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Author Olivier Penacchio; Xavier Otazu; A. wilkins; J. Harris
Title Uncomfortable images prevent lateral interactions in the cortex from providing a sparse code Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP2015 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Liverpool; uk; August 2015
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Notes NEUROBIT; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ POW2015 Serial 2633
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Author Xavier Otazu; Olivier Penacchio; Xim Cerda-Company
Title An excitatory-inhibitory firing rate model accounts for brightness induction, colour induction and visual discomfort Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Barcelona Computational, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal
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Address Barcelona; June 2015
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Notes NEUROBIT; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ OPC2015b Serial 2634
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Author Cristina Palmero; Javier Selva; Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Sergio Escalera
Title Recurrent CNN for 3D Gaze Estimation using Appearance and Shape Cues Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication 29th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Gaze behavior is an important non-verbal cue in social signal processing and humancomputer interaction. In this paper, we tackle the problem of person- and head poseindependent 3D gaze estimation from remote cameras, using a multi-modal recurrent convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose to combine face, eyes region, and face landmarks as individual streams in a CNN to estimate gaze in still images. Then, we exploit the dynamic nature of gaze by feeding the learned features of all the frames in a sequence to a many-to-one recurrent module that predicts the 3D gaze vector of the last frame. Our multi-modal static solution is evaluated on a wide range of head poses and gaze directions, achieving a significant improvement of 14.6% over the state of the art on
EYEDIAP dataset, further improved by 4% when the temporal modality is included.
Address Newcastle; UK; September 2018
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Call Number Admin @ si @ PSB2018 Serial 3208
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Author Manuel Graña; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Special Issue on Bioinspired and knowledge based techniques and applications Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Neurocomputing Abbreviated Journal NEUCOM
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GrR2015 Serial 2598
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Alireza Bosaghzadeh; Fadi Dornaika
Title Facial Expression Recognition based on Multi-view Observations with Application to Social Robotics Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 1st Workshop on Computer Vision for Affective Computing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages (up) 1-8
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Abstract Human-robot interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the social robotics community. One crucial aspect is represented by the affective communication which comes encoded through the facial expressions. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for facial expression recognition, which exploits an efficient and adaptive graph-based label propagation (semi-supervised mode) in a multi-observation framework. The facial features are extracted using an appearance-based 3D face tracker, view- and texture independent. Our method has been extensively tested on the CMU dataset, and has been conveniently compared with other methods for graph construction. With the proposed approach, we developed an application for an AIBO robot, in which it mirrors the recognized facial
expression.
Address Singapore; November 2014
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Area Expedition Conference ACCV
Notes LAMP; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBD2014 Serial 2599
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Alireza Bosaghzadeh; Fadi Dornaika
Title Multi-observation Face Recognition in Videos based on Label Propagation Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 6th Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures AMFG2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages (up) 10-17
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Abstract In order to deal with the huge amount of content generated by social media, especially for indexing and retrieval purposes, the focus shifted from single object recognition to multi-observation object recognition. Of particular interest is the problem of face recognition (used as primary cue for persons’ identity assessment), since it is highly required by popular social media search engines like Facebook and Youtube. Recently, several approaches for graph-based label propagation were proposed. However, the associated graphs were constructed in an ad-hoc manner (e.g., using the KNN graph) that cannot cope properly with the rapid and frequent changes in data appearance, a phenomenon intrinsically related with video sequences. In this paper, we
propose a novel approach for efficient and adaptive graph construction, based on a two-phase scheme: (i) the first phase is used to adaptively find the neighbors of a sample and also to find the adequate weights for the minimization function of the second phase; (ii) in the second phase, the
selected neighbors along with their corresponding weights are used to locally and collaboratively estimate the sparse affinity matrix weights. Experimental results performed on Honda Video Database (HVDB) and a subset of video
sequences extracted from the popular TV-series ’Friends’ show a distinct advantage of the proposed method over the existing standard graph construction methods.
Address Boston; USA; June 2015
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Area Expedition Conference CVPRW
Notes LAMP; 600.068; 600.072; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBD2015 Serial 2627
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Author Oscar Argudo; Marc Comino; Antonio Chica; Carlos Andujar; Felipe Lumbreras
Title Segmentation of aerial images for plausible detail synthesis Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Computers & Graphics Abbreviated Journal CG
Volume 71 Issue Pages (up) 23-34
Keywords Terrain editing; Detail synthesis; Vegetation synthesis; Terrain rendering; Image segmentation
Abstract The visual enrichment of digital terrain models with plausible synthetic detail requires the segmentation of aerial images into a suitable collection of categories. In this paper we present a complete pipeline for segmenting high-resolution aerial images into a user-defined set of categories distinguishing e.g. terrain, sand, snow, water, and different types of vegetation. This segmentation-for-synthesis problem implies that per-pixel categories must be established according to the algorithms chosen for rendering the synthetic detail. This precludes the definition of a universal set of labels and hinders the construction of large training sets. Since artists might choose to add new categories on the fly, the whole pipeline must be robust against unbalanced datasets, and fast on both training and inference. Under these constraints, we analyze the contribution of common per-pixel descriptors, and compare the performance of state-of-the-art supervised learning algorithms. We report the findings of two user studies. The first one was conducted to analyze human accuracy when manually labeling aerial images. The second user study compares detailed terrains built using different segmentation strategies, including official land cover maps. These studies demonstrate that our approach can be used to turn digital elevation models into fully-featured, detailed terrains with minimal authoring efforts.
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Notes MSIAU; 600.086; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ACC2018 Serial 3147
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Author Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
Title New Opportunities for Computer Vision-Based Assistive Technology Systems for the Visually Impaired Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Computer Abbreviated Journal COMP
Volume 47 Issue 4 Pages (up) 52-58
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Abstract Computing advances and increased smartphone use gives technology system designers greater flexibility in exploiting computer vision to support visually impaired users. Understanding these users' needs will certainly provide insight for the development of improved usability of computing devices.
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Notes LAMP; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TSR2014a Serial 2317
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Author Carola Figueroa Flores; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Joost Van de Weijer; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Saliency for fine-grained object recognition in domains with scarce training data Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 94 Issue Pages (up) 62-73
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Abstract This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an existing CNN architecture which is used to modulate the standard bottom-up visual features from the original image input, acting as an attentional mechanism that guides the feature extraction process. The main aim of the proposed approach is to enable the effective training of a fine-grained recognition model with limited training samples and to improve the performance on the task, thereby alleviating the need to annotate a large dataset. The vast majority of saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline. Our proposed pipeline allows to evaluate saliency methods for the high-level task of object recognition. We perform extensive experiments on various fine-grained datasets (Flowers, Birds, Cars, and Dogs) under different conditions and show that saliency can considerably improve the network’s performance, especially for the case of scarce training data. Furthermore, our experiments show that saliency methods that obtain improved saliency maps (as measured by traditional saliency benchmarks) also translate to saliency methods that yield improved performance gains when applied in an object recognition pipeline.
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Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.141; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FGW2019 Serial 3264
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Author H. Martin Kjer; Jens Fagertun; Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Rasmus R. Paulsena
Title Free-form image registration of human cochlear uCT data using skeleton similarity as anatomical prior Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Patter Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 76 Issue 1 Pages (up) 76-82
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Notes IAM; 600.060 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MFV2017b Serial 2941
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Author Gemma Rotger; Francesc Moreno-Noguer; Felipe Lumbreras; Antonio Agudo
Title Detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single RGB image Type Journal
Year 2019 Publication Journal of WSCG Abbreviated Journal JWSCG
Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages (up) 103-112
Keywords 3D Wrinkle Reconstruction; Face Analysis, Optimization.
Abstract This paper introduces a method to obtain a detailed 3D reconstruction of facial skin from a single RGB image.
To this end, we propose the exclusive use of an input image without requiring any information about the observed material nor training data to model the wrinkle properties. They are detected and characterized directly from the image via a simple and effective parametric model, determining several features such as location, orientation, width, and height. With these ingredients, we propose to minimize a photometric error to retrieve the final detailed 3D map, which is initialized by current techniques based on deep learning. In contrast with other approaches, we only require estimating a depth parameter, making our approach fast and intuitive. Extensive experimental evaluation is presented in a wide variety of synthetic and real images, including different skin properties and facial
expressions. In all cases, our method outperforms the current approaches regarding 3D reconstruction accuracy, providing striking results for both large and fine wrinkles.
Address 2019/11
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Notes MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.122 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3708
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Author Xim Cerda-Company; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu
Title Which tone-mapping is the best? A comparative study of tone-mapping perceived quality Type Abstract
Year 2014 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal
Volume 43 Issue Pages (up) 106
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Abstract Perception 43 ECVP Abstract Supplement
High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging refers to the methods designed to increase the brightness dynamic range present in standard digital imaging techniques. This increase is achieved by taking the same picture under di erent exposure values and mapping the intensity levels into a single image by way of a tone-mapping operator (TMO). Currently, there is no agreement on how to evaluate the quality
of di erent TMOs. In this work we psychophysically evaluate 15 di erent TMOs obtaining rankings based on the perceived properties of the resulting tone-mapped images. We performed two di erent experiments on a CRT calibrated display using 10 subjects: (1) a study of the internal relationships between grey-levels and (2) a pairwise comparison of the resulting 15 tone-mapped images. In (1) observers internally matched the grey-levels to a reference inside the tone-mapped images and in the real scene. In (2) observers performed a pairwise comparison of the tone-mapped images alongside the real scene. We obtained two rankings of the TMOs according their performance. In (1) the best algorithm
was ICAM by J.Kuang et al (2007) and in (2) the best algorithm was a TMO by Krawczyk et al (2005). Our results also show no correlation between these two rankings.
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Notes NEUROBIT; 600.074 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CPO2014 Serial 2527
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Author Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Robust Head Gestures Recognition for Assistive Technology Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8495 Issue Pages (up) 152-161
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Abstract This paper presents a system capable of recognizing six head gestures: nodding, shaking, turning right, turning left, looking up, and looking down. The main difference of our system compared to other methods is that the Hidden Markov Models presented in this paper, are fully connected and consider all possible states in any given order, providing the following advantages to the system: (1) allows unconstrained movement of the head and (2) it can be easily integrated into a wearable device (e.g. glasses, neck-hung devices), in which case it can robustly recognize gestures in the presence of ego-motion. Experimental results show that this approach outperforms common methods that use restricted HMMs for each gesture.
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-07490-0 Medium
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Notes LAMP; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TSR2014b Serial 2505
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu; Alireza Bosaghzadeh
Title Facial expression recognition based on multi observations with application to social robotics Type Book Chapter
Year 2015 Publication Emotional and Facial Expressions: Recognition, Developmental Differences and Social Importance Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages (up) 153-166
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Abstract Human-robot interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the social robotics
community. One crucial aspect is represented by the affective communication
which comes encoded through the facial expressions. In this chapter, we propose a novel approach for facial expression recognition, which exploits an efficient and adaptive graph-based label propagation (semi-supervised mode) in a multi-observation framework. The facial features are extracted using an appearance-based 3D face tracker, viewand texture independent. Our method has been extensively tested on the CMU dataset, and has been conveniently compared with other methods for graph construction. With the proposed approach, we developed an application for an AIBO robot, in which it mirrors the recognized facial
expression.
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Publisher Nova Science publishers Place of Publication Editor Bruce Flores
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Notes LAMP; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DRB2015 Serial 2720
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Author Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Joaquin Salas
Title Assessing the Influence of Mirroring on the Perception of Professional Competence using Wearable Technology Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Abbreviated Journal TAC
Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages (up) 161-175
Keywords Mirroring; Nodding; Competence; Perception; Wearable Technology
Abstract Nonverbal communication is an intrinsic part in daily face-to-face meetings. A frequently observed behavior during social interactions is mirroring, in which one person tends to mimic the attitude of the counterpart. This paper shows that a computer vision system could be used to predict the perception of competence in dyadic interactions through the automatic detection of mirroring
events. To prove our hypothesis, we developed: (1) A social assistant for mirroring detection, using a wearable device which includes a video camera and (2) an automatic classifier for the perception of competence, using the number of nodding gestures and mirroring events as predictors. For our study, we used a mixed-method approach in an experimental design where 48 participants acting as customers interacted with a confederated psychologist. We found that the number of nods or mirroring events has a significant influence on the perception of competence. Our results suggest that: (1) Customer mirroring is a better predictor than psychologist mirroring; (2) the number of psychologist’s nods is a better predictor than the number of customer’s nods; (3) except for the psychologist mirroring, the computer vision algorithm we used worked about equally well whether it was acquiring images from wearable smartglasses or fixed cameras.
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Notes LAMP; 600.072; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MTR2016 Serial 2826
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