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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Jordi Roca; Maria Vanrell
Title Do Basic Colors Influence Chromatic Adaptation? Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal VSS
Volume 11 Issue 11 Pages 85
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Abstract Color constancy (the ability to perceive colors relatively stable under different illuminants) is the result of several mechanisms spread across different neural levels and responding to several visual scene cues. It is usually measured by estimating the perceived color of a grey patch under an illuminant change. In this work, we hypothesize whether chromatic adaptation (without a reference white or grey) could be driven by certain colors, specifically those corresponding to the universal color terms proposed by Berlin and Kay (1969). To this end we have developed a new psychophysical paradigm in which subjects adjust the color of a test patch (in CIELab space) to match their memory of the best example of a given color chosen from the universal terms list (grey, red, green, blue, yellow, purple, pink, orange and brown). The test patch is embedded inside a Mondrian image and presented on a calibrated CRT screen inside a dark cabin. All subjects were trained to “recall” their most exemplary colors reliably from memory and asked to always produce the same basic colors when required under several adaptation conditions. These include achromatic and colored Mondrian backgrounds, under a simulated D65 illuminant and several colored illuminants. A set of basic colors were measured for each subject under neutral conditions (achromatic background and D65 illuminant) and used as “reference” for the rest of the experiment. The colors adjusted by the subjects in each adaptation condition were compared to the reference colors under the corresponding illuminant and a “constancy index” was obtained for each of them. Our results show that for some colors the constancy index was better than for grey. The set of best adapted colors in each condition were common to a majority of subjects and were dependent on the chromaticity of the illuminant and the chromatic background considered.
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ISSN (up) 1534-7362 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Admin @ si @ PRV2011 Serial 1759
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Author Koen E.A. van de Sande; Jasper Uilings; Theo Gevers; Arnold Smeulders
Title Segmentation as Selective Search for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1879-1886
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Abstract For object recognition, the current state-of-the-art is based on exhaustive search. However, to enable the use of more expensive features and classifiers and thereby progress beyond the state-of-the-art, a selective search strategy is needed. Therefore, we adapt segmentation as a selective search by reconsidering segmentation: We propose to generate many approximate locations over few and precise object delineations because (1) an object whose location is never generated can not be recognised and (2) appearance and immediate nearby context are most effective for object recognition. Our method is class-independent and is shown to cover 96.7% of all objects in the Pascal VOC 2007 test set using only 1,536 locations per image. Our selective search enables the use of the more expensive bag-of-words method which we use to substantially improve the state-of-the-art by up to 8.5% for 8 out of 20 classes on the Pascal VOC 2010 detection challenge.
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ISSN (up) 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICCV
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SUG2011 Serial 1780
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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.
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ISSN (up) 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BeW2011 Serial 1781
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Author Bhaskar Chakraborty; Michael Holte; Thomas B. Moeslund; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
Title A Selective Spatio-Temporal Interest Point Detector for Human Action Recognition in Complex Scenes Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1776-1783
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Abstract Recent progress in the field of human action recognition points towards the use of Spatio-Temporal Interest Points (STIPs) for local descriptor-based recognition strategies. In this paper we present a new approach for STIP detection by applying surround suppression combined with local and temporal constraints. Our method is significantly different from existing STIP detectors and improves the performance by detecting more repeatable, stable and distinctive STIPs for human actors, while suppressing unwanted background STIPs. For action representation we use a bag-of-visual words (BoV) model of local N-jet features to build a vocabulary of visual-words. To this end, we introduce a novel vocabulary building strategy by combining spatial pyramid and vocabulary compression techniques, resulting in improved performance and efficiency. Action class specific Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers are trained for categorization of human actions. A comprehensive set of experiments on existing benchmark datasets, and more challenging datasets of complex scenes, validate our approach and show state-of-the-art performance.
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ISSN (up) 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CHM2011 Serial 1811
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa
Title Correspondence Free Registration through a Point-to-Model Distance Minimization Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2150-2157
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Abstract This paper presents a novel formulation, which derives in a smooth minimization problem, to tackle the rigid registration between a given point set and a model set. Unlike most of the existing works, which are based on minimizing a point-wise correspondence term, we propose to describe the model set by means of an implicit representation. It allows a new definition of the registration error, which works beyond the point level representation. Moreover, it could be used in a gradient-based optimization framework. The proposed approach consists of two stages. Firstly, a novel formulation is proposed that relates the registration parameters with the distance between the model and data set. Secondly, the registration parameters are obtained by means of the Levengberg-Marquardt algorithm. Experimental results and comparisons with state of the art show the validity of the proposed framework.
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ISSN (up) 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RoS2011b; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1832
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Author Hamdi Dibeklioglu; M.O. Hortas; I. Kosunen; P. Zuzánek; Albert Ali Salah; Theo Gevers
Title Design and implementation of an affect-responsive interactive photo frame Type Journal
Year 2011 Publication Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Abbreviated Journal JMUI
Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 81-95
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Abstract This paper describes an affect-responsive interactive photo-frame application that offers its user a different experience with every use. It relies on visual analysis of activity levels and facial expressions of its users to select responses from a database of short video segments. This ever-growing database is automatically prepared by an offline analysis of user-uploaded videos. The resulting system matches its user’s affect along dimensions of valence and arousal, and gradually adapts its response to each specific user. In an extended mode, two such systems are coupled and feed each other with visual content. The strengths and weaknesses of the system are assessed through a usability study, where a Wizard-of-Oz response logic is contrasted with the fully automatic system that uses affective and activity-based features, either alone, or in tandem.
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Publisher Springer–Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (up) 1783-7677 ISBN Medium
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Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DHK2011 Serial 1842
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Author Sergio Escalera; David M.J. Tax; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Robert P.W. Duin
Title Multi-Class Classification in Image Analysis Via Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Book Chapter
Year 2011 Publication Innovations in Intelligent Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 339 Issue Pages 7-29
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Abstract A common way to model multi-class classification problems is by means of Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC). Given a multi-class problem, the ECOC technique designs a codeword for each class, where each position of the code identifies the membership of the class for a given binary problem.A classification decision is obtained by assigning the label of the class with the closest code. In this paper, we overview the state-of-the-art on ECOC designs and test them in real applications. Results on different multi-class data sets show the benefits of using the ensemble of classifiers when categorizing objects in images.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Berlin Editor H. Kawasnicka; L.Jain
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ISSN (up) 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-17933-4 Medium
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ETP2011 Serial 1746
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva
Title On the Design of Low Redundancy Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Book Chapter
Year 2011 Publication Ensembles in Machine Learning Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume 373 Issue 2 Pages 21-38
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Abstract The classification of large number of object categories is a challenging trend in the Pattern Recognition field. In the 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 of the 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 compact 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 compact ECOC code configuration. The results over several public UCI data sets and different multi-class Computer Vision problems show that the proposed methodology obtains comparable (even better) results than the state-of-the-art ECOC methodologies with far less number of dichotomizers.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (up) 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-22909-1 Medium
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Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2011b Serial 1886
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika
Title A Discriminative Non-Linear Manifold Learning Technique for Face Recognition Type Book Chapter
Year 2011 Publication Informatics Engineering and Information Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 254 Issue 6 Pages 339-353
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Abstract In this paper we propose a novel non-linear discriminative analysis technique for manifold learning. The proposed approach is a discriminant version of Laplacian Eigenmaps which takes into account the class label information in order to guide the procedure of non-linear dimensionality reduction. By following the large margin concept, the graph Laplacian is split in two components: within-class graph and between-class graph to better characterize the discriminant property of the data.
Our approach has been tested on several challenging face databases and it has been conveniently compared with other linear and non-linear techniques. The experimental results confirm that our method outperforms, in general, the existing ones. Although we have concentrated in this paper on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be applied to other category of objects characterized by large variance in their appearance.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (up) 1865-0929 ISBN 978-3-642-25482-6 Medium
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Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2011 Serial 1804
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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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ISSN (up) 1945-7871 ISBN 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 Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera
Title Analisis de la Expresion Oral y Gestual en Proyectos Fin de Carrera Via un Sistema de Vision Artificial Type Miscellaneous
Year 2011 Publication Revista electronica de la asociacion de enseñantes universitarios de la informatica AENUI Abbreviated Journal ReVision
Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 8-18
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Abstract La comunicación y expresión oral es una competencia de especial relevancia en el EEES. No obstante, en muchas enseñanzas superiores la puesta en práctica de esta competencia ha sido relegada principalmente a la presentación de proyectos fin de carrera. Dentro de un proyecto de innovación docente, se ha desarrollado una herramienta informática para la extracción de información objetiva para el análisis de la expresión oral y gestual de los alumnos. El objetivo es dar un “feedback” a los estudiantes que les permita mejorar la calidad de sus presentaciones. El prototipo inicial que se presenta en este trabajo permite extraer de forma automática información audiovisual y analizarla mediante técnicas de aprendizaje. El sistema ha sido aplicado a 15 proyectos fin de carrera y 15 exposiciones dentro de una asignatura de cuarto curso. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad del sistema para sugerir factores que ayuden tanto en el éxito de la comunicación así como en los criterios de evaluación.
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ISSN (up) 1989-1199 ISBN Medium
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Notes MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011c Serial 1783
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera
Title Análisis de la expresión oral y gestual en proyectos fin de carrera vía un sistema de visión artificial Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication ReVisión Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages
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Abstract La comunicación y expresión oral es una competencia de especial relevancia en el EEES. No obstante, en muchas enseñanzas superiores la puesta en práctica de esta competencia ha sido relegada principalmente a la presentación de proyectos fin de carrera. Dentro de un proyecto de innovación docente, se ha desarrollado una herramienta informática para la extracción de información objetiva para el análisis de la expresión oral y gestual de los alumnos. El objetivo es dar un “feedback” a los estudiantes que les permita mejorar la calidad de sus presentaciones. El prototipo inicial que se presenta en este trabajo permite extraer de forma automática información audiovisual y analizarla mediante técnicas de aprendizaje. El sistema ha sido aplicado a 15 proyectos fin de carrera y 15 exposiciones dentro de una asignatura de cuarto curso. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad del sistema para sugerir factores que ayuden tanto en el éxito de la comunicación así como en los criterios de evaluación.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011d Serial 2514
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Author A. Toet; M. Henselmans; M.P. Lucassen; Theo Gevers
Title Emotional effects of dynamic textures Type Journal
Year 2011 Publication i-Perception Abbreviated Journal iPER
Volume 2 Issue 9 Pages 969 – 991
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Abstract This study explores the effects of various spatiotemporal dynamic texture characteristics on human emotions. The emotional experience of auditory (eg, music) and haptic repetitive patterns has been studied extensively. In contrast, the emotional experience of visual dynamic textures is still largely unknown, despite their natural ubiquity and increasing use in digital media. Participants watched a set of dynamic textures, representing either water or various different media, and self-reported their emotional experience. Motion complexity was found to have mildly relaxing and nondominant effects. In contrast, motion change complexity was found to be arousing and dominant. The speed of dynamics had arousing, dominant, and unpleasant effects. The amplitude of dynamics was also regarded as unpleasant. The regularity of the dynamics over the textures’ area was found to be uninteresting, nondominant, mildly relaxing, and mildly pleasant. The spatial scale of the dynamics had an unpleasant, arousing, and dominant effect, which was larger for textures with diverse content than for water textures. For water textures, the effects of spatial contrast were arousing, dominant, interesting, and mildly unpleasant. None of these effects were observed for textures of diverse content. The current findings are relevant for the design and synthesis of affective multimedia content and for affective scene indexing and retrieval.
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ISSN (up) 2041-6695 ISBN Medium
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Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @THL2011 Serial 1843
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