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  Title Domain Adaptation of Deformable Part-based Models Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract On-board pedestrian detection is crucial for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS). An accurate classi cation is fundamental for vision-based pedestrian detection.
The underlying assumption for learning classi ers is that the training set and the deployment environment (testing) follow the same probability distribution regarding the features used by the classi ers. However, in practice, there are di erent reasons that can break this constancy assumption. Accordingly, reusing existing classi ers by adapting them from the previous training environment (source domain) to the new testing one (target domain) is an approach with increasing acceptance in the computer vision community. In this thesis we focus on the domain adaptation of deformable part-based models (DPMs) for pedestrian detection. As a prof of concept, we use a computer graphic based synthetic dataset, i.e. a virtual world, as the source domain, and adapt the virtual-world trained DPM detector to various real-world dataset.
We start by exploiting the maximum detection accuracy of the virtual-world
trained DPM. Even though, when operating in various real-world datasets, the virtualworld trained detector still su er from accuracy degradation due to the domain gap of virtual and real worlds. We then focus on domain adaptation of DPM. At the rst step, we consider single source and single target domain adaptation and propose two batch learning methods, namely A-SSVM and SA-SSVM. Later, we further consider leveraging multiple target (sub-)domains for progressive domain adaptation and propose a hierarchical adaptive structured SVM (HA-SSVM) for optimization. Finally, we extend HA-SSVM for the challenging online domain adaptation problem, aiming at making the detector to automatically adapt to the target domain online, without any human intervention. All of the proposed methods in this thesis do not require
revisiting source domain data. The evaluations are done on the Caltech pedestrian detection benchmark. Results show that SA-SSVM slightly outperforms A-SSVM and avoids accuracy drops as high as 15 points when comparing with a non-adapted detector. The hierarchical model learned by HA-SSVM further boosts the domain adaptation performance. Finally, the online domain adaptation method has demonstrated that it can achieve comparable accuracy to the batch learned models while not requiring manually label target domain examples. Domain adaptation for pedestrian detection is of paramount importance and a relatively unexplored area. We humbly hope the work in this thesis could provide foundations for future work in this area.
 
  Address April 2015  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Antonio Lopez  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Xu2015 Serial 2631  
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Author Olivier Penacchio; Xavier Otazu; A. wilkins; J. Harris edit  url
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  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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  Area Expedition Conference ECVP  
  Notes NEUROBIT;CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ POW2015 Serial 2633  
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Author Xavier Otazu; Olivier Penacchio; Xim Cerda-Company edit  openurl
  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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  Area Expedition Conference BARCCSYN  
  Notes NEUROBIT;CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ OPC2015b Serial 2634  
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Author Victor Campmany; Sergio Silva; Juan Carlos Moure; Antoni Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title GPU-based pedestrian detection for autonomous driving Type Abstract
  Year 2015 Publication Programming and Tunning Massive Parallel Systems Abbreviated Journal PUMPS  
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  Keywords Autonomous Driving; ADAS; CUDA; Pedestrian Detection  
  Abstract Pedestrian detection for autonomous driving has gained a lot of prominence during the last few years. Besides the fact that it is one of the hardest tasks within computer vision, it involves huge computational costs. The real-time constraints in the field are tight, and regular processors are not able to handle the workload obtaining an acceptable ratio of frames per second (fps). Moreover, multiple cameras are required to obtain accurate results, so the need to speed up the process is even higher. Taking the work in [1] as our baseline, we propose a CUDA implementation of a pedestrian detection system. Further, we introduce significant algorithmic adjustments and optimizations to adapt the problem to the GPU architecture. The aim is to provide a system capable of running in real-time obtaining reliable results.  
  Address Barcelona; Spain  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085 Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ CSM2015 Serial 2644  
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Author Sergio Silva; Victor Campmany; Laura Sellart; Juan Carlos Moure; Antoni Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Autonomous GPU-based Driving Type Abstract
  Year 2015 Publication Programming and Tunning Massive Parallel Systems Abbreviated Journal PUMPS  
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  Keywords Autonomous Driving; ADAS; CUDA  
  Abstract Human factors cause most driving accidents; this is why nowadays is common to hear about autonomous driving as an alternative. Autonomous driving will not only increase safety, but also will develop a system of cooperative self-driving cars that will reduce pollution and congestion. Furthermore, it will provide more freedom to handicapped people, elderly or kids.

Autonomous Driving requires perceiving and understanding the vehicle environment (e.g., road, traffic signs, pedestrians, vehicles) using sensors (e.g., cameras, lidars, sonars, and radars), selflocalization (requiring GPS, inertial sensors and visual localization in precise maps), controlling the vehicle and planning the routes. These algorithms require high computation capability, and thanks to NVIDIA GPU acceleration this starts to become feasible.

NVIDIA® is developing a new platform for boosting the Autonomous Driving capabilities that is able of managing the vehicle via CAN-Bus: the Drive™ PX. It has 8 ARM cores with dual accelerated Tegra® X1 chips. It has 12 synchronized camera inputs for 360º vehicle perception, 4G and Wi-Fi capabilities allowing vehicle communications and GPS and inertial sensors inputs for self-localization.

Our research group has been selected for testing Drive™ PX. Accordingly, we are developing a Drive™ PX based autonomous car. Currently, we are porting our previous CPU based algorithms (e.g., Lane Departure Warning, Collision Warning, Automatic Cruise Control, Pedestrian Protection, or Semantic Segmentation) for running in the GPU.
 
  Address Barcelona; Spain  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085 Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SCS2015 Serial 2645  
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Author Isabelle Guyon; Kristin Bennett; Gavin Cawley; Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title The AutoML challenge on codalab Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN2015 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Killarney; Ireland; July 2015  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ GBC2015b Serial 2650  
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Author Gerard Canal; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title Gesture based Human Multi-Robot interaction Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN2015 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The emergence of robot applications for nontechnical users implies designing new ways of interaction between robotic platforms and users. The main goal of this work is the development of a gestural interface to interact with robots
in a similar way as humans do, allowing the user to provide information of the task with non-verbal communication. The gesture recognition application has been implemented using the Microsoft’s KinectTM v2 sensor. Hence, a real-time algorithm based on skeletal features is described to deal with both, static
gestures and dynamic ones, being the latter recognized using a weighted Dynamic Time Warping method. The gesture recognition application has been implemented in a multi-robot case.

A NAO humanoid robot is in charge of interacting with the users and respond to the visual signals they produce. Moreover, a wheeled Wifibot robot carries both the sensor and the NAO robot, easing navigation when necessary. A broad set of user tests have been carried out demonstrating that the system is, indeed, a
natural approach to human robot interaction, with a fast response and easy to use, showing high gesture recognition rates.
 
  Address Killarney; Ireland; July 2015  
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  Call Number CAE2015a Serial 2651  
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Author Huamin Ren; Weifeng Liu; Soren Ingvor Olsen; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund edit   pdf
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  Title Unsupervised Behavior-Specific Dictionary Learning for Abnormal Event Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 26th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Swansea; uk; September 2015  
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  Area Expedition Conference BMVC  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RLO2015 Serial 2658  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically Plausible Colour Naming Model 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; 600.068 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2015 Serial 2660  
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Author Chen Zhang; Maria del Mar Vila Muñoz; Petia Radeva; Roberto Elosua; Maria Grau; Angels Betriu; Elvira Fernandez-Giraldez; Laura Igual edit  url
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  Title Carotid Artery Segmentation in Ultrasound Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting (CVII-STENT2015), Joint MICCAI Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Munich; Germany; October 2015  
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  Area Expedition Conference CVII-STENT  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ ZVR2015 Serial 2675  
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Author Onur Ferhat; Arcadi Llanza; Fernando Vilariño edit  openurl
  Title Gaze interaction for multi-display systems using natural light eye-tracker Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Solutions for Automatic Gaze Data Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Bielefeld; Germany; September 2015  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ FLV2015b Serial 2676  
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Author Martha Mackay; Fernando Alonso; Pere Salamero; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title Care and caring: future proofing the new demographics Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 6th International Carers Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract With an ageing population, the issue of care provision is becoming increasingly important. The simple aspiration of the majority of older people is to live safely and well at home. Housing will be part of health & care integration in the following years and decades. A higher proportion of people will have to rely on informal care through family, friends, neighbors and others who
provide care to an older person in need of assistance (around 80% of care across the EU). They do not usually have a formal status and are usually unpaid. We need to ensure that all disabled or chronically ill people can get the help they need without overburdening their families.
The physical and emotional stress of carers is one of the dangers that this dependency can bring. To prevent carers burnout it is necessary to provide new solutions that are affordable and user friendly for the families and caregivers.
 
  Address Gothenburg; Sweden; September 2015  
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  Notes HuPBA; ISE; 600.078;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MAS2015b Serial 2678  
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Author David Roche edit  openurl
  Title A Statistical Framework for Terminating Evolutionary Algorithms at their Steady State Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract As any iterative technique, it is a necessary condition a stop criterion for terminating Evolutionary Algorithms (EA). In the case of optimization methods, the algorithm should stop at the time it has reached a steady state so it can not improve results anymore. Assessing the reliability of termination conditions for EAs is of prime importance. A wrong or weak stop criterion can negatively a ect both the computational e ort and the nal result.
In this Thesis, we introduce a statistical framework for assessing whether a termination condition is able to stop EA at its steady state. In one hand a numeric approximation to steady states to detect the point in which EA population has lost its diversity has been presented for EA termination. This approximation has been applied to di erent EA paradigms based on diversity and a selection of functions covering the properties most relevant for EA convergence. Experiments show that our condition works regardless of the search space dimension and function landscape and Di erential Evolution (DE) arises as the best paradigm. On the other hand, we use a regression model in order to determine the requirements ensuring that a measure derived from EA evolving population is related to the distance to the optimum in xspace.
Our theoretical framework is analyzed across several benchmark test functions
and two standard termination criteria based on function improvement in f-space and EA population x-space distribution for the DE paradigm. Results validate our statistical framework as a powerful tool for determining the capability of a measure for terminating EA and select the x-space distribution as the best-suited for accurately stopping DE in real-world applications.
 
  Address July 2015  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil;Jesus Giraldo  
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  Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Roc2015 Serial 2686  
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Author Patricia Marquez edit  isbn
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  Title A Confidence Framework for the Assessment of Optical Flow Performance Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Optical Flow (OF) is the input of a wide range of decision support systems such as car driver assistance, UAV guiding or medical diagnose. In these real situations, the absence of ground truth forces to assess OF quality using quantities computed from either sequences or the computed optical flow itself. These quantities are generally known as Confidence Measures, CM. Even if we have a proper confidence measure we still need a way to evaluate its ability to discard pixels with an OF prone to have a large error. Current approaches only provide a descriptive evaluation of the CM performance but such approaches are not capable to fairly compare different confidence measures and optical flow algorithms. Thus, it is of prime importance to define a framework and a general road map for the evaluation of optical flow performance.

This thesis provides a framework able to decide which pairs “ optical flow – confidence measure” (OF-CM) are best suited for optical flow error bounding given a confidence level determined by a decision support system. To design this framework we cover the following points:

Descriptive scores. As a first step, we summarize and analyze the sources of inaccuracies in the output of optical flow algorithms. Second, we present several descriptive plots that visually assess CM capabilities for OF error bounding. In addition to the descriptive plots, given a plot representing OF-CM capabilities to bound the error, we provide a numeric score that categorizes the plot according to its decreasing profile, that is, a score assessing CM performance.
Statistical framework. We provide a comparison framework that assesses the best suited OF-CM pair for error bounding that uses a two stage cascade process. First of all we assess the predictive value of the confidence measures by means of a descriptive plot. Then, for a sample of descriptive plots computed over training frames, we obtain a generic curve that will be used for sequences with no ground truth. As a second step, we evaluate the obtained general curve and its capabilities to really reflect the predictive value of a confidence measure using the variability across train frames by means of ANOVA.

The presented framework has shown its potential in the application on clinical decision support systems. In particular, we have analyzed the impact of the different image artifacts such as noise and decay to the output of optical flow in a cardiac diagnose system and we have improved the navigation inside the bronchial tree on bronchoscopy.
 
  Address July 2015  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil;Aura Hernandez  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-2-1 Medium  
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  Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Mar2015 Serial 2687  
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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  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Robert Benavente;Olivier Penacchio  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-4-5 Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Ser2015 Serial 2688  
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