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Author Fernando Vilariño edit   pdf
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  Title A Machine Learning Approach for Intestinal Motility Assessment with Capsule Endoscopy Type Book Whole
  Year 2006 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Intestinal motility assessment with video capsule endoscopy arises as a novel and challenging clinical fieldwork. This technique is based on the analysis of the patterns of intestinal contractions obtained by labelling all the motility events present in a video provided by a capsule with a wireless micro-camera, which is ingested by the patient. However, the visual analysis of these video sequences presents several im- portant drawbacks, mainly related to both the large amount of time needed for the visualization process, and the low prevalence of intestinal contractions in video.
In this work we propose a machine learning system to automatically detect the intestinal contractions in video capsule endoscopy, driving a very useful but not fea- sible clinical routine into a feasible clinical procedure. Our proposal is divided into two different parts: The first part tackles the problem of the automatic detection of phasic contractions in capsule endoscopy videos. Phasic contractions are dynamic events spanning about 4-5 seconds, which show visual patterns with a high variability. Our proposal is based on a sequential design which involves the analysis of textural, color and blob features with powerful classifiers such as SVM. This approach appears to cope with two basic aims: the reduction of the imbalance rate of the data set, and the modular construction of the system, which adds the capability of including domain knowledge as new stages in the cascade. The second part of the current work tackles the problem of the automatic detection of tonic contractions. Tonic contrac- tions manifest in capsule endoscopy as a sustained pattern of the folds and wrinkles of the intestine, which may be prolonged for an undetermined span of time. Our proposal is based on the analysis of the wrinkle patterns, presenting a comparative study of diverse features and classification methods, and providing a set of appro- priate descriptors for their characterization. We provide a detailed analysis of the performance achieved by our system both in a qualitative and a quantitative way.
 
  Address CVC (UAB)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Petia Radeva  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue 84-933652-7-0 Edition  
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  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes MV;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Vil2006; IAM @ iam @ Vil2006 Serial 738  
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Author Josep Llados edit  isbn
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  Title Computer Vision: Progress of Research and Development Type Book Whole
  Year 2006 Publication 1st CVC Internal Workshop Computer Vision: Progress of Research and Development, Abbreviated Journal  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor J. Llados (ed.),  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 84-933652-8-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVCRD  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ Lla2006b Serial 766  
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Author F. Pla; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria edit  isbn
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  Title Pattern Recognition: Progress, Directions and Applications Type Book Whole
  Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  ISSN ISBN 84-933652-6-2 Medium  
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  Notes OR;MILAB;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PRV2006b Serial 771  
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Author W. Liu; Josep Llados edit  openurl
  Title Graphics Recognition. Ten Years Review and Future Perspectives Type Book Whole
  Year 2006 Publication 6th International Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 3926 Issue Pages  
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  Address Hong Kong (China)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GREC  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ LiL2006 Serial 800  
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Author Josep Llados; W. Liu; Jean-Marc Ogier edit  openurl
  Title Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition GREC 2007 Type Book Whole
  Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Curitiba (Brazil)  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ LLO2007 Serial 835  
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Author Joan Marti; Jose Miguel Benedi; Ana Maria Mendonça; Joan Serrat edit  openurl
  Title Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Type Book Whole
  Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue Pages 4477-4478  
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  Address Girona (Spain)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ MBM2007 Serial 994  
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Author Jordi Gonzalez; Thomas B. Moeslund edit  isbn
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  Title Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication First International Workshop, THEMIS Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Leeds (UK)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-935251-9-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference THEMIS  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ GMW2008 Serial 1002  
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Author Juan J. Villanueva edit  isbn
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  Title Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication Proceedings of the Eight IASTED International Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Palma de Mallorca (Spain)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-0-88986-759-8 Medium  
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  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ Vil2008 Serial 1003  
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Author Liu Wenyin; Josep Llados; Jean-Marc Ogier edit  isbn
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  Title Graphics Recognition. Recent Advances and New Opportunities. Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication 7th International Workshop, Selected Papers, Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5046 Issue Pages  
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  Address Curitiba (Brazil)  
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  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-540-88184-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GREC  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ WLO2008 Serial 1012  
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Author Aymen Azaza edit  isbn
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  Title Context, Motion and Semantic Information for Computational Saliency Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The main objective of this thesis is to highlight the salient object in an image or in a video sequence. We address three important—but in our opinion
insufficiently investigated—aspects of saliency detection. Firstly, we start
by extending previous research on saliency which explicitly models the information provided from the context. Then, we show the importance of
explicit context modelling for saliency estimation. Several important works
in saliency are based on the usage of object proposals. However, these methods
focus on the saliency of the object proposal itself and ignore the context.
To introduce context in such saliency approaches, we couple every object
proposal with its direct context. This allows us to evaluate the importance
of the immediate surround (context) for its saliency. We propose several
saliency features which are computed from the context proposals including
features based on omni-directional and horizontal context continuity. Secondly,
we investigate the usage of top-downmethods (high-level semantic
information) for the task of saliency prediction since most computational
methods are bottom-up or only include few semantic classes. We propose
to consider a wider group of object classes. These objects represent important
semantic information which we will exploit in our saliency prediction
approach. Thirdly, we develop a method to detect video saliency by computing
saliency from supervoxels and optical flow. In addition, we apply the
context features developed in this thesis for video saliency detection. The
method combines shape and motion features with our proposed context
features. To summarize, we prove that extending object proposals with their
direct context improves the task of saliency detection in both image and
video data. Also the importance of the semantic information in saliency
estimation is evaluated. Finally, we propose a newmotion feature to detect
saliency in video data. The three proposed novelties are evaluated on standard
saliency benchmark datasets and are shown to improve with respect to
state-of-the-art.
 
  Address October 2018  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Joost Van de Weijer;Ali Douik  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-945373-9-4 Medium  
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  Notes LAMP; 600.120 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Aza2018 Serial 3218  
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Author Alfons Juan-Ciscar; Gemma Sanchez edit  openurl
  Title PRIS 2008. Pattern Recognition in Information Systems. Proceedings of the 8th international Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information systems – PRIS 2008, in conjunction with ICEIS 2008 Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Barcelona (Spain)  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ JuS2008 Serial 1054  
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Author Miquel Ferrer edit  openurl
  Title Theory and Algorithms on the Median Graph. Application to Graph-based Classification and Clustering Type Book Whole
  Year 2008 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Francesc Serratosa Casanelles;Ernest Valveny  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition 978-84-935251-7-0 Conference  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2008 Serial 1105  
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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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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  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 Pau Baiget edit  openurl
  Title Modeling Human Behavior for Image Sequence Understanding and Generation Type Book Whole
  Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The comprehension of animal behavior, especially human behavior, is one of the most ancient and studied problems since the beginning of civilization. The big list of factors that interact to determine a person action require the collaboration of different disciplines, such as psichology, biology, or sociology. In the last years the analysis of human behavior has received great attention also from the computer vision community, given the latest advances in the acquisition of human motion data from image sequences.

Despite the increasing availability of that data, there still exists a gap towards obtaining a conceptual representation of the obtained observations. Human behavior analysis is based on a qualitative interpretation of the results, and therefore the assignment of concepts to quantitative data is linked to a certain ambiguity.

This Thesis tackles the problem of obtaining a proper representation of human behavior in the contexts of computer vision and animation. On the one hand, a good behavior model should permit the recognition and explanation the observed activity in image sequences. On the other hand, such a model must allow the generation of new synthetic instances, which model the behavior of virtual agents.

First, we propose methods to automatically learn the models from observations. Given a set of quantitative results output by a vision system, a normal behavior model is learnt. This results provides a tool to determine the normality or abnormality of future observations. However, machine learning methods are unable to provide a richer description of the observations. We confront this problem by means of a new method that incorporates prior knowledge about the enviornment and about the expected behaviors. This framework, formed by the reasoning engine FMTL and the modeling tool SGT allows the generation of conceptual descriptions of activity in new image sequences. Finally, we demonstrate the suitability of the proposed framework to simulate behavior of virtual agents, which are introduced into real image sequences and interact with observed real agents, thereby easing the generation of augmented reality sequences.

The set of approaches presented in this Thesis has a growing set of potential applications. The analysis and description of behavior in image sequences has its principal application in the domain of smart video--surveillance, in order to detect suspicious or dangerous behaviors. Other applications include automatic sport commentaries, elderly monitoring, road traffic analysis, and the development of semantic video search engines. Alternatively, behavioral virtual agents allow to simulate accurate real situations, such as fires or crowds. Moreover, the inclusion of virtual agents into real image sequences has been widely deployed in the games and cinema industries.
 
  Address Bellaterra (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca  
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  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Bai2009 Serial 1210  
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Author Dena Bazazian edit  isbn
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  Title Fully Convolutional Networks for Text Understanding in Scene Images Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Text understanding in scene images has gained plenty of attention in the computer vision community and it is an important task in many applications as text carries semantically rich information about scene content and context. For instance, reading text in a scene can be applied to autonomous driving, scene understanding or assisting visually impaired people. The general aim of scene text understanding is to localize and recognize text in scene images. Text regions are first localized in the original image by a trained detector model and afterwards fed into a recognition module. The tasks of localization and recognition are highly correlated since an inaccurate localization can affect the recognition task.
The main purpose of this thesis is to devise efficient methods for scene text understanding. We investigate how the latest results on deep learning can advance text understanding pipelines. Recently, Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and derived methods have achieved a significant performance on semantic segmentation and pixel level classification tasks. Therefore, we took benefit of the strengths of FCN approaches in order to detect text in natural scenes. In this thesis we have focused on two challenging tasks of scene text understanding which are Text Detection and Word Spotting. For the task of text detection, we have proposed an efficient text proposal technique in scene images. We have considered the Text Proposals method as the baseline which is an approach to reduce the search space of possible text regions in an image. In order to improve the Text Proposals method we combined it with Fully Convolutional Networks to efficiently reduce the number of proposals while maintaining the same level of accuracy and thus gaining a significant speed up. Our experiments demonstrate that this text proposal approach yields significantly higher recall rates than the line based text localization techniques, while also producing better-quality localization. We have also applied this technique on compressed images such as videos from wearable egocentric cameras. For the task of word spotting, we have introduced a novel mid-level word representation method. We have proposed a technique to create and exploit an intermediate representation of images based on text attributes which roughly correspond to character probability maps. Our representation extends the concept of Pyramidal Histogram Of Characters (PHOC) by exploiting Fully Convolutional Networks to derive a pixel-wise mapping of the character distribution within candidate word regions. We call this representation the Soft-PHOC. Furthermore, we show how to use Soft-PHOC descriptors for word spotting tasks through an efficient text line proposal algorithm. To evaluate the detected text, we propose a novel line based evaluation along with the classic bounding box based approach. We test our method on incidental scene text images which comprises real-life scenarios such as urban scenes. The importance of incidental scene text images is due to the complexity of backgrounds, perspective, variety of script and language, short text and little linguistic context. All of these factors together makes the incidental scene text images challenging.
 
  Address November 2018  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Dimosthenis Karatzas;Andrew Bagdanov  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-948531-1-1 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Baz2018 Serial 3220  
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