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Author Kaida Xiao; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sophie Wuerger edit  doi
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  Title Visual Gamma Correction for LCD Displays Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Displays Abbreviated Journal DIS  
  Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 17-23  
  Keywords Display calibration; Psychophysics ; Perceptual; Visual gamma correction; Luminance matching; Observer-based calibration  
  Abstract An improved method for visual gamma correction is developed for LCD displays to increase the accuracy of digital colour reproduction. Rather than utilising a photometric measurement device, we use observ- ers’ visual luminance judgements for gamma correction. Eight half tone patterns were designed to gen- erate relative luminances from 1/9 to 8/9 for each colour channel. A psychophysical experiment was conducted on an LCD display to find the digital signals corresponding to each relative luminance by visually matching the half-tone background to a uniform colour patch. Both inter- and intra-observer vari- ability for the eight luminance matches in each channel were assessed and the luminance matches proved to be consistent across observers (DE00 < 3.5) and repeatable (DE00 < 2.2). Based on the individual observer judgements, the display opto-electronic transfer function (OETF) was estimated by using either a 3rd order polynomial regression or linear interpolation for each colour channel. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by predicting the CIE tristimulus values of a set of coloured patches (using the observer-based OETFs) and comparing them to the expected CIE tristimulus values (using the OETF obtained from spectro-radiometric luminance measurements). The resulting colour differences range from 2 to 4.6 DE00. We conclude that this observer-based method of visual gamma correction is useful to estimate the OETF for LCD displays. Its major advantage is that no particular functional relationship between digital inputs and luminance outputs has to be assumed.  
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  Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ XFK2011 Serial (down) 1815  
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Author Murad Al Haj; Carles Fernandez; Zhanwu Xiong; Ivan Huerta; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title Beyond the Static Camera: Issues and Trends in Active Vision Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 2 Pages 11-30  
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  Abstract Maximizing both the area coverage and the resolution per target is highly desirable in many applications of computer vision. However, with a limited number of cameras viewing a scene, the two objectives are contradictory. This chapter is dedicated to active vision systems, trying to achieve a trade-off between these two aims and examining the use of high-level reasoning in such scenarios. The chapter starts by introducing different approaches to active cameras configurations. Later, a single active camera system to track a moving object is developed, offering the reader first-hand understanding of the issues involved. Another section discusses practical considerations in building an active vision platform, taking as an example a multi-camera system developed for a European project. The last section of the chapter reflects upon the future trends of using semantic factors to drive smartly coordinated active systems.  
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  Publisher Springer London Place of Publication Editor Th.B. Moeslund; A. Hilton; V. Krüger; L. Sigal  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-0-85729-996-3 Medium  
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  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AFX2011 Serial (down) 1814  
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Author Jordi Gonzalez; Josep M. Gonfaus; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca edit  openurl
  Title Exploiting Natural-Language Interaction in Video Surveillance Systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Brighton, UK  
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  Area Expedition Conference VL  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GGF2011 Serial (down) 1813  
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Author Wenjuan Gong; Jürgen Brauer; Michael Arens; Jordi Gonzalez edit  openurl
  Title Modeling vs. Learning Approaches for Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 1st IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation on Recognition of Human Actions and Pose Estimation Methods Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address London, United Kingdom  
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  Area Expedition Conference PERHAPS  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GBA2011 Serial (down) 1812  
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Author Bhaskar Chakraborty; Michael Holte; Thomas B. Moeslund; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca edit  doi
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  Title A Selective Spatio-Temporal Interest Point Detector for Human Action Recognition in Complex Scenes Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1776-1783  
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  Abstract Recent progress in the field of human action recognition points towards the use of Spatio-Temporal Interest Points (STIPs) for local descriptor-based recognition strategies. In this paper we present a new approach for STIP detection by applying surround suppression combined with local and temporal constraints. Our method is significantly different from existing STIP detectors and improves the performance by detecting more repeatable, stable and distinctive STIPs for human actors, while suppressing unwanted background STIPs. For action representation we use a bag-of-visual words (BoV) model of local N-jet features to build a vocabulary of visual-words. To this end, we introduce a novel vocabulary building strategy by combining spatial pyramid and vocabulary compression techniques, resulting in improved performance and efficiency. Action class specific Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers are trained for categorization of human actions. A comprehensive set of experiments on existing benchmark datasets, and more challenging datasets of complex scenes, validate our approach and show state-of-the-art performance.  
  Address Barcelona  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CHM2011 Serial (down) 1811  
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Author Nataliya Shapovalova; Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez edit  doi
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  Title Semantics of Human Behavior in Image Sequences Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Computer Analysis of Human Behavior Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue 7 Pages 151-182  
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  Abstract Human behavior is contextualized and understanding the scene of an action is crucial for giving proper semantics to behavior. In this chapter we present a novel approach for scene understanding. The emphasis of this work is on the particular case of Human Event Understanding. We introduce a new taxonomy to organize the different semantic levels of the Human Event Understanding framework proposed. Such a framework particularly contributes to the scene understanding domain by (i) extracting behavioral patterns from the integrative analysis of spatial, temporal, and contextual evidence and (ii) integrative analysis of bottom-up and top-down approaches in Human Event Understanding. We will explore how the information about interactions between humans and their environment influences the performance of activity recognition, and how this can be extrapolated to the temporal domain in order to extract higher inferences from human events observed in sequences of images.  
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  Publisher Springer London Place of Publication Editor Albert Ali Salah;  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-0-85729-993-2 Medium  
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  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SFR2011 Serial (down) 1810  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika edit  doi
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  Title A Discriminative Non-Linear Manifold Learning Technique for Face Recognition Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Informatics Engineering and Information Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 254 Issue 6 Pages 339-353  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose a novel non-linear discriminative analysis technique for manifold learning. The proposed approach is a discriminant version of Laplacian Eigenmaps which takes into account the class label information in order to guide the procedure of non-linear dimensionality reduction. By following the large margin concept, the graph Laplacian is split in two components: within-class graph and between-class graph to better characterize the discriminant property of the data.
Our approach has been tested on several challenging face databases and it has been conveniently compared with other linear and non-linear techniques. The experimental results confirm that our method outperforms, in general, the existing ones. Although we have concentrated in this paper on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be applied to other category of objects characterized by large variance in their appearance.
 
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1865-0929 ISBN 978-3-642-25482-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIEIS  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2011 Serial (down) 1804  
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Author E. Serradell; Adriana Romero; R. Leta; Carlo Gatta; Francesc Moreno-Noguer edit  url
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  Title Simultaneous Correspondence and Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction of the Coronary Tree from Single X-Ray Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 850-857  
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  Address Barcelona  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SRL2011 Serial (down) 1803  
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Author Carlo Gatta; Eloi Puertas; Oriol Pujol edit  doi
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  Title Multi-Scale Stacked Sequential Learning Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 44 Issue 10-11 Pages 2414-2416  
  Keywords Stacked sequential learning; Multiscale; Multiresolution; Contextual classification  
  Abstract One of the most widely used assumptions in supervised learning is that data is independent and identically distributed. This assumption does not hold true in many real cases. Sequential learning is the discipline of machine learning that deals with dependent data such that neighboring examples exhibit some kind of relationship. In the literature, there are different approaches that try to capture and exploit this correlation, by means of different methodologies. In this paper we focus on meta-learning strategies and, in particular, the stacked sequential learning approach. The main contribution of this work is two-fold: first, we generalize the stacked sequential learning. This generalization reflects the key role of neighboring interactions modeling. Second, we propose an effective and efficient way of capturing and exploiting sequential correlations that takes into account long-range interactions by means of a multi-scale pyramidal decomposition of the predicted labels. Additionally, this new method subsumes the standard stacked sequential learning approach. We tested the proposed method on two different classification tasks: text lines classification in a FAQ data set and image classification. Results on these tasks clearly show that our approach outperforms the standard stacked sequential learning. Moreover, we show that the proposed method allows to control the trade-off between the detail and the desired range of the interactions.  
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  Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GPP2011 Serial (down) 1802  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Traffic-Sign Recognition Systems Type Book Whole
  Year 2011 Publication SpringerBriefs in Computer Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 5-13  
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  Publisher Springer London Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4471-2244-9 Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ EBP2011 Serial (down) 1801  
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Oriol Pujol edit  doi
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  Title Minimal Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL  
  Volume 33 Issue 6 Pages 693-702  
  Keywords Multi-class classification; Error-correcting output codes; Ensemble of classifiers  
  Abstract IF JCR CCIA 1.303 2009 54/103
The classification of large number of object categories is a challenging trend in the pattern recognition field. In literature, this is often addressed using an ensemble of classifiers. In this scope, the Error-correcting output codes framework has demonstrated to be a powerful tool for combining classifiers. However, most state-of-the-art ECOC approaches use a linear or exponential number of classifiers, making the discrimination of a large number of classes unfeasible. In this paper, we explore and propose a minimal design of ECOC in terms of the number of classifiers. Evolutionary computation is used for tuning the parameters of the classifiers and looking for the best minimal ECOC code configuration. The results over several public UCI datasets and different multi-class computer vision problems show that the proposed methodology obtains comparable (even better) results than state-of-the-art ECOC methodologies with far less number of dichotomizers.
 
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  Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0167-8655 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2011a Serial (down) 1800  
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Author Simone Balocco; Carlo Gatta; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Plaque Type, Plaque Burden and Wall Shear Stress Relation in Coronary Arteries Assessed by X-ray Angiography and Intravascular Ultrasound: a Qualitative Study Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 14th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract In this paper, we present a complete framework that automatically provides fluid-dynamic and plaque analysis from IVUS and Angiographic sequences. Such framework is used to analyze, in three coronary arteries, the relation between wall shear stress with type and amount of plaque. Preliminary qualitative results show an inverse relation between the wall shear stress and the plaque burden, which is confirmed by the fact that the plaque growth is higher on the wall having concave curvature. Regarding the plaque type it was observed that regions having low shear stress are predominantly fibro-lipidic while the heavy calcifications are in general located in areas of the vessel having high WSS.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-0913-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ISABEL  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BGC2011b Serial (down) 1799  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; A. Palaioroutas; M. Loeve; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; H. Tiddens; M. de Bruijne edit  openurl
  Title Lung Tissue Classification in Severe Advanced Cystic Fibrosis from CT Scans Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication In MICCAI 2011 4th International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
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  Address Toronto, Canada  
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  Area Expedition Conference PIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPL2011 Serial (down) 1798  
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Author Xavier Carrillo; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; Petia Radeva; Neus Salvatella; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; A. Bayes edit  openurl
  Title Changes in Radial Artery Volume Assessed Using Intravascular Ultrasound: A Comparison of Two Vasodilator Regimens in Transradial Coronary Intervention Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Journal of Invasive Cardiology Abbreviated Journal JOIC  
  Volume 23 Issue 10 Pages 401-404  
  Keywords radial; vasodilator treatment; percutaneous coronary intervention; IVUS; volumetric IVUS analysis  
  Abstract OBJECTIVES:
This study used intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to evaluate radial artery volume changes after intraarterial administration of nitroglycerin and/or verapamil.
BACKGROUND:
Radial artery spasm, which is associated with radial artery size, is the main limitation of the transradial approach in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI).
METHODS:
This prospective, randomized study compared the effect of two intra-arterial vasodilator regimens on radial artery volume: 0.2 mg of nitroglycerin plus 2.5 mg of verapamil (Group 1; n = 15) versus 2.5 mg of verapamil alone (Group 2; n = 15). Radial artery lumen volume was assessed using IVUS at two time points: at baseline (5 minutes after sheath insertion) and post-vasodilator (1 minute after drug administration). The luminal volume of the radial artery was computed using ECOC Random Fields (ECOC-RF), a technique used for automatic segmentation of luminal borders in longitudinal cut images from IVUS sequences.
RESULTS:
There was a significant increase in arterial lumen volume in both groups, with an increase from 451 ± 177 mm³ to 508 ± 192 mm³ (p = 0.001) in Group 1 and from 456 ± 188 mm³ to 509 ± 170 mm³ (p = 0.001) in Group 2. There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of absolute volume increase (58 mm³ versus 53 mm³, respectively; p = 0.65) or in relative volume increase (14% versus 20%, respectively; p = 0.69).
CONCLUSIONS:
Administration of nitroglycerin plus verapamil or verapamil alone to the radial artery resulted in similar increases in arterial lumen volume according to ECOC-RF IVUS measurements.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ CFC2011 Serial (down) 1797  
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Author Joan M. Nuñez edit   pdf
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  Title Computer vision techniques for characterization of finger joints in X-ray image Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 165 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rheumatoid arthritis, X-ray, Sharp Van der Heijde, joint characterization, sclerosis detection, bone detection, edge, ridge  
  Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory type of arthritis which mainly affects hands on its first stages. Though it is a chronic disease and there is no cure for it, treatments require an accurate assessment of illness evolution. Such assessment is based on evaluation of hand X-ray images by using one of the several available semi-quantitative methods. This task requires highly trained medical personnel. That is why the automation of the assessment would allow professionals to save time and effort. Two stages are involved in this task. Firstly, the joint detection, afterwards, the joint characterization. Unlike the little existing previous work, this contribution clearly separates those two stages and sets the foundations of a modular assessment system focusing on the characterization stage. A hand joint dataset is created and an accurate data analysis is achieved in order to identify relevant features. Since the sclerosis and the lower bone were decided to be the most important features, different computer vision techniques were used in order to develop a detector system for both of them. Joint space width measures are provided and their correlation with Sharp-Van der Heijde is verified  
  Address Bellaterra (Barcelona)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Dr. Fernando Vilariño and Dra. Debora Gil  
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  Notes MV;IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Nuñ2011 Serial (down) 1795  
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