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Author Carlo Gatta; Simone Balocco; Francesco Ciompi; R. Hemetsberger; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Petia Radeva edit  openurl
  Title Real-time gating of IVUS sequences based on motion blur analysis: Method and quantitative validation Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume II Issue Pages 59-67  
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  Abstract Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is an image-guiding technique for cardiovascular diagnostic, providing cross-sectional images of vessels. During the acquisition, the catheter is pulled back (pullback) at a constant speed in order to acquire spatially subsequent images of the artery. However, during this procedure, the heart twist produces a swinging fluctuation of the probe position along the vessel axis. In this paper we propose a real-time gating algorithm based on the analysis of motion blur variations during the IVUS sequence. Quantitative tests performed on an in-vitro ground truth data base shown that our method is superior to state of the art algorithms both in computational speed and accuracy.  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Place of Publication Editor  
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  Area Expedition Conference (down) MICCAI  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ GBC2010 Serial 1447  
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Author Santiago Segui; Laura Igual; Jordi Vitria edit  doi
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  Title Weighted Bagging for Graph based One-Class Classifiers Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5997 Issue Pages 1-10  
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  Abstract Most conventional learning algorithms require both positive and negative training data for achieving accurate classification results. However, the problem of learning classifiers from only positive data arises in many applications where negative data are too costly, difficult to obtain, or not available at all. Minimum Spanning Tree Class Descriptor (MSTCD) was presented as a method that achieves better accuracies than other one-class classifiers in high dimensional data. However, the presence of outliers in the target class severely harms the performance of this classifier. In this paper we propose two bagging strategies for MSTCD that reduce the influence of outliers in training data. We show the improved performance on both real and artificially contaminated data.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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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 978-3-642-12126-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) MCS  
  Notes MILAB;OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SIV2010 Serial 1284  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Felipe Lumbreras; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Geographic Information for vision-based Road Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 621–626  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Road detection is a vital task for the development of autonomous vehicles. The knowledge of the free road surface ahead of the target vehicle can be used for autonomous driving, road departure warning, as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems like vehicle or pedestrian detection. Using vision to detect the road has several advantages in front of other sensors: richness of features, easy integration, low cost or low power consumption. Common vision-based road detection approaches use low-level features (such as color or texture) as visual cues to group pixels exhibiting similar properties. However, it is difficult to foresee a perfect clustering algorithm since roads are in outdoor scenarios being imaged from a mobile platform. In this paper, we propose a novel high-level approach to vision-based road detection based on geographical information. The key idea of the algorithm is exploiting geographical information to provide a rough detection of the road. Then, this segmentation is refined at low-level using color information to provide the final result. The results presented show the validity of our approach.  
  Address San Diego; CA; USA  
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  Area Expedition Conference (down) IV  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALG2010 Serial 1428  
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Author Jose Carlos Rubio; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa edit   pdf
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  Title Multiple-target tracking for the intelligent headlights control Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 903–910  
  Keywords Intelligent Headlights  
  Abstract TA7.4
Intelligent vehicle lighting systems aim at automatically regulating the headlights' beam to illuminate as much of the road ahead as possible while avoiding dazzling other drivers. A key component of such a system is computer vision software that is able to distinguish blobs due to vehicles' headlights and rear lights from those due to road lamps and reflective elements such as poles and traffic signs. In a previous work, we have devised a set of specialized supervised classifiers to make such decisions based on blob features related to its intensity and shape. Despite the overall good performance, there remain challenging that have yet to be solved: notably, faint and tiny blobs corresponding to quite distant vehicles. In fact, for such distant blobs, classification decisions can be taken after observing them during a few frames. Hence, incorporating tracking could improve the overall lighting system performance by enforcing the temporal consistency of the classifier decision. Accordingly, this paper focuses on the problem of constructing blob tracks, which is actually one of multiple-target tracking (MTT), but under two special conditions: We have to deal with frequent occlusions, as well as blob splits and merges. We approach it in a novel way by formulating the problem as a maximum a posteriori inference on a Markov random field. The qualitative (in video form) and quantitative evaluation of our new MTT method shows good tracking results. In addition, we will also see that the classification performance of the problematic blobs improves due to the proposed MTT algorithm.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Area Expedition Conference (down) ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RSL2010 Serial 1422  
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Author Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Vehicle geolocalization based on video synchronization Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1511–1516  
  Keywords video alignment  
  Abstract TC8.6
This paper proposes a novel method for estimating the geospatial localization of a vehicle. I uses as input a georeferenced video sequence recorded by a forward-facing camera attached to the windscreen. The core of the proposed method is an on-line video synchronization which finds out the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence to the one recorded at each time by the camera on a second drive through the same track. Once found the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence, we transfer its geospatial information of this frame. The key advantages of this method are: 1) the increase of the update rate and the geospatial accuracy with regard to a standard low-cost GPS and 2) the ability to localize a vehicle even when a GPS is not available or is not reliable enough, like in certain urban areas. Experimental results for an urban environments are presented, showing an average of relative accuracy of 1.5 meters.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DPS2010 Serial 1423  
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Author Ferran Diego; Jose Manuel Alvarez; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Vision-based road detection via on-line video registration Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1135–1140  
  Keywords video alignment; road detection  
  Abstract TB6.2
Road segmentation is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. Significant efforts have been made in order to solve this task using vision-based techniques. The major challenge is to deal with lighting variations and the presence of objects on the road surface. In this paper, we propose a new road detection method to infer the areas of the image depicting road surfaces without performing any image segmentation. The idea is to previously segment manually or semi-automatically the road region in a traffic-free reference video record on a first drive. And then to transfer these regions to the frames of a second video sequence acquired later in a second drive through the same road, in an on-line manner. This is possible because we are able to automatically align the two videos in time and space, that is, to synchronize them and warp each frame of the first video to its corresponding frame in the second one. The geometric transform can thus transfer the road region to the present frame on-line. In order to reduce the different lighting conditions which are present in outdoor scenarios, our approach incorporates a shadowless feature space which represents an image in an illuminant-invariant feature space. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic background subtraction algorithm which removes the regions containing vehicles in the observed frames which are within the transferred road region.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DAS2010 Serial 1424  
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Author Diego Alejandro Cheda; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Camera Egomotion Estimation in the ADAS Context Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1415–1420  
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  Abstract Camera-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have concentrated many research efforts in the last decades. Proposals based on monocular cameras require the knowledge of the camera pose with respect to the environment, in order to reach an efficient and robust performance. A common assumption in such systems is considering the road as planar, and the camera pose with respect to it as approximately known. However, in real situations, the camera pose varies along time due to the vehicle movement, the road slope, and irregularities on the road surface. Thus, the changes in the camera position and orientation (i.e., the egomotion) are critical information that must be estimated at every frame to avoid poor performances. This work focuses on egomotion estimation from a monocular camera under the ADAS context. We review and compare egomotion methods with simulated and real ADAS-like sequences. Basing on the results of our experiments, we show which of the considered nonlinear and linear algorithms have the best performance in this domain.  
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ CPL2010 Serial 1425  
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Author Jose Seabra; F. Javier Sanchez; Francesco Ciompi; Petia Radeva edit  url
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  Title Ultrasonographic Plaque Characterization using a Rayleigh Mixture Model Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 7th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1–4  
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  Abstract From Nano to Macro
A correct modelling of tissue morphology is determinant for the identification of vulnerable plaques. This paper aims at describing the plaque composition by means of a Rayleigh Mixture Model applied to ultrasonic data. The effectiveness of using a mixture of distributions is established through synthetic and real ultrasonic data samples. Furthermore, the proposed mixture model is used in a plaque classification problem in Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) images of coronary plaques. A classifier tested on a set of 67 in-vitro plaques, yields an overall accuracy of 86% and sensitivity of 92%, 94% and 82%, for fibrotic, calcified and lipidic tissues, respectively. These results strongly suggest that different plaques types can be distinguished by means of the coefficients and Rayleigh parameters of the mixture distribution.
 
  Address Rotterdam (Netherlands)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1945-7928 ISBN 978-1-4244-4125-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ISBI  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SSC2010 Serial 1366  
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Author Joan Arnedo-Moreno; Agata Lapedriza edit  openurl
  Title Visualizing key authenticity: turning your face into your public key Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 6th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 605-618  
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  Abstract Biometric information has become a technology complementary to cryptography, allowing to conveniently manage cryptographic data. Two important needs are ful lled: rst of all, making such data always readily available, and additionally, making its legitimate owner easily identi able. In this work we propose a signature system which integrates face recognition biometrics with and identity-based signature scheme, so the user's face e ectively becomes his public key and system ID. Thus, other users may verify messages using photos of the claimed sender, providing a reasonable trade-o between system security and usability, as well as a much more straightforward public key authenticity and distribution process.  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Area Expedition Conference (down) Inscrypt  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ArL2010c Serial 2149  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika edit  doi
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  Title Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Using Laplacian Eigenmaps-Based Manifold Learning Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 156–161  
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  Abstract In this paper, we propose an integrated framework for tracking, modelling and recognition of facial expressions. The main contributions are: (i) a view- and texture independent scheme that exploits facial action parameters estimated by an appearance-based 3D face tracker; (ii) the complexity of the non-linear facial expression space is modelled through a manifold, whose structure is learned using Laplacian Eigenmaps. The projected facial expressions are afterwards recognized based on Nearest Neighbor classifier; (iii) with the proposed approach, we developed an application for an AIBO robot, in which it mirrors the perceived facial expression.  
  Address Anchorage; AK; USA;  
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  ISSN 1050-4729 ISBN 978-1-4244-5038-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICRA  
  Notes OR; MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RaD2010 Serial 1310  
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Author Jaume Amores edit  doi
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  Title Vocabulary-based Approaches for Multiple-Instance Data: a Comparative Study Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 4246–4250  
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  Abstract Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has become a hot topic and many different algorithms have been proposed in the last years. Despite this fact, there is a lack of comparative studies that shed light into the characteristics of the different methods and their behavior in different scenarios. In this paper we provide such an analysis. We include methods from different families, and pay special attention to vocabulary-based approaches, a new family of methods that has not received much attention in the MIL literature. The empirical comparison includes seven databases from four heterogeneous domains, implementations of eight popular MIL methods, and a study of the behavior under synthetic conditions. Based on this analysis, we show that, with an appropriate implementation, vocabulary-based approaches outperform other MIL methods in most of the cases, showing in general a more consistent performance.  
  Address Istanbul, Turkey  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ Amo2010 Serial 1295  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit  doi
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  Title Person-specific face shape estimation under varying head pose from single snapshots Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3496–3499  
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  Abstract This paper presents a new method for person-specific face shape estimation under varying head pose of a previously unseen person from a single image. We describe a featureless approach based on a deformable 3D model and a learned face subspace. The proposed approach is based on maximizing a likelihood measure associated with a learned face subspace, which is carried out by a stochastic and genetic optimizer. We conducted the experiments on a subset of Honda Video Database showing the feasibility and robustness of the proposed approach. For this reason, our approach could lend itself nicely to complex frameworks involving 3D face tracking and face gesture recognition in monocular videos.  
  Address Istanbul, Turkey  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICPR  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ DoR2010b Serial 1361  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title A meta-learning approach to Conditional Random Fields using Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 710–713  
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  Abstract We present a meta-learning framework for the design of potential functions for Conditional Random Fields. The design of both node potential and edge potential is formulated as a classification problem where margin classifiers are used. The set of state transitions for the edge potential is treated as a set of different classes, thus defining a multi-class learning problem. The Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) technique is used to deal with the multi-class problem. Furthermore, the point defined by the combination of margin classifiers in the ECOC space is interpreted in a probabilistic manner, and the obtained distance values are then converted into potential values. The proposed model exhibits very promising results when applied to two real detection problems.  
  Address Istanbul;Turkey  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICPR  
  Notes MILAB;HUPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2010a Serial 1365  
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Author David Augusto Rojas; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer edit  doi
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  Title The Impact of Color on Bag-of-Words based Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1549–1553  
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  Abstract In recent years several works have aimed at exploiting color information in order to improve the bag-of-words based image representation. There are two stages in which color information can be applied in the bag-of-words framework. Firstly, feature detection can be improved by choosing highly informative color-based regions. Secondly, feature description, typically focusing on shape, can be improved with a color description of the local patches. Although both approaches have been shown to improve results the combined merits have not yet been analyzed. Therefore, in this paper we investigate the combined contribution of color to both the feature detection and extraction stages. Experiments performed on two challenging data sets, namely Flower and Pascal VOC 2009; clearly demonstrate that incorporating color in both feature detection and extraction significantly improves the overall performance.  
  Address Istanbul (Turkey)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICPR  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ RKW2010 Serial 1415  
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Author Murad Al Haj; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Reactive object tracking with a single PTZ camera Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1690–1693  
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  Abstract In this paper we describe a novel approach to reactive tracking of moving targets with a pan-tilt-zoom camera. The approach uses an extended Kalman filter to jointly track the object position in the real world, its velocity in 3D and the camera intrinsics, in addition to the rate of change of these parameters. The filter outputs are used as inputs to PID controllers which continuously adjust the camera motion in order to reactively track the object at a constant image velocity while simultaneously maintaining a desirable target scale in the image plane. We provide experimental results on simulated and real tracking sequences to show how our tracker is able to accurately estimate both 3D object position and camera intrinsics with very high precision over a wide range of focal lengths.  
  Address Istanbul (Turkey)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (down) ICPR  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ ABG2010 Serial 1418  
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