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Author Aniol Lidon; Xavier Giro; Marc Bolaños; Petia Radeva; Markus Seidl; Matthias Zeppelzauer
Title UPC-UB-STP @ MediaEval 2015 diversity task: iterative reranking of relevant images Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 2015 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Images Task Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This paper presents the results of the UPC-UB-STP team in the 2015 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Images Task. The goal of the challenge is to provide a ranked list of Flickr photos for a predefined set of queries. Our approach firstly generates a ranking of images based on a query-independent estimation of its relevance. Only top results are kept and iteratively re-ranked based on their intra-similarity to introduce diversity.
Address Wurzen; Germany; September 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @LGB2016 Serial 2793
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Author Dan Norton; Fernando Vilariño; Onur Ferhat
Title Memory Field – Creative Engagement in Digital Collections Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Internet Librarian International Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract “Memory Fields” is a trans-disciplinary project aiming at the (re)valorisation of digital collections.Its main deliverable is an interface for a dual screen installation, used to access and mix the public library digital collections. The collections being used in this case are a collection of digitised posters from the Spanish Civil War, belonging to the Arxiu General de Catalunya, and a collection of field recordings made by Dan Norton. The system generates visualisations, and the images and sounds are mixed together using narrative primitives of video dj. Users contribute to the digital collections by adding personal memories and observations. The comments and recollections appear as flowers growing in a “memory field” and memories remain public in a Twitter feed (@Memoryfields).
Address London; UK; October 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @NVF2015 Serial 2796
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Dimosthenis Karatzas
Title The Library Living Lab Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Open Living Lab Days Abbreviated Journal
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Address Istanbul; Turkey; August 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @ViK2015 Serial 2797
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Marcos Catalan; Alberto Valcarcel
Title An horizon for the Public Library as a place for innovation and creativity. The Library Living Lab in Volpelleres Type Book Chapter
Year 2015 Publication The White Book on Public Library Network from Diputació de Barcelona Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number Admin @ si @VKC2015 Serial 2798
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Author Fernando Vilariño
Title Computer Vision and Performing Arts Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Korean Scholars of Marketing Science Abbreviated Journal
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Address Seoul; Korea; October 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @Vil2015 Serial 2799
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Dan Norton; Onur Ferhat
Title Memory Fields: DJs in the Library Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 21 st Symposium of Electronic Arts Abbreviated Journal
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Address Vancouver; Canada; August 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @VNF2015 Serial 2800
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Author Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title Towards the Alignment of Handwritten Music Scores Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract It is very common to find different versions of the same music work in archives of Opera Theaters. These differences correspond to modifications and annotations from the musicians. From the musicologist point of view, these variations are very interesting and deserve study. This paper explores the alignment of music scores as a tool for automatically detecting the passages that contain such differences. Given the difficulties in the recognition of handwritten music scores, our goal is to align the music scores and at the same time, avoid the recognition of music elements as much as possible. After removing the staff lines, braces and ties, the bar lines are detected. Then, the bar units are described as a whole using the Blurred Shape Model. The bar units alignment is performed by using Dynamic Time Warping. The analysis of the alignment path is used to detect the variations in the music scores. The method has been evaluated on a subset of the CVC-MUSCIMA dataset, showing encouraging results.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor Bart Lamiroy; Rafael Dueire Lins
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-52158-9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 2874
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Author Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca; Felipe Lumbreras
Title Multi-part body segmentation based on depth maps for soft biometry analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 56 Issue Pages 14-21
Keywords (up) 3D shape context; 3D point cloud alignment; Depth maps; Human body segmentation; Soft biometry analysis
Abstract This paper presents a novel method extracting biometric measures using depth sensors. Given a multi-part labeled training data, a new subject is aligned to the best model of the dataset, and soft biometrics such as lengths or circumference sizes of limbs and body are computed. The process is performed by training relevant pose clusters, defining a representative model, and fitting a 3D shape context descriptor within an iterative matching procedure. We show robust measures by applying orthogonal plates to body hull. We test our approach in a novel full-body RGB-Depth data set, showing accurate estimation of soft biometrics and better segmentation accuracy in comparison with random forest approach without requiring large training data.
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Notes HuPBA; ISE; ADAS; 600.076;600.049; 600.063; 600.054; 302.018;MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MEG2015 Serial 2588
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Michael Felsberg; J.Laaksonen
Title Deep semantic pyramids for human attributes and action recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Image Analysis, Proceedings of 19th Scandinavian Conference , SCIA 2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9127 Issue Pages 341-353
Keywords (up) Action recognition; Human attributes; Semantic pyramids
Abstract Describing persons and their actions is a challenging problem due to variations in pose, scale and viewpoint in real-world images. Recently, semantic pyramids approach [1] for pose normalization has shown to provide excellent results for gender and action recognition. The performance of semantic pyramids approach relies on robust image description and is therefore limited due to the use of shallow local features. In the context of object recognition [2] and object detection [3], convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or deep features have shown to improve the performance over the conventional shallow features.
We propose deep semantic pyramids for human attributes and action recognition. The method works by constructing spatial pyramids based on CNNs of different part locations. These pyramids are then combined to obtain a single semantic representation. We validate our approach on the Berkeley and 27 Human Attributes datasets for attributes classification. For action recognition, we perform experiments on two challenging datasets: Willow and PASCAL VOC 2010. The proposed deep semantic pyramids provide a significant gain of 17.2%, 13.9%, 24.3% and 22.6% compared to the standard shallow semantic pyramids on Berkeley, 27 Human Attributes, Willow and PASCAL VOC 2010 datasets respectively. Our results also show that deep semantic pyramids outperform conventional CNNs based on the full bounding box of the person. Finally, we compare our approach with state-of-the-art methods and show a gain in performance compared to best methods in literature.
Address Denmark; Copenhagen; June 2015
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-19664-0 Medium
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Notes LAMP; 600.068; 600.079;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2015b Serial 2672
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Author G. Zahnd; Simone Balocco; A. Serusclat; P. Moulin; M. Orkisz; D. Vray
Title Progressive attenuation of the longitudinal kinetics in the common carotid artery: preliminary in vivo assessment Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal UMB
Volume 41 Issue 1 Pages 339-345
Keywords (up) Arterial stiffness; Atherosclerosis; Common carotid artery; Longitudinal kinetics; Motion tracking; Ultrasound imaging
Abstract Longitudinal kinetics (LOKI) of the arterial wall consists of the shearing motion of the intima-media complex over the adventitia layer in the direction parallel to the blood flow during the cardiac cycle. The aim of this study was to investigate the local variability of LOKI amplitude along the length of the vessel. By use of a previously validated motion-estimation framework, 35 in vivo longitudinal B-mode ultrasound cine loops of healthy common carotid arteries were analyzed. Results indicated that LOKI amplitude is progressively attenuated along the length of the artery, as it is larger in regions located on the proximal side of the image (i.e., toward the heart) and smaller in regions located on the distal side of the image (i.e., toward the head), with an average attenuation coefficient of -2.5 ± 2.0%/mm. Reported for the first time in this study, this phenomenon is likely to be of great importance in improving understanding of atherosclerosis mechanisms, and has the potential to be a novel index of arterial stiffness.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ ZBS2014 Serial 2556
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Author Youssef El Rhabi; Simon Loic; Brun Luc
Title Estimation de la pose d’une caméra à partir d’un flux vidéo en s’approchant du temps réel Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 15ème édition d'ORASIS, journées francophones des jeunes chercheurs en vision par ordinateur ORASIS2015 Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords (up) Augmented Reality; SFM; SLAM; real time pose computation; 2D/3D registration
Abstract Finding a way to estimate quickly and robustly the pose of an image is essential in augmented reality. Here we will discuss the approach we chose in order to get closer to real time by using SIFT points [4]. We propose a method based on filtering both SIFT points and images on which to focus on. Hence we will focus on relevant data.
Address Amiens; France; June 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLL2015 Serial 2626
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Author Isabelle Guyon; Kristin Bennett; Gavin Cawley; Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera; Tin Kam Ho; Nuria Macia; Bisakha Ray; Mehreen Saeed; Alexander Statnikov; Evelyne Viegas
Title AutoML Challenge 2015: Design and First Results Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML workshop, JMLR proceedings ICML15 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-8
Keywords (up) AutoML Challenge; machine learning; model selection; meta-learning; repre- sentation learning; active learning
Abstract ChaLearn is organizing the Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) contest 2015, which challenges participants to solve classi cation and regression problems without any human intervention. Participants' code is automatically run on the contest servers to train and test learning machines. However, there is no obligation to submit code; half of the prizes can be won by submitting prediction results only. Datasets of progressively increasing diculty are introduced throughout the six rounds of the challenge. (Participants can
enter the competition in any round.) The rounds alternate phases in which learners are tested on datasets participants have not seen (AutoML), and phases in which participants have limited time to tweak their algorithms on those datasets to improve performance (Tweakathon). This challenge will push the state of the art in fully automatic machine learning on a wide range of real-world problems. The platform will remain available beyond the termination of the challenge: http://codalab.org/AutoML.
Address Lille; France; July 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GBC2015c Serial 2656
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Author Sergio Silva; Victor Campmany; Laura Sellart; Juan Carlos Moure; Antoni Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Autonomous GPU-based Driving Type Abstract
Year 2015 Publication Programming and Tunning Massive Parallel Systems Abbreviated Journal PUMPS
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Keywords (up) Autonomous Driving; ADAS; CUDA
Abstract Human factors cause most driving accidents; this is why nowadays is common to hear about autonomous driving as an alternative. Autonomous driving will not only increase safety, but also will develop a system of cooperative self-driving cars that will reduce pollution and congestion. Furthermore, it will provide more freedom to handicapped people, elderly or kids.

Autonomous Driving requires perceiving and understanding the vehicle environment (e.g., road, traffic signs, pedestrians, vehicles) using sensors (e.g., cameras, lidars, sonars, and radars), selflocalization (requiring GPS, inertial sensors and visual localization in precise maps), controlling the vehicle and planning the routes. These algorithms require high computation capability, and thanks to NVIDIA GPU acceleration this starts to become feasible.

NVIDIA® is developing a new platform for boosting the Autonomous Driving capabilities that is able of managing the vehicle via CAN-Bus: the Drive™ PX. It has 8 ARM cores with dual accelerated Tegra® X1 chips. It has 12 synchronized camera inputs for 360º vehicle perception, 4G and Wi-Fi capabilities allowing vehicle communications and GPS and inertial sensors inputs for self-localization.

Our research group has been selected for testing Drive™ PX. Accordingly, we are developing a Drive™ PX based autonomous car. Currently, we are porting our previous CPU based algorithms (e.g., Lane Departure Warning, Collision Warning, Automatic Cruise Control, Pedestrian Protection, or Semantic Segmentation) for running in the GPU.
Address Barcelona; Spain
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Notes ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SCS2015 Serial 2645
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Author Victor Campmany; Sergio Silva; Juan Carlos Moure; Antoni Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title GPU-based pedestrian detection for autonomous driving Type Abstract
Year 2015 Publication Programming and Tunning Massive Parallel Systems Abbreviated Journal PUMPS
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Keywords (up) Autonomous Driving; ADAS; CUDA; Pedestrian Detection
Abstract Pedestrian detection for autonomous driving has gained a lot of prominence during the last few years. Besides the fact that it is one of the hardest tasks within computer vision, it involves huge computational costs. The real-time constraints in the field are tight, and regular processors are not able to handle the workload obtaining an acceptable ratio of frames per second (fps). Moreover, multiple cameras are required to obtain accurate results, so the need to speed up the process is even higher. Taking the work in [1] as our baseline, we propose a CUDA implementation of a pedestrian detection system. Further, we introduce significant algorithmic adjustments and optimizations to adapt the problem to the GPU architecture. The aim is to provide a system capable of running in real-time obtaining reliable results.
Address Barcelona; Spain
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Notes ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ CSM2015 Serial 2644
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Author German Ros; Sebastian Ramos; Manuel Granados; Amir Bakhtiary; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Vision-based Offline-Online Perception Paradigm for Autonomous Driving Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 231 - 238
Keywords (up) Autonomous Driving; Scene Understanding; SLAM; Semantic Segmentation
Abstract Autonomous driving is a key factor for future mobility. Properly perceiving the environment of the vehicles is essential for a safe driving, which requires computing accurate geometric and semantic information in real-time. In this paper, we challenge state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms for building a perception system for autonomous driving. An inherent drawback in the computation of visual semantics is the trade-off between accuracy and computational cost. We propose to circumvent this problem by following an offline-online strategy. During the offline stage dense 3D semantic maps are created. In the online stage the current driving area is recognized in the maps via a re-localization process, which allows to retrieve the pre-computed accurate semantics and 3D geometry in realtime. Then, detecting the dynamic obstacles we obtain a rich understanding of the current scene. We evaluate quantitatively our proposal in the KITTI dataset and discuss the related open challenges for the computer vision community.
Address Hawaii; January 2015
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Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RRG2015 Serial 2499
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