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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit   pdf
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  Title The Richer Representation the Better Registration Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP  
  Volume 22 Issue 12 Pages 5036-5049  
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  Abstract In this paper, the registration problem is formulated as a point to model distance minimization. Unlike most of the existing works, which are based on minimizing a point-wise correspondence term, this formulation avoids the correspondence search that is time-consuming. In the first stage, the target set is described through an implicit function by employing a linear least squares fitting. This function can be either an implicit polynomial or an implicit B-spline from a coarse to fine representation. In the second stage, we show how the obtained implicit representation is used as an interface to convert point-to-point registration into point-to-implicit problem. Furthermore, we show that this registration distance is smooth and can be minimized through the Levengberg-Marquardt algorithm. All the formulations presented for both stages are compact and easy to implement. In addition, we show that our registration method can be handled using any implicit representation though some are coarse and others provide finer representations; hence, a tradeoff between speed and accuracy can be set by employing the right implicit function. Experimental results and comparisons in 2D and 3D show the robustness and the speed of convergence of the proposed approach.  
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  ISSN 1057-7149 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RoS2013 Serial 2665  
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Author David Geronimo; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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  Title Traffic sign recognition for computer vision project-based learning Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Transactions on Education Abbreviated Journal T-EDUC  
  Volume 56 Issue 3 Pages 364-371  
  Keywords traffic signs  
  Abstract This paper presents a graduate course project on computer vision. The aim of the project is to detect and recognize traffic signs in video sequences recorded by an on-board vehicle camera. This is a demanding problem, given that traffic sign recognition is one of the most challenging problems for driving assistance systems. Equally, it is motivating for the students given that it is a real-life problem. Furthermore, it gives them the opportunity to appreciate the difficulty of real-world vision problems and to assess the extent to which this problem can be solved by modern computer vision and pattern classification techniques taught in the classroom. The learning objectives of the course are introduced, as are the constraints imposed on its design, such as the diversity of students' background and the amount of time they and their instructors dedicate to the course. The paper also describes the course contents, schedule, and how the project-based learning approach is applied. The outcomes of the course are discussed, including both the students' marks and their personal feedback.  
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  ISSN 0018-9359 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes ADAS; CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GSL2013; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 2160  
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Author Zeynep Yucel; Albert Ali Salah; Çetin Meriçli; Tekin Meriçli; Roberto Valenti; Theo Gevers edit  doi
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  Title Joint Attention by Gaze Interpolation and Saliency Type Journal
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Transactions on cybernetics Abbreviated Journal T-CIBER  
  Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 829-842  
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  Abstract Joint attention, which is the ability of coordination of a common point of reference with the communicating party, emerges as a key factor in various interaction scenarios. This paper presents an image-based method for establishing joint attention between an experimenter and a robot. The precise analysis of the experimenter's eye region requires stability and high-resolution image acquisition, which is not always available. We investigate regression-based interpolation of the gaze direction from the head pose of the experimenter, which is easier to track. Gaussian process regression and neural networks are contrasted to interpolate the gaze direction. Then, we combine gaze interpolation with image-based saliency to improve the target point estimates and test three different saliency schemes. We demonstrate the proposed method on a human-robot interaction scenario. Cross-subject evaluations, as well as experiments under adverse conditions (such as dimmed or artificial illumination or motion blur), show that our method generalizes well and achieves rapid gaze estimation for establishing joint attention.  
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  ISSN 2168-2267 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ YSM2013 Serial 2363  
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Author Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Low-level SpatioChromatic Grouping for Saliency Estimation Type Journal Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 35 Issue 11 Pages 2810-2816  
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  Abstract We propose a saliency model termed SIM (saliency by induction mechanisms), which is based on a low-level spatiochromatic model that has successfully predicted chromatic induction phenomena. In so doing, we hypothesize that the low-level visual mechanisms that enhance or suppress image detail are also responsible for making some image regions more salient. Moreover, SIM adds geometrical grouplets to enhance complex low-level features such as corners, and suppress relatively simpler features such as edges. Since our model has been fitted on psychophysical chromatic induction data, it is largely nonparametric. SIM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting eye fixations on two datasets and using two metrics.  
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  ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 600.051; 600.052; 605.203 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MVO2013 Serial 2289  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Out-of-Sample Embedding for Manifold Learning Applied to Face Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 862-868  
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  Abstract Manifold learning techniques are affected by two critical aspects: (i) the design of the adjacency graphs, and (ii) the embedding of new test data---the out-of-sample problem. For the first aspect, the proposed schemes were heuristically driven. For the second aspect, the difficulty resides in finding an accurate mapping that transfers unseen data samples into an existing manifold. Past works addressing these two aspects were heavily parametric in the sense that the optimal performance is only reached for a suitable parameter choice that should be known in advance. In this paper, we demonstrate that sparse coding theory not only serves for automatic graph reconstruction as shown in recent works, but also represents an accurate alternative for out-of-sample embedding. Considering for a case study the Laplacian Eigenmaps, we applied our method to the face recognition problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed out-of-sample embedding, experiments are conducted using the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Kernel Support Vector Machines (KSVM) classifiers on four public face databases. The experimental results show that the proposed model is able to achieve high categorization effectiveness as well as high consistency with non-linear embeddings/manifolds obtained in batch modes.  
  Address Portland; USA; June 2013  
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  Notes OR; 600.046;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DoR2013 Serial 2236  
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Author Jiaolong Xu; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Javier Marin; Daniel Ponsa edit   pdf
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  Title Learning a Multiview Part-based Model in Virtual World for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 467 - 472  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Virtual World; Part based  
  Abstract State-of-the-art deformable part-based models based on latent SVM have shown excellent results on human detection. In this paper, we propose to train a multiview deformable part-based model with automatically generated part examples from virtual-world data. The method is efficient as: (i) the part detectors are trained with precisely extracted virtual examples, thus no latent learning is needed, (ii) the multiview pedestrian detector enhances the performance of the pedestrian root model, (iii) a top-down approach is used for part detection which reduces the searching space. We evaluate our model on Daimler and Karlsruhe Pedestrian Benchmarks with publicly available Caltech pedestrian detection evaluation framework and the result outperforms the state-of-the-art latent SVM V4.0, on both average miss rate and speed (our detector is ten times faster).  
  Address Gold Coast; Australia; June 2013  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1931-0587 ISBN 978-1-4673-2754-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IV  
  Notes ADAS; 600.054; 600.057 Approved no  
  Call Number XVL2013; ADAS @ adas @ xvl2013a Serial 2214  
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Author Ivo Everts; Jan van Gemert; Theo Gevers edit  doi
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  Title Evaluation of Color STIPs for Human Action Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2850-2857  
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  Abstract This paper is concerned with recognizing realistic human actions in videos based on spatio-temporal interest points (STIPs). Existing STIP-based action recognition approaches operate on intensity representations of the image data. Because of this, these approaches are sensitive to disturbing photometric phenomena such as highlights and shadows. Moreover, valuable information is neglected by discarding chromaticity from the photometric representation. These issues are addressed by Color STIPs. Color STIPs are multi-channel reformulations of existing intensity-based STIP detectors and descriptors, for which we consider a number of chromatic representations derived from the opponent color space. This enhanced modeling of appearance improves the quality of subsequent STIP detection and description. Color STIPs are shown to substantially outperform their intensity-based counterparts on the challenging UCF~sports, UCF11 and UCF50 action recognition benchmarks. Moreover, the results show that color STIPs are currently the single best low-level feature choice for STIP-based approaches to human action recognition.  
  Address Portland; oregon; June 2013  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ALTRES;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ EGG2013 Serial 2364  
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Author Rahat Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Damien Muselet; christophe Ducottet; Cecile Barat edit   pdf
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  Title Discriminative Color Descriptors Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2866 - 2873  
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  Abstract Color description is a challenging task because of large variations in RGB values which occur due to scene accidental events, such as shadows, shading, specularities, illuminant color changes, and changes in viewing geometry. Traditionally, this challenge has been addressed by capturing the variations in physics-based models, and deriving invariants for the undesired variations. The drawback of this approach is that sets of distinguishable colors in the original color space are mapped to the same value in the photometric invariant space. This results in a drop of discriminative power of the color description. In this paper we take an information theoretic approach to color description. We cluster color values together based on their discriminative power in a classification problem. The clustering has the explicit objective to minimize the drop of mutual information of the final representation. We show that such a color description automatically learns a certain degree of photometric invariance. We also show that a universal color representation, which is based on other data sets than the one at hand, can obtain competing performance. Experiments show that the proposed descriptor outperforms existing photometric invariants. Furthermore, we show that combined with shape description these color descriptors obtain excellent results on four challenging datasets, namely, PASCAL VOC 2007, Flowers-102, Stanford dogs-120 and Birds-200.  
  Address Portland; Oregon; June 2013  
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  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes CIC; 600.048 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ KWK2013a Serial 2262  
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Author Yainuvis Socarras; Sebastian Ramos; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Theo Gevers edit   pdf
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  Title Adapting Pedestrian Detection from Synthetic to Far Infrared Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) ICCV Workshop on Visual Domain Adaptation and Dataset Bias Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Domain Adaptation; Far Infrared; Pedestrian Detection  
  Abstract We present different techniques to adapt a pedestrian classifier trained with synthetic images and the corresponding automatically generated annotations to operate with far infrared (FIR) images. The information contained in this kind of images allow us to develop a robust pedestrian detector invariant to extreme illumination changes.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Sydney, Australy Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICCVW-VisDA  
  Notes ADAS; 600.054; 600.055; 600.057; 601.217;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SRV2013 Serial 2334  
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Author Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez edit  openurl
  Title DA-DPM Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) ICCV Workshop on Reconstruction meets Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICCVW-RR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ XRV2013 Serial 2569  
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Author Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate edit   pdf
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  Title Evaluation of the Capabilities of Confidence Measures for Assessing Optical Flow Quality Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: From Earth to Mars Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 624-631  
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  Abstract Assessing Optical Flow (OF) quality is essential for its further use in reliable decision support systems. The absence of ground truth in such situations leads to the computation of OF Confidence Measures (CM) obtained from either input or output data. A fair comparison across the capabilities of the different CM for bounding OF error is required in order to choose the best OF-CM pair for discarding points where OF computation is not reliable. This paper presents a statistical probabilistic framework for assessing the quality of a given CM. Our quality measure is given in terms of the percentage of pixels whose OF error bound can not be determined by CM values. We also provide statistical tools for the computation of CM values that ensures a given accuracy of the flow field.  
  Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013  
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  Area Expedition Conference CVTT:E2M  
  Notes IAM; ADAS; 600.044; 600.057; 601.145 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MGH2013b Serial 2351  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit  url
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  Title Evaluating Color Representation for Online Road Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: From Earth to Mars Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 594-595  
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  Abstract Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. Most existing algorithms use color to classify pixels as road or background. These algorithms reduce the effect of lighting variations and weather conditions by exploiting the discriminant/invariant properties of different color representations. However, up to date, no comparison between these representations have been conducted. Therefore, in this paper, we perform an evaluation of existing color representations for road detection. More specifically, we focus on color planes derived from RGB data and their most com-
mon combinations. The evaluation is done on a set of 7000 road images acquired
using an on-board camera in different real-driving situations.
 
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  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGL2013 Serial 2794  
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Author Sandra Jimenez; Xavier Otazu; Valero Laparra; Jesus Malo edit   pdf
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  Title Chromatic induction and contrast masking: similar models, different goals? Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8651 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Normalization of signals coming from linear sensors is an ubiquitous mechanism of neural adaptation.1 Local interaction between sensors tuned to a particular feature at certain spatial position and neighbor sensors explains a wide range of psychophysical facts including (1) masking of spatial patterns, (2) non-linearities of motion sensors, (3) adaptation of color perception, (4) brightness and chromatic induction, and (5) image quality assessment. Although the above models have formal and qualitative similarities, it does not necessarily mean that the mechanisms involved are pursuing the same statistical goal. For instance, in the case of chromatic mechanisms (disregarding spatial information), different parameters in the normalization give rise to optimal discrimination or adaptation, and different non-linearities may give rise to error minimization or component independence. In the case of spatial sensors (disregarding color information), a number of studies have pointed out the benefits of masking in statistical independence terms. However, such statistical analysis has not been performed for spatio-chromatic induction models where chromatic perception depends on spatial configuration. In this work we investigate whether successful spatio-chromatic induction models,6 increase component independence similarly as previously reported for masking models. Mutual information analysis suggests that seeking an efficient chromatic representation may explain the prevalence of induction effects in spatially simple images. © (2013) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.  
  Address San Francisco CA; USA; February 2013  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ JOL2013 Serial 2240  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Alireza Bosaghzadeh; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Efficient Graph Construction for Label Propagation based Multi-observation Face Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication (down) Human Behavior Understanding 4th International Workshop Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 8212 Issue Pages 124-135  
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  Abstract Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding
Human-machine interaction is a hot topic nowadays in the communities of multimedia and computer vision. In this context, face recognition algorithms (used as primary cue for a person’s identity assessment) work well under controlled conditions but degrade significantly when tested in real-world environments. Recently, graph-based label propagation for multi-observation face recognition was proposed. However, the associated graphs were constructed in an ad-hoc manner (e.g., using the KNN graph) that cannot adapt optimally to the data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for efficient and adaptive graph construction that can be used for multi-observation face recognition as well as for other recognition problems. Experimental results performed on Honda video face database, show a distinct advantage of the proposed method over the standard graph construction methods.
 
  Address Barcelona  
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  Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-02713-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference HBU  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DBR2013 Serial 2315  
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Joan Mas; Gemma Sanchez; Ernest Valveny edit   pdf
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  Title Notation-invariant patch-based wall detector in architectural floor plans Type Book Chapter
  Year 2013 Publication (down) Graphics Recognition. New Trends and Challenges Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7423 Issue Pages 79--88  
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  Abstract Architectural floor plans exhibit a large variability in notation. Therefore, segmenting and identifying the elements of any kind of plan becomes a challenging task for approaches based on grouping structural primitives obtained by vectorization. Recently, a patch-based segmentation method working at pixel level and relying on the construction of a visual vocabulary has been proposed in [1], showing its adaptability to different notations by automatically learning the visual appearance of the elements in each different notation. This paper presents an evolution of that previous work, after analyzing and testing several alternatives for each of the different steps of the method: Firstly, an automatic plan-size normalization process is done. Secondly we evaluate different features to obtain the description of every patch. Thirdly, we train an SVM classifier to obtain the category of every patch instead of constructing a visual vocabulary. These variations of the method have been tested for wall detection on two datasets of architectural floor plans with different notations. After studying in deep each of the steps in the process pipeline, we are able to find the best system configuration, which highly outperforms the results on wall segmentation obtained by the original paper.  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36823-3 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 605.203 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HMS2013 Serial 2322  
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