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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Jamie Shotton
Title Guest Editor Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimodal Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 28 Issue Pages 1489 - 1491
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Abstract The sixteen papers in this special section focus on human pose recovery and behavior analysis (HuPBA). This is one of the most challenging topics in computer vision, pattern analysis, and machine learning. It is of critical importance for application areas that include gaming, computer interaction, human robot interaction, security, commerce, assistive technologies and rehabilitation, sports, sign language recognition, and driver assistance technology, to mention just a few. In essence, HuPBA requires dealing with the articulated nature of the human body, changes in appearance due to clothing, and the inherent problems of clutter scenes, such as background artifacts, occlusions, and illumination changes. These papers represent the most recent research in this field, including new methods considering still images, image sequences, depth data, stereo vision, 3D vision, audio, and IMUs, among others.
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Notes HuPBA; ISE;MV; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 2851
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Miguel Reyes; Oscar Lopes; Isabelle Guyon; V. Athitsos; Hugo Jair Escalante
Title Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge 2013: Dataset and Results Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 445-452
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Abstract The recognition of continuous natural gestures is a complex and challenging problem due to the multi-modal nature of involved visual cues (e.g. fingers and lips movements, subtle facial expressions, body pose, etc.), as well as technical limitations such as spatial and temporal resolution and unreliable
depth cues. In order to promote the research advance on this field, we organized a challenge on multi-modal gesture recognition. We made available a large video database of 13; 858 gestures from a lexicon of 20 Italian gesture categories recorded with a KinectTM camera, providing the audio, skeletal model, user mask, RGB and depth images. The focus of the challenge was on user independent multiple gesture learning. There are no resting positions and the gestures are performed in continuous sequences lasting 1-2 minutes, containing between 8 and 20 gesture instances in each sequence. As a result, the dataset contains around 1:720:800 frames. In addition to the 20 main gesture categories, ‘distracter’ gestures are included, meaning that additional audio
and gestures out of the vocabulary are included. The final evaluation of the challenge was defined in terms of the Levenshtein edit distance, where the goal was to indicate the real order of gestures within the sequence. 54 international teams participated in the challenge, and outstanding results
were obtained by the first ranked participants.
Address Sidney; Australia; December 2013
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2129-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICMI
Notes HUPBA; ISE; 600.063;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EGB2013 Serial 2373
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Pablo Pardo; Junior Fabian; Marc Oliu; Hugo Jair Escalante; Ivan Huerta; Isabelle Guyon
Title ChaLearn Looking at People 2015 new competitions: Age Estimation and Cultural Event Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-8
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Abstract Following previous series on Looking at People (LAP) challenges [1], [2], [3], in 2015 ChaLearn runs two new competitions within the field of Looking at People: age and cultural event recognition in still images. We propose thefirst crowdsourcing application to collect and label data about apparent
age of people instead of the real age. In terms of cultural event recognition, tens of categories have to be recognized. This involves scene understanding and human analysis. This paper summarizes both challenges and data, providing some initial baselines. The results of the first round of the competition were presented at ChaLearn LAP 2015 IJCNN special session on computer vision and robotics http://www.dtic.ua.es/∼jgarcia/IJCNN2015.
Details of the ChaLearn LAP competitions can be found at http://gesture.chalearn.org/.
Address Killarney; Ireland; July 2015
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Notes HuPBA; ISE; 600.063; 600.078;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EGB2015 Serial 2591
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Josep Moya; Laura Igual; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Automatic Human Behavior Analysis in ADHD Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication Eunethydis 2nd International ADHD Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference EUNETHYDIS
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EMI2012a Serial 2058
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Josep Moya; Laura Igual; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Análisis Comportamental Automatizado de TDAH: la Influencia de la Variable Motivación Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication IPSI – Cosmocaixa, Jornadas "Empremtes del present, efectes en la psicoanàlisi, la cultura i la societat Abbreviated Journal
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Notes MILAB; HuPBA; OR Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EMI2012b Serial 2065
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Junior Fabian; Pablo Pardo; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez; Hugo Jair Escalante; Marc Oliu; Dusan Misevic; Ulrich Steiner; Isabelle Guyon
Title ChaLearn Looking at People 2015: Apparent Age and Cultural Event Recognition Datasets and Results Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 243 - 251
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Abstract Following previous series on Looking at People (LAP) competitions [14, 13, 11, 12, 2], in 2015 ChaLearn ran two new competitions within the field of Looking at People: (1) age estimation, and (2) cultural event recognition, both in
still images. We developed a crowd-sourcing application to collect and label data about the apparent age of people (as opposed to the real age). In terms of cultural event recognition, one hundred categories had to be recognized. These
tasks involved scene understanding and human body analysis. This paper summarizes both challenges and data, as well as the results achieved by the participants of the competition.
Address Santiago de Chile; December 2015
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Area Expedition Conference ICCVW
Notes ISE; 600.063; 600.078;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EFP2015 Serial 2704
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Markus Weimer; Mikhail Burtsev; Valentin Malykh; Varvara Logacheva; Ryan Lowe; Iulian Vlad Serban; Yoshua Bengio; Alexander Rudnicky; Alan W. Black; Shrimai Prabhumoye; Łukasz Kidzinski; Mohanty Sharada; Carmichael Ong; Jennifer Hicks; Sergey Levine; Marcel Salathe; Scott Delp; Iker Huerga; Alexander Grigorenko; Leifur Thorbergsson; Anasuya Das; Kyla Nemitz; Jenna Sandker; Stephen King; Alexander S. Ecker; Leon A. Gatys; Matthias Bethge; Jordan Boyd Graber; Shi Feng; Pedro Rodriguez; Mohit Iyyer; He He; Hal Daume III; Sean McGregor; Amir Banifatemi; Alexey Kurakin; Ian Goodfellow; Samy Bengio
Title Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track Type Book Chapter
Year 2018 Publication The NIPS ’17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-23
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Abstract Competitions have become a popular tool in the data science community to solve hard problems, assess the state of the art and spur new research directions. Companies like Kaggle and open source platforms like Codalab connect people with data and a data science problem to those with the skills and means to solve it. Hence, the question arises: What, if anything, could NIPS add to this rich ecosystem?

In 2017, we embarked to find out. We attracted 23 potential competitions, of which we selected five to be NIPS 2017 competitions. Our final selection features competitions advancing the state of the art in other sciences such as “Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations” and “Learning to Run”. Others, like “The Conversational Intelligence Challenge” and “Adversarial Attacks and Defences” generated new data sets that we expect to impact the progress in their respective communities for years to come. And “Human-Computer Question Answering Competition” showed us just how far we as a field have come in ability and efficiency since the break-through performance of Watson in Jeopardy. Two additional competitions, DeepArt and AI XPRIZE Milestions, were also associated to the NIPS 2017 competition track, whose results are also presented within this chapter.
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Sergio Escalera; Markus Weimer
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-94042-7 Medium
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Notes HUPBA; no proj Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EWB2018 Serial 3200
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Marti Soler; Stephane Ayache; Umut Guçlu; Jun Wan; Meysam Madadi; Xavier Baro; Hugo Jair Escalante; Isabelle Guyon
Title ChaLearn Looking at People: Inpainting and Denoising Challenges Type Book Chapter
Year 2019 Publication The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 23-44
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Abstract Dealing with incomplete information is a well studied problem in the context of machine learning and computational intelligence. However, in the context of computer vision, the problem has only been studied in specific scenarios (e.g., certain types of occlusions in specific types of images), although it is common to have incomplete information in visual data. This chapter describes the design of an academic competition focusing on inpainting of images and video sequences that was part of the competition program of WCCI2018 and had a satellite event collocated with ECCV2018. The ChaLearn Looking at People Inpainting Challenge aimed at advancing the state of the art on visual inpainting by promoting the development of methods for recovering missing and occluded information from images and video. Three tracks were proposed in which visual inpainting might be helpful but still challenging: human body pose estimation, text overlays removal and fingerprint denoising. This chapter describes the design of the challenge, which includes the release of three novel datasets, and the description of evaluation metrics, baselines and evaluation protocol. The results of the challenge are analyzed and discussed in detail and conclusions derived from this event are outlined.
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Notes HuPBA; no proj Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ESA2019 Serial 3327
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Mercedes Torres-Torres; Brais Martinez; Xavier Baro; Hugo Jair Escalante; Isabelle Guyon; Georgios Tzimiropoulos; Ciprian Corneanu; Marc Oliu Simón; Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Michel Valstar
Title ChaLearn Looking at People and Faces of the World: Face AnalysisWorkshop and Challenge 2016 Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract We present the 2016 ChaLearn Looking at People and Faces of the World Challenge and Workshop, which ran three competitions on the common theme of face analysis from still images. The first one, Looking at People, addressed age estimation, while the second and third competitions, Faces of the World, addressed accessory classification and smile and gender classification, respectively. We present two crowd-sourcing methodologies used to collect manual annotations. A custom-build application was used to collect and label data about the apparent age of people (as opposed to the real age). For the Faces of the World data, the citizen-science Zooniverse platform was used. This paper summarizes the three challenges and the data used, as well as the results achieved by the participants of the competitions. Details of the ChaLearn LAP FotW competitions can be found at http://gesture.chalearn.org.
Address Las Vegas; USA; June 2016
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Notes HuPBA;MV; Approved no
Call Number ETM2016 Serial 2849
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Eric Laciar; Jordi Vitria; Esther Pueyo; Petia Radeva
Title Coronary Damage Classification of Patients with the Chagas Disease with Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication Intelligent Systems, 4th International IEEE Conference, 6–8 setembre 2008. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue Pages 12–17
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Abstract The Chagaspsila disease is endemic in all Latin America, affecting millions of people in the continent. In order to diagnose and treat the Chagaspsila disease, it is important to detect and measure the coronary damage of the patient. In this paper, we analyze and categorize patients into different groups based on the coronary damage produced by the disease. Based on the features of the heart cycle extracted using high resolution ECG, a multi-class scheme of error-correcting output codes (ECOC) is formulated and successfully applied. The results show that the proposed scheme obtains significant performance improvements compared to previous works and state-of-the-art ECOC designs.
Address Varna (Bulgaria)
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Area Expedition Conference IS’08
Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPL2008 Serial 1042
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Eric Laciar; Jordi Vitria; Esther Pueyo; Petia Radeva
Title Classification of Coronary Damage in Chronic Chagasic Patients Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Intelligent Systems – From Theory to Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 299 Issue Pages 461-478
Keywords Chagas disease; Error-Correcting Output Codes; High resolution ECG; Decoding
Abstract Post Conference IEEE-IS 2008
The Chagas’ disease is endemic in all Latin America, affecting millions of people in the continent. In order to diagnose and treat the chagas’ disease, it is important to detect and measure the coronary damage of the patient. In this paper,
we analyze and categorize patients into different groups based on the coronary damage produced by the disease. Based on the features of the heart cycle extracted using high resolution ECG, a multi-class scheme of Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC)is formulated and successfully applied. The results show that the proposed scheme obtains significant performance improvements compared to previous works and state-of-the-art ECOC designs.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor V. Sgurev, M. Hadjiski (eds)
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Notes OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPL2010 Serial 1452
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title IVUS Tissue Characterization with Sub-class Error-correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2008. CVPR Workshops 2008. IEEE Computer Society Conference on, pp. 1–8, 23–28 juny 2008. Abbreviated Journal
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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 Radio Frequency, texture-based, slope-based, and combined features. To deal with the classification of multiple tissues, we require the use of robust multi-class learning techniques. 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 subsets 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 and feature sets.
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPM2008 Serial 1041
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Author (up) 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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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPM2009 Serial 1258
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Boosted Landmarks of Contextual Descriptors and Forest-ECOC: a novel framework to detect and classify objects in cluttered scenes Type Miscellaneous
Year 2006 Publication 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR´06), 4: 104–107, ISBN: 0–7695–2521–0 Abbreviated Journal
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2006a Serial 692
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Author (up) Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title ECOC-ONE: A novel coding and decoding strategy Type Miscellaneous
Year 2006 Publication 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR´06), 3: 578–581, ISBN: 0–7695–2521–0 Abbreviated Journal
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2006b Serial 693
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