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Author Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa; I. Bardaji; Horst Bunke
Title Graph-based k-means clustering: A comparison of the set versus the generalized median graph Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5702 Issue Pages 342–350
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Abstract In this paper we propose the application of the generalized median graph in a graph-based k-means clustering algorithm. In the graph-based k-means algorithm, the centers of the clusters have been traditionally represented using the set median graph. We propose an approximate method for the generalized median graph computation that allows to use it to represent the centers of the clusters. Experiments on three databases show that using the generalized median graph as the clusters representative yields better results than the set median graph.
Address Münster, Germany
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-03766-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FVS2009d Serial (up) 1219
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Author Oriol Ramos Terrades; Ernest Valveny; Salvatore Tabbone
Title Optimal Classifier Fusion in a Non-Bayesian Probabilistic Framework Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI
Volume 31 Issue 9 Pages 1630–1644
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Abstract The combination of the output of classifiers has been one of the strategies used to improve classification rates in general purpose classification systems. Some of the most common approaches can be explained using the Bayes' formula. In this paper, we tackle the problem of the combination of classifiers using a non-Bayesian probabilistic framework. This approach permits us to derive two linear combination rules that minimize misclassification rates under some constraints on the distribution of classifiers. In order to show the validity of this approach we have compared it with other popular combination rules from a theoretical viewpoint using a synthetic data set, and experimentally using two standard databases: the MNIST handwritten digit database and the GREC symbol database. Results on the synthetic data set show the validity of the theoretical approach. Indeed, results on real data show that the proposed methods outperform other common combination schemes.
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ISSN 0162-8828 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RVT2009 Serial (up) 1220
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Author Ricard Coll; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title Graphological Analysis of Handwritten Text Documents for Human Resources Recruitment Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1081–1085
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Abstract The use of graphology in recruitment processes has become a popular tool in many human resources companies. This paper presents a model that links features from handwritten images to a number of personality characteristics used to measure applicant aptitudes for the job in a particular hiring scenario. In particular we propose a model of measuring active personality and leadership of the writer. Graphological features that define such a profile are measured in terms of document and script attributes like layout configuration, letter size, shape, slant and skew angle of lines, etc. After the extraction, data is classified using a neural network. An experimental framework with real samples has been constructed to illustrate the performance of the approach.
Address Barcelona, Spain
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ CFL2009 Serial (up) 1221
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Horst Bunke
Title Symbol-independent writer identification in old handwritten music scores Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication In proceedings of 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 186–197
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Address La Rochelle, France
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FLS2009a Serial (up) 1222
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Horst Bunke
Title On the use of textural features for writer identification in old handwritten music scores Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 996 - 1000
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Abstract Writer identification consists in determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper we present a system for writer identification in old handwritten music scores which uses only music notation to determine the author. The steps of the proposed system are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for obtaining a music score without the staff lines. Afterwards, four different methods for generating texture images from music symbols are applied. Every approach uses a different spatial variation when combining the music symbols to generate the textures. Finally, Gabor filters and Grey-scale Co-ocurrence matrices are used to obtain the features. The classification is performed using a k-NN classifier based on Euclidean distance. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the 17th to 19th centuries, achieving encouraging identification rates.
Address Barcelona
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FLS2009b Serial (up) 1223
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Author Agnes Borras; Josep Llados
Title Corest: A measure of color and space stability to detect salient regions according to human criteria Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 204-209
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Address Lisboa, Portugal
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ BoL2009 Serial (up) 1225
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Author Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Dominance Detection in Face-to-face Conversations Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 97–102
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Abstract Dominance is referred to the level of influence 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 dominance detection from 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, the considered indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analysis shows a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
Address Miami, USA
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2160-7508 ISBN 978-1-4244-3994-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes HuPBA; OR; MILAB;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2009 Serial (up) 1227
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title ECOC Random Fields for Lumen Segmentation in Radial Artery IVUS Sequences Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference on Medical Image and Computer Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5762 Issue II Pages
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Abstract The measure of lumen volume on radial arteries can be used to evaluate the vessel response to different vasodilators. In this paper, we present a framework for automatic lumen segmentation in longitudinal cut images of radial artery from Intravascular ultrasound sequences. The segmentation is tackled as a classification problem where the contextual information is exploited by means of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). A multi-class classification framework is proposed, and inference is achieved by combining binary CRFs according to the Error-Correcting-Output-Code technique. The results are validated against manually segmented sequences. Finally, the method is compared with other state-of-the-art classifiers.
Address London, UK
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-04270-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference MICCAI
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPF2009 Serial (up) 1228
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Author Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
Title Evaluation of graph matching measures for documents retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication In proceedings of 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 13–21
Keywords Graph Matching; Graph retrieval; structural representation; Performance Evaluation
Abstract In this paper we evaluate four graph distance measures. The analysis is performed for document retrieval tasks. For this aim, different kind of documents are used which include line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each grahp distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
Address La Rochelle, France
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ JTV2009a Serial (up) 1230
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
Title A First Approach to Activity Recognition Using Topic Models Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 202 Issue Pages 74 - 82
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Abstract In this work, we present a first approach to activity patterns discovery by mean of topic models. Using motion data collected with a wearable device we prototype, TheBadge, we analyse raw accelerometer data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a particular instantiation of topic models. Results show that for particular values of the parameters necessary for applying LDA to a countinous dataset, good accuracies in activity classification can be achieved.
Address Cardona, 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 978-1-60750-061-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CCIA
Notes OR;MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2009e Serial (up) 1231
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Author Angel Sappa; Mohammad Rouhani
Title Efficient Distance Estimation for Fitting Implicit Quadric Surfaces Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3521–3524
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Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the shortest Euclidean distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric fitting surface. It first estimates the orthogonal orientation to the surface from the given point; then the shortest distance is directly estimated by intersecting the implicit surface with a line passing through the given point according to the estimated orthogonal orientation. The proposed orthogonal distance estimation is easily obtained without increasing computational complexity; hence it can be used in error minimization surface fitting frameworks. Comparisons of the proposed metric with previous approaches are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results. Surfaces fitted by using the proposed geometric distance estimation and state of the art metrics are presented to show the viability of the proposed approach.
Address Cairo, Egypt
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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 @ SaR2009 Serial (up) 1232
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Author Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; Fernando De la Torre
Title Optimal Feature Selection for Subspace Image Matching Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods in conjunction Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Abstract Image matching has been a central research topic in computer vision over the last decades. Typical approaches to correspondence involve matching feature points between images. In this paper, we present a novel problem for establishing correspondences between a sparse set of image features and a previously learned subspace model. We formulate the matching task as an energy minimization, and jointly optimize over all possible feature assignments and parameters of the subspace model. This problem is in general NP-hard. We propose a convex relaxation approximation, and develop two optimization strategies: naïve gradient-descent and quadratic programming. Alternatively, we reformulate the optimization criterion as a sparse eigenvalue problem, and solve it using a recently proposed backward greedy algorithm. Experimental results on facial feature detection show that the quadratic programming solution provides better selection mechanism for relevant features.
Address Kyoto, Japan
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Area Expedition Conference ICCV
Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBT2009 Serial (up) 1233
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Author Angel Sappa; Niki Aifanti; Sotiris Malassiotis; Michael G. Strintzis
Title Prior Knowledge Based Motion Model Representation Type Book Chapter
Year 2009 Publication Progress in Computer Vision and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 16 Issue Pages
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor Horst Bunke; JuanJose Villanueva; Gemma Sanchez
Language Summary Language Original Title
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SAM2009 Serial (up) 1235
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Author Carme Julia; Angel Sappa; Felipe Lumbreras; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Predicting Missing Ratings in Recommender Systems: Adapted Factorization Approach Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication International Journal of Electronic Commerce Abbreviated Journal
Volume 14 Issue 1 Pages 89-108
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Abstract The paper presents a factorization-based approach to make predictions in recommender systems. These systems are widely used in electronic commerce to help customers find products according to their preferences. Taking into account the customer's ratings of some products available in the system, the recommender system tries to predict the ratings the customer would give to other products in the system. The proposed factorization-based approach uses all the information provided to compute the predicted ratings, in the same way as approaches based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The main advantage of this technique versus SVD-based approaches is that it can deal with missing data. It also has a smaller computational cost. Experimental results with public data sets are provided to show that the proposed adapted factorization approach gives better predicted ratings than a widely used SVD-based approach.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1086-4415 ISBN Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ JSL2009b Serial (up) 1237
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title A Complete System for Detection and Recognition of Text in Graphical Documents using Background Information Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Address Lisboa, Portugal
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 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RLP2009 Serial (up) 1238
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