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Author Dani Rowe; Jordi Gonzalez; Marco Pedersoli; Juan J. Villanueva
Title On Tracking Inside Groups Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Machine Vision and Applications Abbreviated Journal MVA
Volume 21 Issue (up) 2 Pages 113–127
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Abstract This work develops a new architecture for multiple-target tracking in unconstrained dynamic scenes, which consists of a detection level which feeds a two-stage tracking system. A remarkable characteristic of the system is its ability to track several targets while they group and split, without using 3D information. Thus, special attention is given to the feature-selection and appearance-computation modules, and to those modules involved in tracking through groups. The system aims to work as a stand-alone application in complex and dynamic scenarios. No a-priori knowledge about either the scene or the targets, based on a previous training period, is used. Hence, the scenario is completely unknown beforehand. Successful tracking has been demonstrated in well-known databases of both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Accurate and robust localisations have been yielded during long-term target merging and occlusions.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0932-8092 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ RGP2010 Serial 1158
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Traffic sign recognition system with β -correction Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Machine Vision and Applications Abbreviated Journal MVA
Volume 21 Issue (up) 2 Pages 99–111
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Abstract Traffic sign classification represents a classical application of multi-object recognition processing in uncontrolled adverse environments. Lack of visibility, illumination changes, and partial occlusions are just a few problems. In this paper, we introduce a novel system for multi-class classification of traffic signs based on error correcting output codes (ECOC). ECOC is based on an ensemble of binary classifiers that are trained on bi-partition of classes. We classify a wide set of traffic signs types using robust error correcting codings. Moreover, we introduce the novel β-correction decoding strategy that outperforms the state-of-the-art decoding techniques, classifying a high number of classes with great success.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0932-8092 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB;HUPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2010a Serial 1276
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Fosca De Iorio; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva
Title Intestinal Motility Assessment With Video Capsule Endoscopy: Automatic Annotation of Phasic Intestinal Contractions Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal TMI
Volume 29 Issue (up) 2 Pages 246-259
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Abstract Intestinal motility assessment with video capsule endoscopy arises as a novel and challenging clinical fieldwork. This technique is based on the analysis of the patterns of intestinal contractions shown in a video provided by an ingestible capsule with a wireless micro-camera. The manual labeling of all the motility events requires large amount of time for offline screening in search of findings with low prevalence, which turns this procedure currently unpractical. In this paper, we propose a machine learning system to automatically detect the phasic intestinal contractions in video capsule endoscopy, driving a useful but not feasible clinical routine into a feasible clinical procedure. Our proposal is based on a sequential design which involves the analysis of textural, color, and blob features together with SVM classifiers. Our approach tackles the reduction of the imbalance rate of data and allows the inclusion of domain knowledge as new stages in the cascade. We present a detailed analysis, both in a quantitative and a qualitative way, by providing several measures of performance and the assessment study of interobserver variability. Our system performs at 70% of sensitivity for individual detection, whilst obtaining equivalent patterns to those of the experts for density of contractions.
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Corporate Author IEEE Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0278-0062 ISBN Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MILAB;MV;OR;SIAI Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VSD2010; IAM @ iam @ VSI2010 Serial 1281
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Author David Rotger; Petia Radeva; N. Bruining
Title Automatic Detection of Bioabsorbable Coronary Stents in IVUS Images using a Cascade of Classifiers Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Abbreviated Journal TITB
Volume 14 Issue (up) 2 Pages 535 – 537
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Abstract Bioabsorbable drug-eluting coronary stents present a very promising improvement to the common metallic ones solving some of the most important problems of stent implantation: the late restenosis. These stents made of poly-L-lactic acid cause a very subtle acoustic shadow (compared to the metallic ones) making difficult the automatic detection and measurements in images. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on a cascade of GentleBoost classifiers to detect the stent struts using structural features to code the information of the different subregions of the struts. A stochastic gradient descent method is applied to optimize the overall performance of the detector. Validation results of struts detection are very encouraging with an average F-measure of 81%.
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Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RRB2010 Serial 1287
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Author Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Deteccion automatica de la dominancia en conversaciones diadicas Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Escritos de Psicologia Abbreviated Journal EP
Volume 3 Issue (up) 2 Pages 41–45
Keywords Dominance detection; Non-verbal communication; Visual features
Abstract Dominance is referred to the level of influence that a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on the dominance detection of visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers' opinion. Moreover, these indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analyses showed a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1989-3809 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes HUPBA; OR; MILAB;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2010 Serial 1315
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Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Generalized Gamut Mapping using Image Derivative Structures for Color Constancy Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 86 Issue (up) 2-3 Pages 127-139
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Abstract The gamut mapping algorithm is one of the most promising methods to achieve computational color constancy. However, so far, gamut mapping algorithms are restricted to the use of pixel values to estimate the illuminant. Therefore, in this paper, gamut mapping is extended to incorporate the statistical nature of images. It is analytically shown that the proposed gamut mapping framework is able to include any linear filter output. The main focus is on the local n-jet describing the derivative structure of an image. It is shown that derivatives have the advantage over pixel values to be invariant to disturbing effects (i.e. deviations of the diagonal model) such as saturated colors and diffuse light. Further, as the n-jet based gamut mapping has the ability to use more information than pixel values alone, the combination of these algorithms are more stable than the regular gamut mapping algorithm. Different methods of combining are proposed. Based on theoretical and experimental results conducted on large scale data sets of hyperspectral, laboratory and realworld scenes, it can be derived that (1) in case of deviations of the diagonal model, the derivative-based approach outperforms the pixel-based gamut mapping, (2) state-of-the-art algorithms are outperformed by the n-jet based gamut mapping, (3) the combination of the different n-jet based gamut
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Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Hingham, MA, USA Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ GGW2010 Serial 1274
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez
Title Symbol Spotting in Vectorized Technical Drawings Through a Lookup Table of Region Strings Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Analysis and Applications Abbreviated Journal PAA
Volume 13 Issue (up) 3 Pages 321-331
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Abstract In this paper, we address the problem of symbol spotting in technical document images applied to scanned and vectorized line drawings. Like any information spotting architecture, our approach has two components. First, symbols are decomposed in primitives which are compactly represented and second a primitive indexing structure aims to efficiently retrieve similar primitives. Primitives are encoded in terms of attributed strings representing closed regions. Similar strings are clustered in a lookup table so that the set median strings act as indexing keys. A voting scheme formulates hypothesis in certain locations of the line drawing image where there is a high presence of regions similar to the queried ones, and therefore, a high probability to find the queried graphical symbol. The proposed approach is illustrated in a framework consisting in spotting furniture symbols in architectural drawings. It has been proved to work even in the presence of noise and distortion introduced by the scanning and raster-to-vector processes.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1433-7541 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RLS2010 Serial 1165
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Agnes Borras; Josep Llados
Title Relational Indexing of Vectorial Primitives for Symbol Spotting in Line-Drawing Images Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 31 Issue (up) 3 Pages 188–201
Keywords Document image analysis and recognition, Graphics recognition, Symbol spotting ,Vectorial representations, Line-drawings
Abstract This paper presents a symbol spotting approach for indexing by content a database of line-drawing images. As line-drawings are digital-born documents designed by vectorial softwares, instead of using a pixel-based approach, we present a spotting method based on vector primitives. Graphical symbols are represented by a set of vectorial primitives which are described by an off-the-shelf shape descriptor. A relational indexing strategy aims to retrieve symbol locations into the target documents by using a combined numerical-relational description of 2D structures. The zones which are likely to contain the queried symbol are validated by a Hough-like voting scheme. In addition, a performance evaluation framework for symbol spotting in graphical documents is proposed. The presented methodology has been evaluated with a benchmarking set of architectural documents achieving good performance results.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RBL2010 Serial 1177
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Theo Gevers; M. Lucassen; Joost Van de Weijer; Ramon Baldrich
Title Saliency of Color Image Derivatives: A Comparison between Computational Models and Human Perception Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Journal of the Optical Society of America A Abbreviated Journal JOSA A
Volume 27 Issue (up) 3 Pages 613–621
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Abstract In this paper, computational methods are proposed to compute color edge saliency based on the information content of color edges. The computational methods are evaluated on bottom-up saliency in a psychophysical experiment, and on a more complex task of salient object detection in real-world images. The psychophysical experiment demonstrates the relevance of using information theory as a saliency processing model and that the proposed methods are significantly better in predicting color saliency (with a human-method correspondence up to 74.75% and an observer agreement of 86.8%) than state-of-the-art models. Furthermore, results from salient object detection confirm that an early fusion of color and contrast provide accurate performance to compute visual saliency with a hit rate up to 95.2%.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Notes ISE;CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ VGL2010 Serial 1275
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Author O. Fors; J. Nuñez; Xavier Otazu; A. Prades; Robert D. Cardinal
Title Improving the Ability of Image Sensors to Detect Faint Stars and Moving Objects Using Image Deconvolution Techniques Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS
Volume 10 Issue (up) 3 Pages 1743–1752
Keywords image processing; image deconvolution; faint stars; space debris; wavelet transform
Abstract Abstract: In this paper we show how the techniques of image deconvolution can increase the ability of image sensors as, for example, CCD imagers, to detect faint stars or faint orbital objects (small satellites and space debris). In the case of faint stars, we show that this benefit is equivalent to double the quantum efficiency of the used image sensor or to increase the effective telescope aperture by more than 30% without decreasing the astrometric precision or introducing artificial bias. In the case of orbital objects, the deconvolution technique can double the signal-to-noise ratio of the image, which helps to discover and control dangerous objects as space debris or lost satellites. The benefits obtained using CCD detectors can be extrapolated to any kind of image sensors.
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ FNO2010 Serial 1285
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Rotation Invariant Hand-Drawn Symbol Recognition based on a Dynamic Time Warping Model Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 13 Issue (up) 3 Pages 229–241
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Abstract One of the major difficulties of handwriting symbol recognition is the high variability among symbols because of the different writer styles. In this paper, we introduce a robust approach for describing and recognizing hand-drawn symbols tolerant to these writer style differences. This method, which is invariant to scale and rotation, is based on the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. The symbols are described by vector sequences, a variation of the DTW distance is used for computing the matching distance, and K-Nearest Neighbor is used to classify them. Our approach has been evaluated in two benchmarking scenarios consisting of hand-drawn symbols. Compared with state-of-the-art methods for symbol recognition, our method shows higher tolerance to the irregular deformations induced by hand-drawn strokes.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes DAG; IF 2009: 1,213 Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FLS2010a Serial 1288
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Author Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre; Ernest Valveny; Tony Pridmore; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title Generation of Synthetic Documents for Performance Evaluation of Symbol Recognition & Spotting Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 13 Issue (up) 3 Pages 187-207
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Abstract This paper deals with the topic of performance evaluation of symbol recognition & spotting systems. We propose here a new approach to the generation of synthetic graphics documents containing non-isolated symbols in a real context. This approach is based on the definition of a set of constraints that permit us to place the symbols on a pre-defined background according to the properties of a particular domain (architecture, electronics, engineering, etc.). In this way, we can obtain a large amount of images resembling real documents by simply defining the set of constraints and providing a few pre-defined backgrounds. As documents are synthetically generated, the groundtruth (the location and the label of every symbol) becomes automatically available. We have applied this approach to the generation of a large database of architectural drawings and electronic diagrams, which shows the flexibility of the system. Performance evaluation experiments of a symbol localization system show that our approach permits to generate documents with different features that are reflected in variation of localization results.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ DVP2010 Serial 1289
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Author Antonio Lopez; Joan Serrat; Cristina Cañero; Felipe Lumbreras; T. Graf
Title Robust lane markings detection and road geometry computation Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Automotive Technology Abbreviated Journal IJAT
Volume 11 Issue (up) 3 Pages 395–407
Keywords lane markings
Abstract Detection of lane markings based on a camera sensor can be a low-cost solution to lane departure and curve-over-speed warnings. A number of methods and implementations have been reported in the literature. However, reliable detection is still an issue because of cast shadows, worn and occluded markings, variable ambient lighting conditions, for example. We focus on increasing detection reliability in two ways. First, we employed an image feature other than the commonly used edges: ridges, which we claim addresses this problem better. Second, we adapted RANSAC, a generic robust estimation method, to fit a parametric model of a pair of lane lines to the image features, based on both ridgeness and ridge orientation. In addition, the model was fitted for the left and right lane lines simultaneously to enforce a consistent result. Four measures of interest for driver assistance applications were directly computed from the fitted parametric model at each frame: lane width, lane curvature, and vehicle yaw angle and lateral offset with regard the lane medial axis. We qualitatively assessed our method in video sequences captured on several road types and under very different lighting conditions. We also quantitatively assessed it on synthetic but realistic video sequences for which road geometry and vehicle trajectory ground truth are known.
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Publisher The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1229-9138 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LSC2010 Serial 1300
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Author Jaume Garcia; Debora Gil; Luis Badiella; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Francesc Carreras; Sandra Pujades; Enric Marti
Title A Normalized Framework for the Design of Feature Spaces Assessing the Left Ventricular Function Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal TMI
Volume 29 Issue (up) 3 Pages 733-745
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Abstract A through description of the left ventricle functionality requires combining complementary regional scores. A main limitation is the lack of multiparametric normality models oriented to the assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA). This paper covers two main topics involved in RWMA assessment. We propose a general framework allowing the fusion and comparison across subjects of different regional scores. Our framework is used to explore which combination of regional scores (including 2-D motion and strains) is better suited for RWMA detection. Our statistical analysis indicates that for a proper (within interobserver variability) identification of RWMA, models should consider motion and extreme strains.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 0278-0062 ISBN Medium
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GGH2010b Serial 1507
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Author Carolina Malagelada; F.De Lorio; Fernando Azpiroz; Santiago Segui; Petia Radeva; Anna Accarino; J.Santos; Juan R. Malagelada
Title Intestinal Dysmotility in Patients with Functional Intestinal Disorders Demonstrated by Computer Vision Analysis of Capsule Endoscopy Images Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 18th United European Gastroenterology Week Abbreviated Journal
Volume 56 Issue (up) 3 Pages A19-20
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Address Barcelona
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference UEGW
Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MLA2010 Serial 1779
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