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Author Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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Title Towards a unified chromatic inducction model Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal VSS  
Volume 10 Issue 12:5 Pages 1-24  
Keywords (down) Visual system; Color induction; Wavelet transform  
Abstract In a previous work (X. Otazu, M. Vanrell, & C. A. Párraga, 2008b), we showed how several brightness induction effects can be predicted using a simple multiresolution wavelet model (BIWaM). Here we present a new model for chromatic induction processes (termed Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model or CIWaM), which is also implemented on a multiresolution framework and based on similar assumptions related to the spatial frequency and the contrast surround energy of the stimulus. The CIWaM can be interpreted as a very simple extension of the BIWaM to the chromatic channels, which in our case are defined in the MacLeod-Boynton (lsY) color space. This new model allows us to unify both chromatic assimilation and chromatic contrast effects in a single mathematical formulation. The predictions of the CIWaM were tested by means of several color and brightness induction experiments, which showed an acceptable agreement between model predictions and psychophysical data.  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ OPV2010 Serial 1450  
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Author Aleksandr Setkov; Fabio Martinez Carillo; Michele Gouiffes; Christian Jacquemin; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  doi
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Title DAcImPro: A Novel Database of Acquired Image Projections and Its Application to Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Advances in Visual Computing. Proceedings of 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015 Part II Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 9475 Issue Pages 463-473  
Keywords (down) Projector-camera systems; Feature descriptors; Object recognition  
Abstract Projector-camera systems are designed to improve the projection quality by comparing original images with their captured projections, which is usually complicated due to high photometric and geometric variations. Many research works address this problem using their own test data which makes it extremely difficult to compare different proposals. This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new database of acquired image projections (DAcImPro) that, covering photometric and geometric conditions and providing data for ground-truth computation, can serve to evaluate different algorithms in projector-camera systems. Secondly, a new object recognition scenario from acquired projections is presented, which could be of a great interest in such domains, as home video projections and public presentations. We show that the task is more challenging than the classical recognition problem and thus requires additional pre-processing, such as color compensation or projection area selection.  
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-27862-9 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference ISVC  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ SMG2015 Serial 2736  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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Title Color Attributes for Object Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 3306-3313  
Keywords (down) pedestrian detection  
Abstract State-of-the-art object detectors typically use shape information as a low level feature representation to capture the local structure of an object. This paper shows that early fusion of shape and color, as is popular in image classification,
leads to a significant drop in performance for object detection. Moreover, such approaches also yields suboptimal results for object categories with varying importance of color and shape.
In this paper we propose the use of color attributes as an explicit color representation for object detection. Color attributes are compact, computationally efficient, and when combined with traditional shape features provide state-ofthe-
art results for object detection. Our method is tested on the PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 datasets and results clearly show that our method improves over state-of-the-art techniques despite its simplicity. We also introduce a new dataset consisting of cartoon character images in which color plays a pivotal role. On this dataset, our approach yields a significant gain of 14% in mean AP over conventional state-of-the-art methods.
 
Address Providence; Rhode Island; USA;  
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Publisher IEEE Xplore Place of Publication Editor  
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ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4673-1226-4 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
Notes ADAS; CIC; Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2012 Serial 1935  
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Author Francesc Tous; Agnes Borras; Robert Benavente; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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Title Textual Descriptors for browsing people by visual appearence. Type Conference Article
Year 2002 Publication 5è. Congrés Català d’Intel·ligència Artificial CCIA Abbreviated Journal  
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Keywords (down) Image retrieval, textual descriptors, colour naming, colour normalization, graph matching.  
Abstract This paper presents a first approach to build colour and structural descriptors for information retrieval on a people database. Queries are formulated in terms of their appearance that allows to seek people wearing specific clothes of a given colour name or texture. Descriptors are automatically computed by following three essential steps. A colour naming labelling from pixel properties. A region seg- mentation step based on colour properties of pixels combined with edge information. And a high level step that models the region arrangements in order to build clothes structure. Results are tested on large set of images from real scenes taken at the entrance desk of a building.  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ TBB2002a Serial 287  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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Title Psychophysical measurements to model inter-colour regions of colour-naming space Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 031106 (8 pages)  
Keywords (down) image processing; Analysis  
Abstract JCR Impact Factor 2009: 0.391
In this paper, we present a fuzzy-set of parametric functions which segment the CIE lab space into eleven regions which correspond to the group of common universal categories present in all evolved languages as identified by anthropologists and linguists. The set of functions is intended to model a color-name assignment task by humans and differs from other models in its emphasis on the inter-color boundary regions, which were explicitly measured by means of a psychophysics experiment. In our particular implementation, the CIE lab space was segmented into eleven color categories using a Triple Sigmoid as the fuzzy sets basis, whose parameters are included in this paper. The model’s parameters were adjusted according to the psychophysical results of a yes/no discrimination paradigm where observers had to choose (English) names for isoluminant colors belonging to regions in-between neighboring categories. These colors were presented on a calibrated CRT monitor (14-bit x 3 precision). The experimental results show that inter- color boundary regions are much less defined than expected and color samples other than those near the most representatives are needed to define the position and shape of boundaries between categories. The extended set of model parameters is given as a table.
 
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Author Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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Title Saliency Estimation Using a Non-Parametric Low-Level Vision Model Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 433-440  
Keywords (down) Gaussian mixture model;ad hoc parameter selection;center-surround inhibition windows;center-surround mechanism;color appearance model;convolution;eye-fixation data;human vision;innate spatial pooling mechanism;inverse wavelet transform;low-level visual front-end;nonparametric low-level vision model;saliency estimation;saliency map;scale integration;scale-weighted center-surround response;scale-weighting function;visual task;Gaussian processes;biology;biology computing;colour vision;computer vision;visual perception;wavelet transforms  
Abstract Many successful models for predicting attention in a scene involve three main steps: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. However, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. In this paper we show that an efficient model of color appearance in human vision, which contains a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism, can be generalized to obtain a saliency model that outperforms state-of-the-art models. Scale integration is achieved by an inverse wavelet transform over the set of scale-weighted center-surround responses. The scale-weighting function (termed ECSF) has been optimized to better replicate psychophysical data on color appearance, and the appropriate sizes of the center-surround inhibition windows have been determined by training a Gaussian Mixture Model on eye-fixation data, thus avoiding ad-hoc parameter selection. Additionally, we conclude that the extension of a color appearance model to saliency estimation adds to the evidence for a common low-level visual front-end for different visual tasks.  
Address Colorado Springs  
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ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4577-0394-2 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ MVO2011 Serial 1757  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Naila Murray; Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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Title Perception Based Representations for Computational Colour Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 6626 Issue Pages 16-30  
Keywords (down) colour perception, induction, naming, psychophysical data, saliency, segmentation  
Abstract The perceived colour of a stimulus is dependent on multiple factors stemming out either from the context of the stimulus or idiosyncrasies of the observer. The complexity involved in combining these multiple effects is the main reason for the gap between classical calibrated colour spaces from colour science and colour representations used in computer vision, where colour is just one more visual cue immersed in a digital image where surfaces, shadows and illuminants interact seemingly out of control. With the aim to advance a few steps towards bridging this gap we present some results on computational representations of colour for computer vision. They have been developed by introducing perceptual considerations derived from the interaction of the colour of a point with its context. We show some techniques to represent the colour of a point influenced by assimilation and contrast effects due to the image surround and we show some results on how colour saliency can be derived in real images. We outline a model for automatic assignment of colour names to image points directly trained on psychophysical data. We show how colour segments can be perceptually grouped in the image by imposing shading coherence in the colour space.  
Address Milan, Italy  
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga, Alain Trémeau  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20403-6 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ VMB2011 Serial 1733  
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Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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Title Color encoding in biologically-inspired convolutional neural networks Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Vision Research Abbreviated Journal VR  
Volume 151 Issue Pages 7-17  
Keywords (down) Color coding; Computer vision; Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks  
Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks have been proposed as suitable frameworks to model biological vision. Some of these artificial networks showed representational properties that rival primate performances in object recognition. In this paper we explore how color is encoded in a trained artificial network. It is performed by estimating a color selectivity index for each neuron, which allows us to describe the neuron activity to a color input stimuli. The index allows us to classify whether they are color selective or not and if they are of a single or double color. We have determined that all five convolutional layers of the network have a large number of color selective neurons. Color opponency clearly emerges in the first layer, presenting 4 main axes (Black-White, Red-Cyan, Blue-Yellow and Magenta-Green), but this is reduced and rotated as we go deeper into the network. In layer 2 we find a denser hue sampling of color neurons and opponency is reduced almost to one new main axis, the Bluish-Orangish coinciding with the dataset bias. In layers 3, 4 and 5 color neurons are similar amongst themselves, presenting different type of neurons that detect specific colored objects (e.g., orangish faces), specific surrounds (e.g., blue sky) or specific colored or contrasted object-surround configurations (e.g. blue blob in a green surround). Overall, our work concludes that color and shape representation are successively entangled through all the layers of the studied network, revealing certain parallelisms with the reported evidences in primate brains that can provide useful insight into intermediate hierarchical spatio-chromatic representations.  
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Notes CIC; 600.051; 600.087 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @RaV2018 Serial 3114  
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Author Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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Title La influencia del contexto en la definicion de las fronteras entre las categorias cromaticas Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 9th Congreso Nacional del Color Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 92–95  
Keywords (down) Categorización del color; Apariencia del color; Influencia del contexto; Patrones de Mondrian; Modelos paramétricos  
Abstract En este artículo presentamos los resultados de un experimento de categorización de color en el que las muestras se presentaron sobre un fondo multicolor (Mondrian) para simular los efectos del contexto. Los resultados se comparan con los de un experimento previo que, utilizando un paradigma diferente, determinó las fronteras sin tener en cuenta el contexto. El análisis de los resultados muestra que las fronteras obtenidas con el experimento en contexto presentan menos confusión que las obtenidas en el experimento sin contexto.  
Address Alicante (Spain)  
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-9717-144-1 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CNC  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2010 Serial 1327  
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Author Felipe Lumbreras; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Joan Serrat; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
Title Multiresolution colour texture representations for tile classification Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Bilbao  
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Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LBV1999a Serial 3  
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Author Xavier Roca; Jordi Vitria; Maria Vanrell; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
Title Visual behaviours for binocular navigation with autonomous systems. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVV1999a Serial 13  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Jordi Vitria; Xavier Roca edit  openurl
Title A multidimensional scaling approach to explore the behavior of a texture perception algorithm. Type Journal Article
Year 1997 Publication Machine Vision and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 9 Issue Pages 262–271  
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Author Xavier Roca; Jordi Vitria; Maria Vanrell; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
Title Gaze control in a binocular robot systems Type Miscellaneous
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVV1999b Serial 41  
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Author Felipe Lumbreras; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Joan Serrat; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
Title Multiresolution texture classification of ceramic tiles. Type Book Chapter
Year 1999 Publication Recent Research developments in optical engineering, Research Signpost, 2: 213–228 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address India  
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LBV1999b Serial 45  
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