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Author Onur Ferhat edit   pdf
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  Title Eye-Tracking with Webcam-Based Setups: Implementation of a Real-Time System and an Analysis of Factors Affecting Performance Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 172 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Computer vision, eye-tracking, gaussian process, feature selection, optical flow  
  Abstract In the recent years commercial eye-tracking hardware has become more common, with the introduction of new models from several brands that have better performance and easier setup procedures. A cause and at the same time a result of this phenomenon is the popularity of eye-tracking research directed at marketing, accessibility and usability, among others.
One problem with these hardware components is scalability, because both the price and the necessary expertise to operate them makes it practically impossible in the large scale. In this work, we analyze the feasibility of a software eye-tracking system based on a single, ordinary webcam. Our aim is to discover the limits of such a system and to see whether it provides acceptable performances.
The significance of this setup is that it is the most common setup found in consumer environments, off-the-shelf electronic devices such as laptops, mobile phones and tablet computers. As no special equipment such as infrared lights, mirrors or zoom lenses are used; setting up and calibrating the system is easier compared to other approaches using these components.
Our work is based on the open source application Opengazer, which provides a good starting point for our contributions. We propose several improvements in order to push the system's performance further and make it feasible as a robust, real-time device. Then we carry out an elaborate experiment involving 18 human subjects and 4 different system setups. Finally, we give an analysis of the results and discuss the effects of setup changes, subject differences and modifications in the software.
 
  Address Bellaterra  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Fernando Vilariño  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2012; IAM @ iam @ Fer2012 Serial 2165  
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Author Jorge Bernal edit  openurl
  Title Polyp Localization and Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images by Means of a Model of Appearance for Polyps Type Book Whole
  Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death worldwide and its survival rate depends on the stage in which it is detected on hence the necessity for an early colon screening. There are several screening techniques but colonoscopy is still nowadays the gold standard, although it has some drawbacks such as the miss rate. Our contribution, in the field of intelligent systems for colonoscopy, aims at providing a polyp localization and a polyp segmentation system based on a model of appearance for polyps. To develop both methods we define a model of appearance for polyps, which describes a polyp as enclosed by intensity valleys. The novelty of our contribution resides on the fact that we include in our model aspects of the image formation and we also consider the presence of other elements from the endoluminal scene such as specular highlights and blood vessels, which have an impact on the performance of our methods. In order to develop our polyp localization method we accumulate valley information in order to generate energy maps, which are also used to guide the polyp segmentation. Our methods achieve promising results in polyp localization and segmentation. As we want to explore the usability of our methods we present a comparative analysis between physicians fixations obtained via an eye tracking device and our polyp localization method. The results show that our method is indistinguishable to novice physicians although it is far from expert physicians.  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor F. Javier Sanchez;Fernando Vilariño  
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  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes (up) MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Ber2012 Serial 2211  
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Author Mirko Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Stephen Ameling; G Lacey edit  doi
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  Title Automatic segmentation and inpainting of specular highlights for endoscopic imaging Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIP JIVP  
  Volume 2010 Issue 9 Pages  
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Author Mirko Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Gerard Lacey; Stephen Patchett; Hugh Mulcahy edit  openurl
  Title Indistinct frame detection in colonoscopy videos Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 47-52  
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Author Mirko Arnold; Stephan Ameling; Anarta Ghosh; Gerard Lacey edit  doi
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  Title Quality Improvement of Endoscopy Videos Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 723 Issue Pages  
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Author Mirko Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Glen Doherty; Hugh Mulcahy; Stephen Patchett; Gerard Lacey edit  doi
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  Title Towards Automatic Direct Observation of Procedure and Skill (DOPS) in Colonoscopy Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 48-53  
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  Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2427  
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Author Jorge Bernal edit   pdf
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  Title Polyp Localization and Segmentation in Colonoscopy Images by Means of a Model of Appearance for Polyps Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal ELCVIA  
  Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 9-10  
  Keywords Colonoscopy; polyp localization; polyp segmentation; Eye-tracking  
  Abstract Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer death worldwide and its survival rate depends on the stage in which it is detected on hence the necessity for an early colon screening. There are several screening techniques but colonoscopy is still nowadays the gold standard, although it has some drawbacks such as the miss rate. Our contribution, in the field of intelligent systems for colonoscopy, aims at providing a polyp localization and a polyp segmentation system based on a model of appearance for polyps. To develop both methods we define a model of appearance for polyps, which describes a polyp as enclosed by intensity valleys. The novelty of our contribution resides on the fact that we include in our model aspects of the image formation and we also consider the presence of other elements from the endoluminal scene such as specular highlights and blood vessels, which have an impact on the performance of our methods. In order to develop our polyp localization method we accumulate valley information in order to generate energy maps, which are also used to guide the polyp segmentation. Our methods achieve promising results in polyp localization and segmentation. As we want to explore the usability of our methods we present a comparative analysis between physicians fixations obtained via an eye tracking device and our polyp localization method. The results show that our method is indistinguishable to novice physicians although it is far from expert physicians.  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Alicia Fornes; Volkmar Frinken  
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  Notes (up) MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Ber2014 Serial 2487  
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach edit  url
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  Title Bulding up the future of colonoscopy: A synergy between clinicians and computer scientists Type Book Chapter
  Year 2015 Publication Colonoscopy and Colorectal Cancer Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Intelligent systems; Image properties; Validation; Clinical drawbacks; Endoluminal scene description  
  Abstract Recent advances in endoscopic technology have generated an increasing interest in strengthening the collaboration between clinicians and computers scientist to develop intelligent systems that can provide additional information to clinicians in the different stages of an intervention. The objective of this chapter is to identify clinical drawbacks of colonoscopy in order to define potential areas of collaboration. Once areas are defined, we present the challenges that colonoscopy images present in order computational methods to provide with meaningful output, including those related to image formation and acquisition, as they are proven to have an impact in the performance of an intelligent system. Finally, we also propose how to define validation frameworks in order to assess the performance of a given method, making an special emphasis on how databases should be created and annotated and which metrics should be used to evaluate systems correctly.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-953-51-2225-8 Medium  
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  Notes (up) MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BSR2015 Serial 2624  
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Author Joan M. Nuñez edit  isbn
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  Title Vascular Pattern Characterization in Colonoscopy Images Type Book Whole
  Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and the second most common malignant tumor in Europe. Screening tests have shown to be very e ective in increasing the survival rates since they allow an early detection of polyps. Among the di erent screening techniques, colonoscopy is considered the gold standard although clinical studies mention several problems that have an impact in the quality of the procedure. The navigation through the rectum and colon track can be challenging for the physicians which can increase polyp miss rates. The thorough visualization of the colon track must be ensured so that
the chances of missing lesions are minimized. The visual analysis of colonoscopy images can provide important information to the physicians and support their navigation during the procedure.
Blood vessels and their branching patterns can provide descriptive power to potentially develop biometric markers. Anatomical markers based on blood vessel patterns could be used to identify a particular scene in colonoscopy videos and to support endoscope navigation by generating a sequence of ordered scenes through the di erent colon sections. By verifying the presence of vascular content in the endoluminal scene it is also possible to certify a proper
inspection of the colon mucosa and to improve polyp localization. Considering the potential uses of blood vessel description, this contribution studies the characterization of the vascular content and the analysis of the descriptive power of its branching patterns.
Blood vessel characterization in colonoscopy images is shown to be a challenging task. The endoluminal scene is conformed by several elements whose similar characteristics hinder the development of particular models for each of them. To overcome such diculties we propose the use of the blood vessel branching characteristics as key features for pattern description. We present a model to characterize junctions in binary patterns. The implementation
of the junction model allows us to develop a junction localization method. We
created two data sets including manually labeled vessel information as well as manual ground truths of two types of keypoint landmarks: junctions and endpoints. The proposed method outperforms the available algorithms in the literature in experiments in both, our newly created colon vessel data set, and in DRIVE retinal fundus image data set. In the latter case, we created a manual ground truth of junction coordinates. Since we want to explore the descriptive potential of junctions and vessels, we propose a graph-based approach to
create anatomical markers. In the context of polyp localization, we present a new method to inhibit the in uence of blood vessels in the extraction valley-pro le information. The results show that our methodology decreases vessel in
uence, increases polyp information and leads to an improvement in state-of-the-art polyp localization performance. We also propose a polyp-speci c segmentation method that outperforms other general and speci c approaches.
 
  Address November 2015  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Fernando Vilariño  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-6-9 Medium  
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  Notes (up) MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Nuñ2015 Serial 2709  
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Author Onur Ferhat edit  isbn
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  Title Analysis of Head-Pose Invariant, Natural Light Gaze Estimation Methods Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Eye tracker devices have traditionally been only used inside laboratories, requiring trained professionals and elaborate setup mechanisms. However, in the recent years the scientific work on easier–to–use eye trackers which require no special hardware—other than the omnipresent front facing cameras in computers, tablets, and mobiles—is aiming at making this technology common–place. These types of trackers have several extra challenges that make the problem harder, such as low resolution images provided by a regular webcam, the changing ambient lighting conditions, personal appearance differences, changes in head pose, and so on. Recent research in the field has focused on all these challenges in order to provide better gaze estimation performances in a real world setup.

In this work, we aim at tackling the gaze tracking problem in a single camera setup. We first analyze all the previous work in the field, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each tried idea. We start our work on the gaze tracker with an appearance–based gaze estimation method, which is the simplest idea that creates a direct mapping between a rectangular image patch extracted around the eye in a camera image, and the gaze point (or gaze direction). Here, we do an extensive analysis of the factors that affect the performance of this tracker in several experimental setups, in order to address these problems in future works. In the second part of our work, we propose a feature–based gaze estimation method, which encodes the eye region image into a compact representation. We argue that this type of representation is better suited to dealing with head pose and lighting condition changes, as it both reduces the dimensionality of the input (i.e. eye image) and breaks the direct connection between image pixel intensities and the gaze estimation. Lastly, we use a face alignment algorithm to have robust face pose estimation, using a 3D model customized to the subject using the tracker. We combine this with a convolutional neural network trained on a large dataset of images to build a face pose invariant gaze tracker.
 
  Address September 2017  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Fernando Vilariño  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-945373-5-6 Medium  
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  Notes (up) MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2017 Serial 3018  
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Author Jorge Bernal edit   pdf
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  Title Use of Projection and Back-projection Methods in Bidimensional Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction Type Report
  Year 2009 Publication CVC Tecnical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 141 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Projection, Back-projection, CT scan, Euclidean geometry, Radon transform  
  Abstract One of the biggest drawbacks related to the use of CT scanners is the cost (in memory and in time) associated. In this project many methods to simulate their functioning, but in a more feasible way (taking an industrial point of view), will be studied.
The main group of techniques that are being used are the one entitled as ’back-projection’. The concept behind is to simulate the X ray emission in CT scans by lines that cross with the image we want to reconstruct.
In the first part of this document euclidean geometry is used to face the tasks of projec- tion and back-projection. After analysing the results achieved it has been proved that this approach does not lead to a fully perfect reconstruction (and also has some other problems related to running time and memory cost). Because of this in the second part of the document ’Filtered Back-projection’ method is introduced in order to improve the results.
Filtered Back-projection methods rely on mathematical transforms (Fourier, Radon) in order to provide more accurate results that can be obtained in much less time. The main cause of this better results is the use of a filtering process before the back-projection in order to avoid high frequency-caused errors.
As a result of this project two different implementations (one for each approach) had been implemented in order to compare their performance.
 
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Barcelona, Spain Editor  
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  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes (up) MV; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Ber2009 Serial 1693  
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Author Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Jorge Bernal; Maria Lopez Ceron; Henry Cordova; Cristina Sanchez Montes; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; F. Javier Sanchez edit   pdf
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  Title Exploring the clinical potential of an automatic colonic polyp detection method based on the creation of energy maps Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Endoscopy Abbreviated Journal END  
  Volume 48 Issue 9 Pages 837-842  
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  Abstract Background and aims: Polyp miss-rate is a drawback of colonoscopy that increases significantly in small polyps. We explored the efficacy of an automatic computer vision method for polyp detection.
Methods: Our method relies on a model that defines polyp boundaries as valleys of image intensity. Valley information is integrated into energy maps which represent the likelihood of polyp presence.
Results: In 24 videos containing polyps from routine colonoscopies, all polyps were detected in at least one frame. Mean values of the maximum of energy map were higher in frames with polyps than without (p<0.001). Performance improved in high quality frames (AUC= 0.79, 95%CI: 0.70-0.87 vs 0.75, 95%CI: 0.66-0.83). Using 3.75 as maximum threshold value, sensitivity and specificity for detection of polyps were 70.4% (95%CI: 60.3-80.8) and 72.4% (95%CI: 61.6-84.6), respectively.
Conclusion: Energy maps showed a good performance for colonic polyp detection. This indicates a potential applicability in clinical practice.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @FBL2016 Serial 2778  
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Author Cristina Sanchez Montes; Jorge Bernal; Ana Garcia Rodriguez; Henry Cordova; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach edit  url
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  Title Revisión de métodos computacionales de detección y clasificación de pólipos en imagen de colonoscopia Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Gastroenterología y Hepatología Abbreviated Journal GH  
  Volume 43 Issue 4 Pages 222-232  
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  Abstract Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is a tool with great potential to help endoscopists in the tasks of detecting and histologically classifying colorectal polyps. In recent years, different technologies have been described and their potential utility has been increasingly evidenced, which has generated great expectations among scientific societies. However, most of these works are retrospective and use images of different quality and characteristics which are analysed off line. This review aims to familiarise gastroenterologists with computational methods and the particularities of endoscopic imaging, which have an impact on image processing analysis. Finally, the publicly available image databases, needed to compare and confirm the results obtained with different methods, are presented.  
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  Notes (up) MV; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SBG2020 Serial 3404  
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño edit   pdf
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  Title Impact of Image Preprocessing Methods on Polyp Localization in Colonoscopy Frames Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 7350 - 7354  
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  Abstract In this paper we present our image preprocessing methods as a key part of our automatic polyp localization scheme. These methods are used to assess the impact of different endoluminal scene elements when characterizing polyps. More precisely we tackle the influence of specular highlights, blood vessels and black mask surrounding the scene. Experimental results prove that the appropriate handling of these elements leads to a great improvement in polyp localization results.  
  Address Osaka; Japan; July 2013  
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  ISSN 1557-170X ISBN Medium  
  Area 800 Expedition Conference EMBC  
  Notes (up) MV; 600.047; 600.060;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BSV2013 Serial 2286  
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Author Jorge Bernal; Fernando Vilariño; F. Javier Sanchez; M. Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Gerard Lacey edit   pdf
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  Title Experts vs Novices: Applying Eye-tracking Methodologies in Colonoscopy Video Screening for Polyp Search Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 2014 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 223-226  
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  Abstract We present in this paper a novel study aiming at identifying the differences in visual search patterns between physicians of diverse levels of expertise during the screening of colonoscopy videos. Physicians were clustered into two groups -experts and novices- according to the number of procedures performed, and fixations were captured by an eye-tracker device during the task of polyp search in different video sequences. These fixations were integrated into heat maps, one for each cluster. The obtained maps were validated over a ground truth consisting of a mask of the polyp, and the comparison between experts and novices was performed by using metrics such as reaction time, dwelling time and energy concentration ratio. Experimental results show a statistically significant difference between experts and novices, and the obtained maps show to be a useful tool for the characterisation of the behaviour of each group.  
  Address USA; March 2014  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2751-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ETRA  
  Notes (up) MV; 600.047; 600.060;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BVS2014 Serial 2448  
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