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	Author	Josep Llados; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; David Fernandez; Anjan Dutta
	Title	On the Influence of Word Representations for Handwritten Word Spotting in Historical Documents			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	IJPRAI
	Volume	26	Issue	5	Pages	1263002-126027
	Keywords	Handwriting recognition; word spotting; historical documents; feature representation; shape descriptors Read More: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218001412630025
	Abstract	0,624 JCR Word spotting is the process of retrieving all instances of a queried keyword from a digital library of document images. In this paper we evaluate the performance of different word descriptors to assess the advantages and disadvantages of statistical and structural models in a framework of query-by-example word spotting in historical documents. We compare four word representation models, namely sequence alignment using DTW as a baseline reference, a bag of visual words approach as statistical model, a pseudo-structural model based on a Loci features representation, and a structural approach where words are represented by graphs. The four approaches have been tested with two collections of historical data: the George Washington database and the marriage records from the Barcelona Cathedral. We experimentally demonstrate that statistical representations generally give a better performance, however it cannot be neglected that large descriptors are difficult to be implemented in a retrieval scenario where word spotting requires the indexation of data with million word images.
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	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LRF2012			Serial	2128
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	Author	Veronica Romero; Alicia Fornes; Enrique Vidal; Joan Andreu Sanchez
	Title	Information Extraction in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books Using the MGGI Methodology			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	10255	Issue		Pages	287-294
	Keywords	Handwritten Text Recognition; Information extraction; Language modeling; MGGI; Categories-based language model
	Abstract	Historical records of daily activities provide intriguing insights into the life of our ancestors, useful for demographic and genealogical research. For example, marriage license books have been used for centuries by ecclesiastical and secular institutions to register marriages. These books follow a simple structure of the text in the records with a evolutionary vocabulary, mainly composed of proper names that change along the time. This distinct vocabulary makes automatic transcription and semantic information extraction difficult tasks. In previous works we studied the use of category-based language models and how a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI could improve the accuracy of these tasks. In this work we analyze the main causes of the semantic errors observed in previous results and apply a better implementation of the MGGI technique to solve these problems. Using the resulting language model, transcription and information extraction experiments have been carried out, and the results support our proposed approach.
	Address	Faro; Portugal; June 2017
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	L.A. Alexandre; J.Salvador Sanchez; Joao M. F. Rodriguez
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-3-319-58837-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	DAG; 602.006; 600.097; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RFV2017			Serial	2952
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	Author	Manuel Carbonell; Joan Mas; Mauricio Villegas; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	End-to-End Handwritten Text Detection and Transcription in Full Pages			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	5	Issue		Pages	29-34
	Keywords	Handwritten Text Recognition; Layout Analysis; Text segmentation; Deep Neural Networks; Multi-task learning
	Abstract	When transcribing handwritten document images, inaccuracies in the text segmentation step often cause errors in the subsequent transcription step. For this reason, some recent methods propose to perform the recognition at paragraph level. But still, errors in the segmentation of paragraphs can affect the transcription performance. In this work, we propose an end-to-end framework to transcribe full pages. The joint text detection and transcription allows to remove the layout analysis requirement at test time. The experimental results show that our approach can achieve comparable results to models that assume segmented paragraphs, and suggest that joining the two tasks brings an improvement over doing the two tasks separately.
	Address	Sydney; Australia; September 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR WML
	Notes	DAG; 600.140; 601.311; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CMV2019			Serial	3353
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	Author	Marçal Rusiñol; Josep Llados
	Title	Boosting the Handwritten Word Spotting Experience by Including the User in the Loop			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	47	Issue	3	Pages	1063–1072
	Keywords	Handwritten word spotting; Query by example; Relevance feedback; Query fusion; Multidimensional scaling
	Abstract	In this paper, we study the effect of taking the user into account in a query-by-example handwritten word spotting framework. Several off-the-shelf query fusion and relevance feedback strategies have been tested in the handwritten word spotting context. The increase in terms of precision when the user is included in the loop is assessed using two datasets of historical handwritten documents and two baseline word spotting approaches both based on the bag-of-visual-words model. We finally present two alternative ways of presenting the results to the user that might be more attractive and suitable to the user's needs than the classic ranked list.
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	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RuL2013			Serial	2343
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	Author	Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Joaquin Salas
	Title	Head-gestures mirroring detection in dyadic social linteractions with computer vision-based wearable devices			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Neurocomputing	Abbreviated Journal	NEUCOM
	Volume	175	Issue	B	Pages	866–876
	Keywords	Head gestures recognition; Mirroring detection; Dyadic social interaction analysis; Wearable devices
	Abstract	During face-to-face human interaction, nonverbal communication plays a fundamental role. A relevant aspect that takes part during social interactions is represented by mirroring, in which a person tends to mimic the non-verbal behavior (head and body gestures, vocal prosody, etc.) of the counterpart. In this paper, we introduce a computer vision-based system to detect mirroring in dyadic social interactions with the use of a wearable platform. In our context, mirroring is inferred as simultaneous head noddings displayed by the interlocutors. Our approach consists of the following steps: (1) facial features extraction; (2) facial features stabilization; (3) head nodding recognition; and (4) mirroring detection. Our system achieves a mirroring detection accuracy of 72% on a custom mirroring dataset.
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	Notes	OR; 600.072; 600.068;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TRM2016			Serial	2721
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	Author	Katerine Diaz; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Antonio Lopez
	Title	A reduced feature set for driver head pose estimation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Applied Soft Computing	Abbreviated Journal	ASOC
	Volume	45	Issue		Pages	98-107
	Keywords	Head pose estimation; driving performance evaluation; subspace based methods; linear regression
	Abstract	Evaluation of driving performance is of utmost importance in order to reduce road accident rate. Since driving ability includes visual-spatial and operational attention, among others, head pose estimation of the driver is a crucial indicator of driving performance. This paper proposes a new automatic method for coarse and fine head's yaw angle estimation of the driver. We rely on a set of geometric features computed from just three representative facial keypoints, namely the center of the eyes and the nose tip. With these geometric features, our method combines two manifold embedding methods and a linear regression one. In addition, the method has a confidence mechanism to decide if the classification of a sample is not reliable. The approach has been tested using the CMU-PIE dataset and our own driver dataset. Despite the very few facial keypoints required, the results are comparable to the state-of-the-art techniques. The low computational cost of the method and its robustness makes feasible to integrate it in massive consume devices as a real time application.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.085; 600.076;			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DHL2016			Serial	2760
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	Author	Katerine Diaz; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil
	Title	Continuous head pose estimation using manifold subspace embedding and multivariate regression			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	IEEE Access	Abbreviated Journal	ACCESS
	Volume	6	Issue		Pages	18325 - 18334
	Keywords	Head Pose estimation; HOG features; Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors; B-splines; Multiple linear regression
	Abstract	In this paper, a continuous head pose estimation system is proposed to estimate yaw and pitch head angles from raw facial images. Our approach is based on manifold learningbased methods, due to their promising generalization properties shown for face modelling from images. The method combines histograms of oriented gradients, generalized discriminative common vectors and continuous local regression to achieve successful performance. Our proposal was tested on multiple standard face datasets, as well as in a realistic scenario. Results show a considerable performance improvement and a higher consistence of our model in comparison with other state-of-art methods, with angular errors varying between 9 and 17 degrees.
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	ISSN	2169-3536	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DMH2018b			Serial	3091
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	Author	Alicia Fornes; Asma Bensalah; Cristina Carmona_Duarte; Jialuo Chen; Miguel A. Ferrer; Andreas Fischer; Josep Llados; Cristina Martin; Eloy Opisso; Rejean Plamondon; Anna Scius-Bertrand; Josep Maria Tormos
	Title	The RPM3D Project: 3D Kinematics for Remote Patient Monitoring			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Intertwining Graphonomics with Human Movements. 20th International Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, IGS 2022	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	13424	Issue		Pages	217-226
	Keywords	Healthcare applications; Kinematic; Theory of Rapid Human Movements; Human activity recognition; Stroke rehabilitation; 3D kinematics
	Abstract	This project explores the feasibility of remote patient monitoring based on the analysis of 3D movements captured with smartwatches. We base our analysis on the Kinematic Theory of Rapid Human Movement. We have validated our research in a real case scenario for stroke rehabilitation at the Guttmann Institute (https://www.guttmann.com/en/) (neurorehabilitation hospital), showing promising results. Our work could have a great impact in remote healthcare applications, improving the medical efficiency and reducing the healthcare costs. Future steps include more clinical validation, developing multi-modal analysis architectures (analysing data from sensors, images, audio, etc.), and exploring the application of our technology to monitor other neurodegenerative diseases.
	Address	June 7-9, 2022, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	IGS
	Notes	DAG; 600.121; 600.162; 602.230; 600.140			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FBC2022			Serial	3739
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	Author	Sumit K. Banchhor; Narendra D. Londhe; Tadashi Araki; Luca Saba; Petia Radeva; Narendra N. Khanna; Jasjit S. Suri
	Title	Calcium detection, its quantification, and grayscale morphology-based risk stratification using machine learning in multimodality big data coronary and carotid scans: A review.			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2018	Publication	Computers in Biology and Medicine	Abbreviated Journal	CBM
	Volume	101	Issue		Pages	184-198
	Keywords	Heart disease; Stroke; Atherosclerosis; Intravascular; Coronary; Carotid; Calcium; Morphology; Risk stratification
	Abstract	Purpose of review Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke. Typically, atherosclerotic calcium is found during the mature stage of the atherosclerosis disease. It is therefore often a challenge to identify and quantify the calcium. This is due to the presence of multiple components of plaque buildup in the arterial walls. The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines point to the importance of calcium in the coronary and carotid arteries and further recommend its quantification for the prevention of heart disease. It is therefore essential to stratify the CVD risk of the patient into low- and high-risk bins. Recent finding Calcium formation in the artery walls is multifocal in nature with sizes at the micrometer level. Thus, its detection requires high-resolution imaging. Clinical experience has shown that even though optical coherence tomography offers better resolution, intravascular ultrasound still remains an important imaging modality for coronary wall imaging. For a computer-based analysis system to be complete, it must be scientifically and clinically validated. This study presents a state-of-the-art review (condensation of 152 publications after examining 200 articles) covering the methods for calcium detection and its quantification for coronary and carotid arteries, the pros and cons of these methods, and the risk stratification strategies. The review also presents different kinds of statistical models and gold standard solutions for the evaluation of software systems useful for calcium detection and quantification. Finally, the review concludes with a possible vision for designing the next-generation system for better clinical outcomes.
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	Notes	MILAB; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BLA2018			Serial	3188
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	Author	Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil; Enric Marti; Albert Andaluz; Manel Ballester;Francesc Carreras Costa
	Title	Helical structure of the cardiac ventricular anatomy assessed by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging multi-resolution tractography			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Revista Española de Cardiología	Abbreviated Journal	REC
	Volume	66	Issue	10	Pages	782-790
	Keywords	Heart;Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging;Diffusion tractography;Helical heart;Myocardial ventricular band.
	Abstract	Deep understanding of myocardial structure linking morphology and function of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for medical and surgical clinical procedures and studies. Several conceptual models of myocardial fiber organization have been proposed but the lack of an automatic and objective methodology prevented an agreement. We sought to deepen in this knowledge through advanced computer graphic representations of the myocardial fiber architecture by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). We performed automatic tractography reconstruction of unsegmented DT-MRI canine heart datasets coming from the public database of the Johns Hopkins University. Full scale tractographies have been build with 200 seeds and are composed by streamlines computed on the vectorial field of primary eigenvectors given at the diffusion tensor volumes. Also, we introduced a novel multi-scale visualization technique in order to obtain a simplified tractography. This methodology allowed to keep the main geometric features of the fiber tracts, making easier to decipher the main properties of the architectural organization of the heart. On the analysis of the output from our tractographic representations we found exact correlation with low-level details of myocardial architecture, but also with the more abstract conceptualization of a continuous helical ventricular myocardial fiber array. Objective analysis of myocardial architecture by an automated method, including the entire myocardium and using several 3D levels of complexity, reveals a continuous helical myocardial fiber arrangement of both right and left ventricles, supporting the anatomical model of the helical ventricular myocardial band described by Torrent-Guasp.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	IAM; 600.044; 600.060			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ PGM2013			Serial	2194
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	Author	Sandra Pujades;Francesc Carreras;Manuel Ballester; Jaume Garcia; Debora Gil
	Title	A Normalized Parametric Domain for the Analysis of the Left Ventricular Function			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2008	Publication	Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP’08)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	1	Issue		Pages	267-274
	Keywords	Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band; Myocardial Fiber; Tagged Magnetic Resonance; HARP; Optical Flow Variational Framework; Gabor Filters; B-Splines.
	Abstract	Impairment of left ventricular (LV) contractility due to cardiovascular diseases is reflected in LV motion patterns. The mechanics of any muscle strongly depends on the spatial orientation of its muscular fibers since the motion that the muscle undergoes mainly takes place along the fiber. The helical ventricular myocardial band (HVMB) concept describes the myocardial muscle as a unique muscular band that twists in space in a non homogeneous fashion. The 3D anisotropy of the ventricular band fibers suggests a regional analysis of the heart motion. Computation of normality models of such motion can help in the detection and localization of any cardiac disorder. In this paper we introduce, for the first time, a normalized parametric domain that allows comparison of the left ventricle motion across patients. We address, both, extraction of the LV motion from Tagged Magnetic Resonance images, as well as, defining a mapping of the LV to a common normalized domain. Extraction of normality motion patterns from 17 healthy volunteers shows the clinical potential of our LV parametrization.
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	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GGP2008			Serial	1627
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	Author	Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
	Title	Hierarchical graphs for coarse-to-fine error tolerant matching			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2020	Publication	Pattern Recognition Letters	Abbreviated Journal	PRL
	Volume	134	Issue		Pages	116-124
	Keywords	Hierarchical graph representation; Coarse-to-fine graph matching; Graph-based retrieval
	Abstract	During the last years, graph-based representations are experiencing a growing usage in visual recognition and retrieval due to their ability to capture both structural and appearance-based information. Thus, they provide a greater representational power than classical statistical frameworks. However, graph-based representations leads to high computational complexities usually dealt by graph embeddings or approximated matching techniques. Despite their representational power, they are very sensitive to noise and small variations of the input image. With the aim to cope with the time complexity and the variability present in the generated graphs, in this paper we propose to construct a novel hierarchical graph representation. Graph clustering techniques adapted from social media analysis have been used in order to contract a graph at different abstraction levels while keeping information about the topology. Abstract nodes attributes summarise information about the contracted graph partition. For the proposed representations, a coarse-to-fine matching technique is defined. Hence, small graphs are used as a filtering before more accurate matching methods are applied. This approach has been validated in real scenarios such as classification of colour images or retrieval of handwritten words (i.e. word spotting).
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 601.302; 603.057; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RLF2020			Serial	3349
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	Author	Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados
	Title	Efficient segmentation-free keyword spotting in historical document collections			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	48	Issue	2	Pages	545–555
	Keywords	Historical documents; Keyword spotting; Segmentation-free; Dense SIFT features; Latent semantic analysis; Product quantization
	Abstract	In this paper we present an efficient segmentation-free word spotting method, applied in the context of historical document collections, that follows the query-by-example paradigm. We use a patch-based framework where local patches are described by a bag-of-visual-words model powered by SIFT descriptors. By projecting the patch descriptors to a topic space with the latent semantic analysis technique and compressing the descriptors with the product quantization method, we are able to efficiently index the document information both in terms of memory and time. The proposed method is evaluated using four different collections of historical documents achieving good performances on both handwritten and typewritten scenarios. The yielded performances outperform the recent state-of-the-art keyword spotting approaches.
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	Notes	DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077; 600.061; 601.223; 602.006; 600.055			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RAT2015a			Serial	2544
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	Author	Pau Torras; Mohamed Ali Souibgui; Sanket Biswas; Alicia Fornes
	Title	Segmentation-Free Alignment of Arbitrary Symbol Transcripts to Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2023	Publication	Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	14193	Issue		Pages	83-93
	Keywords	Historical Manuscripts; Symbol Alignment
	Abstract	Developing arbitrary symbol recognition systems is a challenging endeavour. Even using content-agnostic architectures such as few-shot models, performance can be substantially improved by providing a number of well-annotated examples into training. In some contexts, transcripts of the symbols are available without any position information associated to them, which enables using line-level recognition architectures. A way of providing this position information to detection-based architectures is finding systems that can align the input symbols with the transcription. In this paper we discuss some symbol alignment techniques that are suitable for low-data scenarios and provide an insight on their perceived strengths and weaknesses. In particular, we study the usage of Connectionist Temporal Classification models, Attention-Based Sequence to Sequence models and we compare them with the results obtained on a few-shot recognition system.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ TSS2023			Serial	3850
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	Author	Bhaskar Chakraborty; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
	Title	Human Action Recognition Using an Ensemble of Body-Part Detectors			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Expert Systems	Abbreviated Journal	EXSY
	Volume	30	Issue	2	Pages	101-114
	Keywords	Human action recognition;body-part detection;hidden Markov model
	Abstract	This paper describes an approach to human action recognition based on a probabilistic optimization model of body parts using hidden Markov model (HMM). Our method is able to distinguish between similar actions by only considering the body parts having major contribution to the actions, for example, legs for walking, jogging and running; arms for boxing, waving and clapping. We apply HMMs to model the stochastic movement of the body parts for action recognition. The HMM construction uses an ensemble of body-part detectors, followed by grouping of part detections, to perform human identification. Three example-based body-part detectors are trained to detect three components of the human body: the head, legs and arms. These detectors cope with viewpoint changes and self-occlusions through the use of ten sub-classifiers that detect body parts over a specific range of viewpoints. Each sub-classifier is a support vector machine trained on features selected for the discriminative power for each particular part/viewpoint combination. Grouping of these detections is performed using a simple geometric constraint model that yields a viewpoint-invariant human detector. We test our approach on three publicly available action datasets: the KTH dataset, Weizmann dataset and HumanEva dataset. Our results illustrate that with a simple and compact representation we can achieve robust recognition of human actions comparable to the most complex, state-of-the-art methods.
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	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CBG2013			Serial	1809
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