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| Author | Wenjuan Gong | ||||
| Title | 3D Motion Data aided Human Action Recognition and Pose Estimation | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | In this work, we explore human action recognition and pose estimation prob-
lems. Different from traditional works of learning from 2D images or video sequences and their annotated output, we seek to solve the problems with ad- ditional 3D motion capture information, which helps to fill the gap between 2D image features and human interpretations. We first compare two different schools of approaches commonly used for 3D pose estimation from 2D pose configuration: modeling and learning methods. By looking into experiments results and considering our problems, we fixed a learning method as the following approaches to do pose estimation. We then establish a framework by adding a module of detecting 2D pose configuration from images with varied background, which widely extend the application of the approach. We also seek to directly estimate 3D poses from image features, instead of estimating 2D poses as a intermediate module. We explore a robust input feature, which combined with the proposed distance measure, provides a solution for noisy or corrupted inputs. We further utilize the above method to estimate weak poses,which is a concise representation of the original poses by using dimension deduction technologies, from image features. Weak pose space is where we calculate vocabulary and label action types using a bog of words pipeline. Temporal information of an action is taken into consideration by considering several consecutive frames as a single unit for computing vocabulary and histogram assignments. |
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| Address | Barcelona | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor  |
Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca | |
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| Notes | ISE | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Gon2013 | Serial | 2279 | ||
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| Author | Murad Al Haj | ||||
| Title | Looking at Faces: Detection, Tracking and Pose Estimation | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Humans can effortlessly perceive faces, follow them over space and time, and decode their rich content, such as pose, identity and expression. However, despite many decades of research on automatic facial perception in areas like face detection, expression recognition, pose estimation and face recognition, and despite many successes, a complete solution remains elusive. This thesis is dedicated to three problems in automatic face perception, namely face detection, face tracking and pose estimation.
In face detection, an initial simple model is presented that uses pixel-based heuristics to segment skin locations and hand-crafted rules to determine the locations of the faces present in an image. Different colorspaces are studied to judge whether a colorspace transformation can aid skin color detection. The output of this study is used in the design of a more complex face detector that is able to successfully generalize to different scenarios. In face tracking, a framework that combines estimation and control in a joint scheme is presented to track a face with a single pan-tilt-zoom camera. While this work is mainly motivated by tracking faces, it can be easily applied atop of any detector to track different objects. The applicability of this method is demonstrated on simulated as well as real-life scenarios. The last and most important part of this thesis is dedicate to monocular head pose estimation. In this part, a method based on partial least squares (PLS) regression is proposed to estimate pose and solve the alignment problem simultaneously. The contributions of this work are two-fold: 1) demonstrating that the proposed method achieves better than state-of-the-art results on the estimation problem and 2) developing a technique to reduce misalignment based on the learned PLS factors that outperform multiple instance learning (MIL) without the need for any re-training or the inclusion of misaligned samples in the training process, as normally done in MIL. |
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| Address | Barcelona | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor |
Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca | |
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| Notes | ISE | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Haj2013 | Serial | 2278 | ||
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| Author | Jorge Bernal; David Vazquez (eds) | ||||
| Title | Computer vision Trends and Challenges | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Computer vision Trends and Challenges | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | CVCRD; Computer Vision | ||||
| Abstract | This book contains the papers presented at the Eighth CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges (CVCR&D'2013). The workshop was held at the Computer Vision Center (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the October 25th, 2013. The CVC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for young researchers and project engineers to share new ideas and knowledge about the progress of their work, and also, to discuss about challenges and future perspectives. In addition, the workshop is the welcome event for new people that recently have joined the institute.
The program of CVCR&D is organized in a single-track single-day workshop. It comprises several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each session, a doctor working on the topic introduces the general research lines. The PhD students expose their specific research. A poster session will be held for open questions. Session topics cover the current research lines and development projects of the CVC: Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging, Color & Texture Analysis, Object Recognition, Image Sequence Evaluation, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Machine Vision, Document Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Applications. We want to thank all paper authors and Program Committee members. Their contribution shows that the CVC has a dynamic, active, and promising scientific community. We hope you all enjoy this Eighth workshop and we are looking forward to meeting you and new people next year in the Ninth CVCR&D. |
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Jorge Bernal; David Vazquez | ||
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-84-940902-2-6 | Medium | ||
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| Notes | Approved | no | |||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ BeV2013 | Serial | 2339 | ||
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| Author | Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Agnes Borras; Marius George Linguraru; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester | ||||
| Title | Geometric Steerable Medial Maps | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Machine Vision and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | MVA |
| Volume | 24 | Issue | 6 | Pages | 1255-1266 |
| Keywords | Medial Representations ,Medial Manifolds Comparation , Surface , Reconstruction | ||||
| Abstract | In order to provide more intuitive and easily interpretable representations of complex shapes/organs, medial manifolds should reach a compromise between simplicity in geometry and capability for restoring the anatomy/shape of the organ/volume. Existing morphological methods show excellent results when applied to 2D objects, but their quality drops across dimensions.
This paper contributes to the computation of medial manifolds in two aspects. First, we provide a standard scheme for the computation of medial manifolds that avoids degenerated medial axis segments. Second, we introduce a continuous operator for accurate and efficient computation of medial structures of arbitrary dimension. We evaluate quantitatively the performance of our method with respect to existing approaches, by applying them to syn- thetic shapes of known medial geometry. We also show its higher performance for medical imaging applications in terms of simplicity of medial structures and capability for reconstructing the anatomical volume. |
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor |
Mubarak Shah | |
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| ISSN | 0932-8092 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | IAM; 605.203; 600.060; 600.044 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ VGB2013 | Serial | 2192 | ||
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| Author | Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Antoni Rosell; Albert Andaluz; F. Javier Sanchez | ||||
| Title | Segmentation of Tracheal Rings in Videobronchoscopy combining Geometry and Appearance | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 1 | Issue | Pages | 153--161 | |
| Keywords | Video-bronchoscopy, tracheal ring segmentation, trachea geometric and appearance model | ||||
| Abstract | Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways and minimal invasive interventions. Tracheal procedures are ordinary interventions that require measurement of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) assessment. Visual assessment of stenosis in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error. Accurate detection of tracheal rings is the basis for automated estimation of the size of stenosed trachea. Processing of videobronchoscopic images acquired at the operating room is a challenging task due to the wide range of artifacts and acquisition conditions. We present a model of the geometric-appearance of tracheal rings for its detection in videobronchoscopic videos. Experiments on sequences acquired at the operating room, show a performance close to inter-observer variability | ||||
| Address | Barcelona; February 2013 | ||||
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| Publisher | SciTePress | Place of Publication | Portugal | Editor |
Sebastiano Battiato and José Braz |
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| Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-989-8565-47-1 | Medium | ||
| Area | 800 | Expedition | Conference | VISAPP | |
| Notes | IAM;MV; 600.044; 600.047; 600.060; 605.203 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ SGR2013 | Serial | 2123 | ||
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| Author | Marina Alberti | ||||
| Title | Detection and Alignment of Vascular Structures in Intravascular Ultrasound using Pattern Recognition Techniques | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | In this thesis, several methods for the automatic analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound
(IVUS) sequences are presented, aimed at assisting physicians in the diagnosis, the assessment of the intervention and the monitoring of the patients with coronary disease. The basis for the developed frameworks are machine learning, pattern recognition and image processing techniques. First, a novel approach for the automatic detection of vascular bifurcations in IVUS is presented. The task is addressed as a binary classi cation problem (identifying bifurcation and non-bifurcation angular sectors in the sequence images). The multiscale stacked sequential learning algorithm is applied, to take into account the spatial and temporal context in IVUS sequences, and the results are re ned using a-priori information about branching dimensions and geometry. The achieved performance is comparable to intra- and inter-observer variability. Then, we propose a novel method for the automatic non-rigid alignment of IVUS sequences of the same patient, acquired at dierent moments (before and after percutaneous coronary intervention, or at baseline and follow-up examinations). The method is based on the description of the morphological content of the vessel, obtained by extracting temporal morphological pro les from the IVUS acquisitions, by means of methods for segmentation, characterization and detection in IVUS. A technique for non-rigid sequence alignment – the Dynamic Time Warping algorithm - is applied to the pro les and adapted to the speci c clinical problem. Two dierent robust strategies are proposed to address the partial overlapping between frames of corresponding sequences, and a regularization term is introduced to compensate for possible errors in the pro le extraction. The bene ts of the proposed strategy are demonstrated by extensive validation on synthetic and in-vivo data. The results show the interest of the proposed non-linear alignment and the clinical value of the method. Finally, a novel automatic approach for the extraction of the luminal border in IVUS images is presented. The method applies the multiscale stacked sequential learning algorithm and extends it to 2-D+T, in a rst classi cation phase (the identi- cation of lumen and non-lumen regions of the images), while an active contour model is used in a second phase, to identify the lumen contour. The method is extended to the longitudinal dimension of the sequences and it is validated on a challenging data-set. |
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| Address | Barcelona | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor |
Simone Balocco;Petia Radeva | |
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| Notes | MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Alb2013 | Serial | 2215 | ||
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| Author | Miquel Ferrer; I. Bardaji; Ernest Valveny; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Horst Bunke | ||||
| Title | Median Graph Computation by Means of Graph Embedding into Vector Spaces | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Graph Embedding for Pattern Analysis | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 45-72 | ||
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| Abstract | In pattern recognition [8, 14], a key issue to be addressed when designing a system is how to represent input patterns. Feature vectors is a common option. That is, a set of numerical features describing relevant properties of the pattern are computed and arranged in a vector form. The main advantages of this kind of representation are computational simplicity and a well sound mathematical foundation. Thus, a large number of operations are available to work with vectors and a large repository of algorithms for pattern analysis and classification exist. However, the simple structure of feature vectors might not be the best option for complex patterns where nonnumerical features or relations between different parts of the pattern become relevant. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer New York | Place of Publication | Editor |
Yun Fu; Yungian Ma | |
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-1-4614-4456-5 | Medium | ||
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| Notes | DAG | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ FBV2013 | Serial | 2421 | ||
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