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Author C. Alejandro Parraga edit  isbn
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Title Perceptual Psychophysics Type Book Chapter
Year 2015 Publication Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor G.Cristobal; M.Keil; L.Perrinet  
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-527-41264-8 Medium  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Par2015 Serial 2600  
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Author Marc Serra edit  isbn
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Title Modeling, estimation and evaluation of intrinsic images considering color information Type Book Whole
Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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Abstract Image values are the result of a combination of visual information coming from multiple sources. Recovering information from the multiple factors thatproduced an image seems a hard and ill-posed problem. However, it is important to observe that humans develop the ability to interpret images and recognize and isolate specific physical properties of the scene.

Images describing a single physical characteristic of an scene are called intrinsic images. These images would benefit most computer vision tasks which are often affected by the multiple complex effects that are usually found in natural images (e.g. cast shadows, specularities, interreflections...).

In this thesis we analyze the problem of intrinsic image estimation from different perspectives, including the theoretical formulation of the problem, the visual cues that can be used to estimate the intrinsic components and the evaluation mechanisms of the problem.
 
Address September 2015  
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Robert Benavente;Olivier Penacchio  
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-4-5 Medium  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Ser2015 Serial 2688  
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Author A.Gonzalez; Robert Benavente; Olivier Penacchio; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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Title Coloresia: An Interactive Colour Perception Device for the Visually Impaired Type Book Chapter
Year 2013 Publication Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 48 Issue Pages 47-66  
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Abstract A significative percentage of the human population suffer from impairments in their capacity to distinguish or even see colours. For them, everyday tasks like navigating through a train or metro network map becomes demanding. We present a novel technique for extracting colour information from everyday natural stimuli and presenting it to visually impaired users as pleasant, non-invasive sound. This technique was implemented inside a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) portable device. In this implementation, colour information is extracted from the input image and categorised according to how human observers segment the colour space. This information is subsequently converted into sound and sent to the user via speakers or headphones. In the original implementation, it is possible for the user to send its feedback to reconfigure the system, however several features such as these were not implemented because the current technology is limited.We are confident that the full implementation will be possible in the near future as PDA technology improves.  
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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ISSN 1868-4394 ISBN 978-3-642-35931-6 Medium  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.052; 605.203 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ GBP2013 Serial 2266  
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Author Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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Title Chromatic settings and the structural color constancy index Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal JV  
Volume 13 Issue 4-3 Pages 1-26  
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Abstract Color constancy is usually measured by achromatic setting, asymmetric matching, or color naming paradigms, whose results are interpreted in terms of indexes and models that arguably do not capture the full complexity of the phenomenon. Here we propose a new paradigm, chromatic setting, which allows a more comprehensive characterization of color constancy through the measurement of multiple points in color space under immersive adaptation. We demonstrated its feasibility by assessing the consistency of subjects' responses over time. The paradigm was applied to two-dimensional (2-D) Mondrian stimuli under three different illuminants, and the results were used to fit a set of linear color constancy models. The use of multiple colors improved the precision of more complex linear models compared to the popular diagonal model computed from gray. Our results show that a diagonal plus translation matrix that models mechanisms other than cone gain might be best suited to explain the phenomenon. Additionally, we calculated a number of color constancy indices for several points in color space, and our results suggest that interrelations among colors are not as uniform as previously believed. To account for this variability, we developed a new structural color constancy index that takes into account the magnitude and orientation of the chromatic shift in addition to the interrelations among colors and memory effects.  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.052; 600.051; 605.203 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ RPV2013 Serial 2288  
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Author Marc Serra; Olivier Penacchio; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Dimitris Samaras edit   pdf
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Title The Photometry of Intrinsic Images Type Conference Article
Year 2014 Publication 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 1494-1501  
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Abstract Intrinsic characterization of scenes is often the best way to overcome the illumination variability artifacts that complicate most computer vision problems, from 3D reconstruction to object or material recognition. This paper examines the deficiency of existing intrinsic image models to accurately account for the effects of illuminant color and sensor characteristics in the estimation of intrinsic images and presents a generic framework which incorporates insights from color constancy research to the intrinsic image decomposition problem. The proposed mathematical formulation includes information about the color of the illuminant and the effects of the camera sensors, both of which modify the observed color of the reflectance of the objects in the scene during the acquisition process. By modeling these effects, we get a “truly intrinsic” reflectance image, which we call absolute reflectance, which is invariant to changes of illuminant or camera sensors. This model allows us to represent a wide range of intrinsic image decompositions depending on the specific assumptions on the geometric properties of the scene configuration and the spectral properties of the light source and the acquisition system, thus unifying previous models in a single general framework. We demonstrate that even partial information about sensors improves significantly the estimated reflectance images, thus making our method applicable for a wide range of sensors. We validate our general intrinsic image framework experimentally with both synthetic data and natural images.  
Address Columbus; Ohio; USA; June 2014  
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Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
Notes (down) CIC; 600.052; 600.051; 600.074 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ SPB2014 Serial 2506  
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Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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Title Color encoding in biologically-inspired convolutional neural networks Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Vision Research Abbreviated Journal VR  
Volume 151 Issue Pages 7-17  
Keywords Color coding; Computer vision; Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks  
Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks have been proposed as suitable frameworks to model biological vision. Some of these artificial networks showed representational properties that rival primate performances in object recognition. In this paper we explore how color is encoded in a trained artificial network. It is performed by estimating a color selectivity index for each neuron, which allows us to describe the neuron activity to a color input stimuli. The index allows us to classify whether they are color selective or not and if they are of a single or double color. We have determined that all five convolutional layers of the network have a large number of color selective neurons. Color opponency clearly emerges in the first layer, presenting 4 main axes (Black-White, Red-Cyan, Blue-Yellow and Magenta-Green), but this is reduced and rotated as we go deeper into the network. In layer 2 we find a denser hue sampling of color neurons and opponency is reduced almost to one new main axis, the Bluish-Orangish coinciding with the dataset bias. In layers 3, 4 and 5 color neurons are similar amongst themselves, presenting different type of neurons that detect specific colored objects (e.g., orangish faces), specific surrounds (e.g., blue sky) or specific colored or contrasted object-surround configurations (e.g. blue blob in a green surround). Overall, our work concludes that color and shape representation are successively entangled through all the layers of the studied network, revealing certain parallelisms with the reported evidences in primate brains that can provide useful insight into intermediate hierarchical spatio-chromatic representations.  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.051; 600.087 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @RaV2018 Serial 3114  
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Author Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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Title Low-level SpatioChromatic Grouping for Saliency Estimation Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
Volume 35 Issue 11 Pages 2810-2816  
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Abstract We propose a saliency model termed SIM (saliency by induction mechanisms), which is based on a low-level spatiochromatic model that has successfully predicted chromatic induction phenomena. In so doing, we hypothesize that the low-level visual mechanisms that enhance or suppress image detail are also responsible for making some image regions more salient. Moreover, SIM adds geometrical grouplets to enhance complex low-level features such as corners, and suppress relatively simpler features such as edges. Since our model has been fitted on psychophysical chromatic induction data, it is largely nonparametric. SIM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting eye fixations on two datasets and using two metrics.  
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ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN Medium  
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Notes (down) CIC; 600.051; 600.052; 605.203 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ MVO2013 Serial 2289  
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Author Shida Beigpour; Marc Serra; Joost Van de Weijer; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Olivier Penacchio; Dimitris Samaras edit   pdf
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Title Intrinsic Image Evaluation On Synthetic Complex Scenes Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 285 - 289  
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Abstract Scene decomposition into its illuminant, shading, and reflectance intrinsic images is an essential step for scene understanding. Collecting intrinsic image groundtruth data is a laborious task. The assumptions on which the ground-truth
procedures are based limit their application to simple scenes with a single object taken in the absence of indirect lighting and interreflections. We investigate synthetic data for intrinsic image research since the extraction of ground truth is straightforward, and it allows for scenes in more realistic situations (e.g, multiple illuminants and interreflections). With this dataset we aim to motivate researchers to further explore intrinsic image decomposition in complex scenes.
 
Address Melbourne; Australia; September 2013  
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Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
Notes (down) CIC; 600.048; 600.052; 600.051 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ BSW2013 Serial 2264  
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Author Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan edit   pdf
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Title Fusing Color and Shape for Bag-of-Words Based Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 4th Computational Color Imaging Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 7786 Issue Pages 25-34  
Keywords Object Recognition; color features; bag-of-words; image classification  
Abstract In this article we provide an analysis of existing methods for the incorporation of color in bag-of-words based image representations. We propose a list of desired properties on which bases fusing methods can be compared. We discuss existing methods and indicate shortcomings of the two well-known fusing methods, namely early and late fusion. Several recent works have addressed these shortcomings by exploiting top-down information in the bag-of-words pipeline: color attention which is motivated from human vision, and Portmanteau vocabularies which are based on information theoretic compression of product vocabularies. We point out several remaining challenges in cue fusion and provide directions for future research.  
Address Chiba; Japan; March 2013  
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36699-4 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
Notes (down) CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ WeK2013 Serial 2283  
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Author Rahat Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Damien Muselet; christophe Ducottet; Cecile Barat edit   pdf
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Title Discriminative Color Descriptors Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 2866 - 2873  
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Abstract Color description is a challenging task because of large variations in RGB values which occur due to scene accidental events, such as shadows, shading, specularities, illuminant color changes, and changes in viewing geometry. Traditionally, this challenge has been addressed by capturing the variations in physics-based models, and deriving invariants for the undesired variations. The drawback of this approach is that sets of distinguishable colors in the original color space are mapped to the same value in the photometric invariant space. This results in a drop of discriminative power of the color description. In this paper we take an information theoretic approach to color description. We cluster color values together based on their discriminative power in a classification problem. The clustering has the explicit objective to minimize the drop of mutual information of the final representation. We show that such a color description automatically learns a certain degree of photometric invariance. We also show that a universal color representation, which is based on other data sets than the one at hand, can obtain competing performance. Experiments show that the proposed descriptor outperforms existing photometric invariants. Furthermore, we show that combined with shape description these color descriptors obtain excellent results on four challenging datasets, namely, PASCAL VOC 2007, Flowers-102, Stanford dogs-120 and Birds-200.  
Address Portland; Oregon; June 2013  
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ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
Notes (down) CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ KWK2013a Serial 2262  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Sadiq Ali; Michael Felsberg edit   pdf
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Title Evaluating the impact of color on texture recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 8047 Issue Pages 154-162  
Keywords Color; Texture; image representation  
Abstract State-of-the-art texture descriptors typically operate on grey scale images while ignoring color information. A common way to obtain a joint color-texture representation is to combine the two visual cues at the pixel level. However, such an approach provides sub-optimal results for texture categorisation task.
In this paper we investigate how to optimally exploit color information for texture recognition. We evaluate a variety of color descriptors, popular in image classification, for texture categorisation. In addition we analyze different fusion approaches to combine color and texture cues. Experiments are conducted on the challenging scenes and 10 class texture datasets. Our experiments clearly suggest that in all cases color names provide the best performance. Late fusion is the best strategy to combine color and texture. By selecting the best color descriptor with optimal fusion strategy provides a gain of 5% to 8% compared to texture alone on scenes and texture datasets.
 
Address York; UK; August 2013  
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-40260-9 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CAIP  
Notes (down) CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ KWA2013 Serial 2263  
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Author Hassan Ahmed Sial edit  isbn
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Title Estimating Light Effects from a Single Image: Deep Architectures and Ground-Truth Generation Type Book Whole
Year 2021 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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Abstract In this thesis, we explore how to estimate the effects of the light interacting with the scene objects from a single image. To achieve this goal, we focus on recovering intrinsic components like reflectance, shading, or light properties such as color and position using deep architectures. The success of these approaches relies on training on large and diversified image datasets. Therefore, we present several contributions on this such as: (a) a data-augmentation technique; (b) a ground-truth for an existing multi-illuminant dataset; (c) a family of synthetic datasets, SID for Surreal Intrinsic Datasets, with diversified backgrounds and coherent light conditions; and (d) a practical pipeline to create hybrid ground-truths to overcome the complexity of acquiring realistic light conditions in a massive way. In parallel with the creation of datasets, we trained different flexible encoder-decoder deep architectures incorporating physical constraints from the image formation models.

In the last part of the thesis, we apply all the previous experience to two different problems. Firstly, we create a large hybrid Doc3DShade dataset with real shading and synthetic reflectance under complex illumination conditions, that is used to train a two-stage architecture that improves the character recognition task in complex lighting conditions of unwrapped documents. Secondly, we tackle the problem of single image scene relighting by extending both, the SID dataset to present stronger shading and shadows effects, and the deep architectures to use intrinsic components to estimate new relit images.
 
Address September 2021  
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
Publisher IMPRIMA Place of Publication Editor Maria Vanrell;Ramon Baldrich  
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-122714-8-5 Medium  
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Notes (down) CIC; Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Sia2021 Serial 3607  
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Author Robert Benavente; M.C. Olive; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Colour Perception: A Simple Method for Colour Naming. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Girona  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BOV1999 Serial 47  
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Author Robert Benavente edit  openurl
Title Dealing with colour variability: application to a colour naming task Type Report
Year 1999 Publication CVC Technical Report #32 Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ Ben1999 Serial 53  
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Author Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title Perceptual approach to a computational colour-texture representation for surface inspection. Type Book Whole
Year 2001 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ Bal2001 Serial 73  
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Author Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title A colour naming experiment Type Report
Year 2001 Publication CVC Technical Report #56 Abbreviated Journal  
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Notes (down) CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BeV2001 Serial 78  
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Author O. Fors; Xavier Otazu; J. Nuñez edit  openurl
Title Fusion Mediante Wavelets de Imagenes Spot-pan y del Satelite Tailandes TMSAT. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2001 Publication Teledeteccion, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Global, IX Congreso Nacional de Teledeteccion, 546–550. Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Lleida  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ FON2001 Serial 94  
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Author Xavier Otazu; J. Nuñez edit  openurl
Title Algoritmo de Clasificacion no Supervisada Basado en Wavelets. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2001 Publication Teledeteccion, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Global, IX Congreso Nacional de Teledeteccion, 437–440. Abbreviated Journal  
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Notes (down) CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ ONu2001 Serial 147  
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