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	Author	Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla
	Title	Multi-Image Super-Resolution for Thermal Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	17th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2022)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	4	Issue		Pages	635-642
	Keywords	Thermal Images; Multi-view; Multi-frame; Super-Resolution; Deep Learning; Attention Block
	Abstract	This paper proposes a novel CNN architecture for the multi-thermal image super-resolution problem. In the proposed scheme, the multi-images are synthetically generated by downsampling and slightly shifting the given image; noise is also added to each of these synthesized images. The proposed architecture uses two attention blocks paths to extract high-frequency details taking advantage of the large information extracted from multiple images of the same scene. Experimental results are provided, showing the proposed scheme has overcome the state-of-the-art approaches.
	Address	Online; Feb 6-8, 2022
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISAPP
	Notes	MSIAU; 601.349			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSV2022a			Serial	3690
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	Author	Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Riad I. Hammoud
	Title	A Novel Domain Transfer-Based Approach for Unsupervised Thermal Image Super-Resolution			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Sensors	Abbreviated Journal	SENS
	Volume	22	Issue	6	Pages	2254
	Keywords	Thermal image super-resolution; unsupervised super-resolution; thermal images; attention module; semiregistered thermal images
	Abstract	This paper presents a transfer domain strategy to tackle the limitations of low-resolution thermal sensors and generate higher-resolution images of reasonable quality. The proposed technique employs a CycleGAN architecture and uses a ResNet as an encoder in the generator along with an attention module and a novel loss function. The network is trained on a multi-resolution thermal image dataset acquired with three different thermal sensors. Results report better performance benchmarking results on the 2nd CVPR-PBVS-2021 thermal image super-resolution challenge than state-of-the-art methods. The code of this work is available online.
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	Notes	MSIAU;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSV2022b			Serial	3688
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	Author	Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Jin Kim; Dogun Kim; Zhihao Li; Yingchun Jian; Bo Yan; Leilei Cao; Fengliang Qi; Hongbin Wang Rongyuan Wu; Lingchen Sun; Yongqiang Zhao; Lin Li; Kai Wang; Yicheng Wang; Xuanming Zhang; Huiyuan Wei; Chonghua Lv; Qigong Sun; Xiaolin Tian; Zhuang Jia; Jiakui Hu; Chenyang Wang; Zhiwei Zhong; Xianming Liu; Junjun Jiang
	Title	Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge Results – PBVS 2022			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	418-426
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	Abstract	This paper presents results from the third Thermal Image Super-Resolution (TISR) challenge organized in the Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS) 2022 workshop. The challenge uses the same thermal image dataset as the first two challenges, with 951 training images and 50 validation images at each resolution. A set of 20 images was kept aside for testing. The evaluation tasks were to measure the PSNR and SSIM between the SR image and the ground truth (HR thermal noisy image downsampled by four), and also to measure the PSNR and SSIM between the SR image and the semi-registered HR image (acquired with another camera). The results outperformed those from last year’s challenge, improving both evaluation metrics. This year, almost 100 teams participants registered for the challenge, showing the community’s interest in this hot topic.
	Address	New Orleans; USA; June 2022
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPRW
	Notes	MSIAU; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSV2022c			Serial	3775
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	Author	Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla
	Title	Thermal Image Super-Resolution: A Novel Unsupervised Approach			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	1474	Issue		Pages	495–506
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper proposes the use of a CycleGAN architecture for thermal image super-resolution under a transfer domain strategy, where middle-resolution images from one camera are transferred to a higher resolution domain of another camera. The proposed approach is trained with a large dataset acquired using three thermal cameras at different resolutions. An unsupervised learning process is followed to train the architecture. Additional loss function is proposed trying to improve results from the state of the art approaches. Following the first thermal image super-resolution challenge (PBVS-CVPR2020) evaluations are performed. A comparison with previous works is presented showing the proposed approach reaches the best results.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISIGRAPP
	Notes	MSIAU; 600.130			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSV2022d			Serial	3776
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	Author	Idoia Ruiz
	Title	Deep Metric Learning for re-identification, tracking and hierarchical novelty detection			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2022	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Metric learning refers to the problem in machine learning of learning a distance or similarity measurement to compare data. In particular, deep metric learning involves learning a representation, also referred to as embedding, such that in the embedding space data samples can be compared based on the distance, directly providing a similarity measure. This step is necessary to perform several tasks in computer vision. It allows to perform the classification of images, regions or pixels, re-identification, out-of-distribution detection, object tracking in image sequences and any other task that requires computing a similarity score for their solution. This thesis addresses three specific problems that share this common requirement. The first one is person re-identification. Essentially, it is an image retrieval task that aims at finding instances of the same person according to a similarity measure. We first compare in terms of accuracy and efficiency, classical metric learning to basic deep learning based methods for this problem. In this context, we also study network distillation as a strategy to optimize the trade-off between accuracy and speed at inference time. The second problem we contribute to is novelty detection in image classification. It consists in detecting samples of novel classes, i.e. never seen during training. However, standard novelty detection does not provide any information about the novel samples besides they are unknown. Aiming at more informative outputs, we take advantage from the hierarchical taxonomies that are intrinsic to the classes. We propose a metric learning based approach that leverages the hierarchical relationships among classes during training, being able to predict the parent class for a novel sample in such hierarchical taxonomy. Our third contribution is in multi-object tracking and segmentation. This joint task comprises classification, detection, instance segmentation and tracking. Tracking can be formulated as a retrieval problem to be addressed with metric learning approaches. We tackle the existing difficulty in academic research that is the lack of annotated benchmarks for this task. To this matter, we introduce the problem of weakly supervised multi-object tracking and segmentation, facing the challenge of not having available ground truth for instance segmentation. We propose a synergistic training strategy that benefits from the knowledge of the supervised tasks that are being learnt simultaneously.
	Address	July, 2022
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Joan Serrat
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-124793-4-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Rui2022			Serial	3717
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	Author	Idoia Ruiz; Joan Serrat
	Title	Hierarchical Novelty Detection for Traffic Sign Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Sensors	Abbreviated Journal	SENS
	Volume	22	Issue	12	Pages	4389
	Keywords	Novelty detection; hierarchical classification; deep learning; traffic sign recognition; autonomous driving; computer vision
	Abstract	Recent works have made significant progress in novelty detection, i.e., the problem of detecting samples of novel classes, never seen during training, while classifying those that belong to known classes. However, the only information this task provides about novel samples is that they are unknown. In this work, we leverage hierarchical taxonomies of classes to provide informative outputs for samples of novel classes. We predict their closest class in the taxonomy, i.e., its parent class. We address this problem, known as hierarchical novelty detection, by proposing a novel loss, namely Hierarchical Cosine Loss that is designed to learn class prototypes along with an embedding of discriminative features consistent with the taxonomy. We apply it to traffic sign recognition, where we predict the parent class semantics for new types of traffic signs. Our model beats state-of-the art approaches on two large scale traffic sign benchmarks, Mapillary Traffic Sign Dataset (MTSD) and Tsinghua-Tencent 100K (TT100K), and performs similarly on natural images benchmarks (AWA2, CUB). For TT100K and MTSD, our approach is able to detect novel samples at the correct nodes of the hierarchy with 81% and 36% of accuracy, respectively, at 80% known class accuracy.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.154			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RuS2022			Serial	3684
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	Author	Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Dario Carpio; Henry Velesaca; Francisca Burgos; Patricia Urdiales
	Title	Deep Learning Based Shrimp Classification			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	17th International Symposium on Visual Computing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	13598	Issue		Pages	36–45
	Keywords	Pigmentation; Color space; Light weight network
	Abstract	This work proposes a novel approach based on deep learning to address the classification of shrimp (Pennaeus vannamei) into two classes, according to their level of pigmentation accepted by shrimp commerce. The main goal of this actual study is to support the shrimp industry in terms of price and process. An efficient CNN architecture is proposed to perform image classification through a program that could be set other in mobile devices or in fixed support in the shrimp supply chain. The proposed approach is a lightweight model that uses HSV color space shrimp images. A simple pipeline shows the most important stages performed to determine a pattern that identifies the class to which they belong based on their pigmentation. For the experiments, a database acquired with mobile devices of various brands and models has been used to capture images of shrimp. The results obtained with the images in the RGB and HSV color space allow for testing the effectiveness of the proposed model.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ISVC
	Notes	MSIAU; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SAC2022			Serial	3772
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	Author	Angel Sappa (ed)
	Title	ICT Applications for Smart Cities			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2022	Publication	ICT Applications for Smart Cities	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	224	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Systems; Smart Cities; ICT Applications; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Computer Vision; Image Processing
	Abstract	Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL) This book is the result of four-year work in the framework of the Ibero-American Research Network TICs4CI funded by the CYTED program. In the following decades, 85% of the world's population is expected to live in cities; hence, urban centers should be prepared to provide smart solutions for problems ranging from video surveillance and intelligent mobility to the solid waste recycling processes, just to mention a few. More specifically, the book describes underlying technologies and practical implementations of several successful case studies of ICTs developed in the following smart city areas: • Urban environment monitoring • Intelligent mobility • Waste recycling processes • Video surveillance • Computer-aided diagnose in healthcare systems • Computer vision-based approaches for efficiency in production processes The book is intended for researchers and engineers in the field of ICTs for smart cities, as well as to anyone who wants to know about state-of-the-art approaches and challenges on this field.
	Address	September 2022
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	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor	Angel Sappa
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	ISRL
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-031-06306-0	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MSIAU; MACO			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Sap2022			Serial	3812
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	Author	Ahmed M. A. Salih; Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo; Federica Cruciani; Lorenza Brusini; Petia Radeva
	Title	Investigating Explainable Artificial Intelligence for MRI-based Classification of Dementia: a New Stability Criterion for Explainable Methods			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Image processing; Stability criteria; Machine learning; Robustness; Alzheimer's disease; Monitoring
	Abstract	Individuals diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) have shown an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). As such, early identification of dementia represents a key prognostic element, though hampered by complex disease patterns. Increasing efforts have focused on Machine Learning (ML) to build accurate classification models relying on a multitude of clinical/imaging variables. However, ML itself does not provide sensible explanations related to the model mechanism and feature contribution. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) represents the enabling technology in this framework, allowing to understand ML outcomes and derive human-understandable explanations. In this study, we aimed at exploring ML combined with MRI-based features and XAI to solve this classification problem and interpret the outcome. In particular, we propose a new method to assess the robustness of feature rankings provided by XAI methods, especially when multicollinearity exists. Our findings indicate that our method was able to disentangle the list of the informative features underlying dementia, with important implications for aiding personalized monitoring plans.
	Address	Bordeaux; France; October 2022
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBC2022			Serial	3789
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Ali Furkan Biten; Sounak Dey; Alicia Fornes; Yousri Kessentini; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	One-shot Compositional Data Generation for Low Resource Handwritten Text Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Document Analysis
	Abstract	Low resource Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a hard problem due to the scarce annotated data and the very limited linguistic information (dictionaries and language models). This appears, for example, in the case of historical ciphered manuscripts, which are usually written with invented alphabets to hide the content. Thus, in this paper we address this problem through a data generation technique based on Bayesian Program Learning (BPL). Contrary to traditional generation approaches, which require a huge amount of annotated images, our method is able to generate human-like handwriting using only one sample of each symbol from the desired alphabet. After generating symbols, we create synthetic lines to train state-of-the-art HTR architectures in a segmentation free fashion. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving competitive results compared to the usage of real annotated data.
	Address	Virtual; January 2022
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	DAG; 602.230; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBD2022			Serial	3615
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	Author	Mireia Sole; Joan Blanco; Debora Gil; Oliver Valero; B. Cardenas; G. Fonseka; E. Anton; Alvaro Pascual; Richard Frodsham; Zaida Sarrate
	Title	Time to match; when do homologous chromosomes become closer?			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Chromosoma	Abbreviated Journal	CHRO
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	Abstract	In most eukaryotes, pairing of homologous chromosomes is an essential feature of meiosis that ensures homologous recombination and segregation. However, when the pairing process begins, it is still under investigation. Contrasting data exists in Mus musculus, since both leptotene DSB-dependent and preleptotene DSB-independent mechanisms have been described. To unravel this contention, we examined homologous pairing in pre-meiotic and meiotic Mus musculus cells using a threedimensional fuorescence in situ hybridization-based protocol, which enables the analysis of the entire karyotype using DNA painting probes. Our data establishes in an unambiguously manner that 73.83% of homologous chromosomes are already paired at premeiotic stages (spermatogonia-early preleptotene spermatocytes). The percentage of paired homologous chromosomes increases to 84.60% at mid-preleptotene-zygotene stage, reaching 100% at pachytene stage. Importantly, our results demonstrate a high percentage of homologous pairing observed before the onset of meiosis; this pairing does not occur randomly, as the percentage was higher than that observed in somatic cells (19.47%) and between nonhomologous chromosomes (41.1%). Finally, we have also observed that premeiotic homologous pairing is asynchronous and independent of the chromosome size, GC content, or presence of NOR regions.
	Address	August, 2022
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	Notes	IAM; 601.139; 600.145; 600.096			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBG2022			Serial	3719
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Sanket Biswas; Sana Khamekhem Jemni; Yousri Kessentini; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
	Title	DocEnTr: An End-to-End Document Image Enhancement Transformer			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1699-1705
	Keywords	Degradation; Head; Optical character recognition; Self-supervised learning; Benchmark testing; Transformers; Magnetic heads
	Abstract	Document images can be affected by many degradation scenarios, which cause recognition and processing difficulties. In this age of digitization, it is important to denoise them for proper usage. To address this challenge, we present a new encoder-decoder architecture based on vision transformers to enhance both machine-printed and handwritten document images, in an end-to-end fashion. The encoder operates directly on the pixel patches with their positional information without the use of any convolutional layers, while the decoder reconstructs a clean image from the encoded patches. Conducted experiments show a superiority of the proposed model compared to the state-of the-art methods on several DIBCO benchmarks. Code and models will be publicly available at: https://github.com/dali92002/DocEnTR
	Address	August 21-25, 2022 , Montréal Québec
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	DAG; 600.121; 600.162; 602.230; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBJ2022			Serial	3730
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	Author	Patricia Suarez; Dario Carpio; Angel Sappa; Henry Velesaca
	Title	Transformer based Image Dehazing			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	16th IEEE International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based System	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	atmospheric light; brightness component; computational cost; dehazing quality; haze-free image
	Abstract	This paper presents a novel approach to remove non homogeneous haze from real images. The proposed method consists mainly of image feature extraction, haze removal, and image reconstruction. To accomplish this challenging task, we propose an architecture based on transformers, which have been recently introduced and have shown great potential in different computer vision tasks. Our model is based on the SwinIR an image restoration architecture based on a transformer, but by modifying the deep feature extraction module, the depth level of the model, and by applying a combined loss function that improves styling and adapts the model for the non-homogeneous haze removal present in images. The obtained results prove to be superior to those obtained by state-of-the-art models.
	Address	Dijon; France; October 2022
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	SITIS
	Notes	MSIAU; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SCS2022			Serial	3803
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Alicia Fornes; Yousri Kessentini; Beata Megyesi
	Title	Few shots are all you need: A progressive learning approach for low resource handwritten text recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	160	Issue		Pages	43-49
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	Abstract	Handwritten text recognition in low resource scenarios, such as manuscripts with rare alphabets, is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning-based handwriting recognition approach that significantly reduces the human annotation process, by requiring only a few images of each alphabet symbols. The method consists of detecting all the symbols of a given alphabet in a textline image and decoding the obtained similarity scores to the final sequence of transcribed symbols. Our model is first pretrained on synthetic line images generated from an alphabet, which could differ from the alphabet of the target domain. A second training step is then applied to reduce the gap between the source and the target data. Since this retraining would require annotation of thousands of handwritten symbols together with their bounding boxes, we propose to avoid such human effort through an unsupervised progressive learning approach that automatically assigns pseudo-labels to the unlabeled data. The evaluation on different datasets shows that our model can lead to competitive results with a significant reduction in human effort. The code will be publicly available in the following repository: https://github.com/dali92002/HTRbyMatching
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	DAG; 600.121; 600.162; 602.230			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SFK2022			Serial	3736
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Y.Kessentini
	Title	DE-GAN: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Document Enhancement			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	44	Issue	3	Pages	1180-1191
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	Abstract	Documents often exhibit various forms of degradation, which make it hard to be read and substantially deteriorate the performance of an OCR system. In this paper, we propose an effective end-to-end framework named Document Enhancement Generative Adversarial Networks (DE-GAN) that uses the conditional GANs (cGANs) to restore severely degraded document images. To the best of our knowledge, this practice has not been studied within the context of generative adversarial deep networks. We demonstrate that, in different tasks (document clean up, binarization, deblurring and watermark removal), DE-GAN can produce an enhanced version of the degraded document with a high quality. In addition, our approach provides consistent improvements compared to state-of-the-art methods over the widely used DIBCO 2013, DIBCO 2017 and H-DIBCO 2018 datasets, proving its ability to restore a degraded document image to its ideal condition. The obtained results on a wide variety of degradation reveal the flexibility of the proposed model to be exploited in other document enhancement problems.
	Address	1 March 2022
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	Notes	DAG; 602.230; 600.121; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SoK2022			Serial	3454
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