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| Author | Jose Antonio Rodriguez | ||||
| Title | Statistical frameworks and prior information modeling in handwritten word-spotting | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Handwritten word-spotting (HWS) is the pattern analysis task that consists in finding keywords in handwritten document images. So far, HWS has been applied mostly to historical documents in order to build search engines for such image collections. This thesis addresses the problem of word-spotting for detecting important keywords in business documents. This is a first step towards the process of automatic routing of correspondence based on content.
However, the application of traditional HWS techniques fails for this type of documents. As opposed to historical documents, real business documents present a very high variability in terms of writing styles, spontaneous writing, crossed-out words, spelling mistakes, etc. The main goal of this thesis is the development of pattern recognition techniques that lead to a high-performance HWS system for this challenging type of data. We develop a statistical framework in which word models are expressed in terms of hidden Markov models and the a priori information is encoded in a universal vocabulary of Gaussian codewords. This systems leads to a very robust performance in word-spotting task. We also find that by constraining the word models to the universal vocabulary, the a priori information of the problem of interest can be exploited for developing new contributions. These include a novel writer adaptation method, a system for searching handwritten words by generating typed text images, and a novel model-based similarity between feature vector sequences. |
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| Address | Barcelona (Spain) | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Gemma Sanchez;Josep Llados;Florent Perronnin | |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Rod2009 | Serial | 1266 | ||
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| Author | Agnes Borras | ||||
| Title | Contributions to the Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Pictorial Queries | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | The broad access to digital cameras, personal computers and Internet, has lead to the generation of large volumes of data in digital form. If we want an effective usage of this huge amount of data, we need automatic tools to allow the retrieval of relevant information. Image data is a particular type of information that requires specific techniques of description and indexing. The computer vision field that studies these kind of techniques is called Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). Instead of using text-based descriptions, a system of CBIR deals on properties that are inherent in the images themselves. Hence, the feature-based description provides a universal via of image expression in contrast with the more than 6000 languages spoken in the world.
Nowadays, the CBIR is a dynamic focus of research that has derived in important applications for many professional groups. The potential fields of application can be such diverse as: the medical domain, the crime prevention, the protection of the intel- lectual property, the journalism, the graphic design, the web search, the preservation of cultural heritage, etc. The definition on the role of the user is a key point in the development of a CBIR application. The user is in charge to formulate the queries from which the images are retrieved. We have centered our attention on the image retrieval techniques that use queries based on pictorial information. We have identified a taxonomy composed by four main query paradigms: query-by-selection, query-by-iconic-composition, query- by-sketch and query-by-paint. Each one of these paradigms allows a different degree of user expressivity. From a simple image selection, to a complete painting of the query, the user takes control of the input in the CBIR system. Along the chapters of this thesis we have analyzed the influence that each query paradigm imposes in the internal operations of a CBIR system. Moreover, we have proposed a set of contributions that we have exemplified in the context of a final application. |
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| Address | Barcelona (Spain) | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Bellaterra | Editor | Josep Llados |
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| Notes | DAG; | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | DAG @ dag @ Bor2009; IAM @ iam @ Bor2009 | Serial | 1269 | ||
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| Author | Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Seguimiento Visual de Contornos Computerizado | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | UAB Divulga, Revista de divulgacion cientifica | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Notes | spreading;ADAS | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ PoL2009b | Serial | 1270 | ||
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| Author | Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Video alignment for automotive applications | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | BMVA one–day technical meeting on vision for automotive applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | video alignment | ||||
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| Address | London, UK | ||||
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| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ DPS2009 | Serial | 1271 | ||
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| Author | Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Model-based road detection using shadowless features and on-line learning | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | BMVA one–day technical meeting on vision for automotive applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | road detection | ||||
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| Address | London, UK | ||||
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| Notes | ADAS | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ AlA2009 | Serial | 1272 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Boix; Josep M. Gonfaus; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Joan Serrat | ||||
| Title | Combining local and global bag-of-word representations for semantic segmentation | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | Workshop on The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Kyoto (Japan) | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICCV | ||
| Notes | ADAS;ISE | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ BGS2009 | Serial | 1273 | ||
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| Author | David Geronimo | ||||
| Title | A Global Approach to Vision-Based Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | At the beginning of the 21th century, traffic accidents have become a major problem not only for developed countries but also for emerging ones. As in other scientific areas in which Artificial Intelligence is becoming a key actor, advanced driver assistance systems, and concretely pedestrian protection systems based on Computer Vision, are becoming a strong topic of research aimed at improving the safety of pedestrians. However, the challenge is of considerable complexity due to the varying appearance of humans (e.g., clothes, size, aspect ratio, shape, etc.), the dynamic nature of on-board systems and the unstructured moving environments that urban scenarios represent. In addition, the required performance is demanding both in terms of computational time and detection rates. In this thesis, instead of focusing on improving specific tasks as it is frequent in the literature, we present a global approach to the problem. Such a global overview starts by the proposal of a generic architecture to be used as a framework both to review the literature and to organize the studied techniques along the thesis. We then focus the research on tasks such as foreground segmentation, object classification and refinement following a general viewpoint and exploring aspects that are not usually analyzed. In order to perform the experiments, we also present a novel pedestrian dataset that consists of three subsets, each one addressed to the evaluation of a different specific task in the system. The results presented in this thesis not only end with a proposal of a pedestrian detection system but also go one step beyond by pointing out new insights, formalizing existing and proposed algorithms, introducing new techniques and evaluating their performance, which we hope will provide new foundations for future research in the area. | ||||
| Address | Antonio Lopez;Krystian Mikolajczyk;Jaume Amores;Dariu M. Gavrila;Oriol Pujol;Felipe Lumbreras | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | Ph.D. thesis | |||
| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Antonio Lopez;Krystian Mikolajczyk;Jaume Amores;Dariu M. Gavrila;Oriol Pujol;Felipe Lumbreras | |
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-84-936529-5-1 | Medium | ||
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| Notes | ADAS | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ Ger2010 | Serial | 1279 | ||
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| Author | Mario Rojas; David Masip; A. Todorov; Jordi Vitria | ||||
| Title | Automatic Point-based Facial Trait Judgments Evaluation | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Humans constantly evaluate the personalities of other people using their faces. Facial trait judgments have been studied in the psychological field, and have been determined to influence important social outcomes of our lives, such as elections outcomes and social relationships. Recent work on textual descriptions of faces has shown that trait judgments are highly correlated. Further, behavioral studies suggest that two orthogonal dimensions, valence and dominance, can describe the basis of the human judgments from faces. In this paper, we used a corpus of behavioral data of judgments on different trait dimensions to automatically learn a trait predictor from facial pixel images. We study whether trait evaluations performed by humans can be learned using machine learning classifiers, and used later in automatic evaluations of new facial images. The experiments performed using local point-based descriptors show promising results in the evaluation of the main traits. | ||||
| Address | San Francisco CA, USA | ||||
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| ISSN | 1063-6919 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-6984-0 | Medium | |
| Area | Expedition | Conference | CVPR | ||
| Notes | OR;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RMT2010 | Serial | 1282 | ||
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| Author | Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Maria Teresa Anguera | ||||
| Title | Automatic Detection of Dominance and Expected Interest | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing | Abbreviated Journal | EURASIPJ |
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| Abstract | Article ID 491819
Social Signal Processing is an emergent area of research that focuses on the analysis of social constructs. Dominance and interest are two of these social constructs. Dominance refers to the level of influence a person has in a conversation. Interest, when referred in terms of group interactions, can be defined as the degree of engagement that the members of a group collectively display during their interaction. In this paper, we argue that only using behavioral motion information, we are able to predict the interest of observers when looking at face-to-face interactions as well as the dominant people. First, we propose a simple set of movement-based features from body, face, and mouth activity in order to define a higher set of interaction indicators. The considered indicators are manually annotated by observers. Based on the opinions obtained, we define an automatic binary dominance detection problem and a multiclass interest quantification problem. Error-Correcting Output Codes framework is used to learn to rank the perceived observer's interest in face-to-face interactions meanwhile Adaboost is used to solve the dominant detection problem. The automatic system shows good correlation between the automatic categorization results and the manual ranking made by the observers in both dominance and interest detection problems. |
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| ISSN | 1110-8657 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2010d | Serial | 1283 | ||
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| Author | Santiago Segui; Laura Igual; Jordi Vitria | ||||
| Title | Weighted Bagging for Graph based One-Class Classifiers | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Most conventional learning algorithms require both positive and negative training data for achieving accurate classification results. However, the problem of learning classifiers from only positive data arises in many applications where negative data are too costly, difficult to obtain, or not available at all. Minimum Spanning Tree Class Descriptor (MSTCD) was presented as a method that achieves better accuracies than other one-class classifiers in high dimensional data. However, the presence of outliers in the target class severely harms the performance of this classifier. In this paper we propose two bagging strategies for MSTCD that reduce the influence of outliers in training data. We show the improved performance on both real and artificially contaminated data. | ||||
| Address | Cairo, Egypt | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | LNCS | ||
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| ISSN | 0302-9743 | ISBN | 978-3-642-12126-5 | Medium | |
| Area | Expedition | Conference | MCS | ||
| Notes | MILAB;OR;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SIV2010 | Serial | 1284 | ||
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| Author | Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva | ||||
| Title | Error-Correcting Output Codes Library | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Journal of Machine Learning Research | Abbreviated Journal | JMLR |
| Volume | 11 | Issue |
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| Abstract | (Feb):661−664
In this paper, we present an open source Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) library. The ECOC framework is a powerful tool to deal with multi-class categorization problems. This library contains both state-of-the-art coding (one-versus-one, one-versus-all, dense random, sparse random, DECOC, forest-ECOC, and ECOC-ONE) and decoding designs (hamming, euclidean, inverse hamming, laplacian, β-density, attenuated, loss-based, probabilistic kernel-based, and loss-weighted) with the parameters defined by the authors, as well as the option to include your own coding, decoding, and base classifier. |
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| ISSN | 1532-4435 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | MILAB;HUPBA | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2010c | Serial | 1286 | ||
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| Author | Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados | ||||
| Title | Seal Object Detection in Document Images using GHT of Local Component Shapes | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | 10th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Due to noise, overlapped text/signature and multi-oriented nature, seal (stamp) object detection involves a difficult challenge. This paper deals with automatic detection of seal from documents with cluttered background. Here, a seal object is characterized by scale and rotation invariant spatial feature descriptors (distance and angular position) computed from recognition result of individual connected components (characters). Recognition of multi-scale and multi-oriented component is done using Support Vector Machine classifier. Generalized Hough Transform (GHT) is used to detect the seal and a voting is casted for finding possible location of the seal object in a document based on these spatial feature descriptor of components pairs. The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal object in a document. Experimental results show that, the method is efficient to locate seal instance of arbitrary shape and orientation in documents. | ||||
| Address | Sierre, Switzerland | ||||
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| Notes | DAG | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | DAG @ dag @ RPL2010a | Serial | 1291 | ||
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| Author | Marçal Rusiñol; Josep Llados | ||||
| Title | Symbol Spotting in Digital Libraries:Focused Retrieval over Graphic-rich Document Collections | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Symbol Spotting in Digital Libraries:Focused Retrieval over Graphic-rich Document Collections | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | Focused Retrieval , Graphical Pattern Indexation,Graphics Recognition ,Pattern Recognition , Performance Evaluation , Symbol Description ,Symbol Spotting | ||||
| Abstract | The specific problem of symbol recognition in graphical documents requires additional techniques to those developed for character recognition. The most well-known obstacle is the so-called Sayre paradox: Correct recognition requires good segmentation, yet improvement in segmentation is achieved using information provided by the recognition process. This dilemma can be avoided by techniques that identify sets of regions containing useful information. Such symbol-spotting methods allow the detection of symbols in maps or technical drawings without having to fully segment or fully recognize the entire content.
This unique text/reference provides a complete, integrated and large-scale solution to the challenge of designing a robust symbol-spotting method for collections of graphic-rich documents. The book examines a number of features and descriptors, from basic photometric descriptors commonly used in computer vision techniques to those specific to graphical shapes, presenting a methodology which can be used in a wide variety of applications. Additionally, readers are supplied with an insight into the problem of performance evaluation of spotting methods. Some very basic knowledge of pattern recognition, document image analysis and graphics recognition is assumed. |
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| Publisher | Springer | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-1-84996-208-7 | Medium | ||
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| Notes | DAG | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | DAG @ dag @ RuL2010a | Serial | 1292 | ||
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| Author | Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Thierry Brouard; Jean-Yves Ramel; Josep Llados | ||||
| Title | Vers une approche foue of encapsulation de graphes: application a la reconnaissance de symboles | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Colloque International Francophone sur l'Écrit et le Document | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Pages | 169-184 | ||
| Keywords | Fuzzy interval; Graph embedding; Bayesian network; Symbol recognition | ||||
| Abstract | We present a new methodology for symbol recognition, by employing a structural approach for representing visual associations in symbols and a statistical classifier for recognition. A graphic symbol is vectorized, its topological and geometrical details are encoded by an attributed relational graph and a signature is computed for it. Data adapted fuzzy intervals have been introduced for addressing the sensitivity of structural representations to noise. The joint probability distribution of signatures is encoded by a Bayesian network, which serves as a mechanism for pruning irrelevant features and choosing a subset of interesting features from structural signatures of underlying symbol set, and is deployed in a supervised learning scenario for recognizing query symbols. Experimental results on pre-segmented 2D linear architectural and electronic symbols from GREC databases are presented. | ||||
| Address | Sousse, Tunisia | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | CIFED | ||
| Notes | DAG | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | DAG @ dag @ LBR2010a | Serial | 1293 | ||
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| Author | Jaume Amores | ||||
| Title | Vocabulary-based Approaches for Multiple-Instance Data: a Comparative Study | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has become a hot topic and many different algorithms have been proposed in the last years. Despite this fact, there is a lack of comparative studies that shed light into the characteristics of the different methods and their behavior in different scenarios. In this paper we provide such an analysis. We include methods from different families, and pay special attention to vocabulary-based approaches, a new family of methods that has not received much attention in the MIL literature. The empirical comparison includes seven databases from four heterogeneous domains, implementations of eight popular MIL methods, and a study of the behavior under synthetic conditions. Based on this analysis, we show that, with an appropriate implementation, vocabulary-based approaches outperform other MIL methods in most of the cases, showing in general a more consistent performance. | ||||
| Address | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||
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| ISSN | 1051-4651 | ISBN | 978-1-4244-7542-1 | Medium | |
| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICPR | ||
| Notes | ADAS | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ Amo2010 | Serial | 1295 | ||
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