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	Author	Gerard Lacey; Fernando Vilariño
	Title	Endoscopy system with motion sensors			Type	Patent
	Year	2011	Publication	US 2011/0032347 A1	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	An endoscopy system (1) comprises an endoscope (2) with a camera (3) at its tip. The endoscope extends through an endoscope guide (4) for guiding movement of the endoscope and for measurement of its movement as it enters the body. The guide (4) comprises a generally conical body (5) having a through passage (105) through which the endoscope (2) extends. A motion sensor comprises an optical transmitter (7) and a detector (8) mounted alongside the passage (105) to measure the insertion-withdrawal linear motion and also rotation of the endoscope by the endoscopist's hand. The system (1) also comprises a flexure controller (10) having wheels operated by the endoscopist. The camera (3), the motion sensor (7/8), and the flexure controller (10) are all connected to a processor (11) which feeds a display.
	Address	Jacobson Holman PPLC; 400 Seventh Street, N.W. Suite 600; Whashington DC 20004 DC
	Corporate Author	USPTO			Thesis
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	Area	800	Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MV;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ LaV2011			Serial	1703
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	Author	Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Juan Malagelada
	Title	Device, system and method for measurement and analysis of contractile activity			Type	Patent
	Year	2009	Publication	US 2009/0202117 A1	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	A method and system for determining intestinal dysfunction condition are provided by classifying and analyzing image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of contractile activity in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including contractile activity, and more particularly to measurement and analysis of contractile activity of the GI tract based on image intensity of in vivo image data.
	Address	Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer
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	Area	800	Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ VSR2009			Serial	1704
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	Author	Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Video Alignment for Change Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	20	Issue	7	Pages	1858-1869
	Keywords	video alignment
	Abstract	In this work, we address the problem of aligning two video sequences. Such alignment refers to synchronization, i.e., the establishment of temporal correspondence between frames of the first and second video, followed by spatial registration of all the temporally corresponding frames. Video synchronization and alignment have been attempted before, but most often in the relatively simple cases of fixed or rigidly attached cameras and simultaneous acquisition. In addition, restrictive assumptions have been applied, including linear time correspondence or the knowledge of the complete trajectories of corresponding scene points; to some extent, these assumptions limit the practical applicability of any solutions developed. We intend to solve the more general problem of aligning video sequences recorded by independently moving cameras that follow similar trajectories, based only on the fusion of image intensity and GPS information. The novelty of our approach is to pose the synchronization as a MAP inference problem on a Bayesian network including the observations from these two sensor types, which have been proved complementary. Alignment results are presented in the context of videos recorded from vehicles driving along the same track at different times, for different road types. In addition, we explore two applications of the proposed video alignment method, both based on change detection between aligned videos. One is the detection of vehicles, which could be of use in ADAS. The other is online difference spotting videos of surveillance rounds.
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	Notes	ADAS; IF			Approved	no
	Call Number	DPS 2011; ADAS @ adas @ dps2011			Serial	1705
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	Author	Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca
	Title	Efficient Discriminative Multiresolution Cascade for Real-Time Human Detection Applications			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	32	Issue	13	Pages	1581-1587
	Keywords
	Abstract	Human detection is fundamental in many machine vision applications, like video surveillance, driving assistance, action recognition and scene understanding. However in most of these applications real-time performance is necessary and this is not achieved yet by current detection methods. This paper presents a new method for human detection based on a multiresolution cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that can highly reduce the computational cost of detection search without affecting accuracy. The method consists of a cascade of sliding window detectors. Each detector is a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) composed of HOG features at different resolutions, from coarse at the first level to fine at the last one. In contrast to previous methods, our approach uses a non-uniform stride of the sliding window that is defined by the feature resolution and allows the detection to be incrementally refined as going from coarse-to-fine resolution. In this way, the speed-up of the cascade is not only due to the fewer number of features computed at the first levels of the cascade, but also to the reduced number of windows that need to be evaluated at the coarse resolution. Experimental results show that our method reaches a detection rate comparable with the state-of-the-art of detectors based on HOG features, while at the same time the detection search is up to 23 times faster.
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PGB2011a			Serial	1707
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	Author	Palaiahnakote Shivakumara; Anjan Dutta; Trung Quy Phan; Chew Lim Tan; Umapada Pal
	Title	A Novel Mutual Nearest Neighbor based Symmetry for Text Frame Classification in Video			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	44	Issue	8	Pages	1671-1683
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	Abstract	In the field of multimedia retrieval in video, text frame classification is essential for text detection, event detection, event boundary detection, etc. We propose a new text frame classification method that introduces a combination of wavelet and median moment with k-means clustering to select probable text blocks among 16 equally sized blocks of a video frame. The same feature combination is used with a new Max–Min clustering at the pixel level to choose probable dominant text pixels in the selected probable text blocks. For the probable text pixels, a so-called mutual nearest neighbor based symmetry is explored with a four-quadrant formation centered at the centroid of the probable dominant text pixels to know whether a block is a true text block or not. If a frame produces at least one true text block then it is considered as a text frame otherwise it is a non-text frame. Experimental results on different text and non-text datasets including two public datasets and our own created data show that the proposed method gives promising results in terms of recall and precision at the block and frame levels. Further, we also show how existing text detection methods tend to misclassify non-text frames as text frames in term of recall and precision at both the block and frame levels.
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SDP2011			Serial	1727
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	Author	Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro
	Title	Multi-modal Social Signal Analysis for Predicting Agreement in Conversation Settings			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	495-502
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	Abstract	In this paper we present a non-invasive ambient intelligence framework for the analysis of non-verbal communication applied to conversational settings. In particular, we apply feature extraction techniques to multi-modal audio-RGB-depth data. We compute a set of behavioral indicators that define communicative cues coming from the fields of psychology and observational methodology. We test our methodology over data captured in victim-offender mediation scenarios. Using different state-of-the-art classification approaches, our system achieve upon 75% of recognition predicting agreement among the parts involved in the conversations, using as ground truth the experts opinions.
	Address	Sidney; Australia; December 2013
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4503-2129-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICMI
	Notes	HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PEB2013			Serial	2488
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	Author	Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
	Title	An Overview of Symbol Recognition			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2014	Publication	Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	D	Issue		Pages	523-551
	Keywords	Pattern recognition; Shape descriptors; Structural descriptors; Symbolrecognition; Symbol spotting
	Abstract	According to the Cambridge Dictionaries Online, a symbol is a sign, shape, or object that is used to represent something else. Symbol recognition is a subfield of general pattern recognition problems that focuses on identifying, detecting, and recognizing symbols in technical drawings, maps, or miscellaneous documents such as logos and musical scores. This chapter aims at providing the reader an overview of the different existing ways of describing and recognizing symbols and how the field has evolved to attain a certain degree of maturity.
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	Publisher	Springer London	Place of Publication		Editor	D. Doermann; K. Tombre
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-0-85729-858-4	Medium
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	Notes	DAG; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TaT2014			Serial	2489
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	Author	Carme Julia; Felipe Lumbreras; Angel Sappa
	Title	A Factorization-based Approach to Photometric Stereo			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology	Abbreviated Journal	IJIST
	Volume	21	Issue	1	Pages	115-119
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	Abstract	This article presents an adaptation of a factorization technique to tackle the photometric stereo problem. That is to recover the surface normals and reflectance of an object from a set of images obtained under different lighting conditions. The main contribution of the proposed approach is to consider pixels in shadow and saturated regions as missing data, in order to reduce their influence to the result. Concretely, an adapted Alternation technique is used to deal with missing data. Experimental results considering both synthetic and real images show the viability of the proposed factorization-based strategy. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 21, 115–119, 2011.
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	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ JLS2011; ADAS @ adas @			Serial	1711
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	Author	Jose Seabra; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Josepa Mauri; Petia Radeva; Joao Sanchez
	Title	Rayleigh Mixture Model for Plaque Characterization in Intravascular Ultrasound			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering	Abbreviated Journal	TBME
	Volume	58	Issue	5	Pages	1314-1324
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	Abstract	Vulnerable plaques are the major cause of carotid and coronary vascular problems, such as heart attack or stroke. A correct modeling of plaque echomorphology and composition can help the identification of such lesions. The Rayleigh distribution is widely used to describe (nearly) homogeneous areas in ultrasound images. Since plaques may contain tissues with heterogeneous regions, more complex distributions depending on multiple parameters are usually needed, such as Rice, K or Nakagami distributions. In such cases, the problem formulation becomes more complex, and the optimization procedure to estimate the plaque echomorphology is more difficult. Here, we propose to model the tissue echomorphology by means of a mixture of Rayleigh distributions, known as the Rayleigh mixture model (RMM). The problem formulation is still simple, but its ability to describe complex textural patterns is very powerful. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic estimation of the RMM mixture parameters by means of the expectation maximization algorithm, which aims at characterizing tissue echomorphology in ultrasound (US). The performance of the proposed model is evaluated with a database of in vitro intravascular US cases. We show that the mixture coefficients and Rayleigh parameters explicitly derived from the mixture model are able to accurately describe different plaque types and to significantly improve the characterization performance of an already existing methodology.
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	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SCP2011			Serial	1712
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	Author	Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga
	Title	What is the best criterion for an efficient design of retinal photoreceptor mosaics?			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	40	Issue		Pages	197
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	Abstract	The proportions of L, M and S photoreceptors in the primate retina are arguably determined by evolutionary pressure and the statistics of the visual environment. Two information theory-based approaches have been recently proposed for explaining the asymmetrical spatial densities of photoreceptors in humans. In the first approach Garrigan et al (2010 PLoS ONE 6 e1000677), a model for computing the information transmitted by cone arrays which considers the differential blurring produced by the long-wavelength accommodation of the eye’s lens is proposed. Their results explain the sparsity of S-cones but the optimum depends weakly on the L:M cone ratio. In the second approach (Penacchio et al, 2010 Perception 39 ECVP Supplement, 101), we show that human cone arrays make the visual representation scale-invariant, allowing the total entropy of the signal to be preserved while decreasing individual neurons’ entropy in further retinotopic representations. This criterion provides a thorough description of the distribution of L:M cone ratios and does not depend on differential blurring of the signal by the lens. Here, we investigate the similarities and differences of both approaches when applied to the same database. Our results support a 2-criteria optimization in the space of cone ratios whose components are arguably important and mostly unrelated. [This work was partially funded by projects TIN2010-21771-C02-1 and Consolider-Ingenio 2010-CSD2007-00018 from the Spanish MICINN. CAP was funded by grant RYC-2007-00484]
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PeP2011a			Serial	1719
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	Author	C. Alejandro Parraga; Olivier Penacchio; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Retinal Filtering Matches Natural Image Statistics at Low Luminance Levels			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	40	Issue		Pages	96
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	Abstract	The assumption that the retina’s main objective is to provide a minimum entropy representation to higher visual areas (ie efficient coding principle) allows to predict retinal filtering in space–time and colour (Atick, 1992 Network 3 213–251). This is achieved by considering the power spectra of natural images (which is proportional to 1/f2) and the suppression of retinal and image noise. However, most studies consider images within a limited range of lighting conditions (eg near noon) whereas the visual system’s spatial filtering depends on light intensity and the spatiochromatic properties of natural scenes depend of the time of the day. Here, we explore whether the dependence of visual spatial filtering on luminance match the changes in power spectrum of natural scenes at different times of the day. Using human cone-activation based naturalistic stimuli (from the Barcelona Calibrated Images Database), we show that for a range of luminance levels, the shape of the retinal CSF reflects the slope of the power spectrum at low spatial frequencies. Accordingly, the retina implements the filtering which best decorrelates the input signal at every luminance level. This result is in line with the body of work that places efficient coding as a guiding neural principle.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PPV2011			Serial	1720
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	Author	Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Determining the Best Suited Semantic Events for Cognitive Surveillance			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Expert Systems with Applications	Abbreviated Journal	EXSY
	Volume	38	Issue	4	Pages	4068–4079
	Keywords	Cognitive surveillance; Event modeling; Content-based video retrieval; Ontologies; Advanced user interfaces
	Abstract	State-of-the-art systems on cognitive surveillance identify and describe complex events in selected domains, thus providing end-users with tools to easily access the contents of massive video footage. Nevertheless, as the complexity of events increases in semantics and the types of indoor/outdoor scenarios diversify, it becomes difficult to assess which events describe better the scene, and how to model them at a pixel level to fulfill natural language requests. We present an ontology-based methodology that guides the identification, step-by-step modeling, and generalization of the most relevant events to a specific domain. Our approach considers three steps: (1) end-users provide textual evidence from surveilled video sequences; (2) transcriptions are analyzed top-down to build the knowledge bases for event description; and (3) the obtained models are used to generalize event detection to different image sequences from the surveillance domain. This framework produces user-oriented knowledge that improves on existing advanced interfaces for video indexing and retrieval, by determining the best suited events for video understanding according to end-users. We have conducted experiments with outdoor and indoor scenes showing thefts, chases, and vandalism, demonstrating the feasibility and generalization of this proposal.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FBR2011a			Serial	1722
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	Author	Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Augmenting Video Surveillance Footage with Virtual Agents for Incremental Event Evaluation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	32	Issue	6	Pages	878–889
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	Abstract	The fields of segmentation, tracking and behavior analysis demand for challenging video resources to test, in a scalable manner, complex scenarios like crowded environments or scenes with high semantics. Nevertheless, existing public databases cannot scale the presence of appearing agents, which would be useful to study long-term occlusions and crowds. Moreover, creating these resources is expensive and often too particularized to specific needs. We propose an augmented reality framework to increase the complexity of image sequences in terms of occlusions and crowds, in a scalable and controllable manner. Existing datasets can be increased with augmented sequences containing virtual agents. Such sequences are automatically annotated, thus facilitating evaluation in terms of segmentation, tracking, and behavior recognition. In order to easily specify the desired contents, we propose a natural language interface to convert input sentences into virtual agent behaviors. Experimental tests and validation in indoor, street, and soccer environments are provided to show the feasibility of the proposed approach in terms of robustness, scalability, and semantics.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FBR2011b			Serial	1723
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	Author	Albert Ali Salah; Theo Gevers; Nicu Sebe; Alessandro Vinciarelli
	Title	Computer Vision for Ambient Intelligence			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments	Abbreviated Journal	JAISE
	Volume	3	Issue	3	Pages	187-191
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SGS2011a			Serial	1725
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	Author	Farhan Riaz; Fernando Vilariño; Mario Dinis-Ribeiro; Miguel Coimbraln
	Title	Identifying Potentially Cancerous Tissues in Chromoendoscopy Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6669	Issue		Pages	709-716
	Keywords	Endoscopy, Computer Assisted Diagnosis, Gradient.
	Abstract	The dynamics of image acquisition conditions for gastroenterology imaging scenarios pose novel challenges for automatic computer assisted decision systems. Such systems should have the ability to mimic the tissue characterization of the physicians. In this paper, our objective is to compare some feature extraction methods to classify a Chromoendoscopy image into two different classes: Normal and Potentially cancerous. Results show that LoG filters generally give best classification accuracy among the other feature extraction methods considered.
	Address	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
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	Publisher	Springer	Place of Publication	Berlin	Editor	J. Vitria, J.M. Sanches, and M. Hernandez
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-642-21256-7	Medium
	Area	800	Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	MV;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RVD2011; IAM @ iam @ RVD2011			Serial	1726
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