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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
Title Touching Text Character Localization in Graphical Documents using SIFT Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication (down) Graphics Recognition. Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. 8th International Workshop, GREC 2009. Selected Papers Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6020 Issue Pages 199-211
Keywords Support Vector Machine; Text Component; Graphical Line; Document Image; Scale Invariant Feature Transform
Abstract Interpretation of graphical document images is a challenging task as it requires proper understanding of text/graphics symbols present in such documents. Difficulties arise in graphical document recognition when text and symbol overlapped/touched. Intersection of text and symbols with graphical lines and curves occur frequently in graphical documents and hence separation of such symbols is very difficult.
Several pattern recognition and classification techniques exist to recognize isolated text/symbol. But, the touching/overlapping text and symbol recognition has not yet been dealt successfully. An interesting technique, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), originally devised for object recognition can take care of overlapping problems. Even if SIFT features have emerged as a very powerful object descriptors, their employment in graphical documents context has not been investigated much. In this paper we present the adaptation of the SIFT approach in the context of text character localization (spotting) in graphical documents. We evaluate the applicability of this technique in such documents and discuss the scope of improvement by combining some state-of-the-art approaches.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RPL2010c Serial 2408
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Author Albert Andaluz; Francesc Carreras; Debora Gil; Jaume Garcia
Title Una aplicació amigable pel càlcul de indicadors clínics del ventricle esquerre Type Miscellaneous
Year 2010 Publication (down) Forum Biocat 2010 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Lonja de Mar,Barcelona (Spain)
Corporate Author CVC Thesis
Publisher Biocat Place of Publication Barcelona Editor
Language Catalan Summary Language Original Title
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ ACG2010 Serial 1483
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva
Title Compact Evolutive Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes. Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and Applications Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) European Conference on Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
Volume I Issue Pages 119-128
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Area Expedition Conference ECML
Notes MILAB; OR;HUPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2010 Serial 1775
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Author Mirko Arnold; Anarta Ghosh; Stephen Ameling; G Lacey
Title Automatic segmentation and inpainting of specular highlights for endoscopic imaging Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIP JIVP
Volume 2010 Issue 9 Pages
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Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV Approved no
Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2423
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Author Mikhail Mozerov; Ignasi Rius; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Nonlinear synchronization for automatic learning of 3D pose variability in human motion sequences Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIPJ
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Abstract Article ID 507247
A dense matching algorithm that solves the problem of synchronizing prerecorded human motion sequences, which show different speeds and accelerations, is proposed. The approach is based on minimization of MRF energy and solves the problem by using Dynamic Programming. Additionally, an optimal sequence is automatically selected from the input dataset to be a time-scale pattern for all other sequences. The paper utilizes an action specific model which automatically learns the variability of 3D human postures observed in a set of training sequences. The model is trained using the public CMU motion capture dataset for the walking action, and a mean walking performance is automatically learnt. Additionally, statistics about the observed variability of the postures and motion direction are also computed at each time step. The synchronized motion sequences are used to learn a model of human motion for action recognition and full-body tracking purposes.
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1110-8657 ISBN Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ MRR2010 Serial 1208
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Automatic Detection of Dominance and Expected Interest Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIPJ
Volume Issue Pages 12
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Abstract Article ID 491819
Social Signal Processing is an emergent area of research that focuses on the analysis of social constructs. Dominance and interest are two of these social constructs. Dominance refers to the level of influence a person has in a conversation. Interest, when referred in terms of group interactions, can be defined as the degree of engagement that the members of a group collectively display during their interaction. In this paper, we argue that only using behavioral motion information, we are able to predict the interest of observers when looking at face-to-face interactions as well as the dominant people. First, we propose a simple set of movement-based features from body, face, and mouth activity in order to define a higher set of interaction indicators. The considered indicators are manually annotated by observers. Based on the opinions obtained, we define an automatic binary dominance detection problem and a multiclass interest quantification problem. Error-Correcting Output Codes framework is used to learn to rank the perceived observer's interest in face-to-face interactions meanwhile Adaboost is used to solve the dominant detection problem. The automatic system shows good correlation between the automatic categorization results and the manual ranking made by the observers in both dominance and interest detection problems.
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ISSN 1110-8657 ISBN Medium
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Notes OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2010d Serial 1283
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Author Ariel Amato; Mikhail Mozerov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Robust Real-Time Background Subtraction Based on Local Neighborhood Patterns Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal EURASIPJ
Volume Issue Pages 7
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Abstract Article ID 901205
This paper describes an efficient background subtraction technique for detecting moving objects. The proposed approach is able to overcome difficulties like illumination changes and moving shadows. Our method introduces two discriminative features based on angular and modular patterns, which are formed by similarity measurement between two sets of RGB color vectors: one belonging to the background image and the other to the current image. We show how these patterns are used to improve foreground detection in the presence of moving shadows and in the case when there are strong similarities in color between background and foreground pixels. Experimental results over a collection of public and own datasets of real image sequences demonstrate that the proposed technique achieves a superior performance compared with state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, both the low computational and space complexities make the presented algorithm feasible for real-time applications.
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ISSN 1110-8657 ISBN Medium
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ AMR2010 Serial 1463
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Author Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Deteccion automatica de la dominancia en conversaciones diadicas Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication (down) Escritos de Psicologia Abbreviated Journal EP
Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 41–45
Keywords Dominance detection; Non-verbal communication; Visual features
Abstract Dominance is referred to the level of influence that a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on the dominance detection of visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers' opinion. Moreover, these indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analyses showed a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
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ISSN 1989-3809 ISBN Medium
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Notes HUPBA; OR; MILAB;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2010 Serial 1315
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Author Patricia Marquez
Title Conditions Ensuring Accuracy of Local Optical Flow Schemes Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Tehcnical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 157 Issue Pages
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Abstract Accurate computation of optical flow is a key-point in many image processing fields. Detection of anomalous and unpredicted agents (such as pedestrians, bikers or cars) in urban scenes or pathology discrimination in medical imaging sequences, to mention just a two. The above kinds sequences present two main difficulties for standard optical flow techniques. On one hand, variability in acquisition conditions (illuminance, medical imaging modality, ...) force an alterantive representation for images fulfilling the britghtness constancy constrain. On the hand, current variational schemes produce oversmoothed fields unable to properly model discontinuous behaviours such as collisions or functionless pathological areas. This master project explores the abilities and limitations of local and global optical flow approaches. The master student will put especial emphasis in the theoretical grounds behind in order to design a variational framework combining the theoretical advantages of the considered techniques. In particular an optical flow based on Gabor phase tracking (developed in the group for medical imaging) will be generalized to urban scenes.
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain Editor
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Mar2010 Serial 1582
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Author Marc Serra
Title Estimating Intrinsic Images from Physical and Categorical Color Cues Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 151 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Ser2010 Serial 1345
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Author Ahmed Mounir Gad
Title Object Localization Enhancement by Multiple Segmentation Fusion Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 152 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Mou2010 Serial 1346
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Author Antonio Hernandez
Title Pose and Face Recovery via Spatio-temporal GrabCut Human Segmentation Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 153 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes HUPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Her2010 Serial 1347
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Author Jorge Bernal; Fernando Vilariño; F. Javier Sanchez
Title Feature Detectors and Feature Descriptors: Where We Are Now Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 154 Issue Pages
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Abstract Feature Detection and Feature Description are clearly nowadays topics. Many Computer Vision applications rely on the use of several of these techniques in order to extract the most significant aspects of an image so they can help in some tasks such as image retrieval, image registration, object recognition, object categorization and texture classification, among others. In this paper we define what Feature Detection and Description are and then we present an extensive collection of several methods in order to show the different techniques that are being used right now. The aim of this report is to provide a glimpse of what is being used currently in these fields and to serve as a starting point for future endeavours.
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Area 800 Expedition Conference
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BVS2010; IAM @ iam @ BVS2010 Serial 1348
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras
Title Syntactic Model for Semantic Document Analysis Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 158 Issue Pages
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Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Per2010 Serial 1350
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Author Anjan Dutta
Title Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents by Serialized Subgraph Matching Type Report
Year 2010 Publication (down) CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 159 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Dut2010 Serial 1351
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