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Author Simone Balocco; Carlo Gatta; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title SRBF: Speckle Reducing Bilateral Filtering Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal UMB
Volume 36 Issue 8 Pages 1353-1363
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Abstract Speckle noise negatively affects medical ultrasound image shape interpretation and boundary detection. Speckle removal filters are widely used to selectively remove speckle noise without destroying important image features to enhance object boundaries. In this article, a fully automatic bilateral filter tailored to ultrasound images is proposed. The edge preservation property is obtained by embedding noise statistics in the filter framework. Consequently, the filter is able to tackle the multiplicative behavior modulating the smoothing strength with respect to local statistics. The in silico experiments clearly showed that the speckle reducing bilateral filter (SRBF) has superior performances to most of the state of the art filtering methods. The filter is tested on 50 in vivo US images and its influence on a segmentation task is quantified. The results using SRBF filtered data sets show a superior performance to using oriented anisotropic diffusion filtered images. This improvement is due to the adaptive support of SRBF and the embedded noise statistics, yielding a more homogeneous smoothing. SRBF results in a fully automatic, fast and flexible algorithm potentially suitable in wide ranges of speckle noise sizes, for different medical applications (IVUS, B-mode, 3-D matrix array US).
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BGP2010 Serial 1314
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Author Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Deteccion automatica de la dominancia en conversaciones diadicas Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Escritos de Psicologia Abbreviated Journal EP
Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 41–45
Keywords Dominance detection; Non-verbal communication; Visual features
Abstract Dominance is referred to the level of influence that a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on the dominance detection of visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers' opinion. Moreover, these indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analyses showed a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2010 Serial 1315
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Xavier Otazu; Horst Bunke
Title A Combination of Features for Symbol-Independent Writer Identification in Old Music Scores Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 243-259
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Abstract The aim of writer identification is determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper, we present an architecture for writer identification in old handwritten music scores. Even though an important amount of music compositions contain handwritten text, the aim of our work is to use only music notation to determine the author. The main contribution is therefore the use of features extracted from graphical alphabets. Our proposal consists in combining the identification results of two different approaches, based on line and textural features. The steps of the ensemble architecture are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for removing the staff lines. Then, music lines and texture images are generated for computing line features and textural features. Finally, the classification results are combined for identifying the writer. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, achieving a recognition rate of about 92% with 20 writers.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN (up) Medium
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Notes DAG; CAT;CIC Approved no
Call Number FLS2010b Serial 1319
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title Towards a general model of colour categorization which considers context Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Perception. ECVP Abstract Supplement Abbreviated Journal PER
Volume 39 Issue Pages 86
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Abstract In two previous experiments [Parraga et al, 2009 J. of Im. Sci. and Tech 53(3) 031106; Benavente et al,2009 Perception 38 ECVP Supplement, 36] the boundaries of basic colour categories were measured.
In the first experiment, samples were presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) and boundaries were measured using a yes/no paradigm. In the second, subjects adjusted the chromaticity of a sample presented on a random Mondrian background to find the boundary between pairs of adjacent colours.
Results from these experiments showed significant di erences but it was not possible to conclude whether this discrepancy was due to the absence/presence of a colourful background or to the di erences in the paradigms used. In this work, we settle this question by repeating the first experiment (ie samples presented on a dark background) using the second paradigm. A comparison of results shows that
although boundary locations are very similar, boundaries measured in context are significantly di erent(more di use) than those measured in isolation (confirmed by a Student’s t-test analysis on the subject’s answers statistical distributions). In addition, we completed the mapping of colour name space by measuring the boundaries between chromatic colours and the achromatic centre. With these results we
completed our parametric fuzzy-sets model of colour naming space.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ PBV2010b Serial 1326
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Author Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Robert Benavente
Title Color names as a constraint for Computer Vision problems Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 324–328
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Abstract Computer Vision Problems are usually ill-posed. Constraining de gamut of possible solutions is then a necessary step. Many constrains for different problems have been developed during years. In this paper, we present a different way of constraining some of these problems: the use of color names. In particular, we will focus on segmentation, representation ans constancy.
Address Gjovik (Norway)
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ VVB2010 Serial 1328
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
Title Who Painted this Painting? Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 329–333
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Address Gjovik (Norway)
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ KWV2010 Serial 1329
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Author Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Photo-Realistic Color Alteration for Architecture and Design Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 84–88
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Abstract As color is a strong stimuli we receive from the exterior world, choosing the right color can prove crucial in creating the desired architecture and desing. We propose a framework to apply a realistic color change on both objects and their illuminant lights for snapshots of architectural designs, in order to visualize and choose the right color before actully applying the change in the real world. The proposed framework is based on the laws of physics in order to accomplish realistic and physically plausible results.
Address Gjovik (Norway)
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BeW2010 Serial 1330
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Author Joan Mas; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; J.A. Jorge
Title A syntactic approach based on distortion-tolerant Adjacency Grammars and a spatial-directed parser to interpret sketched diagrams Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 43 Issue 12 Pages 4148–4164
Keywords Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Symbol recognition; Diagram understanding; Sketched diagrams; Adjacency Grammars; Incremental parsing; Spatial directed parsing
Abstract This paper presents a syntactic approach based on Adjacency Grammars (AG) for sketch diagram modeling and understanding. Diagrams are a combination of graphical symbols arranged according to a set of spatial rules defined by a visual language. AG describe visual shapes by productions defined in terms of terminal and non-terminal symbols (graphical primitives and subshapes), and a set functions describing the spatial arrangements between symbols. Our approach to sketch diagram understanding provides three main contributions. First, since AG are linear grammars, there is a need to define shapes and relations inherently bidimensional using a sequential formalism. Second, our parsing approach uses an indexing structure based on a spatial tessellation. This serves to reduce the search space when finding candidates to produce a valid reduction. This allows order-free parsing of 2D visual sentences while keeping combinatorial explosion in check. Third, working with sketches requires a distortion model to cope with the natural variations of hand drawn strokes. To this end we extended the basic grammar with a distortion measure modeled on the allowable variation on spatial constraints associated with grammar productions. Finally, the paper reports on an experimental framework an interactive system for sketch analysis. User tests performed on two real scenarios show that our approach is usable in interactive settings.
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Call Number DAG @ dag @ MLS2010 Serial 1336
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Author Umapada Pal; Partha Pratim Roy; N. Tripathya; Josep Llados
Title Multi-oriented Bangla and Devnagari text recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 43 Issue 12 Pages 4124–4136
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Abstract There are printed complex documents where text lines of a single page may have different orientations or the text lines may be curved in shape. As a result, it is difficult to detect the skew of such documents and hence character segmentation and recognition of such documents are a complex task. In this paper, using background and foreground information we propose a novel scheme towards the recognition of Indian complex documents of Bangla and Devnagari script. In Bangla and Devnagari documents usually characters in a word touch and they form cavity regions. To take care of these cavity regions, background information of such documents is used. Convex hull and water reservoir principle have been applied for this purpose. Here, at first, the characters are segmented from the documents using the background information of the text. Next, individual characters are recognized using rotation invariant features obtained from the foreground part of the characters.

For character segmentation, at first, writing mode of a touching component (word) is detected using water reservoir principle based features. Next, depending on writing mode and the reservoir base-region of the touching component, a set of candidate envelope points is then selected from the contour points of the component. Based on these candidate points, the touching component is finally segmented into individual characters. For recognition of multi-sized/multi-oriented characters the features are computed from different angular information obtained from the external and internal contour pixels of the characters. These angular information are computed in such a way that they do not depend on the size and rotation of the characters. Circular and convex hull rings have been used to divide a character into smaller zones to get zone-wise features for higher recognition results. We combine circular and convex hull features to improve the results and these features are fed to support vector machines (SVM) for recognition. From our experiment we obtained recognition results of 99.18% (98.86%) accuracy when tested on 7515 (7874) Devnagari (Bangla) characters.
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Call Number DAG @ dag @ PRT2010 Serial 1337
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Re-coding ECOCs without retraining Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 31 Issue 7 Pages 555–562
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Abstract A standard way to deal with multi-class categorization problems is by the combination of binary classifiers in a pairwise voting procedure. Recently, this classical approach has been formalized in the Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) framework. In the ECOC framework, the one-versus-one coding demonstrates to achieve higher performance than the rest of coding designs. The binary problems that we train in the one-versus-one strategy are significantly smaller than in the rest of designs, and usually easier to be learnt, taking into account the smaller overlapping between classes. However, a high percentage of the positions coded by zero of the coding matrix, which implies a high sparseness degree, does not codify meta-class membership information. In this paper, we show that using the training data we can redefine without re-training, in a problem-dependent way, the one-versus-one coding matrix so that the new coded information helps the system to increase its generalization capability. Moreover, the new re-coding strategy is generalized to be applied over any binary code. The results over several UCI Machine Learning repository data sets and two real multi-class problems show that performance improvements can be obtained re-coding the classical one-versus-one and Sparse random designs compared to different state-of-the-art ECOC configurations.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2010e Serial 1338
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Author David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez; Angel Sappa; Thorsten Graf
Title Survey on Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 32 Issue 7 Pages 1239–1258
Keywords ADAS, pedestrian detection, on-board vision, survey
Abstract Advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), and particularly pedestrian protection systems (PPSs), have become an active research area aimed at improving traffic safety. The major challenge of PPSs is the development of reliable on-board pedestrian detection systems. Due to the varying appearance of pedestrians (e.g., different clothes, changing size, aspect ratio, and dynamic shape) and the unstructured environment, it is very difficult to cope with the demanded robustness of this kind of system. Two problems arising in this research area are the lack of public benchmarks and the difficulty in reproducing many of the proposed methods, which makes it difficult to compare the approaches. As a result, surveying the literature by enumerating the proposals one-after-another is not the most useful way to provide a comparative point of view. Accordingly, we present a more convenient strategy to survey the different approaches. We divide the problem of detecting pedestrians from images into different processing steps, each with attached responsibilities. Then, the different proposed methods are analyzed and classified with respect to each processing stage, favoring a comparative viewpoint. Finally, discussion of the important topics is presented, putting special emphasis on the future needs and challenges.
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ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN (up) Medium
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ GLS2010 Serial 1340
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Author David Geronimo; Angel Sappa; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez
Title 2D-3D based on-board pedestrian detection system Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Computer Vision and Image Understanding Abbreviated Journal CVIU
Volume 114 Issue 5 Pages 583–595
Keywords Pedestrian detection; Advanced Driver Assistance Systems; Horizon line; Haar wavelets; Edge orientation histograms
Abstract During the next decade, on-board pedestrian detection systems will play a key role in the challenge of increasing traffic safety. The main target of these systems, to detect pedestrians in urban scenarios, implies overcoming difficulties like processing outdoor scenes from a mobile platform and searching for aspect-changing objects in cluttered environments. This makes such systems combine techniques in the state-of-the-art Computer Vision. In this paper we present a three module system based on both 2D and 3D cues. The first module uses 3D information to estimate the road plane parameters and thus select a coherent set of regions of interest (ROIs) to be further analyzed. The second module uses Real AdaBoost and a combined set of Haar wavelets and edge orientation histograms to classify the incoming ROIs as pedestrian or non-pedestrian. The final module loops again with the 3D cue in order to verify the classified ROIs and with the 2D in order to refine the final results. According to the results, the integration of the proposed techniques gives rise to a promising system.
Address Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Special Issue on Intelligent Vision Systems), Vol. 114(5):583-595
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ GSP2010 Serial 1341
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Author Marc Serra
Title Estimating Intrinsic Images from Physical and Categorical Color Cues Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 151 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Ser2010 Serial 1345
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Author Ahmed Mounir Gad
Title Object Localization Enhancement by Multiple Segmentation Fusion Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 152 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Mou2010 Serial 1346
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Author Antonio Hernandez
Title Pose and Face Recovery via Spatio-temporal GrabCut Human Segmentation Type Report
Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 153 Issue Pages
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Her2010 Serial 1347
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