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Author Eduard Vazquez; Joost Van de Weijer; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Image Segmentation in the Presence of Shadows and Highligts Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication 10th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 5305 Issue (up) Pages 1–14  
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Address Marseille (France)  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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Area Expedition Conference ECCV  
Notes CAT;CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ VVB2008b Serial 1013  
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Author Agata Lapedriza; Jaume Garcia; Ernest Valveny; Robert Benavente; Miquel Ferrer; Gemma Sanchez edit  openurl
Title Una experiencia de aprenentatge basada en projectes en el ambit de la informatica Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication V Jornades d’Innovacio Docent (UAB) Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 63  
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Address Bellaterra (Spain)  
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Notes OR; IAM; DAG; CIC; MV Approved no  
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ LGV2008 Serial 1030  
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Author Robert Benavente; Ernest Valveny; Jaume Garcia; Agata Lapedriza; Miquel Ferrer; Gemma Sanchez edit  openurl
Title Una experiencia de adaptacion al EEES de las asignaturas de programacion en Ingenieria Informatica Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication V Congreso Iberoamericano de Docencia Universitaria, pp. 213–216 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Valencia  
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Notes OR;DAG;CIC;MV Approved no  
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BVG2008 Serial 1031  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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Title Illuminant Invariant Model-Based Road Segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 1155–1180  
Keywords road detection  
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Address Eindhoven (The Netherlands)  
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Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALB2008 Serial 1045  
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Author Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  openurl
Title Colour induction effects are modelled by a low-level multiresolution wavelet framework Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Perception 37(Suppl.): 107 Abbreviated Journal  
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Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ OVP2008b Serial 1055  
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Author Antonio Lopez; J. Hilgenstock; A. Busse; Ramon Baldrich; Felipe Lumbreras; Joan Serrat edit   pdf
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Title Nightime Vehicle Detecion for Intelligent Headlight Control Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, 10th International Conference, Proceedings, Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 5259 Issue (up) Pages 113–124  
Keywords Intelligent Headlights; vehicle detection  
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Address Juan-les-Pins, France  
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Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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Area Expedition Conference ACIVS  
Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LHB2008a Serial 1098  
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Author Robert Benavente edit  openurl
Title A Parametric Model for Computational Colour Naming Type Book Whole
Year 2007 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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Keywords PhD Thesis  
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Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Maria Vanrell  
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Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ Ben2007 Serial 1108  
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Author Robert Benavente; Laura Igual; Fernando Vilariño edit  isbn
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Title Current Challenges in Computer Vision Type Book Whole
Year 2008 Publication Proccedings of the Third Internal Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-936529-0-6 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CVCRD  
Notes MILAB;CIC;SIAI Approved no  
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BIV2008 Serial 1110  
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Author Antonio Lopez; J. Hilgenstock; A. Busse; Ramon Baldrich; Felipe Lumbreras; Joan Serrat edit   pdf
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Title Temporal Coherence Analysis for Intelligent Headlight Control Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication 2nd Workshop on Perception, Planning and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 59–64  
Keywords Intelligent Headlights  
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ISSN ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference IROS  
Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LHB2008b Serial 1112  
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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 38 Issue (up) Pages 180  
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Abstract 38(Suppl.)ECVP Abstract Supplement
We developed a new psychophysical method to compare different colour appearance models when applied to natural scenes. The method was as follows: two images (processed by different algorithms) were displayed on a CRT monitor and observers were asked to select the most natural of them. The original images were gathered by means of a calibrated trichromatic digital camera and presented one on top of the other on a calibrated screen. The selection was made by pressing on a 6-button IR box, which allowed observers to consider not only the most natural but to rate their selection. The rating system allowed observers to register how much more natural was their chosen image (eg, much more, definitely more, slightly more), which gave us valuable extra information on the selection process. The results were analysed considering both the selection as a binary choice (using Thurstone's law of comparative judgement) and using Bradley-Terry method for ordinal comparison. Our results show a significant difference in the rating scales obtained. Although this method has been used in colour constancy algorithm comparisons, its uses are much wider, eg to compare algorithms of image compression, rendering, recolouring, etc.
 
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ VPV2009b Serial 1191  
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Author Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 38 Issue (up) Pages 36  
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Abstract In a previous experiment [Parraga et al, 2009 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 53(3)] the boundaries between basic colour categories were measured by asking subjects to categorize colour samples presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) using a YES/NO paradigm. Results showed that some boundaries (eg green – blue) were very diffuse and the subjects' answers presented bimodal distributions, which were attributed to the emergence of non-basic categories in those regions (eg turquoise). To confirm these results we performed a new experiment focussed on the boundaries where bimodal distributions were more evident. In this new experiment rectangular colour samples were presented surrounded by random colour patches to simulate contextual conditions on a calibrated CRT monitor. The names of two neighbouring colours were shown at the bottom of the screen and subjects selected the boundary between these colours by controlling the chromaticity of the central patch, sliding it across these categories' frontier. Results show that in this new experimental paradigm, the formerly uncertain inter-colour category boundaries are better defined and the dispersions (ie the bimodal distributions) that occurred in the previous experiment disappear. These results may provide further support to Berlin and Kay's basic colour terms theory.  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2009 Serial 1192  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title A new cone activation-based natural images dataset Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 36 Issue (up) Pages 180  
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Abstract We generated a new dataset of digital natural images where each colour plane corresponds to the human LMS (long-, medium-, short-wavelength) cone activations. The images were chosen to represent five different visual environments (eg forest, seaside, mountain snow, urban, motorways) and were taken under natural illumination at different times of day. At the bottom-left corner of each picture there was a matte grey ball of approximately constant spectral reflectance (across the camera's response spectrum,) and nearly Lambertian reflective properties, which allows to compute (and remove, if necessary) the illuminant's colour and intensity. The camera (Sigma Foveon SD10) was calibrated by measuring its sensor's spectral responses using a set of 31 spectrally narrowband interference filters. This allowed conversion of the final camera-dependent RGB colour space into the Smith and Pokorny (1975) cone activation space by means of a polynomial transformation, optimised for a set of 1269 Munsell chip reflectances. This new method is an improvement over the usual 3 × 3 matrix transformation which is only accurate for spectrally-narrowband colours. The camera-to-LMS transformation can be recalculated to consider other non-human visual systems. The dataset is available to download from our website.  
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Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ PVV2009 Serial 1193  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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Title Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 979 - 986  
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Abstract Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. The subsequent stages of the process: feature detection, feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information.  
Address Kyoto, Japan  
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ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4244-4420-5 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ SWV2009 Serial 1196  
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Author Josep M. Gonfaus; Xavier Boix; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Joan Serrat; Jordi Gonzalez edit  url
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Title Harmony Potentials for Joint Classification and Segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 3280–3287  
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Abstract Hierarchical conditional random fields have been successfully applied to object segmentation. One reason is their ability to incorporate contextual information at different scales. However, these models do not allow multiple labels to be assigned to a single node. At higher scales in the image, this yields an oversimplified model, since multiple classes can be reasonable expected to appear within one region. This simplified model especially limits the impact that observations at larger scales may have on the CRF model. Neglecting the information at larger scales is undesirable since class-label estimates based on these scales are more reliable than at smaller, noisier scales. To address this problem, we propose a new potential, called harmony potential, which can encode any possible combination of class labels. We propose an effective sampling strategy that renders tractable the underlying optimization problem. Results show that our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on two challenging datasets: Pascal VOC 2009 and MSRC-21.  
Address San Francisco CA, USA  
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ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
Notes ADAS;CIC;ISE Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ GBW2010 Serial 1296  
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Author Naila Murray; Eduard Vazquez edit   pdf
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Title Lacuna Restoration: How to choose a neutral colour? Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 248–252  
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Abstract Painting restoration which involves filling in material loss (called lacuna) is a complex process. Several standard techniques exist to tackle lacuna restoration,
and this article focuses on those techniques that employ a “neutral” colour to mask the defect. Restoration experts often disagree on the choice of such a colour and in fact, the concept of a neutral colour is controversial. We posit that a neutral colour is one that attracts relatively little visual attention for a specific lacuna. We conducted an eye tracking experiment to compare two common neutral
colour selection methods, specifically the most common local colour and the mean local colour. Results obtained demonstrate that the most common local colour triggers less visual attention in general. Notwithstanding, we have observed instances in which the most common colour triggers a significant amount of attention when subjects spent time resolving their confusion about whether or not a lacuna was part of the painting.
 
Address Gjovik, Norway  
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Area Expedition Conference CREATE  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ MuV2010 Serial 1297  
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Author Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Non-supervised goodness measure for image segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 334–335  
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Address Gjovik, Norway  
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Area Expedition Conference CREATE  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ VaB2010 Serial 1299  
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell edit  isbn
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Title Local Perceptual Weighting in JPEG2000 for Color Images Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 255–260  
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Abstract The aim of this work is to explain how to apply perceptual concepts to define a perceptual pre-quantizer and to improve JPEG2000 compressor. The approach consists in quantizing wavelet transform coefficients using some of the human visual system behavior properties. Noise is fatal to image compression performance, because it can be both annoying for the observer and consumes excessive bandwidth when the imagery is transmitted. Perceptual pre-quantization reduces unperceivable details and thus improve both visual impression and transmission properties. The comparison between JPEG2000 without and with perceptual pre-quantization shows that the latter is not favorable in PSNR, but the recovered image is more compressed at the same or even better visual quality measured with a weighted PSNR. Perceptual criteria were taken from the CIWaM (Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model).  
Address Joensuu, Finland  
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ISSN ISBN 9781617388897 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CGIV/MCS  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ MOV2010a Serial 1307  
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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title Contribution of CIWaM in JPEG2000 Quantization for Color Images Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue (up) Pages 132–136  
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Abstract The aim of this work is to explain how to apply perceptual concepts to define a perceptual pre-quantizer and to improve JPEG2000 compressor. The approach consists in quantizing wavelet transform coefficients using some of the human visual system behavior properties. Noise is fatal to image compression performance, because it can be both annoying for the observer and consumes excessive bandwidth when the imagery is transmitted. Perceptual pre-quantization reduces unperceivable details and thus improve both visual impression and transmission properties. The comparison between JPEG2000 without and with perceptual pre-quantization shows that the latter is not favorable in PSNR, but the recovered image is more compressed at the same or even better visual quality measured with a weighted PSNR. Perceptual criteria were taken from the CIWaM(ChromaticInductionWaveletModel).  
Address Gjovik (Norway)  
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Area Expedition Conference CREATE  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ MOV2010b Serial 1308  
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