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Author (up) Christophe Rigaud; Clement Guerin
Title Localisation contextuelle des personnages de bandes dessinées Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication Colloque International Francophone sur l'Écrit et le Document Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Les auteurs proposent une méthode de localisation des personnages dans des cases de bandes dessinées en s'appuyant sur les caractéristiques des bulles de dialogue. L'évaluation montre un taux de localisation des personnages allant jusqu'à 65%.
Address Nancy; Francia; March 2014
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RiG2014 Serial 2481
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Author (up) Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Color descriptor for content-based drawing retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 267 - 271
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Abstract Human detection in computer vision field is an active field of research. Extending this to human-like drawings such as the main characters in comic book stories is not trivial. Comics analysis is a very recent field of research at the intersection of graphics, texts, objects and people recognition. The detection of the main comic characters is an essential step towards a fully automatic comic book understanding. This paper presents a color-based approach for comics character retrieval using content-based drawing retrieval and color palette.
Address Tours; Francia; April 2014
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6 Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKB2014 Serial 2479
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Author (up) Claudio Baecchi; Francesco Turchini; Lorenzo Seidenari; Andrew Bagdanov; Alberto del Bimbo
Title Fisher vectors over random density forest for object recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 4328-4333
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Address Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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Notes LAMP; 600.079 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BTS2014 Serial 2518
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Author (up) Clement Guerin; Christophe Rigaud; Karell Bertet; Jean-Christophe Burie; Arnaud Revel ; Jean-Marc Ogier
Title Réduction de l’espace de recherche pour les personnages de bandes dessinées Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 19th National Congress Reconnaissance de Formes et l'Intelligence Artificielle Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords contextual search; document analysis; comics characters
Abstract Les bandes dessinées représentent un patrimoine culturel important dans de nombreux pays et leur numérisation massive offre la possibilité d'effectuer des recherches dans le contenu des images. À ce jour, ce sont principalement les structures des pages et leurs contenus textuels qui ont été étudiés, peu de travaux portent sur le contenu graphique. Nous proposons de nous appuyer sur des éléments déjà étudiés tels que la position des cases et des bulles, pour réduire l'espace de recherche et localiser les personnages en fonction de la queue des bulles. L'évaluation de nos différentes contributions à partir de la base eBDtheque montre un taux de détection des queues de bulle de 81.2%, de localisation des personnages allant jusqu'à 85% et un gain d'espace de recherche de plus de 50%.
Address Rouen; Francia; July 2014
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRB2014 Serial 2480
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Author (up) Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco
Title Evaluation of feature detectors and descriptors in VISIBLE-LWIR cross-spectral imaging Type Report
Year 2014 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 177 Issue Pages
Keywords Multi-spectral; Cross-spectral; Visible-LWIR imaging; Multimodal.
Abstract This thesis evaluates the performance of different state-of-art feature detectors and descriptors algorithms in the Visible-LWIR cross-spectral scenario. The focus is to determine if current detector and descriptor algorithms can be used to match features between the LWIR spectrum and the visible spectrum in applications such as, visual odometry, object recognition, image registration and stereo vision. An outdoor cross-spectral dataset was created to evaluate the suitability of the different algorithms. The results
show that the tested algorithms are not suitable to the task of matching features across different spectra. The repeatability ratio was smaller than the 30 percent in the best case and in general matched features were not accurate located. Additionally, these results also suggest that is necessary to create new algorithms that take into account the nature of the different spectra, describing characteristics that exist in both spectra such as discontinuities.
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Call Number Admin @ si @Agu2014 Serial 2526
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Author (up) David Fernandez
Title Contextual Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Documents Type Book Whole
Year 2014 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract There are countless collections of historical documents in archives and libraries that contain plenty of valuable information for historians and researchers. The extraction of this information has become a central task among the Document Analysis researches and practitioners.
There is an increasing interest to digital preserve and provide access to these kind of documents. But only the digitalization is not enough for the researchers. The extraction and/or indexation of information of this documents has had an increased interest among researchers. In many cases, and in particular in historical manuscripts, the full transcription of these documents is extremely dicult due the inherent de ciencies: poor physical preservation, di erent writing styles, obsolete languages, etc. Word spotting has become a popular an ecient alternative to full transcription. It inherently involves a high level of degradation in the images. The search of words is holistically
formulated as a visual search of a given query shape in a larger image, instead of recognising the input text and searching the query word with an ascii string comparison. But the performance of classical word spotting approaches depend on the degradation level of the images being unacceptable in many cases . In this thesis we have proposed a novel paradigm called contextual word spotting method that uses the contextual/semantic information to achieve acceptable results whereas classical word spotting does not reach. The contextual word spotting framework proposed in this thesis is a segmentation-based word spotting approach, so an ecient word segmentation is needed. Historical handwritten
documents present some common diculties that can increase the diculties the extraction of the words. We have proposed a line segmentation approach that formulates the problem as nding the central part path in the area between two consecutive lines. This is solved as a graph traversal problem. A path nding algorithm is used to nd the optimal path in a graph, previously computed, between the text lines. Once the text lines are extracted, words are localized inside the text lines using a word segmentation technique from the state of the
art. Classical word spotting approaches can be improved using the contextual information of the documents. We have introduced a new framework, oriented to handwritten documents that present a highly structure, to extract information making use of context. The framework is an ecient tool for semi-automatic transcription that uses the contextual information to achieve better results than classical word spotting approaches. The contextual information is
automatically discovered by recognizing repetitive structures and categorizing all the words according to semantic classes. The most frequent words in each semantic cluster are extracted and the same text is used to transcribe all them. The experimental results achieved in this thesis outperform classical word spotting approaches demonstrating the suitability of the proposed ensemble architecture for spotting words in historical handwritten documents using contextual information.
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Josep Llados;Alicia Fornes
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-940902-7-1 Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2014 Serial 2573
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Author (up) David Fernandez; Jon Almazan; Nuria Cirera; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title BH2M: the Barcelona Historical Handwritten Marriages database Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 256 - 261
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Abstract This paper presents an image database of historical handwritten marriages records stored in the archives of Barcelona cathedral, and the corresponding meta-data addressed to evaluate the performance of document analysis algorithms. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a complete ground truth which covers the whole pipeline of handwriting
recognition research, from layout analysis to recognition and understanding. Second, it is the first dataset in the emerging area of genealogical document analysis, where documents are manuscripts pseudo-structured with specific lexicons and the interest is beyond pure transcriptions but context dependent.
Address Creete Island; Grecia; September 2014
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FAC2014 Serial 2461
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Author (up) David Fernandez; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title A graph-based approach for segmenting touching lines in historical handwritten documents Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 293-312
Keywords Text line segmentation; Handwritten documents; Document image processing; Historical document analysis
Abstract Text line segmentation in handwritten documents is an important task in the recognition of historical documents. Handwritten document images contain text lines with multiple orientations, touching and overlapping characters between consecutive text lines and different document structures, making line segmentation a difficult task. In this paper, we present a new approach for handwritten text line segmentation solving the problems of touching components, curvilinear text lines and horizontally overlapping components. The proposed algorithm formulates line segmentation as finding the central path in the area between two consecutive lines. This is solved as a graph traversal problem. A graph is constructed using the skeleton of the image. Then, a path-finding algorithm is used to find the optimum path between text lines. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated on a comprehensive dataset consisting of five databases: ICDAR2009, ICDAR2013, UMD, the George Washington and the Barcelona Marriages Database. The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art considering the different types and difficulties of the benchmarking data.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FLF2014 Serial 2459
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Author (up) David Fernandez; Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title On the Influence of Key Point Encoding for Handwritten Word Spotting Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 476 - 481
Keywords Local descriptors; Interest points; Handwritten documents; Word spotting; Historical document analysis
Abstract In this paper we evaluate the influence of the selection of key points and the associated features in the performance of word spotting processes. In general, features can be extracted from a number of characteristic points like corners, contours, skeletons, maxima, minima, crossings, etc. A number of descriptors exist in the literature using different interest point detectors. But the intrinsic variability of handwriting vary strongly on the performance if the interest points are not stable enough. In this paper, we analyze the performance of different descriptors for local interest points. As benchmarking dataset we have used the Barcelona Marriage Database that contains handwritten records of marriages over five centuries.
Address Creete Island; Grecia; September 2014
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ISSN 2167-6445 ISBN 978-1-4799-4335-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICFHR
Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FRF2014 Serial 2460
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Author (up) David Fernandez; R.Manmatha; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title Sequential Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 101 - 105
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Abstract In this work we present a handwritten word spotting approach that takes advantage of the a priori known order of appearance of the query words. Given an ordered sequence of query word instances, the proposed approach performs a
sequence alignment with the words in the target collection. Although the alignment is quite sparse, i.e. the number of words in the database is higher than the query set, the improvement in the overall performance is sensitively higher than isolated word spotting. As application dataset, we use a collection of handwritten marriage licenses taking advantage of the ordered
index pages of family names.
Address Tours; Francia; April 2014
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6 Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 600.056; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FML2014 Serial 2462
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Author (up) David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez
Title Vision-based Pedestrian Protection Systems for Intelligent Vehicles Type Book Whole
Year 2014 Publication SpringerBriefs in Computer Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-114
Keywords Computer Vision; Driver Assistance Systems; Intelligent Vehicles; Pedestrian Detection; Vulnerable Road Users
Abstract Pedestrian Protection Systems (PPSs) are on-board systems aimed at detecting and tracking people in the surroundings of a vehicle in order to avoid potentially dangerous situations. These systems, together with other Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) such as lane departure warning or adaptive cruise control, are one of the most promising ways to improve traffic safety. By the use of computer vision, cameras working either in the visible or infra-red spectra have been demonstrated as a reliable sensor to perform this task. Nevertheless, the variability of human’s appearance, not only in terms of clothing and sizes but also as a result of their dynamic shape, makes pedestrians one of the most complex classes even for computer vision. Moreover, the unstructured changing and unpredictable environment in which such on-board systems must work makes detection a difficult task to be carried out with the demanded robustness. In this brief, the state of the art in PPSs is introduced through the review of the most relevant papers of the last decade. A common computational architecture is presented as a framework to organize each method according to its main contribution. More than 300 papers are referenced, most of them addressing pedestrian detection and others corresponding to the descriptors (features), pedestrian models, and learning machines used. In addition, an overview of topics such as real-time aspects, systems benchmarking and future challenges of this research area are presented.
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4614-7986-4 Medium
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Call Number GeL2014 Serial 2325
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Author (up) David Masip; Michael S. North ; Alexander Todorov; Daniel N. Osherson
Title Automated Prediction of Preferences Using Facial Expressions Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication PloS one Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages e87434
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Abstract We introduce a computer vision problem from social cognition, namely, the automated detection of attitudes from a person's spontaneous facial expressions. To illustrate the challenges, we introduce two simple algorithms designed to predict observers’ preferences between images (e.g., of celebrities) based on covert videos of the observers’ faces. The two algorithms are almost as accurate as human judges performing the same task but nonetheless far from perfect. Our approach is to locate facial landmarks, then predict preference on the basis of their temporal dynamics. The database contains 768 videos involving four different kinds of preferences. We make it publically available.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ MNT2014 Serial 2453
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Author (up) David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo
Title Mathematical modeling of G protein-coupled receptor function: What can we learn from empirical and mechanistic models? Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication G Protein-Coupled Receptors – Modeling and Simulation Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 796 Issue 3 Pages 159-181
Keywords β-arrestin; biased agonism; curve fitting; empirical modeling; evolutionary algorithm; functional selectivity; G protein; GPCR; Hill coefficient; intrinsic efficacy; inverse agonism; mathematical modeling; mechanistic modeling; operational model; parameter optimization; receptor dimer; receptor oligomerization; receptor constitutive activity; signal transduction; two-state model
Abstract Empirical and mechanistic models differ in their approaches to the analysis of pharmacological effect. Whereas the parameters of the former are not physical constants those of the latter embody the nature, often complex, of biology. Empirical models are exclusively used for curve fitting, merely to characterize the shape of the E/[A] curves. Mechanistic models, on the contrary, enable the examination of mechanistic hypotheses by parameter simulation. Regretfully, the many parameters that mechanistic models may include can represent a great difficulty for curve fitting, representing, thus, a challenge for computational method development. In the present study some empirical and mechanistic models are shown and the connections, which may appear in a number of cases between them, are analyzed from the curves they yield. It may be concluded that systematic and careful curve shape analysis can be extremely useful for the understanding of receptor function, ligand classification and drug discovery, thus providing a common language for the communication between pharmacologists and medicinal chemists.
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Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0065-2598 ISBN 978-94-007-7422-3 Medium
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Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ RGG2014 Serial 2197
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Author (up) David Vazquez; Javier Marin; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; David Geronimo
Title Virtual and Real World Adaptation for Pedestrian Detection Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages 797-809
Keywords Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection
Abstract Pedestrian detection is of paramount interest for many applications. Most promising detectors rely on discriminatively learnt classifiers, i.e., trained with annotated samples. However, the annotation step is a human intensive and subjective task worth to be minimized. By using virtual worlds we can automatically obtain precise and rich annotations. Thus, we face the question: can a pedestrian appearance model learnt in realistic virtual worlds work successfully for pedestrian detection in realworld images?. Conducted experiments show that virtual-world based training can provide excellent testing accuracy in real world, but it can also suffer the dataset shift problem as real-world based training does. Accordingly, we have designed a domain adaptation framework, V-AYLA, in which we have tested different techniques to collect a few pedestrian samples from the target domain (real world) and combine them with the many examples of the source domain (virtual world) in order to train a domain adapted pedestrian classifier that will operate in the target domain. V-AYLA reports the same detection accuracy than when training with many human-provided pedestrian annotations and testing with real-world images of the same domain. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work demonstrating adaptation of virtual and real worlds for developing an object detector.
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Notes ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VML2014 Serial 2275
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Author (up) Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sergi Robles; Lluis Gomez
Title An on-line platform for ground truthing and performance evaluation of text extraction systems Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 242 - 246
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Abstract This paper presents a set of on-line software tools for creating ground truth and calculating performance evaluation metrics for text extraction tasks such as localization, segmentation and recognition. The platform supports the definition of comprehensive ground truth information at different text representation levels while it offers centralised management and quality control of the ground truthing effort. It implements a range of state of the art performance evaluation algorithms and offers functionality for the definition of evaluation scenarios, on-line calculation of various performance metrics and visualisation of the results. The
presented platform, which comprises the backbone of the ICDAR 2011 (challenge 1) and 2013 (challenges 1 and 2) Robust Reading competitions, is now made available for public use.
Address Tours; Francia; April 2014
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6 Medium
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRG2014 Serial 2491
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