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Author (up) Xavier Roca; Jordi Vitria; Maria Vanrell; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Visual behaviours for binocular navigation with autonomous systems. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2000 Publication Pattern Recognition and Applications, IOS Press, 134–143. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVV2000 Serial 245
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Author (up) Xavier Roca; X. Binefa; Jordi Vitria
Title A New Autofocus Algorithm for Cytological Tissue in a Microscopy Environment. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1998 Publication Optical Engineering. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RBV1998 Serial 16
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Author (up) Xavier Roca; X. Binefa; Jordi Vitria
Title A New Accomodation Algorithm for a Microscopy Environment. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1997 Publication VII National Symposium on Pattern Recognition and image Analysis. Vol. 2, pp. 66–67. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RBV1997 Serial 37
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Author (up) Xavier Roca; X. Binefa; Jordi Vitria
Title Multiscale Structure Extraction using Morphological Tools. Applications to Edge Detection and to Depth Perception. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1993 Publication Technical Workshop on Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Signal Processing. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RBV1993 Serial 247
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Author (up) Xavier Soria
Title Single sensor multi-spectral imaging Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The image sensor, nowadays, is rolling the smartphone industry. While some phone brands explore equipping more image sensors, others, like Google, maintain their smartphones with just one sensor; but this sensor is equipped with Deep Learning to enhance the image quality. However, what all brands agree on is the need to research new image sensors; for instance, in 2015 Omnivision and PixelTeq presented new CMOS based image sensors defined as multispectral Single Sensor Camera (SSC), which are capable of capturing multispectral bands. This dissertation presents the benefits of using a multispectral SSCs that, as aforementioned, simultaneously acquires images in the visible and near-infrared (NIR) bands. The principal benefits while addressing problems related to image bands in the spectral range of 400 to 1100 nanometers, there are cost reductions in the hardware and software setup because only one SSC is needed instead of two, and the images alignment are not required any more. Concerning to the NIR spectrum, many works in literature have proven the benefits of working with NIR to enhance RGB images (e.g., image enhancement, remove shadows, dehazing, etc.). In spite of the advantage of using SSC (e.g., low latency), there are some drawback to be solved. One of this drawback corresponds to the nature of the silicon-based sensor, which in addition to capture the RGB image, when the infrared cut off filter is not installed it also acquires NIR information into the visible image. This phenomenon is called RGB and NIR crosstalking. This thesis firstly faces this problem in challenging images and then it shows the benefit of using multispectral images in the edge detection task.
The RGB color restoration from RGBN image is the topic tackled in RGB and NIR crosstalking. Even though in the literature a set of processes have been proposed to face this issue, in this thesis novel approaches, based on DL, are proposed to subtract the additional NIR included in the RGB channel. More precisely, an Artificial Neural Network (NN) and two Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models are proposed. As the DL based models need a dataset with a large collection of image pairs, a large dataset is collected to address the color restoration. The collected images are from challenging scenes where the sunlight radiation is sufficient to give absorption/reflectance properties to the considered scenes. An extensive evaluation has been conducted on the CNN models, differences from most of the restored images are almost imperceptible to the human eye. The next proposal of the thesis is the validation of the usage of SSC images in the edge detection task. Three methods based on CNN have been proposed. While the first one is based on the most used model, holistically-nested edge detection (HED) termed as multispectral HED (MS-HED), the other two have been proposed observing the drawbacks of MS-HED. These two novel architectures have been designed from scratch (training from scratch); after the first architecture is validated in the visible domain a slight redesign is proposed to tackle the multispectral domain. Again, another dataset is collected to face this problem with SSCs. Even though edge detection is confronted in the multispectral domain, its qualitative and quantitative evaluation demonstrates the generalization in other datasets used for edge detection, improving state-of-the-art results.
Address September 2019
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Angel Sappa
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Sor2019 Serial 3391
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Angel Sappa
Title Improving Edge Detection in RGB Images by Adding NIR Channel Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication 14th IEEE International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based System Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Edge detection; Contour detection; VGG; CNN; RGB-NIR; Near infrared images
Abstract The edge detection is yet a critical problem in many computer vision and image processing tasks. The manuscript presents an Holistically-Nested Edge Detection based approach to study the inclusion of Near-Infrared in the Visible spectrum
images. To do so, a Single Sensor based dataset has been acquired in the range of 400nm to 1100nm wavelength spectral band. Prominent results have been obtained even when the ground truth (annotated edge-map) is based in the visible wavelength spectrum.
Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; November 2018
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Angel Sappa; Arash Akbarinia
Title Multispectral Single-Sensor RGB-NIR Imaging: New Challenges and Opportunities Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 7th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools & Applications Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Color restoration; Neural networks; Singlesensor cameras; Multispectral images; RGB-NIR dataset
Abstract Multispectral images captured with a single sensor camera have become an attractive alternative for numerous computer vision applications. However, in order to fully exploit their potentials, the color restoration problem (RGB representation) should be addressed. This problem is more evident in outdoor scenarios containing vegetation, living beings, or specular materials. The problem of color distortion emerges from the sensitivity of sensors due to the overlap of visible and near infrared spectral bands. This paper empirically evaluates the variability of the near infrared (NIR) information with respect to the changes of light throughout the day. A tiny neural network is proposed to restore the RGB color representation from the given RGBN (Red, Green, Blue, NIR) images. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm, different experiments on a RGBN outdoor dataset are conducted, which include various challenging cases. The obtained result shows the challenge and the importance of addressing color restoration in single sensor multispectral images.
Address Montreal; Canada; November 2017
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Notes NEUROBIT; MSIAU; 600.122 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSA2017 Serial 3074
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Angel Sappa; Patricio Humanante; Arash Akbarinia
Title Dense extreme inception network for edge detection Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 139 Issue Pages 109461
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Abstract Edge detection is the basis of many computer vision applications. State of the art predominantly relies on deep learning with two decisive factors: dataset content and network architecture. Most of the publicly available datasets are not curated for edge detection tasks. Here, we address this limitation. First, we argue that edges, contours and boundaries, despite their overlaps, are three distinct visual features requiring separate benchmark datasets. To this end, we present a new dataset of edges. Second, we propose a novel architecture, termed Dense Extreme Inception Network for Edge Detection (DexiNed), that can be trained from scratch without any pre-trained weights. DexiNed outperforms other algorithms in the presented dataset. It also generalizes well to other datasets without any fine-tuning. The higher quality of DexiNed is also perceptually evident thanks to the sharper and finer edges it outputs.
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Angel Sappa; Riad I. Hammoud
Title Wide-Band Color Imagery Restoration for RGB-NIR Single Sensor Images Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS
Volume 18 Issue 7 Pages 2059
Keywords RGB-NIR sensor; multispectral imaging; deep learning; CNNs
Abstract Multi-spectral RGB-NIR sensors have become ubiquitous in recent years. These sensors allow the visible and near-infrared spectral bands of a given scene to be captured at the same time. With such cameras, the acquired imagery has a compromised RGB color representation due to near-infrared bands (700–1100 nm) cross-talking with the visible bands (400–700 nm).
This paper proposes two deep learning-based architectures to recover the full RGB color images, thus removing the NIR information from the visible bands. The proposed approaches directly restore the high-resolution RGB image by means of convolutional neural networks. They are evaluated with several outdoor images; both architectures reach a similar performance when evaluated in different
scenarios and using different similarity metrics. Both of them improve the state of the art approaches.
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Notes ADAS; MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.122; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSH2018 Serial 3145
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Edgar Riba; Angel Sappa
Title Dense Extreme Inception Network: Towards a Robust CNN Model for Edge Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2020 Publication IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This paper proposes a Deep Learning based edge detector, which is inspired on both HED (Holistically-Nested Edge Detection) and Xception networks. The proposed approach generates thin edge-maps that are plausible for human eyes; it can be used in any edge detection task without previous training or fine tuning process. As a second contribution, a large dataset with carefully annotated edges has been generated. This dataset has been used for training the proposed approach as well the state-of-the-art algorithms for comparisons. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations have been performed on different benchmarks showing improvements with the proposed method when F-measure of ODS and OIS are considered.
Address Aspen; USA; March 2020
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SRS2020 Serial 3434
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Gonzalo Pomboza-Junez; Angel Sappa
Title LDC: Lightweight Dense CNN for Edge Detection Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication IEEE Access Abbreviated Journal ACCESS
Volume 10 Issue Pages 68281-68290
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Abstract This paper presents a Lightweight Dense Convolutional (LDC) neural network for edge detection. The proposed model is an adaptation of two state-of-the-art approaches, but it requires less than 4% of parameters in comparison with these approaches. The proposed architecture generates thin edge maps and reaches the highest score (i.e., ODS) when compared with lightweight models (models with less than 1 million parameters), and reaches a similar performance when compare with heavy architectures (models with about 35 million parameters). Both quantitative and qualitative results and comparisons with state-of-the-art models, using different edge detection datasets, are provided. The proposed LDC does not use pre-trained weights and requires straightforward hyper-parameter settings. The source code is released at https://github.com/xavysp/LDC
Address 27 June 2022
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Notes MSIAU; MACO; 600.160; 600.167 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SPS2022 Serial 3751
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Author (up) Xavier Soria; Yachuan Li; Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa
Title Tiny and Efficient Model for the Edge Detection Generalization Type Conference Article
Year 2023 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Most high-level computer vision tasks rely on low-level image operations as their initial processes. Operations such as edge detection, image enhancement, and super-resolution, provide the foundations for higher level image analysis. In this work we address the edge detection considering three main objectives: simplicity, efficiency, and generalization since current state-of-the-art (SOTA) edge detection models are increased in complexity for better accuracy. To achieve this, we present Tiny and Efficient Edge Detector (TEED), a light convolutional neural network with only 58K parameters, less than 0:2% of the state-of-the-art models. Training on the BIPED dataset takes less than 30 minutes, with each epoch requiring less than 5 minutes. Our proposed model is easy to train and it quickly converges within very first few epochs, while the predicted edge-maps are crisp and of high quality. Additionally, we propose a new dataset to test the generalization of edge detection, which comprises samples from popular images used in edge detection and image segmentation. The source code is available in https://github.com/xavysp/TEED.
Address Paris; France; October 2023
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SLR2023 Serial 3941
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Author (up) Xialei Liu
Title Visual recognition in the wild: learning from rankings in small domains and continual learning in new domains Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved superior performance in many visual recognition application, such as image classification, detection and segmentation. In this thesis we address two limitations of CNNs. Training deep CNNs requires huge amounts of labeled data, which is expensive and labor intensive to collect. Another limitation is that training CNNs in a continual learning setting is still an open research question. Catastrophic forgetting is very likely when adapting trained models to new environments or new tasks. Therefore, in this thesis, we aim to improve CNNs for applications with limited data and to adapt CNNs continually to new tasks.
Self-supervised learning leverages unlabelled data by introducing an auxiliary task for which data is abundantly available. In the first part of the thesis, we show how rankings can be used as a proxy self-supervised task for regression problems. Then we propose an efficient backpropagation technique for Siamese networks which prevents the redundant computation introduced by the multi-branch network architecture. In addition, we show that measuring network uncertainty on the self-supervised proxy task is a good measure of informativeness of unlabeled data. This can be used to drive an algorithm for active learning. We then apply our framework on two regression problems: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) and Crowd Counting. For both, we show how to automatically generate ranked image sets from unlabeled data. Our results show that networks trained to regress to the ground truth targets for labeled data and to simultaneously learn to rank unlabeled data obtain significantly better, state-of-the-art results. We further show that active learning using rankings can reduce labeling effort by up to 50\% for both IQA and crowd counting.
In the second part of the thesis, we propose two approaches to avoiding catastrophic forgetting in sequential task learning scenarios. The first approach is derived from Elastic Weight Consolidation, which uses a diagonal Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) to measure the importance of the parameters of the network. However the diagonal assumption is unrealistic. Therefore, we approximately diagonalize the FIM using a set of factorized rotation parameters. This leads to significantly better performance on continual learning of sequential tasks. For the second approach, we show that forgetting manifests differently at different layers in the network and propose a hybrid approach where distillation is used in the feature extractor and replay in the classifier via feature generation. Our method addresses the limitations of generative image replay and probability distillation (i.e. learning without forgetting) and can naturally aggregate new tasks in a single, well-calibrated classifier. Experiments confirm that our proposed approach outperforms the baselines and some start-of-the-art methods.
Address December 2019
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Joost Van de Weijer;Andrew Bagdanov
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Author (up) Xialei Liu; Chenshen Wu; Mikel Menta; Luis Herranz; Bogdan Raducanu; Andrew Bagdanov; Shangling Jui; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Generative Feature Replay for Class-Incremental Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2020 Publication CLVISION – Workshop on Continual Learning in Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Humans are capable of learning new tasks without forgetting previous ones, while neural networks fail due to catastrophic forgetting between new and previously-learned tasks. We consider a class-incremental setting which means that the task-ID is unknown at inference time. The imbalance between old and new classes typically results in a bias of the network towards the newest ones. This imbalance problem can either be addressed by storing exemplars from previous tasks, or by using image replay methods. However, the latter can only be applied to toy datasets since image generation for complex datasets is a hard problem.
We propose a solution to the imbalance problem based on generative feature replay which does not require any exemplars. To do this, we split the network into two parts: a feature extractor and a classifier. To prevent forgetting, we combine generative feature replay in the classifier with feature distillation in the feature extractor. Through feature generation, our method reduces the complexity of generative replay and prevents the imbalance problem. Our approach is computationally efficient and scalable to large datasets. Experiments confirm that our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet, while requiring only a fraction of the storage needed for exemplar-based continual learning
Address Virtual CVPR
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Call Number Admin @ si @ LWM2020 Serial 3419
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Author (up) Xialei Liu; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov
Title RankIQA: Learning from Rankings for No-reference Image Quality Assessment Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract We propose a no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) approach that learns from rankings (RankIQA). To address the problem of limited IQA dataset size, we train a Siamese Network to rank images in terms of image quality by using synthetically generated distortions for which relative image quality is known. These ranked image sets can be automatically generated without laborious human labeling. We then use fine-tuning to transfer the knowledge represented in the trained Siamese Network to a traditional CNN that estimates absolute image quality from single images. We demonstrate how our approach can be made significantly more efficient than traditional Siamese Networks by forward propagating a batch of images through a single network and backpropagating gradients derived from all pairs of images in the batch. Experiments on the TID2013 benchmark show that we improve the state-of-the-art by over 5%. Furthermore, on the LIVE benchmark we show that our approach is superior to existing NR-IQA techniques and that we even outperform the state-of-the-art in full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) methods without having to resort to high-quality reference images to infer IQA.
Address Venice; Italy; October 2017
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Call Number Admin @ si @ LWB2017b Serial 3036
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