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| Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Michael Felsberg | ||||
| Title | Scale Coding Bag-of-Words for Action Recognition | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 1514-1519 | ||
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| Abstract | Recognizing human actions in still images is a challenging problem in computer vision due to significant amount of scale, illumination and pose variation. Given the bounding box of a person both at training and test time, the task is to classify the action associated with each bounding box in an image.
Most state-of-the-art methods use the bag-of-words paradigm for action recognition. The bag-of-words framework employing a dense multi-scale grid sampling strategy is the de facto standard for feature detection. This results in a scale invariant image representation where all the features at multiple-scales are binned in a single histogram. We argue that such a scale invariant strategy is sub-optimal since it ignores the multi-scale information available with each bounding box of a person. This paper investigates alternative approaches to scale coding for action recognition in still images. We encode multi-scale information explicitly in three different histograms for small, medium and large scale visual-words. Our first approach exploits multi-scale information with respect to the image size. In our second approach, we encode multi-scale information relative to the size of the bounding box of a person instance. In each approach, the multi-scale histograms are then concatenated into a single representation for action classification. We validate our approaches on the Willow dataset which contains seven action categories: interacting with computer, photography, playing music, riding bike, riding horse, running and walking. Our results clearly suggest that the proposed scale coding approaches outperform the conventional scale invariant technique. Moreover, we show that our approach obtains promising results compared to more complex state-of-the-art methods. |
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| Address | Stockholm; August 2014 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICPR | ||
| Notes | CIC; LAMP; 601.240; 600.074; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ KWB2014 | Serial | 2450 | ||
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| Author | Shida Beigpour; Christian Riess; Joost Van de Weijer; Elli Angelopoulou | ||||
| Title | Multi-Illuminant Estimation with Conditional Random Fields | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Abbreviated Journal | TIP |
| Volume | 23 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 83-95 |
| Keywords | color constancy; CRF; multi-illuminant | ||||
| Abstract | Most existing color constancy algorithms assume uniform illumination. However, in real-world scenes, this is not often the case. Thus, we propose a novel framework for estimating the colors of multiple illuminants and their spatial distribution in the scene. We formulate this problem as an energy minimization task within a conditional random field over a set of local illuminant estimates. In order to quantitatively evaluate the proposed method, we created a novel data set of two-dominant-illuminant images comprised of laboratory, indoor, and outdoor scenes. Unlike prior work, our database includes accurate pixel-wise ground truth illuminant information. The performance of our method is evaluated on multiple data sets. Experimental results show that our framework clearly outperforms single illuminant estimators as well as a recently proposed multi-illuminant estimation approach. | ||||
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| ISSN | 1057-7149 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | CIC; LAMP; 600.074; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ BRW2014 | Serial | 2451 | ||
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| Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Michael Felsberg; Carlo Gatta | ||||
| Title | Semantic Pyramids for Gender and Action Recognition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | Abbreviated Journal | TIP |
| Volume | 23 | Issue | 8 | Pages | 3633-3645 |
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| Abstract | Person description is a challenging problem in computer vision. We investigated two major aspects of person description: 1) gender and 2) action recognition in still images. Most state-of-the-art approaches for gender and action recognition rely on the description of a single body part, such as face or full-body. However, relying on a single body part is suboptimal due to significant variations in scale, viewpoint, and pose in real-world images. This paper proposes a semantic pyramid approach for pose normalization. Our approach is fully automatic and based on combining information from full-body, upper-body, and face regions for gender and action recognition in still images. The proposed approach does not require any annotations for upper-body and face of a person. Instead, we rely on pretrained state-of-the-art upper-body and face detectors to automatically extract semantic information of a person. Given multiple bounding boxes from each body part detector, we then propose a simple method to select the best candidate bounding box, which is used for feature extraction. Finally, the extracted features from the full-body, upper-body, and face regions are combined into a single representation for classification. To validate the proposed approach for gender recognition, experiments are performed on three large data sets namely: 1) human attribute; 2) head-shoulder; and 3) proxemics. For action recognition, we perform experiments on four data sets most used for benchmarking action recognition in still images: 1) Sports; 2) Willow; 3) PASCAL VOC 2010; and 4) Stanford-40. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that the proposed approach, despite its simplicity, outperforms state-of-the-art methods for gender and action recognition. | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; LAMP; 601.160; 600.074; 600.079;MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ KWR2014 | Serial | 2507 | ||
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| Author | Marc Serra; Olivier Penacchio; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Dimitris Samaras | ||||
| Title | The Photometry of Intrinsic Images | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 1494-1501 | ||
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| Abstract | Intrinsic characterization of scenes is often the best way to overcome the illumination variability artifacts that complicate most computer vision problems, from 3D reconstruction to object or material recognition. This paper examines the deficiency of existing intrinsic image models to accurately account for the effects of illuminant color and sensor characteristics in the estimation of intrinsic images and presents a generic framework which incorporates insights from color constancy research to the intrinsic image decomposition problem. The proposed mathematical formulation includes information about the color of the illuminant and the effects of the camera sensors, both of which modify the observed color of the reflectance of the objects in the scene during the acquisition process. By modeling these effects, we get a “truly intrinsic” reflectance image, which we call absolute reflectance, which is invariant to changes of illuminant or camera sensors. This model allows us to represent a wide range of intrinsic image decompositions depending on the specific assumptions on the geometric properties of the scene configuration and the spectral properties of the light source and the acquisition system, thus unifying previous models in a single general framework. We demonstrate that even partial information about sensors improves significantly the estimated reflectance images, thus making our method applicable for a wide range of sensors. We validate our general intrinsic image framework experimentally with both synthetic data and natural images. | ||||
| Address | Columbus; Ohio; USA; June 2014 | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.052; 600.051; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SPB2014 | Serial | 2506 | ||
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| Author | M. Danelljan; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Michael Felsberg; Joost Van de Weijer | ||||
| Title | Adaptive color attributes for real-time visual tracking | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 1090 - 1097 | ||
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| Abstract | Visual tracking is a challenging problem in computer vision. Most state-of-the-art visual trackers either rely on luminance information or use simple color representations for image description. Contrary to visual tracking, for object
recognition and detection, sophisticated color features when combined with luminance have shown to provide excellent performance. Due to the complexity of the tracking problem, the desired color feature should be computationally efficient, and possess a certain amount of photometric invariance while maintaining high discriminative power. This paper investigates the contribution of color in a tracking-by-detection framework. Our results suggest that color attributes provides superior performance for visual tracking. We further propose an adaptive low-dimensional variant of color attributes. Both quantitative and attributebased evaluations are performed on 41 challenging benchmark color sequences. The proposed approach improves the baseline intensity-based tracker by 24% in median distance precision. Furthermore, we show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art tracking methods while running at more than 100 frames per second. |
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| Address | Nottingham; UK; September 2014 | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; LAMP; 600.074; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ DKF2014 | Serial | 2509 | ||
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| Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer; Michael Felsberg | ||||
| Title | Painting-91: A Large Scale Database for Computational Painting Categorization | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | Machine Vision and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | MVAP |
| Volume | 25 | Issue | 6 | Pages | 1385-1397 |
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| Abstract | Computer analysis of visual art, especially paintings, is an interesting cross-disciplinary research domain. Most of the research in the analysis of paintings involve medium to small range datasets with own specific settings. Interestingly, significant progress has been made in the field of object and scene recognition lately. A key factor in this success is the introduction and availability of benchmark datasets for evaluation. Surprisingly, such a benchmark setup is still missing in the area of computational painting categorization. In this work, we propose a novel large scale dataset of digital paintings. The dataset consists of paintings from 91 different painters. We further show three applications of our dataset namely: artist categorization, style classification and saliency detection. We investigate how local and global features popular in image classification perform for the tasks of artist and style categorization. For both categorization tasks, our experimental results suggest that combining multiple features significantly improves the final performance. We show that state-of-the-art computer vision methods can correctly classify 50 % of unseen paintings to its painter in a large dataset and correctly attribute its artistic style in over 60 % of the cases. Additionally, we explore the task of saliency detection on paintings and show experimental findings using state-of-the-art saliency estimation algorithms. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 0932-8092 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | CIC; LAMP; 600.074; 600.079 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ KBW2014 | Serial | 2510 | ||
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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga; Jordi Roca; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sophie Wuerger | ||||
| Title | Limitations of visual gamma corrections in LCD displays | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | Displays | Abbreviated Journal | Dis |
| Volume | 35 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 227–239 |
| Keywords | Display calibration; Psychophysics; Perceptual; Visual gamma correction; Luminance matching; Observer-based calibration | ||||
| Abstract | A method for estimating the non-linear gamma transfer function of liquid–crystal displays (LCDs) without the need of a photometric measurement device was described by Xiao et al. (2011) [1]. It relies on observer’s judgments of visual luminance by presenting eight half-tone patterns with luminances from 1/9 to 8/9 of the maximum value of each colour channel. These half-tone patterns were distributed over the screen both over the vertical and horizontal viewing axes. We conducted a series of photometric and psychophysical measurements (consisting in the simultaneous presentation of half-tone patterns in each trial) to evaluate whether the angular dependency of the light generated by three different LCD technologies would bias the results of these gamma transfer function estimations. Our results show that there are significant differences between the gamma transfer functions measured and produced by observers at different viewing angles. We suggest appropriate modifications to the Xiao et al. paradigm to counterbalance these artefacts which also have the advantage of shortening the amount of time spent in collecting the psychophysical measurements. | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; DAG; 600.052; 600.077; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ PRK2014 | Serial | 2511 | ||
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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Color Vision, Computational Methods for | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 1-11 | ||
| Keywords | Color computational vision; Computational neuroscience of color | ||||
| Abstract | The study of color vision has been aided by a whole battery of computational methods that attempt to describe the mechanisms that lead to our perception of colors in terms of the information-processing properties of the visual system. Their scope is highly interdisciplinary, linking apparently dissimilar disciplines such as mathematics, physics, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. Since the sensation of color is a feature of our brains, computational approaches usually include biological features of neural systems in their descriptions, from retinal light-receptor interaction to subcortical color opponency, cortical signal decoding, and color categorization. They produce hypotheses that are usually tested by behavioral or psychophysical experiments. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | Dieter Jaeger; Ranu Jung | |
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-1-4614-7320-6 | Medium | ||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Par2014 | Serial | 2512 | ||
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| Author | Xim Cerda-Company; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu | ||||
| 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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| Notes | CIC; NEUROBIT; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ CPO2014 | Serial | 2527 | ||
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| Author | Ricard Balague | ||||
| Title | Exploring the combination of color cues for intrinsic image decomposition | Type | Report | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | CVC Technical Report | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 178 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Intrinsic image decomposition is a challenging problem that consists in separating an image into its physical characteristics: reflectance and shading. This problem can be solved in different ways, but most methods have combined information from several visual cues. In this work we describe an extension of an existing method proposed by Serra et al. which considers two color descriptors and combines them by means of a Markov Random Field. We analyze in depth the weak points of the method and we explore more possibilities to use in both descriptors. The proposed extension depends on the combination of the cues considered to overcome some of the limitations of the original method. Our approach is tested on the MIT dataset and Beigpour et al. dataset, which contain images of real objects acquired under controlled conditions and synthetic images respectively, with their corresponding ground truth. | ||||
| Address | UAB; September 2014 | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Bal2014 | Serial | 2579 | ||
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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Perceptual Psychophysics | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | G.Cristobal; M.Keil; L.Perrinet | ||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Par2015 | Serial | 2600 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Otazu; Olivier Penacchio; Xim Cerda-Company | ||||
| Title | Brightness and colour induction through contextual influences in V1 | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Scottish Vision Group 2015 SGV2015 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 12 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 1208-2012 |
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| Address | Carnoustie; Scotland; March 2015 | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ OPC2015a | Serial | 2632 | ||
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| Author | Olivier Penacchio; Xavier Otazu; A. wilkins; J. Harris | ||||
| 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 | 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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| Author | Marc Serra | ||||
| Title | Modeling, estimation and evaluation of intrinsic images considering color information | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Image values are the result of a combination of visual information coming from multiple sources. Recovering information from the multiple factors thatproduced an image seems a hard and ill-posed problem. However, it is important to observe that humans develop the ability to interpret images and recognize and isolate specific physical properties of the scene.
Images describing a single physical characteristic of an scene are called intrinsic images. These images would benefit most computer vision tasks which are often affected by the multiple complex effects that are usually found in natural images (e.g. cast shadows, specularities, interreflections...). In this thesis we analyze the problem of intrinsic image estimation from different perspectives, including the theoretical formulation of the problem, the visual cues that can be used to estimate the intrinsic components and the evaluation mechanisms of the problem. |
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| Address | September 2015 | ||||
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| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Robert Benavente;Olivier Penacchio | |
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| Notes | CIC; 600.074 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Ser2015 | Serial | 2688 | ||
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| Author | Aleksandr Setkov; Fabio Martinez Carillo; Michele Gouiffes; Christian Jacquemin; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich | ||||
| Title | DAcImPro: A Novel Database of Acquired Image Projections and Its Application to Object Recognition | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Advances in Visual Computing. Proceedings of 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015 Part II | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 9475 | Issue | Pages | 463-473 | |
| Keywords | Projector-camera systems; Feature descriptors; Object recognition | ||||
| Abstract | Projector-camera systems are designed to improve the projection quality by comparing original images with their captured projections, which is usually complicated due to high photometric and geometric variations. Many research works address this problem using their own test data which makes it extremely difficult to compare different proposals. This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new database of acquired image projections (DAcImPro) that, covering photometric and geometric conditions and providing data for ground-truth computation, can serve to evaluate different algorithms in projector-camera systems. Secondly, a new object recognition scenario from acquired projections is presented, which could be of a great interest in such domains, as home video projections and public presentations. We show that the task is more challenging than the classical recognition problem and thus requires additional pre-processing, such as color compensation or projection area selection. | ||||
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| ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-319-27862-9 | Medium | |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SMG2015 | Serial | 2736 | ||
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| Author | Ivet Rafegas; Javier Vazquez; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Susana Alvarez | ||||
| Title | Enhancing spatio-chromatic representation with more-than-three color coding for image description | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2017 | Publication | Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Abbreviated Journal | JOSA A |
| Volume | 34 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 827-837 |
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| Abstract | Extraction of spatio-chromatic features from color images is usually performed independently on each color channel. Usual 3D color spaces, such as RGB, present a high inter-channel correlation for natural images. This correlation can be reduced using color-opponent representations, but the spatial structure of regions with small color differences is not fully captured in two generic Red-Green and Blue-Yellow channels. To overcome these problems, we propose a new color coding that is adapted to the specific content of each image. Our proposal is based on two steps: (a) setting the number of channels to the number of distinctive colors we find in each image (avoiding the problem of channel correlation), and (b) building a channel representation that maximizes contrast differences within each color channel (avoiding the problem of low local contrast). We call this approach more-than-three color coding (MTT) to enhance the fact that the number of channels is adapted to the image content. The higher color complexity an image has, the more channels can be used to represent it. Here we select distinctive colors as the most predominant in the image, which we call color pivots, and we build the new color coding using these color pivots as a basis. To evaluate the proposed approach we measure its efficiency in an image categorization task. We show how a generic descriptor improves its performance at the description level when applied on the MTT coding. | ||||
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| Notes | CIC; 600.087 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RVB2017 | Serial | 2892 | ||
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| Author | Jordi Roca | ||||
| Title | Constancy and inconstancy in categorical colour perception | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | To recognise objects is perhaps the most important task an autonomous system, either biological or artificial needs to perform. In the context of human vision, this is partly achieved by recognizing the colour of surfaces despite changes in the wavelength distribution of the illumination, a property called colour constancy. Correct surface colour recognition may be adequately accomplished by colour category matching without the need to match colours precisely, therefore categorical colour constancy is likely to play an important role for object identification to be successful. The main aim of this work is to study the relationship between colour constancy and categorical colour perception. Previous studies of colour constancy have shown the influence of factors such the spatio-chromatic properties of the background, individual observer's performance, semantics, etc. However there is very little systematic study of these influences. To this end, we developed a new approach to colour constancy which includes both individual observers' categorical perception, the categorical structure of the background, and their interrelations resulting in a more comprehensive characterization of the phenomenon. In our study, we first developed a new method to analyse the categorical structure of 3D colour space, which allowed us to characterize individual categorical colour perception as well as quantify inter-individual variations in terms of shape and centroid location of 3D categorical regions. Second, we developed a new colour constancy paradigm, termed chromatic setting, which allows measuring the precise location of nine categorically-relevant points in colour space under immersive illumination. Additionally, we derived from these measurements a new colour constancy index which takes into account the magnitude and orientation of the chromatic shift, memory effects and the interrelations among colours and a model of colour naming tuned to each observer/adaptation state. Our results lead to the following conclusions: (1) There exists large inter-individual variations in the categorical structure of colour space, and thus colour naming ability varies significantly but this is not well predicted by low-level chromatic discrimination ability; (2) Analysis of the average colour naming space suggested the need for an additional three basic colour terms (turquoise, lilac and lime) for optimal colour communication; (3) Chromatic setting improved the precision of more complex linear colour constancy models and suggested that mechanisms other than cone gain might be best suited to explain colour constancy; (4) The categorical structure of colour space is broadly stable under illuminant changes for categorically balanced backgrounds; (5) Categorical inconstancy exists for categorically unbalanced backgrounds thus indicating that categorical information perceived in the initial stages of adaptation may constrain further categorical perception. | ||||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | Maria Vanrell;C. Alejandro Parraga | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Roc2012 | Serial | 2893 | ||
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