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Author Murad Al Haj
Title Looking at Faces: Detection, Tracking and Pose Estimation Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Humans can effortlessly perceive faces, follow them over space and time, and decode their rich content, such as pose, identity and expression. However, despite many decades of research on automatic facial perception in areas like face detection, expression recognition, pose estimation and face recognition, and despite many successes, a complete solution remains elusive. This thesis is dedicated to three problems in automatic face perception, namely face detection, face tracking and pose estimation.

In face detection, an initial simple model is presented that uses pixel-based heuristics to segment skin locations and hand-crafted rules to determine the locations of the faces present in an image. Different colorspaces are studied to judge whether a colorspace transformation can aid skin color detection. The output of this study is used in the design of a more complex face detector that is able to successfully generalize to different scenarios.

In face tracking, a framework that combines estimation and control in a joint scheme is presented to track a face with a single pan-tilt-zoom camera. While this work is mainly motivated by tracking faces, it can be easily applied atop of any detector to track different objects. The applicability of this method is demonstrated on simulated as well as real-life scenarios.

The last and most important part of this thesis is dedicate to monocular head pose estimation. In this part, a method based on partial least squares (PLS) regression is proposed to estimate pose and solve the alignment problem simultaneously. The contributions of this work are two-fold: 1) demonstrating that the proposed method achieves better than state-of-the-art results on the estimation problem and 2) developing a technique to reduce misalignment based on the learned PLS factors that outperform multiple instance learning (MIL) without the need for any re-training or the inclusion of misaligned samples in the training process, as normally done in MIL.
Address Barcelona
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Haj2013 Serial 2278
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Author Albert Gordo
Title Document Image Representation, Classification and Retrieval in Large-Scale Domains Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Despite the “paperless office” ideal that started in the decade of the seventies, businesses still strive against an increasing amount of paper documentation. Companies still receive huge amounts of paper documentation that need to be analyzed and processed, mostly in a manual way. A solution for this task consists in, first, automatically scanning the incoming documents. Then, document images can be analyzed and information can be extracted from the data. Documents can also be automatically dispatched to the appropriate workflows, used to retrieve similar documents in the dataset to transfer information, etc.

Due to the nature of this “digital mailroom”, we need document representation methods to be general, i.e., able to cope with very different types of documents. We need the methods to be sound, i.e., able to cope with unexpected types of documents, noise, etc. And, we need to methods to be scalable, i.e., able to cope with thousands or millions of documents that need to be processed, stored, and consulted. Unfortunately, current techniques of document representation, classification and retrieval are not apt for this digital mailroom framework, since they do not fulfill some or all of these requirements.

Through this thesis we focus on the problem of document representation aimed at classification and retrieval tasks under this digital mailroom framework. We first propose a novel document representation based on runlength histograms, and extend it to cope with more complex documents such as multiple-page documents, or documents that contain more sources of information such as extracted OCR text. Then we focus on the scalability requirements and propose a novel binarization method which we dubbed PCAE, as well as two general asymmetric distances between binary embeddings that can significantly improve the retrieval results at a minimal extra computational cost. Finally, we note the importance of supervised learning when performing large-scale retrieval, and study several approaches that can significantly boost the results at no extra cost at query time.
Address Barcelona
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Ernest Valveny;Florent Perronnin
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Gor2013 Serial 2277
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Author Jean-Marc Ogier; Wenyin Liu; Josep Llados (eds)
Title Graphics Recognition: Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution Type Book Whole
Year 2010 Publication 8th International Workshop GREC 2009. Abbreviated Journal
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Address La Rochelle
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Publisher Springer Link Place of Publication Editor Jean-Marc Ogier; Wenyin Liu; Josep Llados
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Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ OLL2010 Serial 1976
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; R.Roset; Josep Llados; C.Montaner
Title Automatic Index Generation of Digitized Map Series by Coordinate Extraction and Interpretation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference CartoHerit
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RRL2011b Serial 1978
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Author Wenjuan Gong; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
Title Human Action Recognition based on Estimated Weak Poses Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIPJ
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Abstract We present a novel method for human action recognition (HAR) based on estimated poses from image sequences. We use 3D human pose data as additional information and propose a compact human pose representation, called a weak pose, in a low-dimensional space while still keeping the most discriminative information for a given pose. With predicted poses from image features, we map the problem from image feature space to pose space, where a Bag of Poses (BOP) model is learned for the final goal of HAR. The BOP model is a modified version of the classical bag of words pipeline by building the vocabulary based on the most representative weak poses for a given action. Compared with the standard k-means clustering, our vocabulary selection criteria is proven to be more efficient and robust against the inherent challenges of action recognition. Moreover, since for action recognition the ordering of the poses is discriminative, the BOP model incorporates temporal information: in essence, groups of consecutive poses are considered together when computing the vocabulary and assignment. We tested our method on two well-known datasets: HumanEva and IXMAS, to demonstrate that weak poses aid to improve action recognition accuracies. The proposed method is scene-independent and is comparable with the state-of-art method.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GGR2012 Serial 2003
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Author Fernando Barrera; Felipe Lumbreras; Cristhian Aguilera; Angel Sappa
Title Planar-Based Multispectral Stereo Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 11th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Abbreviated Journal
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Address Naples, Italy
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Area Expedition Conference QIRT
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BLA2012 Serial 2016
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Author Cristhian Aguilera; Fernando Barrera; Angel Sappa; Ricardo Toledo
Title A Novel SIFT-Like-Based Approach for FIR-VS Images Registration Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 11th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Abbreviated Journal
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Address Naples, Italy
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Notes ADAS; TV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ABS2012 Serial 2017
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Author German Ros; Angel Sappa; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez
Title Visual SLAM for Driverless Cars: A Brief Survey Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication IEEE Workshop on Navigation, Perception, Accurate Positioning and Mapping for Intelligent Vehicles Abbreviated Journal
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Address Alcalá de Henares
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Area Expedition Conference IVW
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RSP2012; ADAS @ adas Serial 2019
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Author Jose Carlos Rubio; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Multiple target tracking and identity linking under split, merge and occlusion of targets and observations Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods Abbreviated Journal
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Address Algarve, Portugal
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RSL2012c; ADAS @ adas Serial 2034
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas;Ch. Lioutas
Title Software Package Development for Electron Diffraction Image Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 1998 Publication Proceedings of the XIV Solid State Physics National Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Address Ioannina, Greece
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ KaL1998 Serial 2045
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Author Ekaterina Zaytseva; Jordi Vitria
Title A search based approach to non maximum suppression in face detection Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 19th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
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Face detectors typically produce a large number of false positives and this leads to the need to have a further non maximum suppression stage to eliminate multiple and spurious responses. This stage is based on considering spatial heuristics: true positive responses are selected by implicitly considering several restrictions on the spatial distribution of detector responses in natural images. In this paper we analyze the limitations of this approach and propose an efficient search method to overcome them. Results show how the application of this new non-maximum suppression approach to a simple face detector boosts its performance to state of the art results.
Address Orlando; USA; September 2012
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ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4673-2534-9 Medium
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Call Number Admin @ si @ ZaV2012 Serial 2060
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Author Sergio Escalera; Josep Moya; Laura Igual; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Análisis Comportamental Automatizado de TDAH: la Influencia de la Variable Motivación Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication IPSI – Cosmocaixa, Jornadas "Empremtes del present, efectes en la psicoanàlisi, la cultura i la societat Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number Admin @ si @ EMI2012b Serial 2065
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Author Laura Igual; Joan Carles Soliva; Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Oscar Vilarroya; Petia Radeva
Title A Supervised Graph-cut Deformable Model for Brain MRI Segmentation. Deformation models: tracking, animation and applications Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Computational Vision and Biomechanics Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-94-007-5445-4 Medium
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ISH2012b Serial 2066
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Author Angel Sappa; George A. Triantafyllid
Title Computer Graphics and Imaging Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication Computer Graphics and Imaging Abbreviated Journal
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Address Crete, Greece
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ISSN ISBN 978-0-88986-921-9 Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Sap2012 Serial 2067
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Author Theo Gevers; Arjan Gijsenij; Joost Van de Weijer; J.M. Geusebroek
Title Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication Color in Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher The Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN ISBN 978-0-470-89084-4 Medium
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Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGG2012a Serial 2068
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