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Author Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Juan J. Villanueva edit  doi
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  Title High-Speed Human Detection Using a Multiresolution Cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract This paper presents a new method for human detection based on a multiresolution cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that can highly reduce the computational cost of the detection search without affecting accuracy. The method consists of a cascade of sliding window detectors. Each detector is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) composed by features at different resolution, from coarse for the first level to fine for the last one.
Considering that the spatial stride of the sliding window search is affected by the HOG features size, unlike previous methods based on Adaboost cascades, we can adopt a spatial stride inversely proportional to the features resolution. This produces that the speed-up of the cascade is not only due to the low number of features that need to be computed in the first levels, but also to the lower number of detection windows that needs to be evaluated.
Experimental results shows that our method permits a detection rate comparable with the state of the art, but at the same time a gain in the speed of the detection search of 10-20 times depending on the cascade configuration.
 
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ PGV2009 Serial 1214  
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Author Bhaskar Chakraborty; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez edit  doi
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  Title Towards Real-Time Human Action Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract This work presents a novel approach to human detection based action-recognition in real-time. To realize this goal our method first detects humans in different poses using a correlation-based approach. Recognition of actions is done afterward based on the change of the angular values subtended by various body parts. Real-time human detection and action recognition are very challenging, and most state-of-the-art approaches employ complex feature extraction and classification techniques, which ultimately becomes a handicap for real-time recognition. Our correlation-based method, on the other hand, is computationally efficient and uses very simple gradient-based features. For action recognition angular features of body parts are extracted using a skeleton technique. Results for action recognition are comparable with the present state-of-the-art.  
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ CBG2009 Serial 1215  
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Author Murad Al Haj; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Robust and Efficient Multipose Face Detection Using Skin Color Segmentation Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract In this paper we describe an efficient technique for detecting faces in arbitrary images and video sequences. The approach is based on segmentation of images or video frames into skin-colored blobs using a pixel-based heuristic. Scale and translation invariant features are then computed from these segmented blobs which are used to perform statistical discrimination between face and non-face classes. We train and evaluate our method on a standard, publicly available database of face images and analyze its performance over a range of statistical pattern classifiers. The generalization of our approach is illustrated by testing on an independent sequence of frames containing many faces and non-faces. These experiments indicate that our proposed approach obtains false positive rates comparable to more complex, state-of-the-art techniques, and that it generalizes better to new data. Furthermore, the use of skin blobs and invariant features requires fewer training samples since significantly fewer non-face candidate regions must be considered when compared to AdaBoost-based approaches.  
  Address Springer Berlin Heidelberg  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ ABG2009 Serial 1216  
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Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer edit  doi
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  Title Generalized Gamut Mapping using Image Derivative Structures for Color Constancy Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV  
  Volume 86 Issue 2-3 Pages 127-139  
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  Abstract The gamut mapping algorithm is one of the most promising methods to achieve computational color constancy. However, so far, gamut mapping algorithms are restricted to the use of pixel values to estimate the illuminant. Therefore, in this paper, gamut mapping is extended to incorporate the statistical nature of images. It is analytically shown that the proposed gamut mapping framework is able to include any linear filter output. The main focus is on the local n-jet describing the derivative structure of an image. It is shown that derivatives have the advantage over pixel values to be invariant to disturbing effects (i.e. deviations of the diagonal model) such as saturated colors and diffuse light. Further, as the n-jet based gamut mapping has the ability to use more information than pixel values alone, the combination of these algorithms are more stable than the regular gamut mapping algorithm. Different methods of combining are proposed. Based on theoretical and experimental results conducted on large scale data sets of hyperspectral, laboratory and realworld scenes, it can be derived that (1) in case of deviations of the diagonal model, the derivative-based approach outperforms the pixel-based gamut mapping, (2) state-of-the-art algorithms are outperformed by the n-jet based gamut mapping, (3) the combination of the different n-jet based gamut  
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  Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Hingham, MA, USA Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ GGW2010 Serial 1274  
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Author David Augusto Rojas; Joost Van de Weijer; Theo Gevers edit  isbn
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  Title Color Edge Saliency Boosting using Natural Image Statistics Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 228–234  
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  Abstract State of the art methods for image matching, content-based retrieval and recognition use local features. Most of these still exploit only the luminance information for detection. The color saliency boosting algorithm has provided an efficient method to exploit the saliency of color edges based on information theory. However, during the design of this algorithm, some issues were not addressed in depth: (1) The method has ignored the underlying distribution of derivatives in natural images. (2) The dependence of information content in color-boosted edges on its spatial derivatives has not been quantitatively established. (3) To evaluate luminance and color contributions to saliency of edges, a parameter gradually balancing both contributions is required.
We introduce a novel algorithm, based on the principles of independent component analysis, which models the first order derivatives of color natural images by a generalized Gaussian distribution. Furthermore, using this probability model we show that for images with a Laplacian distribution, which is a particular case of generalized Gaussian distribution, the magnitudes of color-boosted edges reflect their corresponding information content. In order to evaluate the impact of color edge saliency in real world applications, we introduce an extension of the Laplacian-of-Gaussian detector to color, and the performance for image matching is evaluated. Our experiments show that our approach provides more discriminative regions in comparison with the original detector.
 
  Address Joensuu, Finland  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 9781617388897 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CGIV/MCS  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ RWG2010 Serial 1306  
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Author Wenjuan Gong; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez edit  doi
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  Title Automatic Key Pose Selection for 3D Human Action Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 6th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6169 Issue Pages 290–299  
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  Abstract This article describes a novel approach to the modeling of human actions in 3D. The method we propose is based on a “bag of poses” model that represents human actions as histograms of key-pose occurrences over the course of a video sequence. Actions are first represented as 3D poses using a sequence of 36 direction cosines corresponding to the angles 12 joints form with the world coordinate frame in an articulated human body model. These pose representations are then projected to three-dimensional, action-specific principal eigenspaces which we refer to as aSpaces. We introduce a method for key-pose selection based on a local-motion energy optimization criterion and we show that this method is more stable and more resistant to noisy data than other key-poses selection criteria for action recognition.  
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  Publisher Springer Verlag Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-14060-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference AMDO  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ GBR2010 Serial 1317  
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Author Nataliya Shapovalova edit  openurl
  Title On Importance of Interaction and Context Type Report
  Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 155 Issue Pages  
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  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Sha2010 Serial 1355  
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Author Zhanwu Xiong edit  openurl
  Title A Pompd Model for Active Camera Control Type Report
  Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 156 Issue Pages  
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  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
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  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Xio2010 Serial 1356  
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Author Murad Al Haj; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Reactive object tracking with a single PTZ camera Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1690–1693  
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  Abstract In this paper we describe a novel approach to reactive tracking of moving targets with a pan-tilt-zoom camera. The approach uses an extended Kalman filter to jointly track the object position in the real world, its velocity in 3D and the camera intrinsics, in addition to the rate of change of these parameters. The filter outputs are used as inputs to PID controllers which continuously adjust the camera motion in order to reactively track the object at a constant image velocity while simultaneously maintaining a desirable target scale in the image plane. We provide experimental results on simulated and real tracking sequences to show how our tracker is able to accurately estimate both 3D object position and camera intrinsics with very high precision over a wide range of focal lengths.  
  Address Istanbul (Turkey)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICPR  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ ABG2010 Serial 1418  
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Author Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Andrew Bagdanov; Juan J. Villanueva edit  doi
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  Title Recursive Coarse-to-Fine Localization for fast Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 11th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6313 Issue II Pages 280–293  
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  Abstract Cascading techniques are commonly used to speed-up the scan of an image for object detection. However, cascades of detectors are slow to train due to the high number of detectors and corresponding thresholds to learn. Furthermore, they do not use any prior knowledge about the scene structure to decide where to focus the search. To handle these problems, we propose a new way to scan an image, where we couple a recursive coarse-to-fine refinement together with spatial constraints of the object location. For doing that we split an image into a set of uniformly distributed neighborhood regions, and for each of these we apply a local greedy search over feature resolutions. The neighborhood is defined as a scanning region that only one object can occupy. Therefore the best hypothesis is obtained as the location with maximum score and no thresholds are needed. We present an implementation of our method using a pyramid of HOG features and we evaluate it on two standard databases, VOC2007 and INRIA dataset. Results show that the Recursive Coarse-to-Fine Localization (RCFL) achieves a 12x speed-up compared to standard sliding windows. Compared with a cascade of multiple resolutions approach our method has slightly better performance in speed and Average-Precision. Furthermore, in contrast to cascading approach, the speed-up is independent of image conditions, the number of detected objects and clutter.  
  Address Crete (Greece)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 978-3-642-15566-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCV  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ PGB2010 Serial 1438  
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Author Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Automatic Learning of Background Semantics in Generic Surveilled Scenes Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 11th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6313 Issue II Pages 678–692  
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  Abstract Advanced surveillance systems for behavior recognition in outdoor traffic scenes depend strongly on the particular configuration of the scenario. Scene-independent trajectory analysis techniques statistically infer semantics in locations where motion occurs, and such inferences are typically limited to abnormality. Thus, it is interesting to design contributions that automatically categorize more specific semantic regions. State-of-the-art approaches for unsupervised scene labeling exploit trajectory data to segment areas like sources, sinks, or waiting zones. Our method, in addition, incorporates scene-independent knowledge to assign more meaningful labels like crosswalks, sidewalks, or parking spaces. First, a spatiotemporal scene model is obtained from trajectory analysis. Subsequently, a so-called GI-MRF inference process reinforces spatial coherence, and incorporates taxonomy-guided smoothness constraints. Our method achieves automatic and effective labeling of conceptual regions in urban scenarios, and is robust to tracking errors. Experimental validation on 5 surveillance databases has been conducted to assess the generality and accuracy of the segmentations. The resulting scene models are used for model-based behavior analysis.  
  Address Crete (Greece)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg 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 978-3-642-15551-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECCV  
  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ FGR2010 Serial 1439  
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Author Ariel Amato; Mikhail Mozerov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez edit   pdf
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  Title Robust Real-Time Background Subtraction Based on Local Neighborhood Patterns Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIPJ  
  Volume Issue Pages 7  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Article ID 901205
This paper describes an efficient background subtraction technique for detecting moving objects. The proposed approach is able to overcome difficulties like illumination changes and moving shadows. Our method introduces two discriminative features based on angular and modular patterns, which are formed by similarity measurement between two sets of RGB color vectors: one belonging to the background image and the other to the current image. We show how these patterns are used to improve foreground detection in the presence of moving shadows and in the case when there are strong similarities in color between background and foreground pixels. Experimental results over a collection of public and own datasets of real image sequences demonstrate that the proposed technique achieves a superior performance compared with state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, both the low computational and space complexities make the presented algorithm feasible for real-time applications.
 
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  ISSN 1110-8657 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ISE @ ise @ AMR2010 Serial 1463  
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Author Anastasios Doulamis; Nikolaos Doulamis; Marco Bertini; Jordi Gonzalez; Thomas B. Moeslund edit   pdf
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  Title Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2013 Publication ACM/IEEE international workshop on Analysis and retrieval of tracked events and motion in imagery stream Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Barcelona; October 2013  
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  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DDB2013 Serial 2372  
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Author Marco Pedersoli; Jordi Gonzalez; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Efficient Discriminative Multiresolution Cascade for Real-Time Human Detection Applications Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL  
  Volume 32 Issue 13 Pages 1581-1587  
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  Abstract Human detection is fundamental in many machine vision applications, like video surveillance, driving assistance, action recognition and scene understanding. However in most of these applications real-time performance is necessary and this is not achieved yet by current detection methods.

This paper presents a new method for human detection based on a multiresolution cascade of Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) that can highly reduce the computational cost of detection search without affecting accuracy. The method consists of a cascade of sliding window detectors. Each detector is a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) composed of HOG features at different resolutions, from coarse at the first level to fine at the last one.

In contrast to previous methods, our approach uses a non-uniform stride of the sliding window that is defined by the feature resolution and allows the detection to be incrementally refined as going from coarse-to-fine resolution. In this way, the speed-up of the cascade is not only due to the fewer number of features computed at the first levels of the cascade, but also to the reduced number of windows that need to be evaluated at the coarse resolution. Experimental results show that our method reaches a detection rate comparable with the state-of-the-art of detectors based on HOG features, while at the same time the detection search is up to 23 times faster.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011a Serial 1707  
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Author Ariel Amato; Mikhail Mozerov; Andrew Bagdanov; Jordi Gonzalez edit   pdf
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  Title Accurate Moving Cast Shadow Suppression Based on Local Color Constancy detection Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP  
  Volume 20 Issue 10 Pages 2954 - 2966  
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  Abstract This paper describes a novel framework for detection and suppression of properly shadowed regions for most possible scenarios occurring in real video sequences. Our approach requires no prior knowledge about the scene, nor is it restricted to specific scene structures. Furthermore, the technique can detect both achromatic and chromatic shadows even in the presence of camouflage that occurs when foreground regions are very similar in color to shadowed regions. The method exploits local color constancy properties due to reflectance suppression over shadowed regions. To detect shadowed regions in a scene, the values of the background image are divided by values of the current frame in the RGB color space. We show how this luminance ratio can be used to identify segments with low gradient constancy, which in turn distinguish shadows from foreground. Experimental results on a collection of publicly available datasets illustrate the superior performance of our method compared with the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art shadow detection algorithms. These results show that our approach is robust and accurate over a broad range of shadow types and challenging video conditions.  
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  ISSN 1057-7149 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes (up) ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AMB2011 Serial 1716  
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