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	Author	Simone Balocco; O. Basset; G. Courbebaisse; E. Boni; Alejandro F. Frangi; P. Tortoli; C. Cachard
	Title	Estimation Of Viscoelastic Properties Of Vessel Walls Using a Computational Model and Doppler Ultrasound			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Physics in Medicine and Biology	Abbreviated Journal	PMB
	Volume	55	Issue	12	Pages	3557–3575
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	Abstract	Human arteries affected by atherosclerosis are characterized by altered wall viscoelastic properties. The possibility of noninvasively assessing arterial viscoelasticity in vivo would significantly contribute to the early diagnosis and prevention of this disease. This paper presents a noniterative technique to estimate the viscoelastic parameters of a vascular wall Zener model. The approach requires the simultaneous measurement of flow variations and wall displacements, which can be provided by suitable ultrasound Doppler instruments. Viscoelastic parameters are estimated by fitting the theoretical constitutive equations to the experimental measurements using an ARMA parameter approach. The accuracy and sensitivity of the proposed method are tested using reference data generated by numerical simulations of arterial pulsation in which the physiological conditions and the viscoelastic parameters of the model can be suitably varied. The estimated values quantitatively agree with the reference values, showing that the only parameter affected by changing the physiological conditions is viscosity, whose relative error was about 27% even when a poor signal-to-noise ratio is simulated. Finally, the feasibility of the method is illustrated through three measurements made at different flow regimes on a cylindrical vessel phantom, yielding a parameter mean estimation error of 25%.
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BBC2010			Serial	1312
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	Author	Simone Balocco; O. Camara; E. Vivas; T. Sola; L. Guimaraens; H. A. van Andel; C. B. Majoie; J. M. Pozo; B. H. Bijnens; Alejandro F. Frangi
	Title	Feasibility of Estimating Regional Mechanical Properties of Cerebral Aneurysms In Vivo			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Medical Physics	Abbreviated Journal	MEDPHYS
	Volume	37	Issue	4	Pages	1689–1706
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	Abstract	PURPOSE: In this article, the authors studied the feasibility of estimating regional mechanical properties in cerebral aneurysms, integrating information extracted from imaging and physiological data with generic computational models of the arterial wall behavior. METHODS: A data assimilation framework was developed to incorporate patient-specific geometries into a given biomechanical model, whereas wall motion estimates were obtained from applying registration techniques to a pair of simulated MR images and guided the mechanical parameter estimation. A simple incompressible linear and isotropic Hookean model coupled with computational fluid-dynamics was employed as a first approximation for computational purposes. Additionally, an automatic clustering technique was developed to reduce the number of parameters to assimilate at the optimization stage and it considerably accelerated the convergence of the simulations. Several in silico experiments were designed to assess the influence of aneurysm geometrical characteristics and the accuracy of wall motion estimates on the mechanical property estimates. Hence, the proposed methodology was applied to six real cerebral aneurysms and tested against a varying number of regions with different elasticity, different mesh discretization, imaging resolution, and registration configurations. RESULTS: Several in silico experiments were conducted to investigate the feasibility of the proposed workflow, results found suggesting that the estimation of the mechanical properties was mainly influenced by the image spatial resolution and the chosen registration configuration. According to the in silico experiments, the minimal spatial resolution needed to extract wall pulsation measurements with enough accuracy to guide the proposed data assimilation framework was of 0.1 mm. CONCLUSIONS: Current routine imaging modalities do not have such a high spatial resolution and therefore the proposed data assimilation framework cannot currently be used on in vivo data to reliably estimate regional properties in cerebral aneurysms. Besides, it was observed that the incorporation of fluid-structure interaction in a biomechanical model with linear and isotropic material properties did not have a substantial influence in the final results.
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BCV2010			Serial	1313
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	Author	Simone Balocco; Carlo Gatta; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	SRBF: Speckle Reducing Bilateral Filtering			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology	Abbreviated Journal	UMB
	Volume	36	Issue	8	Pages	1353-1363
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	Abstract	Speckle noise negatively affects medical ultrasound image shape interpretation and boundary detection. Speckle removal filters are widely used to selectively remove speckle noise without destroying important image features to enhance object boundaries. In this article, a fully automatic bilateral filter tailored to ultrasound images is proposed. The edge preservation property is obtained by embedding noise statistics in the filter framework. Consequently, the filter is able to tackle the multiplicative behavior modulating the smoothing strength with respect to local statistics. The in silico experiments clearly showed that the speckle reducing bilateral filter (SRBF) has superior performances to most of the state of the art filtering methods. The filter is tested on 50 in vivo US images and its influence on a segmentation task is quantified. The results using SRBF filtered data sets show a superior performance to using oriented anisotropic diffusion filtered images. This improvement is due to the adaptive support of SRBF and the embedded noise statistics, yielding a more homogeneous smoothing. SRBF results in a fully automatic, fast and flexible algorithm potentially suitable in wide ranges of speckle noise sizes, for different medical applications (IVUS, B-mode, 3-D matrix array US).
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	Notes	MILAB;HUPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BGP2010			Serial	1314
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
	Title	Deteccion automatica de la dominancia en conversaciones diadicas			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Escritos de Psicologia	Abbreviated Journal	EP
	Volume	3	Issue	2	Pages	41–45
	Keywords	Dominance detection; Non-verbal communication; Visual features
	Abstract	Dominance is referred to the level of influence that a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on the dominance detection of visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers' opinion. Moreover, these indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analyses showed a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
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	ISSN	1989-3809	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	HUPBA; OR; MILAB;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2010			Serial	1315
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	Author	Michal Drozdzal; Laura Igual; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; C. Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz
	Title	Aligning Endoluminal Scene Sequences in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	117–124
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	Abstract	Intestinal motility analysis is an important examination in detection of various intestinal malfunctions. One of the big challenges of automatic motility analysis is how to compare sequence of images and extract dynamic paterns taking into account the high deformability of the intestine wall as well as the capsule motion. From clinical point of view the ability to align endoluminal scene sequences will help to find regions of similar intestinal activity and in this way will provide a valuable information on intestinal motility problems. This work, for first time, addresses the problem of aligning endoluminal sequences taking into account motion and structure of the intestine. To describe motility in the sequence, we propose different descriptors based on the Sift Flow algorithm, namely: (1) Histograms of Sift Flow Directions to describe the flow course, (2) Sift Descriptors to represent image intestine structure and (3) Sift Flow Magnitude to quantify intestine deformation. We show that the merge of all three descriptors provides robust information on sequence description in terms of motility. Moreover, we develop a novel methodology to rank the intestinal sequences based on the expert feedback about relevance of the results. The experimental results show that the selected descriptors are useful in the alignment and similarity description and the proposed method allows the analysis of the WCE.
	Address	San Francisco; CA; USA; June 2010
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	ISSN	2160-7508	ISBN	978-1-4244-7029-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	MMBIA
	Notes	OR;MILAB;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ DIR2010			Serial	1316
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	Author	Wenjuan Gong; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Automatic Key Pose Selection for 3D Human Action Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	6th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6169	Issue		Pages	290–299
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	Abstract	This article describes a novel approach to the modeling of human actions in 3D. The method we propose is based on a “bag of poses” model that represents human actions as histograms of key-pose occurrences over the course of a video sequence. Actions are first represented as 3D poses using a sequence of 36 direction cosines corresponding to the angles 12 joints form with the world coordinate frame in an articulated human body model. These pose representations are then projected to three-dimensional, action-specific principal eigenspaces which we refer to as aSpaces. We introduce a method for key-pose selection based on a local-motion energy optimization criterion and we show that this method is more stable and more resistant to noisy data than other key-poses selection criteria for action recognition.
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	Publisher	Springer Verlag	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-14060-0	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	AMDO
	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ GBR2010			Serial	1317
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	Author	Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Xavier Otazu; Horst Bunke
	Title	A Combination of Features for Symbol-Independent Writer Identification in Old Music Scores			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	IJDAR
	Volume	13	Issue	4	Pages	243-259
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	Abstract	The aim of writer identification is determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper, we present an architecture for writer identification in old handwritten music scores. Even though an important amount of music compositions contain handwritten text, the aim of our work is to use only music notation to determine the author. The main contribution is therefore the use of features extracted from graphical alphabets. Our proposal consists in combining the identification results of two different approaches, based on line and textural features. The steps of the ensemble architecture are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for removing the staff lines. Then, music lines and texture images are generated for computing line features and textural features. Finally, the classification results are combined for identifying the writer. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, achieving a recognition rate of about 92% with 20 writers.
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	Publisher	Springer-Verlag	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN	1433-2833	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG; CAT;CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	FLS2010b			Serial	1319
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	Author	Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny; Josep Llados
	Title	A Bag of Notes Approach to Writer Identification in Old Handwritten Music Scores			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	247–254
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	Abstract	Determining the authorship of a document, namely writer identification, can be an important source of information for document categorization. Contrary to text documents, the identification of the writer of graphical documents is still a challenge. In this paper we present a robust approach for writer identification in a particular kind of graphical documents, old music scores. This approach adapts the bag of visual terms method for coping with graphic documents. The identification is performed only using the graphical music notation. For this purpose, we generate a graphic vocabulary without recognizing any music symbols, and consequently, avoiding the difficulties in the recognition of hand-drawn symbols in old and degraded documents. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the 17th to 19th centuries, achieving very high identification rates.
	Address	Boston; USA;
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-60558-773-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	DAS
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ GFV2010			Serial	1320
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	Author	Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
	Title	A Symbol-dependent Writer Identifcation Approach in Old Handwritten Music Scores			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	634 - 639
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	Abstract	Writer identification consists in determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper we introduce a symbol-dependent approach for identifying the writer of old music scores, which is based on two symbol recognition methods. The main idea is to use the Blurred Shape Model descriptor and a DTW-based method for detecting, recognizing and describing the music clefs and notes. The proposed approach has been evaluated in a database of old music scores, achieving very high writer identification rates.
	Address	Kolkata (India)
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4244-8353-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICFHR
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ FoL2010			Serial	1321
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	Author	C. Alejandro Parraga; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Accurate Mapping of Natural Scenes Radiance to Cone Activation Space: A New Image Dataset			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	50–57
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	Abstract	The characterization of trichromatic cameras is usually done in terms of a device-independent color space, such as the CIE 1931 XYZ space. This is indeed convenient since it allows the testing of results against colorimetric measures. We have characterized our camera to represent human cone activation by mapping the camera sensor's (RGB) responses to human (LMS) through a polynomial transformation, which can be “customized” according to the types of scenes we want to represent. Here we present a method to test the accuracy of the camera measures and a study on how the choice of training reflectances for the polynomial may alter the results.
	Address	Joensuu, Finland
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	9781617388897	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CGIV/MCS
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ PBV2010a			Serial	1322
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	Author	Javier Vazquez; G. D. Finlayson; Maria Vanrell
	Title	A compact singularity function to predict WCS data and unique hues			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	33–38
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	Abstract	Understanding how colour is used by the human vision system is a widely studied research field. The field, though quite advanced, still faces important unanswered questions. One of them is the explanation of the unique hues and the assignment of color names. This problem addresses the fact of different perceptual status for different colors. Recently, Philipona and O'Regan have proposed a biological model that allows to extract the reflection properties of any surface independently of the lighting conditions. These invariant properties are the basis to compute a singularity index that predicts the asymmetries presented in unique hues and basic color categories psychophysical data, therefore is giving a further step in their explanation. In this paper we build on their formulation and propose a new singularity index. This new formulation equally accounts for the location of the 4 peaks of the World colour survey and has two main advantages. First, it is a simple elegant numerical measure (the Philipona measurement is a rather cumbersome formula). Second, we develop a colour-based explanation for the measure.
	Address	Joensuu, Finland
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	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	9781617388897	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CGIV/MCS
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ VFV2010			Serial	1324
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	Author	Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
	Title	3D Texton Spaces for color-texture retrieval			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6111	Issue		Pages	354–363
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	Abstract	Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in an useful visual descriptor is not an easy problem. One way to combine both features is to compute spatial texture descriptors independently on each color channel. Another way is to do the integration at the descriptor level. In this case the problem of normalizing both cues arises. In this paper we solve the latest problem by fusing color and texture through distances in texton spaces. Textons are the attributes of image blobs and they are responsible for texture discrimination as defined in Julesz’s Texton theory. We describe them in two low-dimensional and uniform spaces, namely, shape and color. The dissimilarity between color texture images is computed by combining the distances in these two spaces. Following this approach, we propose our TCD descriptor which outperforms current state of art methods in the two different approaches mentioned above, early combination with LBP and late combination with MPEG-7. This is done on an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	A.C. Campilho and M.S. Kamel
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-13771-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIAR
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ ASV2010a			Serial	1325
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	Author	C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Towards a general model of colour categorization which considers context			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Perception. ECVP Abstract Supplement	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	39	Issue		Pages	86
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	Abstract	In two previous experiments [Parraga et al, 2009 J. of Im. Sci. and Tech 53(3) 031106; Benavente et al,2009 Perception 38 ECVP Supplement, 36] the boundaries of basic colour categories were measured. In the ﬁrst experiment, samples were presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) and boundaries were measured using a yes/no paradigm. In the second, subjects adjusted the chromaticity of a sample presented on a random Mondrian background to ﬁnd the boundary between pairs of adjacent colours. Results from these experiments showed signiﬁcant dierences but it was not possible to conclude whether this discrepancy was due to the absence/presence of a colourful background or to the dierences in the paradigms used. In this work, we settle this question by repeating the ﬁrst experiment (ie samples presented on a dark background) using the second paradigm. A comparison of results shows that although boundary locations are very similar, boundaries measured in context are signiﬁcantly dierent(more diuse) than those measured in isolation (conﬁrmed by a Student’s t-test analysis on the subject’s answers statistical distributions). In addition, we completed the mapping of colour name space by measuring the boundaries between chromatic colours and the achromatic centre. With these results we completed our parametric fuzzy-sets model of colour naming space.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ PBV2010b			Serial	1326
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	Author	Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	La influencia del contexto en la definicion de las fronteras entre las categorias cromaticas			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	9th Congreso Nacional del Color	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	92–95
	Keywords	Categorización del color; Apariencia del color; Influencia del contexto; Patrones de Mondrian; Modelos paramétricos
	Abstract	En este artículo presentamos los resultados de un experimento de categorización de color en el que las muestras se presentaron sobre un fondo multicolor (Mondrian) para simular los efectos del contexto. Los resultados se comparan con los de un experimento previo que, utilizando un paradigma diferente, determinó las fronteras sin tener en cuenta el contexto. El análisis de los resultados muestra que las fronteras obtenidas con el experimento en contexto presentan menos confusión que las obtenidas en el experimento sin contexto.
	Address	Alicante (Spain)
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-9717-144-1	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CNC
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ BPV2010			Serial	1327
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	Author	Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; Robert Benavente
	Title	Color names as a constraint for Computer Vision problems			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	324–328
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	Abstract	Computer Vision Problems are usually ill-posed. Constraining de gamut of possible solutions is then a necessary step. Many constrains for different problems have been developed during years. In this paper, we present a different way of constraining some of these problems: the use of color names. In particular, we will focus on segmentation, representation ans constancy.
	Address	Gjovik (Norway)
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CREATE
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ VVB2010			Serial	1328
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