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	Author	Debora Gil; David Roche; Agnes Borras; Jesus Giraldo
	Title	Terminating Evolutionary Algorithms at their Steady State			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Computational Optimization and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	COA
	Volume	61	Issue	2	Pages	489-515
	Keywords	Evolutionary algorithms; Termination condition; Steady state; Differential evolution
	Abstract	Assessing the reliability of termination conditions for evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is of prime importance. An erroneous or weak stop criterion can negatively affect both the computational effort and the final result. We introduce a statistical framework for assessing whether a termination condition is able to stop an EA at its steady state, so that its results can not be improved anymore. We use a regression model in order to determine the requirements ensuring that a measure derived from EA evolving population is related to the distance to the optimum in decision variable space. Our framework is analyzed across 24 benchmark test functions and two standard termination criteria based on function fitness value in objective function space and EA population decision variable space distribution for the differential evolution (DE) paradigm. Results validate our framework as a powerful tool for determining the capability of a measure for terminating EA and the results also identify the decision variable space distribution as the best-suited for accurately terminating DE in real-world applications.
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	Publisher	Springer US	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	0926-6003	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM; 600.044; 605.203; 600.060; 600.075			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRB2015			Serial	2560
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	Author	Enric Marti; J.Roncaries; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Antoni Gurgui; Ferran Poveda
	Title	PBL On Line: A proposal for the organization, part-time monitoring and assessment of PBL group activities			Type	Journal
	Year	2015	Publication	Journal of Technology and Science Education	Abbreviated Journal	JOTSE
	Volume	5	Issue	2	Pages	87-96
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	Notes	IAM; ADAS; 600.076; 600.075			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MRG2015			Serial	2608
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	Author	Carles Sanchez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Patricia Marquez; Enric Marti; J.Roncaries; Debora Gil
	Title	Automatic evaluation of practices in Moodle for Self Learning in Engineering			Type	Journal
	Year	2015	Publication	Journal of Technology and Science Education	Abbreviated Journal	JOTSE
	Volume	5	Issue	2	Pages	97-106
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	Notes	IAM; DAG; 600.075; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SRM2015			Serial	2610
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	Author	Tadashi Araki; Nobutaka Ikeda; Nilanjan Dey; Sayan Chakraborty; Luca Saba; Dinesh Kumar; Elisa Cuadrado Godia; Xiaoyi Jiang; Ajay Gupta; Petia Radeva; John R. Laird; Andrew Nicolaides; Jasjit S. Suri
	Title	A comparative approach of four different image registration techniques for quantitative assessment of coronary artery calcium lesions using intravascular ultrasound			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	Abbreviated Journal	CMPB
	Volume	118	Issue	2	Pages	158-172
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AID2015			Serial	2640
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	Author	Joan M. Nuñez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
	Title	Growing Algorithm for Intersection Detection (GRAID) in branching patterns			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Machine Vision and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	MVAP
	Volume	26	Issue	2	Pages	387-400
	Keywords	Bifurcation ; Crossroad; Intersection ;Retina ; Vessel
	Abstract	Analysis of branching structures represents a very important task in fields such as medical diagnosis, road detection or biometrics. Detecting intersection landmarks Becomes crucial when capturing the structure of a branching pattern. We present a very simple geometrical model to describe intersections in branching structures based on two conditions: Bounded Tangency condition (BT) and Shortest Branch (SB) condition. The proposed model precisely sets a geometrical characterization of intersections and allows us to introduce a new unsupervised operator for intersection extraction. We propose an implementation that handles the consequences of digital domain operation that,unlike existing approaches, is not restricted to a particular scale and does not require the computation of the thinned pattern. The new proposal, as well as other existing approaches in the bibliography, are evaluated in a common framework for the first time. The performance analysis is based on two manually segmented image data sets: DRIVE retinal image database and COLON-VESSEL data set, a newly created data set of vascular content in colonoscopy frames. We have created an intersection landmark ground truth for each data set besides comparing our method in the only existing ground truth. Quantitative results confirm that we are able to outperform state-of-the-art performancelevels with the advantage that neither training nor parameter tuning is needed.
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	Notes	;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @MBS2015			Serial	2777
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	Author	Andres Traumann; Gholamreza Anbarjafari; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Accurate 3D Measurement Using Optical Depth Information			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Electronic Letters	Abbreviated Journal	EL
	Volume	51	Issue	18	Pages	1420-1422
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	Abstract	A novel three-dimensional measurement technique is proposed. The methodology consists in mapping from the screen coordinates reported by the optical camera to the real world, and integrating distance gradients from the beginning to the end point, while also minimising the error through fitting pixel locations to a smooth curve. The results demonstrate accuracy of less than half a centimetre using Microsoft Kinect II.
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	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TAE2015			Serial	2647
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	Author	Lluis Garrido; M.Guerrieri; Laura Igual
	Title	Image Segmentation with Cage Active Contours			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	12	Pages	5557 - 5566
	Keywords	Level sets; Mean value coordinates; Parametrized active contours; level sets; mean value coordinates
	Abstract	In this paper, we present a framework for image segmentation based on parametrized active contours. The evolving contour is parametrized according to a reduced set of control points that form a closed polygon and have a clear visual interpretation. The parametrization, called mean value coordinates, stems from the techniques used in computer graphics to animate virtual models. Our framework allows to easily formulate region-based energies to segment an image. In particular, we present three different local region-based energy terms: 1) the mean model; 2) the Gaussian model; 3) and the histogram model. We show the behavior of our method on synthetic and real images and compare the performance with state-of-the-art level set methods.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GGI2015			Serial	2673
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	Author	Mikhail Mozerov; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Global Color Sparseness and a Local Statistics Prior for Fast Bilateral Filtering			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	12	Pages	5842-5853
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	Abstract	The property of smoothing while preserving edges makes the bilateral filter a very popular image processing tool. However, its non-linear nature results in a computationally costly operation. Various works propose fast approximations to the bilateral filter. However, the majority does not generalize to vector input as is the case with color images. We propose a fast approximation to the bilateral filter for color images. The filter is based on two ideas. First, the number of colors, which occur in a single natural image, is limited. We exploit this color sparseness to rewrite the initial non-linear bilateral filter as a number of linear filter operations. Second, we impose a statistical prior to the image values that are locally present within the filter window. We show that this statistical prior leads to a closed-form solution of the bilateral filter. Finally, we combine both ideas into a single fast and accurate bilateral filter for color images. Experimental results show that our bilateral filter based on the local prior yields an extremely fast bilateral filter approximation, but with limited accuracy, which has potential application in real-time video filtering. Our bilateral filter, which combines color sparseness and local statistics, yields a fast and accurate bilateral filter approximation and obtains the state-of-the-art results.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.079;ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MoW2015b			Serial	2689
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Jiaolong Xu; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Recognizing Actions through Action-specific Person Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	11	Pages	4422-4432
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	Abstract	Action recognition in still images is a challenging problem in computer vision. To facilitate comparative evaluation independently of person detection, the standard evaluation protocol for action recognition uses an oracle person detector to obtain perfect bounding box information at both training and test time. The assumption is that, in practice, a general person detector will provide candidate bounding boxes for action recognition. In this paper, we argue that this paradigm is suboptimal and that action class labels should already be considered during the detection stage. Motivated by the observation that body pose is strongly conditioned on action class, we show that: 1) the existing state-of-the-art generic person detectors are not adequate for proposing candidate bounding boxes for action classification; 2) due to limited training examples, the direct training of action-specific person detectors is also inadequate; and 3) using only a small number of labeled action examples, the transfer learning is able to adapt an existing detector to propose higher quality bounding boxes for subsequent action classification. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate transfer learning for the task of action-specific person detection in still images. We perform extensive experiments on two benchmark data sets: 1) Stanford-40 and 2) PASCAL VOC 2012. For the action detection task (i.e., both person localization and classification of the action performed), our approach outperforms methods based on general person detection by 5.7% mean average precision (MAP) on Stanford-40 and 2.1% MAP on PASCAL VOC 2012. Our approach also significantly outperforms the state of the art with a MAP of 45.4% on Stanford-40 and 31.4% on PASCAL VOC 2012. We also evaluate our action detection approach for the task of action classification (i.e., recognizing actions without localizing them). For this task, our approach, without using any ground-truth person localization at test tim- , outperforms on both data sets state-of-the-art methods, which do use person locations.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; LAMP; 600.076; 600.079			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KXR2015			Serial	2668
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	Author	Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera; Marc Perez; Oriol Janes; Xavier Baro
	Title	Non-Verbal Communication Analysis in Victim-Offender Mediations			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	67	Issue	1	Pages	19-27
	Keywords	Victim–Offender Mediation; Multi-modal human behavior analysis; Face and gesture recognition; Social signal processing; Computer vision; Machine learning
	Abstract	We present a non-invasive ambient intelligence framework for the semi-automatic analysis of non-verbal communication applied to the restorative justice field. We propose the use of computer vision and social signal processing technologies in real scenarios of Victim–Offender Mediations, applying feature extraction techniques to multi-modal audio-RGB-depth data. We compute a set of behavioral indicators that define communicative cues from the fields of psychology and observational methodology. We test our methodology on data captured in real Victim–Offender Mediation sessions in Catalonia. We define the ground truth based on expert opinions when annotating the observed social responses. Using different state of the art binary classification approaches, our system achieves recognition accuracies of 86% when predicting satisfaction, and 79% when predicting both agreement and receptivity. Applying a regression strategy, we obtain a mean deviation for the predictions between 0.5 and 0.7 in the range [1–5] for the computed social signals.
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	Notes	HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PEP2015			Serial	2583
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	Author	Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa; E. Boyer
	Title	Implicit B-Spline Surface Reconstruction			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	1	Pages	22 - 32
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	Abstract	This paper presents a fast and flexible curve, and surface reconstruction technique based on implicit B-spline. This representation does not require any parameterization and it is locally supported. This fact has been exploited in this paper to propose a reconstruction technique through solving a sparse system of equations. This method is further accelerated to reduce the dimension to the active control lattice. Moreover, the surface smoothness and user interaction are allowed for controlling the surface. Finally, a novel weighting technique has been introduced in order to blend small patches and smooth them in the overlapping regions. The whole framework is very fast and efficient and can handle large cloud of points with very low computational cost. The experimental results show the flexibility and accuracy of the proposed algorithm to describe objects with complex topologies. Comparisons with other fitting methods highlight the superiority of the proposed approach in the presence of noise and missing data.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSB2015			Serial	2541
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	Author	Alvaro Cepero; Albert Clapes; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Automatic non-verbal communication skills analysis: a quantitative evaluation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	AI Communications	Abbreviated Journal	AIC
	Volume	28	Issue	1	Pages	87-101
	Keywords	Social signal processing; human behavior analysis; multi-modal data description; multi-modal data fusion; non-verbal communication analysis; e-Learning
	Abstract	The oral communication competence is defined on the top of the most relevant skills for one's professional and personal life. Because of the importance of communication in our activities of daily living, it is crucial to study methods to evaluate and provide the necessary feedback that can be used in order to improve these communication capabilities and, therefore, learn how to express ourselves better. In this work, we propose a system capable of evaluating quantitatively the quality of oral presentations in an automatic fashion. The system is based on a multi-modal RGB, depth, and audio data description and a fusion approach in order to recognize behavioral cues and train classifiers able to eventually predict communication quality levels. The performance of the proposed system is tested on a novel dataset containing Bachelor thesis' real defenses, presentations from an 8th semester Bachelor courses, and Master courses' presentations at Universitat de Barcelona. Using as groundtruth the marks assigned by actual instructors, our system achieves high performance categorizing and ranking presentations by their quality, and also making real-valued mark predictions.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0921-7126	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	HUPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CCE2015			Serial	2549
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	Author	G. Zahnd; Simone Balocco; A. Serusclat; P. Moulin; M. Orkisz; D. Vray
	Title	Progressive attenuation of the longitudinal kinetics in the common carotid artery: preliminary in vivo assessment Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology	Abbreviated Journal	UMB
	Volume	41	Issue	1	Pages	339-345
	Keywords	Arterial stiffness; Atherosclerosis; Common carotid artery; Longitudinal kinetics; Motion tracking; Ultrasound imaging
	Abstract	Longitudinal kinetics (LOKI) of the arterial wall consists of the shearing motion of the intima-media complex over the adventitia layer in the direction parallel to the blood flow during the cardiac cycle. The aim of this study was to investigate the local variability of LOKI amplitude along the length of the vessel. By use of a previously validated motion-estimation framework, 35 in vivo longitudinal B-mode ultrasound cine loops of healthy common carotid arteries were analyzed. Results indicated that LOKI amplitude is progressively attenuated along the length of the artery, as it is larger in regions located on the proximal side of the image (i.e., toward the heart) and smaller in regions located on the distal side of the image (i.e., toward the head), with an average attenuation coefficient of -2.5 ± 2.0%/mm. Reported for the first time in this study, this phenomenon is likely to be of great importance in improving understanding of atherosclerosis mechanisms, and has the potential to be a novel index of arterial stiffness.
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ZBS2014			Serial	2556
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	Author	Lluis Pere de las Heras; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Sergi Robles; Gemma Sanchez
	Title	CVC-FP and SGT: a new database for structural floor plan analysis and its groundtruthing tool			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	IJDAR
	Volume	18	Issue	1	Pages	15-30
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	Abstract	Recent results on structured learning methods have shown the impact of structural information in a wide range of pattern recognition tasks. In the field of document image analysis, there is a long experience on structural methods for the analysis and information extraction of multiple types of documents. Yet, the lack of conveniently annotated and free access databases has not benefited the progress in some areas such as technical drawing understanding. In this paper, we present a floor plan database, named CVC-FP, that is annotated for the architectural objects and their structural relations. To construct this database, we have implemented a groundtruthing tool, the SGT tool, that allows to make specific this sort of information in a natural manner. This tool has been made for general purpose groundtruthing: It allows to define own object classes and properties, multiple labeling options are possible, grants the cooperative work, and provides user and version control. We finally have collected some of the recent work on floor plan interpretation and present a quantitative benchmark for this database. Both CVC-FP database and the SGT tool are freely released to the research community to ease comparisons between methods and boost reproducible research.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1433-2833	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG; ADAS; 600.061; 600.076; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HRR2015			Serial	2567
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	Author	Sergio Vera; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Debora Gil
	Title	A Novel Cochlear Reference Frame Based On The Laplace Equation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	29th international Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	10	Issue	1	Pages	1-312
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	Abstract	Poster
	Address	Barcelona; Spain; June 2015
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CARS
	Notes	IAM; 600.075			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ VGG2015			Serial	2615
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