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Author Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Bogdan Raducanu; Maria Elena Meza-de-Luna; Joaquin Salas
Title (down) Evaluating Real-Time Mirroring of Head Gestures using Smart Glasses Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 452-460
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Abstract Mirroring occurs when one person tends to mimic the non-verbal communication of their counterparts. Even though mirroring is a complex phenomenon, in this study, we focus on the detection of head-nodding as a simple non-verbal communication cue due to its significance as a gesture displayed during social interactions. This paper introduces a computer vision-based method to detect mirroring through the analysis of head gestures using wearable cameras (smart glasses). In addition, we study how such a method can be used to explore perceived competence. The proposed method has been evaluated and the experiments demonstrate how static and wearable cameras seem to be equally effective to gather the information required for the analysis.
Address Santiago de Chile; December 2015
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Notes LAMP; 600.068; 600.072; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TRM2015 Serial 2722
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Author Youssef El Rhabi; Simon Loic; Brun Luc
Title (down) Estimation de la pose d’une caméra à partir d’un flux vidéo en s’approchant du temps réel Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 15ème édition d'ORASIS, journées francophones des jeunes chercheurs en vision par ordinateur ORASIS2015 Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords Augmented Reality; SFM; SLAM; real time pose computation; 2D/3D registration
Abstract Finding a way to estimate quickly and robustly the pose of an image is essential in augmented reality. Here we will discuss the approach we chose in order to get closer to real time by using SIFT points [4]. We propose a method based on filtering both SIFT points and images on which to focus on. Hence we will focus on relevant data.
Address Amiens; France; June 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLL2015 Serial 2626
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Author Wenjuan Gong; W.Zhang; Jordi Gonzalez; Y.Ren; Z.Li
Title (down) Enhanced Asymmetric Bilinear Model for Face Recognition Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Abbreviated Journal IJDSN
Volume Issue Pages Article ID 218514
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Abstract Bilinear models have been successfully applied to separate two factors, for example, pose variances and different identities in face recognition problems. Asymmetric model is a type of bilinear model which models a system in the most concise way. But seldom there are works exploring the applications of asymmetric bilinear model on face recognition problem with illumination changes. In this work, we propose enhanced asymmetric model for illumination-robust face recognition. Instead of initializing the factor probabilities randomly, we initialize them with nearest neighbor method and optimize them for the test data. Above that, we update the factor model to be identified. We validate the proposed method on a designed data sample and extended Yale B dataset. The experiment results show that the enhanced asymmetric models give promising results and good recognition accuracies.
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Notes ISE; 600.063; 600.078 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GZG2015 Serial 2592
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Author David Sanchez-Mendoza; David Masip; Agata Lapedriza
Title (down) Emotion recognition from mid-level features Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 67 Issue Part 1 Pages 66–74
Keywords Facial expression; Emotion recognition; Action units; Computer vision
Abstract In this paper we present a study on the use of Action Units as mid-level features for automatically recognizing basic and subtle emotions. We propose a representation model based on mid-level facial muscular movement features. We encode these movements dynamically using the Facial Action Coding System, and propose to use these intermediate features based on Action Units (AUs) to classify emotions. AUs activations are detected fusing a set of spatiotemporal geometric and appearance features. The algorithm is validated in two applications: (i) the recognition of 7 basic emotions using the publicly available Cohn-Kanade database, and (ii) the inference of subtle emotional cues in the Newscast database. In this second scenario, we consider emotions that are perceived cumulatively in longer periods of time. In particular, we Automatically classify whether video shoots from public News TV channels refer to Good or Bad news. To deal with the different video lengths we propose a Histogram of Action Units and compute it using a sliding window strategy on the frame sequences. Our approach achieves accuracies close to human perception.
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Publisher Elsevier B.V. Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0167-8655 ISBN Medium
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Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SML2015 Serial 2746
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados
Title (down) Efficient segmentation-free keyword spotting in historical document collections Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR
Volume 48 Issue 2 Pages 545–555
Keywords Historical documents; Keyword spotting; Segmentation-free; Dense SIFT features; Latent semantic analysis; Product quantization
Abstract In this paper we present an efficient segmentation-free word spotting method, applied in the context of historical document collections, that follows the query-by-example paradigm. We use a patch-based framework where local patches are described by a bag-of-visual-words model powered by SIFT descriptors. By projecting the patch descriptors to a topic space with the latent semantic analysis technique and compressing the descriptors with the product quantization method, we are able to efficiently index the document information both in terms of memory and time. The proposed method is evaluated using four different collections of historical documents achieving good performances on both handwritten and typewritten scenarios. The yielded performances outperform the recent state-of-the-art keyword spotting approaches.
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Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077; 600.061; 601.223; 602.006; 600.055 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RAT2015a Serial 2544
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Author Suman Ghosh; Lluis Gomez; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny
Title (down) Efficient indexing for Query By String text retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 6th IAPR International Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition CBDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1236 - 1240
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Abstract This paper deals with Query By String word spotting in scene images. A hierarchical text segmentation algorithm based on text specific selective search is used to find text regions. These regions are indexed per character n-grams present in the text region. An attribute representation based on Pyramidal Histogram of Characters (PHOC) is used to compare text regions with the query text. For generation of the index a similar attribute space based Pyramidal Histogram of character n-grams is used. These attribute models are learned using linear SVMs over the Fisher Vector [1] representation of the images along with the PHOC labels of the corresponding strings.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGK2015 Serial 2693
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Author Jiaolong Xu
Title (down) Domain Adaptation of Deformable Part-based Models Type Book Whole
Year 2015 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract On-board pedestrian detection is crucial for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS). An accurate classi cation is fundamental for vision-based pedestrian detection.
The underlying assumption for learning classi ers is that the training set and the deployment environment (testing) follow the same probability distribution regarding the features used by the classi ers. However, in practice, there are di erent reasons that can break this constancy assumption. Accordingly, reusing existing classi ers by adapting them from the previous training environment (source domain) to the new testing one (target domain) is an approach with increasing acceptance in the computer vision community. In this thesis we focus on the domain adaptation of deformable part-based models (DPMs) for pedestrian detection. As a prof of concept, we use a computer graphic based synthetic dataset, i.e. a virtual world, as the source domain, and adapt the virtual-world trained DPM detector to various real-world dataset.
We start by exploiting the maximum detection accuracy of the virtual-world
trained DPM. Even though, when operating in various real-world datasets, the virtualworld trained detector still su er from accuracy degradation due to the domain gap of virtual and real worlds. We then focus on domain adaptation of DPM. At the rst step, we consider single source and single target domain adaptation and propose two batch learning methods, namely A-SSVM and SA-SSVM. Later, we further consider leveraging multiple target (sub-)domains for progressive domain adaptation and propose a hierarchical adaptive structured SVM (HA-SSVM) for optimization. Finally, we extend HA-SSVM for the challenging online domain adaptation problem, aiming at making the detector to automatically adapt to the target domain online, without any human intervention. All of the proposed methods in this thesis do not require
revisiting source domain data. The evaluations are done on the Caltech pedestrian detection benchmark. Results show that SA-SSVM slightly outperforms A-SSVM and avoids accuracy drops as high as 15 points when comparing with a non-adapted detector. The hierarchical model learned by HA-SSVM further boosts the domain adaptation performance. Finally, the online domain adaptation method has demonstrated that it can achieve comparable accuracy to the batch learned models while not requiring manually label target domain examples. Domain adaptation for pedestrian detection is of paramount importance and a relatively unexplored area. We humbly hope the work in this thesis could provide foundations for future work in this area.
Address April 2015
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Antonio Lopez
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-943427-1-4 Medium
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Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Xu2015 Serial 2631
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Jordi Cucurull; Jordi Puiggali; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title (down) Document Analysis Techniques for Automatic Electoral Document Processing: A Survey Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication E-Voting and Identity, Proceedings of 5th international conference, VoteID 2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 139-141
Keywords Document image analysis; Computer vision; Paper ballots; Paper based elections; Optical scan; Tally
Abstract In this paper, we will discuss the most common challenges in electoral document processing and study the different solutions from the document analysis community that can be applied in each case. We will cover Optical Mark Recognition techniques to detect voter selections in the Australian Ballot, handwritten number recognition for preferential elections and handwriting recognition for write-in areas. We will also propose some particular adjustments that can be made to those general techniques in the specific context of electoral documents.
Address Bern; Switzerland; September 2015
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Notes DAG; 600.061; 602.006; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TCP2015 Serial 2641
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Author Isabelle Guyon; Kristin Bennett; Gavin Cawley; Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera; Tin Kam Ho; Nuria Macia; Bisakha Ray; Alexander Statnikov; Evelyne Viegas
Title (down) Design of the 2015 ChaLearn AutoML Challenge Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN2015 Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract ChaLearn is organizing for IJCNN 2015 an Automatic Machine Learning challenge (AutoML) to solve classification and regression problems from given feature representations, without any human intervention. This is a challenge with code
submission: the code submitted can be executed automatically on the challenge servers to train and test learning machines on new datasets. However, there is no obligation to submit code. Half of the prizes can be won by just submitting prediction results.
There are six rounds (Prep, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert, and Master) in which datasets of progressive difficulty are introduced (5 per round). There is no requirement to participate in previous rounds to enter a new round. The rounds alternate AutoML phases in which submitted code is “blind tested” on
datasets the participants have never seen before, and Tweakathon phases giving time (' 1 month) to the participants to improve their methods by tweaking their code on those datasets. This challenge will push the state-of-the-art in fully automatic machine learning on a wide range of problems taken from real world
applications. The platform will remain available beyond the termination of the challenge: http://codalab.org/AutoML
Address Killarney; Ireland; July 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @ GBC2015a Serial 2604
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Author Frederic Sampedro; Anna Domenech; Sergio Escalera; Ignasi Carrio
Title (down) Deriving global quantitative tumor response parameters from 18F-FDG PET-CT scans in patients with non-Hodgkins lymphoma Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication Nuclear Medicine Communications Abbreviated Journal NMC
Volume 36 Issue 4 Pages 328-333
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Abstract OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the study was to address the need for quantifying the global cancer time evolution magnitude from a pair of time-consecutive positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scans. In particular, we focus on the computation of indicators using image-processing techniques that seek to model non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) progression or response severity.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
A total of 89 pairs of time-consecutive PET-CT scans from NHL patients were stored in a nuclear medicine station for subsequent analysis. These were classified by a consensus of nuclear medicine physicians into progressions, partial responses, mixed responses, complete responses, and relapses. The cases of each group were ordered by magnitude following visual analysis. Thereafter, a set of quantitative indicators designed to model the cancer evolution magnitude within each group were computed using semiautomatic and automatic image-processing techniques. Performance evaluation of the proposed indicators was measured by a correlation analysis with the expert-based visual analysis.
RESULTS:
The set of proposed indicators achieved Pearson's correlation results in each group with respect to the expert-based visual analysis: 80.2% in progressions, 77.1% in partial response, 68.3% in mixed response, 88.5% in complete response, and 100% in relapse. In the progression and mixed response groups, the proposed indicators outperformed the common indicators used in clinical practice [changes in metabolic tumor volume, mean, maximum, peak standardized uptake value (SUV mean, SUV max, SUV peak), and total lesion glycolysis] by more than 40%.
CONCLUSION:
Computing global indicators of NHL response using PET-CT imaging techniques offers a strong correlation with the associated expert-based visual analysis, motivating the future incorporation of such quantitative and highly observer-independent indicators in oncological decision making or treatment response evaluation scenarios.
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Call Number Admin @ si @ SDE2015 Serial 2605
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Michael Felsberg; J.Laaksonen
Title (down) Deep semantic pyramids for human attributes and action recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Image Analysis, Proceedings of 19th Scandinavian Conference , SCIA 2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9127 Issue Pages 341-353
Keywords Action recognition; Human attributes; Semantic pyramids
Abstract Describing persons and their actions is a challenging problem due to variations in pose, scale and viewpoint in real-world images. Recently, semantic pyramids approach [1] for pose normalization has shown to provide excellent results for gender and action recognition. The performance of semantic pyramids approach relies on robust image description and is therefore limited due to the use of shallow local features. In the context of object recognition [2] and object detection [3], convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or deep features have shown to improve the performance over the conventional shallow features.
We propose deep semantic pyramids for human attributes and action recognition. The method works by constructing spatial pyramids based on CNNs of different part locations. These pyramids are then combined to obtain a single semantic representation. We validate our approach on the Berkeley and 27 Human Attributes datasets for attributes classification. For action recognition, we perform experiments on two challenging datasets: Willow and PASCAL VOC 2010. The proposed deep semantic pyramids provide a significant gain of 17.2%, 13.9%, 24.3% and 22.6% compared to the standard shallow semantic pyramids on Berkeley, 27 Human Attributes, Willow and PASCAL VOC 2010 datasets respectively. Our results also show that deep semantic pyramids outperform conventional CNNs based on the full bounding box of the person. Finally, we compare our approach with state-of-the-art methods and show a gain in performance compared to best methods in literature.
Address Denmark; Copenhagen; June 2015
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-19664-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference SCIA
Notes LAMP; 600.068; 600.079;ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KRW2015b Serial 2672
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Author Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; P. Rasti; Gholamreza Anbarjafari; Xavier Baro; Hugo Jair Escalante; Thomas B. Moeslund
Title (down) Deep Learning based Super-Resolution for Improved Action Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 5th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications IPTA2015 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 67 - 72
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Abstract Action recognition systems mostly work with videos of proper quality and resolution. Even most challenging benchmark databases for action recognition, hardly include videos of low-resolution from, e.g., surveillance cameras. In videos recorded by such cameras, due to the distance between people and cameras, people are pictured very small and hence challenge action recognition algorithms. Simple upsampling methods, like bicubic interpolation, cannot retrieve all the detailed information that can help the recognition. To deal with this problem, in this paper we combine results of bicubic interpolation with results of a state-ofthe-art deep learning-based super-resolution algorithm, through an alpha-blending approach. The experimental results obtained on down-sampled version of a large subset of Hoolywood2 benchmark database show the importance of the proposed system in increasing the recognition rate of a state-of-the-art action recognition system for handling low-resolution videos.
Address Orleans; France; November 2015
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Call Number Admin @ si @ NER2015 Serial 2648
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Author Aleksandr Setkov; Fabio Martinez Carillo; Michele Gouiffes; Christian Jacquemin; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title (down) DAcImPro: A Novel Database of Acquired Image Projections and Its Application to Object Recognition Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Advances in Visual Computing. Proceedings of 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015 Part II Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9475 Issue Pages 463-473
Keywords Projector-camera systems; Feature descriptors; Object recognition
Abstract Projector-camera systems are designed to improve the projection quality by comparing original images with their captured projections, which is usually complicated due to high photometric and geometric variations. Many research works address this problem using their own test data which makes it extremely difficult to compare different proposals. This paper has two main contributions. Firstly, we introduce a new database of acquired image projections (DAcImPro) that, covering photometric and geometric conditions and providing data for ground-truth computation, can serve to evaluate different algorithms in projector-camera systems. Secondly, a new object recognition scenario from acquired projections is presented, which could be of a great interest in such domains, as home video projections and public presentations. We show that the task is more challenging than the classical recognition problem and thus requires additional pre-processing, such as color compensation or projection area selection.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-27862-9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ISVC
Notes CIC Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SMG2015 Serial 2736
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Sergi Robles; Gemma Sanchez
Title (down) CVC-FP and SGT: a new database for structural floor plan analysis and its groundtruthing tool Type Journal Article
Year 2015 Publication International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal IJDAR
Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 15-30
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Abstract Recent results on structured learning methods have shown the impact of structural information in a wide range of pattern recognition tasks. In the field of document image analysis, there is a long experience on structural methods for the analysis and information extraction of multiple types of documents. Yet, the lack of conveniently annotated and free access databases has not benefited the progress in some areas such as technical drawing understanding. In this paper, we present a floor plan database, named CVC-FP, that is annotated for the architectural objects and their structural relations. To construct this database, we have implemented a groundtruthing tool, the SGT tool, that allows to make specific this sort of information in a natural manner. This tool has been made for general purpose groundtruthing: It allows to define own object classes and properties, multiple labeling options are possible, grants the cooperative work, and provides user and version control. We finally have collected some of the recent work on floor plan interpretation and present a quantitative benchmark for this database. Both CVC-FP database and the SGT tool are freely released to the research community to ease comparisons between methods and boost reproducible research.
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 1433-2833 ISBN Medium
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Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.061; 600.076; 600.077 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ HRR2015 Serial 2567
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Author M. Cruz; Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Angel Sappa
Title (down) Cross-spectral image registration and fusion: an evaluation study Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 2nd International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords multispectral imaging; image registration; data fusion; infrared and visible spectra
Abstract This paper presents a preliminary study on the registration and fusion of cross-spectral imaging. The objective is to evaluate the validity of widely used computer vision approaches when they are applied at different
spectral bands. In particular, we are interested in merging images from the infrared (both long wave infrared: LWIR and near infrared: NIR) and visible spectrum (VS). Experimental results with different data sets are presented.
Address Barcelona; July 2015
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Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CAV2015 Serial 2629
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