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Author Ernest Valveny; Enric Marti
Title Hand-drawn symbol recognition in graphic documents using deformable template matching and a Bayesian framework Type Conference Article
Year 2000 Publication Proc. 15th Int Pattern Recognition Conf Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue Pages 239-242
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Abstract Hand-drawn symbols can take many different and distorted shapes from their ideal representation. Then, very flexible methods are needed to be able to handle unconstrained drawings. We propose here to extend our previous work in hand-drawn symbol recognition based on a Bayesian framework and deformable template matching. This approach gets flexibility enough to fit distorted shapes in the drawing while keeping fidelity to the ideal shape of the symbol. In this work, we define the similarity measure between an image and a symbol based on the distance from every pixel in the image to the lines in the symbol. Matching is carried out using an implementation of the EM algorithm. Thus, we can improve recognition rates and computation time with respect to our previous formulation based on a simulated annealing algorithm.
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ISSN ISBN 0-7695-0750-6 Medium
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAM2000 Serial 1656
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Author Ernest Valveny; Enric Marti
Title Application of deformable template matching to symbol recognition in hand-written architectural draw Type Conference Article
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract We propose to use deformable template matching as a new approach to recognize characters and lineal symbols in hand-written line drawings, instead of traditional methods based on vectorization and feature extraction. Bayesian formulation of the deformable template matching allows combining fidelity to the ideal shape of the symbol with maximum flexibility to get the best fit to the input image. Lineal nature of symbols can be exploited to define a suitable representation of models and the set of deformations to be applied to them. Matching, however, is done over the original binary image to avoid losing relevant features during vectorization. We have applied this method to hand-written architectural drawings and experimental results demonstrate that symbols with high distortions from ideal shape can be accurately identified.
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Publisher Place of Publication Bangalore (India) Editor (up)
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAM1999a Serial 1657
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Author Ernest Valveny; Enric Marti
Title Recognition of lineal symbols in hand-written drawings using deformable template matching Type Conference Article
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes Abbreviated Journal
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAM1999 Serial 1658
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Author Ernest Valveny; Enric Marti
Title Dimensions analysis in hand-drawn architectural drawings Type Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication VII National Simposium of Pattern Recognition and image Analysis, SNRFAI´97 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 90-91
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Publisher Place of Publication CVC-UAB Editor (up)
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAM1997 Serial 1659
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Author Ernest Valveny; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Baldrich; Enric Marti
Title Combining recognition-based in segmentation-based approaches for graphic symol recognition using deformable template matching Type Conference Article
Year 2002 Publication Proceeding of the Second IASTED International Conference Visualization, Imaging and Image Proceesing VIIP 2002 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 502–507
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Notes DAG;RV;CAT;IAM;CIC;ADAS Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VTB2002 Serial 1660
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Author Sergio Vera
Title Finger joint modelling from hand X-ray images for assessing rheumatoid arthritis Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 164 Issue Pages
Keywords Rheumatoid arthritis; joint detection; X-ray; Van der Heijde score
Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune, systemic, inflammatory disorder that mainly af- fects bone joints. While there is no cure for this disease, continuous advances on palliative treatments require frequent verification of patient’s illness evolution. Such evolution is mea- sured through several available semi-quantitative methods that require evaluation of hand and foot X-ray images. Accurate assessment is a time consuming task that requires highly trained personnel. This hinders a generalized use in clinical practice for early diagnose and disease follow-up. In the context of the automatization of such evaluation methods we present a method for detection and characterization of finger joints in hand radiography images. Several measures for assessing the reduction of joint space width are proposed. We compare for the first time such measures to the Van der Heijde score, the gold standard method for rheumatoid arthritis assessment. The proposed method outperforms existing strategies with a detection rate above 95%. Our comparison to Van der Heijde index shows a promising correlation that encourages further research.
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Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra 01893, Barcelona, Spain Editor (up)
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Ver2010 Serial 1661
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Enric Marti
Title New didactic techniques in the EHES applying mobile technologies Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication Agencia de Gestio d´Ajuts Universitaris I de Recerca (AGAUR), Generalitat de Catalunya Abbreviated Journal
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Corporate Author Agencia de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris I de Recerca (AGAUR), Generalitat de Catalunya Thesis
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Area Agencia de Gestio d´Ajuts Universitaris I de Recerca (AGAUR), Generalitat de Catalunya Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB;IAM;MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VIM2008 Serial 1664
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Author Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Miguel Reyes; Oscar Lopes; Isabelle Guyon; V. Athitsos; Hugo Jair Escalante
Title Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge 2013: Dataset and Results Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 445-452
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Abstract The recognition of continuous natural gestures is a complex and challenging problem due to the multi-modal nature of involved visual cues (e.g. fingers and lips movements, subtle facial expressions, body pose, etc.), as well as technical limitations such as spatial and temporal resolution and unreliable
depth cues. In order to promote the research advance on this field, we organized a challenge on multi-modal gesture recognition. We made available a large video database of 13; 858 gestures from a lexicon of 20 Italian gesture categories recorded with a KinectTM camera, providing the audio, skeletal model, user mask, RGB and depth images. The focus of the challenge was on user independent multiple gesture learning. There are no resting positions and the gestures are performed in continuous sequences lasting 1-2 minutes, containing between 8 and 20 gesture instances in each sequence. As a result, the dataset contains around 1:720:800 frames. In addition to the 20 main gesture categories, ‘distracter’ gestures are included, meaning that additional audio
and gestures out of the vocabulary are included. The final evaluation of the challenge was defined in terms of the Levenshtein edit distance, where the goal was to indicate the real order of gestures within the sequence. 54 international teams participated in the challenge, and outstanding results
were obtained by the first ranked participants.
Address Sidney; Australia; December 2013
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2129-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICMI
Notes HUPBA; ISE; 600.063;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EGB2013 Serial 2373
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Author Onur Ferhat; Fernando Vilariño
Title A Cheap Portable Eye-Tracker Solution for Common Setups Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 17th European Conference on Eye Movements Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Low cost; eye-tracker; software; webcam; Raspberry Pi
Abstract We analyze the feasibility of a cheap eye-tracker where the hardware consists of a single webcam and a Raspberry Pi device. Our aim is to discover the limits of such a system and to see whether it provides an acceptable performance. We base our work on the open source Opengazer (Zielinski, 2013) and we propose several improvements to create a robust, real-time system. After assessing the accuracy of our eye-tracker in elaborated experiments involving 18 subjects under 4 different system setups, we developed a simple game to see how it performs in practice and we also installed it on a Raspberry Pi to create a portable stand-alone eye-tracker which achieves 1.62° horizontal accuracy with 3 fps refresh rate for a building cost of 70 Euros.
Address Lund; Sweden; August 2013
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Area Expedition Conference ECEM
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FeV2013 Serial 2374
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Author David Vazquez; Enrique Cabello
Title Empleo de sistemas biométricos faciales aplicados al reconocimiento de personas en aeropuertos Type Report
Year 2007 Publication Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas Abbreviated Journal URJC
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Keywords Surveillance; Face detection; Face recognition
Abstract El presente proyecto se desarrolló a lo largo del año 2005 y 2006, probando un prototipo de un sistema de verificación facial con imágenes extraídas de las cámaras de video-vigilancia del aeropuerto de Barajas. Se diseñaron varios experimentos, agrupados en dos clases. En el primer tipo, el sistema es entre- nado con imágenes obtenidas en condiciones de laboratorio y luego probado con imágenes extraídas de las cámaras de video-vigilancia del aeropuerto de Barajas. En el segundo caso, tanto las imágenes de entrenamiento como las de prueba corresponden a imágenes extraídas de Barajas.
Se ha desarrollado un sistema completo, que incluye adquisición y digitalización de las imágenes, localización y recorte de las caras en escena, verificación de sujetos y obtención de resultados. Los resultados muestran que, en general, un sistema de verificación facial basado en imágenes puede ser una valiosa ayuda a un operario que deba estar vigilando amplias zonas.
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Notes invisible;ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VC2007a Serial 1671
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Author David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo
Title An inference model for analyzing termination conditions of Evolutionary Algorithms Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th Congrès Català en Intel·ligencia Artificial Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 216-225
Keywords Evolutionary Computation Convergence, Termination Conditions, Statistical Inference
Abstract In real-world problems, it is mandatory to design a termination condition for Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) ensuring stabilization close to the unknown optimum. Distribution-based quantities are good candidates as far as suitable parameters are used. A main limitation for application to real-world problems is that such parameters strongly depend on the topology of the objective function, as well as, the EA paradigm used.
We claim that the termination problem would be fully solved if we had a model measuring to what extent a distribution-based quantity asymptotically behaves like the solution accuracy. We present a regression-prediction model that relates any two given quantities and reports if they can be statistically swapped as termination conditions. Our framework is applied to two issues. First, exploring if the parameters involved in the computation of distribution-based quantities influence their asymptotic behavior. Second, to what extent existing distribution-based quantities can be asymptotically exchanged for the accuracy of the EA solution.
Address Lleida, Catalonia (Spain)
Corporate Author Associació Catalana Intel·ligència Artificial Thesis
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-60750-841-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CCIA
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ RGG2011a Serial 1677
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Author David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo
Title Using statistical inference for designing termination conditions ensuring convergence of Evolutionary Algorithms Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th European Conference on Artificial Life Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract A main challenge in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is determining a termination condition ensuring stabilization close to the optimum in real-world applications. Although for known test functions distribution-based quantities are good candidates (as far as suitable parameters are used), in real-world problems an open question still remains unsolved. How can we estimate an upper-bound for the termination condition value ensuring a given accuracy for the (unknown) EA solution?
We claim that the termination problem would be fully solved if we defined a quantity (depending only on the EA output) behaving like the solution accuracy. The open question would be, then, satisfactorily answered if we had a model relating both quantities, since accuracy could be predicted from the alternative quantity. We present a statistical inference framework addressing two topics: checking the correlation between the two quantities and defining a regression model for predicting (at a given confidence level) accuracy values from the EA output.
Address Paris, France
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ RGG2011b Serial 1678
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Author Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil ;Albert Andaluz ;Enric Marti
Title Multiscale Tractography for Representing Heart Muscular Architecture Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In MICCAI 2011 Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Deep understanding of myocardial structure of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for clinical and medical procedures. Although the muscular architecture of the heart has been debated by countless researchers, the controversy is still alive. Diffusion Tensor MRI, DT-MRI, is a unique imaging technique for computational validation of the muscular structure of the heart. By the complex arrangement of myocites, existing techniques can not provide comprehensive descriptions of the global muscular architecture. In this paper we introduce a multiresolution reconstruction technique based on DT-MRI streamlining for simplified global myocardial model generation. Our reconstructions can restore the most complex myocardial structures and indicate a global helical organization
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Area Expedition Conference CDRMI
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PGA2011 Serial 1681
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Author Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title A Confidence Measure for Assessing Optical Flow Accuracy in the Absence of Ground Truth Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2042-2049
Keywords IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision – Workshops
Abstract Optical flow is a valuable tool for motion analysis in autonomous navigation systems. A reliable application requires determining the accuracy of the computed optical flow. This is a main challenge given the absence of ground truth in real world sequences. This paper introduces a measure of optical flow accuracy for Lucas-Kanade based flows in terms of the numerical stability of the data-term. We call this measure optical flow condition number. A statistical analysis over ground-truth data show a good statistical correlation between the condition number and optical flow error. Experiments on driving sequences illustrate its potential for autonomous navigation systems.
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Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Barcelona (Spain) Editor (up)
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Area Expedition Conference ICCVW
Notes IAM; ADAS Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ MGH2011 Serial 1682
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Author David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin
Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 393-400
Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Human detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning
Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications in fields such as advanced driving assistance, surveillance and media analysis. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. The most promising human detectors rely on classifiers developed in the discriminative paradigm, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labeling is a manual intensive step, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, some authors have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of rendered images, i.e., using realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera, or similar ones. Accordingly, in this paper we address the challenge of using a virtual world for gathering (while playing a videogame) a large amount of automatically labelled samples (virtual humans and background) and then training a classifier that performs equal, in real-world images, than the one obtained by equally training from manually labelled real-world samples. For doing that, we cast the problem as one of domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we propose a non-standard active learning technique. Therefore, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual and real world labelled samples (Fig. 1), which has not been done before. We present quantitative results showing that this approach is valid.
Address Alicante, Spain
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Publisher ACM DL Place of Publication New York, NY, USA, USA Editor (up)
Language English Summary Language English Original Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-0641-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICMI
Notes ADAS Approved yes
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011a Serial 1683
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