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	Author	Marcel P. Lucassen; Theo Gevers; Arjan Gijsenij
	Title	Texture Affects Color Emotion			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Color Research & Applications	Abbreviated Journal	CRA
	Volume	36	Issue	6	Pages	426–436
	Keywords	color;texture;color emotion;observer variability;ranking
	Abstract	Several studies have recorded color emotions in subjects viewing uniform color (UC) samples. We conduct an experiment to measure and model how these color emotions change when texture is added to the color samples. Using a computer monitor, our subjects arrange samples along four scales: warm–cool, masculine–feminine, hard–soft, and heavy–light. Three sample types of increasing visual complexity are used: UC, grayscale textures, and color textures (CTs). To assess the intraobserver variability, the experiment is repeated after 1 week. Our results show that texture fully determines the responses on the Hard-Soft scale, and plays a role of decreasing weight for the masculine–feminine, heavy–light, and warm–cool scales. Using some 25,000 observer responses, we derive color emotion functions that predict the group-averaged scale responses from the samples' color and texture parameters. For UC samples, the accuracy of our functions is significantly higher (average R2 = 0.88) than that of previously reported functions applied to our data. The functions derived for CT samples have an accuracy of R2 = 0.80. We conclude that when textured samples are used in color emotion studies, the psychological responses may be strongly affected by texture. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 2010
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	Notes	ALTRES;ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LGG2011			Serial	1844
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	Author	Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	Saliency Estimation Using a Non-Parametric Low-Level Vision Model			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	433-440
	Keywords	Gaussian mixture model;ad hoc parameter selection;center-surround inhibition windows;center-surround mechanism;color appearance model;convolution;eye-fixation data;human vision;innate spatial pooling mechanism;inverse wavelet transform;low-level visual front-end;nonparametric low-level vision model;saliency estimation;saliency map;scale integration;scale-weighted center-surround response;scale-weighting function;visual task;Gaussian processes;biology;biology computing;colour vision;computer vision;visual perception;wavelet transforms
	Abstract	Many successful models for predicting attention in a scene involve three main steps: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. However, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. In this paper we show that an efficient model of color appearance in human vision, which contains a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism, can be generalized to obtain a saliency model that outperforms state-of-the-art models. Scale integration is achieved by an inverse wavelet transform over the set of scale-weighted center-surround responses. The scale-weighting function (termed ECSF) has been optimized to better replicate psychophysical data on color appearance, and the appropriate sizes of the center-surround inhibition windows have been determined by training a Gaussian Mixture Model on eye-fixation data, thus avoiding ad-hoc parameter selection. Additionally, we conclude that the extension of a color appearance model to saliency estimation adds to the evidence for a common low-level visual front-end for different visual tasks.
	Address	Colorado Springs
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	ISSN	1063-6919	ISBN	978-1-4577-0394-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MVO2011			Serial	1757
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; David Masip; Eloi Puertas; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol
	Title	Online Error-Correcting Output Codes			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	32	Issue	3	Pages	458-467
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	Abstract	IF JCR CCIA 1.303 2009 54/103 This article proposes a general extension of the error correcting output codes framework to the online learning scenario. As a result, the final classifier handles the addition of new classes independently of the base classifier used. In particular, this extension supports the use of both online example incremental and batch classifiers as base learners. The extension of the traditional problem independent codings one-versus-all and one-versus-one is introduced. Furthermore, two new codings are proposed, unbalanced online ECOC and a problem dependent online ECOC. This last online coding technique takes advantage of the problem data for minimizing the number of dichotomizers used in the ECOC framework while preserving a high accuracy. These techniques are validated on an online setting of 11 data sets from UCI database and applied to two real machine vision applications: traffic sign recognition and face recognition. As a result, the online ECOC techniques proposed provide a feasible and robust way for handling new classes using any base classifier.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication	North Holland	Editor
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	ISSN	0167-8655	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MILAB;OR;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ EMP2011			Serial	1714
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	Author	Muhammad Anwer Rao; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6855	Issue	II	Pages	463-470
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection; Color
	Abstract	Camera-based person detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications. The task is diffcult because the great variety of backgrounds (scenarios, illumination) in which persons are present, as well as their intra-class variability (pose, clothe, occlusion). In fact, the class person is one of the included in the popular PASCAL visual object classes (VOC) challenge. A breakthrough for this challenge, regarding person detection, is due to Felzenszwalb et al. These authors proposed a part-based detector that relies on histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) and latent support vector machines (LatSVM) to learn a model of the whole human body and its constitutive parts, as well as their relative position. Since the approach of Felzenszwalb et al. appeared new variants have been proposed, usually giving rise to more complex models. In this paper, we focus on an issue that has not attracted suficient interest up to now. In particular, we refer to the fact that HOG is usually computed from RGB color space, but other possibilities exist and deserve the corresponding investigation. In this paper we challenge RGB space with the opponent color space (OPP), which is inspired in the human vision system.We will compute the HOG on top of OPP, then we train and test the part-based human classifer by Felzenszwalb et al. using PASCAL VOC challenge protocols and person database. Our experiments demonstrate that OPP outperforms RGB. We also investigate possible differences among types of scenarios: indoor, urban and countryside. Interestingly, our experiments suggest that the beneficts of OPP with respect to RGB mainly come for indoor and countryside scenarios, those in which the human visual system was designed by evolution.
	Address	Seville, Spain
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	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication	Berlin Heidelberg	Editor	P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch
	Language	English	Summary Language	english	Original Title	Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios
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	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-23677-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CAIP
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ RVL2011b			Serial	1665
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	Author	Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu
	Title	Image coder based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Data Compression Conference	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	470-470
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	Abstract	In this work we present an effective and computationally simple algorithm for image compression based on Hilbert Scanning of Embedded quadTrees (Hi-SET). It allows to represent an image as an embedded bitstream along a fractal function. Embedding is an important feature of modern image compression algorithms, in this way Salomon in [1, pg. 614] cite that another feature and perhaps a unique one is the fact of achieving the best quality for the number of bits input by the decoder at any point during the decoding. Hi-SET possesses also this latter feature. Furthermore, the coder is based on a quadtree partition strategy, that applied to image transformation structures such as discrete cosine or wavelet transform allows to obtain an energy clustering both in frequency and space. The coding algorithm is composed of three general steps, using just a list of significant pixels.
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	DCC
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MoO2011b			Serial	2177
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	Author	Antonio Hernandez; Carlo Gatta; Sergio Escalera; Laura Igual; Victoria Martin Yuste; Petia Radeva
	Title	Accurate and Robust Fully-Automatic QCA: Method and Numerical Validation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	14	Issue	3	Pages	496-503
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	Abstract	The Quantitative Coronary Angiography (QCA) is a methodology used to evaluate the arterial diseases and, in particular, the degree of stenosis. In this paper we propose AQCA, a fully automatic method for vessel segmentation based on graph cut theory. Vesselness, geodesic paths and a new multi-scale edgeness map are used to compute a globally optimal artery segmentation. We evaluate the method performance in a rigorous numerical way on two datasets. The method can detect an artery with precision 92.9 +/- 5% and sensitivity 94.2 +/- 6%. The average absolute distance error between detected and ground truth centerline is 1.13 +/- 0.11 pixels (about 0.27 +/- 0.025 mm) and the absolute relative error in the vessel caliber estimation is 2.93% with almost no bias. Moreover, the method can discriminate between arteries and catheter with an accuracy of 96.4%.
	Address	Toronto, Canada
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	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-642-23625-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	MICCAI
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HGE2011			Serial	1769
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Josep Llados; Petia Radeva
	Title	Circular Blurred Shape Model for Multiclass Symbol Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part B) (IEEE)	Abbreviated Journal	TSMCB
	Volume	41	Issue	2	Pages	497-506
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	Abstract	In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. The feature extraction is performed by capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. The shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, where a prior blurring degree defines the level of distortion allowed in the symbol, making the descriptor tolerant to irregular deformations. Moreover, the descriptor is rotation invariant by definition. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor in both the multiclass symbol recognition and symbol detection domains. In order to perform the symbol detection, the descriptors are learned using a cascade of classifiers. In the case of multiclass categorization, the new feature space is learned using a set of binary classifiers which are embedded in an error-correcting output code design. The results over four symbol data sets show the significant improvements of the proposed descriptor compared to the state-of-the-art descriptors. In particular, the results are even more significant in those cases where the symbols suffer from elastic deformations.
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	ISSN	1083-4419	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MILAB; DAG;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ EFP2011			Serial	1784
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; David Roche; Monica M. S. Matsumoto; Sergio S. Furuie
	Title	Inferring the Performance of Medical Imaging Algorithms			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6854	Issue		Pages	520-528
	Keywords	Validation, Statistical Inference, Medical Imaging Algorithms.
	Abstract	Evaluation of the performance and limitations of medical imaging algorithms is essential to estimate their impact in social, economic or clinical aspects. However, validation of medical imaging techniques is a challenging task due to the variety of imaging and clinical problems involved, as well as, the difficulties for systematically extracting a reliable solely ground truth. Although specific validation protocols are reported in any medical imaging paper, there are still two major concerns: definition of standardized methodologies transversal to all problems and generalization of conclusions to the whole clinical data set. We claim that both issues would be fully solved if we had a statistical model relating ground truth and the output of computational imaging techniques. Such a statistical model could conclude to what extent the algorithm behaves like the ground truth from the analysis of a sampling of the validation data set. We present a statistical inference framework reporting the agreement and describing the relationship of two quantities. We show its transversality by applying it to validation of two different tasks: contour segmentation and landmark correspondence.
	Address	Sevilla
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	Publisher	Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication	Berlin	Editor	Pedro Real; Daniel Diaz-Pernil; Helena Molina-Abril; Ainhoa Berciano; Walter Kropatsch
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	Series Editor		Series Title	L	Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CAIP
	Notes	IAM; ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HGR2011			Serial	1676
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	Author	Olivier Penacchio
	Title	Mixed Hodge Structures and Equivariant Sheaves on the Projective Plane			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Mathematische Nachrichten	Abbreviated Journal	MN
	Volume	284	Issue	4	Pages	526-542
	Keywords	Mixed Hodge structures, equivariant sheaves, MSC (2010) Primary: 14C30, Secondary: 14F05, 14M25
	Abstract	We describe an equivalence of categories between the category of mixed Hodge structures and a category of equivariant vector bundles on a toric model of the complex projective plane which verify some semistability condition. We then apply this correspondence to define an invariant which generalizes the notion of R-split mixed Hodge structure and give calculations for the first group of cohomology of possibly non smooth or non-complete curves of genus 0 and 1. Finally, we describe some extension groups of mixed Hodge structures in terms of equivariant extensions of coherent sheaves. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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	Publisher	WILEY-VCH Verlag	Place of Publication		Editor	R. Mennicken
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1522-2616	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Pen2011			Serial	1721
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	Author	Simone Balocco; Carlo Gatta; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	Combining Growcut and Temporal Correlation for IVUS Lumen Segmentation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6669	Issue		Pages	556-563
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	Abstract	The assessment of arterial luminal area, performed by IVUS analysis, is a clinical index used to evaluate the degree of coronary artery disease. In this paper we propose a novel approach to automatically segment the vessel lumen, which combines model-based temporal information extracted from successive frames of the sequence, with spatial classification using the Growcut algorithm. The performance of the method is evaluated by an in vivo experiment on 300 IVUS frames. The automatic and manual segmentation performances in general vessel and stent frames are comparable. The average segmentation error in vessel, stent and bifurcation frames are 0.17±0.08 mm, 0.18±0.07 mm and 0.31±0.12 mm respectively.
	Address	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication	Berlin	Editor	Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-21256-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BGC2011a			Serial	1741
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	Author	Xavier Perez Sala; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Biologically Inspired Path Execution Using SURF Flow in Robot Navigation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	11th International Work Conference on Artificial Neural Networks	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	II	Issue		Pages	581--588
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	Abstract	An exportable and robust system using only camera images is proposed for path execution in robot navigation. Motion information is extracted in the form of optical flow from SURF robust descriptors of consecutive frames, so the method is called SURF flow. This information is used to correct robot displacement when a straight forward path command is sent to the robot, but it is not really executed due to several robot and environmental concerns. The proposed system has been successfully tested on the legged robot Aibo.
	Address	Malaga
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-21497-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IWANN
	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PAE2011b			Serial	1773
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	Author	Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
	Title	A Bag-of-Paths Based Serialized Subgraph Matching for Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6669	Issue		Pages	620-627
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	Abstract	In this paper we propose an error tolerant subgraph matching algorithm based on bag-of-paths for solving the problem of symbol spotting in line drawings. Bag-of-paths is a factorized representation of graphs where the factorization is done by considering all the acyclic paths between each pair of connected nodes. Similar paths within the whole collection of documents are clustered and organized in a lookup table for efficient indexing. The lookup table contains the index key of each cluster and the corresponding list of locations as a single entry. The mean path of each of the clusters serves as the index key for each table entry. The spotting method is then formulated by a spatial voting scheme to the list of locations of the paths that are decided in terms of search of similar paths that compose the query symbol. Efficient indexing of common substructures helps to reduce the computational burden of usual graph based methods. The proposed method can also be seen as a way to serialize graphs which allows to reduce the complexity of the subgraph isomorphism. We have encoded the paths in terms of both attributed strings and turning functions, and presented a comparative results between them within the symbol spotting framework. Experimentations for matching different shape silhouettes are also reported and the method has been proved to work in noisy environment also.
	Address	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication	Berlin	Editor	Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-21256-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DLP2011a			Serial	1738
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	Author	Arnau Ramisa; Alex Goldhoorn; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
	Title	Combining Invariant Features and the ALV Homing Method for Autonomous Robot Navigation Based on Panoramas			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems	Abbreviated Journal	JIRC
	Volume	64	Issue	3-4	Pages	625-649
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	Abstract	Biologically inspired homing methods, such as the Average Landmark Vector, are an interesting solution for local navigation due to its simplicity. However, usually they require a modification of the environment by placing artificial landmarks in order to work reliably. In this paper we combine the Average Landmark Vector with invariant feature points automatically detected in panoramic images to overcome this limitation. The proposed approach has been evaluated first in simulation and, as promising results are found, also in two data sets of panoramas from real world environments.
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	Publisher	Springer Netherlands	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0921-0296	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	RV;ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RGA2011			Serial	1728
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	Author	David Fernandez; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
	Title	Handwritten Word Spotting in Old Manuscript Images Using a Pseudo-Structural Descriptor Organized in a Hash Structure			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6669	Issue		Pages	628-635
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	Abstract	There are lots of historical handwritten documents with information that can be used for several studies and projects. The Document Image Analysis and Recognition community is interested in preserving these documents and extracting all the valuable information from them. Handwritten word-spotting is the pattern classification task which consists in detecting handwriting word images. In this work, we have used a query-by-example formalism: we have matched an input image with one or multiple images from handwritten documents to determine the distance that might indicate a correspondence. We have developed an approach based in characteristic Loci Features stored in a hash structure. Document images of the marriage licences of the Cathedral of Barcelona are used as the benchmarking database.
	Address	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-642-21256-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FLF2011			Serial	1742
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	Author	Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; F. de la Torre; Joan Serrat; C. Vilella
	Title	Hierarchical CRF with product label spaces for parts-based Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	657-664
	Keywords	Shape; Computational modeling; Principal component analysis; Random variables; Color; Upper bound; Facial features
	Abstract	Non-rigid object detection is a challenging an open research problem in computer vision. It is a critical part in many applications such as image search, surveillance, human-computer interaction or image auto-annotation. Most successful approaches to non-rigid object detection make use of part-based models. In particular, Conditional Random Fields (CRF) have been successfully embedded into a discriminative parts-based model framework due to its effectiveness for learning and inference (usually based on a tree structure). However, CRF-based approaches do not incorporate global constraints and only model pairwise interactions. This is especially important when modeling object classes that may have complex parts interactions (e.g. facial features or body articulations), because neglecting them yields an oversimplified model with suboptimal performance. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a novel hierarchical CRF (HCRF). The main contribution is to build a hierarchy of part combinations by extending the label set to a hierarchy of product label spaces. In order to keep the inference computation tractable, we propose an effective method to reduce the new label set. We test our method on two applications: facial feature detection on the Multi-PIE database and human pose estimation on the Buffy dataset.
	Address	Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2011
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RBT2011			Serial	1862
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