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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Subtle Facial Expression Recognition in Still Images and Videos Type Book Chapter
Year 2011 Publication Advances in Face Image Analysis: Techniques and Technologies Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 14 Pages 259-277
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Abstract This chapter addresses the recognition of basic facial expressions. It has three main contributions. First, the authors introduce a view- and texture independent schemes that exploits facial action parameters estimated by an appearance-based 3D face tracker. they represent the learned facial actions associated with different facial expressions by time series. Two dynamic recognition schemes are proposed: (1) the first is based on conditional predictive models and on an analysis-synthesis scheme, and (2) the second is based on examples allowing straightforward use of machine learning approaches. Second, the authors propose an efficient recognition scheme based on the detection of keyframes in videos. Third, the authors compare the dynamic scheme with a static one based on analyzing individual snapshots and show that in general the former performs better than the latter. The authors then provide evaluations of performance using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Non parametric Discriminant Analysis (NDA), and Support Vector Machines (SVM).
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Publisher IGI-Global Place of Publication New York, USA Editor Yu-Jin Zhang
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-1-6152-0991-0 Medium
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Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DoR2011 Serial 1751
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Author Xavier Perez Sala; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera
Title Biologically Inspired Turn Control in Robot Navigation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th Congrès Català en Intel·ligencia Artificial Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 187-196
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Abstract An exportable and robust system for turn control using only camera images is proposed for path execution in robot navigation. Robot motion information is extracted in the form of optical flow from SURF robust descriptors of consecutive frames in the image sequence. This information is used to compute the instantaneous rotation angle. Finally, control loop is closed correcting robot displacements when it is requested for a turn command. The proposed system has been successfully tested on the four-legged Sony Aibo robot.
Address Lleida
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-1-60750-841-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CCIA
Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PAE2011a Serial 1753
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Carlo Gatta; Laura Igual; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva
Title Automatic Angiography Segmentation Based on Improved Graph-cut Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Jornada TIC Salut Girona Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference TICGI
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HGI2011 Serial 1754
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Author Laura Igual; Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Miguel Reyes; Josep Moya; Joan Carles Soliva; Jordi Faquet; Oscar Vilarroya; Petia Radeva
Title Automatic Techniques for Studying Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Jornada TIC Salut Girona Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference TICGI
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ IHE2011 Serial 1755
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Author David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin
Title Cool world: domain adaptation of virtual and real worlds for human detection using active learning Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication NIPS Domain Adaptation Workshop: Theory and Application Abbreviated Journal NIPS-DA
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Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning
Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest for different applications. The most promising human detectors rely on discriminatively learnt classifiers, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labelling is a manual intensive task, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, in Marin et al. we have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera and the same type of scenario. Accordingly, in Vazquez et al. we cast the problem as one of supervised domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we use an active learning technique. Thus, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual- and real-world labelled samples which, to the best of our knowledge, was not done before. Here, we term such combined space cool world. In this extended abstract we summarize our proposal, and include quantitative results from Vazquez et al. showing its validity.
Address Granada, Spain
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Publisher Place of Publication Granada, Spain Editor
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
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Area Expedition Conference DA-NIPS
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011b Serial 1756
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Author Mario Rojas; David Masip; Jordi Vitria
Title Predicting Dominance Judgements Automatically: A Machine Learning Approach. Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 939-944
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Abstract The amount of multimodal devices that surround us is growing everyday. In this context, human interaction and communication have become a focus of attention and a hot topic of research. A crucial element in human relations is the evaluation of individuals with respect to facial traits, what is called a first impression. Studies based on appearance have suggested that personality can be expressed by appearance and the observer may use such information to form judgments. In the context of rapid facial evaluation, certain personality traits seem to have a more pronounced effect on the relations and perceptions inside groups. The perception of dominance has been shown to be an active part of social roles at different stages of life, and even play a part in mate selection. The aim of this paper is to study to what extent this information is learnable from the point of view of computer science. Specifically we intend to determine if judgments of dominance can be learned by machine learning techniques. We implement two different descriptors in order to assess this. The first is the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and the second is a probabilistic appearance descriptor based on the frequencies of grouped binary tests. State of the art classification rules validate the performance of both descriptors, with respect to the prediction task. Experimental results show that machine learning techniques can predict judgments of dominance rather accurately (accuracies up to 90%) and that the HOG descriptor may characterize appropriately the information necessary for such task.
Address Santa Barbara, CA
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-1-4244-9140-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference SBA
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RMV2011b Serial 1760
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title User Verification From Walking Activity. First Steps Towards a Personal Verification System Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems Abbreviated Journal
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Address Algarve, Portugal
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Area Expedition Conference PECCS
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CPR2011c Serial 1762
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Author Jon Almazan; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
Title A Non-Rigid Feature Extraction Method for Shape Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 987-991
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Abstract This paper presents a methodology for shape recognition that focuses on dealing with the difficult problem of large deformations. The proposed methodology consists in a novel feature extraction technique, which uses a non-rigid representation adaptable to the shape. This technique employs a deformable grid based on the computation of geometrical centroids that follows a region partitioning algorithm. Then, a feature vector is extracted by computing pixel density measures around these geometrical centroids. The result is a shape descriptor that adapts its representation to the given shape and encodes the pixel density distribution. The validity of the method when dealing with large deformations has been experimentally shown over datasets composed of handwritten shapes. It has been applied to signature verification and shape recognition tasks demonstrating high accuracy and low computational cost.
Address Beijing; China; September 2011
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-0-7695-4520-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ AFV2011 Serial 1763
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Author Marco Pedersoli; Andrea Vedaldi; Jordi Gonzalez
Title A Coarse-to-fine Approach for fast Deformable Object Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1353-1360
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Address Colorado Springs; USA
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Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PVG2011 Serial 1764
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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 Journal
Year 2011 Publication e-Perimetron Abbreviated Journal ePER
Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 219-229
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Abstract By means of computer vision algorithms scanned images of maps are processed in order to extract relevant geographic information from printed coordinate pairs. The meaningful information is then transformed into georeferencing information for each single map sheet, and the complete set is compiled to produce a graphical index sheet for the map series along with relevant metadata. The whole process is fully automated and trained to attain maximum effectivity and throughput.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RRL2011a Serial 1765
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Simone Balocco; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title Automatic Key Frames Detection in Intravascular Ultrasound Sequences Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In MICCAI 2011 Workshop on Computing and Visualization for Intra Vascular Imaging Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract We present a method for the automatic detection of key frames in Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) sequences. The key frames are markers delimiting morphological changes along the vessel. The aim of defining key frames is two-fold: (1) they allow to summarize the content of the pullback into few representative frames; (2) they represent the basis for the automatic detection of clinical events in IVUS. The proposed approach achieved a compression ratio of 0.016 with respect to the original sequence and an average inter-frame distance of 61.76 frame, minimizing the number of missed clinical events.
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Area Expedition Conference CVII
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CPB2011 Serial 1767
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Author Miguel Reyes; Jose Ramirez Moreno; Juan R Revilla; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera
Title ADiBAS: Sistema Multisensor de Adquisicion Automatica de Datos Corporales Objetivos, Robustos y Fiables para el Analisis de la Postura y el Movimiento Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 6th Congreso Iberoamericano de Tecnologia de Apoyo a la Discapacidad Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 939-944
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Abstract El análisis de la postura y del rango de movimiento son fundamentales para conocer la optimización del gesto y mejorar, de este modo, el rendimiento y la detección de posibles lesiones. Esta cuantificación es especialmente interesante en deportistas o en pacientes que presentan alguna lesión neurológica o del sistema musculo-esquelético, ya que permite conocer el proceso evolutivo de estos pacientes, evaluar la eficacia de la terapia aplicada y proponer, en caso necesario, una modificación del protocolo de tratamiento.
En este trabajo presentamos un sistema automático que permite, mediante una tecnología no invasiva, la captación automática de marcadores LED situados sobre el paciente y su posterior análisis con el fin de mostrar al especialista datos objetivos que permitan un mejor soporte diagnóstico. También se describe un
sistema analítico de la postura corporal sin marcadores, donde su ejecución durante secuencias dinámicas aporta un alto grado de naturalidad al paciente a la hora de realizar los ejercicios funcionales.
Address Palma de Mallorca
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Area Expedition Conference IBERDISCAP
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RRR2011 Serial 1768
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Carlo Gatta; Sergio Escalera; Laura Igual; Victoria Martin Yuste; Petia Radeva
Title Accurate and Robust Fully-Automatic QCA: Method and Numerical Validation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 3 Pages 496-503
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Abstract The Quantitative Coronary Angiography (QCA) is a methodology used to evaluate the arterial diseases and, in particular, the degree of stenosis. In this paper we propose AQCA, a fully automatic method for vessel segmentation based on graph cut theory. Vesselness, geodesic paths and a new multi-scale edgeness map are used to compute a globally optimal artery segmentation. We evaluate the method performance in a rigorous numerical way on two datasets. The method can detect an artery with precision 92.9 +/- 5% and sensitivity 94.2 +/- 6%. The average absolute distance error between detected and ground truth centerline is 1.13 +/- 0.11 pixels (about 0.27 +/- 0.025 mm) and the absolute relative error in the vessel caliber estimation is 2.93% with almost no bias. Moreover, the method can discriminate between arteries and catheter with an accuracy of 96.4%.
Address Toronto, Canada
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-3-642-23625-9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference MICCAI
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HGE2011 Serial 1769
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera
Title Human Behavior Analysis from Video Data Using Bag-of-Gestures Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 3 Issue Pages 2836-2837
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Abstract Human Behavior Analysis in Uncontrolled Environments can be categorized in two main challenges: 1) Feature extraction and 2) Behavior analysis from a set of corporal language vocabulary. In this work, we present our achievements characterizing some simple behaviors from visual data on different real applications and discuss our plan for future work: low level vocabulary definition from bag-of-gesture units and high level modelling and inference of human behaviors.
Address Barcelona
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ISSN (down) ISBN 978-1-57735-516-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference IJCAI
Notes HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011b Serial 1770
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Oriol Pujol; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera
Title Introducing the Separability Matrix for Error Correcting Output Codes Coding Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 10th International conference on Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6713 Issue Pages 227-236
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Abstract Error Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) have demonstrate to be a powerful tool for treating multi-class problems. Nevertheless, predefined ECOC designs may not benefit from Error-correcting principles for particular multi-class data. In this paper, we introduce the Separability matrix as a tool to study and enhance designs for ECOC coding. In addition, a novel problem-dependent coding design based on the Separability matrix is tested over a wide set of challenging multi-class problems, obtaining very satisfactory results.
Address Napoles, Italy
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Carlo Sansone; Josef Kittler; Fabio Roli
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN (down) ISBN 978-3-642-21556-8 Medium
Area Expedition Conference MCS
Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BPB2011a Serial 1771
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