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	Author	Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
	Title	Generic Object Recognition in Urban Image Databases			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	202	Issue		Pages	27-34
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	Abstract	In this paper we propose the construction of a visual content layer which describes the visual appearance of geographic locations in a city. We captured, by means of a Mobile Mapping system, a huge set of georeferenced images (>500K) which cover the whole city of Barcelona. For each image, hundreds of region descriptions are computed off-line and described as a hash code. All this information is extracted without an object of reference, which allows to search for any type of objects using their visual appearance. A new Visual Content layer is built over Google Maps, allowing the object recognition information to be organized and fused with other content, like satellite images, street maps, and business locations.
	Address	Cardona (Spain)
	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	978-1-60750-061-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CCIA
	Notes	OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VER2009			Serial	1183
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Alberto Escudero; Petia Radeva
	Title	Circular Blurred Shape Model for Symbol Spotting in Documents			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1985-1988
	Keywords
	Abstract	Symbol spotting problem requires feature extraction strategies able to generalize from training samples and to localize the target object while discarding most part of the image. In the case of document analysis, symbol spotting techniques have to deal with a high variability of symbols' appearance. In this paper, we propose the Circular Blurred Shape Model descriptor. Feature extraction is performed capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. Shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, being tolerant to the irregular deformations. Descriptors are learnt using a cascade of classifiers and Abadoost as the base classifier. Finally, symbol spotting is performed by means of a windowing strategy using the learnt cascade over plan and old musical score documents. Spotting and multi-class categorization results show better performance comparing with the state-of-the-art descriptors.
	Address	Cairo, Egypt
	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	978-1-4244-5653-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA;DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EFP2009b			Serial	1184
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Eloi Puertas; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol
	Title	Multimodal laughter recognition in video conversations			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	110–115
	Keywords
	Abstract	Laughter detection is an important area of interest in the Affective Computing and Human-computer Interaction fields. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal methodology based on the fusion of audio and visual cues to deal with the laughter recognition problem in face-to-face conversations. The audio features are extracted from the spectogram and the video features are obtained estimating the mouth movement degree and using a smile and laughter classifier. Finally, the multi-modal cues are included in a sequential classifier. Results over videos from the public discussion blog of the New York Times show that both types of features perform better when considered together by the classifier. Moreover, the sequential methodology shows to significantly outperform the results obtained by an Adaboost classifier.
	Address	Miami (USA)
	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	2160-7508	ISBN	978-1-4244-3994-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPR2009c			Serial	1188
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	Author	Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
	Title	Visual Content Layer for Scalable Recognition in Urban Image Databases, Internet Multimedia Search and Mining			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1616–1619
	Keywords
	Abstract	Rich online map interaction represents a useful tool to get multimedia information related to physical places. With this type of systems, users can automatically compute the optimal route for a trip or to look for entertainment places or hotels near their actual position. Standard maps are defined as a fusion of layers, where each one contains specific data such height, streets, or a particular business location. In this paper we propose the construction of a visual content layer which describes the visual appearance of geographic locations in a city. We captured, by means of a Mobile Mapping system, a huge set of georeferenced images (> 500K) which cover the whole city of Barcelona. For each image, hundreds of region descriptions are computed off-line and described as a hash code. This allows an efficient and scalable way of accessing maps by visual content.
	Address	New York (USA)
	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	978-1-4244-4291-1	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICME
	Notes	OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BER2009			Serial	1189
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	Author	Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	38	Issue		Pages	180
	Keywords
	Abstract	38(Suppl.)ECVP Abstract Supplement We developed a new psychophysical method to compare different colour appearance models when applied to natural scenes. The method was as follows: two images (processed by different algorithms) were displayed on a CRT monitor and observers were asked to select the most natural of them. The original images were gathered by means of a calibrated trichromatic digital camera and presented one on top of the other on a calibrated screen. The selection was made by pressing on a 6-button IR box, which allowed observers to consider not only the most natural but to rate their selection. The rating system allowed observers to register how much more natural was their chosen image (eg, much more, definitely more, slightly more), which gave us valuable extra information on the selection process. The results were analysed considering both the selection as a binary choice (using Thurstone's law of comparative judgement) and using Bradley-Terry method for ordinal comparison. Our results show a significant difference in the rating scales obtained. Although this method has been used in colour constancy algorithm comparisons, its uses are much wider, eg to compare algorithms of image compression, rendering, recolouring, etc.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ VPV2009b			Serial	1191
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	Author	Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	38	Issue		Pages	36
	Keywords
	Abstract	In a previous experiment [Parraga et al, 2009 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 53(3)] the boundaries between basic colour categories were measured by asking subjects to categorize colour samples presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) using a YES/NO paradigm. Results showed that some boundaries (eg green – blue) were very diffuse and the subjects' answers presented bimodal distributions, which were attributed to the emergence of non-basic categories in those regions (eg turquoise). To confirm these results we performed a new experiment focussed on the boundaries where bimodal distributions were more evident. In this new experiment rectangular colour samples were presented surrounded by random colour patches to simulate contextual conditions on a calibrated CRT monitor. The names of two neighbouring colours were shown at the bottom of the screen and subjects selected the boundary between these colours by controlling the chromaticity of the central patch, sliding it across these categories' frontier. Results show that in this new experimental paradigm, the formerly uncertain inter-colour category boundaries are better defined and the dispersions (ie the bimodal distributions) that occurred in the previous experiment disappear. These results may provide further support to Berlin and Kay's basic colour terms theory.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ BPV2009			Serial	1192
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	Author	C. Alejandro Parraga; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell
	Title	A new cone activation-based natural images dataset			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Perception	Abbreviated Journal	PER
	Volume	36	Issue		Pages	180
	Keywords
	Abstract	We generated a new dataset of digital natural images where each colour plane corresponds to the human LMS (long-, medium-, short-wavelength) cone activations. The images were chosen to represent five different visual environments (eg forest, seaside, mountain snow, urban, motorways) and were taken under natural illumination at different times of day. At the bottom-left corner of each picture there was a matte grey ball of approximately constant spectral reflectance (across the camera's response spectrum,) and nearly Lambertian reflective properties, which allows to compute (and remove, if necessary) the illuminant's colour and intensity. The camera (Sigma Foveon SD10) was calibrated by measuring its sensor's spectral responses using a set of 31 spectrally narrowband interference filters. This allowed conversion of the final camera-dependent RGB colour space into the Smith and Pokorny (1975) cone activation space by means of a polynomial transformation, optimised for a set of 1269 Munsell chip reflectances. This new method is an improvement over the usual 3 × 3 matrix transformation which is only accurate for spectrally-narrowband colours. The camera-to-LMS transformation can be recalculated to consider other non-human visual systems. The dataset is available to download from our website.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ PVV2009			Serial	1193
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	Author	Joost Van de Weijer; Cordelia Schmid; Jakob Verbeek; Diane Larlus
	Title	Learning Color Names for Real-World Applications			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	IEEE Transaction in Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	18	Issue	7	Pages	1512–1524
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	Abstract	Color names are required in real-world applications such as image retrieval and image annotation. Traditionally, they are learned from a collection of labelled color chips. These color chips are labelled with color names within a well-defined experimental setup by human test subjects. However naming colors in real-world images differs significantly from this experimental setting. In this paper, we investigate how color names learned from color chips compare to color names learned from real-world images. To avoid hand labelling real-world images with color names we use Google Image to collect a data set. Due to limitations of Google Image this data set contains a substantial quantity of wrongly labelled data. We propose several variants of the PLSA model to learn color names from this noisy data. Experimental results show that color names learned from real-world images significantly outperform color names learned from labelled color chips for both image retrieval and image annotation.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ WSV2009			Serial	1195
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Top-Down Color Attention for Object Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	12th International Conference on Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	979 - 986
	Keywords
	Abstract	Generally the bag-of-words based image representation follows a bottom-up paradigm. 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, combining multiple cues such as shape and color often provides below-expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separating the shape and color cue. Color is used to guide attention by means of a top-down category-specific attention map. The color attention map is then further deployed to modulate the shape features by taking more features from regions within an image that are likely to contain an object instance. This procedure leads to a category-specific image histogram representation for each category. Furthermore, we argue that the method combines the advantages of both early and late fusion. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on three data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer ( color predominance), Flower (color and shape parity), and PASCAL VOC Challenge 2007 (shape predominance). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all three data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for combining color and shape information.
	Address	Kyoto, Japan
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1550-5499	ISBN	978-1-4244-4420-5	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICCV
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ SWV2009			Serial	1196
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	Author	Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Physics-based Edge Evaluation for Improved Color Constancy			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	22nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	581 – 588
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	Abstract	Edge-based color constancy makes use of image derivatives to estimate the illuminant. However, different edge types exist in real-world images such as shadow, geometry, material and highlight edges. These different edge types may have a distinctive influence on the performance of the illuminant estimation.
	Address	Miami, USA
	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	1063-6919	ISBN	978-1-4244-3992-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	CAT;ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ GGW2009			Serial	1197
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	Author	Jose Manuel Alvarez; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Automatic Ground-truthing using video registration for on-board detection algorithms			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4389 - 4392
	Keywords
	Abstract	Ground-truth data is essential for the objective evaluation of object detection methods in computer vision. Many works claim their method is robust but they support it with experiments which are not quantitatively assessed with regard some ground-truth. This is one of the main obstacles to properly evaluate and compare such methods. One of the main reasons is that creating an extensive and representative ground-truth is very time consuming, specially in the case of video sequences, where thousands of frames have to be labelled. Could such a ground-truth be generated, at least in part, automatically? Though it may seem a contradictory question, we show that this is possible for the case of video sequences recorded from a moving camera. The key idea is transferring existing frame segmentations from a reference sequence into another video sequence recorded at a different time on the same track, possibly under a different ambient lighting. We have carried out experiments on several video sequence pairs and quantitatively assessed the precision of the transformed ground-truth, which prove that our approach is not only feasible but also quite accurate.
	Address	Cairo, Egypt
	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	1522-4880	ISBN	978-1-4244-5653-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ ADS2009			Serial	1201
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	Author	Enric Marti; Jaume Rocarias; Ricardo Toledo; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
	Title	Caronte: plataforma Moodle con gestion flexible de grupos. Primeras experiencias en asignaturas de Ingenieria Informatica			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2009	Publication	15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	461–468
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	Abstract	En este artículo se presenta Caronte, entorno LMS (Learning Management System) basado en Moodle. Una característica importante del entorno es la gestión flexible de grupos en una asignatura. Entendemos por grupo un conjunto de alumnos que realizan un trabajo y uno de ellos entrega la actividad propuesta (práctica, encuesta, etc.) en representación del grupo. Hemos trabajado en la confección de estos grupos, implementando un sistema de inscripción por contraseña. Caronte ofrece un conjunto de actividades basadas en este concepto de grupo: encuestas, tareas (entrega de trabajos o prácticas), encuestas de autoevaluación y cuestionarios, entre otras. Basada en nuestra actividad de encuesta, hemos definido una actividad de Control, que permite un cierto feedback electrónico del profesor sobre la actividad de los alumnos. Finalmente, se presenta un resumen de las experiencias de uso de Caronte sobre asignaturas de Ingeniería Informática en el curso 2007-08.
	Address	Barcelona, Spain
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-692-2758-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	JENUI
	Notes	IAM;RV;ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ MRT2009			Serial	1202
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	Author	Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Angel Serrano; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	On in-vitro and in-vivo IVUS data fusion			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	202	Issue		Pages	147-156
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	Abstract	The design and the validation of an automatic plaque characterization technique based on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) usually requires a data ground-truth. The histological analysis of post-mortem coronary arteries is commonly assumed as the state-of-the-art process for the extraction of a reliable data-set of atherosclerotic plaques. Unfortunately, the amount of data provided by this technique is usually few, due to the difficulties in collecting post-mortem cases and phenomena of tissue spoiling during histological analysis. In this paper we tackle the process of fusing in-vivo and in-vitro IVUS data starting with the analysis of recently proposed approaches for the creation of an enhanced IVUS data-set; furthermore, we propose a new approach, named pLDS, based on semi-supervised learning with a data selection criterion. The enhanced data-set obtained by each one of the analyzed approaches is used to train a classifier for tissue characterization purposes. Finally, the discriminative power of each classifier is quantitatively assessed and compared by classifying a data-set of validated in-vitro IVUS data.
	Address	Cardona (Spain)
	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	978-1-60750-061-2	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CCIA
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009d			Serial	1204
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	Author	Nicola Bellotto; Eric Sommerlade; Ben Benfold; Charles Bibby; I. Reid; Daniel Roth; Luc Van Gool; Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	A Distributed Camera System for Multi-Resolution Surveillance			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289413
	Abstract	We describe an architecture for a multi-camera, multi-resolution surveillance system. The aim is to support a set of distributed static and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras and visual tracking algorithms, together with a central supervisor unit. Each camera (and possibly pan-tilt device) has a dedicated process and processor. Asynchronous interprocess communications and archiving of data are achieved in a simple and effective way via a central repository, implemented using an SQL database. Visual tracking data from static views are stored dynamically into tables in the database via client calls to the SQL server. A supervisor process running on the SQL server determines if active zoom cameras should be dispatched to observe a particular target, and this message is effected via writing demands into another database table. We show results from a real implementation of the system comprising one static camera overviewing the environment under consideration and a PTZ camera operating under closed-loop velocity control, which uses a fast and robust level-set-based region tracker. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its feasibility to multi-camera systems for intelligent surveillance.
	Address	Como, Italy
	Corporate Author				Thesis
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDSC
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	ISE @ ise @ BSB2009			Serial	1205
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	Author	Mikhail Mozerov; Ariel Amato; Xavier Roca
	Title	Occlusion Handling in Trinocular Stereo using Composite Disparity Space Image			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	19th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	69–73
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	Abstract	In this paper we propose a method that smartly improves occlusion handling in stereo matching using trinocular stereo. The main idea is based on the assumption that any occluded region in a matched stereo pair (middle-left images) in general is not occluded in the opposite matched pair (middle-right images). Then two disparity space images (DSI) can be merged in one composite DSI. The proposed integration differs from the known approach that uses a cumulative cost. A dense disparity map is obtained with a global optimization algorithm using the proposed composite DSI. The experimental results are evaluated on the Middlebury data set, showing high performance of the proposed algorithm especially in the occluded regions. One of the top positions in the rank of the Middlebury website confirms the performance of our method to be competitive with the best stereo matching.
	Address	Moscow (Russia)
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-5-317-02975-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	GRAPHICON
	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	ISE @ ise @ MAR2009b			Serial	1207
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