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Author Jaime Moreno; Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell edit  isbn
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  Title (down) Local Perceptual Weighting in JPEG2000 for Color Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 5th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision and 12th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 255–260  
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  Abstract The aim of this work is to explain how to apply perceptual concepts to define a perceptual pre-quantizer and to improve JPEG2000 compressor. The approach consists in quantizing wavelet transform coefficients using some of the human visual system behavior properties. Noise is fatal to image compression performance, because it can be both annoying for the observer and consumes excessive bandwidth when the imagery is transmitted. Perceptual pre-quantization reduces unperceivable details and thus improve both visual impression and transmission properties. The comparison between JPEG2000 without and with perceptual pre-quantization shows that the latter is not favorable in PSNR, but the recovered image is more compressed at the same or even better visual quality measured with a weighted PSNR. Perceptual criteria were taken from the CIWaM (Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model).  
  Address Joensuu, Finland  
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  ISSN ISBN 9781617388897 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CGIV/MCS  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ MOV2010a Serial 1307  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title (down) 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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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  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 Javier Marin; David Vazquez; David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title (down) Learning Appearance in Virtual Scenarios for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 137–144  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation  
  Abstract Detecting pedestrians in images is a key functionality to avoid vehicle-to-pedestrian collisions. The most promising detectors rely on appearance-based pedestrian classifiers trained with labelled samples. This paper addresses the following question: can a pedestrian appearance model learnt in virtual scenarios work successfully for pedestrian detection in real images? (Fig. 1). Our experiments suggest a positive answer, which is a new and relevant conclusion for research in pedestrian detection. More specifically, we record training sequences in virtual scenarios and then appearance-based pedestrian classifiers are learnt using HOG and linear SVM. We test such classifiers in a publicly available dataset provided by Daimler AG for pedestrian detection benchmarking. This dataset contains real world images acquired from a moving car. The obtained result is compared with the one given by a classifier learnt using samples coming from real images. The comparison reveals that, although virtual samples were not specially selected, both virtual and real based training give rise to classifiers of similar performance.  
  Address San Francisco; CA; USA; June 2010  
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  Language English Summary Language English Original Title Learning Appearance in Virtual Scenarios for Pedestrian Detection  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ MVG2010 Serial 1304  
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Author Naila Murray; Eduard Vazquez edit   pdf
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  Title (down) Lacuna Restoration: How to choose a neutral colour? Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 248–252  
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  Abstract Painting restoration which involves filling in material loss (called lacuna) is a complex process. Several standard techniques exist to tackle lacuna restoration,
and this article focuses on those techniques that employ a “neutral” colour to mask the defect. Restoration experts often disagree on the choice of such a colour and in fact, the concept of a neutral colour is controversial. We posit that a neutral colour is one that attracts relatively little visual attention for a specific lacuna. We conducted an eye tracking experiment to compare two common neutral
colour selection methods, specifically the most common local colour and the mean local colour. Results obtained demonstrate that the most common local colour triggers less visual attention in general. Notwithstanding, we have observed instances in which the most common colour triggers a significant amount of attention when subjects spent time resolving their confusion about whether or not a lacuna was part of the painting.
 
  Address Gjovik, Norway  
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  Area Expedition Conference CREATE  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MuV2010 Serial 1297  
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Author Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  url
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  Title (down) La influencia del contexto en la definicion de las fronteras entre las categorias cromaticas Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 9th Congreso Nacional del Color Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 92–95  
  Keywords Categorización del color; Apariencia del color; Influencia del contexto; Patrones de Mondrian; Modelos paramétricos  
  Abstract En este artículo presentamos los resultados de un experimento de categorización de color en el que las muestras se presentaron sobre un fondo multicolor (Mondrian) para simular los efectos del contexto. Los resultados se comparan con los de un experimento previo que, utilizando un paradigma diferente, determinó las fronteras sin tener en cuenta el contexto. El análisis de los resultados muestra que las fronteras obtenidas con el experimento en contexto presentan menos confusión que las obtenidas en el experimento sin contexto.  
  Address Alicante (Spain)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-9717-144-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CNC  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2010 Serial 1327  
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Fosca De Iorio; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva edit   pdf
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  Title (down) Intestinal Motility Assessment With Video Capsule Endoscopy: Automatic Annotation of Phasic Intestinal Contractions Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal TMI  
  Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 246-259  
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  Abstract Intestinal motility assessment with video capsule endoscopy arises as a novel and challenging clinical fieldwork. This technique is based on the analysis of the patterns of intestinal contractions shown in a video provided by an ingestible capsule with a wireless micro-camera. The manual labeling of all the motility events requires large amount of time for offline screening in search of findings with low prevalence, which turns this procedure currently unpractical. In this paper, we propose a machine learning system to automatically detect the phasic intestinal contractions in video capsule endoscopy, driving a useful but not feasible clinical routine into a feasible clinical procedure. Our proposal is based on a sequential design which involves the analysis of textural, color, and blob features together with SVM classifiers. Our approach tackles the reduction of the imbalance rate of data and allows the inclusion of domain knowledge as new stages in the cascade. We present a detailed analysis, both in a quantitative and a qualitative way, by providing several measures of performance and the assessment study of interobserver variability. Our system performs at 70% of sensitivity for individual detection, whilst obtaining equivalent patterns to those of the experts for density of contractions.  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0278-0062 ISBN Medium  
  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes MILAB;MV;OR;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VSD2010; IAM @ iam @ VSI2010 Serial 1281  
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Author Carolina Malagelada; F.De Lorio; Fernando Azpiroz; Santiago Segui; Petia Radeva; Anna Accarino; J.Santos; Juan R. Malagelada edit  openurl
  Title (down) Intestinal Dysmotility in Patients with Functional Intestinal Disorders Demonstrated by Computer Vision Analysis of Capsule Endoscopy Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 18th United European Gastroenterology Week Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 56 Issue 3 Pages A19-20  
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  Address Barcelona  
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  Area Expedition Conference UEGW  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MLA2010 Serial 1779  
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Author Oriol Ramos Terrades; N. Serrano; Albert Gordo; Ernest Valveny; Alfons Juan-Ciscar edit  doi
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  Title (down) Interactive-predictive detection of handwritten text blocks Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 17th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference, part of the IS&T-SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 7534 Issue Pages 75340Q–75340Q–10  
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  Abstract A method for text block detection is introduced for old handwritten documents. The proposed method takes advantage of sequential book structure, taking into account layout information from pages previously transcribed. This glance at the past is used to predict the position of text blocks in the current page with the help of conventional layout analysis methods. The method is integrated into the GIDOC prototype: a first attempt to provide integrated support for interactive-predictive page layout analysis, text line detection and handwritten text transcription. Results are given in a transcription task on a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891.  
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  Area Expedition Conference DRR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number DAG @ dag @ TSG2010 Serial 1479  
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Author Oriol Ramos Terrades; Alejandro Hector Toselli; Nicolas Serrano; Veronica Romero; Enrique Vidal; Alfons Juan edit  doi
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  Title (down) Interactive layout analysis and transcription systems for historic handwritten documents Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 219–222  
  Keywords Handwriting recognition; Interactive predictive processing; Partial supervision; Interactive layout analysis  
  Abstract The amount of digitized legacy documents has been rising dramatically over the last years due mainly to the increasing number of on-line digital libraries publishing this kind of documents, waiting to be classified and finally transcribed into a textual electronic format (such as ASCII or PDF). Nevertheless, most of the available fully-automatic applications addressing this task are far from being perfect and heavy and inefficient human intervention is often required to check and correct the results of such systems. In contrast, multimodal interactive-predictive approaches may allow the users to participate in the process helping the system to improve the overall performance. With this in mind, two sets of recent advances are introduced in this work: a novel interactive method for text block detection and two multimodal interactive handwritten text transcription systems which use active learning and interactive-predictive technologies in the recognition process.  
  Address Manchester, United Kingdom  
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  Area Expedition Conference ACM  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @RTS2010 Serial 1857  
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Author O. Fors; J. Nuñez; Xavier Otazu; A. Prades; Robert D. Cardinal edit  doi
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  Title (down) Improving the Ability of Image Sensors to Detect Faint Stars and Moving Objects Using Image Deconvolution Techniques Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication Sensors Abbreviated Journal SENS  
  Volume 10 Issue 3 Pages 1743–1752  
  Keywords image processing; image deconvolution; faint stars; space debris; wavelet transform  
  Abstract Abstract: In this paper we show how the techniques of image deconvolution can increase the ability of image sensors as, for example, CCD imagers, to detect faint stars or faint orbital objects (small satellites and space debris). In the case of faint stars, we show that this benefit is equivalent to double the quantum efficiency of the used image sensor or to increase the effective telescope aperture by more than 30% without decreasing the astrometric precision or introducing artificial bias. In the case of orbital objects, the deconvolution technique can double the signal-to-noise ratio of the image, which helps to discover and control dangerous objects as space debris or lost satellites. The benefits obtained using CCD detectors can be extrapolated to any kind of image sensors.  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number CAT @ cat @ FNO2010 Serial 1285  
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Author Francisco Javier Orozco edit  isbn
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  Title (down) Human Emotion Evaluation on Facial Image Sequences Type Book Whole
  Year 2010 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Psychological evidence has emphasized the importance of affective behaviour understanding due to its high impact in nowadays interaction humans and computers. All
type of affective and behavioural patterns such as gestures, emotions and mental
states are highly displayed through the face, head and body. Therefore, this thesis is
focused to analyse affective behaviours on head and face. To this end, head and facial
movements are encoded by using appearance based tracking methods. Specifically,
a wise combination of deformable models captures rigid and non-rigid movements of
different kinematics; 3D head pose, eyebrows, mouth, eyelids and irises are taken into
account as basis for extracting features from databases of video sequences. This approach combines the strengths of adaptive appearance models, optimization methods
and backtracking techniques.
For about thirty years, computer sciences have addressed the investigation on
human emotions to the automatic recognition of six prototypic emotions suggested
by Darwin and systematized by Paul Ekman in the seventies. The Facial Action
Coding System (FACS) which uses discrete movements of the face (called Action
units or AUs) to code the six facial emotions named anger, disgust, fear, happy-Joy,
sadness and surprise. However, human emotions are much complex patterns that
have not received the same attention from computer scientists.
Simon Baron-Cohen proposed a new taxonomy of emotions and mental states
without a system coding of the facial actions. These 426 affective behaviours are
more challenging for the understanding of human emotions. Beyond of classically
classifying the six basic facial expressions, more subtle gestures, facial actions and
spontaneous emotions are considered here. By assessing confidence on the recognition
results, exploring spatial and temporal relationships of the features, some methods are
combined and enhanced for developing new taxonomy of expressions and emotions.
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a computer vision system, including both facial feature extraction, expression recognition and emotion understanding
by building a bottom-up reasoning process. Building a detailed taxonomy of human
affective behaviours is an interesting challenge for head-face-based image analysis
methods. In this paper, we exploit the strengths of Canonical Correlation Analysis
(CCA) to enhance an on-line head-face tracker. A relationship between head pose and
local facial movements is studied according to their cognitive interpretation on affective expressions and emotions. Active Shape Models are synthesized for AAMs based
on CCA-regression. Head pose and facial actions are fused into a maximally correlated space in order to assess expressiveness, confidence and classification in a CBR system. The CBR solutions are also correlated to the cognitive features, which allow
avoiding exhaustive search when recognizing new head-face features. Subsequently,
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Bayesian Networks are applied for learning the
spatial relationships of facial expressions. Similarly, the temporal evolution of facial
expressions, emotion and mental states are analysed based on Factorized Dynamic
Bayesian Networks (FaDBN).
As results, the bottom-up system recognizes six facial expressions, six basic emotions and six mental states, plus enhancing this categorization with confidence assessment at each level, intensity of expressions and a complete taxonomy
 
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Gonzalez;Xavier Roca  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-84-936529-3-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Oro2010 Serial 1335  
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Author Ekain Artola edit  openurl
  Title (down) Human Attention Map Prediction Combining Visual Features Type Report
  Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 160 Issue Pages  
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  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis Bachelor's thesis  
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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Art2010 Serial 1352  
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Author Josep M. Gonfaus; Xavier Boix; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Joan Serrat; Jordi Gonzalez edit  url
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  Title (down) Harmony Potentials for Joint Classification and Segmentation Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 3280–3287  
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  Abstract Hierarchical conditional random fields have been successfully applied to object segmentation. One reason is their ability to incorporate contextual information at different scales. However, these models do not allow multiple labels to be assigned to a single node. At higher scales in the image, this yields an oversimplified model, since multiple classes can be reasonable expected to appear within one region. This simplified model especially limits the impact that observations at larger scales may have on the CRF model. Neglecting the information at larger scales is undesirable since class-label estimates based on these scales are more reliable than at smaller, noisier scales. To address this problem, we propose a new potential, called harmony potential, which can encode any possible combination of class labels. We propose an effective sampling strategy that renders tractable the underlying optimization problem. Results show that our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on two challenging datasets: Pascal VOC 2009 and MSRC-21.  
  Address San Francisco CA, USA  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS;CIC;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ GBW2010 Serial 1296  
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Author David Fernandez edit  openurl
  Title (down) Handwritten Word Spotting in Old Manuscript Images using Shape Descriptors Type Report
  Year 2010 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 161 Issue Pages  
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  Address  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Fer2010b Serial 1353  
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Author Jean-Marc Ogier; Wenyin Liu; Josep Llados (eds) edit  isbn
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  Title (down) Graphics Recognition: Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution Type Book Whole
  Year 2010 Publication 8th International Workshop GREC 2009. Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6020 Issue Pages  
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  Address La Rochelle  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Link Place of Publication Editor Jean-Marc Ogier; Wenyin Liu; Josep Llados  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GREC  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ OLL2010 Serial 1976  
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