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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados; Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre edit  doi
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  Title Multi-Oriented and Multi-Sized Touching Character Segmentation using Dynamic Programming Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 11–15  
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  Abstract In this paper, we present a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into individual characters. When two or more characters touch, they generate a big cavity region at the background portion. Using Convex Hull information, we use these background information to find some initial points to segment a touching string into possible primitive segments (a primitive segment consists of a single character or a part of a character). Next these primitive segments are merged to get optimum segmentation and dynamic programming is applied using total likelihood of characters as the objective function. SVM classifier is used to find the likelihood of a character. To consider multi-oriented touching strings the features used in the SVM are invariant to character orientation. Circular ring and convex hull ring based approach has been used along with angular information of the contour pixels of the character to make the feature rotation invariant. From the experiment, we obtained encouraging results.  
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009a Serial 1240  
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Author D. Perez; L. Tarazon; N. Serrano; F.M. Castro; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Juan edit  doi
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  Title The GERMANA Database Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 301-305  
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  Abstract A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. GERMANA is the result of digitising and annotating a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891, in which most pages only contain nearly calligraphed text written on ruled sheets of well-separated lines. To our knowledge, it is the first publicly available database for handwriting research, mostly written in Spanish and comparable in size to standard databases. Due to its sequential book structure, it is also well-suited for realistic assessment of interactive handwriting recognition systems. To provide baseline results for reference in future studies, empirical results are also reported, using standard techniques and tools for preprocessing, feature extraction, HMM-based image modelling, and language modelling.  
  Address Barcelona; Spain  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PTS2009 Serial 1870  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit  doi
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  Title Simultaneous 3D face pose and person-specific shape estimation from a single image using a holistic approach Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper presents a new approach for the simultaneous estimation of the 3D pose and specific shape of a previously unseen face from a single image. The face pose is not limited to a frontal view. We describe a holistic approach based on a deformable 3D model and a learned statistical facial texture model. Rather than obtaining a person-specific facial surface, the goal of this work is to compute person-specific 3D face shape in terms of a few control parameters that are used by many applications. The proposed holistic approach estimates the 3D pose parameters as well as the face shape control parameters by registering the warped texture to a statistical face texture, which is carried out by a stochastic and genetic optimizer. The proposed approach has several features that make it very attractive: (i) it uses a single grey-scale image, (ii) it is person-independent, (iii) it is featureless (no facial feature extraction is required), and (iv) its learning stage is easy. The proposed approach lends itself nicely to 3D face tracking and face gesture recognition in monocular videos. We describe extensive experiments that show the feasibility and robustness of the proposed approach.  
  Address Utah, USA  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5790 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-5497-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference WACV  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ DoR2009b Serial 1256  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Alberto Escudero; Petia Radeva edit  url
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  Title Circular Blurred Shape Model for Symbol Spotting in Documents Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1985-1988  
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  Abstract Symbol spotting problem requires feature extraction strategies able to generalize from training samples and to localize the target object while discarding most part of the image. In the case of document analysis, symbol spotting techniques have to deal with a high variability of symbols' appearance. In this paper, we propose the Circular Blurred Shape Model descriptor. Feature extraction is performed capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. Shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, being tolerant to the irregular deformations. Descriptors are learnt using a cascade of classifiers and Abadoost as the base classifier. Finally, symbol spotting is performed by means of a windowing strategy using the learnt cascade over plan and old musical score documents. Spotting and multi-class categorization results show better performance comparing with the state-of-the-art descriptors.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA;DAG Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009b Serial 1184  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Automatic Ground-truthing using video registration for on-board detection algorithms Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 4389 - 4392  
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  Abstract Ground-truth data is essential for the objective evaluation of object detection methods in computer vision. Many works claim their method is robust but they support it with experiments which are not quantitatively assessed with regard some ground-truth. This is one of the main obstacles to properly evaluate and compare such methods. One of the main reasons is that creating an extensive and representative ground-truth is very time consuming, specially in the case of video sequences, where thousands of frames have to be labelled. Could such a ground-truth be generated, at least in part, automatically? Though it may seem a contradictory question, we show that this is possible for the case of video sequences recorded from a moving camera. The key idea is transferring existing frame segmentations from a reference sequence into another video sequence recorded at a different time on the same track, possibly under a different ambient lighting. We have carried out experiments on several video sequence pairs and quantitatively assessed the precision of the transformed ground-truth, which prove that our approach is not only feasible but also quite accurate.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ADS2009 Serial 1201  
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Author Angel Sappa; Mohammad Rouhani edit  doi
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  Title Efficient Distance Estimation for Fitting Implicit Quadric Surfaces Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3521–3524  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the shortest Euclidean distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric fitting surface. It first estimates the orthogonal orientation to the surface from the given point; then the shortest distance is directly estimated by intersecting the implicit surface with a line passing through the given point according to the estimated orthogonal orientation. The proposed orthogonal distance estimation is easily obtained without increasing computational complexity; hence it can be used in error minimization surface fitting frameworks. Comparisons of the proposed metric with previous approaches are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results. Surfaces fitted by using the proposed geometric distance estimation and state of the art metrics are presented to show the viability of the proposed approach.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SaR2009 Serial 1232  
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Author Carlo Gatta; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Bilateral Enhancers Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3161-3165  
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  Abstract Ten years ago the concept of bilateral filtering (BF) became popular in the image processing community. The core of the idea is to blend the effect of a spatial filter, as e.g. the Gaussian filter, with the effect of a filter that acts on image values. The two filters acts on orthogonal domains of a picture: the 2D lattice of the image support and the intensity (or color) domain. The BF approach is an intuitive way to blend these two filters giving rise to algorithms that perform difficult tasks requiring a relatively simple design. In this paper we extend the concept of BF, proposing the bilateral enhancers (BE). We show how to design proper functions to obtain an edge-preserving smoothing and a selective sharpening. Moreover, we show that the proposed algorithm can perform edge-preserving smoothing and selective sharpening simultaneously in a single filtering.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN (up) 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ GaR2009b Serial 1243  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Text Detection in Urban Scenes (video sample) Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 35–44  
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  Abstract Abstract. Text detection in urban scenes is a hard task due to the high variability of text appearance: different text fonts, changes in the point of view, or partial occlusion are just a few problems. Text detection can be specially suited for georeferencing business, navigation, tourist assistance, or to help visual impaired people. In this paper, we propose a general methodology to deal with the problem of text detection in outdoor scenes. The method is based on learning spatial information of gradient based features and Census Transform images using a cascade of classifiers. The method is applied in the context of Mobile Mapping systems, where a mobile vehicle captures urban image sequences. Moreover, a cover data set is presented and tested with the new methodology. The results show high accuracy when detecting multi-linear text regions with high variability of appearance, at same time that it preserves a low false alarm rate compared to classical approaches  
  Address Cardona (Spain)  
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  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EBV2009 Serial 1181  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria edit  doi
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  Title Measuring Interest of Human Dyadic Interactions Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 45-54  
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  Abstract In this paper, we argue that only using behavioural motion information, we are able to predict the interest of observers when looking at face-to-face interactions. We propose a set of movement-related features from body, face, and mouth activity in order to define a set of higher level interaction features, such as stress, activity, speaking engagement, and corporal engagement. Error-Correcting Output Codes framework with an Adaboost base classifier is used to learn to rank the perceived observer's interest in face-to-face interactions. The automatic system shows good correlation between the automatic categorization results and the manual ranking made by the observers. In particular, the learning system shows that stress features have a high predictive power for ranking interest of observers when looking at of face-to-face interactions.  
  Address Cardona (Spain)  
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  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009b Serial 1182  
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Author Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria edit  doi
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  Title Generic Object Recognition in Urban Image Databases Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 27-34  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose the construction of a visual content layer which describes the visual appearance of geographic locations in a city. We captured, by means of a Mobile Mapping system, a huge set of georeferenced images (>500K) which cover the whole city of Barcelona. For each image, hundreds of region descriptions are computed off-line and described as a hash code. All this information is extracted without an object of reference, which allows to search for any type of objects using their visual appearance. A new Visual Content layer is built over Google Maps, allowing the object recognition information to be organized and fused with other content, like satellite images, street maps, and business locations.  
  Address Cardona (Spain)  
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  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VER2009 Serial 1183  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Angel Serrano; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title On in-vitro and in-vivo IVUS data fusion Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 147-156  
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  Abstract The design and the validation of an automatic plaque characterization technique based on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) usually requires a data ground-truth. The histological analysis of post-mortem coronary arteries is commonly assumed as the state-of-the-art process for the extraction of a reliable data-set of atherosclerotic plaques. Unfortunately, the amount of data provided by this technique is usually few, due to the difficulties in collecting post-mortem cases and phenomena of tissue spoiling during histological analysis. In this paper we tackle the process of fusing in-vivo and in-vitro IVUS data starting with the analysis of recently proposed approaches for the creation of an enhanced IVUS data-set; furthermore, we propose a new approach, named pLDS, based on semi-supervised learning with a data selection criterion. The enhanced data-set obtained by each one of the analyzed approaches is used to train a classifier for tissue characterization purposes. Finally, the discriminative power of each classifier is quantitatively assessed and compared by classifying a data-set of validated in-vitro IVUS data.  
  Address Cardona (Spain)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009d Serial 1204  
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria edit  doi
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  Title A First Approach to Activity Recognition Using Topic Models Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 74 - 82  
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  Abstract In this work, we present a first approach to activity patterns discovery by mean of topic models. Using motion data collected with a wearable device we prototype, TheBadge, we analyse raw accelerometer data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a particular instantiation of topic models. Results show that for particular values of the parameters necessary for applying LDA to a countinous dataset, good accuracies in activity classification can be achieved.  
  Address Cardona, Spain  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009e Serial 1231  
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Author Arnau Ramisa; Shrihari Vasudevan; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras edit  url
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  Title Evaluation of the SIFT Object Recognition Method in Mobile Robots: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 9-18  
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  Abstract General object recognition in mobile robots is of primary importance in order to enhance the representation of the environment that robots will use for their reasoning processes. Therefore, we contribute reduce this gap by evaluating the SIFT Object Recognition method in a challenging dataset, focusing on issues relevant to mobile robotics. Resistance of the method to the robotics working conditions was found, but it was limited mainly to well-textured objects.  
  Address Cardona, Spain  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0922-6389 ISBN (up) 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RVA2009 Serial 1248  
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Author Oscar Camara; Estanislao Oubel; Gemma Piella; Simone Balocco; Mathieu De Craene; Alejandro F. Frangi edit  doi
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  Title Multi-sequence Registration of Cine, Tagged and Delay-Enhancement MRI with Shift Correction and Steerable Pyramid-Based Detagging Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5528 Issue Pages 330–338  
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  Abstract In this work, we present a registration framework for cardiac cine MRI (cMRI), tagged (tMRI) and delay-enhancement MRI (deMRI), where the two main issues to find an accurate alignment between these images have been taking into account: the presence of tags in tMRI and respiration artifacts in all sequences. A steerable pyramid image decomposition has been used for detagging purposes since it is suitable to extract high-order oriented structures by directional adaptive filtering. Shift correction of cMRI is achieved by firstly maximizing the similarity between the Long Axis and Short Axis cMRI. Subsequently, these shift-corrected images are used as target images in a rigid registration procedure with their corresponding tMRI/deMRI in order to correct their shift. The proposed registration framework has been evaluated by 840 registration tests, considerably improving the alignment of the MR images (mean RMS error of 2.04mm vs. 5.44mm).  
  Address Nice, France  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN (up) 978-3-642-01931-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference FIMH  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ COP2009 Serial 1255  
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke edit  doi
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  Title A Recursive Embedding Approach to Median Graph Computation Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 7th IAPR – TC–15 Workshop on Graph–Based Representations in Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5534 Issue Pages 113–123  
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  Abstract The median graph has been shown to be a good choice to infer a representative of a set of graphs. It has been successfully applied to graph-based classification and clustering. Nevertheless, its computation is extremely complex. Several approaches have been presented up to now based on different strategies. In this paper we present a new approximate recursive algorithm for median graph computation based on graph embedding into vector spaces. Preliminary experiments on three databases show that this new approach is able to obtain better medians than the previous existing approaches.  
  Address Venice, Italy  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN (up) 978-3-642-02123-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GBR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ FKV2009 Serial 1173  
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