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Author Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi; Hugo Bertiche; Vicent Roig; Shohreh Kasaei; Sergio Escalera
Title Action Recognition from RGB-D Data: Comparison and Fusion of Spatio-temporal Handcrafted Features and Deep Strategies Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication Chalearn Workshop on Action, Gesture, and Emotion Recognition: Large Scale Multimodal Gesture Recognition and Real versus Fake expressed emotions at ICCV Abbreviated Journal
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Address Venice; Italy; October 2017
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Author Albert Clapes; Tinne Tuytelaars; Sergio Escalera
Title Darwintrees for action recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication Chalearn Workshop on Action, Gesture, and Emotion Recognition: Large Scale Multimodal Gesture Recognition and Real versus Fake expressed emotions at ICCV Abbreviated Journal
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Author Marc Oliu; Javier Selva; Sergio Escalera
Title Folded Recurrent Neural Networks for Future Video Prediction Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication 15th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11218 Issue Pages 745-761
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Abstract Future video prediction is an ill-posed Computer Vision problem that recently received much attention. Its main challenges are the high variability in video content, the propagation of errors through time, and the non-specificity of the future frames: given a sequence of past frames there is a continuous distribution of possible futures. This work introduces bijective Gated Recurrent Units, a double mapping between the input and output of a GRU layer. This allows for recurrent auto-encoders with state sharing between encoder and decoder, stratifying the sequence representation and helping to prevent capacity problems. We show how with this topology only the encoder or decoder needs to be applied for input encoding and prediction, respectively. This reduces the computational cost and avoids re-encoding the predictions when generating a sequence of frames, mitigating the propagation of errors. Furthermore, it is possible to remove layers from an already trained model, giving an insight to the role performed by each layer and making the model more explainable. We evaluate our approach on three video datasets, outperforming state of the art prediction results on MMNIST and UCF101, and obtaining competitive results on KTH with 2 and 3 times less memory usage and computational cost than the best scored approach.
Address Munich; September 2018
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Author Ester Fornells; Manuel De Armas; Maria Teresa Anguera; Sergio Escalera; Marcos Antonio Catalán; Josep Moya
Title Desarrollo del proyecto del Consell Comarcal del Baix Llobregat “Buen Trato a las personas mayores y aquellas en situación de fragilidad con sufrimiento emocional: Hacia un envejecimiento saludable” Type Journal
Year 2018 Publication Informaciones Psiquiatricas Abbreviated Journal
Volume 232 Issue Pages 47-59
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Call Number Admin @ si @ FAA2018 Serial 3214
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Author Andre Litvin; Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; Cagri Ozcinar; Thomas B. Moeslund; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
Title A Novel Deep Network Architecture for Reconstructing RGB Facial Images from Thermal for Face Recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP
Volume 78 Issue 18 Pages 25259–25271
Keywords Fully convolutional networks; FusionNet; Thermal imaging; Face recognition
Abstract This work proposes a fully convolutional network architecture for RGB face image generation from a given input thermal face image to be applied in face recognition scenarios. The proposed method is based on the FusionNet architecture and increases robustness against overfitting using dropout after bridge connections, randomised leaky ReLUs (RReLUs), and orthogonal regularization. Furthermore, we propose to use a decoding block with resize convolution instead of transposed convolution to improve final RGB face image generation. To validate our proposed network architecture, we train a face classifier and compare its face recognition rate on the reconstructed RGB images from the proposed architecture, to those when reconstructing images with the original FusionNet, as well as when using the original RGB images. As a result, we are introducing a new architecture which leads to a more accurate network.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ LNE2019 Serial 3318
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Author Sergio Escalera; Ralf Herbrich
Title The NeurIPS’18 Competition: From Machine Learning to Intelligent Conversations Type Book Whole
Year 2020 Publication The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This volume presents the results of the Neural Information Processing Systems Competition track at the 2018 NeurIPS conference. The competition follows the same format as the 2017 competition track for NIPS. Out of 21 submitted proposals, eight competition proposals were selected, spanning the area of Robotics, Health, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Systems and Physics. Competitions have become an integral part of advancing state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI). They exhibit one important difference to benchmarks: Competitions test a system end-to-end rather than evaluating only a single component; they assess the practicability of an algorithmic solution in addition to assessing feasibility.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor Sergio Escalera; Ralf Hebrick
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Author Sergio Escalera; Stephane Ayache; Jun Wan; Meysam Madadi; Umut Guçlu; Xavier Baro
Title Inpainting and Denoising Challenges Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The problem of dealing with missing or incomplete data in machine learning and computer vision arises in many applications. Recent strategies make use of generative models to impute missing or corrupted data. Advances in computer vision using deep generative models have found applications in image/video processing, such as denoising, restoration, super-resolution, or inpainting.
Inpainting and Denoising Challenges comprises recent efforts dealing with image and video inpainting tasks. This includes winning solutions to the ChaLearn Looking at People inpainting and denoising challenges: human pose recovery, video de-captioning and fingerprint restoration.
This volume starts with a wide review on image denoising, retracing and comparing various methods from the pioneer signal processing methods, to machine learning approaches with sparse and low-rank models, and recent deep learning architectures with autoencoders and variants. The following chapters present results from the Challenge, including three competition tasks at WCCI and ECML 2018. The top best approaches submitted by participants are described, showing interesting contributions and innovating methods. The last two chapters propose novel contributions and highlight new applications that benefit from image/video inpainting.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ EAW2019 Serial 3398
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Author Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera; Isabelle Guyon; Xavier Baro; Yagmur Gucluturk; Umut Guçlu; Marcel van Gerven
Title Explainable and Interpretable Models in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Type Book Whole
Year 2018 Publication The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This book compiles leading research on the development of explainable and interpretable machine learning methods in the context of computer vision and machine learning.
Research progress in computer vision and pattern recognition has led to a variety of modeling techniques with almost human-like performance. Although these models have obtained astounding results, they are limited in their explainability and interpretability: what is the rationale behind the decision made? what in the model structure explains its functioning? Hence, while good performance is a critical required characteristic for learning machines, explainability and interpretability capabilities are needed to take learning machines to the next step to include them in decision support systems involving human supervision.
This book, written by leading international researchers, addresses key topics of explainability and interpretability, including the following:

·Evaluation and Generalization in Interpretable Machine Learning
·Explanation Methods in Deep Learning
·Learning Functional Causal Models with Generative Neural Networks
·Learning Interpreatable Rules for Multi-Label Classification
·Structuring Neural Networks for More Explainable Predictions
·Generating Post Hoc Rationales of Deep Visual Classification Decisions
·Ensembling Visual Explanations
·Explainable Deep Driving by Visualizing Causal Attention
·Interdisciplinary Perspective on Algorithmic Job Candidate Search
·Multimodal Personality Trait Analysis for Explainable Modeling of Job Interview Decisions
·Inherent Explainability Pattern Theory-based Video Event Interpretations
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Author Hugo Jair Escalante; Heysem Kaya; Albert Ali Salah; Sergio Escalera; Yagmur Gucluturk; Umut Guçlu; Xavier Baro; Isabelle Guyon; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Meysam Madadi; Stephane Ayache; Evelyne Viegas; Furkan Gurpinar; Achmadnoer Sukma Wicaksana; Cynthia Liem; Marcel A. J. Van Gerven; Rob Van Lier
Title Modeling, Recognizing, and Explaining Apparent Personality from Videos Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Abbreviated Journal TAC
Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 894-911
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Abstract Explainability and interpretability are two critical aspects of decision support systems. Despite their importance, it is only recently that researchers are starting to explore these aspects. This paper provides an introduction to explainability and interpretability in the context of apparent personality recognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort in this direction. We describe a challenge we organized on explainability in first impressions analysis from video. We analyze in detail the newly introduced data set, evaluation protocol, proposed solutions and summarize the results of the challenge. We investigate the issue of bias in detail. Finally, derived from our study, we outline research opportunities that we foresee will be relevant in this area in the near future.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ EKS2022 Serial 3406
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Author Yunan Li; Jun Wan; Qiguang Miao; Sergio Escalera; Huijuan Fang; Huizhou Chen; Xiangda Qi; Guodong Guo
Title CR-Net: A Deep Classification-Regression Network for Multimodal Apparent Personality Analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 128 Issue Pages 2763–2780
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Abstract First impressions strongly influence social interactions, having a high impact in the personal and professional life. In this paper, we present a deep Classification-Regression Network (CR-Net) for analyzing the Big Five personality problem and further assisting on job interview recommendation in a first impressions setup. The setup is based on the ChaLearn First Impressions dataset, including multimodal data with video, audio, and text converted from the corresponding audio data, where each person is talking in front of a camera. In order to give a comprehensive prediction, we analyze the videos from both the entire scene (including the person’s motions and background) and the face of the person. Our CR-Net first performs personality trait classification and applies a regression later, which can obtain accurate predictions for both personality traits and interview recommendation. Furthermore, we present a new loss function called Bell Loss to address inaccurate predictions caused by the regression-to-the-mean problem. Extensive experiments on the First Impressions dataset show the effectiveness of our proposed network, outperforming the state-of-the-art.
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Author Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera
Title Video-based Isolated Hand Sign Language Recognition Using a Deep Cascaded Model Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP
Volume 79 Issue Pages 22965–22987
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Abstract In this paper, we propose an efficient cascaded model for sign language recognition taking benefit from spatio-temporal hand-based information using deep learning approaches, especially Single Shot Detector (SSD), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), from videos. Our simple yet efficient and accurate model includes two main parts: hand detection and sign recognition. Three types of spatial features, including hand features, Extra Spatial Hand Relation (ESHR) features, and Hand Pose (HP) features, have been fused in the model to feed to LSTM for temporal features extraction. We train SSD model for hand detection using some videos collected from five online sign dictionaries. Our model is evaluated on our proposed dataset (Rastgoo et al., Expert Syst Appl 150: 113336, 2020), including 10’000 sign videos for 100 Persian sign using 10 contributors in 10 different backgrounds, and isoGD dataset. Using the 5-fold cross-validation method, our model outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives in sign language recognition
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RKE2020b Serial 3442
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Author Jun Wan; Chi Lin; Longyin Wen; Yunan Li; Qiguang Miao; Sergio Escalera; Gholamreza Anbarjafari; Isabelle Guyon; Guodong Guo; Stan Z. Li
Title ChaLearn Looking at People: IsoGD and ConGD Large-scale RGB-D Gesture Recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Abbreviated Journal TCIBERN
Volume 52 Issue 5 Pages 3422-3433
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Abstract The ChaLearn large-scale gesture recognition challenge has been run twice in two workshops in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2016 and International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017, attracting more than 200 teams round the world. This challenge has two tracks, focusing on isolated and continuous gesture recognition, respectively. This paper describes the creation of both benchmark datasets and analyzes the advances in large-scale gesture recognition based on these two datasets. We discuss the challenges of collecting large-scale ground-truth annotations of gesture recognition, and provide a detailed analysis of the current state-of-the-art methods for large-scale isolated and continuous gesture recognition based on RGB-D video sequences. In addition to recognition rate and mean jaccard index (MJI) as evaluation metrics used in our previous challenges, we also introduce the corrected segmentation rate (CSR) metric to evaluate the performance of temporal segmentation for continuous gesture recognition. Furthermore, we propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) baseline method, determining the video division points based on the skeleton points extracted by convolutional pose machine (CPM). Experiments demonstrate that the proposed Bi-LSTM outperforms the state-of-the-art methods with an absolute improvement of 8.1% (from 0.8917 to 0.9639) of CSR.
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Author Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera
Title Hand pose aware multimodal isolated sign language recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP
Volume 80 Issue Pages 127–163
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Abstract Isolated hand sign language recognition from video is a challenging research area in computer vision. Some of the most important challenges in this area include dealing with hand occlusion, fast hand movement, illumination changes, or background complexity. While most of the state-of-the-art results in the field have been achieved using deep learning-based models, the previous challenges are not completely solved. In this paper, we propose a hand pose aware model for isolated hand sign language recognition using deep learning approaches from two input modalities, RGB and depth videos. Four spatial feature types: pixel-level, flow, deep hand, and hand pose features, fused from both visual modalities, are input to LSTM for temporal sign recognition. While we use Optical Flow (OF) for flow information in RGB video inputs, Scene Flow (SF) is used for depth video inputs. By including hand pose features, we show a consistent performance improvement of the sign language recognition model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that this discriminant spatiotemporal features, benefiting from the hand pose estimation features and multi-modal inputs, are fused for isolated hand sign language recognition. We perform a step-by-step analysis of the impact in terms of recognition performance of the hand pose features, different combinations of the spatial features, and different recurrent models, especially LSTM and GRU. Results on four public datasets confirm that the proposed model outperforms the current state-of-the-art models on Montalbano II, MSR Daily Activity 3D, and CAD-60 datasets with a relative accuracy improvement of 1.64%, 6.5%, and 7.6%. Furthermore, our model obtains a competitive results on isoGD dataset with only 0.22% margin lower than the current state-of-the-art model.
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Author Hugo Bertiche; Meysam Madadi; Emilio Tylson; Sergio Escalera
Title DeePSD: Automatic Deep Skinning And Pose Space Deformation For 3D Garment Animation Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 5471-5480
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Abstract We present a novel solution to the garment animation problem through deep learning. Our contribution allows animating any template outfit with arbitrary topology and geometric complexity. Recent works develop models for garment edition, resizing and animation at the same time by leveraging the support body model (encoding garments as body homotopies). This leads to complex engineering solutions that suffer from scalability, applicability and compatibility. By limiting our scope to garment animation only, we are able to propose a simple model that can animate any outfit, independently of its topology, vertex order or connectivity. Our proposed architecture maps outfits to animated 3D models into the standard format for 3D animation (blend weights and blend shapes matrices), automatically providing of compatibility with any graphics engine. We also propose a methodology to complement supervised learning with an unsupervised physically based learning that implicitly solves collisions and enhances cloth quality.
Address Virtual; October 2021
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Author Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera; Vassilis Athitsos; Mohammad Sabokrou
Title All You Need In Sign Language Production Type Miscellaneous
Year 2022 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Sign Language Production; Sign Language Recog- nition; Sign Language Translation; Deep Learning; Survey; Deaf
Abstract Sign Language is the dominant form of communication language used in the deaf and hearing-impaired community. To make an easy and mutual communication between the hearing-impaired and the hearing communities, building a robust system capable of translating the spoken language into sign language and vice versa is fundamental.
To this end, sign language recognition and production are two necessary parts for making such a two-way system. Signlanguage recognition and production need to cope with some critical challenges. In this survey, we review recent advances in
Sign Language Production (SLP) and related areas using deep learning. To have more realistic perspectives to sign language, we present an introduction to the Deaf culture, Deaf centers, psychological perspective of sign language, the main differences between spoken language and sign language. Furthermore, we present the fundamental components of a bi-directional sign language translation system, discussing the main challenges in this area. Also, the backbone architectures and methods in SLP are briefly introduced and the proposed taxonomy on SLP is presented. Finally, a general framework for SLP and performance evaluation, and also a discussion on the recent developments, advantages, and limitations in SLP, commenting on possible lines for future research are presented.
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