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	Author	Hugo Jair Escalante; Heysem Kaya; Albert Ali Salah; Sergio Escalera; Yagmur Gucluturk; Umut Guçlu; Xavier Baro; Isabelle Guyon; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Meysam Madadi; Stephane Ayache; Evelyne Viegas; Furkan Gurpinar; Achmadnoer Sukma Wicaksana; Cynthia Liem; Marcel A. J. Van Gerven; Rob Van Lier
	Title	Modeling, Recognizing, and Explaining Apparent Personality from Videos			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing	Abbreviated Journal	TAC
	Volume	13	Issue	2	Pages	894-911
	Keywords
	Abstract	Explainability and interpretability are two critical aspects of decision support systems. Despite their importance, it is only recently that researchers are starting to explore these aspects. This paper provides an introduction to explainability and interpretability in the context of apparent personality recognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort in this direction. We describe a challenge we organized on explainability in first impressions analysis from video. We analyze in detail the newly introduced data set, evaluation protocol, proposed solutions and summarize the results of the challenge. We investigate the issue of bias in detail. Finally, derived from our study, we outline research opportunities that we foresee will be relevant in this area in the near future.
	Address	1 April-June 2022
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	HuPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ EKS2022			Serial	3406
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Y.Kessentini
	Title	DE-GAN: A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Document Enhancement			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	44	Issue	3	Pages	1180-1191
	Keywords
	Abstract	Documents often exhibit various forms of degradation, which make it hard to be read and substantially deteriorate the performance of an OCR system. In this paper, we propose an effective end-to-end framework named Document Enhancement Generative Adversarial Networks (DE-GAN) that uses the conditional GANs (cGANs) to restore severely degraded document images. To the best of our knowledge, this practice has not been studied within the context of generative adversarial deep networks. We demonstrate that, in different tasks (document clean up, binarization, deblurring and watermark removal), DE-GAN can produce an enhanced version of the degraded document with a high quality. In addition, our approach provides consistent improvements compared to state-of-the-art methods over the widely used DIBCO 2013, DIBCO 2017 and H-DIBCO 2018 datasets, proving its ability to restore a degraded document image to its ideal condition. The obtained results on a wide variety of degradation reveal the flexibility of the proposed model to be exploited in other document enhancement problems.
	Address	1 March 2022
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 602.230; 600.121; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SoK2022			Serial	3454
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	Author	Saad Minhas; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Shoaib Ehsan; Klaus McDonald Maier
	Title	Effects of Non-Driving Related Tasks during Self-Driving mode			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems	Abbreviated Journal	TITS
	Volume	23	Issue	2	Pages	1391-1399
	Keywords
	Abstract	Perception reaction time and mental workload have proven to be crucial in manual driving. Moreover, in highly automated cars, where most of the research is focusing on Level 4 Autonomous driving, take-over performance is also a key factor when taking road safety into account. This study aims to investigate how the immersion in non-driving related tasks affects the take-over performance of drivers in given scenarios. The paper also highlights the use of virtual simulators to gather efficient data that can be crucial in easing the transition between manual and autonomous driving scenarios. The use of Computer Aided Simulations is of absolute importance in this day and age since the automotive industry is rapidly moving towards Autonomous technology. An experiment comprising of 40 subjects was performed to examine the reaction times of driver and the influence of other variables in the success of take-over performance in highly automated driving under different circumstances within a highway virtual environment. The results reflect the relationship between reaction times under different scenarios that the drivers might face under the circumstances stated above as well as the importance of variables such as velocity in the success on regaining car control after automated driving. The implications of the results acquired are important for understanding the criteria needed for designing Human Machine Interfaces specifically aimed towards automated driving conditions. Understanding the need to keep drivers in the loop during automation, whilst allowing drivers to safely engage in other non-driving related tasks is an important research area which can be aided by the proposed study.
	Address	Feb. 2022
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM; 600.139; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MHE2022			Serial	3468
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	Author	Jun Wan; Chi Lin; Longyin Wen; Yunan Li; Qiguang Miao; Sergio Escalera; Gholamreza Anbarjafari; Isabelle Guyon; Guodong Guo; Stan Z. Li
	Title	ChaLearn Looking at People: IsoGD and ConGD Large-scale RGB-D Gesture Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics	Abbreviated Journal	TCIBERN
	Volume	52	Issue	5	Pages	3422-3433
	Keywords
	Abstract	The ChaLearn large-scale gesture recognition challenge has been run twice in two workshops in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2016 and International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017, attracting more than 200 teams round the world. This challenge has two tracks, focusing on isolated and continuous gesture recognition, respectively. This paper describes the creation of both benchmark datasets and analyzes the advances in large-scale gesture recognition based on these two datasets. We discuss the challenges of collecting large-scale ground-truth annotations of gesture recognition, and provide a detailed analysis of the current state-of-the-art methods for large-scale isolated and continuous gesture recognition based on RGB-D video sequences. In addition to recognition rate and mean jaccard index (MJI) as evaluation metrics used in our previous challenges, we also introduce the corrected segmentation rate (CSR) metric to evaluate the performance of temporal segmentation for continuous gesture recognition. Furthermore, we propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) baseline method, determining the video division points based on the skeleton points extracted by convolutional pose machine (CPM). Experiments demonstrate that the proposed Bi-LSTM outperforms the state-of-the-art methods with an absolute improvement of 8.1% (from 0.8917 to 0.9639) of CSR.
	Address	May 2022
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	HUPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WLW2022			Serial	3522
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	Author	Daniela Rato; Miguel Oliveira; Vitor Santos; Manuel Gomes; Angel Sappa
	Title	A sensor-to-pattern calibration framework for multi-modal industrial collaborative cells			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	Abbreviated Journal	JMANUFSYST
	Volume	64	Issue		Pages	497-507
	Keywords	Calibration; Collaborative cell; Multi-modal; Multi-sensor
	Abstract	Collaborative robotic industrial cells are workspaces where robots collaborate with human operators. In this context, safety is paramount, and for that a complete perception of the space where the collaborative robot is inserted is necessary. To ensure this, collaborative cells are equipped with a large set of sensors of multiple modalities, covering the entire work volume. However, the fusion of information from all these sensors requires an accurate extrinsic calibration. The calibration of such complex systems is challenging, due to the number of sensors and modalities, and also due to the small overlapping fields of view between the sensors, which are positioned to capture different viewpoints of the cell. This paper proposes a sensor to pattern methodology that can calibrate a complex system such as a collaborative cell in a single optimization procedure. Our methodology can tackle RGB and Depth cameras, as well as LiDARs. Results show that our methodology is able to accurately calibrate a collaborative cell containing three RGB cameras, a depth camera and three 3D LiDARs.
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	Publisher	Science Direct	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MSIAU; MACO			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ROS2022			Serial	3750
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	Author	Xavier Soria; Gonzalo Pomboza-Junez; Angel Sappa
	Title	LDC: Lightweight Dense CNN for Edge Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Access	Abbreviated Journal	ACCESS
	Volume	10	Issue		Pages	68281-68290
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper presents a Lightweight Dense Convolutional (LDC) neural network for edge detection. The proposed model is an adaptation of two state-of-the-art approaches, but it requires less than 4% of parameters in comparison with these approaches. The proposed architecture generates thin edge maps and reaches the highest score (i.e., ODS) when compared with lightweight models (models with less than 1 million parameters), and reaches a similar performance when compare with heavy architectures (models with about 35 million parameters). Both quantitative and qualitative results and comparisons with state-of-the-art models, using different edge detection datasets, are provided. The proposed LDC does not use pre-trained weights and requires straightforward hyper-parameter settings. The source code is released at https://github.com/xavysp/LDC
	Address	27 June 2022
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	IEEE	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MSIAU; MACO; 600.160; 600.167			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SPS2022			Serial	3751
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	Author	Marc Masana; Xialei Liu; Bartlomiej Twardowski; Mikel Menta; Andrew Bagdanov; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Class-incremental learning: survey and performance evaluation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
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	Abstract	For future learning systems incremental learning is desirable, because it allows for: efficient resource usage by eliminating the need to retrain from scratch at the arrival of new data; reduced memory usage by preventing or limiting the amount of data required to be stored -- also important when privacy limitations are imposed; and learning that more closely resembles human learning. The main challenge for incremental learning is catastrophic forgetting, which refers to the precipitous drop in performance on previously learned tasks after learning a new one. Incremental learning of deep neural networks has seen explosive growth in recent years. Initial work focused on task incremental learning, where a task-ID is provided at inference time. Recently we have seen a shift towards class-incremental learning where the learner must classify at inference time between all classes seen in previous tasks without recourse to a task-ID. In this paper, we provide a complete survey of existing methods for incremental learning, and in particular we perform an extensive experimental evaluation on twelve class-incremental methods. We consider several new experimental scenarios, including a comparison of class-incremental methods on multiple large-scale datasets, investigation into small and large domain shifts, and comparison on various network architectures.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MLT2022			Serial	3538
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	Author	Ana Garcia Rodriguez; Yael Tudela; Henry Cordova; S. Carballal; I. Ordas; L. Moreira; E. Vaquero; O. Ortiz; L. Rivero; F. Javier Sanchez; Miriam Cuatrecasas; Maria Pellise; Jorge Bernal; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach
	Title	First in Vivo Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Colorectal Polyps using White Light Endoscopy			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Endoscopy	Abbreviated Journal	END
	Volume	54	Issue		Pages
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	Abstract
	Address	2022/04/14
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Georg Thieme Verlag KG	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GTC2022a			Serial	3746
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	Author	Lei Kang; Pau Riba; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; Mauricio Villegas
	Title	Pay Attention to What You Read: Non-recurrent Handwritten Text-Line Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	129	Issue		Pages	108766
	Keywords
	Abstract	The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we observe across different writing styles. Sequential architectures are a perfect fit to model text lines, not only because of the inherent temporal aspect of text, but also to learn probability distributions over sequences of characters and words. However, using such recurrent paradigms comes at a cost at training stage, since their sequential pipelines prevent parallelization. In this work, we introduce a non-recurrent approach to recognize handwritten text by the use of transformer models. We propose a novel method that bypasses any recurrence. By using multi-head self-attention layers both at the visual and textual stages, we are able to tackle character recognition as well as to learn language-related dependencies of the character sequences to be decoded. Our model is unconstrained to any predefined vocabulary, being able to recognize out-of-vocabulary words, i.e. words that do not appear in the training vocabulary. We significantly advance over prior art and demonstrate that satisfactory recognition accuracies are yielded even in few-shot learning scenarios.
	Address	Sept. 2022
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG; 600.121; 600.162			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KRR2022			Serial	3556
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	Author	Diego Velazquez; Pau Rodriguez; Josep M. Gonfaus; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	A Closer Look at Embedding Propagation for Manifold Smoothing			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Journal of Machine Learning Research	Abbreviated Journal	JMLR
	Volume	23	Issue	252	Pages	1-27
	Keywords	Regularization; emi-supervised learning; self-supervised learning; adversarial robustness; few-shot classification
	Abstract	Supervised training of neural networks requires a large amount of manually annotated data and the resulting networks tend to be sensitive to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Self- and semi-supervised training schemes reduce the amount of annotated data required during the training process. However, OOD generalization remains a major challenge for most methods. Strategies that promote smoother decision boundaries play an important role in out-of-distribution generalization. For example, embedding propagation (EP) for manifold smoothing has recently shown to considerably improve the OOD performance for few-shot classification. EP achieves smoother class manifolds by building a graph from sample embeddings and propagating information through the nodes in an unsupervised manner. In this work, we extend the original EP paper providing additional evidence and experiments showing that it attains smoother class embedding manifolds and improves results in settings beyond few-shot classification. Concretely, we show that EP improves the robustness of neural networks against multiple adversarial attacks as well as semi- and self-supervised learning performance.
	Address	9/2022
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	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VRG2022			Serial	3762
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	Author	S.K. Jemni; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Yousri Kessentini; Alicia Fornes
	Title	Enhance to Read Better: A Multi-Task Adversarial Network for Handwritten Document Image Enhancement			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	123	Issue		Pages	108370
	Keywords
	Abstract	Handwritten document images can be highly affected by degradation for different reasons: Paper ageing, daily-life scenarios (wrinkles, dust, etc.), bad scanning process and so on. These artifacts raise many readability issues for current Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) algorithms and severely devalue their efficiency. In this paper, we propose an end to end architecture based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to recover the degraded documents into a and form. Unlike the most well-known document binarization methods, which try to improve the visual quality of the degraded document, the proposed architecture integrates a handwritten text recognizer that promotes the generated document image to be more readable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to use the text information while binarizing handwritten documents. Extensive experiments conducted on degraded Arabic and Latin handwritten documents demonstrate the usefulness of integrating the recognizer within the GAN architecture, which improves both the visual quality and the readability of the degraded document images. Moreover, we outperform the state of the art in H-DIBCO challenges, after fine tuning our pre-trained model with synthetically degraded Latin handwritten images, on this task.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.124; 600.121; 602.230			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ JSK2022			Serial	3613
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	Author	Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Ali Furkan Biten; Sounak Dey; Alicia Fornes; Yousri Kessentini; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	One-shot Compositional Data Generation for Low Resource Handwritten Text Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Document Analysis
	Abstract	Low resource Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a hard problem due to the scarce annotated data and the very limited linguistic information (dictionaries and language models). This appears, for example, in the case of historical ciphered manuscripts, which are usually written with invented alphabets to hide the content. Thus, in this paper we address this problem through a data generation technique based on Bayesian Program Learning (BPL). Contrary to traditional generation approaches, which require a huge amount of annotated images, our method is able to generate human-like handwriting using only one sample of each symbol from the desired alphabet. After generating symbols, we create synthetic lines to train state-of-the-art HTR architectures in a segmentation free fashion. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were carried out and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving competitive results compared to the usage of real annotated data.
	Address	Virtual; January 2022
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	DAG; 602.230; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SBD2022			Serial	3615
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	Author	Minesh Mathew; Viraj Bagal; Ruben Tito; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny; C.V. Jawahar
	Title	InfographicVQA			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1697-1706
	Keywords	Document Analysis Datasets; Evaluation and Comparison of Vision Algorithms; Vision and Languages
	Abstract	Infographics communicate information using a combination of textual, graphical and visual elements. This work explores the automatic understanding of infographic images by using a Visual Question Answering technique. To this end, we present InfographicVQA, a new dataset comprising a diverse collection of infographics and question-answer annotations. The questions require methods that jointly reason over the document layout, textual content, graphical elements, and data visualizations. We curate the dataset with an emphasis on questions that require elementary reasoning and basic arithmetic skills. For VQA on the dataset, we evaluate two Transformer-based strong baselines. Both the baselines yield unsatisfactory results compared to near perfect human performance on the dataset. The results suggest that VQA on infographics--images that are designed to communicate information quickly and clearly to human brain--is ideal for benchmarking machine understanding of complex document images. The dataset is available for download at docvqa. org
	Address	Virtual; Waikoloa; Hawai; USA; January 2022
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	DAG; 600.155			Approved	no
	Call Number	MBT2022			Serial	3625
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	Author	Joakim Bruslund Haurum; Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund
	Title	Multi-Task Classification of Sewer Pipe Defects and Properties Using a Cross-Task Graph Neural Network Decoder			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2806-2817
	Keywords	Vision Systems; Applications Multi-Task Classification
	Abstract	The sewerage infrastructure is one of the most important and expensive infrastructures in modern society. In order to efficiently manage the sewerage infrastructure, automated sewer inspection has to be utilized. However, while sewer defect classification has been investigated for decades, little attention has been given to classifying sewer pipe properties such as water level, pipe material, and pipe shape, which are needed to evaluate the level of sewer pipe deterioration. In this work we classify sewer pipe defects and properties concurrently and present a novel decoder-focused multi-task classification architecture Cross-Task Graph Neural Network (CT-GNN), which refines the disjointed per-task predictions using cross-task information. The CT-GNN architecture extends the traditional disjointed task-heads decoder, by utilizing a cross-task graph and unique class node embeddings. The cross-task graph can either be determined a priori based on the conditional probability between the task classes or determined dynamically using self-attention. CT-GNN can be added to any backbone and trained end-toend at a small increase in the parameter count. We achieve state-of-the-art performance on all four classification tasks in the Sewer-ML dataset, improving defect classification and water level classification by 5.3 and 8.0 percentage points, respectively. We also outperform the single task methods as well as other multi-task classification approaches while introducing 50 times fewer parameters than previous modelfocused approaches.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BME2022			Serial	3638
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	Author	Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	End-to-end Global to Local CNN Learning for Hand Pose Recovery in Depth data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	IET Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal	IETCV
	Volume	16	Issue	1	Pages	50-66
	Keywords	Computer vision; data acquisition; human computer interaction; learning (artificial intelligence); pose estimation
	Abstract	Despite recent advances in 3D pose estimation of human hands, especially thanks to the advent of CNNs and depth cameras, this task is still far from being solved. This is mainly due to the highly non-linear dynamics of fingers, which make hand model training a challenging task. In this paper, we exploit a novel hierarchical tree-like structured CNN, in which branches are trained to become specialized in predefined subsets of hand joints, called local poses. We further fuse local pose features, extracted from hierarchical CNN branches, to learn higher order dependencies among joints in the final pose by end-to-end training. Lastly, the loss function used is also defined to incorporate appearance and physical constraints about doable hand motion and deformation. Finally, we introduce a non-rigid data augmentation approach to increase the amount of training depth data. Experimental results suggest that feeding a tree-shaped CNN, specialized in local poses, into a fusion network for modeling joints correlations and dependencies, helps to increase the precision of final estimations, outperforming state-of-the-art results on NYU and SyntheticHand datasets.
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	Notes	HUPBA; ISE; 600.098; 600.119			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MEB2022			Serial	3652
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