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Author Smriti Joshi; Richard Osuala; Carlos Martin Isla; Victor M.Campello; Carla Sendra-Balcells; Karim Lekadir; Sergio Escalera
Title nn-UNet Training on CycleGAN-Translated Images for Cross-modal Domain Adaptation in Biomedical Imaging Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume 12963 Issue Pages 540–551
Keywords Domain adaptation; Vestibular schwannoma (VS); Deep learning; nn-UNet; CycleGAN
Abstract In recent years, deep learning models have considerably advanced the performance of segmentation tasks on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). However, these models show a considerable performance drop when they are evaluated on unseen data from a different distribution. Since annotation is often a hard and costly task requiring expert supervision, it is necessary to develop ways in which existing models can be adapted to the unseen domains without any additional labelled information. In this work, we explore one such technique which extends the CycleGAN [2] architecture to generate label-preserving data in the target domain. The synthetic target domain data is used to train the nn-UNet [3] framework for the task of multi-label segmentation. The experiments are conducted and evaluated on the dataset [1] provided in the ‘Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation’ challenge [23] for segmentation of vestibular schwannoma (VS) tumour and cochlea on contrast enhanced (ceT1) and high resolution (hrT2) MRI scans. In the proposed approach, our model obtains dice scores (DSC) 0.73 and 0.49 for tumour and cochlea respectively on the validation set of the dataset. This indicates the applicability of the proposed technique to real-world problems where data may be obtained by different acquisition protocols as in [1] where hrT2 images are more reliable, safer, and lower-cost alternative to ceT1.
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Author Silvio Giancola; Anthony Cioppa; Adrien Deliege; Floriane Magera; Vladimir Somers; Le Kang; Xin Zhou; Olivier Barnich; Christophe De Vleeschouwer; Alexandre Alahi; Bernard Ghanem; Marc Van Droogenbroeck; Abdulrahman Darwish; Adrien Maglo; Albert Clapes; Andreas Luyts; Andrei Boiarov; Artur Xarles; Astrid Orcesi; Avijit Shah; Baoyu Fan; Bharath Comandur; Chen Chen; Chen Zhang; Chen Zhao; Chengzhi Lin; Cheuk-Yiu Chan; Chun Chuen Hui; Dengjie Li; Fan Yang; Fan Liang; Fang Da; Feng Yan; Fufu Yu; Guanshuo Wang; H. Anthony Chan; He Zhu; Hongwei Kan; Jiaming Chu; Jianming Hu; Jianyang Gu; Jin Chen; Joao V. B. Soares; Jonas Theiner; Jorge De Corte; Jose Henrique Brito; Jun Zhang; Junjie Li; Junwei Liang; Leqi Shen; Lin Ma; Lingchi Chen; Miguel Santos Marques; Mike Azatov; Nikita Kasatkin; Ning Wang; Qiong Jia; Quoc Cuong Pham; Ralph Ewerth; Ran Song; Rengang Li; Rikke Gade; Ruben Debien; Runze Zhang; Sangrok Lee; Sergio Escalera; Shan Jiang; Shigeyuki Odashima; Shimin Chen; Shoichi Masui; Shouhong Ding; Sin-wai Chan; Siyu Chen; Tallal El-Shabrawy; Tao He; Thomas B. Moeslund; Wan-Chi Siu; Wei Zhang; Wei Li; Xiangwei Wang; Xiao Tan; Xiaochuan Li; Xiaolin Wei; Xiaoqing Ye; Xing Liu; Xinying Wang; Yandong Guo; Yaqian Zhao; Yi Yu; Yingying Li; Yue He; Yujie Zhong; Zhenhua Guo; Zhiheng Li
Title SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication 5th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 75-86
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Abstract The SoccerNet 2022 challenges were the second annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. In 2022, the challenges were composed of 6 vision-based tasks: (1) action spotting, focusing on retrieving action timestamps in long untrimmed videos, (2) replay grounding, focusing on retrieving the live moment of an action shown in a replay, (3) pitch localization, focusing on detecting line and goal part elements, (4) camera calibration, dedicated to retrieving the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters, (5) player re-identification, focusing on retrieving the same players across multiple views, and (6) multiple object tracking, focusing on tracking players and the ball through unedited video streams. Compared to last year's challenges, tasks (1-2) had their evaluation metrics redefined to consider tighter temporal accuracies, and tasks (3-6) were novel, including their underlying data and annotations. More information on the tasks, challenges and leaderboards are available on this https URL. Baselines and development kits are available on this https URL.
Address Lisboa; Portugal; October 2022
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Author Dustin Carrion Ojeda; Hong Chen; Adrian El Baz; Sergio Escalera; Chaoyu Guan; Isabelle Guyon; Ihsan Ullah; Xin Wang; Wenwu Zhu
Title NeurIPS’22 Cross-Domain MetaDL competition: Design and baseline results Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions Abbreviated Journal
Volume 191 Issue Pages 24-37
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Abstract We present the design and baseline results for a new challenge in the ChaLearn meta-learning series, accepted at NeurIPS'22, focusing on “cross-domain” meta-learning. Meta-learning aims to leverage experience gained from previous tasks to solve new tasks efficiently (i.e., with better performance, little training data, and/or modest computational resources). While previous challenges in the series focused on within-domain few-shot learning problems, with the aim of learning efficiently N-way k-shot tasks (i.e., N class classification problems with k training examples), this competition challenges the participants to solve “any-way” and “any-shot” problems drawn from various domains (healthcare, ecology, biology, manufacturing, and others), chosen for their humanitarian and societal impact. To that end, we created Meta-Album, a meta-dataset of 40 image classification datasets from 10 domains, from which we carve out tasks with any number of “ways” (within the range 2-20) and any number of “shots” (within the range 1-20). The competition is with code submission, fully blind-tested on the CodaLab challenge platform. The code of the winners will be open-sourced, enabling the deployment of automated machine learning solutions for few-shot image classification across several domains.
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Author Alex Falcon; Swathikiran Sudhakaran; Giuseppe Serra; Sergio Escalera; Oswald Lanz
Title Relevance-based Margin for Contrastively-trained Video Retrieval Models Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication ICMR '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 146-157
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Abstract Video retrieval using natural language queries has attracted increasing interest due to its relevance in real-world applications, from intelligent access in private media galleries to web-scale video search. Learning the cross-similarity of video and text in a joint embedding space is the dominant approach. To do so, a contrastive loss is usually employed because it organizes the embedding space by putting similar items close and dissimilar items far. This framework leads to competitive recall rates, as they solely focus on the rank of the groundtruth items. Yet, assessing the quality of the ranking list is of utmost importance when considering intelligent retrieval systems, since multiple items may share similar semantics, hence a high relevance. Moreover, the aforementioned framework uses a fixed margin to separate similar and dissimilar items, treating all non-groundtruth items as equally irrelevant. In this paper we propose to use a variable margin: we argue that varying the margin used during training based on how much relevant an item is to a given query, i.e. a relevance-based margin, easily improves the quality of the ranking lists measured through nDCG and mAP. We demonstrate the advantages of our technique using different models on EPIC-Kitchens-100 and YouCook2. We show that even if we carefully tuned the fixed margin, our technique (which does not have the margin as a hyper-parameter) would still achieve better performance. Finally, extensive ablation studies and qualitative analysis support the robustness of our approach. Code will be released at \urlhttps://github.com/aranciokov/RelevanceMargin-ICMR22.
Address Newwark, NJ, USA, 27 June 2022
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Author Ruben Ballester; Xavier Arnal Clemente; Carles Casacuberta; Meysam Madadi; Ciprian Corneanu
Title Towards explaining the generalization gap in neural networks using topological data analysis Type Miscellaneous
Year 2022 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Understanding how neural networks generalize on unseen data is crucial for designing more robust and reliable models. In this paper, we study the generalization gap of neural networks using methods from topological data analysis. For this purpose, we compute homological persistence diagrams of weighted graphs constructed from neuron activation correlations after a training phase, aiming to capture patterns that are linked to the generalization capacity of the network. We compare the usefulness of different numerical summaries from persistence diagrams and show that a combination of some of them can accurately predict and partially explain the generalization gap without the need of a test set. Evaluation on two computer vision recognition tasks (CIFAR10 and SVHN) shows competitive generalization gap prediction when compared against state-of-the-art methods.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BAC2022 Serial 3821
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Author Arya Farkhondeh; Cristina Palmero; Simone Scardapane; Sergio Escalera
Title Towards Self-Supervised Gaze Estimation Type Miscellaneous
Year 2022 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Recent joint embedding-based self-supervised methods have surpassed standard supervised approaches on various image recognition tasks such as image classification. These self-supervised methods aim at maximizing agreement between features extracted from two differently transformed views of the same image, which results in learning an invariant representation with respect to appearance and geometric image transformations. However, the effectiveness of these approaches remains unclear in the context of gaze estimation, a structured regression task that requires equivariance under geometric transformations (e.g., rotations, horizontal flip). In this work, we propose SwAT, an equivariant version of the online clustering-based self-supervised approach SwAV, to learn more informative representations for gaze estimation. We demonstrate that SwAT, with ResNet-50 and supported with uncurated unlabeled face images, outperforms state-of-the-art gaze estimation methods and supervised baselines in various experiments. In particular, we achieve up to 57% and 25% improvements in cross-dataset and within-dataset evaluation tasks on existing benchmarks (ETH-XGaze, Gaze360, and MPIIFaceGaze).
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Author Javier Selva; Anders S. Johansen; Sergio Escalera; Kamal Nasrollahi; Thomas B. Moeslund; Albert Clapes
Title Video transformers: A survey Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 45 Issue 11 Pages 12922-12943
Keywords Artificial Intelligence; Computer Vision; Self-Attention; Transformers; Video Representations
Abstract Transformer models have shown great success handling long-range interactions, making them a promising tool for modeling video. However, they lack inductive biases and scale quadratically with input length. These limitations are further exacerbated when dealing with the high dimensionality introduced by the temporal dimension. While there are surveys analyzing the advances of Transformers for vision, none focus on an in-depth analysis of video-specific designs. In this survey, we analyze the main contributions and trends of works leveraging Transformers to model video. Specifically, we delve into how videos are handled at the input level first. Then, we study the architectural changes made to deal with video more efficiently, reduce redundancy, re-introduce useful inductive biases, and capture long-term temporal dynamics. In addition, we provide an overview of different training regimes and explore effective self-supervised learning strategies for video. Finally, we conduct a performance comparison on the most common benchmark for Video Transformers (i.e., action classification), finding them to outperform 3D ConvNets even with less computational complexity.
Address 1 Nov. 2023
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Author Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera
Title Word separation in continuous sign language using isolated signs and post-processing Type Miscellaneous
Year 2022 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a long challenging task in Computer Vision due to the difficulties in detecting the explicit boundaries between the words in a sign sentence. To deal with this challenge, we propose a two-stage model. In the first stage, the predictor model, which includes a combination of CNN, SVD, and LSTM, is trained with the isolated signs. In the second stage, we apply a post-processing algorithm to the Softmax outputs obtained from the first part of the model in order to separate the isolated signs in the continuous signs. Due to the lack of a large dataset, including both the sign sequences and the corresponding isolated signs, two public datasets in Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR), RKS-PERSIANSIGN and ASLVID, are used for evaluation. Results of the continuous sign videos confirm the efficiency of the proposed model to deal with isolated sign boundaries detection.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RKE2022b Serial 3824
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Author Razieh Rastgoo; Kourosh Kiani; Sergio Escalera
Title A Non-Anatomical Graph Structure for isolated hand gesture separation in continuous gesture sequences Type Miscellaneous
Year 2022 Publication Arxiv Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition (CHGR) has been extensively studied by researchers in the last few decades. Recently, one model has been presented to deal with the challenge of the boundary detection of isolated gestures in a continuous gesture video [17]. To enhance the model performance and also replace the handcrafted feature extractor in the presented model in [17], we propose a GCN model and combine it with the stacked Bi-LSTM and Attention modules to push the temporal information in the video stream. Considering the breakthroughs of GCN models for skeleton modality, we propose a two-layer GCN model to empower the 3D hand skeleton features. Finally, the class probabilities of each isolated gesture are fed to the post-processing module, borrowed from [17]. Furthermore, we replace the anatomical graph structure with some non-anatomical graph structures. Due to the lack of a large dataset, including both the continuous gesture sequences and the corresponding isolated gestures, three public datasets in Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition (DHGR), RKS-PERSIANSIGN, and ASLVID, are used for evaluation. Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed model in dealing with isolated gesture boundaries detection in continuous gesture sequences
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Author German Barquero; Sergio Escalera; Cristina Palmero
Title BeLFusion: Latent Diffusion for Behavior-Driven Human Motion Prediction Type Conference Article
Year 2023 Publication IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2317-2327
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Abstract Stochastic human motion prediction (HMP) has generally been tackled with generative adversarial networks and variational autoencoders. Most prior works aim at predicting highly diverse movements in terms of the skeleton joints’ dispersion. This has led to methods predicting fast and motion-divergent movements, which are often unrealistic and incoherent with past motion. Such methods also neglect contexts that need to anticipate diverse low-range behaviors, or actions, with subtle joint displacements. To address these issues, we present BeLFusion, a model that, for the first time, leverages latent diffusion models in HMP to sample from a latent space where behavior is disentangled from pose and motion. As a result, diversity is encouraged from a behavioral perspective. Thanks to our behavior
coupler’s ability to transfer sampled behavior to ongoing motion, BeLFusion’s predictions display a variety of behaviors that are significantly more realistic than the state of the art. To support it, we introduce two metrics, the Area of
the Cumulative Motion Distribution, and the Average Pairwise Distance Error, which are correlated to our definition of realism according to a qualitative study with 126 participants. Finally, we prove BeLFusion’s generalization power in a new cross-dataset scenario for stochastic HMP.
Address 2-6 October 2023. Paris (France)
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Call Number Admin @ si @ BEP2023 Serial 3829
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera
Title Análisis de la expresión oral y gestual en proyectos fin de carrera vía un sistema de visión artificial Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication ReVisión Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages
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Abstract La comunicación y expresión oral es una competencia de especial relevancia en el EEES. No obstante, en muchas enseñanzas superiores la puesta en práctica de esta competencia ha sido relegada principalmente a la presentación de proyectos fin de carrera. Dentro de un proyecto de innovación docente, se ha desarrollado una herramienta informática para la extracción de información objetiva para el análisis de la expresión oral y gestual de los alumnos. El objetivo es dar un “feedback” a los estudiantes que les permita mejorar la calidad de sus presentaciones. El prototipo inicial que se presenta en este trabajo permite extraer de forma automática información audiovisual y analizarla mediante técnicas de aprendizaje. El sistema ha sido aplicado a 15 proyectos fin de carrera y 15 exposiciones dentro de una asignatura de cuarto curso. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad del sistema para sugerir factores que ayuden tanto en el éxito de la comunicación así como en los criterios de evaluación.
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Laura Igual; Oriol Pujol; Josep Moya; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title A Gesture Recognition System for Detecting Behavioral Patterns of ADHD Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics, Part B Abbreviated Journal TSMCB
Volume 46 Issue 1 Pages 136-147
Keywords Gesture Recognition; ADHD; Gaussian Mixture Models; Convex Hulls; Dynamic Time Warping; Multi-modal RGB-Depth data
Abstract We present an application of gesture recognition using an extension of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to recognize behavioural patterns of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We propose an extension of DTW using one-class classifiers in order to be able to encode the variability of a gesture category, and thus, perform an alignment between a gesture sample and a gesture class. We model the set of gesture samples of a certain gesture category using either GMMs or an approximation of Convex Hulls. Thus, we add a theoretical contribution to classical warping path in DTW by including local modeling of intra-class gesture variability. This methodology is applied in a clinical context, detecting a group of ADHD behavioural patterns defined by experts in psychology/psychiatry, to provide support to clinicians in the diagnose procedure. The proposed methodology is tested on a novel multi-modal dataset (RGB plus Depth) of ADHD children recordings with behavioural patterns. We obtain satisfying results when compared to standard state-of-the-art approaches in the DTW context.
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Author Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva
Title Fast greyscale road sign model matching and recognition Type Miscellaneous
Year 2004 Publication CCIA, IOS Press Abbreviated Journal
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Author Mehdi Mirza-Mohammadi; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva
Title Contextual-Guided Bag-of-Visual-Words Model for Multi-class Object Categorization Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5702 Issue Pages 748–756
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Abstract Bag-of-words model (BOW) is inspired by the text classification problem, where a document is represented by an unsorted set of contained words. Analogously, in the object categorization problem, an image is represented by an unsorted set of discrete visual words (BOVW). In these models, relations among visual words are performed after dictionary construction. However, close object regions can have far descriptions in the feature space, being grouped as different visual words. In this paper, we present a method for considering geometrical information of visual words in the dictionary construction step. Object interest regions are obtained by means of the Harris-Affine detector and then described using the SIFT descriptor. Afterward, a contextual-space and a feature-space are defined, and a merging process is used to fuse feature words based on their proximity in the contextual-space. Moreover, we use the Error Correcting Output Codes framework to learn the new dictionary in order to perform multi-class classification. Results show significant classification improvements when spatial information is taken into account in the dictionary construction step.
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-03766-5 Medium
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Author Maria Salamo; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva
Title Quality Enhancement based on Reinforcement Learning and Feature Weighting for a Critiquing-Based Recommender Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5650 Issue Pages 298–312
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Abstract Personalizing the product recommendation task is a major focus of research in the area of conversational recommender systems. Conversational case-based recommender systems help users to navigate through product spaces, alternatively making product suggestions and eliciting users feedback. Critiquing is a common form of feedback and incremental critiquing-based recommender system has shown its efficiency to personalize products based primarily on a quality measure. This quality measure influences the recommendation process and it is obtained by the combination of compatibility and similarity scores. In this paper, we describe new compatibility strategies whose basis is on reinforcement learning and a new feature weighting technique which is based on the user’s history of critiques. Moreover, we show that our methodology can significantly improve recommendation efficiency in comparison with the state-of-the-art approaches.
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-02998-1 Medium
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ SER2009 Serial 1187
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