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Author Jose Carlos Rubio; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; N. Paragios
Title Image Contextual Representation and Matching through Hierarchies and Higher Order Graphs Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2664 - 2667
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Abstract We present a region matching algorithm which establishes correspondences between regions from two segmented images. An abstract graph-based representation conceals the image in a hierarchical graph, exploiting the scene properties at two levels. First, the similarity and spatial consistency of the image semantic objects is encoded in a graph of commute times. Second, the cluttered regions of the semantic objects are represented with a shape descriptor. Many-to-many matching of regions is specially challenging due to the instability of the segmentation under slight image changes, and we explicitly handle it through high order potentials. We demonstrate the matching approach applied to images of world famous buildings, captured under different conditions, showing the robustness of our method to large variations in illumination and viewpoint.
Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RSL2012a; Serial 2032
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Author German Ros; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Gines Garcia-Mateos
Title Articulated Particle Filter for Hand Tracking Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3581 - 3585
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Abstract This paper proposes a new version of Particle Filter, called Articulated Particle Filter – ArPF -, which has been specifically designed for an efficient sampling of hierarchical spaces, generated by articulated objects. Our approach decomposes the articulated motion into layers for efficiency purposes, making use of a careful modeling of the diffusion noise along with its propagation through the articulations. This produces an increase of accuracy and prevent for divergences. The algorithm is tested on hand tracking due to its complex hierarchical articulated nature. With this purpose, a new dataset generation tool for quantitative evaluation is also presented in this paper.
Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RMG2012 Serial 2031
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Author Francisco Cruz; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title Document segmentation using relative location features Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1562-1565
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Abstract In this paper we evaluate the use of Relative Location Features (RLF) on a historical document segmentation task, and compare the quality of the results obtained on structured and unstructured documents using RLF and not using them. We prove that using these features improve the final segmentation on documents with a strong structure, while their application on unstructured documents does not show significant improvement. Although this paper is not focused on segmenting unstructured documents, results obtained on a benchmark dataset are equal or even overcome previous results of similar works.
Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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Call Number Admin @ si @ CrR2012 Serial 2051
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Author Volkmar Frinken; Francisco Zamora; Salvador España; Maria Jose Castro; Andreas Fischer; Horst Bunke
Title Long-Short Term Memory Neural Networks Language Modeling for Handwriting Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 701-704
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Abstract Unconstrained handwritten text recognition systems maximize the combination of two separate probability scores. The first one is the observation probability that indicates how well the returned word sequence matches the input image. The second score is the probability that reflects how likely a word sequence is according to a language model. Current state-of-the-art recognition systems use statistical language models in form of bigram word probabilities. This paper proposes to model the target language by means of a recurrent neural network with long-short term memory cells. Because the network is recurrent, the considered context is not limited to a fixed size especially as the memory cells are designed to deal with long-term dependencies. In a set of experiments conducted on the IAM off-line database we show the superiority of the proposed language model over statistical n-gram models.
Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FZE2012 Serial 2052
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov; Josep Llados
Title Multipage Document Retrieval by Textual and Visual Representations Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 521-524
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Abstract In this paper we present a multipage administrative document image retrieval system based on textual and visual representations of document pages. Individual pages are represented by textual or visual information using a bag-of-words framework. Different fusion strategies are evaluated which allow the system to perform multipage document retrieval on the basis of a single page retrieval system. Results are reported on a large dataset of document images sampled from a banking workflow.
Address Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKB2012 Serial 2053
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Miguel Angel Bautista; Xavier Perez Sala; Victor Ponce; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera
Title BoVDW: Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words for Gesture Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract We present a Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words (BoVDW) model for gesture recognition, an extension of the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) model, that benefits from the multimodal fusion of visual and depth features. State-of-the-art RGB and depth features, including a new proposed depth descriptor, are analysed and combined in a late fusion fashion. The method is integrated in a continuous gesture recognition pipeline, where Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm is used to perform prior segmentation of gestures. Results of the method in public data sets, within our gesture recognition pipeline, show better performance in comparison to a standard BoVW model.
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HBP2012 Serial 2122
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Author Anjan Dutta; Jaume Gibert; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
Title Combination of Product Graph and Random Walk Kernel for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1663-1666
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Abstract This paper explores the utilization of product graph for spotting symbols on graphical documents. Product graph is intended to find the candidate subgraphs or components in the input graph containing the paths similar to the query graph. The acute angle between two edges and their length ratio are considered as the node labels. In a second step, each of the candidate subgraphs in the input graph is assigned with a distance measure computed by a random walk kernel. Actually it is the minimum of the distances of the component to all the components of the model graph. This distance measure is then used to eliminate dissimilar components. The remaining neighboring components are grouped and the grouped zone is considered as a retrieval zone of a symbol similar to the queried one. The entire method works online, i.e., it doesn't need any preprocessing step. The present paper reports the initial results of the method, which are very encouraging.
Address Tsukuba, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DGL2012 Serial 2125
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title Text/graphic separation using a sparse representation with multi-learned dictionaries Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Graphics Recognition; Layout Analysis; Document Understandin
Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach to extract text regions from graphical documents. In our method, we first empirically construct two sequences of learned dictionaries for the text and graphical parts respectively. Then, we compute the sparse representations of all different sizes and non-overlapped document patches in these learned dictionaries. Based on these representations, each patch can be classified into the text or graphic category by comparing its reconstruction errors. Same-sized patches in one category are then merged together to define the corresponding text or graphic layers which are combined to createfinal text/graphic layer. Finally, in a post-processing step, text regions are further filtered out by using some learned thresholds.
Address Tsukuba
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2012a Serial 2135
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Author Josep M. Gonfaus; Theo Gevers; Arjan Gijsenij; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Edge Classification using Photo-Geo metric features Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1497 - 1500
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Abstract Edges are caused by several imaging cues such as shadow, material and illumination transitions. Classification methods have been proposed which are solely based on photometric information, ignoring geometry to classify the physical nature of edges in images. In this paper, the aim is to present a novel strategy to handle both photometric and geometric information for edge classification. Photometric information is obtained through the use of quasi-invariants while geometric information is derived from the orientation and contrast of edges. Different combination frameworks are compared with a new principled approach that captures both information into the same descriptor. From large scale experiments on different datasets, it is shown that, in addition to photometric information, the geometry of edges is an important visual cue to distinguish between different edge types. It is concluded that by combining both cues the performance improves by more than 7% for shadows and highlights.
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGG2012b Serial 2142
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Author Adela Barbulescu; Wenjuan Gong; Jordi Gonzalez; Thomas B. Moeslund; Xavier Roca
Title 3D Human Pose Estimation Using 2D Body Part Detectors Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2484 - 2487
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Abstract Automatic 3D reconstruction of human poses from monocular images is a challenging and popular topic in the computer vision community, which provides a wide range of applications in multiple areas. Solutions for 3D pose estimation involve various learning approaches, such as support vector machines and Gaussian processes, but many encounter difficulties in cluttered scenarios and require additional input data, such as silhouettes, or controlled camera settings. We present a framework that is capable of estimating the 3D pose of a person from single images or monocular image sequences without requiring background information and which is robust to camera variations. The framework models the non-linearity present in human pose estimation as it benefits from flexible learning approaches, including a highly customizable 2D detector. Results on the HumanEva benchmark show how they perform and influence the quality of the 3D pose estimates.
Address Tsubuka, Japan
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGG2012 Serial 2172
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Antonio Hernandez; Victor Ponce; Xavier Perez Sala; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera
Title Probability-based Dynamic TimeWarping for Gesture Recognition on RGB-D data Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition International Workshop on Depth Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7854 Issue Pages 126-135
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Abstract Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is commonly used in gesture recognition tasks in order to tackle the temporal length variability of gestures. In the DTW framework, a set of gesture patterns are compared one by one to a maybe infinite test sequence, and a query gesture category is recognized if a warping cost below a certain threshold is found within the test sequence. Nevertheless, either taking one single sample per gesture category or a set of isolated samples may not encode the variability of such gesture category. In this paper, a probability-based DTW for gesture recognition is proposed. Different samples of the same gesture pattern obtained from RGB-Depth data are used to build a Gaussian-based probabilistic model of the gesture. Finally, the cost of DTW has been adapted accordingly to the new model. The proposed approach is tested in a challenging scenario, showing better performance of the probability-based DTW in comparison to state-of-the-art approaches for gesture recognition on RGB-D data.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-40302-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference WDIA
Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BHP2012 Serial 2120
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Author Miguel Reyes; Albert Clapes; Luis Felipe Mejia; Jose Ramirez; Juan R Revilla; Sergio Escalera
Title Posture Analysis and Range of Movement Estimation using Depth Maps Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition International Workshop on Depth Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7854 Issue Pages 97-105
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Abstract World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the world population is affected of back pain during his life. Current practices to analyze back problems are expensive, subjective, and invasive. In this work, we propose a novel tool for posture and range of movement estimation based on the analysis of 3D information from depth maps. Given a set of keypoints defined by the user, RGB and depth data are aligned, depth surface is reconstructed, keypoints are matching using a novel point-to-point fitting procedure, and accurate measurements about posture, spinal curvature, and range of movement are computed. The system shows high precision and reliable measurements, being useful for posture reeducation purposes to prevent musculoskeletal disorders, such as back pain, as well as tracking the posture evolution of patients in rehabilitation treatments.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-40302-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference WDIA
Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RCM2012 Serial 2121
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Author Jon Almazan; Albert Gordo; Alicia Fornes; Ernest Valveny
Title Efficient Exemplar Word Spotting Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 23rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 67.1- 67.11
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Abstract In this paper we propose an unsupervised segmentation-free method for word spotting in document images.
Documents are represented with a grid of HOG descriptors, and a sliding window approach is used to locate the document regions that are most similar to the query. We use the exemplar SVM framework to produce a better representation of the query in an unsupervised way. Finally, the document descriptors are precomputed and compressed with Product Quantization. This offers two advantages: first, a large number of documents can be kept in RAM memory at the same time. Second, the sliding window becomes significantly faster since distances between quantized HOG descriptors can be precomputed. Our results significantly outperform other segmentation-free methods in the literature, both in accuracy and in speed and memory usage.
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ISSN ISBN 1-901725-46-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ AGF2012 Serial 1984
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Author Naila Murray; Luca Marchesotti; Florent Perronnin
Title Learning to Rank Images using Semantic and Aesthetic Labels Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 23rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 110.1-110.10
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Abstract Most works on image retrieval from text queries have addressed the problem of retrieving semantically relevant images. However, the ability to assess the aesthetic quality of an image is an increasingly important differentiating factor for search engines. In this work, given a semantic query, we are interested in retrieving images which are semantically relevant and score highly in terms of aesthetics/visual quality. We use large-margin classifiers and rankers to learn statistical models capable of ordering images based on the aesthetic and semantic information. In particular, we compare two families of approaches: while the first one attempts to learn a single ranker which takes into account both semantic and aesthetic information, the second one learns separate semantic and aesthetic models. We carry out a quantitative and qualitative evaluation on a recently-published large-scale dataset and we show that the second family of techniques significantly outperforms the first one.
Address Guildford, London
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ISSN ISBN 1-901725-46-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MMP2012b Serial 2027
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Author Pedro Martins; Paulo Carvalho; Carlo Gatta
Title Context Aware Keypoint Extraction for Robust Image Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) 23rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 100.1 - 100.12
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Call Number Admin @ si @ MCG2012a Serial 2140
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