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Author | Marc Bolaños; Mariella Dimiccoli; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | Towards Storytelling from Visual Lifelogging: An Overview | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems | Abbreviated Journal | THMS |
Volume | 47 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 77 - 90 |
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Abstract | Visual lifelogging consists of acquiring images that capture the daily experiences of the user by wearing a camera over a long period of time. The pictures taken offer considerable potential for knowledge mining concerning how people live their lives, hence, they open up new opportunities for many potential applications in fields including healthcare, security, leisure and
the quantified self. However, automatically building a story from a huge collection of unstructured egocentric data presents major challenges. This paper provides a thorough review of advances made so far in egocentric data analysis, and in view of the current state of the art, indicates new lines of research to move us towards storytelling from visual lifelogging. |
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ BDR2017 | Serial | 2712 | ||
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Author | Mariella Dimiccoli; Marc Bolaños; Estefania Talavera; Maedeh Aghaei; Stavri G. Nikolov; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | SR-Clustering: Semantic Regularized Clustering for Egocentric Photo Streams Segmentation | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Computer Vision and Image Understanding | Abbreviated Journal | CVIU |
Volume | 155 | Issue | Pages | 55-69 | |
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Abstract | While wearable cameras are becoming increasingly popular, locating relevant information in large unstructured collections of egocentric images is still a tedious and time consuming processes. This paper addresses the problem of organizing egocentric photo streams acquired by a wearable camera into semantically meaningful segments. First, contextual and semantic information is extracted for each image by employing a Convolutional Neural Networks approach. Later, by integrating language processing, a vocabulary of concepts is defined in a semantic space. Finally, by exploiting the temporal coherence in photo streams, images which share contextual and semantic attributes are grouped together. The resulting temporal segmentation is particularly suited for further analysis, ranging from activity and event recognition to semantic indexing and summarization. Experiments over egocentric sets of nearly 17,000 images, show that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods. | ||||
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Notes | MILAB; 601.235 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ DBT2017 | Serial | 2714 | ||
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Author | Hugo Jair Escalante; Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Alicia Morales-Reyes; Jose Martinez-Carranza | ||||
Title | Evolving weighting schemes for the Bag of Visual Words | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Neural Computing and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | Neural Computing and Applications |
Volume | 28 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 925–939 |
Keywords | Bag of Visual Words; Bag of features; Genetic programming; Term-weighting schemes; Computer vision | ||||
Abstract | The Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) is an established representation in computer vision. Taking inspiration from text mining, this representation has proved
to be very effective in many domains. However, in most cases, standard term-weighting schemes are adopted (e.g.,term-frequency or TF-IDF). It remains open the question of whether alternative weighting schemes could boost the performance of methods based on BoVW. More importantly, it is unknown whether it is possible to automatically learn and determine effective weighting schemes from scratch. This paper brings some light into both of these unknowns. On the one hand, we report an evaluation of the most common weighting schemes used in text mining, but rarely used in computer vision tasks. Besides, we propose an evolutionary algorithm capable of automatically learning weighting schemes for computer vision problems. We report empirical results of an extensive study in several computer vision problems. Results show the usefulness of the proposed method. |
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Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | Springer | ||
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Notes | HUPBA;MV; no menciona | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ EPE2017 | Serial | 2743 | ||
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Author | Daniel Hernandez; Antonio Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Juan Carlos Moure | ||||
Title | GPU-accelerated real-time stixel computation | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 1054-1062 | ||
Keywords | Autonomous Driving; GPU; Stixel | ||||
Abstract | The Stixel World is a medium-level, compact representation of road scenes that abstracts millions of disparity pixels into hundreds or thousands of stixels. The goal of this work is to implement and evaluate a complete multi-stixel estimation pipeline on an embedded, energyefficient, GPU-accelerated device. This work presents a full GPU-accelerated implementation of stixel estimation that produces reliable results at 26 frames per second (real-time) on the Tegra X1 for disparity images of 1024×440 pixels and stixel widths of 5 pixels, and achieves more than 400 frames per second on a high-end Titan X GPU card. | ||||
Address | Santa Rosa; CA; USA; March 2017 | ||||
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Notes | ADAS; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ HEV2017b | Serial | 2812 | ||
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Author | Cristina Palmero; Jordi Esquirol; Vanessa Bayo; Miquel Angel Cos; Pouya Ahmadmonfared; Joan Salabert; David Sanchez; Sergio Escalera | ||||
Title | Automatic Sleep System Recommendation by Multi-modal RBG-Depth-Pressure Anthropometric Analysis | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | International Journal of Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal | IJCV |
Volume | 122 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 212–227 |
Keywords | Sleep system recommendation; RGB-Depth data Pressure imaging; Anthropometric landmark extraction; Multi-part human body segmentation | ||||
Abstract | This paper presents a novel system for automatic sleep system recommendation using RGB, depth and pressure information. It consists of a validated clinical knowledge-based model that, along with a set of prescription variables extracted automatically, obtains a personalized bed design recommendation. The automatic process starts by performing multi-part human body RGB-D segmentation combining GrabCut, 3D Shape Context descriptor and Thin Plate Splines, to then extract a set of anthropometric landmark points by applying orthogonal plates to the segmented human body. The extracted variables are introduced to the computerized clinical model to calculate body circumferences, weight, morphotype and Body Mass Index categorization. Furthermore, pressure image analysis is performed to extract pressure values and at-risk points, which are also introduced to the model to eventually obtain the final prescription of mattress, topper, and pillow. We validate the complete system in a set of 200 subjects, showing accurate category classification and high correlation results with respect to manual measures. | ||||
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Notes | HuPBA;MILAB; 303.100 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ PEB2017 | Serial | 2765 | ||
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Author | Debora Gil; Sergio Vera; Agnes Borras; Albert Andaluz; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester | ||||
Title | Anatomical Medial Surfaces with Efficient Resolution of Branches Singularities | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Medical Image Analysis | Abbreviated Journal | MIA |
Volume | 35 | Issue | Pages | 390-402 | |
Keywords | Medial Representations; Shape Recognition; Medial Branching Stability ; Singular Points | ||||
Abstract | Medial surfaces are powerful tools for shape description, but their use has been limited due to the sensibility existing methods to branching artifacts. Medial branching artifacts are associated to perturbations of the object boundary rather than to geometric features. Such instability is a main obstacle for a condent application in shape recognition and description. Medial branches correspond to singularities of the medial surface and, thus, they are problematic for existing morphological and energy-based algorithms. In this paper, we use algebraic geometry concepts in an energy-based approach to compute a medial surface presenting a stable branching topology. We also present an ecient GPU-CPU implementation using standard image processing tools. We show the method computational eciency and quality on a custom made synthetic database. Finally, we present some results on a medical imaging application for localization of abdominal pathologies. | ||||
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Publisher | Elsevier B.V. | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Notes | IAM; 600.060; 600.096; 600.075; 600.145 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ GVB2017 | Serial | 2775 | ||
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Author | Jean-Pascal Jacob; Mariella Dimiccoli; L. Moisan | ||||
Title | Active skeleton for bacteria modelling | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization | Abbreviated Journal | CMBBE |
Volume | 5 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 274-286 |
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Abstract | The investigation of spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cells and their molecular components requires automated image analysis tools to track cell shape properties and molecular component locations inside the cells. In the study of bacteria aging, the molecular components of interest are protein aggregates accumulated near bacteria boundaries. This particular location makes very ambiguous the correspondence between aggregates and cells, since computing accurately bacteria boundaries in phase-contrast time-lapse imaging is a challenging task. This paper proposes an active skeleton formulation for bacteria modelling which provides several advantages: an easy computation of shape properties (perimeter, length, thickness and orientation), an improved boundary accuracy in noisy images and a natural bacteria-centred coordinate system that permits the intrinsic location of molecular components inside the cell. Starting from an initial skeleton estimate, the medial axis of the bacterium is obtained by minimising an energy function which incorporates bacteria shape constraints. Experimental results on biological images and comparative evaluation of the performances validate the proposed approach for modelling cigar-shaped bacteria like Escherichia coli. The Image-J plugin of the proposed method can be found online at http://fluobactracker.inrialpes.fr. | ||||
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Call Number | Admin @ si @JDM2017 | Serial | 2784 | ||
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Author | Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Jaume Amores | ||||
Title | On-Board Object Detection: Multicue, Multimodal, and Multiview Random Forest of Local Experts | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on cybernetics | Abbreviated Journal | Cyber |
Volume | 47 | Issue | 11 | Pages | 3980 - 3990 |
Keywords | Multicue; multimodal; multiview; object detection | ||||
Abstract | Despite recent significant advances, object detection continues to be an extremely challenging problem in real scenarios. In order to develop a detector that successfully operates under these conditions, it becomes critical to leverage upon multiple cues, multiple imaging modalities, and a strong multiview (MV) classifier that accounts for different object views and poses. In this paper, we provide an extensive evaluation that gives insight into how each of these aspects (multicue, multimodality, and strong MV classifier) affect accuracy both individually and when integrated together. In the multimodality component, we explore the fusion of RGB and depth maps obtained by high-definition light detection and ranging, a type of modality that is starting to receive increasing attention. As our analysis reveals, although all the aforementioned aspects significantly help in improving the accuracy, the fusion of visible spectrum and depth information allows to boost the accuracy by a much larger margin. The resulting detector not only ranks among the top best performers in the challenging KITTI benchmark, but it is built upon very simple blocks that are easy to implement and computationally efficient. | ||||
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Notes | ADAS; 600.085; 600.082; 600.076; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ | Serial | 2810 | ||
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Author | Daniel Hernandez; Lukas Schneider; Antonio Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Uwe Franke; Marc Pollefeys; Juan C. Moure | ||||
Title | Slanted Stixels: Representing San Francisco's Steepest Streets} | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | 28th British Machine Vision Conference | Abbreviated Journal | |
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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. | ||||
Address | London; uk; September 2017 | ||||
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Notes | ADAS; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ HSE2017a | Serial | 2945 | ||
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Author | Ozan Caglayan; Walid Aransa; Adrien Bardet; Mercedes Garcia-Martinez; Fethi Bougares; Loic Barrault; Marc Masana; Luis Herranz; Joost Van de Weijer | ||||
Title | LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | 2nd Conference on Machine Translation | Abbreviated Journal | |
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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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Notes | LAMP; 600.106; 600.120 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ CAB2017 | Serial | 3035 | ||
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Author | Ishaan Gulrajani; Kundan Kumar; Faruk Ahmed; Adrien Ali Taiga; Francesco Visin; David Vazquez; Aaron Courville | ||||
Title | PixelVAE: A Latent Variable Model for Natural Images | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | 5th International Conference on Learning Representations | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Keywords | Deep Learning; Unsupervised Learning | ||||
Abstract | Natural image modeling is a landmark challenge of unsupervised learning. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) learn a useful latent representation and generate samples that preserve global structure but tend to suffer from image blurriness. PixelCNNs model sharp contours and details very well, but lack an explicit latent representation and have difficulty modeling large-scale structure in a computationally efficient way. In this paper, we present PixelVAE, a VAE model with an autoregressive decoder based on PixelCNN. The resulting architecture achieves state-of-the-art log-likelihood on binarized MNIST. We extend PixelVAE to a hierarchy of multiple latent variables at different scales; this hierarchical model achieves competitive likelihood on 64x64 ImageNet and generates high-quality samples on LSUN bedrooms. | ||||
Address | Toulon; France; April 2017 | ||||
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Notes | ADAS; 600.085; 600.076; 601.281; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ GKA2017 | Serial | 2815 | ||
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Author | Xavier Perez Sala; Fernando De la Torre; Laura Igual; Sergio Escalera; Cecilio Angulo | ||||
Title | Subspace Procrustes Analysis | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | International Journal of Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal | IJCV |
Volume | 121 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 327–343 |
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Abstract | Procrustes Analysis (PA) has been a popular technique to align and build 2-D statistical models of shapes. Given a set of 2-D shapes PA is applied to remove rigid transformations. Then, a non-rigid 2-D model is computed by modeling (e.g., PCA) the residual. Although PA has been widely used, it has several limitations for modeling 2-D shapes: occluded landmarks and missing data can result in local minima solutions, and there is no guarantee that the 2-D shapes provide a uniform sampling of the 3-D space of rotations for the object. To address previous issues, this paper proposes Subspace PA (SPA). Given several
instances of a 3-D object, SPA computes the mean and a 2-D subspace that can simultaneously model all rigid and non-rigid deformations of the 3-D object. We propose a discrete (DSPA) and continuous (CSPA) formulation for SPA, assuming that 3-D samples of an object are provided. DSPA extends the traditional PA, and produces unbiased 2-D models by uniformly sampling different views of the 3-D object. CSPA provides a continuous approach to uniformly sample the space of 3-D rotations, being more efficient in space and time. Experiments using SPA to learn 2-D models of bodies from motion capture data illustrate the benefits of our approach. |
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ PTI2017 | Serial | 2841 | ||
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Author | Frederic Sampedro; Anna Domenech; Sergio Escalera; Ignasi Carrio | ||||
Title | Computing quantitative indicators of structural renal damage in pediatric DMSA scans | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular | Abbreviated Journal | REMNIM |
Volume | 36 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 72-77 |
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The proposal and implementation of a computational framework for the quantification of structural renal damage from 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scans. The aim of this work is to propose, implement, and validate a computational framework for the quantification of structural renal damage from DMSA scans and in an observer-independent manner. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From a set of 16 pediatric DMSA-positive scans and 16 matched controls and using both expert-guided and automatic approaches, a set of image-derived quantitative indicators was computed based on the relative size, intensity and histogram distribution of the lesion. A correlation analysis was conducted in order to investigate the association of these indicators with other clinical data of interest in this scenario, including C-reactive protein (CRP), white cell count, vesicoureteral reflux, fever, relative perfusion, and the presence of renal sequelae in a 6-month follow-up DMSA scan. RESULTS: A fully automatic lesion detection and segmentation system was able to successfully classify DMSA-positive from negative scans (AUC=0.92, sensitivity=81% and specificity=94%). The image-computed relative size of the lesion correlated with the presence of fever and CRP levels (p<0.05), and a measurement derived from the distribution histogram of the lesion obtained significant performance results in the detection of permanent renal damage (AUC=0.86, sensitivity=100% and specificity=75%). CONCLUSIONS: The proposal and implementation of a computational framework for the quantification of structural renal damage from DMSA scans showed a promising potential to complement visual diagnosis and non-imaging indicators. |
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Author | Jose Garcia-Rodriguez; Isabelle Guyon; Sergio Escalera; Alexandra Psarrou; Andrew Lewis; Miguel Cazorla | ||||
Title | Editorial: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Vision and Robotics | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Neural Computing and Applications | Abbreviated Journal | Neural Computing and Applications |
Volume | 28 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 853–854 |
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Author | Arash Akbarinia; Karl R. Gegenfurtner | ||||
Title | Metameric Mismatching in Natural and Artificial Reflectances | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2017 | Publication | Journal of Vision | Abbreviated Journal | JV |
Volume | 17 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 390-390 |
Keywords | Metamer; colour perception; spectral discrimination; photoreceptors | ||||
Abstract | The human visual system and most digital cameras sample the continuous spectral power distribution through three classes of receptors. This implies that two distinct spectral reflectances can result in identical tristimulus values under one illuminant and differ under another – the problem of metamer mismatching. It is still debated how frequent this issue arises in the real world, using naturally occurring reflectance functions and common illuminants.
We gathered more than ten thousand spectral reflectance samples from various sources, covering a wide range of environments (e.g., flowers, plants, Munsell chips) and evaluated their responses under a number of natural and artificial source of lights. For each pair of reflectance functions, we estimated the perceived difference using the CIE-defined distance ΔE2000 metric in Lab color space. The degree of metamer mismatching depended on the lower threshold value l when two samples would be considered to lead to equal sensor excitations (ΔE < l), and on the higher threshold value h when they would be considered different. For example, for l=h=1, we found that 43.129 comparisons out of a total of 6×107 pairs would be considered metameric (1 in 104). For l=1 and h=5, this number reduced to 705 metameric pairs (2 in 106). Extreme metamers, for instance l=1 and h=10, were rare (22 pairs or 6 in 108), as were instances where the two members of a metameric pair would be assigned to different color categories. Not unexpectedly, we observed variations among different reflectance databases and illuminant spectra with more frequency under artificial illuminants than natural ones. Overall, our numbers are not very different from those obtained earlier (Foster et al, JOSA A, 2006). However, our results also show that the degree of metamerism is typically not very strong and that category switches hardly ever occur. |
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Address | Florida, USA; May 2017 | ||||
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Notes | NEUROBIT; no menciona | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ AkG2017 | Serial | 2899 | ||
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