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Author Hamdi Dibeklioglu; Albert Ali Salah; Theo Gevers
Title Like Father, Like Son: Facial Expression Dynamics for Kinship Verification Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1497-1504
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Abstract Kinship verification from facial appearance is a difficult problem. This paper explores the possibility of employing facial expression dynamics in this problem. By using features that describe facial dynamics and spatio-temporal appearance over smile expressions, we show that it is possible to improve the state of the art in this problem, and verify that it is indeed possible to recognize kinship by resemblance of facial expressions. The proposed method is tested on different kin relationships. On the average, 72.89% verification accuracy is achieved on spontaneous smiles.
Address Sydney
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Call Number Admin @ si @ DSG2013 Serial 2366
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Author Javier Marin; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Jaume Amores; Bastian Leibe
Title Random Forests of Local Experts for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2592 - 2599
Keywords ADAS; Random Forest; Pedestrian Detection
Abstract Pedestrian detection is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision, and has received a lot of attention in the last years. Recently, some authors have shown the advantages of using combinations of part/patch-based detectors in order to cope with the large variability of poses and the existence of partial occlusions. In this paper, we propose a pedestrian detection method that efficiently combines multiple local experts by means of a Random Forest ensemble. The proposed method works with rich block-based representations such as HOG and LBP, in such a way that the same features are reused by the multiple local experts, so that no extra computational cost is needed with respect to a holistic method. Furthermore, we demonstrate how to integrate the proposed approach with a cascaded architecture in order to achieve not only high accuracy but also an acceptable efficiency. In particular, the resulting detector operates at five frames per second using a laptop machine. We tested the proposed method with well-known challenging datasets such as Caltech, ETH, Daimler, and INRIA. The method proposed in this work consistently ranks among the top performers in all the datasets, being either the best method or having a small difference with the best one.
Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013
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Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN Medium
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Notes ADAS; 600.057; 600.054 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ MVL2013 Serial 2333
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Author Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
Title Handwritten Word Spotting with Corrected Attributes Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1017-1024
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Abstract We propose an approach to multi-writer word spotting, where the goal is to find a query word in a dataset comprised of document images. We propose an attributes-based approach that leads to a low-dimensional, fixed-length representation of the word images that is fast to compute and, especially, fast to compare. This approach naturally leads to an unified representation of word images and strings, which seamlessly allows one to indistinctly perform query-by-example, where the query is an image, and query-by-string, where the query is a string. We also propose a calibration scheme to correct the attributes scores based on Canonical Correlation Analysis that greatly improves the results on a challenging dataset. We test our approach on two public datasets showing state-of-the-art results.
Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ AGF2013 Serial 2327
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Author Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; R. de Nijs; Sebastian Ramos; K. Kühnlenz; Luc Van Gool
Title Active MAP Inference in CRFs for Efficient Semantic Segmentation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2312 - 2319
Keywords Semantic Segmentation
Abstract Most MAP inference algorithms for CRFs optimize an energy function knowing all the potentials. In this paper, we focus on CRFs where the computational cost of instantiating the potentials is orders of magnitude higher than MAP inference. This is often the case in semantic image segmentation, where most potentials are instantiated by slow classifiers fed with costly features. We introduce Active MAP inference 1) to on-the-fly select a subset of potentials to be instantiated in the energy function, leaving the rest of the parameters of the potentials unknown, and 2) to estimate the MAP labeling from such incomplete energy function. Results for semantic segmentation benchmarks, namely PASCAL VOC 2010 [5] and MSRC-21 [19], show that Active MAP inference achieves similar levels of accuracy but with major efficiency gains.
Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013
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ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN Medium
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Notes ADAS; 600.057 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RBN2013 Serial 2377
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Author Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Miguel Reyes; Oscar Lopes; Isabelle Guyon; V. Athitsos; Hugo Jair Escalante
Title Multi-modal Gesture Recognition Challenge 2013: Dataset and Results Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 445-452
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Abstract The recognition of continuous natural gestures is a complex and challenging problem due to the multi-modal nature of involved visual cues (e.g. fingers and lips movements, subtle facial expressions, body pose, etc.), as well as technical limitations such as spatial and temporal resolution and unreliable
depth cues. In order to promote the research advance on this field, we organized a challenge on multi-modal gesture recognition. We made available a large video database of 13; 858 gestures from a lexicon of 20 Italian gesture categories recorded with a KinectTM camera, providing the audio, skeletal model, user mask, RGB and depth images. The focus of the challenge was on user independent multiple gesture learning. There are no resting positions and the gestures are performed in continuous sequences lasting 1-2 minutes, containing between 8 and 20 gesture instances in each sequence. As a result, the dataset contains around 1:720:800 frames. In addition to the 20 main gesture categories, ‘distracter’ gestures are included, meaning that additional audio
and gestures out of the vocabulary are included. The final evaluation of the challenge was defined in terms of the Levenshtein edit distance, where the goal was to indicate the real order of gestures within the sequence. 54 international teams participated in the challenge, and outstanding results
were obtained by the first ranked participants.
Address Sidney; Australia; December 2013
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ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-2129-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICMI
Notes HUPBA; ISE; 600.063;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EGB2013 Serial 2373
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Author Victor Ponce; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro
Title Multi-modal Social Signal Analysis for Predicting Agreement in Conversation Settings Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 495-502
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Abstract In this paper we present a non-invasive ambient intelligence framework for the analysis of non-verbal communication applied to conversational settings. In particular, we apply feature extraction techniques to multi-modal audio-RGB-depth data. We compute a set of behavioral indicators that define communicative cues coming from the fields of psychology and observational methodology. We test our methodology over data captured in victim-offender mediation scenarios. Using different state-of-the-art classification approaches, our system achieve upon 75% of recognition predicting agreement among the parts involved in the conversations, using as ground truth the experts opinions.
Address Sidney; Australia; December 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ PEB2013 Serial 2488
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Author H. Emrah Tasli; Cevahir Çigla; Theo Gevers; A. Aydin Alatan
Title Super pixel extraction via convexity induced boundary adaptation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 14th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-6
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Abstract This study presents an efficient super-pixel extraction algorithm with major contributions to the state-of-the-art in terms of accuracy and computational complexity. Segmentation accuracy is improved through convexity constrained geodesic distance utilization; while computational efficiency is achieved by replacing complete region processing with boundary adaptation idea. Starting from the uniformly distributed rectangular equal-sized super-pixels, region boundaries are adapted to intensity edges iteratively by assigning boundary pixels to the most similar neighboring super-pixels. At each iteration, super-pixel regions are updated and hence progressively converging to compact pixel groups. Experimental results with state-of-the-art comparisons, validate the performance of the proposed technique in terms of both accuracy and speed.
Address San Jose; USA; July 2013
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ISSN 1945-7871 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICME
Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TÇG2013 Serial 2367
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Author Santiago Segui; Michal Drozdzal; Ekaterina Zaytseva; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
Title A new image centrality descriptor for wrinkle frame detection in WCE videos Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Small bowel motility dysfunctions are a widespread functional disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of specific and unique organic pathology. Current methods of diagnosis are complex and can only be conducted at some highly specialized referral centers. Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) could be an interesting diagnostic alternative that presents excellent clinical advantages, since it is non-invasive and can be conducted by non specialists. The purpose of this work is to present a new method for the detection of wrinkle frames in WCE, a critical characteristic to detect one of the main motility events: contractions. The method goes beyond the use of one of the classical image feature, the Histogram
Address Kyoto; Japan; May 2013
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Notes OR; MILAB; 600.046;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SDZ2013 Serial 2239
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Author Victor Borjas; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva
Title Gradient Histogram Background Modeling for People Detection in Stationary Camera Environments Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Best Poster AwardOne of the big challenges of today person detectors is the decreasing of the false positive rate. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to customize person detectors in static camera scenarios in order to reduce this rate. This scheme includes background modeling for subtraction based on gradient histograms and Mean-Shift clustering. Our experiments show that the detection improved compared to using only the output from the pedestrian detector reducing 87% of the false positives and therefore the overall precision of the detection
was increased signi cantly.
Address Kyoto; Japan; May 2013
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Call Number BVR2013 Serial 2238
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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
Title Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph and Approximate Neighborhood String Matching for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1078-1082
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Abstract This paper deals with a subgraph matching problem in Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) applied to symbol spotting in graphical documents. RAG is a very important, efficient and natural way of representing graphical information with a graph but this is limited to cases where the information is well defined with perfectly delineated regions. What if the information we are interested in is not confined within well defined regions? This paper addresses this particular problem and solves it by defining near convex grouping of oriented line segments which results in near convex regions. Pure convexity imposes hard constraints and can not handle all the cases efficiently. Hence to solve this problem we have defined a new type of convexity of regions, which allows convex regions to have concavity to some extend. We call this kind of regions Near Convex Regions (NCRs). These NCRs are then used to create the Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph (NCRAG) and with this representation we have formulated the problem of symbol spotting in graphical documents as a subgraph matching problem. For subgraph matching we have used the Approximate Edit Distance Algorithm (AEDA) on the neighborhood string, which starts working after finding a key node in the input or target graph and iteratively identifies similar nodes of the query graph in the neighborhood of the key node. The experiments are performed on artificial, real and distorted datasets.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 601.152 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DLB2013a Serial 2358
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Author M. Visani; V.C.Kieu; Alicia Fornes; N.Journet
Title The ICDAR 2013 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1439-1443
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Abstract The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated both at staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we focus on the staff removal task and simulate a real case scenario: old music scores. For this purpose, we have generated a new set of images using two kinds of degradations: local noise and 3D distortions. This paper describes the dataset, distortion methods, evaluation metrics, the participant's methods and the obtained results.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VKF2013 Serial 2338
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; T.Benkhelfallah; V. Poulain d'Andecy
Title Field Extraction from Administrative Documents by Incremental Structural Templates Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1100 - 1104
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Abstract In this paper we present an incremental framework aimed at extracting field information from administrative document images in the context of a Digital Mail-room scenario. Given a single training sample in which the user has marked which fields have to be extracted from a particular document class, a document model representing structural relationships among words is built. This model is incrementally refined as the system processes more and more documents from the same class. A reformulation of the tf-idf statistic scheme allows to adjust the importance weights of the structural relationships among words. We report in the experimental section our results obtained with a large dataset of real invoices.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.56; 600.045; 605.203; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBP2013 Serial 2346
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Author Albert Gordo; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov
Title Document Classification and Page Stream Segmentation for Digital Mailroom Applications Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 621-625
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Abstract In this paper we present a method for the segmentation of continuous page streams into multipage documents and the simultaneous classification of the resulting documents. We first present an approach to combine the multiple pages of a document into a single feature vector that represents the whole document. Despite its simplicity and low computational cost, the proposed representation yields results comparable to more complex methods in multipage document classification tasks. We then exploit this representation in the context of page stream segmentation. The most plausible segmentation of a page stream into a sequence of multipage documents is obtained by optimizing a statistical model that represents the probability of each segmented multipage document belonging to a particular class. Experimental results are reported on a large sample of real administrative multipage documents.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.056; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013c Serial 2345
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Author L. Rothacker; Marçal Rusiñol; G.A. Fink
Title Bag-of-Features HMMs for segmentation-free word spotting in handwritten documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1305 - 1309
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Abstract Recent HMM-based approaches to handwritten word spotting require large amounts of learning samples and mostly rely on a prior segmentation of the document. We propose to use Bag-of-Features HMMs in a patch-based segmentation-free framework that are estimated by a single sample. Bag-of-Features HMMs use statistics of local image feature representatives. Therefore they can be considered as a variant of discrete HMMs allowing to model the observation of a number of features at a point in time. The discrete nature enables us to estimate a query model with only a single example of the query provided by the user. This makes our method very flexible with respect to the availability of training data. Furthermore, we are able to outperform state-of-the-art results on the George Washington dataset.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RRF2013 Serial 2344
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title New Approach for Symbol Recognition Combining Shape Context of Interest Points with Sparse Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 265-269
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbol description. Our method is built based on the combination of shape context of interest points descriptor and sparse representation. More specifically, we first learn a dictionary describing shape context of interest point descriptors. Then, based on information retrieval techniques, we build a vector model for each symbol based on its sparse representation in a visual vocabulary whose visual words are columns in the learneddictionary. The retrieval task is performed by ranking symbols based on similarity between vector models. Evaluation of our method, using benchmark datasets, demonstrates the validity of our approach and shows that it outperforms related state-of-theart methods.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2013b Serial 2331
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