Juan Ignacio Toledo, Sebastian Sudholt, Alicia Fornes, Jordi Cucurull, A. Fink, & Josep Llados. (2016). Handwritten Word Image Categorization with Convolutional Neural Networks and Spatial Pyramid Pooling. In Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) (Vol. 10029, pp. 543–552). LNCS. Springer International Publishing.
Abstract: The extraction of relevant information from historical document collections is one of the key steps in order to make these documents available for access and searches. The usual approach combines transcription and grammars in order to extract semantically meaningful entities. In this paper, we describe a new method to obtain word categories directly from non-preprocessed handwritten word images. The method can be used to directly extract information, being an alternative to the transcription. Thus it can be used as a first step in any kind of syntactical analysis. The approach is based on Convolutional Neural Networks with a Spatial Pyramid Pooling layer to deal with the different shapes of the input images. We performed the experiments on a historical marriage record dataset, obtaining promising results.
Keywords: Document image analysis; Word image categorization; Convolutional neural networks; Named entity detection
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Laura Igual, & Santiago Segui. (2017). Introduction to Data Science – A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. 978-3-319-50016-4.
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Pau Riba, Alicia Fornes, & Josep Llados. (2015). Towards the Alignment of Handwritten Music Scores. In Bart Lamiroy, & Rafael Dueire Lins (Eds.), 11th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition. LNCS. Springer International Publishing.
Abstract: It is very common to find different versions of the same music work in archives of Opera Theaters. These differences correspond to modifications and annotations from the musicians. From the musicologist point of view, these variations are very interesting and deserve study. This paper explores the alignment of music scores as a tool for automatically detecting the passages that contain such differences. Given the difficulties in the recognition of handwritten music scores, our goal is to align the music scores and at the same time, avoid the recognition of music elements as much as possible. After removing the staff lines, braces and ties, the bar lines are detected. Then, the bar units are described as a whole using the Blurred Shape Model. The bar units alignment is performed by using Dynamic Time Warping. The analysis of the alignment path is used to detect the variations in the music scores. The method has been evaluated on a subset of the CVC-MUSCIMA dataset, showing encouraging results.
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Pau Riba, Alicia Fornes, & Josep Llados. (2017). Towards the Alignment of Handwritten Music Scores. In Bart Lamiroy, & R Dueire Lins (Eds.), International Workshop on Graphics Recognition. GREC 2015.Graphic Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges (Vol. 9657, pp. 103–116). LNCS.
Abstract: It is very common to nd di erent versions of the same music work in archives of Opera Theaters. These di erences correspond to modi cations and annotations from the musicians. From the musicologist point of view, these variations are very interesting and deserve study.
This paper explores the alignment of music scores as a tool for automatically detecting the passages that contain such di erences. Given the diculties in the recognition of handwritten music scores, our goal is to align the music scores and at the same time, avoid the recognition of music elements as much as possible. After removing the sta lines, braces and ties, the bar lines are detected. Then, the bar units are described as a whole using the Blurred Shape Model. The bar units alignment is performed by using Dynamic Time Warping. The analysis of the alignment path is used to detect the variations in the music scores. The method has been evaluated on a subset of the CVC-MUSCIMA dataset, showing encouraging results.
Keywords: Optical Music Recognition; Handwritten Music Scores; Dynamic Time Warping alignment
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Veronica Romero, Alicia Fornes, Enrique Vidal, & Joan Andreu Sanchez. (2017). Information Extraction in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books Using the MGGI Methodology. In L.A. Alexandre, J.Salvador Sanchez, & Joao M. F. Rodriguez (Eds.), 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (Vol. 10255, pp. 287–294). LNCS.
Abstract: Historical records of daily activities provide intriguing insights into the life of our ancestors, useful for demographic and genealogical research. For example, marriage license books have been used for centuries by ecclesiastical and secular institutions to register marriages. These books follow a simple structure of the text in the records with a evolutionary vocabulary, mainly composed of proper names that change along the time. This distinct vocabulary makes automatic transcription and semantic information extraction difficult tasks. In previous works we studied the use of category-based language models and how a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI could improve the accuracy of these tasks. In this work we analyze the main causes of the semantic errors observed in previous results and apply a better implementation of the MGGI technique to solve these problems. Using the resulting language model, transcription and information extraction experiments have been carried out, and the results support our proposed approach.
Keywords: Handwritten Text Recognition; Information extraction; Language modeling; MGGI; Categories-based language model
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Sergio Escalera, Markus Weimer, Mikhail Burtsev, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Ryan Lowe, et al. (2018). Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track. In Sergio Escalera, & Markus Weimer (Eds.), The NIPS ’17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems (pp. 1–23). Springer.
Abstract: Competitions have become a popular tool in the data science community to solve hard problems, assess the state of the art and spur new research directions. Companies like Kaggle and open source platforms like Codalab connect people with data and a data science problem to those with the skills and means to solve it. Hence, the question arises: What, if anything, could NIPS add to this rich ecosystem?
In 2017, we embarked to find out. We attracted 23 potential competitions, of which we selected five to be NIPS 2017 competitions. Our final selection features competitions advancing the state of the art in other sciences such as “Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations” and “Learning to Run”. Others, like “The Conversational Intelligence Challenge” and “Adversarial Attacks and Defences” generated new data sets that we expect to impact the progress in their respective communities for years to come. And “Human-Computer Question Answering Competition” showed us just how far we as a field have come in ability and efficiency since the break-through performance of Watson in Jeopardy. Two additional competitions, DeepArt and AI XPRIZE Milestions, were also associated to the NIPS 2017 competition track, whose results are also presented within this chapter.
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C. Alejandro Parraga. (2015). Perceptual Psychophysics. In G.Cristobal, M.Keil, & L.Perrinet (Eds.), Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications.
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Joel Barajas, Jaume Garcia, Karla Lizbeth Caballero, Francesc Carreras, Sandra Pujades, & Petia Radeva. (2006). Correction of Misalignment Artifacts Among 2-D Cardiac MR Images in 3-D Space. In 1st International Wokshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII’06) (Vol. 3217, pp. 114–121). Copenhagen (Denmark).
Abstract: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance images offer the opportunity to study the heart in detail. One of the main issues in its modelling is to create an accurate 3-D reconstruction of the left ventricle from 2-D views. A first step to achieve this goal is the correct registration among the different image planes due to patient movements. In this article, we present an accurate method to correct displacement artifacts using the Normalized Mutual Information. Here, the image views are treated as planes in order to diminish the approximation error caused by the association of a certain thickness, and moved simultaneously to avoid any kind of bias in the alignment process. This method has been validated using real and syntectic plane displacements, yielding promising results.
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Agnes Borras, & Josep Llados. (2007). Similarity-Based Object Retrieval Using Appearance and Geometric Feature Combination. In 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4477:113–120 (Vol. 4478, 33–39).
Abstract: This work presents a content-based image retrieval system of general purpose that deals with cluttered scenes containing a given query object. The system is flexible enough to handle with a single image of an object despite its rotation, translation and scale variations. The image content is divided in parts that are described with a combination of features based on geometrical and color properties. The idea behind the feature combination is to benefit from a fuzzy similarity computation that provides robustness and tolerance to the retrieval process. The features can be independently computed and the image parts can be easily indexed by using a table structure on every feature value. Finally a process inspired in the alignment strategies is used to check the coherence of the object parts found in a scene. Our work presents a system of easy implementation that uses an open set of features and can suit a wide variety of applications.
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David Rotger, Petia Radeva, E Fernandez-Nofrerias, & J. Mauri. (2007). Blood Detection in IVUS Images for 3D Volume of Lumen Changes Measurement Due to Different Drugs Administration. In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 12th International Conference (Vol. 4673, 285–292). LNCS.
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Laura Igual, Santiago Segui, Jordi Vitria, Fernando Azpiroz, & Petia Radeva. (2007). Eigenmotion-Based Detection of Intestinal Contractions. In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 12th International Conference (Vol. 4673, 293–300). LNCS.
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Debora Gil, Oriol Rodriguez-Leon, Petia Radeva, & Aura Hernandez-Sabate. (2007). Assessing Artery Motion Compensation in IVUS. In Computer Analysis Of Images And Patterns (Vol. 4673, pp. 213–220). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springerlink.
Abstract: Cardiac dynamics suppression is a main issue for visual improvement and computation of tissue mechanical properties in IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS). Although in recent times several motion compensation techniques have arisen, there is a lack of objective evaluation of motion reduction in in vivo pullbacks. We consider that the assessment protocol deserves special attention for the sake of a clinical applicability as reliable as possible. Our work focuses on defining a quality measure and a validation protocol assessing IVUS motion compensation. On the grounds of continuum mechanics laws we introduce a novel score measuring motion reduction in in vivo sequences. Synthetic experiments validate the proposed score as measure of motion parameters accuracy; while results in in vivo pullbacks show its reliability in clinical cases.
Keywords: validation standards; quality measures; IVUS motion compensation; conservation laws; Fourier development
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Sergio Escalera, Alicia Fornes, Oriol Pujol, Josep Llados, & Petia Radeva. (2007). Multi-class Binary Object Categorization using Blurred Shape Models. In Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications, 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern (Vol. 4756, 773–782). LCNS.
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Santiago Segui, Laura Igual, Fernando Vilariño, Petia Radeva, C. Malagelada, Fernando Azpiroz, et al. (2008). Diagnostic System for Intestinal Motility Disfunctions Using Video Capsule Endoscopy. In and J.K. Tsotsos M. V. A. Gasteratos (Ed.), Computer Vision Systems. 6th International (Vol. 5008, 251–260). LNCS. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Abstract: Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy is a clinical technique consisting of the analysis of images from the intestine which are pro- vided by an ingestible device with a camera attached to it. In this paper we propose an automatic system to diagnose severe intestinal motility disfunctions using the video endoscopy data. The system is based on the application of computer vision techniques within a machine learn- ing framework in order to obtain the characterization of diverse motil- ity events from video sequences. We present experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system and compare them with the ground-truth provided by the gastroenterologists.
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Liu Wenyin, Josep Llados, & Jean-Marc Ogier. (2008). Graphics Recognition. Recent Advances and New Opportunities. (Vol. 5046). LNCS.
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