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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Arash Akbarinia edit   pdf
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  Title NICE: A Computational Solution to Close the Gap from Colour Perception to Colour Categorization Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication PLoS One Abbreviated Journal Plos  
  Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages e0149538  
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  Abstract The segmentation of visible electromagnetic radiation into chromatic categories by the human visual system has been extensively studied from a perceptual point of view, resulting in several colour appearance models. However, there is currently a void when it comes to relate these results to the physiological mechanisms that are known to shape the pre-cortical and cortical visual pathway. This work intends to begin to fill this void by proposing a new physiologically plausible model of colour categorization based on Neural Isoresponsive Colour Ellipsoids (NICE) in the cone-contrast space defined by the main directions of the visual signals entering the visual cortex. The model was adjusted to fit psychophysical measures that concentrate on the categorical boundaries and are consistent with the ellipsoidal isoresponse surfaces of visual cortical neurons. By revealing the shape of such categorical colour regions, our measures allow for a more precise and parsimonious description, connecting well-known early visual processing mechanisms to the less understood phenomenon of colour categorization. To test the feasibility of our method we applied it to exemplary images and a popular ground-truth chart obtaining labelling results that are better than those of current state-of-the-art algorithms.  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PaA2016a Serial 2747  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Arash Akbarinia edit   pdf
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  Title Colour Constancy as a Product of Dynamic Centre-Surround Adaptation Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication 16th Annual meeting in Vision Sciences Society Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 12 Pages  
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  Abstract Colour constancy refers to the human visual system's ability to preserve the perceived colour of objects despite changes in the illumination. Its exact mechanisms are unknown, although a number of systems ranging from retinal to cortical and memory are thought to play important roles. The strength of the perceptual shift necessary to preserve these colours is usually estimated by the vectorial distances from an ideal match (or canonical illuminant). In this work we explore how much of the colour constancy phenomenon could be explained by well-known physiological properties of V1 and V2 neurons whose receptive fields (RF) vary according to the contrast and orientation of surround stimuli. Indeed, it has been shown that both RF size and the normalization occurring between centre and surround in cortical neurons depend on the local properties of surrounding stimuli. Our stating point is the construction of a computational model which includes this dynamical centre-surround adaptation by means of two overlapping asymmetric Gaussian kernels whose variances are adjusted to the contrast of surrounding pixels to represent the changes in RF size of cortical neurons and the weights of their respective contributions are altered according to differences in centre-surround contrast and orientation. The final output of the model is obtained after convolving an image with this dynamical operator and an estimation of the illuminant is obtained by considering the contrast of the far surround. We tested our algorithm on naturalistic stimuli from several benchmark datasets. Our results show that although our model does not require any training, its performance against the state-of-the-art is highly competitive, even outperforming learning-based algorithms in some cases. Indeed, these results are very encouraging if we consider that they were obtained with the same parameters for all datasets (i.e. just like the human visual system operates).  
  Address Florida; USA; May 2016  
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  Area Expedition Conference VSS  
  Notes NEUROBIT Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PaA2016b Serial 2901  
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Author F. Pañella edit  openurl
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  Year 1999 Publication CVC Technical Report #34 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Pañ1999 Serial 194  
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Author J.L. Pech-Pacheco; J. Alvarez-Borrego; Gabriel Cristobal; Matthias S. Keil edit  openurl
  Title Automatic object identification irrespective to geometric changes Type Journal
  Year 2003 Publication Optical Engineering, 42(2): 551–559 (IF: 0.877) Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAC2003 Serial 632  
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Author C. Padres edit  openurl
  Title Aplicaciones al modelo de formas activas para un entorno aumentado Type Report
  Year 2000 Publication CVC Technical Report #46 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Pad2000 Serial 347  
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Author J.Poujol; Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; E.Danos; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Visible-Thermal Fusion based Monocular Visual Odometry Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 2nd Iberian Robotics Conference ROBOT2015 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 417 Issue Pages 517-528  
  Keywords Monocular Visual Odometry; LWIR-RGB cross-spectral Imaging; Image Fusion.  
  Abstract The manuscript evaluates the performance of a monocular visual odometry approach when images from different spectra are considered, both independently and fused. The objective behind this evaluation is to analyze if classical approaches can be improved when the given images, which are from different spectra, are fused and represented in new domains. The images in these new domains should have some of the following properties: i) more robust to noisy data; ii) less sensitive to changes (e.g., lighting); iii) more rich in descriptive information, among other. In particular in the current work two different image fusion strategies are considered. Firstly, images from the visible and thermal spectrum are fused using a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) approach. Secondly, a monochrome threshold strategy is considered. The obtained
representations are evaluated under a visual odometry framework, highlighting
their advantages and disadvantages, using different urban and semi-urban scenarios. Comparisons with both monocular-visible spectrum and monocular-infrared spectrum, are also provided showing the validity of the proposed approach.
 
  Address Lisboa; Portugal; November 2015  
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  Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 2194-5357 ISBN 978-3-319-27145-3 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ROBOT  
  Notes ADAS; 600.076; 600.086 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAD2015 Serial 2663  
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Author Xavier Perez Sala; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera edit  url
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  Title Biologically Inspired Turn Control in Robot Navigation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 14th Congrès Català en Intel·ligencia Artificial Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 187-196  
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  Abstract An exportable and robust system for turn control using only camera images is proposed for path execution in robot navigation. Robot motion information is extracted in the form of optical flow from SURF robust descriptors of consecutive frames in the image sequence. This information is used to compute the instantaneous rotation angle. Finally, control loop is closed correcting robot displacements when it is requested for a turn command. The proposed system has been successfully tested on the four-legged Sony Aibo robot.  
  Address Lleida  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-60750-841-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAE2011a Serial 1753  
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Author Xavier Perez; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera edit  doi
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  Title Biologically Inspired Path Execution Using SURF Flow in Robot Navigation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 11th International Work Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume II Issue Pages 581--588  
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  Abstract An exportable and robust system using only camera images is proposed for path execution in robot navigation. Motion information is extracted in the form of optical flow from SURF robust descriptors of consecutive frames, so the method is called SURF flow. This information is used to correct robot displacement when a straight forward path command is sent to the robot, but it is not really executed due to several robot and environmental concerns. The proposed system has been successfully tested on the legged robot Aibo.  
  Address Malaga  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21497-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IWANN  
  Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAE2011b Serial 1773  
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Author Florin Popescu; Stephane Ayache; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Cecile Capponi; Patrick Panciatici; Isabelle Guyon edit   pdf
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  Title From geospatial observations of ocean currents to causal predictors of spatio-economic activity using computer vision and machine learning Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication European Geosciences Union General Assembly Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 18 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract The big data transformation currently revolutionizing science and industry forges novel possibilities in multimodal analysis scarcely imaginable only a decade ago. One of the important economic and industrial problems that stand to benefit from the recent expansion of data availability and computational prowess is the prediction of electricity demand and renewable energy generation. Both are correlates of human activity: spatiotemporal energy consumption patterns in society are a factor of both demand (weather dependent) and supply, which determine cost – a relation expected to strengthen along with increasing renewable energy dependence. One of the main drivers of European weather patterns is the activity of the Atlantic Ocean and in particular its dominant Northern Hemisphere current: the Gulf Stream. We choose this particular current as a test case in part due to larger amount of relevant data and scientific literature available for refinement of analysis techniques.
This data richness is due not only to its economic importance but also to its size being clearly visible in radar and infrared satellite imagery, which makes it easier to detect using Computer Vision (CV). The power of CV techniques makes basic analysis thus developed scalable to other smaller and less known, but still influential, currents, which are not just curves on a map, but complex, evolving, moving branching trees in 3D projected onto a 2D image.
We investigate means of extracting, from several image modalities (including recently available Copernicus radar and earlier Infrared satellites), a parameterized presentation of the state of the Gulf Stream and its environment that is useful as feature space representation in a machine learning context, in this case with the EC’s H2020-sponsored ‘See.4C’ project, in the context of which data scientists may find novel predictors of spatiotemporal energy flow. Although automated extractors of Gulf Stream position exist, they differ in methodology and result. We shall attempt to extract more complex feature representation including branching points, eddies and parameterized changes in transport and velocity. Other related predictive features will be similarly developed, such as inference of deep water flux long the current path and wider spatial scale features such as Hough transform, surface turbulence indicators and temperature gradient indexes along with multi-time scale analysis of ocean height and temperature dynamics. The geospatial imaging and ML community may therefore benefit from a baseline of open-source techniques useful and expandable to other related prediction and/or scientific analysis tasks.
 
  Address Vienna; Austria; April 2016  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAE2016 Serial 2772  
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Author Andrei Polzounov; Artsiom Ablavatski; Sergio Escalera; Shijian Lu; Jianfei Cai edit  openurl
  Title WordFences: Text Localization and Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 24th International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Beijing; China; September 2017  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes HUPBA; no menciona Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PAE2017 Serial 3007  
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Author A. Pagani edit  openurl
  Title Analisis y comparacion de metodos para la caracterizacion de la respuesta espectral de camaras Type Report
  Year 2002 Publication CVC Technical Report # 64 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Pag2002 Serial 330  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga edit  doi
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  Title Color Vision, Computational Methods for Type Book Chapter
  Year 2014 Publication Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-11  
  Keywords Color computational vision; Computational neuroscience of color  
  Abstract The study of color vision has been aided by a whole battery of computational methods that attempt to describe the mechanisms that lead to our perception of colors in terms of the information-processing properties of the visual system. Their scope is highly interdisciplinary, linking apparently dissimilar disciplines such as mathematics, physics, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. Since the sensation of color is a feature of our brains, computational approaches usually include biological features of neural systems in their descriptions, from retinal light-receptor interaction to subcortical color opponency, cortical signal decoding, and color categorization. They produce hypotheses that are usually tested by behavioral or psychophysical experiments.  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Dieter Jaeger; Ranu Jung  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4614-7320-6 Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Par2014 Serial 2512  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga edit  isbn
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  Title Perceptual Psychophysics Type Book Chapter
  Year 2015 Publication Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor G.Cristobal; M.Keil; L.Perrinet  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-527-41264-8 Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Par2015 Serial 2600  
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Author N. Pares; J.R. Serra edit  openurl
  Title Tailleur: El problema del sastre. Type Miscellaneous
  Year 1992 Publication V Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes. Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ PaS1992 Serial 252  
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Author I. Payan edit  openurl
  Title El uso del recalaje en la construccion de imagenes de superresolucion Type Report
  Year 2001 Publication CVC Technical Report #50 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ Pay2001 Serial 201  
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