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Author Jon Almazan
Title Deforming the Blurred Shape Model for Shape Description and Recognition Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 163 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Alm2010 Serial 1354
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Author Nataliya Shapovalova
Title On Importance of Interaction and Context Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 155 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Sha2010 Serial 1355
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Author Zhanwu Xiong
Title A Pompd Model for Active Camera Control Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 156 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Xio2010 Serial 1356
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Author Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
Title Natural Scene Statistics account for Human Cones Ratios Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Perception. ECVP Abstract Supplement Abbreviated Journal PER
Volume 39 Issue Pages 101
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Abstract In two previous experiments [Parraga et al, 2009 J. of Im. Sci. and Tech 53(3) 031106; Benavente et al,2009 Perception 38 ECVP Supplement, 36] the boundaries of basic colour categories were measured.
In the first experiment, samples were presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) and boundaries were measured using a yes/no paradigm. In the second, subjects adjusted the chromaticity of a sample presented on a random Mondrian background to find the boundary between pairs of adjacent colours.
Results from these experiments showed significant di erences but it was not possible to conclude whether this discrepancy was due to the absence/presence of a colourful background or to the di erences in the paradigms used. In this work, we settle this question by repeating the first experiment (ie samples presented on a dark background) using the second paradigm. A comparison of results shows that
although boundary locations are very similar, boundaries measured in context are significantly di erent(more di use) than those measured in isolation (confirmed by a Student’s t-test analysis on the subject’s answers statistical distributions). In addition, we completed the mapping of colour name space by measuring the boundaries between chromatic colours and the achromatic centre. With these results we completed our parametric fuzzy-sets model of colour naming space.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ PPV2010 Serial 1357
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; D. Gatica-Perez
Title Inferring competitive role patterns in reality TV show through nonverbal analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP
Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 207-226
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Abstract This paper introduces a new facet of social media, namely that depicting social interaction. More concretely, we address this problem from the perspective of nonverbal behavior-based analysis of competitive meetings. For our study, we made use of “The Apprentice” reality TV show, which features a competition for a real, highly paid corporate job. Our analysis is centered around two tasks regarding a person's role in a meeting: predicting the person with the highest status, and predicting the fired candidates. We address this problem by adopting both supervised and unsupervised strategies. The current study was carried out using nonverbal audio cues. Our approach is based only on the nonverbal interaction dynamics during the meeting without relying on the spoken words. The analysis is based on two types of data: individual and relational measures. Results obtained from the analysis of a full season of the show are promising (up to 85.7% of accuracy in the first case and up to 92.8% in the second case). Our approach has been conveniently compared with the Influence Model, demonstrating its superiority.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1380-7501 ISBN Medium
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RaG2012 Serial 1360
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Author Neus Salvatella; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; H. Tizon; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title Radial Artery Volume Changes After Administration Of Two Different Intra-arterial Drug Regimens. Assessment by Intravascular Ultrasound Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Journal of the American College of Cardiology Abbreviated Journal JACC
Volume 56 Issue 13s1 Pages B119
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SFC2010b Serial 1364
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Author R. de Nijs; Sebastian Ramos; Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; Luc Van Gool; K. Kühnlenz.
Title On-line Semantic Perception Using Uncertainty Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Abbreviated Journal IROS
Volume Issue Pages 4185-4191
Keywords Semantic Segmentation
Abstract Visual perception capabilities are still highly unreliable in unconstrained settings, and solutions might not beaccurate in all regions of an image. Awareness of the uncertainty of perception is a fundamental requirement for proper high level decision making in a robotic system. Yet, the uncertainty measure is often sacrificed to account for dependencies between object/region classifiers. This is the case of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), the success of which stems from their ability to infer the most likely world configuration, but they do not directly allow to estimate the uncertainty of the solution. In this paper, we consider the setting of assigning semantic labels to the pixels of an image sequence. Instead of using a CRF, we employ a Perturb-and-MAP Random Field, a recently introduced probabilistic model that allows performing fast approximate sampling from its probability density function. This allows to effectively compute the uncertainty of the solution, indicating the reliability of the most likely labeling in each region of the image. We report results on the CamVid dataset, a standard benchmark for semantic labeling of urban image sequences. In our experiments, we show the benefits of exploiting the uncertainty by putting more computational effort on the regions of the image that are less reliable, and use more efficient techniques for other regions, showing little decrease of performance
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ NRR2012 Serial 2378
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Author Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title On-board image-based vehicle detection and tracking Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control Abbreviated Journal TIM
Volume 33 Issue 7 Pages 783-805
Keywords vehicle detection
Abstract In this paper we present a computer vision system for daytime vehicle detection and localization, an essential step in the development of several types of advanced driver assistance systems. It has a reduced processing time and high accuracy thanks to the combination of vehicle detection with lane-markings estimation and temporal tracking of both vehicles and lane markings. Concerning vehicle detection, our main contribution is a frame scanning process that inspects images according to the geometry of image formation, and with an Adaboost-based detector that is robust to the variability in the different vehicle types (car, van, truck) and lighting conditions. In addition, we propose a new method to estimate the most likely three-dimensional locations of vehicles on the road ahead. With regards to the lane-markings estimation component, we have two main contributions. First, we employ a different image feature to the other commonly used edges: we use ridges, which are better suited to this problem. Second, we adapt RANSAC, a generic robust estimation method, to fit a parametric model of a pair of lane markings to the image features. We qualitatively assess our vehicle detection system in sequences captured on several road types and under very different lighting conditions. The processed videos are available on a web page associated with this paper. A quantitative evaluation of the system has shown quite accurate results (a low number of false positives and negatives) at a reasonable computation time.
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ PSL2011 Serial 1413
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Author Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny
Title Graph Embedding based on Nodes Attributes Representatives and a Graph of Words Representation. Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th International worshop on structural and syntactic pattern recognition and 8th international worshop on statistical pattern recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6218 Issue Pages 223–232
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Abstract Although graph embedding has recently been used to extend statistical pattern recognition techniques to the graph domain, some existing embeddings are usually computationally expensive as they rely on classical graph-based operations. In this paper we present a new way to embed graphs into vector spaces by first encapsulating the information stored in the original graph under another graph representation by clustering the attributes of the graphs to be processed. This new representation makes the association of graphs to vectors an easy step by just arranging both node attributes and the adjacency matrix in the form of vectors. To test our method, we use two different databases of graphs whose nodes attributes are of different nature. A comparison with a reference method permits to show that this new embedding is better in terms of classification rates, while being much more faster.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor In E.R. Hancock, R.C. Wilson, T. Windeatt, I. Ulusoy and F. Escolano,
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-14979-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference S+SSPR
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Call Number DAG @ dag @ GiV2010 Serial 1416
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Author David Aldavert; Arnau Ramisa; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras; Ricardo Toledo
Title Real-time Object Segmentation using a Bag of Features Approach Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 220 Issue Pages 321–329
Keywords Object Segmentation; Bag Of Features; Feature Quantization; Densely sampled descriptors
Abstract In this paper, we propose an object segmentation framework, based on the popular bag of features (BoF), which can process several images per second while achieving a good segmentation accuracy assigning an object category to every pixel of the image. We propose an efficient color descriptor to complement the information obtained by a typical gradient-based local descriptor. Results show that color proves to be a useful cue to increase the segmentation accuracy, specially in large homogeneous regions. Then, we extend the Hierarchical K-Means codebook using the recently proposed Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors method. Finally, we show that the BoF method can be easily parallelized since it is applied locally, thus the time necessary to process an image is further reduced. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated in the standard PASCAL 2007 Segmentation Challenge object segmentation dataset.
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Publisher IOS Press Amsterdam, Place of Publication Editor In R.Alquezar, A.Moreno, J.Aguilar.
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ISSN ISBN 9781607506423 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CCIA
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Call Number Admin @ si @ ARL2010b Serial 1417
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Author Carlo Gatta; Simone Balocco; Francesco Ciompi; R. Hemetsberger; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Petia Radeva
Title Real-time gating of IVUS sequences based on motion blur analysis: Method and quantitative validation Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention Abbreviated Journal
Volume II Issue Pages 59-67
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Abstract Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is an image-guiding technique for cardiovascular diagnostic, providing cross-sectional images of vessels. During the acquisition, the catheter is pulled back (pullback) at a constant speed in order to acquire spatially subsequent images of the artery. However, during this procedure, the heart twist produces a swinging fluctuation of the probe position along the vessel axis. In this paper we propose a real-time gating algorithm based on the analysis of motion blur variations during the IVUS sequence. Quantitative tests performed on an in-vitro ground truth data base shown that our method is superior to state of the art algorithms both in computational speed and accuracy.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Place of Publication Editor
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAI
Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ GBC2010 Serial 1447
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Author Eloi Puertas; Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol
Title Classifying Objects at Different Sizes with Multi-Scale Stacked Sequential Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 220 Issue Pages 193–200
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Abstract Sequential learning is that discipline of machine learning that deals with dependent data. In this paper, we use the Multi-scale Stacked Sequential Learning approach (MSSL) to solve the task of pixel-wise classification based on contextual information. The main contribution of this work is a shifting technique applied during the testing phase that makes possible, thanks to template images, to classify objects at different sizes. The results show that the proposed method robustly classifies such objects capturing their spatial relationships.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor R. Alquezar, A. Moreno, J. Aguilar
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-60750-642-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CCIA
Notes HUPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PEP2010 Serial 1448
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Author Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
Title Towards a unified chromatic inducction model Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal VSS
Volume 10 Issue 12:5 Pages 1-24
Keywords Visual system; Color induction; Wavelet transform
Abstract In a previous work (X. Otazu, M. Vanrell, & C. A. Párraga, 2008b), we showed how several brightness induction effects can be predicted using a simple multiresolution wavelet model (BIWaM). Here we present a new model for chromatic induction processes (termed Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model or CIWaM), which is also implemented on a multiresolution framework and based on similar assumptions related to the spatial frequency and the contrast surround energy of the stimulus. The CIWaM can be interpreted as a very simple extension of the BIWaM to the chromatic channels, which in our case are defined in the MacLeod-Boynton (lsY) color space. This new model allows us to unify both chromatic assimilation and chromatic contrast effects in a single mathematical formulation. The predictions of the CIWaM were tested by means of several color and brightness induction experiments, which showed an acceptable agreement between model predictions and psychophysical data.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ OPV2010 Serial 1450
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez
Title Learning photometric invariance for object detection Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 90 Issue 1 Pages 45-61
Keywords road detection
Abstract Impact factor: 3.508 (the last available from JCR2009SCI). Position 4/103 in the category Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence. Quartile
Color is a powerful visual cue in many computer vision applications such as image segmentation and object recognition. However, most of the existing color models depend on the imaging conditions that negatively affect the performance of the task at hand. Often, a reflection model (e.g., Lambertian or dichromatic reflectance) is used to derive color invariant models. However, this approach may be too restricted to model real-world scenes in which different reflectance mechanisms can hold simultaneously.
Therefore, in this paper, we aim to derive color invariance by learning from color models to obtain diversified color invariant ensembles. First, a photometrical orthogonal and non-redundant color model set is computed composed of both color variants and invariants. Then, the proposed method combines these color models to arrive at a diversified color ensemble yielding a proper balance between invariance (repeatability) and discriminative power (distinctiveness). To achieve this, our fusion method uses a multi-view approach to minimize the estimation error. In this way, the proposed method is robust to data uncertainty and produces properly diversified color invariant ensembles. Further, the proposed method is extended to deal with temporal data by predicting the evolution of observations over time.
Experiments are conducted on three different image datasets to validate the proposed method. Both the theoretical and experimental results show that the method is robust against severe variations in imaging conditions. The method is not restricted to a certain reflection model or parameter tuning, and outperforms state-of-the-art detection techniques in the field of object, skin and road recognition. Considering sequential data, the proposed method (extended to deal with future observations) outperforms the other methods
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Publisher Springer US Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010c Serial 1451
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Eric Laciar; Jordi Vitria; Esther Pueyo; Petia Radeva
Title Classification of Coronary Damage in Chronic Chagasic Patients Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Intelligent Systems – From Theory to Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 299 Issue Pages 461-478
Keywords Chagas disease; Error-Correcting Output Codes; High resolution ECG; Decoding
Abstract Post Conference IEEE-IS 2008
The Chagas’ disease is endemic in all Latin America, affecting millions of people in the continent. In order to diagnose and treat the chagas’ disease, it is important to detect and measure the coronary damage of the patient. In this paper,
we analyze and categorize patients into different groups based on the coronary damage produced by the disease. Based on the features of the heart cycle extracted using high resolution ECG, a multi-class scheme of Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC)is formulated and successfully applied. The results show that the proposed scheme obtains significant performance improvements compared to previous works and state-of-the-art ECOC designs.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor V. Sgurev, M. Hadjiski (eds)
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Notes OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPL2010 Serial 1452
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