|   | 
Details
   web
Records Links
Author C. Alejandro Parraga edit  doi
isbn  openurl
Title (up) Color Vision, Computational Methods for Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 1-11  
Keywords Color computational vision; Computational neuroscience of color  
Abstract The study of color vision has been aided by a whole battery of computational methods that attempt to describe the mechanisms that lead to our perception of colors in terms of the information-processing properties of the visual system. Their scope is highly interdisciplinary, linking apparently dissimilar disciplines such as mathematics, physics, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. Since the sensation of color is a feature of our brains, computational approaches usually include biological features of neural systems in their descriptions, from retinal light-receptor interaction to subcortical color opponency, cortical signal decoding, and color categorization. They produce hypotheses that are usually tested by behavioral or psychophysical experiments.  
Address  
Corporate Author Thesis  
Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Dieter Jaeger; Ranu Jung  
Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN ISBN 978-1-4614-7320-6 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Par2014 Serial 2512  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Hassan Ahmed Sial; S. Sancho; Ramon Baldrich; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
url  openurl
Title (up) Color-based data augmentation for Reflectance Estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication 26th Color Imaging Conference Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 284-289  
Keywords  
Abstract Deep convolutional architectures have shown to be successful frameworks to solve generic computer vision problems. The estimation of intrinsic reflectance from single image is not a solved problem yet. Encoder-Decoder architectures are a perfect approach for pixel-wise reflectance estimation, although it usually suffers from the lack of large datasets. Lack of data can be partially solved with data augmentation, however usual techniques focus on geometric changes which does not help for reflectance estimation. In this paper we propose a color-based data augmentation technique that extends the training data by increasing the variability of chromaticity. Rotation on the red-green blue-yellow plane of an opponent space enable to increase the training set in a coherent and sound way that improves network generalization capability for reflectance estimation. We perform some experiments on the Sintel dataset showing that our color-based augmentation increase performance and overcomes one of the state-of-the-art methods.  
Address Vancouver; November 2018  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CIC  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ SSB2018a Serial 3129  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author A.Gonzalez; Robert Benavente; Olivier Penacchio; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
doi  isbn
openurl 
Title (up) Coloresia: An Interactive Colour Perception Device for the Visually Impaired Type Book Chapter
Year 2013 Publication Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 48 Issue Pages 47-66  
Keywords  
Abstract A significative percentage of the human population suffer from impairments in their capacity to distinguish or even see colours. For them, everyday tasks like navigating through a train or metro network map becomes demanding. We present a novel technique for extracting colour information from everyday natural stimuli and presenting it to visually impaired users as pleasant, non-invasive sound. This technique was implemented inside a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) portable device. In this implementation, colour information is extracted from the input image and categorised according to how human observers segment the colour space. This information is subsequently converted into sound and sent to the user via speakers or headphones. In the original implementation, it is possible for the user to send its feedback to reconfigure the system, however several features such as these were not implemented because the current technology is limited.We are confident that the full implementation will be possible in the near future as PDA technology improves.  
Address  
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 1868-4394 ISBN 978-3-642-35931-6 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC; 600.052; 605.203 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ GBP2013 Serial 2266  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Antonio Lopez; Michael Felsberg edit   pdf
doi  openurl
Title (up) Coloring Action Recognition in Still Images Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV  
Volume 105 Issue 3 Pages 205-221  
Keywords  
Abstract In this article we investigate the problem of human action recognition in static images. By action recognition we intend a class of problems which includes both action classification and action detection (i.e. simultaneous localization and classification). Bag-of-words image representations yield promising results for action classification, and deformable part models perform very well object detection. The representations for action recognition typically use only shape cues and ignore color information. Inspired by the recent success of color in image classification and object detection, we investigate the potential of color for action classification and detection in static images. We perform a comprehensive evaluation of color descriptors and fusion approaches for action recognition. Experiments were conducted on the three datasets most used for benchmarking action recognition in still images: Willow, PASCAL VOC 2010 and Stanford-40. Our experiments demonstrate that incorporating color information considerably improves recognition performance, and that a descriptor based on color names outperforms pure color descriptors. Our experiments demonstrate that late fusion of color and shape information outperforms other approaches on action recognition. Finally, we show that the different color–shape fusion approaches result in complementary information and combining them yields state-of-the-art performance for action classification.  
Address  
Corporate Author Thesis  
Publisher Springer US Place of Publication Editor  
Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN 0920-5691 ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC; ADAS; 600.057; 600.048 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2013 Serial 2285  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan edit  openurl
Title (up) Coloring bag-of-words based image representations Type Book Whole
Year 2011 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract Put succinctly, the bag-of-words based image representation is the most successful approach for object and scene recognition. Within the bag-of-words framework the optimal fusion of multiple cues, such as shape, texture and color, still remains an active research domain. There exist two main approaches to combine color and shape information within the bag-of-words framework. The first approach called, early fusion, fuses color and shape at the feature level as a result of which a joint colorshape vocabulary is produced. The second approach, called late fusion, concatenates histogram representation of both color and shape, obtained independently. In the first part of this thesis, we analyze the theoretical implications of both early and late feature fusion. We demonstrate that both these approaches are suboptimal for a subset of object categories. Consequently, we propose a novel method for recognizing object categories when using multiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom-up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, the color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. Shape features are given more weight in regions with higher attention and vice versa. The approach is tested on several benchmark object recognition data sets and the results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. In the second part of the thesis, we investigate the problem of obtaining compact spatial pyramid representations for object and scene recognition. Spatial pyramids have been successfully applied to incorporate spatial information into bag-of-words based image representation. However, a major drawback of spatial pyramids is that it leads to high dimensional image representations. We present a novel framework for obtaining compact pyramid representation. The approach reduces the size of a high dimensional pyramid representation upto an order of magnitude without any significant reduction in accuracy. Moreover, we also investigate the optimal combination of multiple features such as color and shape within the context of our compact pyramid representation. Finally, we describe a novel technique to build discriminative visual words from multiple cues learned independently from training images. To this end, we use an information theoretic vocabulary compression technique to find discriminative combinations of visual cues and the resulting visual vocabulary is compact, has the cue binding property, and supports individual weighting of cues in the final image representation. The approach is tested on standard object recognition data sets. The results obtained clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.  
Address  
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Joost Van de Weijer;Maria Vanrell  
Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Kha2011 Serial 1838  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) 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.  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2009 Serial 1192  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Javier Vazquez edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Constancy in Natural Through Colour Naming and Sensor Sharpening Type Book Whole
Year 2011 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract Colour is derived from three physical properties: incident light, object reflectance and sensor sensitivities. Incident light varies under natural conditions; hence, recovering scene illuminant is an important issue in computational colour. One way to deal with this problem under calibrated conditions is by following three steps, 1) building a narrow-band sensor basis to accomplish the diagonal model, 2) building a feasible set of illuminants, and 3) defining criteria to select the best illuminant. In this work we focus on colour constancy for natural images by introducing perceptual criteria in the first and third stages.
To deal with the illuminant selection step, we hypothesise that basic colour categories can be used as anchor categories to recover the best illuminant. These colour names are related to the way that the human visual system has evolved to encode relevant natural colour statistics. Therefore the recovered image provides the best representation of the scene labelled with the basic colour terms. We demonstrate with several experiments how this selection criterion achieves current state-of-art results in computational colour constancy. In addition to this result, we psychophysically prove that usual angular error used in colour constancy does not correlate with human preferences, and we propose a new perceptual colour constancy evaluation.
The implementation of this selection criterion strongly relies on the use of a diagonal
model for illuminant change. Consequently, the second contribution focuses on building an appropriate narrow-band sensor basis to represent natural images. We propose to use the spectral sharpening technique to compute a unique narrow-band basis optimised to represent a large set of natural reflectances under natural illuminants and given in the basis of human cones. The proposed sensors allow predicting unique hues and the World colour Survey data independently of the illuminant by using a compact singularity function. Additionally, we studied different families of sharp sensors to minimise different perceptual measures. This study brought us to extend the spherical sampling procedure from 3D to 6D.
Several research lines still remain open. One natural extension would be to measure the
effects of using the computed sharp sensors on the category hypothesis, while another might be to insert spatial contextual information to improve category hypothesis. Finally, much work still needs to be done to explore how individual sensors can be adjusted to the colours in a scene.
 
Address  
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Maria Vanrell;Graham D. Finlayson  
Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Vaz2011a Serial 1785  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Image Segmentation in Presence of Shadows Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication 4th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision Proceedings Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 383–387  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address Terrassa (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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CGIV08  
Notes CAT;CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ VaB2008 Serial 966  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour induction effects are modelled by a low-level multiresolution wavelet framework Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Perception 37(Suppl.): 107 Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ OVP2008b Serial 1055  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Robert Benavente; Ramon Baldrich; M.C. Olive; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Naming Considering the Colour Variability Problem. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2000 Publication Computacion y Sistemas, 4(1):30–43. Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BBO2000 Serial 242  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Maria Vanrell; Felipe Lumbreras; A. Pujol; Ramon Baldrich; Josep Llados; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Normalisation Based on Background Information. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2001 Publication Proceeding ICIP 2001, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal ICIP 2001  
Volume Issue 1 Pages 874–877  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address Grecia.  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes ADAS;DAG;CIC Approved no  
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2001 Serial 167  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Robert Benavente; M.C. Olive; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Perception: A Simple Method for Colour Naming. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address Girona  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BOV1999 Serial 47  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Colour Visual Coding in trained Deep Neural Networks Type Abstract
Year 2016 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address Barcelona; Spain; August 2016  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference ECVP  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ RaV2016b Serial 2895  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Domicele Jonauskaite; Lucia Camenzind; C. Alejandro Parraga; Cecile N Diouf; Mathieu Mercapide Ducommun; Lauriane Müller; Melanie Norberg; Christine Mohr edit  url
doi  openurl
Title (up) Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication PeerJ Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 9 Issue Pages e11180  
Keywords Affect; Chromotherapy; Colour cognition; Colour vision deficiency; Cross-modal correspondences; Daltonism; Deuteranopia; Dichromatic; Emotion; Protanopia.  
Abstract Colours and emotions are associated in languages and traditions. Some of us may convey sadness by saying feeling blue or by wearing black clothes at funerals. The first example is a conceptual experience of colour and the second example is an immediate perceptual experience of colour. To investigate whether one or the other type of experience more strongly drives colour-emotion associations, we tested 64 congenitally red-green colour-blind men and 66 non-colour-blind men. All participants associated 12 colours, presented as terms or patches, with 20 emotion concepts, and rated intensities of the associated emotions. We found that colour-blind and non-colour-blind men associated similar emotions with colours, irrespective of whether colours were conveyed via terms (r = .82) or patches (r = .80). The colour-emotion associations and the emotion intensities were not modulated by participants' severity of colour blindness. Hinting at some additional, although minor, role of actual colour perception, the consistencies in associations for colour terms and patches were higher in non-colour-blind than colour-blind men. Together, these results suggest that colour-emotion associations in adults do not require immediate perceptual colour experiences, as conceptual experiences are sufficient.  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC; LAMP; 600.120; 600.128 Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ JCP2021 Serial 3564  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author David Augusto Rojas edit  openurl
Title (up) Colouring Local Feature Detection for Matching Type Report
Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 133 Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address  
Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor  
Language Summary Language Original Title  
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
ISSN ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ Roj2009 Serial 2392  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Ernest Valveny; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Baldrich; Enric Marti edit  openurl
Title (up) Combining recognition-based in segmentation-based approaches for graphic symol recognition using deformable template matching Type Conference Article
Year 2002 Publication Proceeding of the Second IASTED International Conference Visualization, Imaging and Image Proceesing VIIP 2002 Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 502–507  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes DAG;RV;CAT;IAM;CIC;ADAS Approved no  
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VTB2002 Serial 1660  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author M. Gonzalez-Audicana; Xavier Otazu; O. Fors; A. Seco edit  url
openurl 
Title (up) Comparison between Mallats and the trous discrete wavelet transform based algorithms for the fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images Type Journal
Year 2005 Publication International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(3):595–614 (IF: 0.925) Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages  
Keywords  
Abstract  
Address  
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 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes CIC Approved no  
Call Number CAT @ cat @ GOF2005 Serial 530  
Permanent link to this record
 

 
Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer edit   pdf
url  doi
openurl 
Title (up) Computational Color Constancy: Survey and Experiments Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP  
Volume 20 Issue 9 Pages 2475-2489  
Keywords computational color constancy;computer vision application;gamut-based method;learning-based method;static method;colour vision;computer vision;image colour analysis;learning (artificial intelligence);lighting  
Abstract Computational color constancy is a fundamental prerequisite for many computer vision applications. This paper presents a survey of many recent developments and state-of-the- art methods. Several criteria are proposed that are used to assess the approaches. A taxonomy of existing algorithms is proposed and methods are separated in three groups: static methods, gamut-based methods and learning-based methods. Further, the experimental setup is discussed including an overview of publicly available data sets. Finally, various freely available methods, of which some are considered to be state-of-the-art, are evaluated on two data sets.  
Address  
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 1057-7149 ISBN Medium  
Area Expedition Conference  
Notes ISE;CIC Approved no  
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGW2011 Serial 1717  
Permanent link to this record