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Author Noha Elfiky
Title (up) Compact, Adaptive and Discriminative Spatial Pyramids for Improved Object and Scene Classification Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The release of challenging datasets with a vast number of images, requires the development of efficient image representations and algorithms which are able to manipulate these large-scale datasets efficiently. Nowadays the Bag-of-Words (BoW) is the most successful approach in the context of object and scene classification tasks. However, its main drawback is the absence of the important spatial information. Spatial pyramids (SP) have been successfully applied to incorporate spatial information into BoW-based image representation. Observing the remarkable performance of spatial pyramids, their growing number of applications to a broad range of vision problems, and finally its geometry inclusion, a question can be asked what are the limits of spatial pyramids. Within the SP framework, the optimal way for obtaining an image spatial representation, which is able to cope with it’s most foremost shortcomings, concretely, it’s high dimensionality and the rigidity of the resulting image representation, still remains an active research domain. In summary, the main concern of this thesis is to search for the limits of spatial pyramids and try to figure out solutions for them.
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Elf2012 Serial 2202
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Author Jorge Bernal; Nima Tajkbaksh; F. Javier Sanchez; Bogdan J. Matuszewski; Hao Chen; Lequan Yu; Quentin Angermann; Olivier Romain; Bjorn Rustad; Ilangko Balasingham; Konstantin Pogorelov; Sungbin Choi; Quentin Debard; Lena Maier Hein; Stefanie Speidel; Danail Stoyanov; Patrick Brandao; Henry Cordova; Cristina Sanchez Montes; Suryakanth R. Gurudu; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Xavier Dray; Jianming Liang; Aymeric Histace
Title (up) Comparative Validation of Polyp Detection Methods in Video Colonoscopy: Results from the MICCAI 2015 Endoscopic Vision Challenge Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal TMI
Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 1231 - 1249
Keywords Endoscopic vision; Polyp Detection; Handcrafted features; Machine Learning; Validation Framework
Abstract Colonoscopy is the gold standard for colon cancer screening though still some polyps are missed, thus preventing early disease detection and treatment. Several computational systems have been proposed to assist polyp detection during colonoscopy but so far without consistent evaluation. The lack
of publicly available annotated databases has made it difficult to compare methods and to assess if they achieve performance levels acceptable for clinical use. The Automatic Polyp Detection subchallenge, conducted as part of the Endoscopic Vision Challenge (http://endovis.grand-challenge.org) at the international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted
Intervention (MICCAI) in 2015, was an effort to address this need. In this paper, we report the results of this comparative evaluation of polyp detection methods, as well as describe additional experiments to further explore differences between methods. We define performance metrics and provide evaluation databases that allow comparison of multiple methodologies. Results show that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state of the art. Nevertheless it is also demonstrated that combining different methodologies can lead to an improved overall performance.
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Notes MV; 600.096; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BTS2017 Serial 2949
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Author Arnau Ramisa; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras; Ricardo Toledo
Title (up) Comparing Combinations of Feature Regions for Panoramic VSLAM Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 292–297
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Address Angers (France)
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Area Expedition Conference ICINCO
Notes RV;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLA2007 Serial 900
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Author Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
Title (up) Comparing Graph Similarity Measures for Graphical Recognition Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Graphics Recognition. Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. 8th International Workshop, GREC 2009. Selected Papers Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6020 Issue Pages 37-48
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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 including line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each graph distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ JTV2010 Serial 2404
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Author Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
Title (up) Comparing Graph Similarity Measures for Graphical Recognition. Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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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 including line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each graph distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
Address La Rochelle; France; July 2009
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ JTV2009 Serial 1442
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Author M. Gonzalez-Audicana; Xavier Otazu; O. Fors; A. Seco
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
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ GOF2005 Serial 530
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa
Title (up) Comparison Between two Spectral-based Methods for Median Graph Computation Type Book Chapter
Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2007), J. Marti et al. (Eds.) LNCS 4478(2):580–587 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Girona (Spain)
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Call Number DAG @ dag @ FVS2007b Serial 789
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Author Eugenio Alcala; Laura Sellart; Vicenc Puig; Joseba Quevedo; Jordi Saludes; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title (up) Comparison of two non-linear model-based control strategies for autonomous vehicles Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 846-851
Keywords Autonomous Driving; Control
Abstract This paper presents the comparison of two nonlinear model-based control strategies for autonomous cars. A control oriented model of vehicle based on a bicycle model is used. The two control strategies use a model reference approach. Using this approach, the error dynamics model is developed. Both controllers receive as input the longitudinal, lateral and orientation errors generating as control outputs the steering angle and the velocity of the vehicle. The first control approach is based on a non-linear control law that is designed by means of the Lyapunov direct approach. The second approach is based on a sliding mode-control that defines a set of sliding surfaces over which the error trajectories will converge. The main advantage of the sliding-control technique is the robustness against non-linearities and parametric uncertainties in the model. However, the main drawback of first order sliding mode is the chattering, so it has been implemented a high order sliding mode control. To test and compare the proposed control strategies, different path following scenarios are used in simulation.
Address Athens; Greece; June 2016
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Notes ADAS; 600.085; 600.082; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ASP2016 Serial 2750
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Author Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol
Title (up) Complex Salient Regions for Computer Vision Problems Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Abbreviated Journal
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Address Minneapolis (USA)
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Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ ERP2007 Serial 908
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Author Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Agnes Borras; F. Javier Sanchez; Frederic Perez; Marius G. Linguraru; Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester
Title (up) Computation and Evaluation of Medial Surfaces for Shape Representation of Abdominal Organs Type Book Chapter
Year 2012 Publication Workshop on Computational and Clinical Applications in Abdominal Imaging Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7029 Issue Pages 223–230
Keywords medial manifolds, abdomen.
Abstract Medial representations are powerful tools for describing and parameterizing the volumetric shape of anatomical structures. Existing methods show excellent results when applied to 2D
objects, but their quality drops across dimensions. This paper contributes to the computation of medial manifolds in two aspects. First, we provide a standard scheme for the computation of medial
manifolds that avoid degenerated medial axis segments; second, we introduce an energy based method which performs independently of the dimension. We evaluate quantitatively the performance of our
method with respect to existing approaches, by applying them to synthetic shapes of known medial geometry. Finally, we show results on shape representation of multiple abdominal organs,
exploring the use of medial manifolds for the representation of multi-organ relations.
Address Toronto; Canada;
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Publisher Springer Link Place of Publication Berlin Editor H. Yoshida et al
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-28556-1 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ABDI
Notes IAM;MV Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ VGB2012 Serial 1834
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Author Sergio Vera; Debora Gil; Agnes Borras; F. Javier Sanchez; Frederic Perez; Marius G. Linguraru
Title (up) Computation and Evaluation of Medial Surfaces for Shape Representation of Abdominal Organs Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication Workshop on Computational and Clinical Applications in Abdominal Imaging Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7029 Issue Pages 223-230
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Abstract Medial representations are powerful tools for describing and parameterizing the volumetric shape of anatomical structures. Existing methods show excellent results when applied to 2D objects, but their quality drops across dimensions. This paper contributes to the computation of medial manifolds in two aspects. First, we provide a standard scheme for the computation of medial manifolds that avoid degenerated medial axis segments; second, we introduce an energy based method which performs independently of the dimension. We evaluate quantitatively the performance of our method with respect to existing approaches, by applying them to synthetic shapes of known medial geometry. Finally, we show results on shape representation of multiple abdominal organs, exploring the use of medial manifolds for the representation of multi-organ relations.
Address Nice, France
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor In H. Yoshida et al
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Notes IAM; MV Approved no
Call Number VGB2011 Serial 2036
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Author Michael Villamizar; A. Sanfeliu; Juan Andrade
Title (up) Computation of Rotation Local Invariant Features using the Integral Image for Real Time Object Detection Type Miscellaneous
Year 2006 Publication 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 81–85 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Hong Kong
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Call Number Admin @ si @ VSA2006a Serial 663
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Author Arjan Gijsenij; Theo Gevers; Joost Van de Weijer
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.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GGW2011 Serial 1717
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Author Arash Akbarinia
Title (up) Computational Model of Visual Perception: From Colour to Form Type Book Whole
Year 2017 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The original idea of this project was to study the role of colour in the challenging task of object recognition. We started by extending previous research on colour naming showing that it is feasible to capture colour terms through parsimonious ellipsoids. Although, the results of our model exceeded state-of-the-art in two benchmark datasets, we realised that the two phenomena of metameric lights and colour constancy must be addressed prior to any further colour processing. Our investigation of metameric pairs reached the conclusion that they are infrequent in real world scenarios. Contrary to that, the illumination of a scene often changes dramatically. We addressed this issue by proposing a colour constancy model inspired by the dynamical centre-surround adaptation of neurons in the visual cortex. This was implemented through two overlapping asymmetric Gaussians whose variances and heights are adjusted according to the local contrast of pixels. We complemented this model with a generic contrast-variant pooling mechanism that inversely connect the percentage of pooled signal to the local contrast of a region. The results of our experiments on four benchmark datasets were indeed promising: the proposed model, although simple, outperformed even learning-based approaches in many cases. Encouraged by the success of our contrast-variant surround modulation, we extended this approach to detect boundaries of objects. We proposed an edge detection model based on the first derivative of the Gaussian kernel. We incorporated four types of surround: full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation. Furthermore, we accounted for the pooling mechanism at higher cortical areas and the shape feedback sent to lower areas. Our results in three benchmark datasets showed significant improvement over non-learning algorithms.
To summarise, we demonstrated that biologically-inspired models offer promising solutions to computer vision problems, such as, colour naming, colour constancy and edge detection. We believe that the greatest contribution of this Ph.D dissertation is modelling the concept of dynamic surround modulation that shows the significance of contrast-variant surround integration. The models proposed here are grounded on only a portion of what we know about the human visual system. Therefore, it is only natural to complement them accordingly in future works.
Address October 2017
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor C. Alejandro Parraga
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-945373-4-9 Medium
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Akb2017 Serial 3019
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Author David Berga; Xavier Otazu
Title (up) Computational modelingof visual attention: What do we know from physiology and psychophysics? Type Conference Article
Year 2019 Publication 8th Iberian Conference on Perception Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Latest computer vision architectures use a chain of feedforward computations, mainly optimizing artificial neural networks for very specific tasks. Although their impressive performance (i.e. in saliency) using real image datasets, these models do not follow several biological principles of the human visual system (e.g. feedback and horizontal connections in cortex) and are unable to predict several visual tasks simultaneously. In this study we present biologically plausible computations from the early stages of the human visual system (i.e. retina and lateral geniculate nucleus) and lateral connections in V1. Despite the simplicity of these processes and without any type of training or optimization, simulations of firing-rate dynamics of V1 are able to predict bottom-up visual attention at distinct contexts (shown previously as well to predict visual discomfort, brightness and chromatic induction). We also show functional top-down selection mechanisms as feedback inhibition projections (i.e. prefrontal cortex for search/task-based attention and parietal area for inhibition of return). Distinct saliency model predictions are tested with eye tracking datasets in free-viewing and visual search tasks, using real images and synthetically-generated patterns. Results on predicting saliency and scanpaths show that artificial models do not outperform biologically-inspired ones (specifically for datasets that lack of common endogenous biases found in eye tracking experimentation), as well as, do not correctly predict contrast sensitivities in pop-out stimulus patterns. This work remarks the importance of considering biological principles of the visual system for building models that reproduce this (and any other) visual effects.
Address San Lorenzo El Escorial; July 2019
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Notes NEUROBIT; no menciona Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BeO2019b Serial 3374
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