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	Author	David Fernandez; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
	Title	A graph-based approach for segmenting touching lines in historical handwritten documents			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	IJDAR
	Volume	17	Issue	3	Pages	293-312
	Keywords	Text line segmentation; Handwritten documents; Document image processing; Historical document analysis
	Abstract	Text line segmentation in handwritten documents is an important task in the recognition of historical documents. Handwritten document images contain text lines with multiple orientations, touching and overlapping characters between consecutive text lines and different document structures, making line segmentation a difficult task. In this paper, we present a new approach for handwritten text line segmentation solving the problems of touching components, curvilinear text lines and horizontally overlapping components. The proposed algorithm formulates line segmentation as finding the central path in the area between two consecutive lines. This is solved as a graph traversal problem. A graph is constructed using the skeleton of the image. Then, a path-finding algorithm is used to find the optimum path between text lines. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated on a comprehensive dataset consisting of five databases: ICDAR2009, ICDAR2013, UMD, the George Washington and the Barcelona Marriages Database. The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art considering the different types and difficulties of the benchmarking data.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1433-2833	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FLF2014			Serial	2459
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	Author	David Fernandez; Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	On the Influence of Key Point Encoding for Handwritten Word Spotting			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	476 - 481
	Keywords	Local descriptors; Interest points; Handwritten documents; Word spotting; Historical document analysis
	Abstract	In this paper we evaluate the influence of the selection of key points and the associated features in the performance of word spotting processes. In general, features can be extracted from a number of characteristic points like corners, contours, skeletons, maxima, minima, crossings, etc. A number of descriptors exist in the literature using different interest point detectors. But the intrinsic variability of handwriting vary strongly on the performance if the interest points are not stable enough. In this paper, we analyze the performance of different descriptors for local interest points. As benchmarking dataset we have used the Barcelona Marriage Database that contains handwritten records of marriages over five centuries.
	Address	Creete Island; Grecia; September 2014
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2167-6445	ISBN	978-1-4799-4335-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICFHR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FRF2014			Serial	2460
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	Author	David Fernandez; Jon Almazan; Nuria Cirera; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	BH2M: the Barcelona Historical Handwritten Marriages database			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	256 - 261
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	Abstract	This paper presents an image database of historical handwritten marriages records stored in the archives of Barcelona cathedral, and the corresponding meta-data addressed to evaluate the performance of document analysis algorithms. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a complete ground truth which covers the whole pipeline of handwriting recognition research, from layout analysis to recognition and understanding. Second, it is the first dataset in the emerging area of genealogical document analysis, where documents are manuscripts pseudo-structured with specific lexicons and the interest is beyond pure transcriptions but context dependent.
	Address	Creete Island; Grecia; September 2014
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1051-4651	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FAC2014			Serial	2461
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	Author	Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Fast Structural Matching for Document Image Retrieval through Spatial Databases			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9021	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Document image retrieval; distance transform; MSER; spatial database
	Abstract	The structure of document images plays a signicant role in document analysis thus considerable eorts have been made towards extracting and understanding document structure, usually in the form of layout analysis approaches. In this paper, we rst employ Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) to eciently extract stable document structural elements in terms of a dendrogram of key-regions. Then a fast structural matching method is proposed to query the structure of document (dendrogram) based on a spatial database which facilitates the formulation of advanced spatial queries. The experiments demonstrate a signicant improvement in a document retrieval scenario when compared to the use of typical Bag of Words (BoW) and pyramidal BoW descriptors.
	Address	Amsterdam; September 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	SPIE-DRR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRK2014a			Serial	2496
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	Author	Hongxing Gao; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Embedding Document Structure to Bag-of-Words through Pair-wise Stable Key-regions			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2903 - 2908
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	Abstract	Since the document structure carries valuable discriminative information, plenty of efforts have been made for extracting and understanding document structure among which layout analysis approaches are the most commonly used. In this paper, Distance Transform based MSER (DTMSER) is employed to efficiently extract the document structure as a dendrogram of key-regions which roughly correspond to structural elements such as characters, words and paragraphs. Inspired by the Bag of Words (BoW) framework, we propose an efficient method for structural document matching by representing the document image as a histogram of key-region pairs encoding structural relationships. Applied to the scenario of document image retrieval, experimental results demonstrate a remarkable improvement when comparing the proposed method with typical BoW and pyramidal BoW methods.
	Address	Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GRK2014b			Serial	2497
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	Author	Antonio Clavelli; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados; Mario Ferraro; Giuseppe Boccignone
	Title	Modelling task-dependent eye guidance to objects in pictures			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Cognitive Computation	Abbreviated Journal	CoCom
	Volume	6	Issue	3	Pages	558-584
	Keywords	Visual attention; Gaze guidance; Value; Payoff; Stochastic fixation prediction
	Abstract	5Y Impact Factor: 1.14 / 3rd (Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence) We introduce a model of attentional eye guidance based on the rationale that the deployment of gaze is to be considered in the context of a general action-perception loop relying on two strictly intertwined processes: sensory processing, depending on current gaze position, identifies sources of information that are most valuable under the given task; motor processing links such information with the oculomotor act by sampling the next gaze position and thus performing the gaze shift. In such a framework, the choice of where to look next is task-dependent and oriented to classes of objects embedded within pictures of complex scenes. The dependence on task is taken into account by exploiting the value and the payoff of gazing at certain image patches or proto-objects that provide a sparse representation of the scene objects. The different levels of the action-perception loop are represented in probabilistic form and eventually give rise to a stochastic process that generates the gaze sequence. This way the model also accounts for statistical properties of gaze shifts such as individual scan path variability. Results of the simulations are compared either with experimental data derived from publicly available datasets and from our own experiments.
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	Publisher	Springer US	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1866-9956	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 605.203; 601.212; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CKL2014			Serial	2419
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	Author	Marçal Rusiñol; V. Poulain d'Andecy; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Classification of Administrative Document Images by Logo Identification			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2014	Publication	Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	8746	Issue		Pages	49-58
	Keywords	Administrative Document Classification; Logo Recognition; Logo Spotting
	Abstract	This paper is focused on the categorization of administrative document images (such as invoices) based on the recognition of the supplier’s graphical logo. Two different methods are proposed, the first one uses a bag-of-visual-words model whereas the second one tries to locate logo images described by the blurred shape model descriptor within documents by a sliding-window technique. Preliminar results are reported with a dataset of real administrative documents.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-662-44853-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 605.203; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RPK2014			Serial	2701
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	Author	Pau Riba; Jon Almazan; Alicia Fornes; David Fernandez; Ernest Valveny; Josep Llados
	Title	e-Crowds: a mobile platform for browsing and searching in historical demographyrelated manuscripts			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	228 - 233
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	Abstract	This paper presents a prototype system running on portable devices for browsing and word searching through historical handwritten document collections. The platform adapts the paradigm of eBook reading, where the narrative is not necessarily sequential, but centered on the user actions. The novelty is to replace digitally born books by digitized historical manuscripts of marriage licenses, so document analysis tasks are required in the browser. With an active reading paradigm, the user can cast queries of people names, so he/she can implicitly follow genealogical links. In addition, the system allows combined searches: the user can refine a search by adding more words to search. As a second contribution, the retrieval functionality involves as a core technology a word spotting module with an unified approach, which allows combined query searches, and also two input modalities: query-by-example, and query-by-string.
	Address	Creete Island; Grecia; September 2014
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2167-6445	ISBN	978-1-4799-4335-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICFHR
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RAF2014			Serial	2463
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	Author	Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Word Spotting and Recognition with Embedded Attributes			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	36	Issue	12	Pages	2552 - 2566
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	Abstract	This article addresses the problems of word spotting and word recognition on images. In word spotting, the goal is to find all instances of a query word in a dataset of images. In recognition, the goal is to recognize the content of the word image, usually aided by a dictionary or lexicon. We describe an approach in which both word images and text strings are embedded in a common vectorial subspace. This is achieved by a combination of label embedding and attributes learning, and a common subspace regression. In this subspace, images and strings that represent the same word are close together, allowing one to cast recognition and retrieval tasks as a nearest neighbor problem. Contrary to most other existing methods, our representation has a fixed length, is low dimensional, and is very fast to compute and, especially, to compare. We test our approach on four public datasets of both handwritten documents and natural images showing results comparable or better than the state-of-the-art on spotting and recognition tasks.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0162-8828	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AGF2014a			Serial	2483
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	Author	Albert Gordo; Florent Perronnin; Yunchao Gong; Svetlana Lazebnik
	Title	Asymmetric Distances for Binary Embeddings			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal	TPAMI
	Volume	36	Issue	1	Pages	33-47
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	Abstract	In large-scale query-by-example retrieval, embedding image signatures in a binary space offers two benefits: data compression and search efficiency. While most embedding algorithms binarize both query and database signatures, it has been noted that this is not strictly a requirement. Indeed, asymmetric schemes which binarize the database signatures but not the query still enjoy the same two benefits but may provide superior accuracy. In this work, we propose two general asymmetric distances which are applicable to a wide variety of embedding techniques including Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), Locality Sensitive Binary Codes (LSBC), Spectral Hashing (SH), PCA Embedding (PCAE), PCA Embedding with random rotations (PCAE-RR), and PCA Embedding with iterative quantization (PCAE-ITQ). We experiment on four public benchmarks containing up to 1M images and show that the proposed asymmetric distances consistently lead to large improvements over the symmetric Hamming distance for all binary embedding techniques.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0162-8828	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 605.203; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GPG2014			Serial	2272
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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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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RuL2013			Serial	2343
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	Author	Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
	Title	Segmentation-free Word Spotting with Exemplar SVMs			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	47	Issue	12	Pages	3967–3978
	Keywords	Word spotting; Segmentation-free; Unsupervised learning; Reranking; Query expansion; Compression
	Abstract	In this paper we propose an unsupervised segmentation-free method for word spotting in document images. Documents are represented with a grid of HOG descriptors, and a sliding-window approach is used to locate the document regions that are most similar to the query. We use the Exemplar SVM framework to produce a better representation of the query in an unsupervised way. Then, we use a more discriminative representation based on Fisher Vector to rerank the best regions retrieved, and the most promising ones are used to expand the Exemplar SVM training set and improve the query representation. Finally, the document descriptors are precomputed and compressed with Product Quantization. This offers two advantages: first, a large number of documents can be kept in RAM memory at the same time. Second, the sliding window becomes significantly faster since distances between quantized HOG descriptors can be precomputed. Our results significantly outperform other segmentation-free methods in the literature, both in accuracy and in speed and memory usage.
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AGF2014b			Serial	2485
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	Author	Klaus Broelemann; Anjan Dutta; Xiaoyi Jiang; Josep Llados
	Title	Hierarchical Plausibility-Graphs for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2014	Publication	Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	8746	Issue		Pages	25-37
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	Abstract	Graph representation of graphical documents often suffers from noise such as spurious nodes and edges, and their discontinuity. In general these errors occur during the low-level image processing viz. binarization, skeletonization, vectorization etc. Hierarchical graph representation is a nice and efficient way to solve this kind of problem by hierarchically merging node-node and node-edge depending on the distance. But the creation of hierarchical graph representing the graphical information often uses hard thresholds on the distance to create the hierarchical nodes (next state) of the lower nodes (or states) of a graph. As a result, the representation often loses useful information. This paper introduces plausibilities to the nodes of hierarchical graph as a function of distance and proposes a modified algorithm for matching subgraphs of the hierarchical graphs. The plausibility-annotated nodes help to improve the performance of the matching algorithm on two hierarchical structures. To show the potential of this approach, we conduct an experiment with the SESYD dataset.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-662-44853-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BDJ2014			Serial	2699
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	Author	Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
	Title	Spotting Graphical Symbols in Camera-Acquired Documents in Real Time			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2014	Publication	Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	8746	Issue		Pages	3-10
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	Abstract	In this paper we present a system devoted to spot graphical symbols in camera-acquired document images. The system is based on the extraction and further matching of ORB compact local features computed over interest key-points. Then, the FLANN indexing framework based on approximate nearest neighbor search allows to efficiently match local descriptors between the captured scene and the graphical models. Finally, the RANSAC algorithm is used in order to compute the homography between the spotted symbol and its appearance in the document image. The proposed approach is efficient and is able to work in real time.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-662-44853-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG; 600.045; 600.055; 600.061; 600.077			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RKL2014			Serial	2700
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Michael Felsberg
	Title	Scale Coding Bag-of-Words for Action Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1514-1519
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	Abstract	Recognizing human actions in still images is a challenging problem in computer vision due to significant amount of scale, illumination and pose variation. Given the bounding box of a person both at training and test time, the task is to classify the action associated with each bounding box in an image. Most state-of-the-art methods use the bag-of-words paradigm for action recognition. The bag-of-words framework employing a dense multi-scale grid sampling strategy is the de facto standard for feature detection. This results in a scale invariant image representation where all the features at multiple-scales are binned in a single histogram. We argue that such a scale invariant strategy is sub-optimal since it ignores the multi-scale information available with each bounding box of a person. This paper investigates alternative approaches to scale coding for action recognition in still images. We encode multi-scale information explicitly in three different histograms for small, medium and large scale visual-words. Our first approach exploits multi-scale information with respect to the image size. In our second approach, we encode multi-scale information relative to the size of the bounding box of a person instance. In each approach, the multi-scale histograms are then concatenated into a single representation for action classification. We validate our approaches on the Willow dataset which contains seven action categories: interacting with computer, photography, playing music, riding bike, riding horse, running and walking. Our results clearly suggest that the proposed scale coding approaches outperform the conventional scale invariant technique. Moreover, we show that our approach obtains promising results compared to more complex state-of-the-art methods.
	Address	Stockholm; August 2014
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	CIC; LAMP; 601.240; 600.074; 600.079			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KWB2014			Serial	2450
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