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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 Bojana Gajic; Ariel Amato; Ramon Baldrich; Joost Van de Weijer; Carlo Gatta edit   pdf
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Title Area Under the ROC Curve Maximization for Metric Learning Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication CVPR 2022 Workshop on Efficien Deep Learning for Computer Vision (ECV 2022, 5th Edition) Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords (down) Training; Computer vision; Conferences; Area measurement; Benchmark testing; Pattern recognition  
Abstract Most popular metric learning losses have no direct relation with the evaluation metrics that are subsequently applied to evaluate their performance. We hypothesize that training a metric learning model by maximizing the area under the ROC curve (which is a typical performance measure of recognition systems) can induce an implicit ranking suitable for retrieval problems. This hypothesis is supported by previous work that proved that a curve dominates in ROC space if and only if it dominates in Precision-Recall space. To test this hypothesis, we design and maximize an approximated, derivable relaxation of the area under the ROC curve. The proposed AUC loss achieves state-of-the-art results on two large scale retrieval benchmark datasets (Stanford Online Products and DeepFashion In-Shop). Moreover, the AUC loss achieves comparable performance to more complex, domain specific, state-of-the-art methods for vehicle re-identification.  
Address New Orleans, USA; 20 June 2022  
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GAB2022 Serial 3700  
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Author David Geronimo; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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Title Traffic sign recognition for computer vision project-based learning Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication IEEE Transactions on Education Abbreviated Journal T-EDUC  
Volume 56 Issue 3 Pages 364-371  
Keywords (down) traffic signs  
Abstract This paper presents a graduate course project on computer vision. The aim of the project is to detect and recognize traffic signs in video sequences recorded by an on-board vehicle camera. This is a demanding problem, given that traffic sign recognition is one of the most challenging problems for driving assistance systems. Equally, it is motivating for the students given that it is a real-life problem. Furthermore, it gives them the opportunity to appreciate the difficulty of real-world vision problems and to assess the extent to which this problem can be solved by modern computer vision and pattern classification techniques taught in the classroom. The learning objectives of the course are introduced, as are the constraints imposed on its design, such as the diversity of students' background and the amount of time they and their instructors dedicate to the course. The paper also describes the course contents, schedule, and how the project-based learning approach is applied. The outcomes of the course are discussed, including both the students' marks and their personal feedback.  
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ISSN 0018-9359 ISBN Medium  
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Notes ADAS; CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ GSL2013; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 2160  
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Author Bojana Gajic; Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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Title Evaluation of Deep Image Descriptors for Texture Retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2017) Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 251-257  
Keywords (down) Texture Representation; Texture Retrieval; Convolutional Neural Networks; Psychophysical Evaluation  
Abstract The increasing complexity learnt in the layers of a Convolutional Neural Network has proven to be of great help for the task of classification. The topic has received great attention in recently published literature.
Nonetheless, just a handful of works study low-level representations, commonly associated with lower layers. In this paper, we explore recent findings which conclude, counterintuitively, the last layer of the VGG convolutional network is the best to describe a low-level property such as texture. To shed some light on this issue, we are proposing a psychophysical experiment to evaluate the adequacy of different layers of the VGG network for texture retrieval. Results obtained suggest that, whereas the last convolutional layer is a good choice for a specific task of classification, it might not be the best choice as a texture descriptor, showing a very poor performance on texture retrieval. Intermediate layers show the best performance, showing a good combination of basic filters, as in the primary visual cortex, and also a degree of higher level information to describe more complex textures.
 
Address Porto, Portugal; 27 February – 1 March 2017  
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Area Expedition Conference VISIGRAPP  
Notes CIC; 600.087 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3710  
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Author Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier edit   pdf
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Title Automatic text localisation in scanned comic books Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 814-819  
Keywords (down) Text localization; comics; text/graphic separation; complex background; unstructured document  
Abstract Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comics book understanding. We focus on speech text as it is semantically important and represents the majority of the text present in comics. The approach is compared with existing methods of text localization found in the literature and results are presented.  
Address Barcelona; February 2013  
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Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
Notes DAG; CIC; 600.056 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKW2013b Serial 2261  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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Title Shadow Resistant Road Segmentation from a Mobile Monocular System Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4477:9–16 Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords (down) road detection  
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Address Gerona (Spain)  
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALB2007 Serial 943  
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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 Pages 1155–1180  
Keywords (down) road detection  
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Address Eindhoven (The Netherlands)  
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALB2008 Serial 1045  
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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  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
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 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 (down) PhD Thesis  
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Maria Vanrell  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ Ben2007 Serial 1108  
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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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Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
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 T. Widemann; Xavier Otazu edit  doi
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Title Titanias radius and an upper limit on its atmosphere from the September 8, 2001 stellar occultation Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication International Journal of Solar System Studies Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 199 Issue 2 Pages 458–476  
Keywords (down) Occultations; Uranus, satellites; Satellites, shapes; Satellites, dynamics; Ices; Satellites, atmospheres  
Abstract On September 8, 2001 around 2 h UT, the largest uranian moon, Titania, occulted Hipparcos star 106829 (alias SAO 164538, a V=7.2, K0 III star). This was the first-ever observed occultation by this satellite, a rare event as Titania subtends only 0.11 arcsec on the sky. The star's unusual brightness allowed many observers, both amateurs or professionals, to monitor this unique event, providing fifty-seven occultations chords over three continents, all reported here. Selecting the best 27 occultation chords, and assuming a circular limb, we derive Titania's radius: View the MathML source (1-σ error bar). This implies a density of View the MathML source using the value View the MathML source derived by Taylor [Taylor, D.B., 1998. Astron. Astrophys. 330, 362–374]. We do not detect any significant difference between equatorial and polar radii, in the limit View the MathML source, in agreement with Voyager limb image retrieval during the 1986 flyby. Titania's offset with respect to the DE405 + URA027 (based on GUST86 theory) ephemeris is derived: ΔαTcos(δT)=−108±13 mas and ΔδT=−62±7 mas (ICRF J2000.0 system). Most of this offset is attributable to a Uranus' barycentric offset with respect to DE405, that we estimate to be: View the MathML source and ΔδU=−85±25 mas at the moment of occultation. This offset is confirmed by another Titania stellar occultation observed on August 1st, 2003, which provides an offset of ΔαTcos(δT)=−127±20 mas and ΔδT=−97±13 mas for the satellite. The combined ingress and egress data do not show any significant hint for atmospheric refraction, allowing us to set surface pressure limits at the level of 10–20 nbar. More specifically, we find an upper limit of 13 nbar (1-σ level) at 70 K and 17 nbar at 80 K, for a putative isothermal CO2 atmosphere. We also provide an upper limit of 8 nbar for a possible CH4 atmosphere, and 22 nbar for pure N2, again at the 1-σ level. We finally constrain the stellar size using the time-resolved star disappearance and reappearance at ingress and egress. We find an angular diameter of 0.54±0.03 mas (corresponding to View the MathML source projected at Titania). With a distance of 170±25 parsecs, this corresponds to a radius of 9.8±0.2 solar radii for HIP 106829, typical of a K0 III giant.  
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Publisher ELSEVIER Place of Publication Editor  
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ISSN 0019-1035 ISBN Medium  
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Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ Wid2009 Serial 1052  
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Author Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan edit   pdf
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Title Fusing Color and Shape for Bag-of-Words Based Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 4th Computational Color Imaging Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 7786 Issue Pages 25-34  
Keywords (down) Object Recognition; color features; bag-of-words; image classification  
Abstract In this article we provide an analysis of existing methods for the incorporation of color in bag-of-words based image representations. We propose a list of desired properties on which bases fusing methods can be compared. We discuss existing methods and indicate shortcomings of the two well-known fusing methods, namely early and late fusion. Several recent works have addressed these shortcomings by exploiting top-down information in the bag-of-words pipeline: color attention which is motivated from human vision, and Portmanteau vocabularies which are based on information theoretic compression of product vocabularies. We point out several remaining challenges in cue fusion and provide directions for future research.  
Address Chiba; Japan; March 2013  
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36699-4 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
Notes CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ WeK2013 Serial 2283  
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Author Rahat Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Damien Muselet edit   pdf
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Title Towards multispectral data acquisition with hand-held devices Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 2053 - 2057  
Keywords (down) Multispectral; mobile devices; color measurements  
Abstract We propose a method to acquire multispectral data with handheld devices with front-mounted RGB cameras. We propose to use the display of the device as an illuminant while the camera captures images illuminated by the red, green and
blue primaries of the display. Three illuminants and three response functions of the camera lead to nine response values which are used for reflectance estimation. Results are promising and show that the accuracy of the spectral reconstruction improves in the range from 30-40% over the spectral
reconstruction based on a single illuminant. Furthermore, we propose to compute sensor-illuminant aware linear basis by discarding the part of the reflectances that falls in the sensorilluminant null-space. We show experimentally that optimizing reflectance estimation on these new basis functions decreases
the RMSE significantly over basis functions that are independent to sensor-illuminant. We conclude that, multispectral data acquisition is potentially possible with consumer hand-held devices such as tablets, mobiles, and laptops, opening up applications which are currently considered to be unrealistic.
 
Address Melbourne; Australia; September 2013  
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Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
Notes CIC; DAG; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ KWK2013b Serial 2265  
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Author Olivier Penacchio edit   pdf
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Title Mixed Hodge Structures and Equivariant Sheaves on the Projective Plane Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Mathematische Nachrichten Abbreviated Journal MN  
Volume 284 Issue 4 Pages 526-542  
Keywords (down) Mixed Hodge structures, equivariant sheaves, MSC (2010) Primary: 14C30, Secondary: 14F05, 14M25  
Abstract We describe an equivalence of categories between the category of mixed Hodge structures and a category of equivariant vector bundles on a toric model of the complex projective plane which verify some semistability condition. We then apply this correspondence to define an invariant which generalizes the notion of R-split mixed Hodge structure and give calculations for the first group of cohomology of possibly non smooth or non-complete curves of genus 0 and 1. Finally, we describe some extension groups of mixed Hodge structures in terms of equivariant extensions of coherent sheaves. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim  
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Publisher WILEY-VCH Verlag Place of Publication Editor R. Mennicken  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN 1522-2616 ISBN Medium  
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Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Pen2011 Serial 1721  
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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 Pages 113–124  
Keywords (down) Intelligent Headlights; vehicle detection  
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Address Juan-les-Pins, France  
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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 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 Pages 59–64  
Keywords (down) Intelligent Headlights  
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Area Expedition Conference IROS  
Notes ADAS;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LHB2008b Serial 1112  
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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  
Volume Issue Pages  
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 O. Fors; J. Nuñez; Xavier Otazu; A. Prades; Robert D. Cardinal edit  doi
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Title Improving the Ability of Image Sensors to Detect Faint Stars and Moving Objects Using Image Deconvolution Techniques Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS  
Volume 10 Issue 3 Pages 1743–1752  
Keywords (down) image processing; image deconvolution; faint stars; space debris; wavelet transform  
Abstract Abstract: In this paper we show how the techniques of image deconvolution can increase the ability of image sensors as, for example, CCD imagers, to detect faint stars or faint orbital objects (small satellites and space debris). In the case of faint stars, we show that this benefit is equivalent to double the quantum efficiency of the used image sensor or to increase the effective telescope aperture by more than 30% without decreasing the astrometric precision or introducing artificial bias. In the case of orbital objects, the deconvolution technique can double the signal-to-noise ratio of the image, which helps to discover and control dangerous objects as space debris or lost satellites. The benefits obtained using CCD detectors can be extrapolated to any kind of image sensors.  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ FNO2010 Serial 1285  
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