimination of a large number of classes unfeasible. In this paper, we explore and propose a minimal design of ECOC in terms of the number of classi ers. Evolutionary computation is used for tuning the parameters of the classi ers and looking for the best Minimal ECOC code con guration. The results over several public UCI data sets and a challenging multi-class Computer Vision problem show that the proposed methodology obtains comparable and even better results than state-of-the-art ECOC methodologies with far less number of dichotomizers.  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BBP2010 Serial 1363  
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Author Neus Salvatella; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; Francesco Ciompi; O. Rodriguez-Leor; Xavier Carrillo; R. Hemetsberger; Petia Radeva; Josefina Mauri; A. Bayes edit  openurl
  Title Canvis de volum a la arteria radial despres de la administracio de dos tractaments vasodilatadors. Avaluacio mitjançant ecografia intravascular Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 22nd Congres Societat Catalana de Cardiologia, Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 179  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SFC2010a Serial 1367  
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