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Author Raul Gomez; Lluis Gomez; Jaume Gibert; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Learning from# Barcelona Instagram data what Locals and Tourists post about its Neighbourhoods Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 15th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11134 Issue Pages 530-544  
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  Abstract Massive tourism is becoming a big problem for some cities, such as Barcelona, due to its concentration in some neighborhoods. In this work we gather Instagram data related to Barcelona consisting on images-captions pairs and, using the text as a supervisory signal, we learn relations between images, words and neighborhoods. Our goal is to learn which visual elements appear in photos when people is posting about each neighborhood. We perform a language separate treatment of the data and show that it can be extrapolated to a tourists and locals separate analysis, and that tourism is reflected in Social Media at a neighborhood level. The presented pipeline allows analyzing the differences between the images that tourists and locals associate to the different neighborhoods. The proposed method, which can be extended to other cities or subjects, proves that Instagram data can be used to train multi-modal (image and text) machine learning models that are useful to analyze publications about a city at a neighborhood level. We publish the collected dataset, InstaBarcelona and the code used in the analysis.  
  Address Munich; Alemanya; September 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.129; 601.338; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GGG2018b Serial 3176  
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Author Dena Bazazian; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov edit   pdf
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  Title Soft-PHOC Descriptor for End-to-End Word Spotting in Egocentric Scene Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing at ECCV Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Word spotting in natural scene images has many applications in scene understanding and visual assistance. We propose Soft-PHOC, an intermediate representation of images based on character probability maps. Our representation extends the concept of the Pyramidal Histogram Of Characters (PHOC) by exploiting Fully Convolutional Networks to derive a pixel-wise mapping of the character distribution within candidate word regions. We show how to use our descriptors for word spotting tasks in egocentric camera streams through an efficient text line proposal algorithm. This is based on the Hough Transform over character attribute maps followed by scoring using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). We evaluate our results on ICDAR 2015 Challenge 4 dataset of incidental scene text captured by an egocentric camera.  
  Address Munich; Alemanya; September 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.129; 600.121; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BKB2018b Serial 3174  
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Author Dena Bazazian; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov edit   pdf
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  Title Word Spotting in Scene Images based on Character Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1872-1874  
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  Abstract In this paper we address the problem of unconstrained Word Spotting in scene images. We train a Fully Convolutional Network to produce heatmaps of all the character classes. Then, we employ the Text Proposals approach and, via a rectangle classifier, detect the most likely rectangle for each query word based on the character attribute maps. We evaluate the proposed method on ICDAR2015 and show that it is capable of identifying and recognizing query words in natural scene images.  
  Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.129; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number BKB2018a Serial 3179  
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Author Arka Ujjal Dey; Suman Ghosh; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Don't only Feel Read: Using Scene text to understand advertisements Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract We propose a framework for automated classification of Advertisement Images, using not just Visual features but also Textual cues extracted from embedded text. Our approach takes inspiration from the assumption that Ad images contain meaningful textual content, that can provide discriminative semantic interpretetion, and can thus aid in classifcation tasks. To this end, we develop a framework using off-the-shelf components, and demonstrate the effectiveness of Textual cues in semantic Classfication tasks.  
  Address Salt Lake City; Utah; USA; June 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DGV2018 Serial 3551  
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Author Mohammed Al Rawi; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title On the Labeling Correctness in Computer Vision Datasets Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Adaptive Learning, co-located with European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Image datasets have heavily been used to build computer vision systems.
These datasets are either manually or automatically labeled, which is a
problem as both labeling methods are prone to errors. To investigate this problem, we use a majority voting ensemble that combines the results from several Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Majority voting ensembles not only enhance the overall performance, but can also be used to estimate the confidence level of each sample. We also examined Softmax as another form to estimate posterior probability. We have designed various experiments with a range of different ensembles built from one or different, or temporal/snapshot CNNs, which have been trained multiple times stochastically. We analyzed CIFAR10, CIFAR100, EMNIST, and SVHN datasets and we found quite a few incorrect
labels, both in the training and testing sets. We also present detailed confidence analysis on these datasets and we found that the ensemble is better than the Softmax when used estimate the per-sample confidence. This work thus proposes an approach that can be used to scrutinize and verify the labeling of computer vision datasets, which can later be applied to weakly/semi-supervised learning. We propose a measure, based on the Odds-Ratio, to quantify how many of these incorrectly classified labels are actually incorrectly labeled and how many of these are confusing. The proposed methods are easily scalable to larger datasets, like ImageNet, LSUN and SUN, as each CNN instance is trained for 60 epochs; or even faster, by implementing a temporal (snapshot) ensemble.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaK2018 Serial 3144  
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Author Anguelos Nicolaou; Sounak Dey; V.Christlein; A.Maier; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Non-deterministic Behavior of Ranking-based Metrics when Evaluating Embeddings Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11455 Issue Pages 71-82  
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  Abstract Embedding data into vector spaces is a very popular strategy of pattern recognition methods. When distances between embeddings are quantized, performance metrics become ambiguous. In this paper, we present an analysis of the ambiguity quantized distances introduce and provide bounds on the effect. We demonstrate that it can have a measurable effect in empirical data in state-of-the-art systems. We also approach the phenomenon from a computer security perspective and demonstrate how someone being evaluated by a third party can exploit this ambiguity and greatly outperform a random predictor without even access to the input data. We also suggest a simple solution making the performance metrics, which rely on ranking, totally deterministic and impervious to such exploits.  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ NDC2018 Serial 3178  
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Author Ilke Demir; Dena Bazazian; Adriana Romero; Viktoriia Sharmanska; Lyne P. Tchapmi edit   pdf
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  Title WiCV 2018: The Fourth Women In Computer Vision Workshop Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 4th Women in Computer Vision Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1941-19412  
  Keywords Conferences; Computer vision; Industries; Object recognition; Engineering profession; Collaboration; Machine learning  
  Abstract We present WiCV 2018 – Women in Computer Vision Workshop to increase the visibility and inclusion of women researchers in computer vision field, organized in conjunction with CVPR 2018. Computer vision and machine learning have made incredible progress over the past years, yet the number of female researchers is still low both in academia and industry. WiCV is organized to raise visibility of female researchers, to increase the collaboration,
and to provide mentorship and give opportunities to femaleidentifying junior researchers in the field. In its fourth year, we are proud to present the changes and improvements over the past years, summary of statistics for presenters and attendees, followed by expectations from future generations.
 
  Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DBR2018 Serial 3222  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Lluis Gomez edit   pdf
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  Title Avances en clasificación de imágenes en los últimos diez años. Perspectivas y limitaciones en el ámbito de archivos fotográficos históricos Type Journal
  Year 2018 Publication Revista anual de la Asociación de Archiveros de Castilla y León Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 21 Issue Pages 161-174  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ RuG2018 Serial 3239  
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Author Dena Bazazian edit  isbn
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  Title Fully Convolutional Networks for Text Understanding in Scene Images Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Text understanding in scene images has gained plenty of attention in the computer vision community and it is an important task in many applications as text carries semantically rich information about scene content and context. For instance, reading text in a scene can be applied to autonomous driving, scene understanding or assisting visually impaired people. The general aim of scene text understanding is to localize and recognize text in scene images. Text regions are first localized in the original image by a trained detector model and afterwards fed into a recognition module. The tasks of localization and recognition are highly correlated since an inaccurate localization can affect the recognition task.
The main purpose of this thesis is to devise efficient methods for scene text understanding. We investigate how the latest results on deep learning can advance text understanding pipelines. Recently, Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) and derived methods have achieved a significant performance on semantic segmentation and pixel level classification tasks. Therefore, we took benefit of the strengths of FCN approaches in order to detect text in natural scenes. In this thesis we have focused on two challenging tasks of scene text understanding which are Text Detection and Word Spotting. For the task of text detection, we have proposed an efficient text proposal technique in scene images. We have considered the Text Proposals method as the baseline which is an approach to reduce the search space of possible text regions in an image. In order to improve the Text Proposals method we combined it with Fully Convolutional Networks to efficiently reduce the number of proposals while maintaining the same level of accuracy and thus gaining a significant speed up. Our experiments demonstrate that this text proposal approach yields significantly higher recall rates than the line based text localization techniques, while also producing better-quality localization. We have also applied this technique on compressed images such as videos from wearable egocentric cameras. For the task of word spotting, we have introduced a novel mid-level word representation method. We have proposed a technique to create and exploit an intermediate representation of images based on text attributes which roughly correspond to character probability maps. Our representation extends the concept of Pyramidal Histogram Of Characters (PHOC) by exploiting Fully Convolutional Networks to derive a pixel-wise mapping of the character distribution within candidate word regions. We call this representation the Soft-PHOC. Furthermore, we show how to use Soft-PHOC descriptors for word spotting tasks through an efficient text line proposal algorithm. To evaluate the detected text, we propose a novel line based evaluation along with the classic bounding box based approach. We test our method on incidental scene text images which comprises real-life scenarios such as urban scenes. The importance of incidental scene text images is due to the complexity of backgrounds, perspective, variety of script and language, short text and little linguistic context. All of these factors together makes the incidental scene text images challenging.
 
  Address November 2018  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Dimosthenis Karatzas;Andrew Bagdanov  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-948531-1-1 Medium  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Baz2018 Serial 3220  
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Author Alicia Fornes; Bart Lamiroy edit  url
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  Title Graphics Recognition, Current Trends and Evolutions Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication Graphics Recognition, Current Trends and Evolutions Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 11009 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, GREC 2017, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November 2017.
The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 initial submissions. They contain both classical and emerging topics of graphics rcognition, namely analysis and detection of diagrams, search and classification, optical music recognition, interpretation of engineering drawings and maps.
 
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-030-02283-9 Medium  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ FoL2018 Serial 3171  
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Author Suman Ghosh edit  isbn
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  Title Word Spotting and Recognition in Images from Heterogeneous Sources A Type Book Whole
  Year 2018 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Text is the most common way of information sharing from ages. With recent development of personal images databases and handwritten historic manuscripts the demand for algorithms to make these databases accessible for browsing and indexing are in rise. Enabling search or understanding large collection of manuscripts or image databases needs fast and robust methods. Researchers have found different ways to represent cropped words for understanding and matching, which works well when words are already segmented. However there is no trivial way to extend these for non-segmented documents. In this thesis we explore different methods for text retrieval and recognition from unsegmented document and scene images. Two different ways of representation exist in literature, one uses a fixed length representation learned from cropped words and another a sequence of features of variable length. Throughout this thesis, we have studied both these representation for their suitability in segmentation free understanding of text. In the first part we are focused on segmentation free word spotting using a fixed length representation. We extended the use of the successful PHOC (Pyramidal Histogram of Character) representation to segmentation free retrieval. In the second part of the thesis, we explore sequence based features and finally, we propose a unified solution where the same framework can generate both kind of representations.  
  Address November 2018  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Ernest Valveny  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-948531-0-4 Medium  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Gho2018 Serial 3217  
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Author Manuel Carbonell; Mauricio Villegas; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Joint Recognition of Handwritten Text and Named Entities with a Neural End-to-end Model Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 399-404  
  Keywords Named entity recognition; Handwritten Text Recognition; neural networks  
  Abstract When extracting information from handwritten documents, text transcription and named entity recognition are usually faced as separate subsequent tasks. This has the disadvantage that errors in the first module affect heavily the
performance of the second module. In this work we propose to do both tasks jointly, using a single neural network with a common architecture used for plain text recognition. Experimentally, the work has been tested on a collection of historical marriage records. Results of experiments are presented to show the effect on the performance for different
configurations: different ways of encoding the information, doing or not transfer learning and processing at text line or multi-line region level. The results are comparable to state of the art reported in the ICDAR 2017 Information Extraction competition, even though the proposed technique does not use any dictionaries, language modeling or post processing.
 
  Address Vienna; Austria; April 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.097; 603.057; 601.311; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CVF2018 Serial 3170  
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Author Pau Riba; Andreas Fischer; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes edit   pdf
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  Title Learning Graph Distances with Message Passing Neural Networks Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2239-2244  
  Keywords ★Best Paper Award★  
  Abstract Graph representations have been widely used in pattern recognition thanks to their powerful representation formalism and rich theoretical background. A number of error-tolerant graph matching algorithms such as graph edit distance have been proposed for computing a distance between two labelled graphs. However, they typically suffer from a high
computational complexity, which makes it difficult to apply
these matching algorithms in a real scenario. In this paper, we propose an efficient graph distance based on the emerging field of geometric deep learning. Our method employs a message passing neural network to capture the graph structure and learns a metric with a siamese network approach. The performance of the proposed graph distance is validated in two application cases, graph classification and graph retrieval of handwritten words, and shows a promising performance when compared with
(approximate) graph edit distance benchmarks.
 
  Address Beijing; China; August 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.097; 603.057; 601.302; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RFL2018 Serial 3168  
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Author Jialuo Chen; Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Juan Mas; Josep Llados; Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora edit   pdf
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  Title Word-Hunter: A Gamesourcing Experience to Validate the Transcription of Historical Manuscripts Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 528-533  
  Keywords Crowdsourcing; Gamification; Handwritten documents; Performance evaluation  
  Abstract Nowadays, there are still many handwritten historical documents in archives waiting to be transcribed and indexed. Since manual transcription is tedious and time consuming, the automatic transcription seems the path to follow. However, the performance of current handwriting recognition techniques is not perfect, so a manual validation is mandatory. Crowdsourcing is a good strategy for manual validation, however it is a tedious task. In this paper we analyze experiences based in gamification
in order to propose and design a gamesourcing framework that increases the interest of users. Then, we describe and analyze our experience when validating the automatic transcription using the gamesourcing application. Moreover, thanks to the combination of clustering and handwriting recognition techniques, we can speed up the validation while maintaining the performance.
 
  Address Niagara Falls, USA; August 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.097; 603.057; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CRF2018 Serial 3169  
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Author Lei Kang; Juan Ignacio Toledo; Pau Riba; Mauricio Villegas; Alicia Fornes; Marçal Rusiñol edit   pdf
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  Title Convolve, Attend and Spell: An Attention-based Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Handwritten Word Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 40th German Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 459-472  
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  Abstract This paper proposes Convolve, Attend and Spell, an attention based sequence-to-sequence model for handwritten word recognition. The proposed architecture has three main parts: an encoder, consisting of a CNN and a bi-directional GRU, an attention mechanism devoted to focus on the pertinent features and a decoder formed by a one-directional GRU, able to spell the corresponding word, character by character. Compared with the recent state-of-the-art, our model achieves competitive results on the IAM dataset without needing any pre-processing step, predefined lexicon nor language model. Code and additional results are available in https://github.com/omni-us/research-seq2seq-HTR.  
  Address Stuttgart; Germany; October 2018  
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  Notes (down) DAG; 600.097; 603.057; 302.065; 601.302; 600.084; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ KTR2018 Serial 3167  
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