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Author (down) Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados; Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre edit  doi
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  Title Multi-Oriented and Multi-Sized Touching Character Segmentation using Dynamic Programming Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 11–15  
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  Abstract In this paper, we present a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into individual characters. When two or more characters touch, they generate a big cavity region at the background portion. Using Convex Hull information, we use these background information to find some initial points to segment a touching string into possible primitive segments (a primitive segment consists of a single character or a part of a character). Next these primitive segments are merged to get optimum segmentation and dynamic programming is applied using total likelihood of characters as the objective function. SVM classifier is used to find the likelihood of a character. To consider multi-oriented touching strings the features used in the SVM are invariant to character orientation. Circular ring and convex hull ring based approach has been used along with angular information of the contour pixels of the character to make the feature rotation invariant. From the experiment, we obtained encouraging results.  
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009a Serial 1240  
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Author (down) Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados edit  doi
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  Title Seal detection and recognition: An approach for document indexing Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 101–105  
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  Abstract Reliable indexing of documents having seal instances can be achieved by recognizing seal information. This paper presents a novel approach for detecting and classifying such multi-oriented seals in these documents. First, Hough Transform based methods are applied to extract the seal regions in documents. Next, isolated text characters within these regions are detected. Rotation and size invariant features and a support vector machine based classifier have been used to recognize these detected text characters. Next, for each pair of character, we encode their relative spatial organization using their distance and angular position with respect to the centre of the seal, and enter this code into a hash table. Given an input seal, we recognize the individual text characters and compute the code for pair-wise character based on the relative spatial organization. The code obtained from the input seal helps to retrieve model hypothesis from the hash table. The seal model to which we get maximum hypothesis is selected for the recognition of the input seal. The methodology is tested to index seal in rotation and size invariant environment and we obtained encouraging results.  
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009b Serial 1239  
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Author (down) Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados edit  openurl
  Title Touching Text Character Localization in Graphical Documents using SIFT Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication In proceedings 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Interpretation of graphical document images is a challenging task as it requires proper understanding of text/graphics symbols present in such documents. Difficulties arise in graphical document recognition when text and symbol overlapped/touched. Intersection of text and symbols with graphical lines and curves occur frequently in graphical documents and hence separation of such symbols is very difficult.
Several pattern recognition and classification techniques exist to recognize isolated text/symbol. But, the touching/overlapping text and symbol recognition has not yet been dealt successfully. An interesting technique, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), originally devised for object recognition can take care of overlapping problems. Even if SIFT features have emerged as a very powerful object descriptors, their employment in graphical documents context has not been investigated much. In this paper we present the adaptation of the SIFT approach in the context of text character localization (spotting) in graphical documents. We evaluate the applicability of this technique in such documents and discuss the scope of improvement by combining some state-of-the-art approaches.
 
  Address La rochelle; July 2009  
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  Area Expedition Conference GREC  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009c Serial 1445  
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Author (down) Partha Pratim Roy; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal edit  isbn
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  Title A Complete System for Detection and Recognition of Text in Graphical Documents using Background Information Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Lisboa, Portugal  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RLP2009 Serial 1238  
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Author (down) Oscar Camara; Estanislao Oubel; Gemma Piella; Simone Balocco; Mathieu De Craene; Alejandro F. Frangi edit  doi
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  Title Multi-sequence Registration of Cine, Tagged and Delay-Enhancement MRI with Shift Correction and Steerable Pyramid-Based Detagging Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5528 Issue Pages 330–338  
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  Abstract In this work, we present a registration framework for cardiac cine MRI (cMRI), tagged (tMRI) and delay-enhancement MRI (deMRI), where the two main issues to find an accurate alignment between these images have been taking into account: the presence of tags in tMRI and respiration artifacts in all sequences. A steerable pyramid image decomposition has been used for detagging purposes since it is suitable to extract high-order oriented structures by directional adaptive filtering. Shift correction of cMRI is achieved by firstly maximizing the similarity between the Long Axis and Short Axis cMRI. Subsequently, these shift-corrected images are used as target images in a rigid registration procedure with their corresponding tMRI/deMRI in order to correct their shift. The proposed registration framework has been evaluated by 840 registration tests, considerably improving the alignment of the MR images (mean RMS error of 2.04mm vs. 5.44mm).  
  Address Nice, France  
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  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 978-3-642-01931-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference FIMH  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ COP2009 Serial 1255  
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Author (down) Oriol Ramos Terrades; Ernest Valveny; Salvatore Tabbone edit  doi
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  Title Optimal Classifier Fusion in a Non-Bayesian Probabilistic Framework Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 31 Issue 9 Pages 1630–1644  
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  Abstract The combination of the output of classifiers has been one of the strategies used to improve classification rates in general purpose classification systems. Some of the most common approaches can be explained using the Bayes' formula. In this paper, we tackle the problem of the combination of classifiers using a non-Bayesian probabilistic framework. This approach permits us to derive two linear combination rules that minimize misclassification rates under some constraints on the distribution of classifiers. In order to show the validity of this approach we have compared it with other popular combination rules from a theoretical viewpoint using a synthetic data set, and experimentally using two standard databases: the MNIST handwritten digit database and the GREC symbol database. Results on the synthetic data set show the validity of the theoretical approach. Indeed, results on real data show that the proposed methods outperform other common combination schemes.  
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  ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RVT2009 Serial 1220  
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Author (down) Oriol Pujol; Eloi Puertas; Carlo Gatta edit  doi
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  Title Multi-scale Stacked Sequential Learning Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 8th International Workshop of Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5519 Issue Pages 262–271  
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  Abstract One of the most widely used assumptions in supervised learning is that data is independent and identically distributed. This assumption does not hold true in many real cases. Sequential learning is the discipline of machine learning that deals with dependent data such that neighboring examples exhibit some kind of relationship. In the literature, there are different approaches that try to capture and exploit this correlation, by means of different methodologies. In this paper we focus on meta-learning strategies and, in particular, the stacked sequential learning approach. The main contribution of this work is two-fold: first, we generalize the stacked sequential learning. This generalization reflects the key role of neighboring interactions modeling. Second, we propose an effective and efficient way of capturing and exploiting sequential correlations that takes into account long-range interactions by means of a multi-scale pyramidal decomposition of the predicted labels. Additionally, this new method subsumes the standard stacked sequential learning approach. We tested the proposed method on two different classification tasks: text lines classification in a FAQ data set and image classification. Results on these tasks clearly show that our approach outperforms the standard stacked sequential learning. Moreover, we show that the proposed method allows to control the trade-off between the detail and the desired range of the interactions.  
  Address Reykjavik, Iceland  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-02325-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MCS  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PPG2009 Serial 1260  
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Author (down) Oriol Pujol; David Masip edit  doi
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  Title Geometry-Based Ensembles: Toward a Structural Characterization of the Classification Boundary Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 31 Issue 6 Pages 1140–1146  
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  Abstract This article introduces a novel binary discriminative learning technique based on the approximation of the non-linear decision boundary by a piece-wise linear smooth additive model. The decision border is geometrically defined by means of the characterizing boundary points – points that belong to the optimal boundary under a certain notion of robustness. Based on these points, a set of locally robust linear classifiers is defined and assembled by means of a Tikhonov regularized optimization procedure in an additive model to create a final lambda-smooth decision rule. As a result, a very simple and robust classifier with a strong geometrical meaning and non-linear behavior is obtained. The simplicity of the method allows its extension to cope with some of nowadays machine learning challenges, such as online learning, large scale learning or parallelization, with linear computational complexity. We validate our approach on the UCI database. Finally, we apply our technique in online and large scale scenarios, and in six real life computer vision and pattern recognition problems: gender recognition, intravascular ultrasound tissue classification, speed traffic sign detection, Chagas' disease severity detection, clef classification and action recognition using a 3D accelerometer data. The results are promising and this paper opens a line of research that deserves further attention  
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  Notes OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PuM2009 Serial 1252  
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Author (down) Olivier Penacchio edit  openurl
  Title Relative Density of L, M, S photoreceptors in the Human Retina Type Report
  Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 135 Issue Pages  
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Pen2009 Serial 2394  
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Author (down) Noha Elfiky edit  openurl
  Title Enhancing Local Binary Patterns with Spatial Pyramid Kernel: Application to Scene Classification Type Report
  Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 129 Issue Pages  
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor  
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  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Elf2009 Serial 2388  
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Author (down) Niki Aifanti; Angel Sappa; N. Grammalidis; Sotiris Malassiotis edit  openurl
  Title Advances in Tracking and Recognition of Human Motion Type Book Chapter
  Year 2009 Publication Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume I Issue 2nd edition Pages 65–71  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ASG2009 Serial 1143  
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Author (down) Nicola Bellotto; Eric Sommerlade; Ben Benfold; Charles Bibby; I. Reid; Daniel Roth; Luc Van Gool; Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez edit   pdf
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  Title A Distributed Camera System for Multi-Resolution Surveillance Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords 10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289413  
  Abstract We describe an architecture for a multi-camera, multi-resolution surveillance system. The aim is to support a set of distributed static and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras and visual tracking algorithms, together with a central supervisor unit. Each camera (and possibly pan-tilt device) has a dedicated process and processor. Asynchronous interprocess communications and archiving of data are achieved in a simple and effective way via a central repository, implemented using an SQL database. Visual tracking data from static views are stored dynamically into tables in the database via client calls to the SQL server. A supervisor process running on the SQL server determines if active zoom cameras should be dispatched to observe a particular target, and this message is effected via writing demands into another database table. We show results from a real implementation of the system comprising one static camera overviewing the environment under consideration and a PTZ camera operating under closed-loop velocity control, which uses a fast and robust level-set-based region tracker. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its feasibility to multi-camera systems for intelligent surveillance.  
  Address Como, Italy  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICDSC  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ BSB2009 Serial 1205  
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Author (down) Naila Murray edit  openurl
  Title Perceptual Feature Detection Type Report
  Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 131 Issue Pages  
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Mur2009 Serial 2390  
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Author (down) Murad Al Haj; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Robust and Efficient Multipose Face Detection Using Skin Color Segmentation Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract In this paper we describe an efficient technique for detecting faces in arbitrary images and video sequences. The approach is based on segmentation of images or video frames into skin-colored blobs using a pixel-based heuristic. Scale and translation invariant features are then computed from these segmented blobs which are used to perform statistical discrimination between face and non-face classes. We train and evaluate our method on a standard, publicly available database of face images and analyze its performance over a range of statistical pattern classifiers. The generalization of our approach is illustrated by testing on an independent sequence of frames containing many faces and non-faces. These experiments indicate that our proposed approach obtains false positive rates comparable to more complex, state-of-the-art techniques, and that it generalizes better to new data. Furthermore, the use of skin blobs and invariant features requires fewer training samples since significantly fewer non-face candidate regions must be considered when compared to AdaBoost-based approaches.  
  Address Springer Berlin Heidelberg  
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  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 ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ ABG2009 Serial 1216  
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Author (down) Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit  doi
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  Title A Novel Approach to Geometric Fitting of Implicit Quadrics Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5807 Issue Pages 121–132  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the geometric distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric curve/surface. The proposed estimation is based on the height of a tetrahedron, which is used as a coarse but reliable estimation of the real distance. The estimated distance is then used for finding the best set of quadric parameters, by means of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, which is a common framework in other geometric fitting approaches. Comparisons of the proposed approach with previous ones are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results.  
  Address Bordeaux, France  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-04696-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ACIVS  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RoS2009 Serial 1194  
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