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Author Maria Vanrell; Naila Murray; Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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  Title Perception Based Representations for Computational Colour Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6626 Issue Pages 16-30  
  Keywords colour perception, induction, naming, psychophysical data, saliency, segmentation  
  Abstract The perceived colour of a stimulus is dependent on multiple factors stemming out either from the context of the stimulus or idiosyncrasies of the observer. The complexity involved in combining these multiple effects is the main reason for the gap between classical calibrated colour spaces from colour science and colour representations used in computer vision, where colour is just one more visual cue immersed in a digital image where surfaces, shadows and illuminants interact seemingly out of control. With the aim to advance a few steps towards bridging this gap we present some results on computational representations of colour for computer vision. They have been developed by introducing perceptual considerations derived from the interaction of the colour of a point with its context. We show some techniques to represent the colour of a point influenced by assimilation and contrast effects due to the image surround and we show some results on how colour saliency can be derived in real images. We outline a model for automatic assignment of colour names to image points directly trained on psychophysical data. We show how colour segments can be perceptually grouped in the image by imposing shading coherence in the colour space.  
  Address Milan, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor (up) Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga, Alain Trémeau  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20403-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ VMB2011 Serial 1733  
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Author Eduard Vazquez edit  openurl
  Title Unsupervised image segmentation based on material reflectance description and saliency Type Book Whole
  Year 2011 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Image segmentations aims to partition an image into a set of non-overlapped regions, called segments. Despite the simplicity of the definition, image segmentation raises as a very complex problem in all its stages. The definition of segment is still unclear. When asking to a human to perform a segmentation, this person segments at different levels of abstraction. Some segments might be a single, well-defined texture whereas some others correspond with an object in the scene which might including multiple textures and colors. For this reason, segmentation is divided in bottom-up segmentation and top-down segmentation. Bottom up-segmentation is problem independent, that is, focused on general properties of the images such as textures or illumination. Top-down segmentation is a problem-dependent approach which looks for specific entities in the scene, such as known objects. This work is focused on bottom-up segmentation. Beginning from the analysis of the lacks of current methods, we propose an approach called RAD. Our approach overcomes the main shortcomings of those methods which use the physics of the light to perform the segmentation. RAD is a topological approach which describes a single-material reflectance. Afterwards, we cope with one of the main problems in image segmentation: non supervised adaptability to image content. To yield a non-supervised method, we use a model of saliency yet presented in this thesis. It computes the saliency of the chromatic transitions of an image by means of a statistical analysis of the images derivatives. This method of saliency is used to build our final approach of segmentation: spRAD. This method is a non-supervised segmentation approach. Our saliency approach has been validated with a psychophysical experiment as well as computationally, overcoming a state-of-the-art saliency method. spRAD also outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation techniques as results obtained with a widely-used segmentation dataset show  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor (up) Ramon Baldrich  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Vaz2011b Serial 1835  
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Author Monica Piñol edit  isbn
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  Title Reinforcement Learning of Visual Descriptors for Object Recognition Type Book Whole
  Year 2014 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The human visual system is able to recognize the object in an image even if the object is partially occluded, from various points of view, in different colors, or with independence of the distance to the object. To do this, the eye obtains an image and extracts features that are sent to the brain, and then, in the brain the object is recognized. In computer vision, the object recognition branch tries to learns from the human visual system behaviour to achieve its goal. Hence, an algorithm is used to identify representative features of the scene (detection), then another algorithm is used to describe these points (descriptor) and finally the extracted information is used for classifying the object in the scene. The selection of this set of algorithms is a very complicated task and thus, a very active research field. In this thesis we are focused on the selection/learning of the best descriptor for a given image. In the state of the art there are several descriptors but we do not know how to choose the best descriptor because depends on scenes that we will use (dataset) and the algorithm chosen to do the classification. We propose a framework based on reinforcement learning and bag of features to choose the best descriptor according to the given image. The system can analyse the behaviour of different learning algorithms and descriptor sets. Furthermore the proposed framework for improving the classification/recognition ratio can be used with minor changes in other computer vision fields, such as video retrieval.  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor (up) Ricardo Toledo;Angel Sappa  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-940902-5-7 Medium  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Piñ2014 Serial 2464  
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Author Jaime Lopez-Krahe; Josep Llados; Enric Marti edit   pdf
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  Title Architectural Floor Plan Analysis Type Report
  Year 2000 Publication CVonline Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Edimburg, UK  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher University of Edinburgh Place of Publication Editor (up) Robert B. Fisher  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium online pdf  
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  Notes DAG;IAM Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ LLM2000 Serial 1561  
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Author Marc Serra edit  isbn
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  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.
 
  Address September 2015  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor (up) Robert Benavente;Olivier Penacchio  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-4-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Ser2015 Serial 2688  
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Author C. Santa-Marta; Jaume Garcia; A. Bajo; J.J. Vaquero; M. Ledesma-Carbayo; Debora Gil edit  openurl
  Title Influence of the Temporal Resolution on the Quantification of Displacement Fields in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Tagged Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication XXVI Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingenieria Biomedica Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 352–353  
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  Abstract It is difficult to acquire tagged cardiac MR images with a high temporal and spatial resolution using clinical MR scanners. However, if such images are used for quantifying scores based on motion, it is essential a resolution as high as possibl e. This paper explores the influence of the temporal resolution of a tagged series on the quantification of myocardial dynamic parameters. To such purpose we have designed a SPAMM (Spatial Modulation of Magnetization) sequence allowing acquisition of sequences at simple and double temporal resolution. Sequences are processed to compute myocardial motion by an automatic technique based on the tracking of the harmonic phase of tagged images (the Harmonic Phase Flow, HPF). The results have been compared to manual tracking of myocardial tags. The error in displacement fields for double resolution sequences reduces 17%.  
  Address Valladolid  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor (up) Roberto hornero, Saniel Abasolo  
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  Area Expedition Conference CASEIB  
  Notes IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ SGB2008 Serial 1033  
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Author Ernest Valveny; Philippe Dosch edit  isbn
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  Title Performance Evaluation of Symbol Recognition Type Book Chapter
  Year 2004 Publication Document Analysis Systems Abbreviated Journal LNCS  
  Volume 3163 Issue Pages 354–365  
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  Address Springer-Verlag  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor (up) S. Marinai, A. Dengel (Eds.),  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 3-540-23060-2 Medium  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ VaD2004a Serial 502  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Analysis and Recognition of Facial Expressions in Videos Using Facial Shape Deformation Type Book Chapter
  Year 2012 Publication Facial Expressions: Dynamic Patterns, Impairments and Social Perceptions Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 157-178  
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  Publisher NOVA Publishers Place of Publication Editor (up) S.E. Carter  
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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DoR2012 Serial 2183  
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Author F. Javier Sanchez; Jordi Vitria edit  isbn
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  Title ViLi + : Extended Lisp for image Processing and Computer Vision. Type Conference Article
  Year 1994 Publication Progress in Image Analysis and Processing III Abbreviated Journal  
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  Publisher World Scientific Place of Publication Editor (up) S.Impedovo  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 981-02-1552-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes MV;OR Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SaV1994; IAM @ iam @ SaV1994 Serial 114  
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Author Oriol Ramos Terrades edit  openurl
  Title Linear Combination of Multiresolution Descriptors: Application to Graphics Recognition Type Book Whole
  Year 2006 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC & Universite Nancy 2 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor (up) Salvatore Antoine Tabbone;Ernest Valveny  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ Ram2006 Serial 713  
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Author Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Antoni Rosell; Albert Andaluz; F. Javier Sanchez edit   pdf
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  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  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher SciTePress Place of Publication Portugal Editor (up) Sebastiano Battiato and José Braz  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  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 Albert Clapes edit  isbn
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  Title Learning to recognize human actions: from hand-crafted to deep-learning based visual representations Type Book Whole
  Year 2019 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Action recognition is a very challenging and important problem in computer vi­sion. Researchers working on this field aspire to provide computers with the abil­ ity to visually perceive human actions – that is, to observe, interpret, and under­ stand human-related events that occur in the physical environment merely from visual data. The applications of this technology are numerous: human-machine interaction, e-health, monitoring/surveillance, and content-based video retrieval, among others. Hand-crafted methods dominated the field until the apparition of the first successful deep learning-based action recognition works. Although ear­ lier deep-based methods underperformed with respect to hand-crafted approaches, these slowly but steadily improved to become state-of-the-art, eventually achieving better results than hand-crafted ones. Still, hand-crafted approaches can be advan­ tageous in certain scenarios, specially when not enough data is available to train very large deep models or simply to be combined with deep-based methods to fur­ ther boost the performance. Hence, showing how hand-crafted features can provide extra knowledge the deep networks are notable to easily learn about human actions.
This Thesis concurs in time with this change of paradigm and, hence, reflects it into two distinguished parts. In the first part, we focus on improving current suc­ cessful hand-crafted approaches for action recognition and we do so from three dif­ ferent perspectives. Using the dense trajectories framework as a backbone: first, we explore the use of multi-modal and multi-view input
data to enrich the trajectory de­ scriptors. Second, we focus on the classification part of action recognition pipelines and propose an ensemble learning approach, where each classifier leams from a dif­ferent set of local spatiotemporal features to then combine their outputs following an strategy based on the Dempster-Shaffer Theory. And third, we propose a novel hand-crafted feature extraction method that constructs a rnid-level feature descrip­ tion to better modellong-term spatiotemporal dynarnics within action videos. Moving to the second part of the Thesis, we start with a comprehensive study of the current deep-learning based action recognition methods. We review both fun­ damental and cutting edge methodologies reported during the last few years and introduce a taxonomy of deep-leaming methods dedicated to action recognition. In particular, we analyze and discuss how these handle
the temporal dimension of data. Last but not least, we propose a residual recurrent network for action recogni­ tion that naturally integrates all our previous findings in a powerful and prornising framework.
 
  Address January 2019  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor (up) Sergio Escalera  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-948531-2-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes HUPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Cla2019 Serial 3219  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Markus Weimer; Mikhail Burtsev; Valentin Malykh; Varvara Logacheva; Ryan Lowe; Iulian Vlad Serban; Yoshua Bengio; Alexander Rudnicky; Alan W. Black; Shrimai Prabhumoye; Łukasz Kidzinski; Mohanty Sharada; Carmichael Ong; Jennifer Hicks; Sergey Levine; Marcel Salathe; Scott Delp; Iker Huerga; Alexander Grigorenko; Leifur Thorbergsson; Anasuya Das; Kyla Nemitz; Jenna Sandker; Stephen King; Alexander S. Ecker; Leon A. Gatys; Matthias Bethge; Jordan Boyd Graber; Shi Feng; Pedro Rodriguez; Mohit Iyyer; He He; Hal Daume III; Sean McGregor; Amir Banifatemi; Alexey Kurakin; Ian Goodfellow; Samy Bengio edit  url
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  Title Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track Type Book Chapter
  Year 2018 Publication The NIPS ’17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-23  
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  Abstract Competitions have become a popular tool in the data science community to solve hard problems, assess the state of the art and spur new research directions. Companies like Kaggle and open source platforms like Codalab connect people with data and a data science problem to those with the skills and means to solve it. Hence, the question arises: What, if anything, could NIPS add to this rich ecosystem?

In 2017, we embarked to find out. We attracted 23 potential competitions, of which we selected five to be NIPS 2017 competitions. Our final selection features competitions advancing the state of the art in other sciences such as “Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations” and “Learning to Run”. Others, like “The Conversational Intelligence Challenge” and “Adversarial Attacks and Defences” generated new data sets that we expect to impact the progress in their respective communities for years to come. And “Human-Computer Question Answering Competition” showed us just how far we as a field have come in ability and efficiency since the break-through performance of Watson in Jeopardy. Two additional competitions, DeepArt and AI XPRIZE Milestions, were also associated to the NIPS 2017 competition track, whose results are also presented within this chapter.
 
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor (up) Sergio Escalera; Markus Weimer  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-94042-7 Medium  
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  Notes HUPBA; no proj Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ EWB2018 Serial 3200  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Ralf Herbrich edit  url
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  Title The NeurIPS’18 Competition: From Machine Learning to Intelligent Conversations Type Book Whole
  Year 2020 Publication The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This volume presents the results of the Neural Information Processing Systems Competition track at the 2018 NeurIPS conference. The competition follows the same format as the 2017 competition track for NIPS. Out of 21 submitted proposals, eight competition proposals were selected, spanning the area of Robotics, Health, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Systems and Physics. Competitions have become an integral part of advancing state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI). They exhibit one important difference to benchmarks: Competitions test a system end-to-end rather than evaluating only a single component; they assess the practicability of an algorithmic solution in addition to assessing feasibility.  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor (up) Sergio Escalera; Ralf Hebrick  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2520-1328 ISBN 978-3-030-29134-1 Medium  
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  Notes HuPBA; no menciona Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HeE2020 Serial 3328  
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Author Meysam Madadi edit  isbn
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  Title Human Segmentation, Pose Estimation and Applications Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Automatic analyzing humans in photographs or videos has great potential applications in computer vision, including medical diagnosis, sports, entertainment, movie editing and surveillance, just to name a few. Body, face and hand are the most studied components of humans. Body has many variabilities in shape and clothing along with high degrees of freedom in pose. Face has many muscles causing many visible deformity, beside variable shape and hair style. Hand is a small object, moving fast and has high degrees of freedom. Adding human characteristics to all aforementioned variabilities makes human analysis quite a challenging task.
In this thesis, we developed human segmentation in different modalities. In a first scenario, we segmented human body and hand in depth images using example-based shape warping. We developed a shape descriptor based on shape context and class probabilities of shape regions to extract nearest neighbors. We then considered rigid affine alignment vs. nonrigid iterative shape warping. In a second scenario, we segmented face in RGB images using convolutional neural networks (CNN). We modeled conditional random field with recurrent neural networks. In our model pair-wise kernels are not fixed and learned during training. We trained the network end-to-end using adversarial networks which improved hair segmentation by a high margin.
We also worked on 3D hand pose estimation in depth images. In a generative approach, we fitted a finger model separately for each finger based on our example-based rigid hand segmentation. We minimized an energy function based on overlapping area, depth discrepancy and finger collisions. We also applied linear models in joint trajectory space to refine occluded joints based on visible joints error and invisible joints trajectory smoothness. In a CNN-based approach, we developed a tree-structure network to train specific features for each finger and fused them for global pose consistency. We also formulated physical and appearance constraints as loss functions.
Finally, we developed a number of applications consisting of human soft biometrics measurement and garment retexturing. We also generated some datasets in this thesis consisting of human segmentation, synthetic hand pose, garment retexturing and Italian gestures.
 
  Address October 2017  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor (up) Sergio Escalera;Jordi Gonzalez  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-945373-3-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes HUPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Mad2017 Serial 3017  
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