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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Fernando Vilariño
Title Anisotropic Contour Completion Type Conference Article
Year 2003 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract In this paper we introduce a novel application of the diffusion tensor for anisotropic image processing. The Anisotropic Contour Completion (ACC) we suggest consists in extending the characteristic function of the open curve by means of a degenerated diffusion tensor that prevents any diffusion in the normal direction. We show that ACC is equivalent to a dilation with a continuous elliptic structural element that takes into account the local orientation of the contours to be closed. Experiments on contours extracted from real images show that ACC produces shapes able to adapt to any curve in an active contour framework. 1.
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Publisher Place of Publication Barcelona, Spain Editor
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ISSN ISBN 0-7803-7751-6 Medium
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Notes IAM;MV;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRV2003 Serial 1539
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title Exploring Arterial Dynamics and Structures in IntraVascular Ultrasound Sequences Type Book Whole
Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death in developed countries. Most of them are caused by arterial (specially coronary) diseases, mainly caused by plaque accumulation. Such pathology narrows blood flow (stenosis) and affects artery bio- mechanical elastic properties (atherosclerosis). In the last decades, IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) has become a usual imaging technique for the diagnosis and follow up of arterial diseases. IVUS is a catheter-based imaging technique which shows a sequence of cross sections of the artery under study. Inspection of a single image gives information about the percentage of stenosis. Meanwhile, inspection of longitudinal views provides information about artery bio-mechanical properties, which can prevent a fatal outcome of the cardiovascular disease. On one hand, dynamics of arteries (due to heart pumping among others) is a major artifact for exploring tissue bio-mechanical properties. On the other one, manual stenosis measurements require a manual tracing of vessel borders, which is a time-consuming task and might suffer from inter-observer variations. This PhD thesis proposes several image processing tools for exploring vessel dy- namics and structures. We present a physics-based model to extract, analyze and correct vessel in-plane rigid dynamics and to retrieve cardiac phase. Furthermore, we introduce a deterministic-statistical method for automatic vessel borders detection. In particular, we address adventitia layer segmentation. An accurate validation pro- tocol to ensure reliable clinical applicability of the methods is a crucial step in any proposal of an algorithm. In this thesis we take special care in designing a valida- tion protocol for each approach proposed and we contribute to the in vivo dynamics validation with a quantitative and objective score to measure the amount of motion suppressed.
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-937261-6-4 Medium
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Her2009 Serial 1543
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title Automatic adventitia segmentation in IntraVascular UltraSound images Type Report
Year 2005 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 85 Pages (up)
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Abstract A usual tool in cardiac disease diagnosis is vessel plaque assessment by analysis of IVUS sequences. Manual detection of lumen-intima, intima-media and media-adventitia vessel borders is the main activity of physicians in the process of plaque quantification. Large variety in vessel border descriptors, as well as, shades, artifacts and blurred response due to ultrasound physical properties troubles automated media-adventitia segmentation. This experimental work presents a solution to such a complex problem. The process blends advanced anisotropic filtering operators and statistic classification techniques, achieving an efficient vessel border modelling strategy. First of all, we introduce the theoretic base of the method. After that, we show the steps of the algorithm, validating the method with statistics that show that the media-adventitia border detection achieves an accuracy in the range of inter-observer variability regardless of plaque nature, vessel geometry and incomplete vessel borders. Finally, we present a little Matlab application to the automatic media-adventitia border.
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain) Editor
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Her2005 Serial 1544
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
Title A Deterministic-Statistical Strategy for Adventitia Segmentation in IVUS images Type Report
Year 2005 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 89 Pages (up)
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Abstract A useful tool for some specific studies in cardiac disease diagnosis is vessel plaque assessment by analysis of IVUS sequences. Manual detection of luminal (inner) and media-adventitia (external) vessel borders is the main activity of physicians in the process of lumen narrowing (plaque) quantification. Difficult definition of vessel border descriptors, as well as, shades, artifacts and blurred signal response due to ultrasound physical properties troubles automated adventitia segmentation. In order to efficiently approach such a complex problem, we propose blending advanced anisotropic filtering operators and statistical classification techniques into a vessel border modelling strategy. Our systematic statistical analysis shows that the reported adventitia detection achieves an accuracy in the range of inter-observer variability regardless of plaque nature, vessel geometry and incomplete vessel borders.
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Notes IAM; MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HGR2005a Serial 1548
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Author Ole Larsen; Petia Radeva; Enric Marti
Title Calculating the Bounds on the Optimal Parameters of Elasticity for a Snake Type Report
Year 1994 Publication Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
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Address Aalborg University
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Publisher Aalborg University, Laboratory of image Analysis. Place of Publication Denmark Editor
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Area Aalborg University, Laboratory of image Analysis. Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LRM1994 Serial 1560
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Author Jaime Lopez-Krahe; Josep Llados; Enric Marti
Title Architectural Floor Plan Analysis Type Report
Year 2000 Publication CVonline Abbreviated Journal
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Address Edimburg, UK
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Publisher University of Edinburgh Place of Publication Editor Robert B. Fisher
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Notes DAG;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LLM2000 Serial 1561
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Author Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Enric Marti
Title Using cyclic string matching to find rotational and reflectional symmetric shapes Type Conference Article
Year 1996 Publication Dagstuhl Seminar on Modelling and Planning for Sensor–based Intelligent Robot Systems Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher World Scientific Place of Publication Saarbrucken (Germany). Editor R.C. Bolles, H.B.H.N.
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ LBM1996 Serial 1564
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Author Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Enric Marti
Title Structural Recognition of hand drawn floor plans Type Conference Article
Year 1996 Publication VI National Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Rotational Symmetry; Reflectional Symmetry; String Matching.
Abstract A system to recognize hand drawn architectural drawings in a CAD environment has been deve- loped. In this paper we focus on its high level interpretation module. To interpret a floor plan, the system must identify several building elements, whose description is stored in a library of pat- terns, as well as their spatial relationships. We propose a structural approach based on subgraph isomorphism techniques to obtain a high-level interpretation of the document. The vectorized input document and the patterns to be recognized are represented by attributed graphs. Discrete relaxation techniques (AC4 algorithm) have been applied to develop the matching algorithm. The process has been divided in three steps: node labeling, local consistency and global consistency verification. The hand drawn creation causes disturbed line drawings with several accuracy errors, which must be taken into account. Here we have identified them and the AC4 algorithm has been adapted to manage them.
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Publisher Place of Publication Cordoba Editor
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LIM1995 Serial 1565
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Author Josep Llados; Enric Marti
Title Graph-edit algorithms for hand-drawn graphical document recognition and their automatic introduction Type Journal Article
Year 1999 Publication Machine Graphics & Vision journal, special issue on Graph transformation Abbreviated Journal
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Notes DAG;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LIM1999c Serial 1569
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Author Josep Llados; Enric Marti
Title Playing with error-tolerant subgraph isomorphism in line drawings Type Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication VII National Symposium on Pattern Recognition and image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LlM1997 Serial 1570
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Author Josep Llados; Enric Marti; Jordi Regincos
Title Interpretación de diseños a mano alzada como técnica de entrada a un sistema CAD en un ámbito de arquitectura Type Conference Article
Year 1993 Publication III National Conference on Computer Graphics Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract En los últimos años, se ha introducido ámpliamente el uso de los sistemas CAD en dominios relacionados con la arquitectura. Dichos sistemas CAD son muy útiles para el arquitecto en el diseño de planos de plantas de edificios. Sin embargo, la utilización eficiente de un CAD requiere un tiempo de aprendizaje, en especial, en la etapa de creación y edición del diseño. Además, una vez familiarizado con un CAD, el arquitecto debe adaptarse a la simbología que éste le permite que, en algunos casos puede ser poco flexible.Con esta motivación, se propone una técnica alternativa de entrada de documentos en sistemas CAD. Dicha técnica se basa en el diseño del plano sobre papel mediante un dibujo lineal hecho a mano alzada a modo de boceto e introducido mediante scanner. Una vez interpretado este dibujo inicial e introducido en el CAD, el arquitecto sólo deber hacer sobre éste los retoques finales del documento.El sistema de entrada propuesto se compone de dos módulos principales: En primer lugar, la extracción de características (puntos característicos, rectas y arcos) de la imagen obtenida mediante scanner. En dicho módulo se aplican principalmente técnicas de procesamiento de imágenes obteniendo como resultado una representaci¢n del dibujo de entrada basada en grafos de atributos. El objetivo del segundo módulo es el de encontrar y reconocer las entidades integrantes del documento (puertas, mesas, etc.) en base a una biblioteca de símbolos definida en el sistema CAD. La implementación de dicho módulo se basa en técnicas de isomorfismo de grafos.El sistema propone una alternativa que permita, mediante el diseño a mano alzada, la introducción de la informaci¢n m s significativa del plano de forma rápida, sencilla y estandarizada por parte del usuario.
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Publisher Place of Publication Granada Editor
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LMR1993 Serial 1571
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Author Josep Llados; Enric Marti
Title Interpretacio de dibuixos lineals mitjançant tècniques d isomorfisme entre grafs Type Conference Article
Year 1995 Publication Trobada de Joves Investigadors Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract L’anàlisi de documents té com a objectiu la interpretació automàtica de documents impresos sobre paper, amb la finalitat d’obtenir una descripció simbòlica d’aquests, que permeti el seu emmagatzemament i posterior tractament computacional. Les tècniques basades en grafs relacionals d’atributs permeten representar de manera compacta la informació continguda en dibuixos lineals i mitjançant mecanismes d’isomorfisme entre grafs, reconèixer-hi certes estructures i d’aquesta manera, interpretar el document. En aquest treball es dóna una visió general de les tènciques de grafs aplicades al reconeixement visual d’objectes en problemes d’anàlisi de documents. Aquestes tècniques s’il·lustren amb un exemple de reconeixement de plànols dibuixats a mà alçada. Finalment es proposa la utilització de tècniques de Hough com a mecanisme per accelerar el procés de reconeixement aplicant un cert coneixement sobre el domini en el que es treballa
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ LlM1995 Serial 1578
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Author Patricia Marquez
Title Conditions Ensuring Accuracy of Local Optical Flow Schemes Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Tehcnical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 157 Issue Pages (up)
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Abstract Accurate computation of optical flow is a key-point in many image processing fields. Detection of anomalous and unpredicted agents (such as pedestrians, bikers or cars) in urban scenes or pathology discrimination in medical imaging sequences, to mention just a two. The above kinds sequences present two main difficulties for standard optical flow techniques. On one hand, variability in acquisition conditions (illuminance, medical imaging modality, ...) force an alterantive representation for images fulfilling the britghtness constancy constrain. On the hand, current variational schemes produce oversmoothed fields unable to properly model discontinuous behaviours such as collisions or functionless pathological areas. This master project explores the abilities and limitations of local and global optical flow approaches. The master student will put especial emphasis in the theoretical grounds behind in order to design a variational framework combining the theoretical advantages of the considered techniques. In particular an optical flow based on Gabor phase tracking (developed in the group for medical imaging) will be generalized to urban scenes.
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain Editor
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Mar2010 Serial 1582
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Author Enric Marti
Title Project Based Learning in engineering Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication Simposium on Problem Based learning (PBL) Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Place of Publication Lleida Editor
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ MAR2008a Serial 1586
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Author Enric Marti
Title Análisis de elementos gráficos en documentos Type Report
Year 1996 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 9 Pages (up)
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Abstract En este texto se presenta un estudio sobre las t’ecnicas y aplicaciones de an’alisis de documentos, y más concretamente abordando la problem’atica del an’alisis de de entidades gr’aficas. El ’area de an’alisis de documentos tiene como objetivo la interpretaci’on de documentos impresos sobre papel por m’etodos computacionales, para obtener una descripci’on con un alto nivel de abstracci’on, que permita su posterior tratamiento y archivo por m’etodos inform’aticos. Este objetivo, junto a los trabajos realizados hasta el momento, le otorgan a esta ’area un amplio ’ambito de aplicaciones para la manipulaci’on y archivo de documentos sobre papel, que puede llegar a significar un salto cualitativo importante (del papel al disco ’optico) en el uso de soportes de informaci’on, debido a las importantes prestaciones de acceso y capacidad de archivo que suponen los medios inform’aticos. Generalmente los documentos son introducidos en los sistemas de an’alisis de documentos mediante scanner, obt...
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Publisher Computer Vision Centre Place of Publication CVC UAB Editor
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Mar1996 Serial 1587
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