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| Author | Sandra Jimenez; Xavier Otazu; Valero Laparra; Jesus Malo | ||||
| Title | Chromatic induction and contrast masking: similar models, different goals? | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 8651 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Abstract | Normalization of signals coming from linear sensors is an ubiquitous mechanism of neural adaptation.1 Local interaction between sensors tuned to a particular feature at certain spatial position and neighbor sensors explains a wide range of psychophysical facts including (1) masking of spatial patterns, (2) non-linearities of motion sensors, (3) adaptation of color perception, (4) brightness and chromatic induction, and (5) image quality assessment. Although the above models have formal and qualitative similarities, it does not necessarily mean that the mechanisms involved are pursuing the same statistical goal. For instance, in the case of chromatic mechanisms (disregarding spatial information), different parameters in the normalization give rise to optimal discrimination or adaptation, and different non-linearities may give rise to error minimization or component independence. In the case of spatial sensors (disregarding color information), a number of studies have pointed out the benefits of masking in statistical independence terms. However, such statistical analysis has not been performed for spatio-chromatic induction models where chromatic perception depends on spatial configuration. In this work we investigate whether successful spatio-chromatic induction models,6 increase component independence similarly as previously reported for masking models. Mutual information analysis suggests that seeking an efficient chromatic representation may explain the prevalence of induction effects in spatially simple images. © (2013) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. | ||||
| Address | San Francisco CA; USA; February 2013 | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ JOL2013 | Serial | 2240 | ||
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| Author | Santiago Segui; Michal Drozdzal; Ekaterina Zaytseva; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria | ||||
| Title | A new image centrality descriptor for wrinkle frame detection in WCE videos | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Small bowel motility dysfunctions are a widespread functional disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of specific and unique organic pathology. Current methods of diagnosis are complex and can only be conducted at some highly specialized referral centers. Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) could be an interesting diagnostic alternative that presents excellent clinical advantages, since it is non-invasive and can be conducted by non specialists. The purpose of this work is to present a new method for the detection of wrinkle frames in WCE, a critical characteristic to detect one of the main motility events: contractions. The method goes beyond the use of one of the classical image feature, the Histogram | ||||
| Address | Kyoto; Japan; May 2013 | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SDZ2013 | Serial | 2239 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Baro; David Masip; Elena Planas; Julia Minguillon | ||||
| Title | PeLP: Plataforma para el Aprendizaje de Lenguajes de Programación | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | XV Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | JENUI | ||
| Notes | OR;HuPBA;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ BMP2013 | Serial | 2237 | ||
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| Author | Victor Borjas; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Gradient Histogram Background Modeling for People Detection in Stationary Camera Environments | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Best Poster AwardOne of the big challenges of today person detectors is the decreasing of the false positive rate. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to customize person detectors in static camera scenarios in order to reduce this rate. This scheme includes background modeling for subtraction based on gradient histograms and Mean-Shift clustering. Our experiments show that the detection improved compared to using only the output from the pedestrian detector reducing 87% of the false positives and therefore the overall precision of the detection
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| Address | Kyoto; Japan; May 2013 | ||||
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| Notes | OR; MILAB;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | BVR2013 | Serial | 2238 | ||
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| Author | Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu | ||||
| Title | Out-of-Sample Embedding for Manifold Learning Applied to Face Recognition | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Manifold learning techniques are affected by two critical aspects: (i) the design of the adjacency graphs, and (ii) the embedding of new test data---the out-of-sample problem. For the first aspect, the proposed schemes were heuristically driven. For the second aspect, the difficulty resides in finding an accurate mapping that transfers unseen data samples into an existing manifold. Past works addressing these two aspects were heavily parametric in the sense that the optimal performance is only reached for a suitable parameter choice that should be known in advance. In this paper, we demonstrate that sparse coding theory not only serves for automatic graph reconstruction as shown in recent works, but also represents an accurate alternative for out-of-sample embedding. Considering for a case study the Laplacian Eigenmaps, we applied our method to the face recognition problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed out-of-sample embedding, experiments are conducted using the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Kernel Support Vector Machines (KSVM) classifiers on four public face databases. The experimental results show that the proposed model is able to achieve high categorization effectiveness as well as high consistency with non-linear embeddings/manifolds obtained in batch modes. | ||||
| Address | Portland; USA; June 2013 | ||||
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| Notes | OR; 600.046;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ DoR2013 | Serial | 2236 | ||
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| Author | Marina Alberti; Simone Balocco; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Automatic non-rigid temporal alignment of IVUS sequences: method and quantitative validation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology | Abbreviated Journal | UMB |
| Volume | 39 | Issue | 9 | Pages | 1698-712 |
| Keywords | Intravascular ultrasound; Dynamic time warping; Non-rigid alignment; Sequence matching; Partial overlapping strategy | ||||
| Abstract | Clinical studies on atherosclerosis regression/progression performed by intravascular ultrasound analysis would benefit from accurate alignment of sequences of the same patient before and after clinical interventions and at follow-up. In this article, a methodology for automatic alignment of intravascular ultrasound sequences based on the dynamic time warping technique is proposed. The non-rigid alignment is adapted to the specific task by applying it to multidimensional signals describing the morphologic content of the vessel. Moreover, dynamic time warping is embedded into a framework comprising a strategy to address partial overlapping between acquisitions and a term that regularizes non-physiologic temporal compression/expansion of the sequences. Extensive validation is performed on both synthetic and in vivo data. The proposed method reaches alignment errors of approximately 0.43 mm for pairs of sequences acquired during the same intervention phase and 0.77 mm for pairs of sequences acquired at successive intervention stages. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ABC2013 | Serial | 2313 | ||
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| Author | Francisco Javier Orozco; Ognjen Rudovic; Jordi Gonzalez; Maja Pantic | ||||
| Title | Hierarchical On-line Appearance-Based Tracking for 3D Head Pose, Eyebrows, Lips, Eyelids and Irises | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Image and Vision Computing | Abbreviated Journal | IMAVIS |
| Volume | 31 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 322-340 |
| Keywords | On-line appearance models; Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm; Line-search optimization; 3D face tracking; Facial action tracking; Eyelid tracking; Iris tracking | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, we propose an On-line Appearance-Based Tracker (OABT) for simultaneous tracking of 3D head pose, lips, eyebrows, eyelids and irises in monocular video sequences. In contrast to previously proposed tracking approaches, which deal with face and gaze tracking separately, our OABT can also be used for eyelid and iris tracking, as well as 3D head pose, lips and eyebrows facial actions tracking. Furthermore, our approach applies an on-line learning of changes in the appearance of the tracked target. Hence, the prior training of appearance models, which usually requires a large amount of labeled facial images, is avoided. Moreover, the proposed method is built upon a hierarchical combination of three OABTs, which are optimized using a Levenberg–Marquardt Algorithm (LMA) enhanced with line-search procedures. This, in turn, makes the proposed method robust to changes in lighting conditions, occlusions and translucent textures, as evidenced by our experiments. Finally, the proposed method achieves head and facial actions tracking in real-time. | ||||
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| Notes | ISE; 605.203; 302.012; 302.018; 600.049 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ORG2013 | Serial | 2221 | ||
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| Author | Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Antoni Rosell; Albert Andaluz; F. Javier Sanchez | ||||
| Title | Segmentation of Tracheal Rings in Videobronchoscopy combining Geometry and Appearance | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 1 | Issue | Pages | 153--161 | |
| Keywords | Video-bronchoscopy, tracheal ring segmentation, trachea geometric and appearance model | ||||
| Abstract | Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways and minimal invasive interventions. Tracheal procedures are ordinary interventions that require measurement of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) assessment. Visual assessment of stenosis in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error. Accurate detection of tracheal rings is the basis for automated estimation of the size of stenosed trachea. Processing of videobronchoscopic images acquired at the operating room is a challenging task due to the wide range of artifacts and acquisition conditions. We present a model of the geometric-appearance of tracheal rings for its detection in videobronchoscopic videos. Experiments on sequences acquired at the operating room, show a performance close to inter-observer variability | ||||
| Address | Barcelona; February 2013 | ||||
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| Publisher | SciTePress | Place of Publication | Portugal | Editor | Sebastiano Battiato and José Braz |
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| Area | 800 | Expedition | Conference | VISAPP | |
| Notes | IAM;MV; 600.044; 600.047; 600.060; 605.203 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ SGR2013 | Serial | 2123 | ||
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| Author | Laura Igual; Agata Lapedriza; Ricard Borras | ||||
| Title | Robust Gait-Based Gender Classification using Depth Cameras | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing | Abbreviated Journal | EURASIPJ |
| Volume | 37 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 72-80 |
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| Abstract | This article presents a new approach for gait-based gender recognition using depth cameras, that can run in real time. The main contribution of this study is a new fast feature extraction strategy that uses the 3D point cloud obtained from the frames in a gait cycle. For each frame, these points are aligned according to their centroid and grouped. After that, they are projected into their PCA plane, obtaining a representation of the cycle particularly robust against view changes. Then, final discriminative features are computed by first making a histogram of the projected points and then using linear discriminant analysis. To test the method we have used the DGait database, which is currently the only publicly available database for gait analysis that includes depth information. We have performed experiments on manually labeled cycles and over whole video sequences, and the results show that our method improves the accuracy significantly, compared with state-of-the-art systems which do not use depth information. Furthermore, our approach is insensitive to illumination changes, given that it discards the RGB information. That makes the method especially suitable for real applications, as illustrated in the last part of the experiments section. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ILB2013 | Serial | 2144 | ||
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| Author | Michal Drozdzal; Santiago Segui; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Adaptable image cuts for motility inspection using WCE | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics | Abbreviated Journal | CMIG |
| Volume | 37 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 72-80 |
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| Abstract | The Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) technology allows the visualization of the whole small intestine tract. Since the capsule is freely moving, mainly by the means of peristalsis, the data acquired during the study gives a lot of information about the intestinal motility. However, due to: (1) huge amount of frames, (2) complex intestinal scene appearance and (3) intestinal dynamics that make difficult the visualization of the small intestine physiological phenomena, the analysis of the WCE data requires computer-aided systems to speed up the analysis. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for building a novel representation of the WCE video data, optimal for motility analysis and inspection. The algorithm transforms the 3D video data into 2D longitudinal view by choosing the most informative, from the intestinal motility point of view, part of each frame. This step maximizes the lumen visibility in its longitudinal extension. The task of finding “the best longitudinal view” has been defined as a cost function optimization problem which global minimum is obtained by using Dynamic Programming. Validation on both synthetic data and WCE data shows that the adaptive longitudinal view is a good alternative to the traditional motility analysis done by video analysis. The proposed novel data representation a new, holistic insight into the small intestine motility, allowing to easily define and analyze motility events that are difficult to spot by analyzing WCE video. Moreover, the visual inspection of small intestine motility is 4 times faster then by means of video skimming of the WCE. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ DSM2012 | Serial | 2151 | ||
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| Author | Joan Serrat; Felipe Lumbreras; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Cost estimation of custom hoses from STL files and CAD drawings | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Computers in Industry | Abbreviated Journal | COMPUTIND |
| Volume | 64 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 299-309 |
| Keywords | On-line quotation; STL format; Regression; Gaussian process | ||||
| Abstract | We present a method for the cost estimation of custom hoses from CAD models. They can come in two formats, which are easy to generate: a STL file or the image of a CAD drawing showing several orthogonal projections. The challenges in either cases are, first, to obtain from them a high level 3D description of the shape, and second, to learn a regression function for the prediction of the manufacturing time, based on geometric features of the reconstructed shape. The chosen description is the 3D line along the medial axis of the tube and the diameter of the circular sections along it. In order to extract it from STL files, we have adapted RANSAC, a robust parametric fitting algorithm. As for CAD drawing images, we propose a new technique for 3D reconstruction from data entered on any number of orthogonal projections. The regression function is a Gaussian process, which does not constrain the function to adopt any specific form and is governed by just two parameters. We assess the accuracy of the manufacturing time estimation by k-fold cross validation on 171 STL file models for which the time is provided by an expert. The results show the feasibility of the method, whereby the relative error for 80% of the testing samples is below 15%. | ||||
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| Notes | ADAS; 600.057; 600.054; 605.203 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SLL2013; ADAS @ adas @ | Serial | 2161 | ||
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| Author | Fadi Dornaika; Abdelmalik Moujahid; Bogdan Raducanu | ||||
| Title | Facial expression recognition using tracked facial actions: Classifier performance analysis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence | Abbreviated Journal | EAAI |
| Volume | 26 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 467-477 |
| Keywords | Visual face tracking; 3D deformable models; Facial actions; Dynamic facial expression recognition; Human–computer interaction | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper, we address the analysis and recognition of facial expressions in continuous videos. More precisely, we study classifiers performance that exploit head pose independent temporal facial action parameters. These are provided by an appearance-based 3D face tracker that simultaneously provides the 3D head pose and facial actions. The use of such tracker makes the recognition pose- and texture-independent. Two different schemes are studied. The first scheme adopts a dynamic time warping technique for recognizing expressions where training data are given by temporal signatures associated with different universal facial expressions. The second scheme models temporal signatures associated with facial actions with fixed length feature vectors (observations), and uses some machine learning algorithms in order to recognize the displayed expression. Experiments quantified the performance of different schemes. These were carried out on CMU video sequences and home-made video sequences. The results show that the use of dimension reduction techniques on the extracted time series can improve the classification performance. Moreover, these experiments show that the best recognition rate can be above 90%. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ DMR2013 | Serial | 2185 | ||
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| Author | David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo | ||||
| Title | Multiple active receptor conformation, agonist efficacy and maximum effect of the system: the conformation-based operational model of agonism, | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Drug Discovery Today | Abbreviated Journal | DDT |
| Volume | 18 | Issue | 7-8 | Pages | 365-371 |
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| Abstract | The operational model of agonism assumes that the maximum effect a particular receptor system can achieve (the Em parameter) is fixed. Em estimates are above but close to the asymptotic maximum effects of endogenous agonists. The concept of Em is contradicted by superagonists and those positive allosteric modulators that significantly increase the maximum effect of endogenous agonists. An extension of the operational model is proposed that assumes that the Em parameter does not necessarily have a single value for a receptor system but has multiple values associated to multiple active receptor conformations. The model provides a mechanistic link between active receptor conformation and agonist efficacy, which can be useful for the analysis of agonist response under different receptor scenarios. | ||||
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| Notes | IAM; 600.057; 600.054 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ RGG2013a | Serial | 2190 | ||
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| Author | Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil; Enric Marti; Albert Andaluz; Manel Ballester;Francesc Carreras Costa | ||||
| Title | Helical structure of the cardiac ventricular anatomy assessed by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging multi-resolution tractography | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Revista Española de Cardiología | Abbreviated Journal | REC |
| Volume | 66 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 782-790 |
| Keywords | Heart;Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging;Diffusion tractography;Helical heart;Myocardial ventricular band. | ||||
| Abstract | Deep understanding of myocardial structure linking morphology and function of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for medical and surgical clinical procedures and studies. Several conceptual models of myocardial fiber organization have been proposed but the lack of an automatic and objective methodology prevented an agreement. We sought to deepen in this knowledge through advanced computer graphic representations of the myocardial fiber architecture by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI).
We performed automatic tractography reconstruction of unsegmented DT-MRI canine heart datasets coming from the public database of the Johns Hopkins University. Full scale tractographies have been build with 200 seeds and are composed by streamlines computed on the vectorial field of primary eigenvectors given at the diffusion tensor volumes. Also, we introduced a novel multi-scale visualization technique in order to obtain a simplified tractography. This methodology allowed to keep the main geometric features of the fiber tracts, making easier to decipher the main properties of the architectural organization of the heart. On the analysis of the output from our tractographic representations we found exact correlation with low-level details of myocardial architecture, but also with the more abstract conceptualization of a continuous helical ventricular myocardial fiber array. Objective analysis of myocardial architecture by an automated method, including the entire myocardium and using several 3D levels of complexity, reveals a continuous helical myocardial fiber arrangement of both right and left ventricles, supporting the anatomical model of the helical ventricular myocardial band described by Torrent-Guasp. |
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| Call Number | IAM @ iam @ PGM2013 | Serial | 2194 | ||
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| Author | David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo | ||||
| Title | Mechanistic analysis of the function of agonists and allosteric modulators: Reconciling two-state and operational models | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | British Journal of Pharmacology | Abbreviated Journal | BJP |
| Volume | 169 | Issue | 6 | Pages | 1189-202 |
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| Abstract | Two-state and operational models of both agonism and allosterism are compared to identify and characterize common pharmacological parameters. To account for the receptor-dependent basal response, constitutive receptor activity is considered in the operational models. By arranging two-state models as the fraction of active receptors and operational models as the fractional response relative to the maximum effect of the system, a one-by-one correspondence between parameters is found. The comparative analysis allows a better understanding of complex allosteric interactions. In particular, the inclusion of constitutive receptor activity in the operational model of allosterism allows the characterization of modulators able to lower the basal response of the system; that is, allosteric modulators with negative intrinsic efficacy. Theoretical simulations and overall goodness of fit of the models to simulated data suggest that it is feasible to apply the models to experimental data and constitute one step forward in receptor theory formalism. | ||||
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