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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell; Antonio Lopez
Title Color Attributes for Object Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3306-3313
Keywords pedestrian detection
Abstract State-of-the-art object detectors typically use shape information as a low level feature representation to capture the local structure of an object. This paper shows that early fusion of shape and color, as is popular in image classification,
leads to a significant drop in performance for object detection. Moreover, such approaches also yields suboptimal results for object categories with varying importance of color and shape.
In this paper we propose the use of color attributes as an explicit color representation for object detection. Color attributes are compact, computationally efficient, and when combined with traditional shape features provide state-ofthe-
art results for object detection. Our method is tested on the PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 datasets and results clearly show that our method improves over state-of-the-art techniques despite its simplicity. We also introduce a new dataset consisting of cartoon character images in which color plays a pivotal role. On this dataset, our approach yields a significant gain of 14% in mean AP over conventional state-of-the-art methods.
Address Providence; Rhode Island; USA;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes ADAS; CIC; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2012 Serial 1935
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Author Albert Andaluz
Title Harmonic Phase Flow: User's guide Type Manual
Year 2012 Publication CVC Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract HPF is a plugin for the computation of clinical scores under Osirix.
This manual provides a basic guide for experienced clinical staff. Chapter 1 provides the theoretical background in which this plugin is based.
Next, in chapter 2 we provide basic instructions for installing and uninstalling this plugin. chapter 3we shows a step-by-step scenario to compute clinical scores from tagged-MRI images with HPF. Finally, in chapter 4 we provide a quick guide for plugin developers
Address Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)
Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis
Publisher CVC Place of Publication Barcelona Editor
Language english Summary Language english Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ And2012 Serial 1863
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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
Keywords
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 (up)
ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KWV2012 Serial 1864
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Author Jose Carlos Rubio; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa
Title Multiple target tracking for intelligent headlights control Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal TITS
Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 594-605
Keywords Intelligent Headlights
Abstract Intelligent vehicle lighting systems aim at automatically regulating the headlights' beam to illuminate as much of the road ahead as possible while avoiding dazzling other drivers. A key component of such a system is computer vision software that is able to distinguish blobs due to vehicles' headlights and rear lights from those due to road lamps and reflective elements such as poles and traffic signs. In a previous work, we have devised a set of specialized supervised classifiers to make such decisions based on blob features related to its intensity and shape. Despite the overall good performance, there remain challenging that have yet to be solved: notably, faint and tiny blobs corresponding to quite distant vehicles. In fact, for such distant blobs, classification decisions can be taken after observing them during a few frames. Hence, incorporating tracking could improve the overall lighting system performance by enforcing the temporal consistency of the classifier decision. Accordingly, this paper focuses on the problem of constructing blob tracks, which is actually one of multiple-target tracking (MTT), but under two special conditions: We have to deal with frequent occlusions, as well as blob splits and merges. We approach it in a novel way by formulating the problem as a maximum a posteriori inference on a Markov random field. The qualitative (in video form) and quantitative evaluation of our new MTT method shows good tracking results. In addition, we will also see that the classification performance of the problematic blobs improves due to the proposed MTT algorithm.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 1524-9050 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLP2012; ADAS @ adas @ rsl2012g Serial 1877
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika
Title A Supervised Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Approach for Manifold Learning Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 45 Issue 6 Pages 2432-2444
Keywords
Abstract IF= 2.61
IF=2.61 (2010)
In this paper we introduce a novel supervised manifold learning technique called Supervised Laplacian Eigenmaps (S-LE), which makes use of class label information to guide the procedure of non-linear dimensionality reduction by adopting the large margin concept. The graph Laplacian is split into two components: within-class graph and between-class graph to better characterize the discriminant property of the data. Our approach has two important characteristics: (i) it adaptively estimates the local neighborhood surrounding each sample based on data density and similarity and (ii) the objective function simultaneously maximizes the local margin between heterogeneous samples and pushes the homogeneous samples closer to each other.

Our approach has been tested on several challenging face databases and it has been conveniently compared with other linear and non-linear techniques, demonstrating its superiority. Although we have concentrated in this paper on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be applied to other category of objects characterized by large variations in their appearance (such as hand or body pose, for instance.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 0031-3203 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes OR; MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2012a Serial 1884
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Author Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Social Network Extraction and Analysis Based on Multimodal Dyadic Interaction Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 1702-1719
Keywords
Abstract IF=1.77 (2010)
Social interactions are a very important component in peopleís lives. Social network analysis has become a common technique used to model and quantify the properties of social interactions. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to explore the characteristics of a social network extracted from multimodal dyadic interactions. For our study, we used a set of videos belonging to New York Timesí Blogging Heads opinion blog.
The Social Network is represented as an oriented graph, whose directed links are determined by the Influence Model. The linksí weights are a measure of the ìinfluenceî a person has over the other. The states of the Influence Model encode automatically extracted audio/visual features from our videos using state-of-the art algorithms. Our results are reported in terms of accuracy of audio/visual data fusion for speaker segmentation and centrality measures used to characterize the extracted social network.
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Publisher Molecular Diversity Preservation International Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EBV2012 Serial 1885
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Alireza Bosaghzadeh; Bogdan Raducanu
Title LSDA Solution Schemes for Modelless 3D Head Pose Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 393-398
Keywords
Abstract
Address Breckenridge; USA;
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 (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference WACV
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DBR2012 Serial 1889
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika
Title Appearance-based Face Recognition Using A Supervised Manifold Learning Framework Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 465-470
Keywords
Abstract Many natural image sets, depicting objects whose appearance is changing due to motion, pose or light variations, can be considered samples of a low-dimension nonlinear manifold embedded in the high-dimensional observation space (the space of all possible images). The main contribution of our work is represented by a Supervised Laplacian Eigemaps (S-LE) algorithm, which exploits the class label information for mapping the original data in the embedded space. Our proposed approach benefits from two important properties: i) it is discriminative, and ii) it adaptively selects the neighbors of a sample without using any predefined neighborhood size. Experiments were conducted on four face databases and the results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms many linear and non-linear embedding techniques. Although we've focused on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be extended to other category of objects characterized by large variance in their appearance.
Address Breckenridge; CO; USA
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 1550-5790 ISBN 978-1-4673-0233-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference WACV
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2012d Serial 1890
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Author Santiago Segui; Michal Drozdzal; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
Title An Integrated Approach to Contextual Face Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 143-150
Keywords
Abstract Face detection is, in general, based on content-based detectors. Nevertheless, the face is a non-rigid object with well defined relations with respect to the human body parts. In this paper, we propose to take benefit of the context information in order to improve content-based face detections. We propose a novel framework for integrating multiple content- and context-based detectors in a discriminative way. Moreover, we develop an integrated scoring procedure that measures the ’faceness’ of each hypothesis and is used to discriminate the detection results. Our approach detects a higher rate of faces while minimizing the number of false detections, giving an average increase of more than 10% in average precision when comparing it to state-of-the art face detectors
Address Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPRAM
Notes MILAB; OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SDR2012 Serial 1895
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Author Carles Sanchez;F. Javier Sanchez; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
Title An illumination model of the trachea appearance in videobronchoscopy images Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal LNCS
Volume 7325 Issue Pages 313-320
Keywords Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, stenosis assesment, trachea appearance model, segmentation
Abstract Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways. This imaging modality provides realistic images and allows non-invasive minimal intervention procedures. Tracheal procedures are routinary interventions that require assessment of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) detection. Visual assessment in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error.
This paper introduces an automatic method for the estimation of steneosed trachea percentage reduction in videobronchoscopic images. We look for tracheal rings , whose deformation determines the degree of obstruction. For ring extraction , we present a ring detector based on an illumination and appearance model. This model allows us to parametrise the ring detection. Finally, we can infer optimal estimation parameters for any video resolution.
Address Aveiro, Portugal
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-31297-7 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes MV;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ SSR2012 Serial 1898
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Author Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil ; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title Error Analysis for Lucas-Kanade Based Schemes Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 9th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7324 Issue I Pages 184-191
Keywords Optical flow, Confidence measure, Lucas-Kanade, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Abstract Optical flow is a valuable tool for motion analysis in medical imaging sequences. A reliable application requires determining the accuracy of the computed optical flow. This is a main challenge given the absence of ground truth in medical sequences. This paper presents an error analysis of Lucas-Kanade schemes in terms of intrinsic design errors and numerical stability of the algorithm. Our analysis provides a confidence measure that is naturally correlated to the accuracy of the flow field. Our experiments show the higher predictive value of our confidence measure compared to existing measures.
Address Aveiro, Portugal
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language english Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Campilho, Aurélio and Kamel, Mohamed Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-31294-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ MGH2012a Serial 1899
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Author Albert Andaluz; Francesc Carreras; Cristina Santa Marta;Debora Gil
Title Myocardial torsion estimation with Tagged-MRI in the OsiriX platform Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication ISBI Workshop on Open Source Medical Image Analysis software Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Myocardial torsion (MT) plays a crucial role in the assessment of the functionality of the
left ventricle. For this purpose, the IAM group at the CVC has developed the Harmonic Phase Flow (HPF) plugin for the Osirix DICOM platform . We have validated its funcionalty on sequences acquired using different protocols and including healthy and pathological cases. Results show similar torsion trends for SPAMM acquisitions, with pathological cases introducing expected deviations from the ground truth. Finally, we provide the plugin free of charge at http://iam.cvc.uab.es
Address Barcelona, Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor Wiro Niessen (Erasmus MC) and Marc Modat (UCL)
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISBI
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ ACS2012 Serial 1900
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Author David Geronimo; Frederic Lerasle; Antonio Lopez
Title State-driven particle filter for multi-person tracking Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 11th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7517 Issue Pages 467-478
Keywords human tracking
Abstract Multi-person tracking can be exploited in applications such as driver assistance, surveillance, multimedia and human-robot interaction. With the help of human detectors, particle filters offer a robust method able to filter noisy detections and provide temporal coherence. However, some traditional problems such as occlusions with other targets or the scene, temporal drifting or even the lost targets detection are rarely considered, making the systems performance decrease. Some authors propose to overcome these problems using heuristics not explained
and formalized in the papers, for instance by defining exceptions to the model updating depending on tracks overlapping. In this paper we propose to formalize these events by the use of a state-graph, defining the current state of the track (e.g., potential , tracked, occluded or lost) and the transitions between states in an explicit way. This approach has the advantage of linking track actions such as the online underlying models updating, which gives flexibility to the system. It provides an explicit representation to adapt the multiple parallel trackers depending on the context, i.e., each track can make use of a specific filtering strategy, dynamic model, number of particles, etc. depending on its state. We implement this technique in a single-camera multi-person tracker and test
it in public video sequences.
Address Brno, Chzech Republic
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Heidelberg Editor J. Blanc-Talon et al.
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ACIVS
Notes ADAS Approved yes
Call Number GLL2012; ADAS @ adas @ gll2012a Serial 1990
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Author Javier Marin; David Geronimo; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Pedestrian Detection: Exploring Virtual Worlds Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Handbook of Pattern Recognition: Methods and Application Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5 Issue Pages 145-162
Keywords Virtual worlds; Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation
Abstract Handbook of pattern recognition will include contributions from university educators and active research experts. This Handbook is intended to serve as a basic reference on methods and applications of pattern recognition. The primary aim of this handbook is providing the community of pattern recognition with a readable, easy to understand resource that covers introductory, intermediate and advanced topics with equal clarity. Therefore, the Handbook of pattern recognition can serve equally well as reference resource and as classroom textbook. Contributions cover all methods, techniques and applications of pattern recognition. A tentative list of relevant topics might include: 1- Statistical, structural, syntactic pattern recognition. 2- Neural networks, machine learning, data mining. 3- Discrete geometry, algebraic, graph-based techniques for pattern recognition. 4- Face recognition, Signal analysis, image coding and processing, shape and texture analysis. 5- Document processing, text and graphics recognition, digital libraries. 6- Speech recognition, music analysis, multimedia systems. 7- Natural language analysis, information retrieval. 8- Biometrics, biomedical pattern analysis and information systems. 9- Other scientific, engineering, social and economical applications of pattern recognition. 10- Special hardware architectures, software packages for pattern recognition.
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Publisher iConcept Press Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN 978-1-477554-82-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ MGV2012 Serial 1979
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Author Sergio Escalera; Josep Moya; Laura Igual; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Automatic Human Behavior Analysis in ADHD Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication Eunethydis 2nd International ADHD Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Poster
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition (up)
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference EUNETHYDIS
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EMI2012a Serial 2058
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