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Author Michal Drozdzal; Santiago Segui; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Laura Igual
Title System and Method for Displaying Motility Events in an in Vivo Image Stream Type Patent
Year 2011 Publication US 61/592,786 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Given Imaging
Corporate Author US Patent Office Thesis
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Notes MILAB; OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DSR2011 Serial 1897
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Author Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate
Title Evaluation of spatiotemporal descriptors for pedestrian detection in video sequences Type Report
Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 166 Issue Pages
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Address Bellaterra (Spain)
Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Gon2011 Serial 1932
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Author Yainuvis Socarras
Title Image segmentation for improving pedestrian detection Type Report
Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 167 Issue Pages
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Address Bellaterra (Spain)
Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes ADAS; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Soc2011 Serial 1933
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Author Maria del Camp Davesa
Title Human action categorization in image sequences Type Report
Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 169 Issue Pages
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Address Bellaterra (Spain)
Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes CiC;CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Dav2011 Serial 1934
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; R.Roset; Josep Llados; C.Montaner
Title Automatic Index Generation of Digitized Map Series by Coordinate Extraction and Interpretation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference CartoHerit
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RRL2011b Serial 1978
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Author Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Agnes Borras; F. Javier Sanchez; Frederic Perez; Marius G. Linguraru
Title Computation and Evaluation of Medial Surfaces for Shape Representation of Abdominal Organs Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Workshop on Computational and Clinical Applications in Abdominal Imaging Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7029 Issue Pages 223-230
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Abstract Medial representations are powerful tools for describing and parameterizing the volumetric shape of anatomical structures. Existing methods show excellent results when applied to 2D objects, but their quality drops across dimensions. This paper contributes to the computation of medial manifolds in two aspects. First, we provide a standard scheme for the computation of medial manifolds that avoid degenerated medial axis segments; second, we introduce an energy based method which performs independently of the dimension. We evaluate quantitatively the performance of our method with respect to existing approaches, by applying them to synthetic shapes of known medial geometry. Finally, we show results on shape representation of multiple abdominal organs, exploring the use of medial manifolds for the representation of multi-organ relations.
Address Nice, France
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor In H. Yoshida et al
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Area Expedition Conference ABDI
Notes IAM; MV Approved no
Call Number VGB2011 Serial 2036
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu
Title Image coder based on Hilbert scanning of embedded quadTrees Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Data Compression Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 470-470
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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.
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Area Expedition Conference DCC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MoO2011b Serial 2177
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Author Mirko Arnold; Stephan Ameling; Anarta Ghosh; Gerard Lacey
Title Quality Improvement of Endoscopy Videos Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal
Volume 723 Issue Pages
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Notes MV Approved no
Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2426
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Author Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Mireia Brunat;Steven Jansen; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta
Title Structure-preserving smoothing of biomedical images Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 44 Issue 9 Pages 1842-1851
Keywords Non-linear smoothing; Differential geometry; Anatomical structures; segmentation; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Computerized tomography
Abstract Smoothing of biomedical images should preserve gray-level transitions between adjacent tissues, while restoring contours consistent with anatomical structures. Anisotropic diffusion operators are based on image appearance discontinuities (either local or contextual) and might fail at weak inter-tissue transitions. Meanwhile, the output of block-wise and morphological operations is prone to present a block structure due to the shape and size of the considered pixel neighborhood. In this contribution, we use differential geometry concepts to define a diffusion operator that restricts to image consistent level-sets. In this manner, the final state is a non-uniform intensity image presenting homogeneous inter-tissue transitions along anatomical structures, while smoothing intra-structure texture. Experiments on different types of medical images (magnetic resonance, computerized tomography) illustrate its benefit on a further process (such as segmentation) of images.
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ISSN (up) 0031-3203 ISBN Medium
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Notes IAM; ADAS Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GHB2011 Serial 1526
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
Title Describing Reflectances for Colour Segmentation Robust to Shadows, Highlights and Textures Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 33 Issue 5 Pages 917-930
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Abstract The segmentation of a single material reflectance is a challenging problem due to the considerable variation in image measurements caused by the geometry of the object, shadows, and specularities. The combination of these effects has been modeled by the dichromatic reflection model. However, the application of the model to real-world images is limited due to unknown acquisition parameters and compression artifacts. In this paper, we present a robust model for the shape of a single material reflectance in histogram space. The method is based on a multilocal creaseness analysis of the histogram which results in a set of ridges representing the material reflectances. The segmentation method derived from these ridges is robust to both shadow, shading and specularities, and texture in real-world images. We further complete the method by incorporating prior knowledge from image statistics, and incorporate spatial coherence by using multiscale color contrast information. Results obtained show that our method clearly outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation methods on a widely used segmentation benchmark, having as a main characteristic its excellent performance in the presence of shadows and highlights at low computational cost.
Address Los Alamitos; CA; USA;
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Publisher IEEE Computer Society Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (up) 0162-8828 ISBN Medium
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VBW2011 Serial 1715
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Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers
Title Color Constancy Using Natural Image Statistics and Scene Semantics Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages 687-698
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Abstract Existing color constancy methods are all based on specific assumptions such as the spatial and spectral characteristics of images. As a consequence, no algorithm can be considered as universal. However, with the large variety of available methods, the question is how to select the method that performs best for a specific image. To achieve selection and combining of color constancy algorithms, in this paper natural image statistics are used to identify the most important characteristics of color images. Then, based on these image characteristics, the proper color constancy algorithm (or best combination of algorithms) is selected for a specific image. To capture the image characteristics, the Weibull parameterization (e.g., grain size and contrast) is used. It is shown that the Weibull parameterization is related to the image attributes to which the used color constancy methods are sensitive. An MoG-classifier is used to learn the correlation and weighting between the Weibull-parameters and the image attributes (number of edges, amount of texture, and SNR). The output of the classifier is the selection of the best performing color constancy method for a certain image. Experimental results show a large improvement over state-of-the-art single algorithms. On a data set consisting of more than 11,000 images, an increase in color constancy performance up to 20 percent (median angular error) can be obtained compared to the best-performing single algorithm. Further, it is shown that for certain scene categories, one specific color constancy algorithm can be used instead of the classifier considering several algorithms.
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ISSN (up) 0162-8828 ISBN Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GiG2011 Serial 1724
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Author Sergio Escalera; David Masip; Eloi Puertas; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol
Title Online Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 458-467
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Abstract IF JCR CCIA 1.303 2009 54/103
This article proposes a general extension of the error correcting output codes framework to the online learning scenario. As a result, the final classifier handles the addition of new classes independently of the base classifier used. In particular, this extension supports the use of both online example incremental and batch classifiers as base learners. The extension of the traditional problem independent codings one-versus-all and one-versus-one is introduced. Furthermore, two new codings are proposed, unbalanced online ECOC and a problem dependent online ECOC. This last online coding technique takes advantage of the problem data for minimizing the number of dichotomizers used in the ECOC framework while preserving a high accuracy. These techniques are validated on an online setting of 11 data sets from UCI database and applied to two real machine vision applications: traffic sign recognition and face recognition. As a result, the online ECOC techniques proposed provide a feasible and robust way for handling new classes using any base classifier.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication North Holland Editor
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ISSN (up) 0167-8655 ISBN Medium
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Notes MILAB;OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EMP2011 Serial 1714
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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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Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2011a Serial 1800
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Author Muhammad Anwer Rao; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Opponent Colors for Human Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6669 Issue Pages 363-370
Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Color; Part Based Models
Abstract Human detection is a key component in fields such as advanced driving assistance and video surveillance. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. Finding good features to build human models for further detection is probably one of the most important issues to face. Currently, shape, texture and motion features have deserve extensive attention in the literature. However, color-based features, which are important in other domains (e.g., image categorization), have received much less attention. In fact, the use of RGB color space has become a kind of choice by default. The focus has been put in developing first and second order features on top of RGB space (e.g., HOG and co-occurrence matrices, resp.). In this paper we evaluate the opponent colors (OPP) space as a biologically inspired alternative for human detection. In particular, by feeding OPP space in the baseline framework of Dalal et al. for human detection (based on RGB, HOG and linear SVM), we will obtain better detection performance than by using RGB space. This is a relevant result since, up to the best of our knowledge, OPP space has not been previously used for human detection. This suggests that in the future it could be worth to compute co-occurrence matrices, self-similarity features, etc., also on top of OPP space, i.e., as we have done with HOG in this paper.
Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor J. Vitria; J.M. Sanches; M. Hernandez
Language English Summary Language English Original Title Opponent Colors for Human Detection
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes on Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RVL2011a Serial 1666
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Author Muhammad Anwer Rao; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6855 Issue II Pages 463-470
Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Color
Abstract Camera-based person detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications. The task is diffcult because the great variety of backgrounds (scenarios, illumination) in which persons are present, as well as their intra-class variability (pose, clothe, occlusion). In fact, the class person is one of the included in the popular PASCAL visual object classes (VOC) challenge. A breakthrough for this challenge, regarding person detection, is due to Felzenszwalb et al. These authors proposed a part-based detector that relies on histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) and latent support vector machines (LatSVM) to learn a model of the whole human body and its constitutive parts, as well as their relative position. Since the approach of Felzenszwalb et al. appeared new variants have been proposed, usually giving rise to more complex models. In this paper, we focus on an issue that has not attracted suficient interest up to now. In particular, we refer to the fact that HOG is usually computed from RGB color space, but other possibilities exist and deserve the corresponding investigation. In this paper we challenge RGB space with the opponent color space (OPP), which is inspired in the human vision system.We will compute the HOG on top of OPP, then we train and test the part-based human classifer by Felzenszwalb et al. using PASCAL VOC challenge protocols and person database. Our experiments demonstrate that OPP outperforms RGB. We also investigate possible differences among types of scenarios: indoor, urban and countryside. Interestingly, our experiments suggest that the beneficts of OPP with respect to RGB mainly come for indoor and countryside scenarios, those in which the human visual system was designed by evolution.
Address Seville, Spain
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch
Language English Summary Language english Original Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (up) 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RVL2011b Serial 1665
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