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Author Wenjuan Gong
Title (down) Action priors for human pose tracking by particle filter Type Report
Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
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Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Gon2009 Serial 2401
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Author Albert Gordo; Ernest Valveny
Title (down) A rotation invariant page layout descriptor for document classification and retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 481–485
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Abstract Document classification usually requires of structural features such as the physical layout to obtain good accuracy rates on complex documents. This paper introduces a descriptor of the layout and a distance measure based on the cyclic dynamic time warping which can be computed in O(n2). This descriptor is translation invariant and can be easily modified to be scale and rotation invariant. Experiments with this descriptor and its rotation invariant modification are performed on the Girona archives database and compared against another common layout distance, the minimum weight edge cover. The experiments show that these methods outperform the MWEC both in accuracy and speed, particularly on rotated documents.
Address Barcelona, Spain
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ GoV2009a Serial 1175
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Author Debora Gil; Jaume Garcia; Ruth Aris; Guillaume Houzeaux; Manuel Vazquez
Title (down) A Riemmanian approach to cardiac fiber architecture modelling Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 1st International Conference on Mathematical & Computational Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 59-62
Keywords cardiac fiber architecture; diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; differential (Rie- mannian) geometry.
Abstract There is general consensus that myocardial fiber architecture should be modelled in order to fully understand the electromechanical properties of the Left Ventricle (LV). Diffusion Tensor magnetic resonance Imaging (DTI) is the reference image modality for rapid measurement of fiber orientations by means of the tensor principal eigenvectors. In this work, we present a mathematical framework for across subject comparison of the local geometry of the LV anatomy including the fiber architecture from the statistical analysis of DTI studies. We use concepts of differential geometry for defining a parametric domain suitable for statistical analysis of a low number of samples. We use Riemannian metrics to define a consistent computation of DTI principal eigenvector modes of variation. Our framework has been applied to build an atlas of the LV fiber architecture from 7 DTI normal canine hearts.
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Publisher Place of Publication Swansea (UK) Editor Nithiarasu, R.L.R.V.L.
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Area Expedition Conference CMBE
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ FGA2009 Serial 1520
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny; Horst Bunke
Title (down) A Recursive Embedding Approach to Median Graph Computation Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 7th IAPR – TC–15 Workshop on Graph–Based Representations in Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5534 Issue Pages 113–123
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Abstract The median graph has been shown to be a good choice to infer a representative of a set of graphs. It has been successfully applied to graph-based classification and clustering. Nevertheless, its computation is extremely complex. Several approaches have been presented up to now based on different strategies. In this paper we present a new approximate recursive algorithm for median graph computation based on graph embedding into vector spaces. Preliminary experiments on three databases show that this new approach is able to obtain better medians than the previous existing approaches.
Address Venice, Italy
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Publisher Springer Berlin 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 978-3-642-02123-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GBR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FKV2009 Serial 1173
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Josep Llados
Title (down) A Performance Evaluation Protocol for Symbol Spotting Systems in Terms of Recognition and Location Indices Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 83-96
Keywords Performance evaluation; Symbol Spotting; Graphics Recognition
Abstract Symbol spotting systems are intended to retrieve regions of interest from a document image database where the queried symbol is likely to be found. They shall have the ability to recognize and locate graphical symbols in a single step. In this paper, we present a set of measures to evaluate the performance of a symbol spotting system in terms of recognition abilities, location accuracy and scalability. We show that the proposed measures allow to determine the weaknesses and strengths of different methods. In particular we have tested a symbol spotting method based on a set of four different off-the-shelf shape descriptors.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RuL2009a Serial 1166
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Author Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre; Jean-Yves Ramel; Ernest Valveny; Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman
Title (down) A Performance Characterization Algorithm for Symbol Localization Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 3-11
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Abstract In this paper we present an algorithm for performance characterization of symbol localization systems. This algorithm is aimed to be a more “reliable” and “open” solution to characterize the performance. To achieve that, it exploits only single points as the result of localization and offers the possibility to reconsider the localization results provided by a system. We use the information about context in groundtruth, and overall localization results, to detect the ambiguous localization results. A probability score is computed for each matching between a localization point and a groundtruth region, depending on the spatial distribution of the other regions in the groundtruth. Final characterization is given with detection rate/probability score plots, describing the sets of possible interpretations of the localization results, according to a given confidence rate. We present experimentation details along with the results for the symbol localization system of [1], exploiting a synthetic dataset of architectural floorplans and electrical diagrams (composed of 200 images and 3861 symbols).
Address La Rochelle; July 2009
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ DRV2009 Serial 1443
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa
Title (down) A Novel Approach to Geometric Fitting of Implicit Quadrics Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5807 Issue Pages 121–132
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Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the geometric distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric curve/surface. The proposed estimation is based on the height of a tetrahedron, which is used as a coarse but reliable estimation of the real distance. The estimated distance is then used for finding the best set of quadric parameters, by means of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, which is a common framework in other geometric fitting approaches. Comparisons of the proposed approach with previous ones are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results.
Address Bordeaux, France
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Publisher Springer Berlin 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 978-3-642-04696-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ACIVS
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RoS2009 Serial 1194
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell
Title (down) A new cone activation-based natural images dataset Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER
Volume 36 Issue Pages 180
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Abstract We generated a new dataset of digital natural images where each colour plane corresponds to the human LMS (long-, medium-, short-wavelength) cone activations. The images were chosen to represent five different visual environments (eg forest, seaside, mountain snow, urban, motorways) and were taken under natural illumination at different times of day. At the bottom-left corner of each picture there was a matte grey ball of approximately constant spectral reflectance (across the camera's response spectrum,) and nearly Lambertian reflective properties, which allows to compute (and remove, if necessary) the illuminant's colour and intensity. The camera (Sigma Foveon SD10) was calibrated by measuring its sensor's spectral responses using a set of 31 spectrally narrowband interference filters. This allowed conversion of the final camera-dependent RGB colour space into the Smith and Pokorny (1975) cone activation space by means of a polynomial transformation, optimised for a set of 1269 Munsell chip reflectances. This new method is an improvement over the usual 3 × 3 matrix transformation which is only accurate for spectrally-narrowband colours. The camera-to-LMS transformation can be recalculated to consider other non-human visual systems. The dataset is available to download from our website.
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Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ PVV2009 Serial 1193
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
Title (down) 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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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 1231
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Angel Sappa
Title (down) A Featureless and Stochastic Approach to On-board Stereo Vision System Pose Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Image and Vision Computing Abbreviated Journal IMAVIS
Volume 27 Issue 9 Pages 1382–1393
Keywords On-board stereo vision system; Pose estimation; Featureless approach; Particle filtering; Image warping
Abstract This paper presents a direct and stochastic technique for real-time estimation of on-board stereo head’s position and orientation. Unlike existing works which rely on feature extraction either in the image domain or in 3D space, our proposed approach directly estimates the unknown parameters from the stream of stereo pairs’ brightness. The pose parameters are tracked using the particle filtering framework which implicitly enforces the smoothness constraints on the estimated parameters. The proposed technique can be used with a driver assistance applications as well as with augmented reality applications. Extended experiments on urban environments with different road geometries are presented. Comparisons with a 3D data-based approach are presented. Moreover, we provide a performance study aiming at evaluating the accuracy of the proposed approach.
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DoS2009b Serial 1152
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Author Nicola Bellotto; Eric Sommerlade; Ben Benfold; Charles Bibby; I. Reid; Daniel Roth; Luc Van Gool; Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez
Title (down) A Distributed Camera System for Multi-Resolution Surveillance Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords 10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289413
Abstract We describe an architecture for a multi-camera, multi-resolution surveillance system. The aim is to support a set of distributed static and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras and visual tracking algorithms, together with a central supervisor unit. Each camera (and possibly pan-tilt device) has a dedicated process and processor. Asynchronous interprocess communications and archiving of data are achieved in a simple and effective way via a central repository, implemented using an SQL database. Visual tracking data from static views are stored dynamically into tables in the database via client calls to the SQL server. A supervisor process running on the SQL server determines if active zoom cameras should be dispatched to observe a particular target, and this message is effected via writing demands into another database table. We show results from a real implementation of the system comprising one static camera overviewing the environment under consideration and a PTZ camera operating under closed-loop velocity control, which uses a fast and robust level-set-based region tracker. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and its feasibility to multi-camera systems for intelligent surveillance.
Address Como, Italy
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Area Expedition Conference ICDSC
Notes Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ BSB2009 Serial 1205
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Author Albert Gordo
Title (down) A Cyclic Page Layout Descriptor for Document Classification & Retrieval Type Report
Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 128 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor
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Notes CIC;DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Gor2009 Serial 2387
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title (down) 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
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Address Lisboa, Portugal
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ISSN ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RLP2009 Serial 1238
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Author Mohammad Rouhani
Title (down) 3D Data Fitting and Tracking for Real Time Applications Type Report
Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 138 Issue 138 Pages
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Address Barcelona, Spain
Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
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Notes invisible;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Rou2009 Serial 1150
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