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Fernando Vilariño, Dan Norton, & Onur Ferhat. (2016). The Eye Doesn't Click – Eyetracking and Digital Content Interaction. In 4S/EASST Conference.
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Fernando Vilariño. (2016). Giving Value to digital collections in the Public Library. In Librarian 2020.
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Fernando Vilariño, & Dimosthenis Karatzas. (2016). A Living Lab approach for Citizen Science in Libraries. In 1st International ECSA Conference.
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Fernando Vilariño. (2016). Dissemination, creation and education from archives: Case study of the collection of Digitized Visual Poems from Joan Brossa Foundation. In International Workshop on Poetry: Archives, Poetries and Receptions.
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Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco, F. Aguilera, Angel Sappa, C. Aguilera, & Ricardo Toledo. (2016). Learning cross-spectral similarity measures with deep convolutional neural networks. In 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Worshops.
Abstract: The simultaneous use of images from different spectracan be helpful to improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. The core idea behind the usage of crossspectral approaches is to take advantage of the strengths of each spectral band providing a richer representation of a scene, which cannot be obtained with just images from one spectral band. In this work we tackle the cross-spectral image similarity problem by using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We explore three different CNN architectures to compare the similarity of cross-spectral image patches. Specifically, we train each network with images from the visible and the near-infrared spectrum, and then test the result with two public cross-spectral datasets. Experimental results show that CNN approaches outperform the current state-of-art on both cross-spectral datasets. Additionally, our experiments show that some CNN architectures are capable of generalizing between different crossspectral domains.
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Daniel Hernandez, Lukas Schneider, Antonio Espinosa, David Vazquez, Antonio Lopez, Uwe Franke, et al. (2017). Slanted Stixels: Representing San Francisco's Steepest Streets}. In 28th British Machine Vision Conference.
Abstract: In this work we present a novel compact scene representation based on Stixels that infers geometric and semantic information. Our approach overcomes the previous rather restrictive geometric assumptions for Stixels by introducing a novel depth model to account for non-flat roads and slanted objects. Both semantic and depth cues are used jointly to infer the scene representation in a sound global energy minimization formulation. Furthermore, a novel approximation scheme is introduced that uses an extremely efficient over-segmentation. In doing so, the computational complexity of the Stixel inference algorithm is reduced significantly, achieving real-time computation capabilities with only a slight drop in accuracy. We evaluate the proposed approach in terms of semantic and geometric accuracy as well as run-time on four publicly available benchmark datasets. Our approach maintains accuracy on flat road scene datasets while improving substantially on a novel non-flat road dataset.
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Ozan Caglayan, Walid Aransa, Adrien Bardet, Mercedes Garcia-Martinez, Fethi Bougares, Loic Barrault, et al. (2017). LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task. In 2nd Conference on Machine Translation.
Abstract: This paper describes the monomodal and multimodal Neural Machine Translation systems developed by LIUM and CVC for WMT17 Shared Task on Multimodal Translation. We mainly explored two multimodal architectures where either global visual features or convolutional feature maps are integrated in order to benefit from visual context. Our final systems ranked first for both En-De and En-Fr language pairs according to the automatic evaluation metrics METEOR and BLEU.
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Jose A. Garcia, David Masip, Valerio Sbragaglia, & Jacopo Aguzzi. (2016). Using ORB, BoW and SVM to identificate and track tagged Norway lobster Nephrops Norvegicus (L.). In 3rd International Conference on Maritime Technology and Engineering.
Abstract: Sustainable capture policies of many species strongly depend on the understanding of their social behaviour. Nevertheless, the analysis of emergent behaviour in marine species poses several challenges. Usually animals are captured and observed in tanks, and their behaviour is inferred from their dynamics and interactions. Therefore, researchers must deal with thousands of hours of video data. Without loss of generality, this paper proposes a computer
vision approach to identify and track specific species, the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. We propose an identification scheme were animals are marked using black and white tags with a geometric shape in the center (holed
triangle, filled triangle, holed circle and filled circle). Using a massive labelled dataset; we extract local features based on the ORB descriptor. These features are a posteriori clustered, and we construct a Bag of Visual Words feature vector per animal. This approximation yields us invariance to rotation
and translation. A SVM classifier achieves generalization results above 99%. In a second contribution, we will make the code and training data publically available.
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Vassileios Balntas, Edgar Riba, Daniel Ponsa, & Krystian Mikolajczyk. (2016). Learning local feature descriptors with triplets and shallow convolutional neural networks. In 27th British Machine Vision Conference.
Abstract: It has recently been demonstrated that local feature descriptors based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) can significantly improve the matching performance. Previous work on learning such descriptors has focused on exploiting pairs of positive and negative patches to learn discriminative CNN representations. In this work, we propose to utilize triplets of training samples, together with in-triplet mining of hard negatives.
We show that our method achieves state of the art results, without the computational overhead typically associated with mining of negatives and with lower complexity of the network architecture. We compare our approach to recently introduced convolutional local feature descriptors, and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods in terms of performance and speed. We also examine different loss functions associated with triplets.
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Simone Balocco, Maria Zuluaga, Guillaume Zahnd, Su-Lin Lee, & Stefanie Demirci. (2016). Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting. Elsevier.
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Jose Marone, Simone Balocco, Marc Bolaños, Jose Massa, & Petia Radeva. (2016). Learning the Lumen Border using a Convolutional Neural Networks classifier. In 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Workshop.
Abstract: IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is a technique allowing the diagnosis of coronary plaque. An accurate (semi-)automatic assessment of the luminal contours could speed up the diagnosis. In most of the approaches, the information on the vessel shape is obtained combining a supervised learning step with a local refinement algorithm. In this paper, we explore for the first time, the use of a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architecture that on one hand is able to extract the optimal image features and at the same time can serve as a supervised classifier to detect the lumen border in IVUS images. The main limitation of CNN, relies on the fact that this technique requires a large amount of training data due to the huge amount of parameters that it has. To
solve this issue, we introduce a patch classification approach to generate an extended training-set from a few annotated images. An accuracy of 93% and F-score of 71% was obtained with this technique, even when it was applied to challenging frames containig calcified plaques, stents and catheter shadows.
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Dena Bazazian, Raul Gomez, Anguelos Nicolaou, Lluis Gomez, Dimosthenis Karatzas, & Andrew Bagdanov. (2016). Improving Text Proposals for Scene Images with Fully Convolutional Networks. In 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops.
Abstract: Text Proposals have emerged as a class-dependent version of object proposals – efficient approaches to reduce the search space of possible text object locations in an image. Combined with strong word classifiers, text proposals currently yield top state of the art results in end-to-end scene text
recognition. In this paper we propose an improvement over the original Text Proposals algorithm of [1], combining it with Fully Convolutional Networks to improve the ranking of proposals. Results on the ICDAR RRC and the COCO-text datasets show superior performance over current state-of-the-art.
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Cesar de Souza, Adrien Gaidon, Eleonora Vig, & Antonio Lopez. (2016). Sympathy for the Details: Dense Trajectories and Hybrid Classification Architectures for Action Recognition. In 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 697–716). LNCS.
Abstract: Action recognition in videos is a challenging task due to the complexity of the spatio-temporal patterns to model and the difficulty to acquire and learn on large quantities of video data. Deep learning, although a breakthrough for image classification and showing promise for videos, has still not clearly superseded action recognition methods using hand-crafted features, even when training on massive datasets. In this paper, we introduce hybrid video classification architectures based on carefully designed unsupervised representations of hand-crafted spatio-temporal features classified by supervised deep networks. As we show in our experiments on five popular benchmarks for action recognition, our hybrid model combines the best of both worlds: it is data efficient (trained on 150 to 10000 short clips) and yet improves significantly on the state of the art, including recent deep models trained on millions of manually labelled images and videos.
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Hugo Jair Escalante, Victor Ponce, Jun Wan, Michael A. Riegler, Baiyu Chen, Albert Clapes, et al. (2016). ChaLearn Joint Contest on Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis: An Overview. In 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the Joint Contest on Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis. We organized an academic competition that focused on four problems that require effective processing of multimodal information in order to be solved. Two tracks were devoted to gesture spotting and recognition from RGB-D video, two fundamental problems for human computer interaction. Another track was devoted to a second round of the first impressions challenge of which the goal was to develop methods to recognize personality traits from
short video clips. For this second round we adopted a novel collaborative-competitive (i.e., coopetition) setting. The fourth track was dedicated to the problem of video recommendation for improving user experience. The challenge was open for about 45 days, and received outstanding participation: almost
200 participants registered to the contest, and 20 teams sent predictions in the final stage. The main goals of the challenge were fulfilled: the state of the art was advanced considerably in the four tracks, with novel solutions to the proposed problems (mostly relying on deep learning). However, further research is still required. The data of the four tracks will be available to
allow researchers to keep making progress in the four tracks.
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Sumit K. Banchhor, Tadashi Araki, Narendra D. Londhe, Nobutaka Ikeda, Petia Radeva, Ayman El-Baz, et al. (2016). Five multiresolution-based calcium volume measurement techniques from coronary IVUS videos: A comparative approach. CMPB - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 134, 237–258.
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Fast intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) video processing is required for calcium volume computation during the planning phase of percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures. Nonlinear multiresolution techniques are generally applied to improve the processing time by down-sampling the video frames.
METHODS:
This paper presents four different segmentation methods for calcium volume measurement, namely Threshold-based, Fuzzy c-Means (FCM), K-means, and Hidden Markov Random Field (HMRF) embedded with five different kinds of multiresolution techniques (bilinear, bicubic, wavelet, Lanczos, and Gaussian pyramid). This leads to 20 different kinds of combinations. IVUS image data sets consisting of 38,760 IVUS frames taken from 19 patients were collected using 40 MHz IVUS catheter (Atlantis® SR Pro, Boston Scientific®, pullback speed of 0.5 mm/sec.). The performance of these 20 systems is compared with and without multiresolution using the following metrics: (a) computational time; (b) calcium volume; (c) image quality degradation ratio; and (d) quality assessment ratio.
RESULTS:
Among the four segmentation methods embedded with five kinds of multiresolution techniques, FCM segmentation combined with wavelet-based multiresolution gave the best performance. FCM and wavelet experienced the highest percentage mean improvement in computational time of 77.15% and 74.07%, respectively. Wavelet interpolation experiences the highest mean precision-of-merit (PoM) of 94.06 ± 3.64% and 81.34 ± 16.29% as compared to other multiresolution techniques for volume level and frame level respectively. Wavelet multiresolution technique also experiences the highest Jaccard Index and Dice Similarity of 0.7 and 0.8, respectively. Multiresolution is a nonlinear operation which introduces bias and thus degrades the image. The proposed system also provides a bias correction approach to enrich the system, giving a better mean calcium volume similarity for all the multiresolution-based segmentation methods. After including the bias correction, bicubic interpolation gives the largest increase in mean calcium volume similarity of 4.13% compared to the rest of the multiresolution techniques. The system is automated and can be adapted in clinical settings.
CONCLUSIONS:
We demonstrated the time improvement in calcium volume computation without compromising the quality of IVUS image. Among the 20 different combinations of multiresolution with calcium volume segmentation methods, the FCM embedded with wavelet-based multiresolution gave the best performance.
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