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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin edit   pdf
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  Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 393-400  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Human detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning  
  Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications in fields such as advanced driving assistance, surveillance and media analysis. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. The most promising human detectors rely on classifiers developed in the discriminative paradigm, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labeling is a manual intensive step, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, some authors have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of rendered images, i.e., using realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera, or similar ones. Accordingly, in this paper we address the challenge of using a virtual world for gathering (while playing a videogame) a large amount of automatically labelled samples (virtual humans and background) and then training a classifier that performs equal, in real-world images, than the one obtained by equally training from manually labelled real-world samples. For doing that, we cast the problem as one of domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we propose a non-standard active learning technique. Therefore, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual and real world labelled samples (Fig. 1), which has not been done before. We present quantitative results showing that this approach is valid.  
  Address Alicante, Spain  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher ACM DL Place of Publication New York, NY, USA, USA Editor  
  Language English Summary Language English Original Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-0641-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICMI  
  Notes ADAS Approved yes  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011a Serial 1683  
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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin edit   pdf
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  Title Cool world: domain adaptation of virtual and real worlds for human detection using active learning Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication NIPS Domain Adaptation Workshop: Theory and Application Abbreviated Journal NIPS-DA  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning  
  Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest for different applications. The most promising human detectors rely on discriminatively learnt classifiers, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labelling is a manual intensive task, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, in Marin et al. we have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera and the same type of scenario. Accordingly, in Vazquez et al. we cast the problem as one of supervised domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we use an active learning technique. Thus, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual- and real-world labelled samples which, to the best of our knowledge, was not done before. Here, we term such combined space cool world. In this extended abstract we summarize our proposal, and include quantitative results from Vazquez et al. showing its validity.  
  Address Granada, Spain  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Granada, Spain Editor  
  Language English Summary Language English Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference DA-NIPS  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011b Serial 1756  
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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; David Geronimo edit   pdf
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  Title Interactive Training of Human Detectors Type Book Chapter
  Year 2013 Publication Multiodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 48 Issue Pages 169-182  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Virtual World; AdaBoost; Domain Adaptation  
  Abstract Image based human detection remains as a challenging problem. Most promising detectors rely on classifiers trained with labelled samples. However, labelling is a manual labor intensive step. To overcome this problem we propose to collect images of pedestrians from a virtual city, i.e., with automatic labels, and train a pedestrian detector with them, which works fine when such virtual-world data are similar to testing one, i.e., real-world pedestrians in urban areas. When testing data is acquired in different conditions than training one, e.g., human detection in personal photo albums, dataset shift appears. In previous work, we cast this problem as one of domain adaptation and solve it with an active learning procedure. In this work, we focus on the same problem but evaluating a different set of faster to compute features, i.e., Haar, EOH and their combination. In particular, we train a classifier with virtual-world data, using such features and Real AdaBoost as learning machine. This classifier is applied to real-world training images. Then, a human oracle interactively corrects the wrong detections, i.e., few miss detections are manually annotated and some false ones are pointed out too. A low amount of manual annotation is fixed as restriction. Real- and virtual-world difficult samples are combined within what we call cool world and we retrain the classifier with this data. Our experiments show that this adapted classifier is equivalent to the one trained with only real-world data but requiring 90% less manual annotations.  
  Address Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1868-4394 ISBN 978-3-642-35931-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 605.203 Approved no  
  Call Number VLP2013; ADAS @ adas @ vlp2013 Serial 2193  
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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa edit   pdf
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  Title Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Virtual and Real Worlds for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3492 - 3495  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation; Virtual worlds  
  Abstract Vision-based object detectors are crucial for different applications. They rely on learnt object models. Ideally, we would like to deploy our vision system in the scenario where it must operate, and lead it to self-learn how to distinguish the objects of interest, i.e., without human intervention. However, the learning of each object model requires labelled samples collected through a tiresome manual process. For instance, we are interested in exploring the self-training of a pedestrian detector for driver assistance systems. Our first approach to avoid manual labelling consisted in the use of samples coming from realistic computer graphics, so that their labels are automatically available [12]. This would make possible the desired self-training of our pedestrian detector. However, as we showed in [14], between virtual and real worlds it may be a dataset shift. In order to overcome it, we propose the use of unsupervised domain adaptation techniques that avoid human intervention during the adaptation process. In particular, this paper explores the use of the transductive SVM (T-SVM) learning algorithm in order to adapt virtual and real worlds for pedestrian detection (Fig. 1).  
  Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Tsukuba Science City, JAPAN Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2012 Serial 1981  
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Author (down) David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez edit  openurl
  Title Intrusion Classification in Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems Type Report
  Year 2008 Publication Estudis d'Enginyeria Superior en Informática Abbreviated Journal UAB  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Human detection; Car detection; Intrusion detection  
  Abstract An intelligent video surveillance system (IVS) is a camera-based installation able to process in real-time the images coming from the cameras. The aim is to automatically warn about different events of interest at the moment they happen. Daview system of Davantis is a com mercial example of IVS system. The problems addressed by any IVS system, and so Daview, are so challenging that none IVS system is perfect, thus, they need continuous improvement. Accordingly, this project aims to study different approaches in order to outperform current Daview performance, in particular, we bet for improving its classification core. We present an in deep study of the state of the art on IVS systems, as well as on how Daview works. Based on that knowledge, we propose four possibilities for improving Daview classification capabilities: improve existent classifiers; improve existing classifiers combination; create new classifiers and create new classifier-based architectures. Our main contribution has been the incorporation of state-of-the-art feature selection and machine learning techniques for the classification tasks, a viewpoint not fully addressed in current Daview system. After a comprehensive quantitative evaluation we will see how one of our proposals clearly outperforms the overall performance of current Daview system. In particular the classification core that we finally propose consists in an AdaBoost One-Against-All architecture that uses appearance and motion features that were already present in current Daview system  
  Address Bellaterra, Spain  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference PFC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VL2008a Serial 1670  
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Author (down) David Vazquez edit   pdf
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  Title Domain Adaptation of Virtual and Real Worlds for Pedestrian Detection Type Book Whole
  Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 1-105  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation  
  Abstract Pedestrian detection is of paramount interest for many applications, e.g. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Intelligent Video Surveillance and Multimedia systems. Most promising pedestrian detectors rely on appearance-based classifiers trained with annotated data. However, the required annotation step represents an intensive and subjective task for humans, what makes worth to minimize their intervention in this process by using computational tools like realistic virtual worlds. The reason to use these kind of tools relies in the fact that they allow the automatic generation of precise and rich annotations of visual information. Nevertheless, the use of this kind of data comes with the following question: can a pedestrian appearance model learnt with virtual-world data work successfully for pedestrian detection in real-world scenarios?. To answer this question, we conduct different experiments that suggest a positive answer. However, the pedestrian classifiers trained with virtual-world data can suffer the so called dataset shift problem as real-world based classifiers does. Accordingly, we have designed different domain adaptation techniques to face this problem, all of them integrated in a same framework (V-AYLA). We have explored different methods to train a domain adapted pedestrian classifiers by collecting a few pedestrian samples from the target domain (real world) and combining them with many samples of the source domain (virtual world). The extensive experiments we present show that pedestrian detectors developed within the V-AYLA framework do achieve domain adaptation. Ideally, we would like to adapt our system without any human intervention. Therefore, as a first proof of concept we also propose an unsupervised domain adaptation technique that avoids human intervention during the adaptation process. To the best of our knowledge, this Thesis work is the first demonstrating adaptation of virtual and real worlds for developing an object detector. Last but not least, we also assessed a different strategy to avoid the dataset shift that consists in collecting real-world samples and retrain with them in such a way that no bounding boxes of real-world pedestrians have to be provided. We show that the generated classifier is competitive with respect to the counterpart trained with samples collected by manually annotating pedestrian bounding boxes. The results presented on this Thesis not only end with a proposal for adapting a virtual-world pedestrian detector to the real world, but also it goes further by pointing out a new methodology that would allow the system to adapt to different situations, which we hope will provide the foundations for future research in this unexplored area.  
  Address Barcelona  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Barcelona Editor Antonio Lopez;Daniel Ponsa  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-940530-1-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes adas Approved yes  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ Vaz2013 Serial 2276  
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Author (down) David Sanchez-Mendoza; David Masip; Agata Lapedriza edit   file
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  Title Emotion recognition from mid-level features Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL  
  Volume 67 Issue Part 1 Pages 66–74  
  Keywords Facial expression; Emotion recognition; Action units; Computer vision  
  Abstract In this paper we present a study on the use of Action Units as mid-level features for automatically recognizing basic and subtle emotions. We propose a representation model based on mid-level facial muscular movement features. We encode these movements dynamically using the Facial Action Coding System, and propose to use these intermediate features based on Action Units (AUs) to classify emotions. AUs activations are detected fusing a set of spatiotemporal geometric and appearance features. The algorithm is validated in two applications: (i) the recognition of 7 basic emotions using the publicly available Cohn-Kanade database, and (ii) the inference of subtle emotional cues in the Newscast database. In this second scenario, we consider emotions that are perceived cumulatively in longer periods of time. In particular, we Automatically classify whether video shoots from public News TV channels refer to Good or Bad news. To deal with the different video lengths we propose a Histogram of Action Units and compute it using a sliding window strategy on the frame sequences. Our approach achieves accuracies close to human perception.  
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  Publisher Elsevier B.V. Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0167-8655 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SML2015 Serial 2746  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; Oriol Rodriguez edit  openurl
  Title Vessel Tortuosity Extraction from IVUS Images Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2006 Publication Computers in Cardiology (CiC´06), 33: 689–692 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Valencia (Spain)  
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  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRR2006 Serial 762  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; N. Bruining edit  doi
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  Title Automatic Detection of Bioabsorbable Coronary Stents in IVUS Images using a Cascade of Classifiers Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Abbreviated Journal TITB  
  Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 535 – 537  
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  Abstract Bioabsorbable drug-eluting coronary stents present a very promising improvement to the common metallic ones solving some of the most important problems of stent implantation: the late restenosis. These stents made of poly-L-lactic acid cause a very subtle acoustic shadow (compared to the metallic ones) making difficult the automatic detection and measurements in images. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on a cascade of GentleBoost classifiers to detect the stent struts using structural features to code the information of the different subregions of the struts. A stochastic gradient descent method is applied to optimize the overall performance of the detector. Validation results of struts detection are very encouraging with an average F-measure of 81%.  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRB2010 Serial 1287  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; J. Mauri; E Fernandez-Nofrerias edit  openurl
  Title Internal and External Coronary Vessel Images Registration. Type Miscellaneous
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRM2002b Serial 318  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri edit  openurl
  Title Registering External and Internal Morphological Images of Coronary Vessels. Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2002 Publication IASTED International Conference Signals Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications SPPRA. Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRF2002a Serial 297  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri edit  openurl
  Title Multimodal Registration of Intravascular Ultrasound Images and Angiography. Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2002 Publication XX Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingenieria Biomedica CASEIB 2002, 1: 137–140. Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Zaragoza, Espanya  
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  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRF2002b Serial 317  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri edit  isbn
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  Title Blood Detection In IVUS Longitudinal Cuts Using AdaBoost With a Novel Feature Stability Criterion Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the ACIA Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 163 Issue Pages 197–204  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-58603-798-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA’07  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRF2007a Serial 831  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri edit  isbn
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  Title Blood Detection in IVUS Images for 3D Volume of Lumen Changes Measurement Due to Different Drugs Administration Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 12th International Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4673 Issue Pages 285–292  
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  Address Vienna (Austria)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-540-74271-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CAIP  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRF2007b Serial 832  
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Author (down) David Rotger; Petia Radeva; Cristina Cañero; Juan J. Villanueva; J. Mauri; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; A. Tovar; V. Valle edit  openurl
  Title Corresponding IVUS and Angiogram Image Data Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2001 Publication Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology Rottherdam, (in press). Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address The Netherlands  
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  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRC2001 Serial 159  
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