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Author Aleksandr Setkov; Fabio Martinez Carillo; Michele Gouiffes; Christian Jacquemin; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title DAcImPro: A Novel Database of Acquired Image Projections and Its Application to Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Advances in Visual Computing. Proceedings of 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015 Part II Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9475 Issue Pages 463-473
Keywords Projector-camera systems; Feature descriptors; Object recognition
Abstract Projector-camera systems are designed to improve the projection quality by comparing original images with their captured projections, which is usually complicated due to high photometric and geometric variations. Many research works address this problem using their own test data which makes it extremely difficult to compare different proposals. This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new database of acquired image projections (DAcImPro) that, covering photometric and geometric conditions and providing data for ground-truth computation, can serve to evaluate different algorithms in projector-camera systems. Secondly, a new object recognition scenario from acquired projections is presented, which could be of a great interest in such domains, as home video projections and public presentations. We show that the task is more challenging than the classical recognition problem and thus requires additional pre-processing, such as color compensation or projection area selection.
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN (down) 978-3-319-27862-9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISVC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SMG2015 Serial 2736
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu
Title Image compression algorithm based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees: an introduction of the Hi-SET coder Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-6
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Abstract In this work we present an effective and computationally simple algorithm for image compression based on Hilbert Scanning of Embedded quadTrees (Hi-SET). It allows to represent an image as an embedded bitstream along a fractal function. Embedding is an important feature of modern image compression algorithms, in this way Salomon in [1, pg. 614] cite that another feature and perhaps a unique one is the fact of achieving the best quality for the number of bits input by the decoder at any point during the decoding. Hi-SET possesses also this latter feature. Furthermore, the coder is based on a quadtree partition strategy, that applied to image transformation structures such as discrete cosine or wavelet transform allows to obtain an energy clustering both in frequency and space. The coding algorithm is composed of three general steps, using just a list of significant pixels. The implementation of the proposed coder is developed for gray-scale and color image compression. Hi-SET compressed images are, on average, 6.20dB better than the ones obtained by other compression techniques based on the Hilbert scanning. Moreover, Hi-SET improves the image quality in 1.39dB and 1.00dB in gray-scale and color compression, respectively, when compared with JPEG2000 coder.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1945-7871 ISBN (down) 978-1-61284-348-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICME
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MoO2011a Serial 2176
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell; Antonio Lopez
Title Color Attributes for Object Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3306-3313
Keywords pedestrian detection
Abstract State-of-the-art object detectors typically use shape information as a low level feature representation to capture the local structure of an object. This paper shows that early fusion of shape and color, as is popular in image classification,
leads to a significant drop in performance for object detection. Moreover, such approaches also yields suboptimal results for object categories with varying importance of color and shape.
In this paper we propose the use of color attributes as an explicit color representation for object detection. Color attributes are compact, computationally efficient, and when combined with traditional shape features provide state-ofthe-
art results for object detection. Our method is tested on the PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 datasets and results clearly show that our method improves over state-of-the-art techniques despite its simplicity. We also introduce a new dataset consisting of cartoon character images in which color plays a pivotal role. On this dataset, our approach yields a significant gain of 14% in mean AP over conventional state-of-the-art methods.
Address Providence; Rhode Island; USA;
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Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN (down) 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes ADAS; CIC; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2012 Serial 1935
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Author Naila Murray; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin
Title AVA: A Large-Scale Database for Aesthetic Visual Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2408-2415
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Abstract With the ever-expanding volume of visual content available, the ability to organize and navigate such content by aesthetic preference is becoming increasingly important. While still in its nascent stage, research into computational models of aesthetic preference already shows great potential. However, to advance research, realistic, diverse and challenging databases are needed. To this end, we introduce a new large-scale database for conducting Aesthetic Visual Analysis: AVA. It contains over 250,000 images along with a rich variety of meta-data including a large number of aesthetic scores for each image, semantic labels for over 60 categories as well as labels related to photographic style. We show the advantages of AVA with respect to existing databases in terms of scale, diversity, and heterogeneity of annotations. We then describe several key insights into aesthetic preference afforded by AVA. Finally, we demonstrate, through three applications, how the large scale of AVA can be leveraged to improve performance on existing preference tasks
Address Providence, Rhode Islan
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Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN (down) 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MMP2012a Serial 2025
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Author Marc Serra; Olivier Penacchio; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title Names and Shades of Color for Intrinsic Image Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 278-285
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Abstract In the last years, intrinsic image decomposition has gained attention. Most of the state-of-the-art methods are based on the assumption that reflectance changes come along with strong image edges. Recently, user intervention in the recovery problem has proved to be a remarkable source of improvement. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that aims to overcome the shortcomings of pure edge-based methods by introducing strong surface descriptors, such as the color-name descriptor which introduces high-level considerations resembling top-down intervention. We also use a second surface descriptor, termed color-shade, which allows us to include physical considerations derived from the image formation model capturing gradual color surface variations. Both color cues are combined by means of a Markov Random Field. The method is quantitatively tested on the MIT ground truth dataset using different error metrics, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
Address Providence, Rhode Island
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Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN (down) 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SPB2012 Serial 2026
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga
Title Color Vision, Computational Methods for Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-11
Keywords Color computational vision; Computational neuroscience of color
Abstract The study of color vision has been aided by a whole battery of computational methods that attempt to describe the mechanisms that lead to our perception of colors in terms of the information-processing properties of the visual system. Their scope is highly interdisciplinary, linking apparently dissimilar disciplines such as mathematics, physics, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. Since the sensation of color is a feature of our brains, computational approaches usually include biological features of neural systems in their descriptions, from retinal light-receptor interaction to subcortical color opponency, cortical signal decoding, and color categorization. They produce hypotheses that are usually tested by behavioral or psychophysical experiments.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Dieter Jaeger; Ranu Jung
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN (down) 978-1-4614-7320-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Par2014 Serial 2512
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Author Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Object Recoloring Based on Intrinsic Image Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 327 - 334
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Abstract Object recoloring is one of the most popular photo-editing tasks. The problem of object recoloring is highly under-constrained, and existing recoloring methods limit their application to objects lit by a white illuminant. Application of these methods to real-world scenes lit by colored illuminants, multiple illuminants, or interreflections, results in unrealistic recoloring of objects. In this paper, we focus on the recoloring of single-colored objects presegmented from their background. The single-color constraint allows us to fit a more comprehensive physical model to the object. We demonstrate that this permits us to perform realistic recoloring of objects lit by non-white illuminants, and multiple illuminants. Moreover, the model allows for more realistic handling of illuminant alteration of the scene. Recoloring results captured by uncalibrated cameras demonstrate that the proposed framework obtains realistic recoloring for complex natural images. Furthermore we use the model to transfer color between objects and show that the results are more realistic than existing color transfer methods.
Address Barcelona
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN (down) 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICCV
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BeW2011 Serial 1781
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Author Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga
Title Saliency Estimation Using a Non-Parametric Low-Level Vision Model Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 433-440
Keywords Gaussian mixture model;ad hoc parameter selection;center-surround inhibition windows;center-surround mechanism;color appearance model;convolution;eye-fixation data;human vision;innate spatial pooling mechanism;inverse wavelet transform;low-level visual front-end;nonparametric low-level vision model;saliency estimation;saliency map;scale integration;scale-weighted center-surround response;scale-weighting function;visual task;Gaussian processes;biology;biology computing;colour vision;computer vision;visual perception;wavelet transforms
Abstract Many successful models for predicting attention in a scene involve three main steps: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. However, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. In this paper we show that an efficient model of color appearance in human vision, which contains a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism, can be generalized to obtain a saliency model that outperforms state-of-the-art models. Scale integration is achieved by an inverse wavelet transform over the set of scale-weighted center-surround responses. The scale-weighting function (termed ECSF) has been optimized to better replicate psychophysical data on color appearance, and the appropriate sizes of the center-surround inhibition windows have been determined by training a Gaussian Mixture Model on eye-fixation data, thus avoiding ad-hoc parameter selection. Additionally, we conclude that the extension of a color appearance model to saliency estimation adds to the evidence for a common low-level visual front-end for different visual tasks.
Address Colorado Springs
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN (down) 978-1-4577-0394-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MVO2011 Serial 1757
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Author Naila Murray; Sandra Skaff; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin
Title Towards Automatic Concept Transfer Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 167.176
Keywords chromatic modeling, color concepts, color transfer, concept transfer
Abstract This paper introduces a novel approach to automatic concept transfer; examples of concepts are “romantic”, “earthy”, and “luscious”. The approach modifies the color content of an input image given only a concept specified by a user in natural language, thereby requiring minimal user input. This approach is particularly useful for users who are aware of the message they wish to convey in the transferred image while being unsure of the color combination needed to achieve the corresponding transfer. The user may adjust the intensity level of the concept transfer to his/her liking with a single parameter. The proposed approach uses a convex clustering algorithm, with a novel pruning mechanism, to automatically set the complexity of models of chromatic content. It also uses the Earth-Mover's Distance to compute a mapping between the models of the input image and the target chromatic concept. Results show that our approach yields transferred images which effectively represent concepts, as confirmed by a user study.
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Publisher ACM Press Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN (down) 978-1-4503-0907-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference NPAR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MSM2011 Serial 1866
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Author Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
Title Perceptual color texture codebooks for retrieving in highly diverse texture datasets Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 866–869
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Abstract Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in a useful visual descriptor is not an obvious step. One way to combine both features is to compute texture descriptors independently on each color channel. A second way is integrate the features at a descriptor level, in this case arises the problem of normalizing both cues. A significant progress in the last years in object recognition has provided the bag-of-words framework that again deals with the problem of feature combination through the definition of vocabularies of visual words. Inspired in this framework, here we present perceptual textons that will allow to fuse color and texture at the level of p-blobs, which is our feature detection step. Feature representation is based on two uniform spaces representing the attributes of the p-blobs. The low-dimensionality of these text on spaces will allow to bypass the usual problems of previous approaches. Firstly, no need for normalization between cues; and secondly, vocabularies are directly obtained from the perceptual properties of text on spaces without any learning step. Our proposal improve current state-of-art of color-texture descriptors in an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.
Address Istanbul (Turkey)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN (down) 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ ASV2010b Serial 1426
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Author Josep M. Gonfaus; Xavier Boix; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Joan Serrat; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Harmony Potentials for Joint Classification and Segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3280–3287
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Abstract Hierarchical conditional random fields have been successfully applied to object segmentation. One reason is their ability to incorporate contextual information at different scales. However, these models do not allow multiple labels to be assigned to a single node. At higher scales in the image, this yields an oversimplified model, since multiple classes can be reasonable expected to appear within one region. This simplified model especially limits the impact that observations at larger scales may have on the CRF model. Neglecting the information at larger scales is undesirable since class-label estimates based on these scales are more reliable than at smaller, noisier scales. To address this problem, we propose a new potential, called harmony potential, which can encode any possible combination of class labels. We propose an effective sampling strategy that renders tractable the underlying optimization problem. Results show that our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on two challenging datasets: Pascal VOC 2009 and MSRC-21.
Address San Francisco CA, USA
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN (down) 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes ADAS;CIC;ISE Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ GBW2010 Serial 1296
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
Title Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 979 - 986
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Abstract Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. The subsequent stages of the process: feature detection, feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information.
Address Kyoto, Japan
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN (down) 978-1-4244-4420-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICCV
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ SWV2009 Serial 1196
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Author Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Texture Description based on Subtexture Components, 3rd International Workshop on Texture Syntesis and Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 2003 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Texture Synthesis and Analysis, Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 77–82
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Address Nice
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ISSN ISBN (down) 1-904410-11-1 Medium
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ SVV2003 Serial 422
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Author Naila Murray; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin
Title Learning to Rank Images using Semantic and Aesthetic Labels Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 23rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 110.1-110.10
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Abstract Most works on image retrieval from text queries have addressed the problem of retrieving semantically relevant images. However, the ability to assess the aesthetic quality of an image is an increasingly important differentiating factor for search engines. In this work, given a semantic query, we are interested in retrieving images which are semantically relevant and score highly in terms of aesthetics/visual quality. We use large-margin classifiers and rankers to learn statistical models capable of ordering images based on the aesthetic and semantic information. In particular, we compare two families of approaches: while the first one attempts to learn a single ranker which takes into account both semantic and aesthetic information, the second one learns separate semantic and aesthetic models. We carry out a quantitative and qualitative evaluation on a recently-published large-scale dataset and we show that the second family of techniques significantly outperforms the first one.
Address Guildford, London
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN ISBN (down) 1-901725-46-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MMP2012b Serial 2027
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Author Felipe Lumbreras; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Joan Serrat; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Multiresolution colour texture representations for tile classification Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes Abbreviated Journal
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Address Bilbao
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Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LBV1999a Serial 3
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Author Xavier Roca; Jordi Vitria; Maria Vanrell; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Visual behaviours for binocular navigation with autonomous systems. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes Abbreviated Journal
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Address Bilbao
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Notes OR;ISE;CIC;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVV1999a Serial 13
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Author A. Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Xavier Binefa; Robert Benavente; Ernest Valveny; Craig Von Land
Title Real time pharmaceutical product recognition using color and shape indexing. Type Conference Article
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on European Scientific and Industrial Collaboration (WESIC´99), Promotoring Advanced Technologies in Manufacturing. Abbreviated Journal
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Address Wales
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Notes OR;MILAB;DAG;CIC;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PVR1999 Serial 24
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Author Maria Vanrell; Jordi Vitria; Xavier Roca
Title A multidimensional scaling approach to explore the behavior of a texture perception algorithm. Type Journal Article
Year 1997 Publication Machine Vision and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue Pages 262–271
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VVR1997 Serial 35
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