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Author Henry Velesaca; Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Dario Carpio; Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sanchez edit   pdf
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  Title Review on Common Techniques for Urban Environment Video Analytics Type Conference Article
  Year 2022 Publication Anais do III Workshop Brasileiro de Cidades Inteligentes Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 107-118  
  Keywords Video Analytics; Review; Urban Environments; Smart Cities  
  Abstract This work compiles the different computer vision-based approaches
from the state-of-the-art intended for video analytics in urban environments.
The manuscript groups the different approaches according to the typical modules present in video analysis, including image preprocessing, object detection,
classification, and tracking. This proposed pipeline serves as a basic guide to
representing these most representative approaches in this topic of video analysis
that will be addressed in this work. Furthermore, the manuscript is not intended
to be an exhaustive review of the most advanced approaches, but only a list of
common techniques proposed to address recurring problems in this field.
 
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Author Jorge Charco; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla edit   pdf
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  Title Human Pose Estimation through a Novel Multi-view Scheme Type Conference Article
  Year 2022 Publication 17th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2022) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5 Issue Pages 855-862  
  Keywords Multi-view Scheme; Human Pose Estimation; Relative Camera Pose; Monocular Approach  
  Abstract This paper presents a multi-view scheme to tackle the challenging problem of the self-occlusion in human pose estimation problem. The proposed approach first obtains the human body joints of a set of images, which are captured from different views at the same time. Then, it enhances the obtained joints by using a
multi-view scheme. Basically, the joints from a given view are used to enhance poorly estimated joints from another view, especially intended to tackle the self occlusions cases. A network architecture initially proposed for the monocular case is adapted to be used in the proposed multi-view scheme. Experimental results and
comparisons with the state-of-the-art approaches on Human3.6m dataset are presented showing improvements in the accuracy of body joints estimations.
 
  Address On line; Feb 6, 2022 – Feb 8, 2022  
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  ISSN 2184-4321 ISBN 978-989-758-555-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference VISAPP  
  Notes (down) MSIAU; 600.160 Approved no  
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Author Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla edit   pdf
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  Title Thermal Image SuperResolution Through Deep Convolutional Neural Network Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication 16th International Conference on Images Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 417-426  
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  Abstract Due to the lack of thermal image datasets, a new dataset has been acquired for proposed a super-resolution approach using a Deep Convolution Neural Network schema. In order to achieve this image enhancement process, a new thermal images dataset is used. Different experiments have been carried out, firstly, the proposed architecture has been trained using only images of the visible spectrum, and later it has been trained with images of the thermal spectrum, the results showed that with the network trained with thermal images, better results are obtained in the process of enhancing the images, maintaining the image details and perspective. The thermal dataset is available at http://www.
cidis.espol.edu.ec/es/dataset.
 
  Address Waterloo; Canada; August 2019  
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  Notes (down) MSIAU; 600.130; 601.349; 600.122 Approved no  
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Author Armin Mehri; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Colorizing Near Infrared Images through a Cyclic Adversarial Approach of Unpaired Samples Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition-Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for colorizing near infrared (NIR) images. The approach is based on image-to-image translation using a Cycle-Consistent adversarial network for learning the color channels on unpaired dataset. This architecture is able to handle unpaired datasets. The approach uses as generators tailored networks that require less computation times, converge faster and generate high quality samples. The obtained results have been quantitatively—using standard evaluation metrics—and qualitatively evaluated showing considerable improvements with respect to the state of the art  
  Address Long beach; California; USA; June 2019  
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  Notes (down) MSIAU; 600.130; 601.349; 600.122 Approved no  
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Author Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Riad I. Hammoud edit   pdf
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  Title Image Vegetation Index through a Cycle Generative Adversarial Network Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition-Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) just from an RGB image. The NDVI values are obtained by using images from the visible spectral band together with a synthetic near infrared image obtained by a cycled GAN. The cycled GAN network is able to obtain a NIR image from a given gray scale image. It is trained by using unpaired set of gray scale and NIR images by using a U-net architecture and a multiple loss function (gray scale images are obtained from the provided RGB images). Then, the NIR image estimated with the proposed cycle generative adversarial network is used to compute the NDVI index. Experimental results are provided showing the validity of the proposed approach. Additionally, comparisons with previous approaches are also provided.  
  Address Long beach; California; USA; June 2019  
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Author Henry Velesaca; Steven Araujo; Patricia Suarez; Angel Sanchez; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Off-the-Shelf Based System for Urban Environment Video Analytics Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 27th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords greenhouse gases; carbon footprint; object detection; object tracking; website framework; off-the-shelf video analytics  
  Abstract This paper presents the design and implementation details of a system build-up by using off-the-shelf algorithms for urban video analytics. The system allows the connection to
public video surveillance camera networks to obtain the necessary information to generate statistics from urban scenarios (e.g., amount of vehicles, type of cars, direction, numbers of persons, etc.). The obtained information could be used not only for traffic management but also to estimate the carbon footprint of urban scenarios. As a case study, a university campus is selected to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The system is implemented in a modular way so that it is being used as a testbed to evaluate different algorithms. Implementation results are provided showing the validity and utility of the proposed approach.
 
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Author Jorge Charco; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Henry Velesaca edit   pdf
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  Title Transfer Learning from Synthetic Data in the Camera Pose Estimation Problem Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 15th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel Siamese network architecture, as a variant of Resnet-50, to estimate the relative camera pose on multi-view environments. In order to improve the performance of the proposed model a transfer learning strategy, based on synthetic images obtained from a virtual-world, is considered. The transfer learning consists of first training the network using pairs of images from the virtual-world scenario
considering different conditions (i.e., weather, illumination, objects, buildings, etc.); then, the learned weight
of the network are transferred to the real case, where images from real-world scenarios are considered. Experimental results and comparisons with the state of the art show both, improvements on the relative pose estimation accuracy using the proposed model, as well as further improvements when the transfer learning strategy (synthetic-world data transfer learning real-world data) is considered to tackle the limitation on the
training due to the reduced number of pairs of real-images on most of the public data sets.
 
  Address Valletta; Malta; February 2020  
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Author Xavier Soria; Edgar Riba; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Dense Extreme Inception Network: Towards a Robust CNN Model for Edge Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper proposes a Deep Learning based edge detector, which is inspired on both HED (Holistically-Nested Edge Detection) and Xception networks. The proposed approach generates thin edge-maps that are plausible for human eyes; it can be used in any edge detection task without previous training or fine tuning process. As a second contribution, a large dataset with carefully annotated edges has been generated. This dataset has been used for training the proposed approach as well the state-of-the-art algorithms for comparisons. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations have been performed on different benchmarks showing improvements with the proposed method when F-measure of ODS and OIS are considered.  
  Address Aspen; USA; March 2020  
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Author Angel Morera; Angel Sanchez; A. Belen Moreno; Angel Sappa; Jose F. Velez edit   pdf
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  Title SSD vs. YOLO for Detection of Outdoor Urban Advertising Panels under Multiple Variabilities Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS  
  Volume 20 Issue 16 Pages 4587  
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  Abstract This work compares Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) and You Only Look Once (YOLO) deep neural networks for the outdoor advertisement panel detection problem by handling multiple and combined variabilities in the scenes. Publicity panel detection in images offers important advantages both in the real world as well as in the virtual one. For example, applications like Google Street View can be used for Internet publicity and when detecting these ads panels in images, it could be possible to replace the publicity appearing inside the panels by another from a funding company. In our experiments, both SSD and YOLO detectors have produced acceptable results under variable sizes of panels, illumination conditions, viewing perspectives, partial occlusion of panels, complex background and multiple panels in scenes. Due to the difficulty of finding annotated images for the considered problem, we created our own dataset for conducting the experiments. The major strength of the SSD model was the almost elimination of False Positive (FP) cases, situation that is preferable when the publicity contained inside the panel is analyzed after detecting them. On the other side, YOLO produced better panel localization results detecting a higher number of True Positive (TP) panels with a higher accuracy. Finally, a comparison of the two analyzed object detection models with different types of semantic segmentation networks and using the same evaluation metrics is also included.  
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Author Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Riad I. Hammoud edit   pdf
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  Title Cycle Generative Adversarial Network: Towards A Low-Cost Vegetation Index Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2021 Publication 28th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 19-22  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel unsupervised approach to estimate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The NDVI is obtained as the ratio between information from the visible and near infrared spectral bands; in the current work, the NDVI is estimated just from an image of the visible spectrum through a Cyclic Generative Adversarial Network (CyclicGAN). This unsupervised architecture learns to estimate the NDVI index by means of an image translation between the red channel of a given RGB image and the NDVI unpaired index’s image. The translation is obtained by means of a ResNET architecture and a multiple loss function. Experimental results obtained with this unsupervised scheme show the validity of the implemented model. Additionally, comparisons with the state of the art approaches are provided showing improvements with the proposed approach.  
  Address Anchorage-Alaska; USA; September 2021  
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Author Jorge Charco; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Henry Velesaca edit   pdf
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  Title Camera pose estimation in multi-view environments: From virtual scenarios to the real world Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Image and Vision Computing Abbreviated Journal IVC  
  Volume 110 Issue Pages 104182  
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  Abstract This paper presents a domain adaptation strategy to efficiently train network architectures for estimating the relative camera pose in multi-view scenarios. The network architectures are fed by a pair of simultaneously acquired images, hence in order to improve the accuracy of the solutions, and due to the lack of large datasets with pairs of overlapped images, a domain adaptation strategy is proposed. The domain adaptation strategy consists on transferring the knowledge learned from synthetic images to real-world scenarios. For this, the networks are firstly trained using pairs of synthetic images, which are captured at the same time by a pair of cameras in a virtual environment; and then, the learned weights of the networks are transferred to the real-world case, where the networks are retrained with a few real images. Different virtual 3D scenarios are generated to evaluate the relationship between the accuracy on the result and the similarity between virtual and real scenarios—similarity on both geometry of the objects contained in the scene as well as relative pose between camera and objects in the scene. Experimental results and comparisons are provided showing that the accuracy of all the evaluated networks for estimating the camera pose improves when the proposed domain adaptation strategy is used, highlighting the importance on the similarity between virtual-real scenarios.  
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Author Angel Morera; Angel Sanchez; Angel Sappa; Jose F. Velez edit   pdf
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  Title Robust Detection of Outdoor Urban Advertising Panels in Static Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 246-256  
  Keywords Object detection; Urban ads panels; Deep learning; Single Shot Detector (SSD) architecture; Intersection over Union (IoU) metric; Augmented Reality  
  Abstract One interesting publicity application for Smart City environments is recognizing brand information contained in urban advertising panels. For such a purpose, a previous stage is to accurately detect and locate the position of these panels in images. This work presents an effective solution to this problem using a Single Shot Detector (SSD) based on a deep neural network architecture that minimizes the number of false detections under multiple variable conditions regarding the panels and the scene. Achieved experimental results using the Intersection over Union (IoU) accuracy metric make this proposal applicable in real complex urban images.  
  Address Aquila; Italia; June 2019  
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Author Henry Velesaca; Raul Mira; Patricia Suarez; Christian X. Larrea; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Deep Learning Based Corn Kernel Classification Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 1st International Workshop and Prize Challenge on Agriculture-Vision: Challenges & Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract This paper presents a full pipeline to classify sample sets of corn kernels. The proposed approach follows a segmentation-classification scheme. The image segmentation is performed through a well known deep learningbased approach, the Mask R-CNN architecture, while the classification is performed hrough a novel-lightweight network specially designed for this task—good corn kernel, defective corn kernel and impurity categories are considered. As a second contribution, a carefully annotated multitouching corn kernel dataset has been generated. This dataset has been used for training the segmentation and the classification modules. Quantitative evaluations have been
performed and comparisons with other approaches are provided showing improvements with the proposed pipeline.
 
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Author Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla edit   pdf
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  Title Thermal Image Super-resolution: A Novel Architecture and Dataset Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 15th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 111-119  
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  Abstract This paper proposes a novel CycleGAN architecture for thermal image super-resolution, together with a large dataset consisting of thermal images at different resolutions. The dataset has been acquired using three thermal cameras at different resolutions, which acquire images from the same scenario at the same time. The thermal cameras are mounted in rig trying to minimize the baseline distance to make easier the registration problem.
The proposed architecture is based on ResNet6 as a Generator and PatchGAN as Discriminator. The novelty on the proposed unsupervised super-resolution training (CycleGAN) is possible due to the existence of aforementioned thermal images—images of the same scenario with different resolutions. The proposed approach is evaluated in the dataset and compared with classical bicubic interpolation. The dataset and the network are available.
 
  Address Valletta; Malta; February 2020  
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Author Henry Velesaca; Patricia Suarez; Raul Mira; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title Computer Vision based Food Grain Classification: a Comprehensive Survey Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Computers and Electronics in Agriculture Abbreviated Journal CEA  
  Volume 187 Issue Pages 106287  
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  Abstract This manuscript presents a comprehensive survey on recent computer vision based food grain classification techniques. It includes state-of-the-art approaches intended for different grain varieties. The approaches proposed in the literature are analyzed according to the processing stages considered in the classification pipeline, making it easier to identify common techniques and comparisons. Additionally, the type of images considered by each approach (i.e., images from the: visible, infrared, multispectral, hyperspectral bands) together with the strategy used to generate ground truth data (i.e., real and synthetic images) are reviewed. Finally, conclusions highlighting future needs and challenges are presented.  
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