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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Handwritten Word Spotting with Corrected Attributes Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1017-1024  
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  Abstract We propose an approach to multi-writer word spotting, where the goal is to find a query word in a dataset comprised of document images. We propose an attributes-based approach that leads to a low-dimensional, fixed-length representation of the word images that is fast to compute and, especially, fast to compare. This approach naturally leads to an unified representation of word images and strings, which seamlessly allows one to indistinctly perform query-by-example, where the query is an image, and query-by-string, where the query is a string. We also propose a calibration scheme to correct the attributes scores based on Canonical Correlation Analysis that greatly improves the results on a challenging dataset. We test our approach on two public datasets showing state-of-the-art results.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013  
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  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGF2013 Serial 2327  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Efficient Exemplar Word Spotting Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 23rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 67.1- 67.11  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose an unsupervised segmentation-free method for word spotting in document images.
Documents are represented with a grid of HOG descriptors, and a sliding window approach is used to locate the document regions that are most similar to the query. We use the exemplar SVM framework to produce a better representation of the query in an unsupervised way. Finally, the document descriptors are precomputed and compressed with Product Quantization. This offers two advantages: first, a large number of documents can be kept in RAM memory at the same time. Second, the sliding window becomes significantly faster since distances between quantized HOG descriptors can be precomputed. Our results significantly outperform other segmentation-free methods in the literature, both in accuracy and in speed and memory usage.
 
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  Area Expedition Conference BMVC  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ AGF2012 Serial 1984  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit  doi
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  Title Word Spotting and Recognition with Embedded Attributes Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 36 Issue 12 Pages 2552 - 2566  
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  Abstract This article addresses the problems of word spotting and word recognition on images. In word spotting, the goal is to find all instances of a query word in a dataset of images. In recognition, the goal is to recognize the content of the word image, usually aided by a dictionary or lexicon. We describe an approach in which both word images and text strings are embedded in a common vectorial subspace. This is achieved by a combination of label embedding and attributes learning, and a common subspace regression. In this subspace, images and strings that represent the same word are close together, allowing one to cast recognition and retrieval tasks as a nearest neighbor problem. Contrary to most other existing methods, our representation has a fixed length, is low dimensional, and is very fast to compute and, especially, to compare. We test our approach on four public datasets of both handwritten documents and natural images showing results comparable or better than the state-of-the-art on spotting and recognition tasks.  
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  ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGF2014a Serial 2483  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit  doi
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  Title Segmentation-free Word Spotting with Exemplar SVMs Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 3967–3978  
  Keywords Word spotting; Segmentation-free; Unsupervised learning; Reranking; Query expansion; Compression  
  Abstract In this paper we propose an unsupervised segmentation-free method for word spotting in document images. Documents are represented with a grid of HOG descriptors, and a sliding-window approach is used to locate the document regions that are most similar to the query. We use the Exemplar SVM framework to produce a better representation of the query in an unsupervised way. Then, we use a more discriminative representation based on Fisher Vector to rerank the best regions retrieved, and the most promising ones are used to expand the Exemplar SVM training set and improve the query representation. Finally, the document descriptors are precomputed and compressed with Product Quantization. This offers two advantages: first, a large number of documents can be kept in RAM memory at the same time. Second, the sliding window becomes significantly faster since distances between quantized HOG descriptors can be precomputed. Our results significantly outperform other segmentation-free methods in the literature, both in accuracy and in speed and memory usage.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGF2014b Serial 2485  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit  url
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  Title A Non-Rigid Feature Extraction Method for Shape Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 987-991  
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  Abstract This paper presents a methodology for shape recognition that focuses on dealing with the difficult problem of large deformations. The proposed methodology consists in a novel feature extraction technique, which uses a non-rigid representation adaptable to the shape. This technique employs a deformable grid based on the computation of geometrical centroids that follows a region partitioning algorithm. Then, a feature vector is extracted by computing pixel density measures around these geometrical centroids. The result is a shape descriptor that adapts its representation to the given shape and encodes the pixel density distribution. The validity of the method when dealing with large deformations has been experimentally shown over datasets composed of handwritten shapes. It has been applied to signature verification and shape recognition tasks demonstrating high accuracy and low computational cost.  
  Address Beijing; China; September 2011  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-0-7695-4520-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AFV2011 Serial 1763  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title A Deformable HOG-based Shape Descriptor Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1022-1026  
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  Abstract In this paper we deal with the problem of recognizing handwritten shapes. We present a new deformable feature extraction method that adapts to the shape to be described, dealing in this way with the variability introduced in the handwriting domain. It consists in a selection of the regions that best define the shape to be described, followed by the computation of histograms of oriented gradients-based features over these points. Our results significantly outperform other descriptors in the literature for the task of hand-drawn shape recognition and handwritten word retrieval  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AFV2013 Serial 2326  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Bojana Gajic; Naila Murray; Diane Larlus edit  doi
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  Title Re-ID done right: towards good practices for person re-identification Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2018 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Training a deep architecture using a ranking loss has become standard for the person re-identification task. Increasingly, these deep architectures include additional components that leverage part detections, attribute predictions, pose estimators and other auxiliary information, in order to more effectively localize and align discriminative image regions. In this paper we adopt a different approach and carefully design each component of a simple deep architecture and, critically, the strategy for training it effectively for person re-identification. We extensively evaluate each design choice, leading to a list of good practices for person re-identification. By following these practices, our approach outperforms the state of the art, including more complex methods with auxiliary components, by large margins on four benchmark datasets. We also provide a qualitative analysis of our trained representation which indicates that, while compact, it is able to capture information from localized and discriminative regions, in a manner akin to an implicit attention mechanism.  
  Address January 2018  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3711  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; David Fernandez; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for Handwritten Word Spotting in Large Scale Historical Documents Collection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 453-458  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose an approach for word spotting in handwritten document images. We state the problem from a focused retrieval perspective, i.e. locating instances of a query word in a large scale dataset of digitized manuscripts. We combine two approaches, namely one based on word segmentation and another one segmentation-free. The first approach uses a hashing strategy to coarsely prune word images that are unlikely to be instances of the query word. This process is fast but has a low precision due to the errors introduced in the segmentation step. The regions containing candidate words are sent to the second process based on a state of the art technique from the visual object detection field. This discriminative model represents the appearance of the query word and computes a similarity score. In this way we propose a coarse-to-fine approach achieving a compromise between efficiency and accuracy. The validation of the model is shown using a collection of old handwritten manuscripts. We appreciate a substantial improvement in terms of precision regarding the previous proposed method with a low computational cost increase.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4673-2262-1 Medium  
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  Call Number DAG @ dag @ AFF2012 Serial 1983  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Ernest Valveny; Alicia Fornes edit  doi
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  Title Deforming the Blurred Shape Model for Shape Description and Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue Pages 1-8  
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  Abstract This paper presents a new model for the description and recognition of distorted shapes, where the image is represented by a pixel density distribution based on the Blurred Shape Model combined with a non-linear image deformation model. This leads to an adaptive structure able to capture elastic deformations in shapes. This method has been evaluated using thee different datasets where deformations are present, showing the robustness and good performance of the new model. Moreover, we show that incorporating deformation and flexibility, the new model outperforms the BSM approach when classifying shapes with high variability of appearance.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin Editor Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes DAG; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AVF2011 Serial 1732  
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Author (up) Jon Almazan; Lluis Gomez; Suman Ghosh; Ernest Valveny; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit  openurl
  Title WATTS: A common representation of word images and strings using embedded attributes for text recognition and retrieval Type Book Chapter
  Year 2020 Publication Visual Text Interpretation – Algorithms and Applications in Scene Understanding and Document Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Analysis”, K. Alahari; C.V. Jawahar  
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  Series Editor Series Title Series on Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGG2020 Serial 3496  
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Author (up) Joost Van de Weijer; Cordelia Schmid; Jakob Verbeek; Diane Larlus edit  url
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  Title Learning Color Names for Real-World Applications Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transaction in Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP  
  Volume 18 Issue 7 Pages 1512–1524  
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  Abstract Color names are required in real-world applications such as image retrieval and image annotation. Traditionally, they are learned from a collection of labelled color chips. These color chips are labelled with color names within a well-defined experimental setup by human test subjects. However naming colors in real-world images differs significantly from this experimental setting. In this paper, we investigate how color names learned from color chips compare to color names learned from real-world images. To avoid hand labelling real-world images with color names we use Google Image to collect a data set. Due to limitations of Google Image this data set contains a substantial quantity of wrongly labelled data. We propose several variants of the PLSA model to learn color names from this noisy data. Experimental results show that color names learned from real-world images significantly outperform color names learned from labelled color chips for both image retrieval and image annotation.  
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  ISSN 1057-7149 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ WSV2009 Serial 1195  
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Author (up) Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan edit   pdf
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  Title Fusing Color and Shape for Bag-of-Words Based Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 4th Computational Color Imaging Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7786 Issue Pages 25-34  
  Keywords Object Recognition; color features; bag-of-words; image classification  
  Abstract In this article we provide an analysis of existing methods for the incorporation of color in bag-of-words based image representations. We propose a list of desired properties on which bases fusing methods can be compared. We discuss existing methods and indicate shortcomings of the two well-known fusing methods, namely early and late fusion. Several recent works have addressed these shortcomings by exploiting top-down information in the bag-of-words pipeline: color attention which is motivated from human vision, and Portmanteau vocabularies which are based on information theoretic compression of product vocabularies. We point out several remaining challenges in cue fusion and provide directions for future research.  
  Address Chiba; Japan; March 2013  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36699-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
  Notes CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ WeK2013 Serial 2283  
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Author (up) Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan edit   pdf
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  Title An Overview of Color Name Applications in Computer Vision Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication Computational Color Imaging Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords color features; color names; object recognition  
  Abstract In this article we provide an overview of color name applications in computer vision. Color names are linguistic labels which humans use to communicate color. Computational color naming learns a mapping from pixels values to color names. In recent years color names have been applied to a wide variety of computer vision applications, including image classification, object recognition, texture classification, visual tracking and action recognition. Here we provide an overview of these results which show that in general color names outperform photometric invariants as a color representation.  
  Address Saint Etienne; France; March 2015  
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  Notes LAMP; 600.079; 600.068 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ WeK2015 Serial 2586  
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Author (up) Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Marc Masana edit   pdf
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  Title Interactive Visual and Semantic Image Retrieval Type Book Chapter
  Year 2013 Publication Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 48 Issue Pages 31-35  
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  Abstract One direct consequence of recent advances in digital visual data generation and the direct availability of this information through the World-Wide Web, is a urgent demand for efficient image retrieval systems. The objective of image retrieval is to allow users to efficiently browse through this abundance of images. Due to the non-expert nature of the majority of the internet users, such systems should be user friendly, and therefore avoid complex user interfaces. In this chapter we investigate how high-level information provided by recently developed object recognition techniques can improve interactive image retrieval. Wel apply a bagof- word based image representation method to automatically classify images in a number of categories. These additional labels are then applied to improve the image retrieval system. Next to these high-level semantic labels, we also apply a low-level image description to describe the composition and color scheme of the scene. Both descriptions are incorporated in a user feedback image retrieval setting. The main objective is to show that automatic labeling of images with semantic labels can improve image retrieval results.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Angel Sappa; Jordi Vitria  
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  ISSN 1868-4394 ISBN 978-3-642-35931-6 Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 605.203; 600.048 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ WKC2013 Serial 2284  
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Author (up) Joost Van de Weijer; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Cordelia Schmid; Ramon Baldrich; Jacob Verbeek; Diane Larlus edit   pdf
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  Title Color Naming Type Book Chapter
  Year 2012 Publication Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 17 Pages 287-317  
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  Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Place of Publication Editor Theo Gevers;Arjan Gijsenij;Joost Van de Weijer;Jan-Mark Geusebroek  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ WBV2012 Serial 2063  
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