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Author Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Qigang Gao; Sergio Escalera
Title Three-Dimensional Design of Error Correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 29-
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Address Berlin, Germany
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Area Expedition Conference MLDM
Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ BGE2012a Serial 2041
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Author Pau Baiget; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Trajectory-Based Abnormality Categorization for Learning Route Patterns in Surveillance Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues, Studies in Computational Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 384 Issue 3 Pages 87-95
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Abstract The recognition of abnormal behaviors in video sequences has raised as a hot topic in video understanding research. Particularly, an important challenge resides on automatically detecting abnormality. However, there is no convention about the types of anomalies that training data should derive. In surveillance, these are typically detected when new observations differ substantially from observed, previously learned behavior models, which represent normality. This paper focuses on properly defining anomalies within trajectory analysis: we propose a hierarchical representation conformed by Soft, Intermediate, and Hard Anomaly, which are identified from the extent and nature of deviation from learned models. Towards this end, a novel Gaussian Mixture Model representation of learned route patterns creates a probabilistic map of the image plane, which is applied to detect and classify anomalies in real-time. Our method overcomes limitations of similar existing approaches, and performs correctly even when the tracking is affected by different sources of noise. The reliability of our approach is demonstrated experimentally.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-24033-1 Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ BFR2012 Serial 2062
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Author Jorge Bernal
Title Polyp Localization and Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images by Means of a Model of Appearance for Polyps Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death worldwide and its survival rate depends on the stage in which it is detected on hence the necessity for an early colon screening. There are several screening techniques but colonoscopy is still nowadays the gold standard, although it has some drawbacks such as the miss rate. Our contribution, in the field of intelligent systems for colonoscopy, aims at providing a polyp localization and a polyp segmentation system based on a model of appearance for polyps. To develop both methods we define a model of appearance for polyps, which describes a polyp as enclosed by intensity valleys. The novelty of our contribution resides on the fact that we include in our model aspects of the image formation and we also consider the presence of other elements from the endoluminal scene such as specular highlights and blood vessels, which have an impact on the performance of our methods. In order to develop our polyp localization method we accumulate valley information in order to generate energy maps, which are also used to guide the polyp segmentation. Our methods achieve promising results in polyp localization and segmentation. As we want to explore the usability of our methods we present a comparative analysis between physicians fixations obtained via an eye tracking device and our polyp localization method. The results show that our method is indistinguishable to novice physicians although it is far from expert physicians.
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Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor F. Javier Sanchez;Fernando Vilariño
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Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ Ber2012 Serial 2211
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Author Klaus Broelemann; Anjan Dutta; Xiaoyi Jiang; Josep Llados
Title Hierarchical graph representation for symbol spotting in graphical document images Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, Joint IAPR International Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7626 Issue Pages 529-538
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Abstract Symbol spotting can be defined as locating given query symbol in a large collection of graphical documents. In this paper we present a hierarchical graph representation for symbols. This representation allows graph matching methods to deal with low-level vectorization errors and, thus, to perform a robust symbol spotting. To show the potential of this approach, we conduct an experiment with the SESYD dataset.
Address Miyajima-Itsukushima, Hiroshima
Corporate Author Thesis
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 978-3-642-34165-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference SSPR&SPR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ BDJ2012 Serial 2126
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Author Fernando Barrera
Title Multimodal Stereo from Thermal Infrared and Visible Spectrum Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Recent advances in thermal infrared imaging (LWIR) has allowed its use in applications beyond of the military domain. Nowadays, this new family of sensors is included in different technical and scientific applications. They offer features that facilitate tasks, such as detection of pedestrians, hot spots, differences in temperature, among others, which can significantly improve the performance of a system where the persons are expected to play the principal role. For instance, video surveillance applications, monitoring, and pedestrian detection.
During this dissertation the next question is stated: Could a couple of sensors measuring different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, as the visible and thermal infrared, be used to extract depth information? Although it is a complex question, we shows that a system of these characteristics is possible as well as their advantages, drawbacks, and potential opportunities.
The matching and fusion of data coming from different sensors, as the emissions registered at visible and infrared bands, represents a special challenge, because it has been showed that theses signals are weak correlated. Therefore, many traditional techniques of image processing and computer vision are not helpful, requiring adjustments for their correct performance in every modality.
In this research an experimental study that compares different cost functions and matching approaches is performed, in order to build a multimodal stereovision system. Furthermore, the common problems in infrared/visible stereo, specially in the outdoor scenes are identified. Our framework summarizes the architecture of a generic stereo algorithm, at different levels: computational, functional, and structural, which can be extended toward high-level fusion (semantic) and high-order (prior).The proposed framework is intended to explore novel multimodal stereo matching approaches, going from sparse to dense representations (both disparity and depth maps). Moreover, context information is added in form of priors and assumptions. Finally, this dissertation shows a promissory way toward the integration of multiple sensors for recovering three-dimensional information.
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Felipe Lumbreras;Angel Sappa
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ Bar2012 Serial 2209
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Author Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
Title Low-dimensional and Comprehensive Color Texture Description Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Computer Vision and Image Understanding Abbreviated Journal CVIU
Volume 116 Issue I Pages 54-67
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Abstract Image retrieval can be dealt by combining standard descriptors, such as those of MPEG-7, which are defined independently for each visual cue (e.g. SCD or CLD for Color, HTD for texture or EHD for edges).
A common problem is to combine similarities coming from descriptors representing different concepts in different spaces. In this paper we propose a color texture description that bypasses this problem from its inherent definition. It is based on a low dimensional space with 6 perceptual axes. Texture is described in a 3D space derived from a direct implementation of the original Julesz’s Texton theory and color is described in a 3D perceptual space. This early fusion through the blob concept in these two bounded spaces avoids the problem and allows us to derive a sparse color-texture descriptor that achieves similar performance compared to MPEG-7 in image retrieval. Moreover, our descriptor presents comprehensive qualities since it can also be applied either in segmentation or browsing: (a) a dense image representation is defined from the descriptor showing a reasonable performance in locating texture patterns included in complex images; and (b) a vocabulary of basic terms is derived to build an intermediate level descriptor in natural language improving browsing by bridging semantic gap
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1077-3142 ISBN Medium
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Notes CAT;CIC Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ASV2012 Serial 1827
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Author Cristhian Aguilera; M.Ramos; Angel Sappa
Title Simulated Annealing: A Novel Application of Image Processing in the Wood Area Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Simulated Annealing – Advances, Applications and Hybridizations Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 91-104
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor Marcos de Sales Guerra Tsuzuki
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-953-51-0710-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ARS2012 Serial 2156
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Author Ariel Amato
Title Environment-Independent Moving Cast Shadow Suppression in Video Surveillance Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Abstract This thesis is devoted to moving shadows detection and suppression. Shadows could be defined as the parts of the scene that are not directly illuminated by a light source due to obstructing object or objects. Often, moving shadows in images sequences are undesirable since they could cause degradation of the expected results during processing of images for object detection, segmentation, scene surveillance or similar purposes. In this thesis first moving shadow detection methods are exhaustively overviewed. Beside the mentioned methods from literature and to compensate their limitations a new moving shadow detection method is proposed. It requires no prior knowledge about the scene, nor is it restricted to assumptions about specific scene structures. Furthermore, the technique can detect both achromatic and chromatic shadows even in the presence of camouflage that occurs when foreground regions are very similar in color to shadowed regions. The method exploits local color constancy properties due to reflectance suppression over shadowed regions. To detect shadowed regions in a scene the values of the background image are divided by values of the current frame in the RGB color space. In the thesis how this luminance ratio can be used to identify segments with low gradient constancy is shown, which in turn distinguish shadows from foreground. Experimental results on a collection of publicly available datasets illustrate the superior performance of the proposed method compared with the most sophisticated state-of-the-art shadow detection algorithms. These results show that the proposed approach is robust and accurate over a broad range of shadow types and challenging video conditions.
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Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Mikhail Mozerov;Jordi Gonzalez
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ Ama2012 Serial 2201
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Author Susana Alvarez; Maria Vanrell
Title Texton theory revisited: a bag-of-words approach to combine textons Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 45 Issue 12 Pages 4312-4325
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to revisit an old theory of texture perception and
update its computational implementation by extending it to colour. With this in mind we try to capture the optimality of perceptual systems. This is achieved in the proposed approach by sharing well-known early stages of the visual processes and extracting low-dimensional features that perfectly encode adequate properties for a large variety of textures without needing further learning stages. We propose several descriptors in a bag-of-words framework that are derived from different quantisation models on to the feature spaces. Our perceptual features are directly given by the shape and colour attributes of image blobs, which are the textons. In this way we avoid learning visual words and directly build the vocabularies on these lowdimensionaltexton spaces. Main differences between proposed descriptors rely on how co-occurrence of blob attributes is represented in the vocabularies. Our approach overcomes current state-of-art in colour texture description which is proved in several experiments on large texture datasets.
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0031-3203 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ AlV2012a Serial 2130
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Felipe Lumbreras; Antonio Lopez; Theo Gevers
Title Understanding Road Scenes using Visual Cues Type Miscellaneous
Year 2012 Publication European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Abstract DEMO
Address Florence; Italy
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ALL2012 Serial 2795
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez
Title Photometric Invariance by Machine Learning Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue Pages 113-134
Keywords road detection
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Publisher iConcept Press Ltd Place of Publication Editor Theo Gevers, Arjan Gijsenij, Joost van de Weijer, Jan-Mark Geusebroek
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN ISBN 978-0-470-89084-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ AlL2012 Serial 2186
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Y. LeCun; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez
Title Semantic Road Segmentation via Multi-Scale Ensembles of Learned Features Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 12th European Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops and Demonstrations Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7584 Issue Pages 586-595
Keywords road detection
Abstract Semantic segmentation refers to the process of assigning an object label (e.g., building, road, sidewalk, car, pedestrian) to every pixel in an image. Common approaches formulate the task as a random field labeling problem modeling the interactions between labels by combining local and contextual features such as color, depth, edges, SIFT or HoG. These models are trained to maximize the likelihood of the correct classification given a training set. However, these approaches rely on hand–designed features (e.g., texture, SIFT or HoG) and a higher computational time required in the inference process.
Therefore, in this paper, we focus on estimating the unary potentials of a conditional random field via ensembles of learned features. We propose an algorithm based on convolutional neural networks to learn local features from training data at different scales and resolutions. Then, diversification between these features is exploited using a weighted linear combination. Experiments on a publicly available database show the effectiveness of the proposed method to perform semantic road scene segmentation in still images. The algorithm outperforms appearance based methods and its performance is similar compared to state–of–the–art methods using other sources of information such as depth, motion or stereo.
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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 978-3-642-33867-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCVW
Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ALG2012; ADAS @ adas Serial 2187
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Y. LeCun; Antonio Lopez
Title Road Scene Segmentation from a Single Image Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 12th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7578 Issue VII Pages 376-389
Keywords road detection
Abstract Road scene segmentation is important in computer vision for different applications such as autonomous driving and pedestrian detection. Recovering the 3D structure of road scenes provides relevant contextual information to improve their understanding.
In this paper, we use a convolutional neural network based algorithm to learn features from noisy labels to recover the 3D scene layout of a road image. The novelty of the algorithm relies on generating training labels by applying an algorithm trained on a general image dataset to classify on–board images. Further, we propose a novel texture descriptor based on a learned color plane fusion to obtain maximal uniformity in road areas. Finally, acquired (off–line) and current (on–line) information are combined to detect road areas in single images.
From quantitative and qualitative experiments, conducted on publicly available datasets, it is concluded that convolutional neural networks are suitable for learning 3D scene layout from noisy labels and provides a relative improvement of 7% compared to the baseline. Furthermore, combining color planes provides a statistical description of road areas that exhibits maximal uniformity and provides a relative improvement of 8% compared to the baseline. Finally, the improvement is even bigger when acquired and current information from a single image are combined
Address Florence, Italy
Corporate Author Thesis
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 978-3-642-33785-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCV
Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ AGL2012; ADAS @ adas @ agl2012a Serial 2022
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Author Cristhian Aguilera; Fernando Barrera; Angel Sappa; Ricardo Toledo
Title A Novel SIFT-Like-Based Approach for FIR-VS Images Registration Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 11th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Address Naples, Italy
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Area Expedition Conference QIRT
Notes ADAS; TV Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ABS2012 Serial 2017
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Author Cristhian Aguilera; Fernando Barrera; Felipe Lumbreras; Angel Sappa; Ricardo Toledo
Title Multispectral Image Feature Points Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS
Volume 12 Issue 9 Pages 12661-12672
Keywords multispectral image descriptor; color and infrared images; feature point descriptor
Abstract Far-Infrared and Visible Spectrum images. It allows matching interest points on images of the same scene but acquired in different spectral bands. Initially, points of interest are detected on both images through a SIFT-like based scale space representation. Then, these points are characterized using an Edge Oriented Histogram (EOH) descriptor. Finally, points of interest from multispectral images are matched by finding nearest couples using the information from the descriptor. The provided experimental results and comparisons with similar methods show both the validity of the proposed approach as well as the improvements it offers with respect to the current state-of-the-art.
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number (down) Admin @ si @ ABL2012 Serial 2154
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