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Author Yawei Li; Yulun Zhang; Radu Timofte; Luc Van Gool; Zhijun Tu; Kunpeng Du; Hailing Wang; Hanting Chen; Wei Li; Xiaofei Wang; Jie Hu; Yunhe Wang; Xiangyu Kong; Jinlong Wu; Dafeng Zhang; Jianxing Zhang; Shuai Liu; Furui Bai; Chaoyu Feng; Hao Wang; Yuqian Zhang; Guangqi Shao; Xiaotao Wang; Lei Lei; Rongjian Xu; Zhilu Zhang; Yunjin Chen; Dongwei Ren; Wangmeng Zuo; Qi Wu; Mingyan Han; Shen Cheng; Haipeng Li; Ting Jiang; Chengzhi Jiang; Xinpeng Li; Jinting Luo; Wenjie Lin; Lei Yu; Haoqiang Fan; Shuaicheng Liu; Aditya Arora; Syed Waqas Zamir; Javier Vazquez; Konstantinos G. Derpanis; Michael S. Brown; Hao Li; Zhihao Zhao; Jinshan Pan; Jiangxin Dong; Jinhui Tang; Bo Yang; Jingxiang Chen; Chenghua Li; Xi Zhang; Zhao Zhang; Jiahuan Ren; Zhicheng Ji; Kang Miao; Suiyi Zhao; Huan Zheng; YanYan Wei; Kangliang Liu; Xiangcheng Du; Sijie Liu; Yingbin Zheng; Xingjiao Wu; Cheng Jin; Rajeev Irny; Sriharsha Koundinya; Vighnesh Kamath; Gaurav Khandelwal; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Jiseok Yoon; Ik Hyun Lee; Shijie Chen; Chengqiang Zhao; Huabin Yang; Zhongjian Zhang; Junjia Huang; Yanru Zhang edit  url
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  Title NTIRE 2023 challenge on image denoising: Methods and results Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1904-1920  
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  Abstract This paper reviews the NTIRE 2023 challenge on image denoising (σ = 50) with a focus on the proposed solutions and results. The aim is to obtain a network design capable to produce high-quality results with the best performance measured by PSNR for image denoising. Independent additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is assumed and the noise level is 50. The challenge had 225 registered participants, and 16 teams made valid submissions. They gauge the state-of-the-art for image denoising.  
  Address Vancouver; Canada; June 2023  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ LZT2023 Serial 3910  
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu edit  openurl
  Title Image coder based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication Data Compression Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 470-470  
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  Abstract In this work we present an effective and computationally simple algorithm for image compression based on Hilbert Scanning of Embedded quadTrees (Hi-SET). It allows to represent an image as an embedded bitstream along a fractal function. Embedding is an important feature of modern image compression algorithms, in this way Salomon in [1, pg. 614] cite that another feature and perhaps a unique one is the fact of achieving the best quality for the number of bits input by the decoder at any point during the decoding. Hi-SET possesses also this latter feature. Furthermore, the coder is based on a quadtree partition strategy, that applied to image transformation structures such as discrete cosine or wavelet transform allows to obtain an energy clustering both in frequency and space. The coding algorithm is composed of three general steps, using just a list of significant pixels.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ MoO2011b Serial 2177  
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Joost Van de Weijer; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
  Title Image Segmentation in the Presence of Shadows and Highligts Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication 10th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5305 Issue Pages 1–14  
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  Address Marseille (France)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ VVB2008b Serial 1013  
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Author Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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  Title Categorical Focal Colours are Structurally Invariant Under Illuminant Changes Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 196  
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  Abstract The visual system perceives the colour of surfaces approximately constant under changes of illumination. In this work, we investigate how stable is the perception of categorical \“focal\” colours and their interrelations with varying illuminants and simple chromatic backgrounds. It has been proposed that best examples of colour categories across languages cluster in small regions of the colour space and are restricted to a set of 11 basic terms (Kay and Regier, 2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 100 9085\–9089). Following this, we developed a psychophysical paradigm that exploits the ability of subjects to reliably reproduce the most representative examples of each category, adjusting multiple test patches embedded in a coloured Mondrian. The experiment was run on a CRT monitor (inside a dark room) under various simulated illuminants. We modelled the recorded data for each subject and adapted state as a 3D interconnected structure (graph) in Lab space. The graph nodes were the subject\’s focal colours at each adaptation state. The model allowed us to get a better distance measure between focal structures under different illuminants. We found that perceptual focal structures tend to be preserved better than the structures of the physical \“ideal\” colours under illuminant changes.  
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  Series Editor Series Title Perception 40 Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RPV2011 Serial 1867  
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Author Xim Cerda-Company; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu edit  openurl
  Title Which tone-mapping is the best? A comparative study of tone-mapping perceived quality Type Abstract
  Year 2014 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 43 Issue Pages 106  
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  Abstract Perception 43 ECVP Abstract Supplement
High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging refers to the methods designed to increase the brightness dynamic range present in standard digital imaging techniques. This increase is achieved by taking the same picture under di erent exposure values and mapping the intensity levels into a single image by way of a tone-mapping operator (TMO). Currently, there is no agreement on how to evaluate the quality
of di erent TMOs. In this work we psychophysically evaluate 15 di erent TMOs obtaining rankings based on the perceived properties of the resulting tone-mapped images. We performed two di erent experiments on a CRT calibrated display using 10 subjects: (1) a study of the internal relationships between grey-levels and (2) a pairwise comparison of the resulting 15 tone-mapped images. In (1) observers internally matched the grey-levels to a reference inside the tone-mapped images and in the real scene. In (2) observers performed a pairwise comparison of the tone-mapped images alongside the real scene. We obtained two rankings of the TMOs according their performance. In (1) the best algorithm
was ICAM by J.Kuang et al (2007) and in (2) the best algorithm was a TMO by Krawczyk et al (2005). Our results also show no correlation between these two rankings.
 
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Author Olivier Penacchio; Xavier Otazu; A. wilkins; J. Harris edit  url
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  Title Uncomfortable images prevent lateral interactions in the cortex from providing a sparse code Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP2015 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Liverpool; uk; August 2015  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ POW2015 Serial 2633  
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Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
  Title Colour Visual Coding in trained Deep Neural Networks Type Abstract
  Year 2016 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Barcelona; Spain; August 2016  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaV2016b Serial 2895  
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Author Olivier Penacchio; Laura Dempere-Marco; Xavier Otazu edit   pdf
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  Title A Neurodynamical Model Of Brightness Induction In V1 Following Static And Dynamic Contextual Influences Type Abstract
  Year 2012 Publication 8th Federation of European Neurosciences Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue Pages 63-64  
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  Abstract Brightness induction is the modulation of the perceived intensity of an area by the luminance of surrounding areas. Although striate cortex is traditionally regarded as an area mostly responsive to ensory (i.e. retinal) information,
neurophysiological evidence suggests that perceived brightness information mightbe explicitly represented in V1.
Such evidence has been observed both in anesthetised cats where neuronal response modulations have been found to follow luminance changes outside the receptive felds and in human fMRI measurements. In this work, possible neural mechanisms that ofer a plausible explanation for such phenomenon are investigated. To this end, we consider the model proposed by Z.Li (Li, Network:Comput. Neural Syst., 10 (1999)) which is based on neurophysiological evidence and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual infuences, i.e. layer 2-3 pyramidal cells, interneurons, and horizontal intracortical connections. This model has reproduced other phenomena such as contour detection and preattentive segmentation, which share with brightness induction the relevant efect of contextual infuences. We have extended the original model such that the input to the network is obtained from a complete multiscale and multiorientation wavelet decomposition, thereby allowing the recovery of an image refecting the perceived intensity. The proposed model successfully accounts for well known psychophysical efects for static contexts (among them: the White's and modifed White's efects, the Todorovic, Chevreul, achromatic ring patterns, and grating induction efects) and also for brigthness induction in dynamic contexts defned by modulating the luminance of surrounding areas (e.g. the brightness of a static central area is perceived to vary in antiphase to the sinusoidal luminance changes of its surroundings). This work thus suggests that intra-cortical interactions in V1 could partially explain perceptual brightness induction efects and reveals how a common general architecture may account for several different fundamental processes emerging early in the visual processing pathway.
 
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Eduard Vazquez; Josep Llados; Ramon Baldrich; Umapada Pal edit  openurl
  Title A System to Retrieve Text/Symbols from Color Maps using Connected Component and Skeleton Analysis Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 79–78  
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  Address Curitiba (Brasil)  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor J. Llados, W. Liu, J.M. Ogier  
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  Area Expedition Conference (up) GREC  
  Notes CAT; DAG;CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ RVL2007 Serial 836  
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Author Sandra Jimenez; Xavier Otazu; Valero Laparra; Jesus Malo edit   pdf
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  Title Chromatic induction and contrast masking: similar models, different goals? Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8651 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Normalization of signals coming from linear sensors is an ubiquitous mechanism of neural adaptation.1 Local interaction between sensors tuned to a particular feature at certain spatial position and neighbor sensors explains a wide range of psychophysical facts including (1) masking of spatial patterns, (2) non-linearities of motion sensors, (3) adaptation of color perception, (4) brightness and chromatic induction, and (5) image quality assessment. Although the above models have formal and qualitative similarities, it does not necessarily mean that the mechanisms involved are pursuing the same statistical goal. For instance, in the case of chromatic mechanisms (disregarding spatial information), different parameters in the normalization give rise to optimal discrimination or adaptation, and different non-linearities may give rise to error minimization or component independence. In the case of spatial sensors (disregarding color information), a number of studies have pointed out the benefits of masking in statistical independence terms. However, such statistical analysis has not been performed for spatio-chromatic induction models where chromatic perception depends on spatial configuration. In this work we investigate whether successful spatio-chromatic induction models,6 increase component independence similarly as previously reported for masking models. Mutual information analysis suggests that seeking an efficient chromatic representation may explain the prevalence of induction effects in spatially simple images. © (2013) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.  
  Address San Francisco CA; USA; February 2013  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ JOL2013 Serial 2240  
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Author Fernando Lopez; J.M. Valiente; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell edit  doi
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  Title Fast surface grading using color statistics in the CIELab space Type Conference Article
  Year 2005 Publication Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2005 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume LNCS 3523 Issue Pages 66-673  
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  Address Germany  
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Author Danna Xue; Luis Herranz; Javier Vazquez; Yanning Zhang edit  url
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  Title Burst Perception-Distortion Tradeoff: Analysis and Evaluation Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Burst image restoration attempts to effectively utilize the complementary cues appearing in sequential images to produce a high-quality image. Most current methods use all the available images to obtain the reconstructed image. However, using more images for burst restoration is not always the best option regarding reconstruction quality and efficiency, as the images acquired by handheld imaging devices suffer from degradation and misalignment caused by the camera noise and shake. In this paper, we extend the perception-distortion tradeoff theory by introducing multiple-frame information. We propose the area of the unattainable region as a new metric for perception-distortion tradeoff evaluation and comparison. Based on this metric, we analyse the performance of burst restoration from the perspective of the perception-distortion tradeoff under both aligned bursts and misaligned bursts situations. Our analysis reveals the importance of inter-frame alignment for burst restoration and shows that the optimal burst length for the restoration model depends both on the degree of degradation and misalignment.  
  Address Rodhes Islands; Greece; June 2023  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ XHV2023 Serial 3909  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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  Title Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 979 - 986  
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  Abstract Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. The subsequent stages of the process: feature detection, feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information.  
  Address Kyoto, Japan  
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  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4244-4420-5 Medium  
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ SWV2009 Serial 1196  
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Author Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer edit   pdf
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  Title Object Recoloring Based on Intrinsic Image Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 327 - 334  
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  Abstract Object recoloring is one of the most popular photo-editing tasks. The problem of object recoloring is highly under-constrained, and existing recoloring methods limit their application to objects lit by a white illuminant. Application of these methods to real-world scenes lit by colored illuminants, multiple illuminants, or interreflections, results in unrealistic recoloring of objects. In this paper, we focus on the recoloring of single-colored objects presegmented from their background. The single-color constraint allows us to fit a more comprehensive physical model to the object. We demonstrate that this permits us to perform realistic recoloring of objects lit by non-white illuminants, and multiple illuminants. Moreover, the model allows for more realistic handling of illuminant alteration of the scene. Recoloring results captured by uncalibrated cameras demonstrate that the proposed framework obtains realistic recoloring for complex natural images. Furthermore we use the model to transfer color between objects and show that the results are more realistic than existing color transfer methods.  
  Address Barcelona  
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  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (up) ICCV  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BeW2011 Serial 1781  
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Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Color representation in CNNs: parallelisms with biological vision Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication ICCV Workshop on Mutual Benefits ofr Cognitive and Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for object recognition tasks present representational capabilities approaching to primate visual systems [1]. This provides a computational framework to explore how image features
are efficiently represented. Here, we dissect a trained CNN
[2] to study how color is represented. We use a classical methodology used in physiology that is measuring index of selectivity of individual neurons to specific features. We use ImageNet Dataset [20] images and synthetic versions
of them to quantify color tuning properties of artificial neurons to provide a classification of the network population.
We conclude three main levels of color representation showing some parallelisms with biological visual systems: (a) a decomposition in a circular hue space to represent single color regions with a wider hue sampling beyond the first
layer (V2), (b) the emergence of opponent low-dimensional spaces in early stages to represent color edges (V1); and (c) a strong entanglement between color and shape patterns representing object-parts (e.g. wheel of a car), objectshapes (e.g. faces) or object-surrounds configurations (e.g. blue sky surrounding an object) in deeper layers (V4 or IT).
 
  Address Venice; Italy; October 2017  
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Author Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier edit   pdf
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  Title An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1240-1244  
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  Abstract Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding would enable a variety of new applications, including content-based retrieval and content retargeting. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for closed and non-closed speech balloon localization in scanned comic book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comic book understanding. The approach is compared with existing methods for closed balloon localization found in the literature and results are presented.  
  Address washington; USA; August 2013  
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Author Alicia Fornes; Xavier Otazu; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Show through cancellation and image enhancement by multiresolution contrast processing Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 200-204  
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  Abstract Historical documents suffer from different types of degradation and noise such as background variation, uneven illumination or dark spots. In case of double-sided documents, another common problem is that the back side of the document usually interferes with the front side because of the transparency of the document or ink bleeding. This effect is called the show through phenomenon. Many methods are developed to solve these problems, and in the case of show-through, by scanning and matching both the front and back sides of the document. In contrast, our approach is designed to use only one side of the scanned document. We hypothesize that show-trough are low contrast components, while foreground components are high contrast ones. A Multiresolution Contrast (MC) decomposition is presented in order to estimate the contrast of features at different spatial scales. We cancel the show-through phenomenon by thresholding these low contrast components. This decomposition is also able to enhance the image removing shadowed areas by weighting spatial scales. Results show that the enhanced images improve the readability of the documents, allowing scholars both to recover unreadable words and to solve ambiguities.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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Author Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu edit  doi
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  Title 3D Texton Spaces for color-texture retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6111 Issue Pages 354–363  
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  Abstract Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in an useful visual descriptor is not an easy problem. One way to combine both features is to compute spatial texture descriptors independently on each color channel. Another way is to do the integration at the descriptor level. In this case the problem of normalizing both cues arises. In this paper we solve the latest problem by fusing color and texture through distances in texton spaces. Textons are the attributes of image blobs and they are responsible for texture discrimination as defined in Julesz’s Texton theory. We describe them in two low-dimensional and uniform spaces, namely, shape and color. The dissimilarity between color texture images is computed by combining the distances in these two spaces. Following this approach, we propose our TCD descriptor which outperforms current state of art methods in the two different approaches mentioned above, early combination with LBP and late combination with MPEG-7. This is done on an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor A.C. Campilho and M.S. Kamel  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13771-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference (up) ICIAR  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ ASV2010a Serial 1325  
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