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Author Alberto Hidalgo; Ferran Poveda; Enric Marti;Debora Gil;Albert Andaluz; Francesc Carreras; Manuel Ballester edit   pdf
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  Title Evidence of continuous helical structure of the cardiac ventricular anatomy assessed by diffusion tensor imaging magnetic resonance multiresolution tractography Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication European Radiology Abbreviated Journal ECR  
  Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 361-362  
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  Abstract Deep understanding of myocardial structure linking morphology and func- tion of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for medical and surgical clinical procedures and studies. Diffusion tensor MRI provides a discrete measurement of the 3D arrangement of myocardial fibres by the observation of local anisotropic
diffusion of water molecules in biological tissues. In this work, we present a multi- scale visualisation technique based on DT-MRI streamlining capable of uncovering additional properties of the architectural organisation of the heart. Methods and Materials: We selected the John Hopkins University (JHU) Canine Heart Dataset, where the long axis cardiac plane is aligned with the scanner’s Z- axis. Their equipment included a 4-element passed array coil emitting a 1.5 T. For DTI acquisition, a 3D-FSE sequence is apply. We used 200 seeds for full-scale tractography, while we applied a MIP mapping technique for simplified tractographic reconstruction. In this case, we reduced each DTI 3D volume dimensions by order- two magnitude before streamlining.
Our simplified tractographic reconstruction method keeps the main geometric features of fibres, allowing for an easier identification of their global morphological disposition, including the ventricular basal ring. Moreover, we noticed a clearly visible helical disposition of the myocardial fibres, in line with the helical myocardial band ventricular structure described by Torrent-Guasp. Finally, our simplified visualisation with single tracts identifies the main segments of the helical ventricular architecture.
DT-MRI makes possible the identification of a continuous helical architecture of the myocardial fibres, which validates Torrent-Guasp’s helical myocardial band ventricular anatomical model.
 
  Address Viena, Austria  
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  Publisher Springer Link Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1869-4101 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number IAM @ iam @ HPM2012 Serial 1858  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Color Attributes for Object Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3306-3313  
  Keywords pedestrian detection  
  Abstract State-of-the-art object detectors typically use shape information as a low level feature representation to capture the local structure of an object. This paper shows that early fusion of shape and color, as is popular in image classification,
leads to a significant drop in performance for object detection. Moreover, such approaches also yields suboptimal results for object categories with varying importance of color and shape.
In this paper we propose the use of color attributes as an explicit color representation for object detection. Color attributes are compact, computationally efficient, and when combined with traditional shape features provide state-ofthe-
art results for object detection. Our method is tested on the PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 datasets and results clearly show that our method improves over state-of-the-art techniques despite its simplicity. We also introduce a new dataset consisting of cartoon character images in which color plays a pivotal role. On this dataset, our approach yields a significant gain of 14% in mean AP over conventional state-of-the-art methods.
 
  Address Providence; Rhode Island; USA;  
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  Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium  
  Area (up) Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS; CIC; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2012 Serial 1935  
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Miguel Angel Bautista; Xavier Perez Sala; Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Cecilio Angulo edit   pdf
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  Title Probability-based Dynamic Time Warping and Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words for Human Gesture Recognition in RGB-D Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL  
  Volume 50 Issue 1 Pages 112-121  
  Keywords RGB-D; Bag-of-Words; Dynamic Time Warping; Human Gesture Recognition  
  Abstract PATREC5825
We present a methodology to address the problem of human gesture segmentation and recognition in video and depth image sequences. A Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words (BoVDW) model is introduced as an extension of the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) model. State-of-the-art RGB and depth features, including a newly proposed depth descriptor, are analysed and combined in a late fusion form. The method is integrated in a Human Gesture Recognition pipeline, together with a novel probability-based Dynamic Time Warping (PDTW) algorithm which is used to perform prior segmentation of idle gestures. The proposed DTW variant uses samples of the same gesture category to build a Gaussian Mixture Model driven probabilistic model of that gesture class. Results of the whole Human Gesture Recognition pipeline in a public data set show better performance in comparison to both standard BoVW model and DTW approach.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ HBP2014 Serial 2353  
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Author G.D. Evangelidis; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Slice Matching for Accurate Spatio-Temporal Alignment Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication In ICCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords video alignment  
  Abstract Video synchronization and alignment is a rather recent topic in computer vision. It usually deals with the problem of aligning sequences recorded simultaneously by static, jointly- or independently-moving cameras. In this paper, we investigate the more difficult problem of matching videos captured at different times from independently-moving cameras, whose trajectories are approximately coincident or parallel. To this end, we propose a novel method that pixel-wise aligns videos and allows thus to automatically highlight their differences. This primarily aims at visual surveillance but the method can be adopted as is by other related video applications, like object transfer (augmented reality) or high dynamic range video. We build upon a slice matching scheme to first synchronize the sequences, while we develop a spatio-temporal alignment scheme to spatially register corresponding frames and refine the temporal mapping. We investigate the performance of the proposed method on videos recorded from vehicles driven along different types of roads and compare with related previous works.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ EDS2011; ADAS @ adas @ eds2011a Serial 1861  
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Author G. Roig; Xavier Boix; F. de la Torre; Joan Serrat; C. Vilella edit  openurl
  Title Hierarchical CRF with product label spaces for parts-based Models Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Non-rigid object detection is a challenging an open research problem in computer vision. It is a critical part in many applications such as image search, surveillance, human-computer interaction or image auto-annotation. Most successful approaches to non-rigid object detection make use of part-based models. In particular, Conditional Random Fields (CRF) have been successfully embedded into a discriminative parts-based model framework due to its effectiveness for learning and inference (usually based on a tree structure). However, CRF-based approaches do not incorporate global constraints and only model pairwise interactions. This is especially important when modeling object classes that may have complex parts interactions (e.g. facial features or body articulations), because neglecting them yields an oversimplified model with suboptimal performance. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a novel hierarchical CRF (HCRF). The main contribution is to build a hierarchy of part combinations by extending the label set to a hierarchy of product label spaces. In order to keep the inference computation tractable, we propose an effective method to reduce the new label set. We test our method on two applications: facial feature detection on the Multi-PIE database and human pose estimation on the Buffy dataset.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RBT2011 Serial 1862  
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Author Albert Andaluz edit   pdf
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  Title Harmonic Phase Flow: User's guide Type Manual
  Year 2012 Publication CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract HPF is a plugin for the computation of clinical scores under Osirix.
This manual provides a basic guide for experienced clinical staff. Chapter 1 provides the theoretical background in which this plugin is based.
Next, in chapter 2 we provide basic instructions for installing and uninstalling this plugin. chapter 3we shows a step-by-step scenario to compute clinical scores from tagged-MRI images with HPF. Finally, in chapter 4 we provide a quick guide for plugin developers
 
  Address Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis  
  Publisher CVC Place of Publication Barcelona Editor  
  Language english Summary Language english Original Title  
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  Call Number IAM @ iam @ And2012 Serial 1863  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Modulating Shape Features by Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV  
  Volume 98 Issue 1 Pages 49-64  
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  Abstract Bag-of-words based image representation is a successful approach for object recognition. Generally, the subsequent stages of the process: feature detection,feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, it was found that the combination of different image cues, such as shape and color, often obtains below expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using ultiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, these color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. In regions with higher attention shape features are given more weight than in regions with low attention. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on five data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer (color predominance), Flower (color and hape parity), PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 (shape predominance) and Caltech-101 (color co-interference). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all five data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods for combining color and shape information.  
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  Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ KWV2012 Serial 1864  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Portmanteau Vocabularies for Multi-Cue Image Representation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract We describe a novel technique for feature combination in the bag-of-words model of image classification. Our approach builds discriminative compound words from primitive cues learned independently from training images. Our main observation is that modeling joint-cue distributions independently is more statistically robust for typical classification problems than attempting to empirically estimate the dependent, joint-cue distribution directly. We use Information theoretic vocabulary compression to find discriminative combinations of cues and the resulting vocabulary of portmanteau words is compact, has the cue binding property, and supports individual weighting of cues in the final image representation. State-of-the-art results on both the Oxford Flower-102 and Caltech-UCSD Bird-200 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique compared to other, significantly more complex approaches to multi-cue image representation  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ KWB2011 Serial 1865  
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Author Naila Murray; Sandra Skaff; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin edit   pdf
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  Title Towards Automatic Concept Transfer Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 167.176  
  Keywords chromatic modeling, color concepts, color transfer, concept transfer  
  Abstract This paper introduces a novel approach to automatic concept transfer; examples of concepts are “romantic”, “earthy”, and “luscious”. The approach modifies the color content of an input image given only a concept specified by a user in natural language, thereby requiring minimal user input. This approach is particularly useful for users who are aware of the message they wish to convey in the transferred image while being unsure of the color combination needed to achieve the corresponding transfer. The user may adjust the intensity level of the concept transfer to his/her liking with a single parameter. The proposed approach uses a convex clustering algorithm, with a novel pruning mechanism, to automatically set the complexity of models of chromatic content. It also uses the Earth-Mover's Distance to compute a mapping between the models of the input image and the target chromatic concept. Results show that our approach yields transferred images which effectively represent concepts, as confirmed by a user study.  
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  Publisher ACM Press Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-0907-3 Medium  
  Area (up) Expedition Conference NPAR  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MSM2011 Serial 1866  
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Author Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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  Title Categorical Focal Colours are Structurally Invariant Under Illuminant Changes Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 196  
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  Abstract The visual system perceives the colour of surfaces approximately constant under changes of illumination. In this work, we investigate how stable is the perception of categorical \“focal\” colours and their interrelations with varying illuminants and simple chromatic backgrounds. It has been proposed that best examples of colour categories across languages cluster in small regions of the colour space and are restricted to a set of 11 basic terms (Kay and Regier, 2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 100 9085\–9089). Following this, we developed a psychophysical paradigm that exploits the ability of subjects to reliably reproduce the most representative examples of each category, adjusting multiple test patches embedded in a coloured Mondrian. The experiment was run on a CRT monitor (inside a dark room) under various simulated illuminants. We modelled the recorded data for each subject and adapted state as a 3D interconnected structure (graph) in Lab space. The graph nodes were the subject\’s focal colours at each adaptation state. The model allowed us to get a better distance measure between focal structures under different illuminants. We found that perceptual focal structures tend to be preserved better than the structures of the physical \“ideal\” colours under illuminant changes.  
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  Series Editor Series Title Perception 40 Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Area (up) Expedition Conference ECVP  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RPV2011 Serial 1867  
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Author N. Serrano; L. Tarazon; D. Perez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; S. Juan edit  isbn
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  Title The GIDOC Prototype Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 10th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 82-89  
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  Abstract Transcription of handwritten text in (old) documents is an important, time-consuming task for digital libraries. It might be carried out by first processing all document images off-line, and then manually supervising system transcriptions to edit incorrect parts. However, current techniques for automatic page layout analysis, text line detection and handwriting recognition are still far from perfect, and thus post-editing system output is not clearly better than simply ignoring it.

A more effective approach to transcribe old text documents is to follow an interactive- predictive paradigm in which both, the system is guided by the user, and the user is assisted by the system to complete the transcription task as efficiently as possible. Following this approach, a system prototype called GIDOC (Gimp-based Interactive transcription of old text DOCuments) has been developed to provide user-friendly, integrated support for interactive-predictive layout analysis, line detection and handwriting transcription.

GIDOC is designed to work with (large) collections of homogeneous documents, that is, of similar structure and writing styles. They are annotated sequentially, by (par- tially) supervising hypotheses drawn from statistical models that are constantly updated with an increasing number of available annotated documents. And this is done at different annotation levels. For instance, at the level of page layout analysis, GIDOC uses a novel text block detection method in which conventional, memoryless techniques are improved with a “history” model of text block positions. Similarly, at the level of text line image transcription, GIDOC includes a handwriting recognizer which is steadily improved with a growing number of (partially) supervised transcriptions.
 
  Address Funchal, Portugal  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-989-8425-14-0 Medium  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ STP2010 Serial 1868  
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Author S. Chanda; Umapada Pal; Oriol Ramos Terrades edit  doi
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  Title Word-Wise Thai and Roman Script Identification Type Journal
  Year 2009 Publication ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Abbreviated Journal TALIP  
  Volume 8 Issue 3 Pages 1-21  
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  Abstract In some Thai documents, a single text line of a printed document page may contain words of both Thai and Roman scripts. For the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of such a document page it is better to identify, at first, Thai and Roman script portions and then to use individual OCR systems of the respective scripts on these identified portions. In this article, an SVM-based method is proposed for identification of word-wise printed Roman and Thai scripts from a single line of a document page. Here, at first, the document is segmented into lines and then lines are segmented into character groups (words). In the proposed scheme, we identify the script of a character group combining different character features obtained from structural shape, profile behavior, component overlapping information, topological properties, and water reservoir concept, etc. Based on the experiment on 10,000 data (words) we obtained 99.62% script identification accuracy from the proposed scheme.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPR2009f Serial 1869  
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Author D. Perez; L. Tarazon; N. Serrano; F.M. Castro; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Juan edit  doi
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  Title The GERMANA Database Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 301-305  
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  Abstract A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. GERMANA is the result of digitising and annotating a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891, in which most pages only contain nearly calligraphed text written on ruled sheets of well-separated lines. To our knowledge, it is the first publicly available database for handwriting research, mostly written in Spanish and comparable in size to standard databases. Due to its sequential book structure, it is also well-suited for realistic assessment of interactive handwriting recognition systems. To provide baseline results for reference in future studies, empirical results are also reported, using standard techniques and tools for preprocessing, feature extraction, HMM-based image modelling, and language modelling.  
  Address Barcelona; Spain  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area (up) Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PTS2009 Serial 1870  
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Author L.Tarazon; D. Perez; N. Serrano; V. Alabau; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Sanchis; A. Juan edit  doi
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  Title Confidence Measures for Error Correction in Interactive Transcription of Handwritten Text Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5716 Issue Pages 567-574  
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  Abstract An effective approach to transcribe old text documents is to follow an interactive-predictive paradigm in which both, the system is guided by the human supervisor, and the supervisor is assisted by the system to complete the transcription task as efficiently as possible. In this paper, we focus on a particular system prototype called GIDOC, which can be seen as a first attempt to provide user-friendly, integrated support for interactive-predictive page layout analysis, text line detection and handwritten text transcription. More specifically, we focus on the handwriting recognition part of GIDOC, for which we propose the use of confidence measures to guide the human supervisor in locating possible system errors and deciding how to proceed. Empirical results are reported on two datasets showing that a word error rate not larger than a 10% can be achieved by only checking the 32% of words that are recognised with less confidence.  
  Address Vietri sul Mare, Italy  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-04145-7 Medium  
  Area (up) Expedition Conference ICIAP  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ TPS2009 Serial 1871  
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Author H. Chouaib; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Salvatore Tabbone; F. Cloppet; N. Vincent edit  doi
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  Title Feature Selection Combining Genetic Algorithm and Adaboost Classifiers Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-4  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ CRT2008 Serial 1872  
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