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Author Sergio Vera; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester; Debora Gil
Title A medial map capturing the essential geometry of organs Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) ISBI Workshop on Open Source Medical Image Analysis software Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1691 - 1694
Keywords Medial Surface Representation, Volume Reconstruction,Geometry , Image reconstruction , Liver , Manifolds , Shape , Surface morphology , Surface reconstruction
Abstract Medial representations are powerful tools for describing and parameterizing the volumetric shape of anatomical structures. Accurate computation of one pixel wide medial surfaces is mandatory. Those surfaces must represent faithfully the geometry of the volume. Although morphological methods produce excellent results in 2D, their complexity and quality drops across dimensions, due to a more complex description of pixel neighborhoods. This paper introduces a continuous operator for accurate and efficient computation of medial structures of arbitrary dimension. Our experiments show its higher performance for medical imaging applications in terms of simplicity of medial structures and capability for reconstructing the anatomical volume
Address Barcelona,Spain
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Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1945-7928 ISBN 978-1-4577-1857-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISBI
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VGG2012a Serial 1989
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Author Sergio Escalera; Josep Moya; Laura Igual; Veronica Violant; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Análisis Comportamental Automatizado de TDAH: la Influencia de la Variable Motivación Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) IPSI – Cosmocaixa, Jornadas "Empremtes del present, efectes en la psicoanàlisi, la cultura i la societat Abbreviated Journal
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Notes MILAB; HuPBA; OR Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ EMI2012b Serial 2065
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil
Title The Benefits of IVUS Dynamics for Retrieving Stable Models of Arteries Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication (down) Intravascular Ultrasound Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 185-206
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Publisher Intech Place of Publication Editor Yasuhiro Honda
Language English Summary Language english Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN ISBN 978-953-307-900-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM; ADAS Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HeG2012 Serial 1684
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Author Alicia Fornes; Anjan Dutta; Albert Gordo; Josep Llados
Title CVC-MUSCIMA: A Ground-Truth of Handwritten Music Score Images for Writer Identification and Staff Removal Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 243-251
Keywords Music scores; Handwritten documents; Writer identification; Staff removal; Performance evaluation; Graphics recognition; Ground truths
Abstract 0,405JCR
The analysis of music scores has been an active research field in the last decades. However, there are no publicly available databases of handwritten music scores for the research community. In this paper we present the CVC-MUSCIMA database and ground-truth of handwritten music score images. The dataset consists of 1,000 music sheets written by 50 different musicians. It has been especially designed for writer identification and staff removal tasks. In addition to the description of the dataset, ground-truth, partitioning and evaluation metrics, we also provide some base-line results for easing the comparison between different approaches.
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FDG2012 Serial 2129
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
Title Text line extraction in graphical documents using background and foreground Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 15 Issue 3 Pages 227-241
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Abstract 0,405 JCR
In graphical documents (e.g., maps, engineering drawings), artistic documents etc., the text lines are annotated in multiple orientations or curvilinear way to illustrate different locations or symbols. For the optical character recognition of such documents, individual text lines from the documents need to be extracted. In this paper, we propose a novel method to segment such text lines and the method is based on the foreground and background information of the text components. To effectively utilize the background information, a water reservoir concept is used here. In the proposed scheme, at first, individual components are detected and grouped into character clusters in a hierarchical way using size and positional information. Next, the clusters are extended in two extreme sides to determine potential candidate regions. Finally, with the help of these candidate regions,
individual lines are extracted. The experimental results are presented on different datasets of graphical documents, camera-based warped documents, noisy images containing seals, etc. The results demonstrate that our approach is robust and invariant to size and orientation of the text lines present in
the document.
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RPL2012b Serial 2134
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Author Josep Llados; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; David Fernandez; Anjan Dutta
Title On the Influence of Word Representations for Handwritten Word Spotting in Historical Documents Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal IJPRAI
Volume 26 Issue 5 Pages 1263002-126027
Keywords Handwriting recognition; word spotting; historical documents; feature representation; shape descriptors Read More: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218001412630025
Abstract 0,624 JCR
Word spotting is the process of retrieving all instances of a queried keyword from a digital library of document images. In this paper we evaluate the performance of different word descriptors to assess the advantages and disadvantages of statistical and structural models in a framework of query-by-example word spotting in historical documents. We compare four word representation models, namely sequence alignment using DTW as a baseline reference, a bag of visual words approach as statistical model, a pseudo-structural model based on a Loci features representation, and a structural approach where words are represented by graphs. The four approaches have been tested with two collections of historical data: the George Washington database and the marriage records from the Barcelona Cathedral. We experimentally demonstrate that statistical representations generally give a better performance, however it cannot be neglected that large descriptors are difficult to be implemented in a retrieval scenario where word spotting requires the indexation of data with million word images.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ LRF2012 Serial 2128
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Author Xavier Boix; Josep M. Gonfaus; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Joan Serrat; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Harmony Potentials: Fusing Global and Local Scale for Semantic Image Segmentation Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 96 Issue 1 Pages 83-102
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Abstract The Hierarchical Conditional Random Field(HCRF) model have been successfully applied to a number of image labeling problems, including image segmentation. However, existing HCRF models of image segmentation do not allow multiple classes to be assigned to a single region, which limits their ability to incorporate contextual information across multiple scales.
At higher scales in the image, this representation yields an oversimpli ed model since multiple classes can be reasonably expected to appear within large regions. This simpli ed model particularly limits the impact of information at higher scales. Since class-label information at these scales is usually more reliable than at lower, noisier scales, neglecting this information is undesirable. To
address these issues, we propose a new consistency potential for image labeling problems, which we call the harmony potential. It can encode any possible combi-
nation of labels, penalizing only unlikely combinations of classes. We also propose an e ective sampling strategy over this expanded label set that renders tractable the underlying optimization problem. Our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on two challenging, standard benchmark datasets for semantic image segmentation: PASCAL VOC 2010, and MSRC-21.
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ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
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Notes ISE;CIC;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BGW2012 Serial 1718
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Author R. Valenti; N. Sebe; Theo Gevers
Title What are you looking at? Improving Visual gaze Estimation by Saliency Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 98 Issue 3 Pages 324-334
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Abstract Impact factor 2010: 5.15
Impact factor 2011/12?: 5.36
In this paper we present a novel mechanism to obtain enhanced gaze estimation for subjects looking at a scene or an image. The system makes use of prior knowledge about the scene (e.g. an image on a computer screen), to define a probability map of the scene the subject is gazing at, in order to find the most probable location. The proposed system helps in correcting the fixations which are erroneously estimated by the gaze estimation device by employing a saliency framework to adjust the resulting gaze point vector. The system is tested on three scenarios: using eye tracking data, enhancing a low accuracy webcam based eye tracker, and using a head pose tracker. The correlation between the subjects in the commercial eye tracking data is improved by an average of 13.91%. The correlation on the low accuracy eye gaze tracker is improved by 59.85%, and for the head pose tracker we obtain an improvement of 10.23%. These results show the potential of the system as a way to enhance and self-calibrate different visual gaze estimation systems.
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Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VSG2012 Serial 1848
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
Title Modulating Shape Features by Color Attention for Object Recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 98 Issue 1 Pages 49-64
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Abstract Bag-of-words based image representation is a successful approach for object recognition. Generally, 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, it was found that the combination of different image cues, such as shape and color, often obtains below expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using ultiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, these color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. In regions with higher attention shape features are given more weight than in regions with low attention. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on five data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer (color predominance), Flower (color and hape parity), PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 (shape predominance) and Caltech-101 (color co-interference). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all five data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods for combining color and shape information.
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Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KWV2012 Serial 1864
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Author Francesc Carreras; Jaume Garcia; Debora Gil; Sandra Pujadas; Chi ho Lion; R.Suarez-Arias; R.Leta; Xavier Alomar; Manuel Ballester; Guillem Pons-Llados
Title Left ventricular torsion and longitudinal shortening: two fundamental components of myocardial mechanics assessed by tagged cine-MRI in normal subjects Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging Abbreviated Journal IJCI
Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 273-284
Keywords Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Tagging MRI; Cardiac mechanics; Ventricular torsion
Abstract Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (Cardiac MRI) has become a gold standard diagnostic technique for the assessment of cardiac mechanics, allowing the non-invasive calculation of left ventric- ular long axis longitudinal shortening (LVLS) and absolute myocardial torsion (AMT) between basal and apical left ventricular slices, a movement directly related to the helicoidal anatomic disposition of the myocardial fibers. The aim of this study is to determine AMT and LVLS behaviour and normal values from a group of healthy subjects. A group of 21 healthy volunteers (15 males) (age: 23–55 y.o., mean:30.7 ± 7.5) were prospectively included in an obser- vational study by Cardiac MRI. Left ventricular rotation (degrees) was calculated by custom-made software (Harmonic Phase Flow) in consecutive LV short axis planes tagged cine-MRI sequences. AMT was determined from the difference between basal and apical planes LV rotations. LVLS (%) was determined from the LV longitudinal and horizontal axis cine-MRI images. All the 21 cases studied were interpretable, although in three cases the value of the LV apical rotation could not be determined. The mean rotation of the basal and apical planes at end-systole were -3.71° ± 0.84° and 6.73° ± 1.69° (n:18) respectively, resulting in a LV mean AMT of 10.48° ± 1.63° (n:18). End-systolic mean LVLS was 19.07 ± 2.71%. Cardiac MRI allows for the calculation of AMT and LVLS, fundamental functional components of the ventricular twist mechanics conditioned, in turn, by the anatomical helical layout of the myocardial fibers. These values provide complementary information about systolic ventricular function in relation to the traditional parameters used in daily practice.
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Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1569-5794 ISBN Medium
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ CGG2012 Serial 1496
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Author R. de Nijs; Sebastian Ramos; Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; Luc Van Gool; K. Kühnlenz.
Title On-line Semantic Perception Using Uncertainty Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Abbreviated Journal IROS
Volume Issue Pages 4185-4191
Keywords Semantic Segmentation
Abstract Visual perception capabilities are still highly unreliable in unconstrained settings, and solutions might not beaccurate in all regions of an image. Awareness of the uncertainty of perception is a fundamental requirement for proper high level decision making in a robotic system. Yet, the uncertainty measure is often sacrificed to account for dependencies between object/region classifiers. This is the case of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), the success of which stems from their ability to infer the most likely world configuration, but they do not directly allow to estimate the uncertainty of the solution. In this paper, we consider the setting of assigning semantic labels to the pixels of an image sequence. Instead of using a CRF, we employ a Perturb-and-MAP Random Field, a recently introduced probabilistic model that allows performing fast approximate sampling from its probability density function. This allows to effectively compute the uncertainty of the solution, indicating the reliability of the most likely labeling in each region of the image. We report results on the CamVid dataset, a standard benchmark for semantic labeling of urban image sequences. In our experiments, we show the benefits of exploiting the uncertainty by putting more computational effort on the regions of the image that are less reliable, and use more efficient techniques for other regions, showing little decrease of performance
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ NRR2012 Serial 2378
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Author Pedro Martins; Paulo Carvalho; Carlo Gatta
Title Stable Salient Shapes Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications Abbreviated Journal
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Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MCG2012b Serial 2166
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Author Noha Elfiky; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
Title Compact and Adaptive Spatial Pyramids for Scene Recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) Image and Vision Computing Abbreviated Journal IMAVIS
Volume 30 Issue 8 Pages 492–500
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Abstract Most successful approaches on scenerecognition tend to efficiently combine global image features with spatial local appearance and shape cues. On the other hand, less attention has been devoted for studying spatial texture features within scenes. Our method is based on the insight that scenes can be seen as a composition of micro-texture patterns. This paper analyzes the role of texture along with its spatial layout for scenerecognition. However, one main drawback of the resulting spatial representation is its huge dimensionality. Hence, we propose a technique that addresses this problem by presenting a compactSpatialPyramid (SP) representation. The basis of our compact representation, namely, CompactAdaptiveSpatialPyramid (CASP) consists of a two-stages compression strategy. This strategy is based on the Agglomerative Information Bottleneck (AIB) theory for (i) compressing the least informative SP features, and, (ii) automatically learning the most appropriate shape for each category. Our method exceeds the state-of-the-art results on several challenging scenerecognition data sets.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ EGR2012 Serial 2004
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Author Carles Sanchez;F. Javier Sanchez; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
Title An illumination model of the trachea appearance in videobronchoscopy images Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication (down) Image Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal LNCS
Volume 7325 Issue Pages 313-320
Keywords Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, stenosis assesment, trachea appearance model, segmentation
Abstract Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways. This imaging modality provides realistic images and allows non-invasive minimal intervention procedures. Tracheal procedures are routinary interventions that require assessment of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) detection. Visual assessment in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error.
This paper introduces an automatic method for the estimation of steneosed trachea percentage reduction in videobronchoscopic images. We look for tracheal rings , whose deformation determines the degree of obstruction. For ring extraction , we present a ring detector based on an illumination and appearance model. This model allows us to parametrise the ring detection. Finally, we can infer optimal estimation parameters for any video resolution.
Address Aveiro, Portugal
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-31297-7 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference ICIAR
Notes MV;IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ SSR2012 Serial 1898
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Alireza Bosaghzadeh; Bogdan Raducanu
Title LSDA Solution Schemes for Modelless 3D Head Pose Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication (down) IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 393-398
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Call Number Admin @ si @ DBR2012 Serial 1889
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