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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	Intravascular Ultrasound Tissue Characterization with Sub-class Error-Correcting Output Codes			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Journal of Signal Processing Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	55	Issue	1-3	Pages	35–47
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	Abstract	Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) represents a powerful imaging technique to explore coronary vessels and to study their morphology and histologic properties. In this paper, we characterize different tissues based on radial frequency, texture-based, and combined features. To deal with the classification of multiple tissues, we require the use of robust multi-class learning techniques. In this sense, error-correcting output codes (ECOC) show to robustly combine binary classifiers to solve multi-class problems. In this context, we propose a strategy to model multi-class classification tasks using sub-classes information in the ECOC framework. The new strategy splits the classes into different sub-sets according to the applied base classifier. Complex IVUS data sets containing overlapping data are learnt by splitting the original set of classes into sub-classes, and embedding the binary problems in a problem-dependent ECOC design. The method automatically characterizes different tissues, showing performance improvements over the state-of-the-art ECOC techniques for different base classifiers. Furthermore, the combination of RF and texture-based features also shows improvements over the state-of-the-art approaches.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1939-8018	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPM2009			Serial	1258
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Eloi Puertas; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol
	Title	Multimodal laughter recognition in video conversations			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	110–115
	Keywords
	Abstract	Laughter detection is an important area of interest in the Affective Computing and Human-computer Interaction fields. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal methodology based on the fusion of audio and visual cues to deal with the laughter recognition problem in face-to-face conversations. The audio features are extracted from the spectogram and the video features are obtained estimating the mouth movement degree and using a smile and laughter classifier. Finally, the multi-modal cues are included in a sequential classifier. Results over videos from the public discussion blog of the New York Times show that both types of features perform better when considered together by the classifier. Moreover, the sequential methodology shows to significantly outperform the results obtained by an Adaboost classifier.
	Address	Miami (USA)
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2160-7508	ISBN	978-1-4244-3994-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009c			Serial	1188
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
	Title	Multi-class Binary Symbol Classification with Circular Blurred Shape Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	5716	Issue		Pages	1005–1014
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	Abstract	Multi-class binary symbol classification requires the use of rich descriptors and robust classifiers. Shape representation is a difficult task because of several symbol distortions, such as occlusions, elastic deformations, gaps or noise. In this paper, we present the Circular Blurred Shape Model descriptor. This descriptor encodes the arrangement information of object parts in a correlogram structure. A prior blurring degree defines the level of distortion allowed to the symbol. Moreover, we learn the new feature space using a set of Adaboost classifiers, which are combined in the Error-Correcting Output Codes framework to deal with the multi-class categorization problem. The presented work has been validated over different multi-class data sets, and compared to the state-of-the-art descriptors, showing significant performance improvements.
	Address	Salerno, Italy
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-04145-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIAP
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA;DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009c			Serial	1186
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Alberto Escudero; Petia Radeva
	Title	Circular Blurred Shape Model for Symbol Spotting in Documents			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1985-1988
	Keywords
	Abstract	Symbol spotting problem requires feature extraction strategies able to generalize from training samples and to localize the target object while discarding most part of the image. In the case of document analysis, symbol spotting techniques have to deal with a high variability of symbols' appearance. In this paper, we propose the Circular Blurred Shape Model descriptor. Feature extraction is performed capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. Shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, being tolerant to the irregular deformations. Descriptors are learnt using a cascade of classifiers and Abadoost as the base classifier. Finally, symbol spotting is performed by means of a windowing strategy using the learnt cascade over plan and old musical score documents. Spotting and multi-class categorization results show better performance comparing with the state-of-the-art descriptors.
	Address	Cairo, Egypt
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4244-5653-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA;DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009b			Serial	1184
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; O. Pujol; Petia Radeva; Gemma Sanchez; Josep Llados
	Title	Blurred Shape Model for Binary and Grey-level Symbol Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	30	Issue	15	Pages	1424–1433
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	Abstract	Many symbol recognition problems require the use of robust descriptors in order to obtain rich information of the data. However, the research of a good descriptor is still an open issue due to the high variability of symbols appearance. Rotation, partial occlusions, elastic deformations, intra-class and inter-class variations, or high variability among symbols due to different writing styles, are just a few problems. In this paper, we introduce a symbol shape description to deal with the changes in appearance that these types of symbols suffer. The shape of the symbol is aligned based on principal components to make the recognition invariant to rotation and reflection. Then, we present the Blurred Shape Model descriptor (BSM), where new features encode the probability of appearance of each pixel that outlines the symbols shape. Moreover, we include the new descriptor in a system to deal with multi-class symbol categorization problems. Adaboost is used to train the binary classifiers, learning the BSM features that better split symbol classes. Then, the binary problems are embedded in an Error-Correcting Output Codes framework (ECOC) to deal with the multi-class case. The methodology is evaluated on different synthetic and real data sets. State-of-the-art descriptors and classifiers are compared, showing the robustness and better performance of the present scheme to classify symbols with high variability of appearance.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	HuPBA; DAG; MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009a			Serial	1180
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	Author	Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Evaluation of graph matching measures for documents retrieval			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	In proceedings of 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	13–21
	Keywords	Graph Matching; Graph retrieval; structural representation; Performance Evaluation
	Abstract	In this paper we evaluate four graph distance measures. The analysis is performed for document retrieval tasks. For this aim, different kind of documents are used which include line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each grahp distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
	Address	La Rochelle, France
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-13727-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	GREC
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ JTV2009a			Serial	1230
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	Author	Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Comparing Graph Similarity Measures for Graphical Recognition.			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	In this paper we evaluate four graph distance measures. The analysis is performed for document retrieval tasks. For this aim, different kind of documents are used including line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each graph distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
	Address	La Rochelle; France; July 2009
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	GREC
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ JTV2009			Serial	1442
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	Author	S. Chanda; Umapada Pal; Oriol Ramos Terrades
	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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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1530-0226	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CPR2009f			Serial	1869
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	Author	Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	38	Issue		Pages	36
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	Abstract	In a previous experiment [Parraga et al, 2009 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 53(3)] the boundaries between basic colour categories were measured by asking subjects to categorize colour samples presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) using a YES/NO paradigm. Results showed that some boundaries (eg green – blue) were very diffuse and the subjects' answers presented bimodal distributions, which were attributed to the emergence of non-basic categories in those regions (eg turquoise). To confirm these results we performed a new experiment focussed on the boundaries where bimodal distributions were more evident. In this new experiment rectangular colour samples were presented surrounded by random colour patches to simulate contextual conditions on a calibrated CRT monitor. The names of two neighbouring colours were shown at the bottom of the screen and subjects selected the boundary between these colours by controlling the chromaticity of the central patch, sliding it across these categories' frontier. Results show that in this new experimental paradigm, the formerly uncertain inter-colour category boundaries are better defined and the dispersions (ie the bimodal distributions) that occurred in the previous experiment disappear. These results may provide further support to Berlin and Kay's basic colour terms theory.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
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	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ BPV2009			Serial	1192
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	Author	Ricard Coll; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	Graphological Analysis of Handwritten Text Documents for Human Resources Recruitment			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1081–1085
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	Abstract	The use of graphology in recruitment processes has become a popular tool in many human resources companies. This paper presents a model that links features from handwritten images to a number of personality characteristics used to measure applicant aptitudes for the job in a particular hiring scenario. In particular we propose a model of measuring active personality and leadership of the writer. Graphological features that define such a profile are measured in terms of document and script attributes like layout configuration, letter size, shape, slant and skew angle of lines, etc. After the extraction, data is classified using a neural network. An experimental framework with real samples has been constructed to illustrate the performance of the approach.
	Address	Barcelona, Spain
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1520-5363	ISBN	978-1-4244-4500-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ CFL2009			Serial	1221
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	Author	Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
	Title	A First Approach to Activity Recognition Using Topic Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	202	Issue		Pages	74 - 82
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	Abstract	In this work, we present a first approach to activity patterns discovery by mean of topic models. Using motion data collected with a wearable device we prototype, TheBadge, we analyse raw accelerometer data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a particular instantiation of topic models. Results show that for particular values of the parameters necessary for applying LDA to a countinous dataset, good accuracies in activity classification can be achieved.
	Address	Cardona, Spain
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-60750-061-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CCIA
	Notes	OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009e			Serial	1231
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	Author	Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
	Title	Face-to-face social activity detection using data collected with a wearable device			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	5524	Issue		Pages	56–63
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	Abstract	In this work the feasibility of building a socially aware badge that learns from user activities is explored. A wearable multisensor device has been prototyped for collecting data about user movements and photos of the environment where the user acts. Using motion data, speaking and other activities have been classified. Images have been analysed in order to complement motion data and help for the detection of social behaviours. A face detector and an activity classifier are both used for detecting if users have a social activity in the time they worn the device. Good results encourage the improvement of the system at both hardware and software level
	Address	Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-02171-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009b			Serial	1206
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	Author	Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Fernando Azpiroz; Juan Malagelada; Fosca de Iorio; Anna Accarino
	Title	Cascade analysis for intestinal contraction detection			Type	Patent
	Year	2009	Publication	US 2009/0284589 A1	Abbreviated Journal	USPO
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-25
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	Abstract	A method and system cascade analysisi for intestinal contraction detection is provided by extracting from image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of turbid liquids in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including a field of view obstructed by turbid media, and more particulary, to extraction of image data obstructed by turbid media.
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	Corporate Author	US Patent Office			Thesis
	Publisher	US Patent Office	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB; OR; MV;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ RVV2009			Serial	1700
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	Author	Pau Baiget; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Generation of Augmented Video Sequences Combining Behavioral Animation and Multi Object Tracking			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	20	Issue	4	Pages	473–489
	Keywords
	Abstract	In this paper we present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. The resulting framework allows to generate video sequences involving behavior-based virtual agents that react to real agent behavior and has applications in education, simulation, and in the game and movie industries. We show the performance of the proposed approach in an indoor and outdoor scenario simulating human and vehicle agents. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. We present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	ISE @ ise @ BFR2009			Serial	1170
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	Author	Pau Baiget
	Title	Modeling Human Behavior for Image Sequence Understanding and Generation			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2009	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	The comprehension of animal behavior, especially human behavior, is one of the most ancient and studied problems since the beginning of civilization. The big list of factors that interact to determine a person action require the collaboration of different disciplines, such as psichology, biology, or sociology. In the last years the analysis of human behavior has received great attention also from the computer vision community, given the latest advances in the acquisition of human motion data from image sequences. Despite the increasing availability of that data, there still exists a gap towards obtaining a conceptual representation of the obtained observations. Human behavior analysis is based on a qualitative interpretation of the results, and therefore the assignment of concepts to quantitative data is linked to a certain ambiguity. This Thesis tackles the problem of obtaining a proper representation of human behavior in the contexts of computer vision and animation. On the one hand, a good behavior model should permit the recognition and explanation the observed activity in image sequences. On the other hand, such a model must allow the generation of new synthetic instances, which model the behavior of virtual agents. First, we propose methods to automatically learn the models from observations. Given a set of quantitative results output by a vision system, a normal behavior model is learnt. This results provides a tool to determine the normality or abnormality of future observations. However, machine learning methods are unable to provide a richer description of the observations. We confront this problem by means of a new method that incorporates prior knowledge about the enviornment and about the expected behaviors. This framework, formed by the reasoning engine FMTL and the modeling tool SGT allows the generation of conceptual descriptions of activity in new image sequences. Finally, we demonstrate the suitability of the proposed framework to simulate behavior of virtual agents, which are introduced into real image sequences and interact with observed real agents, thereby easing the generation of augmented reality sequences. The set of approaches presented in this Thesis has a growing set of potential applications. The analysis and description of behavior in image sequences has its principal application in the domain of smart video--surveillance, in order to detect suspicious or dangerous behaviors. Other applications include automatic sport commentaries, elderly monitoring, road traffic analysis, and the development of semantic video search engines. Alternatively, behavioral virtual agents allow to simulate accurate real situations, such as fires or crowds. Moreover, the inclusion of virtual agents into real image sequences has been widely deployed in the games and cinema industries.
	Address	Bellaterra (Spain)
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Bai2009			Serial	1210
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