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Author Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria edit  url
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  Title Visual Content Layer for Scalable Recognition in Urban Image Databases, Internet Multimedia Search and Mining Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1616–1619  
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  Abstract Rich online map interaction represents a useful tool to get multimedia information related to physical places. With this type of systems, users can automatically compute the optimal route for a trip or to look for entertainment places or hotels near their actual position. Standard maps are defined as a fusion of layers, where each one contains specific data such height, streets, or a particular business location. In this paper we propose the construction of a visual content layer which describes the visual appearance of geographic locations in a city. We captured, by means of a Mobile Mapping system, a huge set of georeferenced images (> 500K) which cover the whole city of Barcelona. For each image, hundreds of region descriptions are computed off-line and described as a hash code. This allows an efficient and scalable way of accessing maps by visual content.  
  Address New York (USA)  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4244-4291-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICME  
  Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BER2009 Serial 1189  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Recoding Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 8th International Workshop of Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5519 Issue Pages 11–21  
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  Abstract One of the most widely applied techniques to deal with multi- class categorization problems is the pairwise voting procedure. Recently, this classical approach has been embedded in the Error-Correcting Output Codes framework (ECOC). This framework is based on a coding step, where a set of binary problems are learnt and coded in a matrix, and a decoding step, where a new sample is tested and classified according to a comparison with the positions of the coded matrix. In this paper, we present a novel approach to redefine without retraining, in a problem-dependent way, the one-versus-one coding matrix so that the new coded information increases the generalization capability of the system. Moreover, the final classification can be tuned with the inclusion of a weighting matrix in the decoding step. The approach has been validated over several UCI Machine Learning repository data sets and two real multi-class problems: traffic sign and face categorization. The results show that performance improvements are obtained when comparing the new approach to one of the best ECOC designs (one-versus-one). Furthermore, the novel methodology obtains at least the same performance than the one-versus-one ECOC design.  
  Address Reykjavik (Iceland)  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication (up) Editor  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-02325-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MCS  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009d Serial 1190  
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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
  Title Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 38 Issue Pages 180  
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  Abstract 38(Suppl.)ECVP Abstract Supplement
We developed a new psychophysical method to compare different colour appearance models when applied to natural scenes. The method was as follows: two images (processed by different algorithms) were displayed on a CRT monitor and observers were asked to select the most natural of them. The original images were gathered by means of a calibrated trichromatic digital camera and presented one on top of the other on a calibrated screen. The selection was made by pressing on a 6-button IR box, which allowed observers to consider not only the most natural but to rate their selection. The rating system allowed observers to register how much more natural was their chosen image (eg, much more, definitely more, slightly more), which gave us valuable extra information on the selection process. The results were analysed considering both the selection as a binary choice (using Thurstone's law of comparative judgement) and using Bradley-Terry method for ordinal comparison. Our results show a significant difference in the rating scales obtained. Although this method has been used in colour constancy algorithm comparisons, its uses are much wider, eg to compare algorithms of image compression, rendering, recolouring, etc.
 
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ VPV2009b Serial 1191  
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Author Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
  Title Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 38 Issue Pages 36  
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  Abstract In a previous experiment [Parraga et al, 2009 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 53(3)] the boundaries between basic colour categories were measured by asking subjects to categorize colour samples presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) using a YES/NO paradigm. Results showed that some boundaries (eg green – blue) were very diffuse and the subjects' answers presented bimodal distributions, which were attributed to the emergence of non-basic categories in those regions (eg turquoise). To confirm these results we performed a new experiment focussed on the boundaries where bimodal distributions were more evident. In this new experiment rectangular colour samples were presented surrounded by random colour patches to simulate contextual conditions on a calibrated CRT monitor. The names of two neighbouring colours were shown at the bottom of the screen and subjects selected the boundary between these colours by controlling the chromaticity of the central patch, sliding it across these categories' frontier. Results show that in this new experimental paradigm, the formerly uncertain inter-colour category boundaries are better defined and the dispersions (ie the bimodal distributions) that occurred in the previous experiment disappear. These results may provide further support to Berlin and Kay's basic colour terms theory.  
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2009 Serial 1192  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
  Title A new cone activation-based natural images dataset Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 36 Issue Pages 180  
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  Abstract We generated a new dataset of digital natural images where each colour plane corresponds to the human LMS (long-, medium-, short-wavelength) cone activations. The images were chosen to represent five different visual environments (eg forest, seaside, mountain snow, urban, motorways) and were taken under natural illumination at different times of day. At the bottom-left corner of each picture there was a matte grey ball of approximately constant spectral reflectance (across the camera's response spectrum,) and nearly Lambertian reflective properties, which allows to compute (and remove, if necessary) the illuminant's colour and intensity. The camera (Sigma Foveon SD10) was calibrated by measuring its sensor's spectral responses using a set of 31 spectrally narrowband interference filters. This allowed conversion of the final camera-dependent RGB colour space into the Smith and Pokorny (1975) cone activation space by means of a polynomial transformation, optimised for a set of 1269 Munsell chip reflectances. This new method is an improvement over the usual 3 × 3 matrix transformation which is only accurate for spectrally-narrowband colours. The camera-to-LMS transformation can be recalculated to consider other non-human visual systems. The dataset is available to download from our website.  
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  Call Number CAT @ cat @ PVV2009 Serial 1193  
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit  doi
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  Title A Novel Approach to Geometric Fitting of Implicit Quadrics Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5807 Issue Pages 121–132  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the geometric distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric curve/surface. The proposed estimation is based on the height of a tetrahedron, which is used as a coarse but reliable estimation of the real distance. The estimated distance is then used for finding the best set of quadric parameters, by means of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, which is a common framework in other geometric fitting approaches. Comparisons of the proposed approach with previous ones are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results.  
  Address Bordeaux, France  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication (up) Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-04696-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ACIVS  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RoS2009 Serial 1194  
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Author Joost Van de Weijer; Cordelia Schmid; Jakob Verbeek; Diane Larlus edit  url
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  Title Learning Color Names for Real-World Applications Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transaction in Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP  
  Volume 18 Issue 7 Pages 1512–1524  
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  Abstract Color names are required in real-world applications such as image retrieval and image annotation. Traditionally, they are learned from a collection of labelled color chips. These color chips are labelled with color names within a well-defined experimental setup by human test subjects. However naming colors in real-world images differs significantly from this experimental setting. In this paper, we investigate how color names learned from color chips compare to color names learned from real-world images. To avoid hand labelling real-world images with color names we use Google Image to collect a data set. Due to limitations of Google Image this data set contains a substantial quantity of wrongly labelled data. We propose several variants of the PLSA model to learn color names from this noisy data. Experimental results show that color names learned from real-world images significantly outperform color names learned from labelled color chips for both image retrieval and image annotation.  
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  ISSN 1057-7149 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ WSV2009 Serial 1195  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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  Title Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 979 - 986  
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  Abstract Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. The subsequent stages of the process: feature detection, feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information.  
  Address Kyoto, Japan  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4244-4420-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ SWV2009 Serial 1196  
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Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer edit  url
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  Title Physics-based Edge Evaluation for Improved Color Constancy Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 22nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 581 – 588  
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  Abstract Edge-based color constancy makes use of image derivatives to estimate the illuminant. However, different edge types exist in real-world images such as shadow, geometry, material and highlight edges. These different edge types may have a distinctive influence on the performance of the illuminant estimation.  
  Address Miami, USA  
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  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-3992-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes CAT;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ GGW2009 Serial 1197  
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Author Mariano Vazquez; Ruth Aris; Guillaume Hozeaux; R.Aubry; P.Villar;Jaume Garcia ; Debora Gil; Francesc Carreras edit   pdf
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  Title A massively parallel computational electrophysiology model of the heart Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal IJNMBE  
  Volume 27 Issue Pages 1911-1929  
  Keywords computational electrophysiology; parallelization; finite element methods  
  Abstract This paper presents a patient-sensitive simulation strategy capable of using the most efficient way the high-performance computational resources. The proposed strategy directly involves three different players: Computational Mechanics Scientists (CMS), Image Processing Scientists and Cardiologists, each one mastering its own expertise area within the project. This paper describes the general integrative scheme but focusing on the CMS side presents a massively parallel implementation of computational electrophysiology applied to cardiac tissue simulation. The paper covers different angles of the computational problem: equations, numerical issues, the algorithm and parallel implementation. The proposed methodology is illustrated with numerical simulations testing all the different possibilities, ranging from small domains up to very large ones. A key issue is the almost ideal scalability not only for large and complex problems but also for medium-size meshes. The explicit formulation is particularly well suited for solving this highly transient problems, with very short time-scale.  
  Address Swansea (UK)  
  Corporate Author John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Thesis  
  Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Place of Publication (up) Editor  
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  Call Number IAM @ iam @ VAH2011 Serial 1198  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Automatic Ground-truthing using video registration for on-board detection algorithms Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 4389 - 4392  
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  Abstract Ground-truth data is essential for the objective evaluation of object detection methods in computer vision. Many works claim their method is robust but they support it with experiments which are not quantitatively assessed with regard some ground-truth. This is one of the main obstacles to properly evaluate and compare such methods. One of the main reasons is that creating an extensive and representative ground-truth is very time consuming, specially in the case of video sequences, where thousands of frames have to be labelled. Could such a ground-truth be generated, at least in part, automatically? Though it may seem a contradictory question, we show that this is possible for the case of video sequences recorded from a moving camera. The key idea is transferring existing frame segmentations from a reference sequence into another video sequence recorded at a different time on the same track, possibly under a different ambient lighting. We have carried out experiments on several video sequence pairs and quantitatively assessed the precision of the transformed ground-truth, which prove that our approach is not only feasible but also quite accurate.  
  Address Cairo, Egypt  
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  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ADS2009 Serial 1201  
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Author Enric Marti; Jaume Rocarias; Ricardo Toledo; Aura Hernandez-Sabate edit   pdf
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  Title Caronte: plataforma Moodle con gestion flexible de grupos. Primeras experiencias en asignaturas de Ingenieria Informatica Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2009 Publication 15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 461–468  
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  Abstract En este artículo se presenta Caronte, entorno LMS (Learning Management System) basado en Moodle. Una característica importante del entorno es la gestión flexible de grupos en una asignatura. Entendemos por grupo un conjunto de alumnos que realizan un trabajo y uno de ellos entrega la actividad propuesta (práctica, encuesta, etc.) en representación del grupo. Hemos trabajado en la confección de estos grupos, implementando un sistema de inscripción por contraseña.
Caronte ofrece un conjunto de actividades basadas en este concepto de grupo: encuestas, tareas (entrega de trabajos o prácticas), encuestas de autoevaluación y cuestionarios, entre otras.
Basada en nuestra actividad de encuesta, hemos definido una actividad de Control, que permite un cierto feedback electrónico del profesor sobre la actividad de los alumnos.
Finalmente, se presenta un resumen de las experiencias de uso de Caronte sobre asignaturas de Ingeniería Informática en el curso 2007-08.
 
  Address Barcelona, Spain  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-692-2758-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference JENUI  
  Notes IAM;RV;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ MRT2009 Serial 1202  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; O. Rodriguez-Leor; Angel Serrano; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title On in-vitro and in-vivo IVUS data fusion Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 202 Issue Pages 147-156  
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  Abstract The design and the validation of an automatic plaque characterization technique based on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) usually requires a data ground-truth. The histological analysis of post-mortem coronary arteries is commonly assumed as the state-of-the-art process for the extraction of a reliable data-set of atherosclerotic plaques. Unfortunately, the amount of data provided by this technique is usually few, due to the difficulties in collecting post-mortem cases and phenomena of tissue spoiling during histological analysis. In this paper we tackle the process of fusing in-vivo and in-vitro IVUS data starting with the analysis of recently proposed approaches for the creation of an enhanced IVUS data-set; furthermore, we propose a new approach, named pLDS, based on semi-supervised learning with a data selection criterion. The enhanced data-set obtained by each one of the analyzed approaches is used to train a classifier for tissue characterization purposes. Finally, the discriminative power of each classifier is quantitatively assessed and compared by classifying a data-set of validated in-vitro IVUS data.  
  Address Cardona (Spain)  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009d Serial 1204  
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Author Nicola Bellotto; Eric Sommerlade; Ben Benfold; Charles Bibby; I. Reid; Daniel Roth; Luc Van Gool; Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez edit   pdf
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  Title A Distributed Camera System for Multi-Resolution Surveillance Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords 10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289413  
  Abstract We describe an architecture for a multi-camera, multi-resolution surveillance system. The aim is to support a set of distributed static and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras and visual tracking algorithms, together with a central supervisor unit. Each camera (and possibly pan-tilt device) has a dedicated process and processor. Asynchronous interprocess communications and archiving of data are achieved in a simple and effective way via a central repository, implemented using an SQL database. Visual tracking data from static views are stored dynamically into tables in the database via client calls to the SQL server. A supervisor process running on the SQL server determines if active zoom cameras should be dispatched to observe a particular target, and this message is effected via writing demands into another database table. We show results from a real implementation of the system comprising one static camera overviewing the environment under consideration and a PTZ camera operating under closed-loop velocity control, which uses a fast and robust level-set-based region tracker. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its feasibility to multi-camera systems for intelligent surveillance.  
  Address Como, Italy  
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  Call Number ISE @ ise @ BSB2009 Serial 1205  
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva edit  url
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  Title Face-to-face social activity detection using data collected with a wearable device Type Conference Article
  Year 2009 Publication 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5524 Issue Pages 56–63  
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  Abstract In this work the feasibility of building a socially aware badge that learns from user activities is explored. A wearable multisensor device has been prototyped for collecting data about user movements and photos of the environment where the user acts. Using motion data, speaking and other activities have been classified. Images have been analysed in order to complement motion data and help for the detection of social behaviours. A face detector and an activity classifier are both used for detecting if users have a social activity in the time they worn the device. Good results encourage the improvement of the system at both hardware and software level  
  Address Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication (up) Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-02171-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009b Serial 1206  
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