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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados
Title Browsing Heterogeneous Document Collections by a Segmentation-Free Word Spotting Method Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 63-67
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Abstract In this paper, we present a segmentation-free word spotting method that is able to deal with heterogeneous document image collections. We propose a patch-based framework where patches are represented by a bag-of-visual-words model powered by SIFT descriptors. A later refinement of the feature vectors is performed by applying the latent semantic indexing technique. The proposed method performs well on both handwritten and typewritten historical document images. We have also tested our method on documents written in non-Latin scripts.
Address Beijing, China
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RAT2011 Serial 1788
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Author Volkmar Frinken; Andreas Fischer; Horst Bunke; Alicia Fornes
Title Co-training for Handwritten Word Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 314-318
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Abstract To cope with the tremendous variations of writing styles encountered between different individuals, unconstrained automatic handwriting recognition systems need to be trained on large sets of labeled data. Traditionally, the training data has to be labeled manually, which is a laborious and costly process. Semi-supervised learning techniques offer methods to utilize unlabeled data, which can be obtained cheaply in large amounts in order, to reduce the need for labeled data. In this paper, we propose the use of Co-Training for improving the recognition accuracy of two weakly trained handwriting recognition systems. The first one is based on Recurrent Neural Networks while the second one is based on Hidden Markov Models. On the IAM off-line handwriting database we demonstrate a significant increase of the recognition accuracy can be achieved with Co-Training for single word recognition.
Address Beijing, China
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Call Number Admin @ si @ FFB2011 Serial 1789
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Author Xavier Carrillo; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Petia Radeva; Neus Salvatella; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; A. Bayes
Title Changes in Radial Artery Volume Assessed Using Intravascular Ultrasound: A Comparison of Two Vasodilator Regimens in Transradial Coronary Intervention Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of Invasive Cardiology Abbreviated Journal JOIC
Volume 23 Issue 10 Pages 401-404
Keywords radial; vasodilator treatment; percutaneous coronary intervention; IVUS; volumetric IVUS analysis
Abstract OBJECTIVES:
This study used intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to evaluate radial artery volume changes after intraarterial administration of nitroglycerin and/or verapamil.
BACKGROUND:
Radial artery spasm, which is associated with radial artery size, is the main limitation of the transradial approach in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).
METHODS:
This prospective, randomized study compared the effect of two intra-arterial vasodilator regimens on radial artery volume: 0.2 mg of nitroglycerin plus 2.5 mg of verapamil (Group 1; n = 15) versus 2.5 mg of verapamil alone (Group 2; n = 15). Radial artery lumen volume was assessed using IVUS at two time points: at baseline (5 minutes after sheath insertion) and post-vasodilator (1 minute after drug administration). The luminal volume of the radial artery was computed using ECOC Random Fields (ECOC-RF), a technique used for automatic segmentation of luminal borders in longitudinal cut images from IVUS sequences.
RESULTS:
There was a significant increase in arterial lumen volume in both groups, with an increase from 451 ± 177 mm³ to 508 ± 192 mm³ (p = 0.001) in Group 1 and from 456 ± 188 mm³ to 509 ± 170 mm³ (p = 0.001) in Group 2. There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of absolute volume increase (58 mm³ versus 53 mm³, respectively; p = 0.65) or in relative volume increase (14% versus 20%, respectively; p = 0.69).
CONCLUSIONS:
Administration of nitroglycerin plus verapamil or verapamil alone to the radial artery resulted in similar increases in arterial lumen volume according to ECOC-RF IVUS measurements.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CFC2011 Serial 1797
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Author Francesco Ciompi; A. Palaioroutas; M. Loeve; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; H. Tiddens; M. de Bruijne
Title Lung Tissue Classification in Severe Advanced Cystic Fibrosis from CT Scans Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In MICCAI 2011 4th International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
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Address Toronto, Canada
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CPL2011 Serial 1798
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Oriol Pujol
Title Minimal Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 33 Issue 6 Pages 693-702
Keywords Multi-class classification; Error-correcting output codes; Ensemble of classifiers
Abstract IF JCR CCIA 1.303 2009 54/103
The classification of large number of object categories is a challenging trend in the pattern recognition field. In literature, this is often addressed using an ensemble of classifiers. In this scope, the Error-correcting output codes framework has demonstrated to be a powerful tool for combining classifiers. However, most state-of-the-art ECOC approaches use a linear or exponential number of classifiers, making the discrimination of a large number of classes unfeasible. In this paper, we explore and propose a minimal design of ECOC in terms of the number of classifiers. Evolutionary computation is used for tuning the parameters of the classifiers and looking for the best minimal ECOC code configuration. The results over several public UCI datasets and different multi-class computer vision problems show that the proposed methodology obtains comparable (even better) results than state-of-the-art ECOC methodologies with far less number of dichotomizers.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2011a Serial 1800
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Author Carlo Gatta; Eloi Puertas; Oriol Pujol
Title Multi-Scale Stacked Sequential Learning Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 44 Issue 10-11 Pages 2414-2416
Keywords Stacked sequential learning; Multiscale; Multiresolution; Contextual classification
Abstract One of the most widely used assumptions in supervised learning is that data is independent and identically distributed. This assumption does not hold true in many real cases. Sequential learning is the discipline of machine learning that deals with dependent data such that neighboring examples exhibit some kind of relationship. In the literature, there are different approaches that try to capture and exploit this correlation, by means of different methodologies. In this paper we focus on meta-learning strategies and, in particular, the stacked sequential learning approach. The main contribution of this work is two-fold: first, we generalize the stacked sequential learning. This generalization reflects the key role of neighboring interactions modeling. Second, we propose an effective and efficient way of capturing and exploiting sequential correlations that takes into account long-range interactions by means of a multi-scale pyramidal decomposition of the predicted labels. Additionally, this new method subsumes the standard stacked sequential learning approach. We tested the proposed method on two different classification tasks: text lines classification in a FAQ data set and image classification. Results on these tasks clearly show that our approach outperforms the standard stacked sequential learning. Moreover, we show that the proposed method allows to control the trade-off between the detail and the desired range of the interactions.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GPP2011 Serial 1802
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Author E. Serradell; Adriana Romero; R. Leta; Carlo Gatta; Francesc Moreno-Noguer
Title Simultaneous Correspondence and Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction of the Coronary Tree from Single X-Ray Images Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 850-857
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Address Barcelona
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SRL2011 Serial 1803
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Author Wenjuan Gong; Jürgen Brauer; Michael Arens; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Modeling vs. Learning Approaches for Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 1st IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation on Recognition of Human Actions and Pose Estimation Methods Abbreviated Journal
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Address London, United Kingdom
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GBA2011 Serial 1812
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Author Jordi Gonzalez; Josep M. Gonfaus; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca
Title Exploiting Natural-Language Interaction in Video Surveillance Systems Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language Abbreviated Journal
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Address Brighton, UK
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GGF2011 Serial 1813
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Author Kaida Xiao; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sophie Wuerger
Title Visual Gamma Correction for LCD Displays Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Displays Abbreviated Journal DIS
Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 17-23
Keywords Display calibration; Psychophysics ; Perceptual; Visual gamma correction; Luminance matching; Observer-based calibration
Abstract An improved method for visual gamma correction is developed for LCD displays to increase the accuracy of digital colour reproduction. Rather than utilising a photometric measurement device, we use observ- ers’ visual luminance judgements for gamma correction. Eight half tone patterns were designed to gen- erate relative luminances from 1/9 to 8/9 for each colour channel. A psychophysical experiment was conducted on an LCD display to find the digital signals corresponding to each relative luminance by visually matching the half-tone background to a uniform colour patch. Both inter- and intra-observer vari- ability for the eight luminance matches in each channel were assessed and the luminance matches proved to be consistent across observers (DE00 < 3.5) and repeatable (DE00 < 2.2). Based on the individual observer judgements, the display opto-electronic transfer function (OETF) was estimated by using either a 3rd order polynomial regression or linear interpolation for each colour channel. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by predicting the CIE tristimulus values of a set of coloured patches (using the observer-based OETFs) and comparing them to the expected CIE tristimulus values (using the OETF obtained from spectro-radiometric luminance measurements). The resulting colour differences range from 2 to 4.6 DE00. We conclude that this observer-based method of visual gamma correction is useful to estimate the OETF for LCD displays. Its major advantage is that no particular functional relationship between digital inputs and luminance outputs has to be assumed.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ XFK2011 Serial 1815
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Author Kaida Xiao; Sophie Wuerger; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Unique Hue Data for Colour Appearance Models. Part i: Loci of Unique Hues and Hue Uniformity Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Color Research & Application Abbreviated Journal CRA
Volume 36 Issue 5 Pages 316-323
Keywords unique hues; colour appearance models; CIECAM02; hue uniformity
Abstract Psychophysical experiments were conducted to assess unique hues on a CRT display for a large sample of colour-normal observers (n 1⁄4 185). These data were then used to evaluate the most commonly used colour appear- ance model, CIECAM02, by transforming the CIEXYZ tris- timulus values of the unique hues to the CIECAM02 colour appearance attributes, lightness, chroma and hue angle. We report two findings: (1) the hue angles derived from our unique hue data are inconsistent with the commonly used Natural Color System hues that are incorporated in the CIECAM02 model. We argue that our predicted unique hue angles (derived from our large dataset) provide a more reliable standard for colour management applications when the precise specification of these salient colours is im- portant. (2) We test hue uniformity for CIECAM02 in all four unique hues and show significant disagreements for all hues, except for unique red which seems to be invariant under lightness changes. Our dataset is useful to improve the CIECAM02 model as it provides reliable data for benchmarking.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ XWF2011 Serial 1816
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Author Chenyang Fu; Kaida Xiao; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sophie Wuerger
Title Investigation of Unique Hue Setting Changes with Ageing Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Chinese Optics Letters Abbreviated Journal COL
Volume 9 Issue 5 Pages 053301-1-5
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Abstract Clromatic sensitivity along the protan, deutan, and tritan lines and the loci of the unique hues (red, green, yellow, blue) for a very large sample (n = 185) of colour-normal observers ranging from 18 to 75 years of age are assessed. Visual judgments are obtained under normal viewing conditions using colour patches on self-luminous display under controlled adaptation conditions. Trivector discrimination thresholds show an increase as a function of age along the protan, deutan, and tritan axes, with the largest increase present along the tritan line, less pronounced shifts in unique hue settings are also observed. Based on the chromatic (protan, deutan, tritan) thresholds and using scaled cone signals, we predict the unique hue changes with ageing. A dependency on age for unique red and unique yellow for predicted hue angle is found. We conclude that the chromatic sensitivity deteriorates significantly with age, whereas the appearance of unique hues is much less affected, remaining almost constant despite the known changes in the ocular media.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ XFW2011 Serial 1818
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Ernest Valveny
Title Descriptor-based Svm Wall Detector Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 9th International Workshop on Graphic Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Architectural floorplans exhibit a large variability in notation. Therefore, segmenting and identifying the elements of any kind of plan becomes a challenging task for approaches based on grouping structural primitives obtained by vectorization. Recently, a patch-based segmentation method working at pixel level and relying on the construction of a visual vocabulary has been proposed showing its adaptability to different notations by automatically learning the visual appearance of the elements in each different notation. In this paper we describe an evolution of this new approach in two directions: firstly we evaluate different features to obtain the description of every patch. Secondly, we train an SVM classifier to obtain the category of every patch instead of constructing a visual vocabulary. These modifications of the method have been tested for wall detection on two datasets of architectural floorplans with different notations and compared with the results obtained with the original approach.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ HMS2011b Serial 1819
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
Title Document Seal Detection Using Ght and Character Proximity Graphs Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 1282-1295
Keywords Seal recognition; Graphical symbol spotting; Generalized Hough transform; Multi-oriented character recognition
Abstract This paper deals with automatic detection of seal (stamp) from documents with cluttered background. Seal detection involves a difficult challenge due to its multi-oriented nature, arbitrary shape, overlapping of its part with signature, noise, etc. Here, a seal object is characterized by scale and rotation invariant spatial feature descriptors computed from recognition result of individual connected components (characters). Scale and rotation invariant features are used in a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to recognize multi-scale and multi-oriented text characters. The concept of generalized Hough transform (GHT) is used to detect the seal and a voting scheme is designed for finding possible location of the seal in a document based on the spatial feature descriptor of neighboring component pairs. The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal in a document. Experiment is performed in an archive of historical documents of handwritten/printed English text. Experimental results show that the method is robust in locating seal instances of arbitrary shape and orientation in documents, and also efficient in indexing a collection of documents for retrieval purposes.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RPL2011 Serial 1820
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; V. Poulain d'Andecy; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
Title Classification of Administrative Document Images by Logo Identification Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In proceedings of 9th IAPR Workshop on Graphic Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This paper is focused on the categorization of administrative document images (such as invoices) based on the recognition of the supplier's graphical logo. Two different methods are proposed, the first one uses a bag-of-visual-words model whereas the second one tries to locate logo images described by the blurred shape model descriptor within documents by a sliding-window technique. Preliminar results are reported with a dataset of real administrative documents.
Address Seoul, Corea
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RPK2011 Serial 1821
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