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	Author	Joan M. Nuñez
	Title	Vascular Pattern Characterization in Colonoscopy Images			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2015	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and the second most common malignant tumor in Europe. Screening tests have shown to be very eective in increasing the survival rates since they allow an early detection of polyps. Among the dierent screening techniques, colonoscopy is considered the gold standard although clinical studies mention several problems that have an impact in the quality of the procedure. The navigation through the rectum and colon track can be challenging for the physicians which can increase polyp miss rates. The thorough visualization of the colon track must be ensured so that the chances of missing lesions are minimized. The visual analysis of colonoscopy images can provide important information to the physicians and support their navigation during the procedure. Blood vessels and their branching patterns can provide descriptive power to potentially develop biometric markers. Anatomical markers based on blood vessel patterns could be used to identify a particular scene in colonoscopy videos and to support endoscope navigation by generating a sequence of ordered scenes through the dierent colon sections. By verifying the presence of vascular content in the endoluminal scene it is also possible to certify a proper inspection of the colon mucosa and to improve polyp localization. Considering the potential uses of blood vessel description, this contribution studies the characterization of the vascular content and the analysis of the descriptive power of its branching patterns. Blood vessel characterization in colonoscopy images is shown to be a challenging task. The endoluminal scene is conformed by several elements whose similar characteristics hinder the development of particular models for each of them. To overcome such diculties we propose the use of the blood vessel branching characteristics as key features for pattern description. We present a model to characterize junctions in binary patterns. The implementation of the junction model allows us to develop a junction localization method. We created two data sets including manually labeled vessel information as well as manual ground truths of two types of keypoint landmarks: junctions and endpoints. The proposed method outperforms the available algorithms in the literature in experiments in both, our newly created colon vessel data set, and in DRIVE retinal fundus image data set. In the latter case, we created a manual ground truth of junction coordinates. Since we want to explore the descriptive potential of junctions and vessels, we propose a graph-based approach to create anatomical markers. In the context of polyp localization, we present a new method to inhibit the in uence of blood vessels in the extraction valley-prole information. The results show that our methodology decreases vessel in uence, increases polyp information and leads to an improvement in state-of-the-art polyp localization performance. We also propose a polyp-specic segmentation method that outperforms other general and specic approaches.
	Address	November 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Fernando Vilariño
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-943427-6-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Nuñ2015			Serial	2709
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	Author	Julie Digne; Mariella Dimiccoli; Neus Sabater; Philippe Salembier
	Title	Neighborhood Filters and the Recovery of 3D Information			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue	III	Pages	1645-1673
	Keywords
	Abstract	Following their success in image processing (see Chapter Local Smoothing Neighborhood Filters), neighborhood filters have been extended to 3D surface processing. This adaptation is not straightforward. It has led to several variants for surfaces depending on whether the surface is defined as a mesh, or as a raw data point set. The image gray level in the bilateral similarity measure is replaced by a geometric information such as the normal or the curvature. The first section of this chapter reviews the variants of 3D mesh bilateral filters and compares them to the simplest possible isotropic filter, the mean curvature motion.In a second part, this chapter reviews applications of the bilateral filter to a data composed of a sparse depth map (or of depth cues) and of the image on which they have been computed. Such sparse depth cues can be obtained by stereovision or by psychophysical techniques. The underlying assumption to these applications is that pixels with similar intensity around a region are likely to have similar depths. Therefore, when diffusing depth information with a bilateral filter based on locality and color similarity, the discontinuities in depth are assured to be consistent with the color discontinuities, which is generally a desirable property. In the reviewed applications, this ends up with the reconstruction of a dense perceptual depth map from the joint data of an image and of depth cues.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer New York	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4939-0789-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DDS2015			Serial	2710
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	Author	Maedeh Aghaei; Mariella Dimiccoli; Petia Radeva
	Title	Multi-Face Tracking by Extended Bag-of-Tracklets in Egocentric Videos			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2015	Publication	Arxiv	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Egocentric images offer a hands-free way to record daily experiences and special events, where social interactions are of special interest. A natural question that arises is how to extract and track the appearance of multiple persons in a social event captured by a wearable camera. In this paper, we propose a novel method to find correspondences of multiple-faces in low temporal resolution egocentric sequences acquired through a wearable camera. This kind of sequences imposes additional challenges to the multitracking problem with respect to conventional videos. Due to the free motion of the camera and to its low temporal resolution (2 fpm), abrupt changes in the field of view, in illumination conditions and in the target location are very frequent. To overcome such a difficulty, we propose to generate, for each detected face, a set of correspondences along the whole sequence that we call tracklet and to take advantage of their redundancy to deal with both false positive face detections and unreliable tracklets. Similar tracklets are grouped into the so called extended bag-of-tracklets (eBoT), which are aimed to correspond to specific persons. Finally, a prototype tracklet is extracted for each eBoT. We validated our method over a dataset of 18.000 images from 38 egocentric sequences with 52 trackable persons and compared to the state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating its effectiveness and robustness.
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ADR2015b			Serial	2713
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	Author	Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu; Alireza Bosaghzadeh
	Title	Facial expression recognition based on multi observations with application to social robotics			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	Emotional and Facial Expressions: Recognition, Developmental Differences and Social Importance	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	153-166
	Keywords
	Abstract	Human-robot interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the social robotics community. One crucial aspect is represented by the affective communication which comes encoded through the facial expressions. In this chapter, we propose a novel approach for facial expression recognition, which exploits an efficient and adaptive graph-based label propagation (semi-supervised mode) in a multi-observation framework. The facial features are extracted using an appearance-based 3D face tracker, viewand texture independent. Our method has been extensively tested on the CMU dataset, and has been conveniently compared with other methods for graph construction. With the proposed approach, we developed an application for an AIBO robot, in which it mirrors the recognized facial expression.
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	Publisher	Nova Science publishers	Place of Publication		Editor	Bruce Flores
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	Notes	LAMP;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DRB2015			Serial	2720
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Meritxell Joanpere; Nuria Gorgorio; Lluis Albarracin
	Title	Mathematics learning opportunities when playing a Tower Defense Game			Type	Journal
	Year	2015	Publication	International Journal of Serious Games	Abbreviated Journal	IJSG
	Volume	2	Issue	4	Pages	57-71
	Keywords	Tower Defense game; learning opportunities; mathematics; problem solving; game design
	Abstract	A qualitative research study is presented herein with the purpose of identifying mathematics learning opportunities in students between 10 and 12 years old while playing a commercial version of a Tower Defense game. These learning opportunities are understood as mathematicisable moments of the game and involve the establishment of relationships between the game and mathematical problem solving. Based on the analysis of these mathematicisable moments, we conclude that the game can promote problem-solving processes and learning opportunities that can be associated with different mathematical contents that appears in mathematics curricula, thought it seems that teacher or new game elements might be needed to facilitate the processes.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HJG2015			Serial	2730
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	Author	David Sanchez-Mendoza; David Masip; Agata Lapedriza
	Title	Emotion recognition from mid-level features			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	67	Issue	Part 1	Pages	66–74
	Keywords	Facial expression; Emotion recognition; Action units; Computer vision
	Abstract	In this paper we present a study on the use of Action Units as mid-level features for automatically recognizing basic and subtle emotions. We propose a representation model based on mid-level facial muscular movement features. We encode these movements dynamically using the Facial Action Coding System, and propose to use these intermediate features based on Action Units (AUs) to classify emotions. AUs activations are detected fusing a set of spatiotemporal geometric and appearance features. The algorithm is validated in two applications: (i) the recognition of 7 basic emotions using the publicly available Cohn-Kanade database, and (ii) the inference of subtle emotional cues in the Newscast database. In this second scenario, we consider emotions that are perceived cumulatively in longer periods of time. In particular, we Automatically classify whether video shoots from public News TV channels refer to Good or Bad news. To deal with the different video lengths we propose a Histogram of Action Units and compute it using a sliding window strategy on the frame sequences. Our approach achieves accuracies close to human perception.
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	Publisher	Elsevier B.V.	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0167-8655	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SML2015			Serial	2746
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	Author	Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
	Title	Growing Algorithm for Intersection Detection (GRAID) in branching patterns			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Machine Vision and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	MVAP
	Volume	26	Issue	2	Pages	387-400
	Keywords	Bifurcation ; Crossroad; Intersection ;Retina ; Vessel
	Abstract	Analysis of branching structures represents a very important task in fields such as medical diagnosis, road detection or biometrics. Detecting intersection landmarks Becomes crucial when capturing the structure of a branching pattern. We present a very simple geometrical model to describe intersections in branching structures based on two conditions: Bounded Tangency condition (BT) and Shortest Branch (SB) condition. The proposed model precisely sets a geometrical characterization of intersections and allows us to introduce a new unsupervised operator for intersection extraction. We propose an implementation that handles the consequences of digital domain operation that,unlike existing approaches, is not restricted to a particular scale and does not require the computation of the thinned pattern. The new proposal, as well as other existing approaches in the bibliography, are evaluated in a common framework for the first time. The performance analysis is based on two manually segmented image data sets: DRIVE retinal image database and COLON-VESSEL data set, a newly created data set of vascular content in colonoscopy frames. We have created an intersection landmark ground truth for each data set besides comparing our method in the only existing ground truth. Quantitative results confirm that we are able to outperform state-of-the-art performancelevels with the advantage that neither training nor parameter tuning is needed.
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	Notes	;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @MBS2015			Serial	2777
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	Author	Jordina Torrents-Barrena; Aida Valls; Petia Radeva; Meritxell Arenas; Domenec Puig
	Title	Automatic Recognition of Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer in X-Ray images using Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	Artificial Intelligence Research and Development	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	277	Issue		Pages	247 - 256
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	Abstract	Breast cancer disease has recently been classified into four subtypes regarding the molecular properties of the affected tumor region. For each patient, an accurate diagnosis of the specific type is vital to decide the most appropriate therapy in order to enhance life prospects. Nowadays, advanced therapeutic diagnosis research is focused on gene selection methods, which are not robust enough. Hence, we hypothesize that computer vision algorithms can offer benefits to address the problem of discriminating among them through X-Ray images. In this paper, we propose a novel approach driven by texture feature descriptors and machine learning techniques. First, we segment the tumour part through an active contour technique and then, we perform a complete fractal analysis to collect qualitative information of the region of interest in the feature extraction stage. Finally, several supervised and unsupervised classifiers are used to perform multiclass classification of the aforementioned data. The experimental results presented in this paper support that it is possible to establish a relation between each tumor subtype and the extracted features of the patterns revealed on mammograms.
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	Publisher	IOS Press	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications	Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @TVR2015			Serial	2780
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	Author	E. Tavalera; Mariella Dimiccoli; Marc Bolaños; Maedeh Aghaei; Petia Radeva
	Title	Regularized Clustering for Egocentric Video Segmentation			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	327-336
	Keywords	Temporal video segmentation ; Egocentric videos ; Clustering
	Abstract	In this paper, we present a new method for egocentric video temporal segmentation based on integrating a statistical mean change detector and agglomerative clustering(AC) within an energyminimization framework. Given the tendency of most AC methods to oversegment video sequences when clustering their frames, we combine the clustering with a concept drift detection technique (ADWIN) that has rigorous guarantee of performances. ADWIN serves as a statistical upper bound for the clustering-based video segmentation. We integrate techniques in an energy-minimization framework that serves disambiguate the decision of both techniques and to complete the segmentation taking into account the temporal continuity of video frames We present experiments over egocentric sets of more than 13.000 images acquired with different wearable cameras, showing that our method outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods.
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	Publisher	Springer International Publishing	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-319-19390-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @TDB2015a			Serial	2781
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	Author	Fernando Vilariño; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Marcos Catalan; Alberto Valcarcel
	Title	An horizon for the Public Library as a place for innovation and creativity. The Library Living Lab in Volpelleres			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2015	Publication	The White Book on Public Library Network from Diputació de Barcelona	Abbreviated Journal
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	Notes	MV; DAG;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @VKC2015			Serial	2798
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	Author	Dennis G.Romero; Anselmo Frizera; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Teodiano F.Bastos
	Title	A predictive model for human activity recognition by observing actions and context			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Proceedings of 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9386	Issue		Pages	323-333
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper presents a novel model to estimate human activities — a human activity is defined by a set of human actions. The proposed approach is based on the usage of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Bayesian inference through the continuous monitoring of human actions and its surrounding environment. In the current work human activities are inferred considering not only visual analysis but also additional resources; external sources of information, such as context information, are incorporated to contribute to the activity estimation. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the way the information is encoded, so that it can be later associated according to a predefined semantic structure. Hence, a pattern representing a given activity can be defined by a set of actions, plus contextual information or other kind of information that could be relevant to describe the activity. Experimental results with real data are provided showing the validity of the proposed approach.
	Address	Catania; Italy; October 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer International Publishing	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	978-3-319-25902-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ACIVS
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RFS2015			Serial	2661
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	Author	Eduardo Tusa; Arash Akbarinia; Raquel Gil Rodriguez; Corina Barbalata
	Title	Real-Time Face Detection and Tracking Utilising OpenMP and ROS			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Aided System Engineering	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	179 - 184
	Keywords	RGB-D; Kinect; Human Detection and Tracking; ROS; OpenMP
	Abstract	The first requisite of a robot to succeed in social interactions is accurate human localisation, i.e. subject detection and tracking. Later, it is estimated whether an interaction partner seeks attention, for example by interpreting the position and orientation of the body. In computer vision, these cues usually are obtained in colour images, whose qualities are degraded in ill illuminated social scenes. In these scenarios depth sensors offer a richer representation. Therefore, it is important to combine colour and depth information. The second aspect that plays a fundamental role in the acceptance of social robots is their real-time-ability. Processing colour and depth images is computationally demanding. To overcome this we propose a parallelisation strategy of face detection and tracking based on two different architectures: message passing and shared memory. Our results demonstrate high accuracy in low computational time, processing nine times more number of frames in a parallel implementation. This provides a real-time social robot interaction.
	Address	Quito; Ecuador; July 2015
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	APCASE
	Notes	NEUROBIT			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TAG2015			Serial	2659
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	Author	Xavier Otazu; Olivier Penacchio; Xim Cerda-Company
	Title	An excitatory-inhibitory firing rate model accounts for brightness induction, colour induction and visual discomfort			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Barcelona Computational, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience	Abbreviated Journal
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	Address	Barcelona; June 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	BARCCSYN
	Notes	NEUROBIT;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ OPC2015b			Serial	2634
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	Author	Hanne Kause; Patricia Marquez; Andrea Fuster; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Luc Florack; Debora Gil; Hans van Assen
	Title	Quality Assessment of Optical Flow in Tagging MRI			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	5th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference BME2015	Abbreviated Journal
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	Address	The Netherlands; January 2015
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	BME
	Notes	IAM; ADAS; 600.076; 600.075			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KMF2015			Serial	2616
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	Author	Victor Ponce; Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro
	Title	Gesture and Action Recognition by Evolved Dynamic Subgestures			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	26th British Machine Vision Conference	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	129.1-129.13
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	Abstract	This paper introduces a framework for gesture and action recognition based on the evolution of temporal gesture primitives, or subgestures. Our work is inspired on the principle of producing genetic variations within a population of gesture subsequences, with the goal of obtaining a set of gesture units that enhance the generalization capability of standard gesture recognition approaches. In our context, gesture primitives are evolved over time using dynamic programming and generative models in order to recognize complex actions. In few generations, the proposed subgesture-based representation of actions and gestures outperforms the state of the art results on the MSRDaily3D and MSRAction3D datasets.
	Address	Swansea; uk; September 2015
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	BMVC
	Notes	HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PEE2015			Serial	2657
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