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Author F. Javier Sanchez; Jordi Vitria; Enric Marti
Title Transformaciones Morfológicas de Polígonos Isotéticos Type Conference Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Primer Congreso Español de Informática Gráfica. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ SVM1991 Serial 1648
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Author Francisco Jose Perales; Yuhua Luo; Juan J. Villanueva
Title Un metodo Automatico de Rotoscopia Sin Marcas para el Estudio del Movimiento Humano Basado en un modelo Biomecanico. Type Conference Article
Year 1991 Publication (down) Primer Congreso Español de Informatica Grafica Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 53-65
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Address Madrid
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Call Number ISE @ ise @ PLV1991 Serial 266
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Author V. Valev; Petia Radeva
Title ECG Recognition by Non-Reducible Descriptors. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1995 Publication (down) Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VaR1995a Serial 139
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Author Matthias S. Keil; Agata Lapedriza; David Masip; Jordi Vitria
Title Preferred Spatial Frequencies for Human Face Processing Are Associated with Optimal Class Discrimination in the Machine Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication (down) PLoS ONE 3(7):e2590, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0002590 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ KLM2008 Serial 978
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Author Mario Rojas; David Masip; A. Todorov; Jordi Vitria
Title Automatic Prediction of Facial Trait Judgments: Appearance vs. Structural Models Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication (down) PloS one Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 6 Issue 8 Pages e23323
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Evaluating other individuals with respect to personality characteristics plays a crucial role in human relations and it is the focus of attention for research in diverse fields such as psychology and interactive computer systems. In psychology, face perception has been recognized as a key component of this evaluation system. Multiple studies suggest that observers use face information to infer personality characteristics. Interactive computer systems are trying to take advantage of these findings and apply them to increase the natural aspect of interaction and to improve the performance of interactive computer systems. Here, we experimentally test whether the automatic prediction of facial trait judgments (e.g. dominance) can be made by using the full appearance information of the face and whether a reduced representation of its structure is sufficient. We evaluate two separate approaches: a holistic representation model using the facial appearance information and a structural model constructed from the relations among facial salient points. State of the art machine learning methods are applied to a) derive a facial trait judgment model from training data and b) predict a facial trait value for any face. Furthermore, we address the issue of whether there are specific structural relations among facial points that predict perception of facial traits. Experimental results over a set of labeled data (9 different trait evaluations) and classification rules (4 rules) suggest that a) prediction of perception of facial traits is learnable by both holistic and structural approaches; b) the most reliable prediction of facial trait judgments is obtained by certain type of holistic descriptions of the face appearance; and c) for some traits such as attractiveness and extroversion, there are relationships between specific structural features and social perceptions
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Publisher Public Library of Science Place of Publication Editor
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RMT2011 Serial 1883
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Author Olivier Penacchio; Xavier Otazu; Laura Dempere-Marco
Title A Neurodynamical Model of Brightness Induction in V1 Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) PloS ONE Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 8 Issue 5 Pages e64086
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Abstract Brightness induction is the modulation of the perceived intensity of an area by the luminance of surrounding areas. Recent neurophysiological evidence suggests that brightness information might be explicitly represented in V1, in contrast to the more common assumption that the striate cortex is an area mostly responsive to sensory information. Here we investigate possible neural mechanisms that offer a plausible explanation for such phenomenon. To this end, a neurodynamical model which is based on neurophysiological evidence and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual influences is presented. The proposed computational model successfully accounts for well known psychophysical effects for static contexts and also for brightness induction in dynamic contexts defined by modulating the luminance of surrounding areas. This work suggests that intra-cortical interactions in V1 could, at least partially, explain brightness induction effects and reveals how a common general architecture may account for several different fundamental processes, such as visual saliency and brightness induction, which emerge early in the visual processing pathway.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ POD2013 Serial 2242
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Author David Masip; Michael S. North ; Alexander Todorov; Daniel N. Osherson
Title Automated Prediction of Preferences Using Facial Expressions Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication (down) PloS one Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 9 Issue 2 Pages e87434
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Abstract We introduce a computer vision problem from social cognition, namely, the automated detection of attitudes from a person's spontaneous facial expressions. To illustrate the challenges, we introduce two simple algorithms designed to predict observers’ preferences between images (e.g., of celebrities) based on covert videos of the observers’ faces. The two algorithms are almost as accurate as human judges performing the same task but nonetheless far from perfect. Our approach is to locate facial landmarks, then predict preference on the basis of their temporal dynamics. The database contains 768 videos involving four different kinds of preferences. We make it publically available.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ MNT2014 Serial 2453
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Arash Akbarinia
Title NICE: A Computational Solution to Close the Gap from Colour Perception to Colour Categorization Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication (down) PLoS One Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages e0149538
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Abstract The segmentation of visible electromagnetic radiation into chromatic categories by the human visual system has been extensively studied from a perceptual point of view, resulting in several colour appearance models. However, there is currently a void when it comes to relate these results to the physiological mechanisms that are known to shape the pre-cortical and cortical visual pathway. This work intends to begin to fill this void by proposing a new physiologically plausible model of colour categorization based on Neural Isoresponsive Colour Ellipsoids (NICE) in the cone-contrast space defined by the main directions of the visual signals entering the visual cortex. The model was adjusted to fit psychophysical measures that concentrate on the categorical boundaries and are consistent with the ellipsoidal isoresponse surfaces of visual cortical neurons. By revealing the shape of such categorical colour regions, our measures allow for a more precise and parsimonious description, connecting well-known early visual processing mechanisms to the less understood phenomenon of colour categorization. To test the feasibility of our method we applied it to exemplary images and a popular ground-truth chart obtaining labelling results that are better than those of current state-of-the-art algorithms.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ PaA2016a Serial 2747
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Author Debora Gil; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell
Title Segmentation of Distal Airways using Structural Analysis Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication (down) PloS one Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 14 Issue 12 Pages
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Abstract Segmentation of airways in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a must for accurate support of diagnosis and intervention of many pulmonary disorders. In particular, lung cancer diagnosis would benefit from segmentations reaching most distal airways. We present a method that combines descriptors of bronchi local appearance and graph global structural analysis to fine-tune thresholds on the descriptors adapted for each bronchial level. We have compared our method to the top performers of the EXACT09 challenge and to a commercial software for biopsy planning evaluated in an own-collected data-base of high resolution CT scans acquired under different breathing conditions. Results on EXACT09 data show that our method provides a high leakage reduction with minimum loss in airway detection. Results on our data-base show the reliability across varying breathing conditions and a competitive performance for biopsy planning compared to a commercial solution.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GSB2019 Serial 3357
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Author Penny Tarling; Mauricio Cantor; Albert Clapes; Sergio Escalera
Title Deep learning with self-supervision and uncertainty regularization to count fish in underwater images Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication (down) PloS One Abbreviated Journal Plos
Volume 17 Issue 5 Pages e0267759
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Abstract Effective conservation actions require effective population monitoring. However, accurately counting animals in the wild to inform conservation decision-making is difficult. Monitoring populations through image sampling has made data collection cheaper, wide-reaching and less intrusive but created a need to process and analyse this data efficiently. Counting animals from such data is challenging, particularly when densely packed in noisy images. Attempting this manually is slow and expensive, while traditional computer vision methods are limited in their generalisability. Deep learning is the state-of-the-art method for many computer vision tasks, but it has yet to be properly explored to count animals. To this end, we employ deep learning, with a density-based regression approach, to count fish in low-resolution sonar images. We introduce a large dataset of sonar videos, deployed to record wild Lebranche mullet schools (Mugil liza), with a subset of 500 labelled images. We utilise abundant unlabelled data in a self-supervised task to improve the supervised counting task. For the first time in this context, by introducing uncertainty quantification, we improve model training and provide an accompanying measure of prediction uncertainty for more informed biological decision-making. Finally, we demonstrate the generalisability of our proposed counting framework through testing it on a recent benchmark dataset of high-resolution annotated underwater images from varying habitats (DeepFish). From experiments on both contrasting datasets, we demonstrate our network outperforms the few other deep learning models implemented for solving this task. By providing an open-source framework along with training data, our study puts forth an efficient deep learning template for crowd counting aquatic animals thereby contributing effective methods to assess natural populations from the ever-increasing visual data.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ TCC2022 Serial 3743
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Author A.S. Coquel; Jean-Pascal Jacob; M. Primet; A. Demarez; Mariella Dimiccoli; T. Julou; L. Moisan; A. Lindner; H. Berry
Title Localization of protein aggregation in Escherichia coli is governed by diffusion and nucleoid macromolecular crowding effect Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication (down) Plos Computational Biology Abbreviated Journal PCB
Volume 9 Issue 4 Pages
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Abstract Aggregates of misfolded proteins are a hallmark of many age-related diseases. Recently, they have been linked to aging of Escherichia coli (E. coli) where protein aggregates accumulate at the old pole region of the aging bacterium. Because of the potential of E. coli as a model organism, elucidating aging and protein aggregation in this bacterium may pave the way to significant advances in our global understanding of aging. A first obstacle along this path is to decipher the mechanisms by which protein aggregates are targeted to specific intercellular locations. Here, using an integrated approach based on individual-based modeling, time-lapse fluorescence microscopy and automated image analysis, we show that the movement of aging-related protein aggregates in E. coli is purely diffusive (Brownian). Using single-particle tracking of protein aggregates in live E. coli cells, we estimated the average size and diffusion constant of the aggregates. Our results provide evidence that the aggregates passively diffuse within the cell, with diffusion constants that depend on their size in agreement with the Stokes-Einstein law. However, the aggregate displacements along the cell long axis are confined to a region that roughly corresponds to the nucleoid-free space in the cell pole, thus confirming the importance of increased macromolecular crowding in the nucleoids. We thus used 3D individual-based modeling to show that these three ingredients (diffusion, aggregation and diffusion hindrance in the nucleoids) are sufficient and necessary to reproduce the available experimental data on aggregate localization in the cells. Taken together, our results strongly support the hypothesis that the localization of aging-related protein aggregates in the poles of E. coli results from the coupling of passive diffusion-aggregation with spatially non-homogeneous macromolecular crowding. They further support the importance of “soft” intracellular structuring (based on macromolecular crowding) in diffusion-based protein localization in E. coli.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor : Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University, United States of America
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Call Number Admin @ si @CJP2013 Serial 2786
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Author Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title On the assessment of texture descriptors in intravascular ultrasound images: A boosting approach to a feasible plaque classification Type Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication (down) Plaque Imaging: Pixel to Molecular Level, IOS Press, J. Suri et al. (Eds.), 113: 276–299, ISBN: 1–58603–516–9 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PuR2005a Serial 563
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Author J. Pladellorens; Joan Serrat; A. Castell; M.J. Yzuel
Title Using mathematical morphology to determine left ventricular contours. Type Journal
Year 1993 Publication (down) Physics in Medicine and Biology. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 37 Issue Pages 1877––1894
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ PSC1993 Serial 146
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Author Simone Balocco; O. Basset; G. Courbebaisse; E. Boni; Alejandro F. Frangi; P. Tortoli; C. Cachard
Title Estimation Of Viscoelastic Properties Of Vessel Walls Using a Computational Model and Doppler Ultrasound Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) Physics in Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal PMB
Volume 55 Issue 12 Pages 3557–3575
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Abstract Human arteries affected by atherosclerosis are characterized by altered wall viscoelastic properties. The possibility of noninvasively assessing arterial viscoelasticity in vivo would significantly contribute to the early diagnosis and prevention of this disease. This paper presents a noniterative technique to estimate the viscoelastic parameters of a vascular wall Zener model. The approach requires the simultaneous measurement of flow variations and wall displacements, which can be provided by suitable ultrasound Doppler instruments. Viscoelastic parameters are estimated by fitting the theoretical constitutive equations to the experimental measurements using an ARMA parameter approach. The accuracy and sensitivity of the proposed method are tested using reference data generated by numerical simulations of arterial pulsation in which the physiological conditions and the viscoelastic parameters of the model can be suitably varied. The estimated values quantitatively agree with the reference values, showing that the only parameter affected by changing the physiological conditions is viscosity, whose relative error was about 27% even when a poor signal-to-noise ratio is simulated. Finally, the feasibility of the method is illustrated through three measurements made at different flow regimes on a cylindrical vessel phantom, yielding a parameter mean estimation error of 25%.
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BBC2010 Serial 1312
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Author Albert Clapes
Title Learning to recognize human actions: from hand-crafted to deep-learning based visual representations Type Book Whole
Year 2019 Publication (down) PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Action recognition is a very challenging and important problem in computer vi­sion. Researchers working on this field aspire to provide computers with the abil­ ity to visually perceive human actions – that is, to observe, interpret, and under­ stand human-related events that occur in the physical environment merely from visual data. The applications of this technology are numerous: human-machine interaction, e-health, monitoring/surveillance, and content-based video retrieval, among others. Hand-crafted methods dominated the field until the apparition of the first successful deep learning-based action recognition works. Although ear­ lier deep-based methods underperformed with respect to hand-crafted approaches, these slowly but steadily improved to become state-of-the-art, eventually achieving better results than hand-crafted ones. Still, hand-crafted approaches can be advan­ tageous in certain scenarios, specially when not enough data is available to train very large deep models or simply to be combined with deep-based methods to fur­ ther boost the performance. Hence, showing how hand-crafted features can provide extra knowledge the deep networks are notable to easily learn about human actions.
This Thesis concurs in time with this change of paradigm and, hence, reflects it into two distinguished parts. In the first part, we focus on improving current suc­ cessful hand-crafted approaches for action recognition and we do so from three dif­ ferent perspectives. Using the dense trajectories framework as a backbone: first, we explore the use of multi-modal and multi-view input
data to enrich the trajectory de­ scriptors. Second, we focus on the classification part of action recognition pipelines and propose an ensemble learning approach, where each classifier leams from a dif­ferent set of local spatiotemporal features to then combine their outputs following an strategy based on the Dempster-Shaffer Theory. And third, we propose a novel hand-crafted feature extraction method that constructs a rnid-level feature descrip­ tion to better modellong-term spatiotemporal dynarnics within action videos. Moving to the second part of the Thesis, we start with a comprehensive study of the current deep-learning based action recognition methods. We review both fun­ damental and cutting edge methodologies reported during the last few years and introduce a taxonomy of deep-leaming methods dedicated to action recognition. In particular, we analyze and discuss how these handle
the temporal dimension of data. Last but not least, we propose a residual recurrent network for action recogni­ tion that naturally integrates all our previous findings in a powerful and prornising framework.
Address January 2019
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Sergio Escalera
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Cla2019 Serial 3219
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