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Author Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
Title Towards a unified chromatic inducction model Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal VSS
Volume 10 Issue 12:5 Pages 1-24
Keywords Visual system; Color induction; Wavelet transform
Abstract In a previous work (X. Otazu, M. Vanrell, & C. A. Párraga, 2008b), we showed how several brightness induction effects can be predicted using a simple multiresolution wavelet model (BIWaM). Here we present a new model for chromatic induction processes (termed Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model or CIWaM), which is also implemented on a multiresolution framework and based on similar assumptions related to the spatial frequency and the contrast surround energy of the stimulus. The CIWaM can be interpreted as a very simple extension of the BIWaM to the chromatic channels, which in our case are defined in the MacLeod-Boynton (lsY) color space. This new model allows us to unify both chromatic assimilation and chromatic contrast effects in a single mathematical formulation. The predictions of the CIWaM were tested by means of several color and brightness induction experiments, which showed an acceptable agreement between model predictions and psychophysical data.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ OPV2010 Serial 1450
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez
Title Learning photometric invariance for object detection Type Journal Article
Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV
Volume 90 Issue 1 Pages 45-61
Keywords road detection
Abstract Impact factor: 3.508 (the last available from JCR2009SCI). Position 4/103 in the category Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence. Quartile
Color is a powerful visual cue in many computer vision applications such as image segmentation and object recognition. However, most of the existing color models depend on the imaging conditions that negatively affect the performance of the task at hand. Often, a reflection model (e.g., Lambertian or dichromatic reflectance) is used to derive color invariant models. However, this approach may be too restricted to model real-world scenes in which different reflectance mechanisms can hold simultaneously.
Therefore, in this paper, we aim to derive color invariance by learning from color models to obtain diversified color invariant ensembles. First, a photometrical orthogonal and non-redundant color model set is computed composed of both color variants and invariants. Then, the proposed method combines these color models to arrive at a diversified color ensemble yielding a proper balance between invariance (repeatability) and discriminative power (distinctiveness). To achieve this, our fusion method uses a multi-view approach to minimize the estimation error. In this way, the proposed method is robust to data uncertainty and produces properly diversified color invariant ensembles. Further, the proposed method is extended to deal with temporal data by predicting the evolution of observations over time.
Experiments are conducted on three different image datasets to validate the proposed method. Both the theoretical and experimental results show that the method is robust against severe variations in imaging conditions. The method is not restricted to a certain reflection model or parameter tuning, and outperforms state-of-the-art detection techniques in the field of object, skin and road recognition. Considering sequential data, the proposed method (extended to deal with future observations) outperforms the other methods
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Publisher Springer US Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium
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Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010c Serial 1451
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Author Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol; Eric Laciar; Jordi Vitria; Esther Pueyo; Petia Radeva
Title Classification of Coronary Damage in Chronic Chagasic Patients Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Intelligent Systems – From Theory to Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 299 Issue Pages 461-478
Keywords Chagas disease; Error-Correcting Output Codes; High resolution ECG; Decoding
Abstract Post Conference IEEE-IS 2008
The Chagas’ disease is endemic in all Latin America, affecting millions of people in the continent. In order to diagnose and treat the chagas’ disease, it is important to detect and measure the coronary damage of the patient. In this paper,
we analyze and categorize patients into different groups based on the coronary damage produced by the disease. Based on the features of the heart cycle extracted using high resolution ECG, a multi-class scheme of Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC)is formulated and successfully applied. The results show that the proposed scheme obtains significant performance improvements compared to previous works and state-of-the-art ECOC designs.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor V. Sgurev, M. Hadjiski (eds)
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Notes OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EPL2010 Serial 1452
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; E Fernandez-Nofrerias; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title Conditional Random Fields for image segmentation in Intravascular Ultrasound Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Medical Image Computing in Catalunya: Graduate Student Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 13–14
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Abstract We present a Conditional Random Fields based approach for segmenting Intravascular Ultrasond (IVUS) images. The presented method uses a contextual discriminative graphical model to deal with the presence of distorsions and artifacts in IVUS images, that turns the segmentation of interesting regions into a difficult task. An accurate lumen segmentation on IVUS longitudinal images is achieved.
Address Girona
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAT
Notes MILAB;HUPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPF2010 Serial 1453
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Antonio Lopez
Title Road Detection Based on Illuminant Invariance Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal TITS
Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 184-193
Keywords road detection
Abstract By using an onboard camera, it is possible to detect the free road surface ahead of the ego-vehicle. Road detection is of high relevance for autonomous driving, road departure warning, and supporting driver-assistance systems such as vehicle and pedestrian detection. The key for vision-based road detection is the ability to classify image pixels as belonging or not to the road surface. Identifying road pixels is a major challenge due to the intraclass variability caused by lighting conditions. A particularly difficult scenario appears when the road surface has both shadowed and nonshadowed areas. Accordingly, we propose a novel approach to vision-based road detection that is robust to shadows. The novelty of our approach relies on using a shadow-invariant feature space combined with a model-based classifier. The model is built online to improve the adaptability of the algorithm to the current lighting and the presence of other vehicles in the scene. The proposed algorithm works in still images and does not depend on either road shape or temporal restrictions. Quantitative and qualitative experiments on real-world road sequences with heavy traffic and shadows show that the method is robust to shadows and lighting variations. Moreover, the proposed method provides the highest performance when compared with hue-saturation-intensity (HSI)-based algorithms.
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Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AlL2011 Serial 1456
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Author Cesar Isaza; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Toward the Detection of Urban Infrastructures Edge Shadows Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 12th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6474 Issue I Pages 30–37
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect the shadows cast by urban infrastructure, such as buildings, billboards, and traffic signs, using a sequence of images taken from a fixed camera. In our approach, we compute two different background models in parallel: one for the edges and one for the reflected light intensity. An algorithm is proposed to train the system to distinguish between moving edges in general and edges that belong to static objects, creating an edge background model. Then, during operation, a background intensity model allow us to separate between moving and static objects. Those edges included in the moving objects and those that belong to the edge background model are subtracted from the current image edges. The remaining edges are the ones cast by urban infrastructure. Our method is tested on a typical crossroad scene and the results show that the approach is sound and promising.
Address Sydney, Australia
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor eds. Blanc–Talon et al
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-17687-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ACIVS
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ ISR2010 Serial 1458
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Author Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Josep Llados; Jean-Yves Ramel; Thierry Brouard
Title A Fuzzy-Interval Based Approach For Explicit Graph Embedding, Recognizing Patterns in Signals, Speech, Images and Video Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6388 Issue Pages 93–98
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Abstract We present a new method for explicit graph embedding. Our algorithm extracts a feature vector for an undirected attributed graph. The proposed feature vector encodes details about the number of nodes, number of edges, node degrees, the attributes of nodes and the attributes of edges in the graph. The first two features are for the number of nodes and the number of edges. These are followed by w features for node degrees, m features for k node attributes and n features for l edge attributes — which represent the distribution of node degrees, node attribute values and edge attribute values, and are obtained by defining (in an unsupervised fashion), fuzzy-intervals over the list of node degrees, node attributes and edge attributes. Experimental results are provided for sample data of ICPR2010 contest GEPR.
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Publisher Springer, 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 978-3-642-17710-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ LLR2010 Serial 1459
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Author Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Thierry Brouard; Jean-Yves Ramel; Josep Llados
Title A Content Spotting System For Line Drawing Graphic Document Images Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 20 Issue Pages 3420–3423
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Abstract We present a content spotting system for line drawing graphic document images. The proposed system is sufficiently domain independent and takes the keyword based information retrieval for graphic documents, one step forward, to Query By Example (QBE) and focused retrieval. During offline learning mode: we vectorize the documents in the repository, represent them by attributed relational graphs, extract regions of interest (ROIs) from them, convert each ROI to a fuzzy structural signature, cluster similar signatures to form ROI classes and build an index for the repository. During online querying mode: a Bayesian network classifier recognizes the ROIs in the query image and the corresponding documents are fetched by looking up in the repository index. Experimental results are presented for synthetic images of architectural and electronic documents.
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ LBR2010b Serial 1460
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Author Thierry Brouard; A. Delaplace; Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; H. Cardot; Jean-Yves Ramel
Title Design of Evolutionary Methods Applied to the Learning of Bayesian Nerwork Structures Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Bayesian Network Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 13-37
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Publisher Sciyo Place of Publication Editor Ahmed Rebai
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ISSN ISBN 978-953-307-124-4 Medium
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Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BDL2010 Serial 1461
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Author Jaume Gibert; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke
Title Graph of Words Embedding for Molecular Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6419 Issue Pages 30–37
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Abstract Structure-Activity relationship analysis aims at discovering chemical activity of molecular compounds based on their structure. In this article we make use of a particular graph representation of molecules and propose a new graph embedding procedure to solve the problem of structure-activity relationship analysis. The embedding is essentially an arrangement of a molecule in the form of a vector by considering frequencies of appearing atoms and frequencies of covalent bonds between them. Results on two benchmark databases show the effectiveness of the proposed technique in terms of recognition accuracy while avoiding high operational costs in the transformation.
Address Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-16686-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CIARP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ GVB2010 Serial 1462
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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 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 Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Embedding Random Projections in Regularized Gradient Boosting Machines Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications in the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 44–53
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Address Barcelona (Spain)
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Area Expedition Conference SUEMA
Notes MILAB;HUPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ CPR2010c Serial 1466
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva
Title Classyfing Agitation in Sedated ICU Patients Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Medical Image Computing in Catalunya: Graduate Student Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 19–20
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Abstract Agitation is a serious problem in sedated intensive care unit (ICU) patients. In this work, standard machine learning techniques working on wearable accelerometer data have been used to classifying agitation levels achieving very good classification performances.
Address Girona
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAT
Notes MILAB;HUPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ COR2010 Serial 1467
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Author Angel Sappa (ed)
Title Computer Graphics and Imaging Type Book Whole
Year 2010 Publication Computer Graphics and Imaging Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor Angel Sappa
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ISSN ISBN 978–0–88986–836–6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CGIM
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ Sap2010 Serial 1468
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Author Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño
Title Reduction of Pattern Search Area in Colonoscopy Images by Merging Non-Informative Regions Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 28th Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract One of the first usual steps in pattern recognition schemas is image segmentation, in order to reduce the dimensionality of the problem and manage smaller quantity of data. In our case as we are pursuing real-time colon cancer polyp detection, this step is crucial. In this paper we present a non-informative region estimation algorithm that will let us discard some parts of the image where we will not expect to find colon cancer polyps. The performance of our approach will be measured in terms of both non-informative areas elimination and polyps’ areas preserving. The results obtained show the importance of having correct non- informative region estimation in order to fasten the whole recognition process.
Address Madrid (Spain)
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Area 800 Expedition Conference CASEIB
Notes MV;SIAI Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BSV2010 Serial 1469
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