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	Author	J.Poujol; Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; E.Danos; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Angel Sappa
	Title	Visible-Thermal Fusion based Monocular Visual Odometry			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	2nd Iberian Robotics Conference ROBOT2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	417	Issue		Pages	517-528
	Keywords	Monocular Visual Odometry; LWIR-RGB cross-spectral Imaging; Image Fusion.
	Abstract	The manuscript evaluates the performance of a monocular visual odometry approach when images from different spectra are considered, both independently and fused. The objective behind this evaluation is to analyze if classical approaches can be improved when the given images, which are from different spectra, are fused and represented in new domains. The images in these new domains should have some of the following properties: i) more robust to noisy data; ii) less sensitive to changes (e.g., lighting); iii) more rich in descriptive information, among other. In particular in the current work two different image fusion strategies are considered. Firstly, images from the visible and thermal spectrum are fused using a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) approach. Secondly, a monochrome threshold strategy is considered. The obtained representations are evaluated under a visual odometry framework, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, using different urban and semi-urban scenarios. Comparisons with both monocular-visible spectrum and monocular-infrared spectrum, are also provided showing the validity of the proposed approach.
	Address	Lisboa; Portugal; November 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer International Publishing	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2194-5357	ISBN	978-3-319-27145-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ROBOT
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076; 600.086			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PAD2015			Serial	2663
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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
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	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
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	PUMPS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	PUMPS
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ CSM2015			Serial	2644
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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
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	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
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	PUMPS
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076; 600.082; 600.085			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ SCS2015			Serial	2645
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	Author	Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate; Gabriel Villalonga; Jiaolong Xu; David Vazquez; Jaume Amores; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Multiview Random Forest of Local Experts Combining RGB and LIDAR data for Pedestrian Detection			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	356-361
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection
	Abstract	Despite recent significant advances, pedestrian 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 multi-view classifier that accounts for different pedestrian views and poses. In this paper we provide an extensive evaluation that gives insight into how each of these aspects (multi-cue, multimodality and strong multi-view classifier) affect performance both individually and when integrated together. In the multimodality component we explore the fusion of RGB and depth maps obtained by high-definition LIDAR, a type of modality that is only recently starting to receive attention. As our analysis reveals, although all the aforementioned aspects significantly help in improving the performance, 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. These simple blocks can be easily replaced with more sophisticated ones recently proposed, such as the use of convolutional neural networks for feature representation, to further improve the accuracy.
	Address	Seoul; Corea; June 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area	ACDC	Expedition		Conference	IV
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076; 600.057; 600.054			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ GVX2015			Serial	2625
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	Author	Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate; Gabriel Villalonga; German Ros; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
	Title	3D-Guided Multiscale Sliding Window for Pedestrian Detection			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Proceedings of 7th Iberian Conference , ibPRIA 2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9117	Issue		Pages	560-568
	Keywords	Pedestrian Detection
	Abstract	The most relevant modules of a pedestrian detector are the candidate generation and the candidate classification. The former aims at presenting image windows to the latter so that they are classified as containing a pedestrian or not. Much attention has being paid to the classification module, while candidate generation has mainly relied on (multiscale) sliding window pyramid. However, candidate generation is critical for achieving real-time. In this paper we assume a context of autonomous driving based on stereo vision. Accordingly, we evaluate the effect of taking into account the 3D information (derived from the stereo) in order to prune the hundred of thousands windows per image generated by classical pyramidal sliding window. For our study we use a multimodal (RGB, disparity) and multi-descriptor (HOG, LBP, HOG+LBP) holistic ensemble based on linear SVM. Evaluation on data from the challenging KITTI benchmark suite shows the effectiveness of using 3D information to dramatically reduce the number of candidate windows, even improving the overall pedestrian detection accuracy.
	Address	Santiago de Compostela; España; June 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
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	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area	ACDC	Expedition		Conference	IbPRIA
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076; 600.057; 600.054			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ GVR2015			Serial	2585
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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	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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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area	ACDC	Expedition		Conference	WACV
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ RRG2015			Serial	2499
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	Author	Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa; E. Boyer
	Title	Implicit B-Spline Surface Reconstruction			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	1	Pages	22 - 32
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper presents a fast and flexible curve, and surface reconstruction technique based on implicit B-spline. This representation does not require any parameterization and it is locally supported. This fact has been exploited in this paper to propose a reconstruction technique through solving a sparse system of equations. This method is further accelerated to reduce the dimension to the active control lattice. Moreover, the surface smoothness and user interaction are allowed for controlling the surface. Finally, a novel weighting technique has been introduced in order to blend small patches and smooth them in the overlapping regions. The whole framework is very fast and efficient and can handle large cloud of points with very low computational cost. The experimental results show the flexibility and accuracy of the proposed algorithm to describe objects with complex topologies. Comparisons with other fitting methods highlight the superiority of the proposed approach in the presence of noise and missing data.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSB2015			Serial	2541
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	Author	Katerine Diaz; Francesc J. Ferri; W. Diaz
	Title	Incremental Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors for Image Classification			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	Abbreviated Journal	TNNLS
	Volume	26	Issue	8	Pages	1761 - 1775
	Keywords
	Abstract	Subspace-based methods have become popular due to their ability to appropriately represent complex data in such a way that both dimensionality is reduced and discriminativeness is enhanced. Several recent works have concentrated on the discriminative common vector (DCV) method and other closely related algorithms also based on the concept of null space. In this paper, we present a generalized incremental formulation of the DCV methods, which allows the update of a given model by considering the addition of new examples even from unseen classes. Having efficient incremental formulations of well-behaved batch algorithms allows us to conveniently adapt previously trained classifiers without the need of recomputing them from scratch. The proposed generalized incremental method has been empirically validated in different case studies from different application domains (faces, objects, and handwritten digits) considering several different scenarios in which new data are continuously added at different rates starting from an initial model.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2162-237X	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DFD2015			Serial	2547
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	Author	Miguel Oliveira; Angel Sappa; Victor Santos
	Title	A probabilistic approach for color correction in image mosaicking applications			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	14	Issue	2	Pages	508 - 523
	Keywords	Color correction; image mosaicking; color transfer; color palette mapping functions
	Abstract	Image mosaicking applications require both geometrical and photometrical registrations between the images that compose the mosaic. This paper proposes a probabilistic color correction algorithm for correcting the photometrical disparities. First, the image to be color corrected is segmented into several regions using mean shift. Then, connected regions are extracted using a region fusion algorithm. Local joint image histograms of each region are modeled as collections of truncated Gaussians using a maximum likelihood estimation procedure. Then, local color palette mapping functions are computed using these sets of Gaussians. The color correction is performed by applying those functions to all the regions of the image. An extensive comparison with ten other state of the art color correction algorithms is presented, using two different image pair data sets. Results show that the proposed approach obtains the best average scores in both data sets and evaluation metrics and is also the most robust to failures.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ OSS2015b			Serial	2554
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	Author	M. Cruz; Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Angel Sappa
	Title	Cross-spectral image registration and fusion: an evaluation study			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	2nd International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	multispectral imaging; image registration; data fusion; infrared and visible spectra
	Abstract	This paper presents a preliminary study on the registration and fusion of cross-spectral imaging. The objective is to evaluate the validity of widely used computer vision approaches when they are applied at different spectral bands. In particular, we are interested in merging images from the infrared (both long wave infrared: LWIR and near infrared: NIR) and visible spectrum (VS). Experimental results with different data sets are presented.
	Address	Barcelona; July 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	MVML
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CAV2015			Serial	2629
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	Author	Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; Angel Sappa; Ricardo Toledo
	Title	LGHD: a Feature Descriptor for Matching Across Non-Linear Intensity Variations			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	22th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	178 - 181
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	Abstract
	Address	Quebec; Canada; September 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AST2015			Serial	2630
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	Author	Jiaolong Xu
	Title	Domain Adaptation of Deformable Part-based Models			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2015	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	On-board pedestrian detection is crucial for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). An accurate classication is fundamental for vision-based pedestrian detection. The underlying assumption for learning classiers is that the training set and the deployment environment (testing) follow the same probability distribution regarding the features used by the classiers. However, in practice, there are dierent reasons that can break this constancy assumption. Accordingly, reusing existing classiers by adapting them from the previous training environment (source domain) to the new testing one (target domain) is an approach with increasing acceptance in the computer vision community. In this thesis we focus on the domain adaptation of deformable part-based models (DPMs) for pedestrian detection. As a prof of concept, we use a computer graphic based synthetic dataset, i.e. a virtual world, as the source domain, and adapt the virtual-world trained DPM detector to various real-world dataset. We start by exploiting the maximum detection accuracy of the virtual-world trained DPM. Even though, when operating in various real-world datasets, the virtualworld trained detector still suer from accuracy degradation due to the domain gap of virtual and real worlds. We then focus on domain adaptation of DPM. At the rst step, we consider single source and single target domain adaptation and propose two batch learning methods, namely A-SSVM and SA-SSVM. Later, we further consider leveraging multiple target (sub-)domains for progressive domain adaptation and propose a hierarchical adaptive structured SVM (HA-SSVM) for optimization. Finally, we extend HA-SSVM for the challenging online domain adaptation problem, aiming at making the detector to automatically adapt to the target domain online, without any human intervention. All of the proposed methods in this thesis do not require revisiting source domain data. The evaluations are done on the Caltech pedestrian detection benchmark. Results show that SA-SSVM slightly outperforms A-SSVM and avoids accuracy drops as high as 15 points when comparing with a non-adapted detector. The hierarchical model learned by HA-SSVM further boosts the domain adaptation performance. Finally, the online domain adaptation method has demonstrated that it can achieve comparable accuracy to the batch learned models while not requiring manually label target domain examples. Domain adaptation for pedestrian detection is of paramount importance and a relatively unexplored area. We humbly hope the work in this thesis could provide foundations for future work in this area.
	Address	April 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Antonio Lopez
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-943427-1-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Xu2015			Serial	2631
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	Author	Dennis G.Romero; Anselmo Frizera; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Teodiano F.Bastos
	Title	A predictive model for human activity recognition by observing actions and context			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Proceedings of 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	9386	Issue		Pages	323-333
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper presents a novel model to estimate human activities — a human activity is defined by a set of human actions. The proposed approach is based on the usage of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Bayesian inference through the continuous monitoring of human actions and its surrounding environment. In the current work human activities are inferred considering not only visual analysis but also additional resources; external sources of information, such as context information, are incorporated to contribute to the activity estimation. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the way the information is encoded, so that it can be later associated according to a predefined semantic structure. Hence, a pattern representing a given activity can be defined by a set of actions, plus contextual information or other kind of information that could be relevant to describe the activity. Experimental results with real data are provided showing the validity of the proposed approach.
	Address	Catania; Italy; October 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	Springer International Publishing	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-319-25902-4	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ACIVS
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RFS2015			Serial	2661
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	Author	Miguel Oliveira; L. Seabra Lopes; G. Hyun Lim; S. Hamidreza Kasaei; Angel Sappa; A. Tom
	Title	Concurrent Learning of Visual Codebooks and Object Categories in Openended Domains			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2488 - 2495
	Keywords	Visual Learning; Computer Vision; Autonomous Agents
	Abstract	In open-ended domains, robots must continuously learn new object categories. When the training sets are created offline, it is not possible to ensure their representativeness with respect to the object categories and features the system will find when operating online. In the Bag of Words model, visual codebooks are constructed from training sets created offline. This might lead to non-discriminative visual words and, as a consequence, to poor recognition performance. This paper proposes a visual object recognition system which concurrently learns in an incremental and online fashion both the visual object category representations as well as the codebook words used to encode them. The codebook is defined using Gaussian Mixture Models which are updated using new object views. The approach contains similarities with the human visual object recognition system: evidence suggests that the development of recognition capabilities occurs on multiple levels and is sustained over large periods of time. Results show that the proposed system with concurrent learning of object categories and codebooks is capable of learning more categories, requiring less examples, and with similar accuracies, when compared to the classical Bag of Words approach using offline constructed codebooks.
	Address	Hamburg; Germany; October 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	IROS
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ OSL2015			Serial	2664
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	Author	Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate
	Title	Multi-modal Pedestrian Detection			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2015	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Pedestrian detection continues to be an extremely challenging problem in real scenarios, in which situations like illumination changes, noisy images, unexpected objects, uncontrolled scenarios and variant appearance of objects occur constantly. All these problems force the development of more robust detectors for relevant applications like vision-based autonomous vehicles, intelligent surveillance, and pedestrian tracking for behavior analysis. Most reliable vision-based pedestrian detectors base their decision on features extracted using a single sensor capturing complementary features, e.g., appearance, and texture. These features usually are extracted from the current frame, ignoring temporal information, or including it in a post process step e.g., tracking or temporal coherence. Taking into account these issues we formulate the following question: can we generate more robust pedestrian detectors by introducing new information sources in the feature extraction step? In order to answer this question we develop different approaches for introducing new information sources to well-known pedestrian detectors. We start by the inclusion of temporal information following the Stacked Sequential Learning (SSL) paradigm which suggests that information extracted from the neighboring samples in a sequence can improve the accuracy of a base classifier. We then focus on the inclusion of complementary information from different sensors like 3D point clouds (LIDAR – depth), far infrared images (FIR), or disparity maps (stereo pair cameras). For this end we develop a multi-modal framework in which information from different sensors is used for increasing detection accuracy (by increasing information redundancy). Finally we propose a multi-view pedestrian detector, this multi-view approach splits the detection problem in n sub-problems. Each sub-problem will detect objects in a given specific view reducing in that way the variability problem faced when a single detectors is used for the whole problem. We show that these approaches obtain competitive results with other state-of-the-art methods but instead of design new features, we reuse existing ones boosting their performance.
	Address	November 2015
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	David Vazquez;Antonio Lopez;
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-943427-7-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; 600.076			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Gon2015			Serial	2706
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