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Author Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
Title Chromatic settings and the structural color constancy index Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal JV
Volume 13 Issue (down) 4-3 Pages 1-26
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Abstract Color constancy is usually measured by achromatic setting, asymmetric matching, or color naming paradigms, whose results are interpreted in terms of indexes and models that arguably do not capture the full complexity of the phenomenon. Here we propose a new paradigm, chromatic setting, which allows a more comprehensive characterization of color constancy through the measurement of multiple points in color space under immersive adaptation. We demonstrated its feasibility by assessing the consistency of subjects' responses over time. The paradigm was applied to two-dimensional (2-D) Mondrian stimuli under three different illuminants, and the results were used to fit a set of linear color constancy models. The use of multiple colors improved the precision of more complex linear models compared to the popular diagonal model computed from gray. Our results show that a diagonal plus translation matrix that models mechanisms other than cone gain might be best suited to explain the phenomenon. Additionally, we calculated a number of color constancy indices for several points in color space, and our results suggest that interrelations among colors are not as uniform as previously believed. To account for this variability, we developed a new structural color constancy index that takes into account the magnitude and orientation of the chromatic shift in addition to the interrelations among colors and memory effects.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RPV2013 Serial 2288
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Author Yuhua Luo; Francisco Jose Perales; Juan J. Villanueva
Title An automatic Rotoscopy System for Human Motion Based on a Biomedical Graphical Model. Type Journal Article
Year 1992 Publication Computer & Graphics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue (down) 4 Pages 355-362
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Call Number ISE @ ise @ LPV1992 Serial 249
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Author Daniel Ponsa; Robert Benavente; Felipe Lumbreras; Judit Martinez; Xavier Roca
Title Quality control of safety belts by machine vision inspection for real-time production Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Optical Engineering (IF: 0.877) Abbreviated Journal
Volume 42 Issue (down) 4 Pages 1114-1120
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ PRL2003 Serial 399
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Author Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Josefina Mauri; Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias; M. Gomez; Antonio Tovar; L. Cano; C. Diego; Carme Julia; Vicente del Valle; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
Title Ecografia Intracoronaria: Segmentacio Automatica de area de la llum Type Journal
Year 2002 Publication Revista Societat Catalana de Cardiologia Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue (down) 4 Pages 42
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Area Expedition Conference XIVe Congres de la Societat Catalana de Cardiologia
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RMF2002 Serial 435
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Author Matthias S. Keil
Title Smooth Gradient Representations as a Unifying Account of Chevreul’s Illusion, Mach Bands, and a Variant of the Ehrenstein Disk Type Journal
Year 2006 Publication Neural Computation Abbreviated Journal NEURALCOMPUT
Volume 18 Issue (down) 4 Pages 871–903
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Kei2006 Serial 633
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Author Agata Lapedriza; David Masip; Jordi Vitria
Title On the Use of External Face Features for Identity Verification Type Journal
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Multimedia, 1(4): 11–20 Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue (down) 4 Pages 11-20
Keywords Face Verification, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Abstract In general automatic face classification applications images are captured in natural environments. In these cases, the performance is affected by variations in facial images related to illumination, pose, occlusion or expressions. Most of the existing face classification systems use only the internal features information, composed by eyes, nose and mouth, since they are more difficult to imitate. Nevertheless, nowadays a lot of applications not related to security are developed, and in these cases the information located at head, chin or ears zones (external features) can be useful to improve the current accuracies. However, the lack of a natural alignment in these areas makes difficult to extract these features applying classic Bottom-Up methods. In this paper, we propose a complete scheme based on a Top-Down reconstruction algorithm to extract external features of face images. To test our system we have performed face verification experiments using public databases, given that identity verification is a general task that has many real life applications. We have considered images uniformly illuminated, images with occlusions and images with high local changes in the illumination, and the obtained results show that the information contributed by the external features can be useful for verification purposes, specially significant when faces are partially occluded.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ LMV2006b Serial 708
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Author Carme Julia; Angel Sappa; Felipe Lumbreras; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Rank Estimation in 3D Multibody Motion Segmentation Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Electronic Letters Abbreviated Journal
Volume 44 Issue (down) 4 Pages 279-280
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Abstract A novel technique for rank estimation in 3D multibody motion segmentation is proposed. It is based on the study of the frequency spectra of moving rigid objects and does not use or assume a prior knowledge of the objects contained in the scene (i.e. number of objects and motion). The significance of rank estimation on multibody motion segmentation results is shown by using two motion segmentation algorithms over both synthetic and real data.
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ JSL2008a Serial 939
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Author David Masip; Jordi Vitria
Title Shared Feature Extraction for Nearest Neighbor Face Recognition Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Abbreviated Journal
Volume 19 Issue (down) 4 Pages 586–595
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ MaV2008 Serial 944
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Author Carolina Malagelada; Fosca De Iorio; Fernando Azpiroz; Anna Accarino; Santiago Segui; Petia Radeva; Juan R. Malagelada
Title New Insight Into Intestinal Motor Function via Noninvasive Endoluminal Image Analysis Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Gastroenterology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 135 Issue (down) 4 Pages 1155–1162
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ MDA2008 Serial 1040
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Author Hugo Berti; Angel Sappa; Osvaldo Agamennoni
Title Improved Dynamic Window Approach by Using Lyapunov Stability Criteria Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Latin American Applied Research Abbreviated Journal
Volume 38 Issue (down) 4 Pages 289–298
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ BSA2008 Serial 1056
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Author Pau Baiget; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Generation of Augmented Video Sequences Combining Behavioral Animation and Multi Object Tracking Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue (down) 4 Pages 473–489
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Abstract In this paper we present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. The resulting framework allows to generate video sequences involving behavior-based virtual agents that react to real agent behavior and has applications in education, simulation, and in the game and movie industries. We show the performance of the proposed approach in an indoor and outdoor scenario simulating human and vehicle agents. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

We present a novel approach to generate augmented video sequences in real-time, involving interactions between virtual and real agents in real scenarios. On the one hand, real agent motion is estimated by means of a multi-object tracking algorithm, which determines real objects' position over the scenario for each time step. On the other hand, virtual agents are provided with behavior models considering their interaction with the environment and with other agents. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Call Number ISE @ ise @ BFR2009 Serial 1170
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Three-Dimensional Face Pose Detection and Tracking Using Monocular Videos: Tool and Application Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics part B Abbreviated Journal TSMCB
Volume 39 Issue (down) 4 Pages 935–944
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Abstract Recently, we have proposed a real-time tracker that simultaneously tracks the 3-D head pose and facial actions in monocular video sequences that can be provided by low quality cameras. This paper has two main contributions. First, we propose an automatic 3-D face pose initialization scheme for the real-time tracker by adopting a 2-D face detector and an eigenface system. Second, we use the proposed methods-the initialization and tracking-for enhancing the human-machine interaction functionality of an AIBO robot. More precisely, we show how the orientation of the robot's camera (or any active vision system) can be controlled through the estimation of the user's head pose. Applications based on head-pose imitation such as telepresence, virtual reality, and video games can directly exploit the proposed techniques. Experiments on real videos confirm the robustness and usefulness of the proposed methods.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ DoR2009a Serial 1218
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Author Arnau Ramisa; Adriana Tapus; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
Title Robust Vision-Based Localization using Combinations of Local Feature Regions Detectors Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Autonomous Robots Abbreviated Journal AR
Volume 27 Issue (down) 4 Pages 373-385
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Abstract This paper presents a vision-based approach for mobile robot localization. The model of the environment is topological. The new approach characterizes a place using a signature. This signature consists of a constellation of descriptors computed over different types of local affine covariant regions extracted from an omnidirectional image acquired rotating a standard camera with a pan-tilt unit. This type of representation permits a reliable and distinctive environment modelling. Our objectives were to validate the proposed method in indoor environments and, also, to find out if the combination of complementary local feature region detectors improves the localization versus using a single region detector. Our experimental results show that if false matches are effectively rejected, the combination of different covariant affine region detectors increases notably the performance of the approach by combining the different strengths of the individual detectors. In order to reduce the localization time, two strategies are evaluated: re-ranking the map nodes using a global similarity measure and using standard perspective view field of 45°.
In order to systematically test topological localization methods, another contribution proposed in this work is a novel method to see the degradation in localization performance as the robot moves away from the point where the original signature was acquired. This allows to know the robustness of the proposed signature. In order for this to be effective, it must be done in several, variated, environments that test all the possible situations in which the robot may have to perform localization.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RTA2009 Serial 1245
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa; K. Riesen; Horst Bunke
Title Generalized Median Graph Computation by Means of Graph Embedding in Vector Spaces Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 43 Issue (down) 4 Pages 1642–1655
Keywords Graph matching; Weighted mean of graphs; Median graph; Graph embedding; Vector spaces
Abstract The median graph has been presented as a useful tool to represent a set of graphs. Nevertheless its computation is very complex and the existing algorithms are restricted to use limited amount of data. In this paper we propose a new approach for the computation of the median graph based on graph embedding. Graphs are embedded into a vector space and the median is computed in the vector domain. We have designed a procedure based on the weighted mean of a pair of graphs to go from the vector domain back to the graph domain in order to obtain a final approximation of the median graph. Experiments on three different databases containing large graphs show that we succeed to compute good approximations of the median graph. We have also applied the median graph to perform some basic classification tasks achieving reasonable good results. These experiments on real data open the door to the application of the median graph to a number of more complex machine learning algorithms where a representative of a set of graphs is needed.
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Call Number DAG @ dag @ FVS2010 Serial 1294
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Author Simone Balocco; O. Camara; E. Vivas; T. Sola; L. Guimaraens; H. A. van Andel; C. B. Majoie; J. M. Pozo; B. H. Bijnens; Alejandro F. Frangi
Title Feasibility of Estimating Regional Mechanical Properties of Cerebral Aneurysms In Vivo Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Medical Physics Abbreviated Journal MEDPHYS
Volume 37 Issue (down) 4 Pages 1689–1706
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In this article, the authors studied the feasibility of estimating regional mechanical properties in cerebral aneurysms, integrating information extracted from imaging and physiological data with generic computational models of the arterial wall behavior.
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A data assimilation framework was developed to incorporate patient-specific geometries into a given biomechanical model, whereas wall motion estimates were obtained from applying registration techniques to a pair of simulated MR images and guided the mechanical parameter estimation. A simple incompressible linear and isotropic Hookean model coupled with computational fluid-dynamics was employed as a first approximation for computational purposes. Additionally, an automatic clustering technique was developed to reduce the number of parameters to assimilate at the optimization stage and it considerably accelerated the convergence of the simulations. Several in silico experiments were designed to assess the influence of aneurysm geometrical characteristics and the accuracy of wall motion estimates on the mechanical property estimates. Hence, the proposed methodology was applied to six real cerebral aneurysms and tested against a varying number of regions with different elasticity, different mesh discretization, imaging resolution, and registration configurations.
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Several in silico experiments were conducted to investigate the feasibility of the proposed workflow, results found suggesting that the estimation of the mechanical properties was mainly influenced by the image spatial resolution and the chosen registration configuration. According to the in silico experiments, the minimal spatial resolution needed to extract wall pulsation measurements with enough accuracy to guide the proposed data assimilation framework was of 0.1 mm.
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Current routine imaging modalities do not have such a high spatial resolution and therefore the proposed data assimilation framework cannot currently be used on in vivo data to reliably estimate regional properties in cerebral aneurysms. Besides, it was observed that the incorporation of fluid-structure interaction in a biomechanical model with linear and isotropic material properties did not have a substantial influence in the final results.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BCV2010 Serial 1313
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