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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan
	Title	Coloring bag-of-words based image representations			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2011	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Put succinctly, the bag-of-words based image representation is the most successful approach for object and scene recognition. Within the bag-of-words framework the optimal fusion of multiple cues, such as shape, texture and color, still remains an active research domain. There exist two main approaches to combine color and shape information within the bag-of-words framework. The first approach called, early fusion, fuses color and shape at the feature level as a result of which a joint colorshape vocabulary is produced. The second approach, called late fusion, concatenates histogram representation of both color and shape, obtained independently. In the first part of this thesis, we analyze the theoretical implications of both early and late feature fusion. We demonstrate that both these approaches are suboptimal for a subset of object categories. Consequently, we propose a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom-up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, the color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. Shape features are given more weight in regions with higher attention and vice versa. The approach is tested on several benchmark object recognition data sets and the results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. In the second part of the thesis, we investigate the problem of obtaining compact spatial pyramid representations for object and scene recognition. Spatial pyramids have been successfully applied to incorporate spatial information into bag-of-words based image representation. However, a major drawback of spatial pyramids is that it leads to high dimensional image representations. We present a novel framework for obtaining compact pyramid representation. The approach reduces the size of a high dimensional pyramid representation upto an order of magnitude without any significant reduction in accuracy. Moreover, we also investigate the optimal combination of multiple features such as color and shape within the context of our compact pyramid representation. Finally, we describe a novel technique to build discriminative visual words from multiple cues learned independently from training images. To this end, we use an information theoretic vocabulary compression technique to find discriminative combinations of visual cues and the resulting visual vocabulary is compact, has the cue binding property, and supports individual weighting of cues in the final image representation. The approach is tested on standard object recognition data sets. The results obtained clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Joost Van de Weijer;Maria Vanrell
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Kha2011			Serial	1838
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	Author	Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Improving Color Constancy by Photometric Edge Weighting			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	34	Issue	5	Pages	918-929
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	Abstract	: Edge-based color constancy methods make use of image derivatives to estimate the illuminant. However, different edge types exist in real-world images such as material, shadow and highlight edges. These different edge types may have a distinctive influence on the performance of the illuminant estimation. Therefore, in this paper, an extensive analysis is provided of different edge types on the performance of edge-based color constancy methods. First, an edge-based taxonomy is presented classifying edge types based on their photometric properties (e.g. material, shadow-geometry and highlights). Then, a performance evaluation of edge-based color constancy is provided using these different edge types. From this performance evaluation it is derived that specular and shadow edge types are more valuable than material edges for the estimation of the illuminant. To this end, the (iterative) weighted Grey-Edge algorithm is proposed in which these edge types are more emphasized for the estimation of the illuminant. Images that are recorded under controlled circumstances demonstrate that the proposed iterative weighted Grey-Edge algorithm based on highlights reduces the median angular error with approximately $25\%$. In an uncontrolled environment, improvements in angular error up to $11\%$ are obtained with respect to regular edge-based color constancy.
	Address	Los Alamitos; CA; USA;
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0162-8828	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC;ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GGW2012			Serial	1850
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Modulating Shape Features by Color Attention for Object Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	98	Issue	1	Pages	49-64
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	Abstract	Bag-of-words based image representation is a successful approach for object recognition. Generally, 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, it was found that the combination of different image cues, such as shape and color, often obtains below expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using ultiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, these color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. In regions with higher attention shape features are given more weight than in regions with low attention. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on five data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer (color predominance), Flower (color and hape parity), PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 (shape predominance) and Caltech-101 (color co-interference). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all five data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods for combining color and shape information.
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	Publisher	Springer Netherlands	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0920-5691	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KWV2012			Serial	1864
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	Author	Naila Murray
	Title	Perceptual Feature Detection			Type	Report
	Year	2009	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	131	Issue		Pages
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	Corporate Author	Computer Vision Center			Thesis	Master's thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication	Bellaterra, Barcelona	Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Mur2009			Serial	2390
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	Author	Maria del Camp Davesa
	Title	Human action categorization in image sequences			Type	Report
	Year	2011	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	169	Issue		Pages
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	Address	Bellaterra (Spain)
	Corporate Author	Computer Vision Center			Thesis	Master's thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	CiC;CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Dav2011			Serial	1934
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	Author	Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Marc Masana
	Title	Interactive Visual and Semantic Image Retrieval			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2013	Publication	Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	48	Issue		Pages	31-35
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	Abstract	One direct consequence of recent advances in digital visual data generation and the direct availability of this information through the World-Wide Web, is a urgent demand for efficient image retrieval systems. The objective of image retrieval is to allow users to efficiently browse through this abundance of images. Due to the non-expert nature of the majority of the internet users, such systems should be user friendly, and therefore avoid complex user interfaces. In this chapter we investigate how high-level information provided by recently developed object recognition techniques can improve interactive image retrieval. Wel apply a bagof- word based image representation method to automatically classify images in a number of categories. These additional labels are then applied to improve the image retrieval system. Next to these high-level semantic labels, we also apply a low-level image description to describe the composition and color scheme of the scene. Both descriptions are incorporated in a user feedback image retrieval setting. The main objective is to show that automatic labeling of images with semantic labels can improve image retrieval results.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Angel Sappa; Jordi Vitria
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1868-4394	ISBN	978-3-642-35931-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC; 605.203; 600.048			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WKC2013			Serial	2284
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Antonio Lopez; Michael Felsberg
	Title	Coloring Action Recognition in Still Images			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	International Journal of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IJCV
	Volume	105	Issue	3	Pages	205-221
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	Abstract	In this article we investigate the problem of human action recognition in static images. By action recognition we intend a class of problems which includes both action classification and action detection (i.e. simultaneous localization and classification). Bag-of-words image representations yield promising results for action classification, and deformable part models perform very well object detection. The representations for action recognition typically use only shape cues and ignore color information. Inspired by the recent success of color in image classification and object detection, we investigate the potential of color for action classification and detection in static images. We perform a comprehensive evaluation of color descriptors and fusion approaches for action recognition. Experiments were conducted on the three datasets most used for benchmarking action recognition in still images: Willow, PASCAL VOC 2010 and Stanford-40. Our experiments demonstrate that incorporating color information considerably improves recognition performance, and that a descriptor based on color names outperforms pure color descriptors. Our experiments demonstrate that late fusion of color and shape information outperforms other approaches on action recognition. Finally, we show that the different color–shape fusion approaches result in complementary information and combining them yields state-of-the-art performance for action classification.
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	Publisher	Springer US	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0920-5691	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC; ADAS; 600.057; 600.048			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KRW2013			Serial	2285
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	Author	Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Chromatic settings and the structural color constancy index			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Journal of Vision	Abbreviated Journal	JV
	Volume	13	Issue	4-3	Pages	1-26
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	Abstract	Color constancy is usually measured by achromatic setting, asymmetric matching, or color naming paradigms, whose results are interpreted in terms of indexes and models that arguably do not capture the full complexity of the phenomenon. Here we propose a new paradigm, chromatic setting, which allows a more comprehensive characterization of color constancy through the measurement of multiple points in color space under immersive adaptation. We demonstrated its feasibility by assessing the consistency of subjects' responses over time. The paradigm was applied to two-dimensional (2-D) Mondrian stimuli under three different illuminants, and the results were used to fit a set of linear color constancy models. The use of multiple colors improved the precision of more complex linear models compared to the popular diagonal model computed from gray. Our results show that a diagonal plus translation matrix that models mechanisms other than cone gain might be best suited to explain the phenomenon. Additionally, we calculated a number of color constancy indices for several points in color space, and our results suggest that interrelations among colors are not as uniform as previously believed. To account for this variability, we developed a new structural color constancy index that takes into account the magnitude and orientation of the chromatic shift in addition to the interrelations among colors and memory effects.
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC; 600.052; 600.051; 605.203			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RPV2013			Serial	2288
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	Author	Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	Low-level SpatioChromatic Grouping for Saliency Estimation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	35	Issue	11	Pages	2810-2816
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	Abstract	We propose a saliency model termed SIM (saliency by induction mechanisms), which is based on a low-level spatiochromatic model that has successfully predicted chromatic induction phenomena. In so doing, we hypothesize that the low-level visual mechanisms that enhance or suppress image detail are also responsible for making some image regions more salient. Moreover, SIM adds geometrical grouplets to enhance complex low-level features such as corners, and suppress relatively simpler features such as edges. Since our model has been fitted on psychophysical chromatic induction data, it is largely nonparametric. SIM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting eye fixations on two datasets and using two metrics.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0162-8828	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC; 600.051; 600.052; 605.203			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MVO2013			Serial	2289
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	Author	Albert Gordo
	Title	A Cyclic Page Layout Descriptor for Document Classification & Retrieval			Type	Report
	Year	2009	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	128	Issue		Pages
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	Abstract
	Address
	Corporate Author	Computer Vision Center			Thesis	Master's thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication	Bellaterra, Barcelona	Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC;DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Gor2009			Serial	2387
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	Author	Javier Vazquez; J. Kevin O'Regan; Maria Vanrell; Graham D. Finlayson
	Title	A new spectrally sharpened basis to predict colour naming, unique hues, and hue cancellation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Journal of Vision	Abbreviated Journal	VSS
	Volume	12	Issue	6 (7)	Pages	1-14
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	Abstract	When light is reflected off a surface, there is a linear relation between the three human photoreceptor responses to the incoming light and the three photoreceptor responses to the reflected light. Different colored surfaces have different linear relations. Recently, Philipona and O'Regan (2006) showed that when this relation is singular in a mathematical sense, then the surface is perceived as having a highly nameable color. Furthermore, white light reflected by that surface is perceived as corresponding precisely to one of the four psychophysically measured unique hues. However, Philipona and O'Regan's approach seems unrelated to classical psychophysical models of color constancy. In this paper we make this link. We begin by transforming cone sensors to spectrally sharpened counterparts. In sharp color space, illumination change can be modeled by simple von Kries type scalings of response values within each of the spectrally sharpened response channels. In this space, Philipona and O'Regan's linear relation is captured by a simple Land-type color designator defined by dividing reflected light by incident light. This link between Philipona and O'Regan's theory and Land's notion of color designator gives the model biological plausibility. We then show that Philipona and O'Regan's singular surfaces are surfaces which are very close to activating only one or only two of such newly defined spectrally sharpened sensors, instead of the usual three. Closeness to zero is quantified in a new simplified measure of singularity which is also shown to relate to the chromaticness of colors. As in Philipona and O'Regan's original work, our new theory accounts for a large variety of psychophysical color data.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VOV2012			Serial	1998
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	Author	Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich; Francesc Tous
	Title	Color Constancy by Category Correlation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	21	Issue	4	Pages	1997-2007
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	Abstract	Finding color representations which are stable to illuminant changes is still an open problem in computer vision. Until now most approaches have been based on physical constraints or statistical assumptions derived from the scene, while very little attention has been paid to the effects that selected illuminants have on the final color image representation. The novelty of this work is to propose perceptual constraints that are computed on the corrected images. We define the category hypothesis, which weights the set of feasible illuminants according to their ability to map the corrected image onto specific colors. Here we choose these colors as the universal color categories related to basic linguistic terms which have been psychophysically measured. These color categories encode natural color statistics, and their relevance across different cultures is indicated by the fact that they have received a common color name. From this category hypothesis we propose a fast implementation that allows the sampling of a large set of illuminants. Experiments prove that our method rivals current state-of-art performance without the need for training algorithmic parameters. Additionally, the method can be used as a framework to insert top-down information from other sources, thus opening further research directions in solving for color constancy.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VVB2012			Serial	1999
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	Author	Graham D. Finlayson; Javier Vazquez; Sabine Süsstrunk; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Spectral sharpening by spherical sampling			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Journal of the Optical Society of America A	Abbreviated Journal	JOSA A
	Volume	29	Issue	7	Pages	1199-1210
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	Abstract	There are many works in color that assume illumination change can be modeled by multiplying sensor responses by individual scaling factors. The early research in this area is sometimes grouped under the heading “von Kries adaptation”: the scaling factors are applied to the cone responses. In more recent studies, both in psychophysics and in computational analysis, it has been proposed that scaling factors should be applied to linear combinations of the cones that have narrower support: they should be applied to the so-called “sharp sensors.” In this paper, we generalize the computational approach to spectral sharpening in three important ways. First, we introduce spherical sampling as a tool that allows us to enumerate in a principled way all linear combinations of the cones. This allows us to, second, find the optimal sharp sensors that minimize a variety of error measures including CIE Delta E (previous work on spectral sharpening minimized RMS) and color ratio stability. Lastly, we extend the spherical sampling paradigm to the multispectral case. Here the objective is to model the interaction of light and surface in terms of color signal spectra. Spherical sampling is shown to improve on the state of the art.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1084-7529	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FVS2012			Serial	2000
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	Author	Naila Murray; Sandra Skaff; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin
	Title	Towards automatic and flexible concept transfer			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Computers and Graphics	Abbreviated Journal	CG
	Volume	36	Issue	6	Pages	622–634
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	Abstract	This paper introduces a novel approach to automatic, yet flexible, image concepttransfer; examples of concepts are “romantic”, “earthy”, and “luscious”. The presented method modifies the color content of an input image given only a concept specified by a user in natural language, thereby requiring minimal user input. This method is particularly useful for users who are aware of the message they wish to convey in the transferred image while being unsure of the color combination needed to achieve the corresponding transfer. Our framework is flexible for two reasons. First, the user may select one of two modalities to map input image chromaticities to target concept chromaticities depending on the level of photo-realism required. Second, the user may adjust the intensity level of the concepttransfer to his/her liking with a single parameter. The proposed method uses a convex clustering algorithm, with a novel pruning mechanism, to automatically set the complexity of models of chromatic content. Results show that our approach yields transferred images which effectively represent concepts as confirmed by a user study.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0097-8493	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MSM2012			Serial	2002
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	Author	Joost Van de Weijer; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Cordelia Schmid; Ramon Baldrich; Jacob Verbeek; Diane Larlus
	Title	Color Naming			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2012	Publication	Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue	17	Pages	287-317
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	Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.	Place of Publication		Editor	Theo Gevers;Arjan Gijsenij;Joost Van de Weijer;Jan-Mark Geusebroek
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WBV2012			Serial	2063
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	Author	Ernest Valveny; Robert Benavente; Agata Lapedriza; Miquel Ferrer; Jaume Garcia; Gemma Sanchez
	Title	Adaptation of a computer programming course to the EXHE requirements: evaluation five years later			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2012	Publication	European Journal of Engineering Education	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	37	Issue	3	Pages	243-254
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	Notes	DAG; CIC; OR; invisible;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VBL2012			Serial	2070
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	Author	Shida Beigpour
	Title	Illumination and object reflectance modeling			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2013	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	More realistic and accurate models of the scene illumination and object reflectance can greatly improve the quality of many computer vision and computer graphics tasks. Using such model, a more profound knowledge about the interaction of light with object surfaces can be established which proves crucial to a variety of computer vision applications. In the current work, we investigate the various existing approaches to illumination and reflectance modeling and form an analysis on their shortcomings in capturing the complexity of real-world scenes. Based on this analysis we propose improvements to different aspects of reflectance and illumination estimation in order to more realistically model the real-world scenes in the presence of complex lighting phenomena (i.e, multiple illuminants, interreflections and shadows). Moreover, we captured our own multi-illuminant dataset which consists of complex scenes and illumination conditions both outdoor and in laboratory conditions. In addition we investigate the use of synthetic data to facilitate the construction of datasets and improve the process of obtaining ground-truth information.
	Address	Barcelona
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Joost Van de Weijer;Ernest Valveny
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Bei2013			Serial	2267
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	Author	Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Robert Benavente; Olivier Penacchio; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	Coloresia: An Interactive Colour Perception Device for the Visually Impaired			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2013	Publication	Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	48	Issue		Pages	47-66
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	Abstract	A significative percentage of the human population suffer from impairments in their capacity to distinguish or even see colours. For them, everyday tasks like navigating through a train or metro network map becomes demanding. We present a novel technique for extracting colour information from everyday natural stimuli and presenting it to visually impaired users as pleasant, non-invasive sound. This technique was implemented inside a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) portable device. In this implementation, colour information is extracted from the input image and categorised according to how human observers segment the colour space. This information is subsequently converted into sound and sent to the user via speakers or headphones. In the original implementation, it is possible for the user to send its feedback to reconfigure the system, however several features such as these were not implemented because the current technology is limited.We are confident that the full implementation will be possible in the near future as PDA technology improves.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1868-4394	ISBN	978-3-642-35931-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC; 600.052; 605.203			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GBP2013			Serial	2266
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