|   | 
Details
   web
Records
Author Gemma Rotger; Felipe Lumbreras; Francesc Moreno-Noguer; Antonio Agudo
Title 2D-to-3D Facial Expression Transfer Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2008 - 2013
Keywords
Abstract Automatically changing the expression and physical features of a face from an input image is a topic that has been traditionally tackled in a 2D domain. In this paper, we bring this problem to 3D and propose a framework that given an
input RGB video of a human face under a neutral expression, initially computes his/her 3D shape and then performs a transfer to a new and potentially non-observed expression. For this purpose, we parameterize the rest shape –obtained from standard factorization approaches over the input video– using a triangular
mesh which is further clustered into larger macro-segments. The expression transfer problem is then posed as a direct mapping between this shape and a source shape, such as the blend shapes of an off-the-shelf 3D dataset of human facial expressions. The mapping is resolved to be geometrically consistent between 3D models by requiring points in specific regions to map on semantic
equivalent regions. We validate the approach on several synthetic and real examples of input faces that largely differ from the source shapes, yielding very realistic expression transfers even in cases with topology changes, such as a synthetic video sequence of a single-eyed cyclops.
Address
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLM2018 Serial 3232
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Lu Yu; Yongmei Cheng; Joost Van de Weijer
Title Weakly Supervised Domain-Specific Color Naming Based on Attention Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3019 - 3024
Keywords
Abstract The majority of existing color naming methods focuses on the eleven basic color terms of the English language. However, in many applications, different sets of color names are used for the accurate description of objects. Labeling data to learn these domain-specific color names is an expensive and laborious task. Therefore, in this article we aim to learn color names from weakly labeled data. For this purpose, we add an attention branch to the color naming network. The attention branch is used to modulate the pixel-wise color naming predictions of the network. In experiments, we illustrate that the attention branch correctly identifies the relevant regions. Furthermore, we show that our method obtains state-of-the-art results for pixel-wise and image-wise classification on the EBAY dataset and is able to learn color names for various domains.
Address Beijing; August 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes LAMP; 600.109; 602.200; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ YCW2018 Serial 3243
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Marco Buzzelli; Joost Van de Weijer; Raimondo Schettini
Title Learning Illuminant Estimation from Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 25th International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3234 - 3238
Keywords Illuminant estimation; computational color constancy; semi-supervised learning; deep learning; convolutional neural networks
Abstract In this paper we present a deep learning method to estimate the illuminant of an image. Our model is not trained with illuminant annotations, but with the objective of improving performance on an auxiliary task such as object recognition. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of a deep
learning architecture for illuminant estimation that is trained without ground truth illuminants. We evaluate our solution on standard datasets for color constancy, and compare it with state of the art methods. Our proposal is shown to outperform most deep learning methods in a cross-dataset evaluation
setup, and to present competitive results in a comparison with parametric solutions.
Address Athens; Greece; October 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIP
Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BWS2018 Serial 3157
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Riad I. Hammoud
Title Near InfraRed Imagery Colorization Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 25th International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2237 - 2241
Keywords Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), Infrared Imagery colorization
Abstract This paper proposes a stacked conditional Generative Adversarial Network-based method for Near InfraRed (NIR) imagery colorization. We propose a variant architecture of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that uses multiple
loss functions over a conditional probabilistic generative model. We show that this new architecture/loss-function yields better generalization and representation of the generated colored IR images. The proposed approach is evaluated on a large test dataset and compared to recent state of the art methods using standard metrics.
Address Athens; Greece; October 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIP
Notes MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.122 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSV2018b Serial 3195
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Hassan Ahmed Sial; S. Sancho; Ramon Baldrich; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title Color-based data augmentation for Reflectance Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 26th Color Imaging Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 284-289
Keywords
Abstract Deep convolutional architectures have shown to be successful frameworks to solve generic computer vision problems. The estimation of intrinsic reflectance from single image is not a solved problem yet. Encoder-Decoder architectures are a perfect approach for pixel-wise reflectance estimation, although it usually suffers from the lack of large datasets. Lack of data can be partially solved with data augmentation, however usual techniques focus on geometric changes which does not help for reflectance estimation. In this paper we propose a color-based data augmentation technique that extends the training data by increasing the variability of chromaticity. Rotation on the red-green blue-yellow plane of an opponent space enable to increase the training set in a coherent and sound way that improves network generalization capability for reflectance estimation. We perform some experiments on the Sintel dataset showing that our color-based augmentation increase performance and overcomes one of the state-of-the-art methods.
Address Vancouver; November 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CIC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSB2018a Serial 3129
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Marc Masana; Idoia Ruiz; Joan Serrat; Joost Van de Weijer; Antonio Lopez
Title Metric Learning for Novelty and Anomaly Detection Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 29th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract When neural networks process images which do not resemble the distribution seen during training, so called out-of-distribution images, they often make wrong predictions, and do so too confidently. The capability to detect out-of-distribution images is therefore crucial for many real-world applications. We divide out-of-distribution detection between novelty detection ---images of classes which are not in the training set but are related to those---, and anomaly detection ---images with classes which are unrelated to the training set. By related we mean they contain the same type of objects, like digits in MNIST and SVHN. Most existing work has focused on anomaly detection, and has addressed this problem considering networks trained with the cross-entropy loss. Differently from them, we propose to use metric learning which does not have the drawback of the softmax layer (inherent to cross-entropy methods), which forces the network to divide its prediction power over the learned classes. We perform extensive experiments and evaluate both novelty and anomaly detection, even in a relevant application such as traffic sign recognition, obtaining comparable or better results than previous works.
Address Newcastle; uk; September 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes LAMP; ADAS; 601.305; 600.124; 600.106; 602.200; 600.120; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MRS2018 Serial 3156
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Cristina Palmero; Javier Selva; Mohammad Ali Bagheri; Sergio Escalera
Title Recurrent CNN for 3D Gaze Estimation using Appearance and Shape Cues Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 29th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Gaze behavior is an important non-verbal cue in social signal processing and humancomputer interaction. In this paper, we tackle the problem of person- and head poseindependent 3D gaze estimation from remote cameras, using a multi-modal recurrent convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose to combine face, eyes region, and face landmarks as individual streams in a CNN to estimate gaze in still images. Then, we exploit the dynamic nature of gaze by feeding the learned features of all the frames in a sequence to a many-to-one recurrent module that predicts the 3D gaze vector of the last frame. Our multi-modal static solution is evaluated on a wide range of head poses and gaze directions, achieving a significant improvement of 14.6% over the state of the art on
EYEDIAP dataset, further improved by 4% when the temporal modality is included.
Address Newcastle; UK; September 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes HUPBA; no proj Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PSB2018 Serial 3208
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Fernando Vilariño; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Alberto Valcarce
Title Libraries as New Innovation Hubs: The Library Living Lab Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 30th ISPIM Innovation Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Libraries are in deep transformation both in EU and around the world, and they are thriving within a great window of opportunity for innovation. In this paper, we show how the Library Living Lab in Barcelona participated of this changing scenario and contributed to create the Bibliolab program, where more than 200 public libraries give voice to their users in a global user-centric innovation initiative, using technology as enabling factor. The Library Living Lab is a real 4-helix implementation where Universities, Research Centers, Public Administration, Companies and the Neighbors are joint together to explore how technology transforms the cultural experience of people. This case is an example of scalability and provides reference tools for policy making, sustainability, user engage methodologies and governance. We provide specific examples of new prototypes and services that help to understand how to redefine the role of the Library as a real hub for social innovation.
Address Stockholm; May 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISPIM
Notes DAG; MV; 600.097; 600.121; 600.129;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VKV2018b Serial 3154
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Shanxin Yuan; Guillermo Garcia-Hernando; Bjorn Stenger; Gyeongsik Moon; Ju Yong Chang; Kyoung Mu Lee; Pavlo Molchanov; Jan Kautz; Sina Honari; Liuhao Ge; Junsong Yuan; Xinghao Chen; Guijin Wang; Fan Yang; Kai Akiyama; Yang Wu; Qingfu Wan; Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Shile Li; Dongheui Lee; Iason Oikonomidis; Antonis Argyros; Tae-Kyun Kim
Title Depth-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2636 - 2645
Keywords Three-dimensional displays; Task analysis; Pose estimation; Two dimensional displays; Joints; Training; Solid modeling
Abstract In this paper, we strive to answer two questions: What is the current state of 3D hand pose estimation from depth images? And, what are the next challenges that need to be tackled? Following the successful Hands In the Million Challenge (HIM2017), we investigate the top 10 state-of-the-art methods on three tasks: single frame 3D pose estimation, 3D hand tracking, and hand pose estimation during object interaction. We analyze the performance of different CNN structures with regard to hand shape, joint visibility, view point and articulation distributions. Our findings include: (1) isolated 3D hand pose estimation achieves low mean errors (10 mm) in the view point range of [70, 120] degrees, but it is far from being solved for extreme view points; (2) 3D volumetric representations outperform 2D CNNs, better capturing the spatial structure of the depth data; (3) Discriminative methods still generalize poorly to unseen hand shapes; (4) While joint occlusions pose a challenge for most methods, explicit modeling of structure constraints can significantly narrow the gap between errors on visible and occluded joints.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes HUPBA; no proj Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ YGS2018 Serial 3115
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Yaxing Wang; Joost Van de Weijer; Luis Herranz
Title Mix and match networks: encoder-decoder alignment for zero-pair image translation Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 5467 - 5476
Keywords
Abstract We address the problem of image translation between domains or modalities for which no direct paired data is available (i.e. zero-pair translation). We propose mix and match networks, based on multiple encoders and decoders aligned in such a way that other encoder-decoder pairs can be composed at test time to perform unseen image translation tasks between domains or modalities for which explicit paired samples were not seen during training. We study the impact of autoencoders, side information and losses in improving the alignment and transferability of trained pairwise translation models to unseen translations. We show our approach is scalable and can perform colorization and style transfer between unseen combinations of domains. We evaluate our system in a challenging cross-modal setting where semantic segmentation is estimated from depth images, without explicit access to any depth-semantic segmentation training pairs. Our model outperforms baselines based on pix2pix and CycleGAN models.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ WWH2018b Serial 3131
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Adrian Galdran; Aitor Alvarez-Gila; Alessandro Bria; Javier Vazquez; Marcelo Bertalmio
Title On the Duality Between Retinex and Image Dehazing Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 8212–8221
Keywords Image color analysis; Task analysis; Atmospheric modeling; Computer vision; Computational modeling; Lighting
Abstract Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired loss of visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog. Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability of the Human Visual System to robustly discount varying illuminations when observing a scene under different spectral lighting conditions. Retinex has been widely explored in the computer vision literature for image enhancement and other related tasks. While these two problems are apparently unrelated, the goal of this work is to show that they can be connected by a simple linear relationship. Specifically, most Retinex-based algorithms have the characteristic feature of always increasing image brightness, which turns them into ideal candidates for effective image dehazing by directly applying Retinex to a hazy image whose intensities have been inverted. In this paper, we give theoretical proof that Retinex on inverted intensities is a solution to the image dehazing problem. Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative results indicate that several classical and modern implementations of Retinex can be transformed into competing image dehazing algorithms performing on pair with more complex fog removal methods, and can overcome some of the main challenges associated with this problem.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes LAMP; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GAB2018 Serial 3146
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Xialei Liu; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov
Title Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Crowd Counting by Learning to Rank Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 7661 - 7669
Keywords Task analysis; Training; Computer vision; Visualization; Estimation; Head; Context modeling
Abstract We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of
cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene image is guaranteed to contain the same number or fewer persons than the super-image. This allows us to address the problem of limited size of existing
datasets for crowd counting. We collect two crowd scene datasets from Google using keyword searches and queryby-example image retrieval, respectively. We demonstrate how to efficiently learn from these unlabeled datasets by incorporating learning-to-rank in a multi-task network which simultaneously ranks images and estimates crowd density maps. Experiments on two of the most challenging crowd counting datasets show that our approach obtains state-ofthe-art results.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.106; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ LWB2018 Serial 3159
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Davide Modolo; Vittorio Ferrari
Title Objects as context for detecting their semantic parts Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 6907 - 6916
Keywords Proposals; Semantics; Wheels; Automobiles; Context modeling; Task analysis; Object detection
Abstract We present a semantic part detection approach that effectively leverages object information. We use the object appearance and its class as indicators of what parts to expect. We also model the expected relative location of parts inside the objects based on their appearance. We achieve this with a new network module, called OffsetNet, that efficiently predicts a variable number of part locations within a given object. Our model incorporates all these cues to
detect parts in the context of their objects. This leads to considerably higher performance for the challenging task of part detection compared to using part appearance alone (+5 mAP on the PASCAL-Part dataset). We also compare
to other part detection methods on both PASCAL-Part and CUB200-2011 datasets.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.120 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GMF2018 Serial 3229
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Patricia Suarez; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Riad I. Hammoud
Title Deep Learning based Single Image Dehazing Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 31st IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workhsop Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1250 - 12507
Keywords Gallium nitride; Atmospheric modeling; Generators; Generative adversarial networks; Convergence; Image color analysis
Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach to remove haze degradations in RGB images using a stacked conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). It employs a triplet of GAN to remove the haze on each color channel independently.
A multiple loss functions scheme, applied over a conditional probabilistic model, is proposed. The proposed GAN architecture learns to remove the haze, using as conditioned entrance, the images with haze from which the clear
images will be obtained. Such formulation ensures a fast model training convergence and a homogeneous model generalization. Experiments showed that the proposed method generates high-quality clear images.
Address Salt Lake City; USA; June 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPRW
Notes MSIAU; 600.086; 600.130; 600.122 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSV2018d Serial 3197
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Boris N. Oreshkin; Pau Rodriguez; Alexandre Lacoste
Title TADAM: Task dependent adaptive metric for improved few-shot learning Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication (up) 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords
Abstract Few-shot learning has become essential for producing models that generalize from few examples. In this work, we identify that metric scaling and metric task conditioning are important to improve the performance of few-shot algorithms. Our analysis reveals that simple metric scaling completely changes the nature of few-shot algorithm parameter updates. Metric scaling provides improvements up to 14% in accuracy for certain metrics on the mini-Imagenet 5-way 5-shot classification task. We further propose a simple and effective way of conditioning a learner on the task sample set, resulting in learning a task-dependent metric space. Moreover, we propose and empirically test a practical end-to-end optimization procedure based on auxiliary task co-training to learn a task-dependent metric space. The resulting few-shot learning model based on the task-dependent scaled metric achieves state of the art on mini-Imagenet. We confirm these results on another few-shot dataset that we introduce in this paper based on CIFAR100.
Address Montreal; Canada; December 2018
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference NIPS
Notes ISE; 600.098; 600.119 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ ORL2018 Serial 3140
Permanent link to this record