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Author Saad Minhas; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Shoaib Ehsan; Katerine Diaz; Ales Leonardis; Antonio Lopez; Klaus McDonald Maier
Title LEE: A photorealistic Virtual Environment for Assessing Driver-Vehicle Interactions in Self-Driving Mode Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 14th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9915 Issue Pages 894-900
Keywords Simulation environment; Automated Driving; Driver-Vehicle interaction
Abstract Photorealistic virtual environments are crucial for developing and testing automated driving systems in a safe way during trials. As commercially available simulators are expensive and bulky, this paper presents a low-cost, extendable, and easy-to-use (LEE) virtual environment with the aim to highlight its utility for level 3 driving automation. In particular, an experiment is performed using the presented simulator to explore the influence of different variables regarding control transfer of the car after the system was driving autonomously in a highway scenario. The results show that the speed of the car at the time when the system needs to transfer the control to the human driver is critical.
Address Amsterdam; The Netherlands; October 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference ECCVW
Notes ADAS;IAM; 600.085; 600.076 Approved no
Call Number MHE2016 Serial 2865
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Author Simon Jégou; Michal Drozdzal; David Vazquez; Adriana Romero; Yoshua Bengio
Title The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Semantic Segmentation
Abstract State-of-the-art approaches for semantic image segmentation are built on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The typical segmentation architecture is composed of (a) a downsampling path responsible for extracting coarse semantic features, followed by (b) an upsampling path trained to recover the input image resolution at the output of the model and, optionally, (c) a post-processing module (e.g. Conditional Random Fields) to refine the model predictions.

Recently, a new CNN architecture, Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNets), has shown excellent results on image classification tasks. The idea of DenseNets is based on the observation that if each layer is directly connected to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion then the network will be more accurate and easier to train.

In this paper, we extend DenseNets to deal with the problem of semantic segmentation. We achieve state-of-the-art results on urban scene benchmark datasets such as CamVid and Gatech, without any further post-processing module nor pretraining. Moreover, due to smart construction of the model, our approach has much less parameters than currently published best entries for these datasets.
Address Honolulu; USA; July 2017
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Area Expedition Conference CVPRW
Notes MILAB; ADAS; 600.076; 600.085; 601.281 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ JDV2016 Serial 2866
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga
Title Biologically plausible boundary detection Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 27th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on two benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.
Address York; UK; September 2016
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Area Expedition Conference BMVC
Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016a Serial 2867
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Author Pau Riba; Josep Llados; Alicia Fornes
Title Error-tolerant coarse-to-fine matching model for hierarchical graphs Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 11th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10310 Issue Pages 107-117
Keywords Graph matching; Hierarchical graph; Graph-based representation; Coarse-to-fine matching
Abstract Graph-based representations are effective tools to capture structural information from visual elements. However, retrieving a query graph from a large database of graphs implies a high computational complexity. Moreover, these representations are very sensitive to noise or small changes. In this work, a novel hierarchical graph representation is designed. Using graph clustering techniques adapted from graph-based social media analysis, we propose to generate a hierarchy able to deal with different levels of abstraction while keeping information about the topology. For the proposed representations, a coarse-to-fine matching method is defined. These approaches are validated using real scenarios such as classification of colour images and handwritten word spotting.
Address Anacapri; Italy; May 2017
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor Pasquale Foggia; Cheng-Lin Liu; Mario Vento
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Area Expedition Conference GbRPR
Notes DAG; 600.097; 601.302; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLF2017a Serial 2951
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Author Veronica Romero; Alicia Fornes; Enrique Vidal; Joan Andreu Sanchez
Title Information Extraction in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books Using the MGGI Methodology Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10255 Issue Pages 287-294
Keywords Handwritten Text Recognition; Information extraction; Language modeling; MGGI; Categories-based language model
Abstract Historical records of daily activities provide intriguing insights into the life of our ancestors, useful for demographic and genealogical research. For example, marriage license books have been used for centuries by ecclesiastical and secular institutions to register marriages. These books follow a simple structure of the text in the records with a evolutionary vocabulary, mainly composed of proper names that change along the time. This distinct vocabulary makes automatic transcription and semantic information extraction difficult tasks. In previous works we studied the use of category-based language models and how a Grammatical Inference technique known as MGGI could improve the accuracy of these tasks. In this work we analyze the main causes of the semantic errors observed in previous results and apply a better implementation of the MGGI technique to solve these problems. Using the resulting language model, transcription and information extraction experiments have been carried out, and the results support our proposed approach.
Address Faro; Portugal; June 2017
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor L.A. Alexandre; J.Salvador Sanchez; Joao M. F. Rodriguez
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-58837-7 Medium
Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA
Notes DAG; 602.006; 600.097; 600.121 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RFV2017 Serial 2952
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Author Youssef El Rhabi; Simon Loic; Brun Luc; Josep Llados; Felipe Lumbreras
Title Information Theoretic Rotationwise Robust Binary Descriptor Learning Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 368-378
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a new data-driven approach for binary descriptor selection. In order to draw a clear analysis of common designs, we present a general information-theoretic selection paradigm. It encompasses several standard binary descriptor construction schemes, including a recent state-of-the-art one named BOLD. We pursue the same endeavor to increase the stability of the produced descriptors with respect to rotations. To achieve this goal, we have designed a novel offline selection criterion which is better adapted to the online matching procedure. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated on two standard datasets, where our descriptor is compared to BOLD and to several classical descriptors. In particular, it emerges that our approach can reproduce equivalent if not better performance as BOLD while relying on twice shorter descriptors. Such an improvement can be influential for real-time applications.
Address Mérida; Mexico; November 2016
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Area Expedition Conference S+SSPR
Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.097; 600.086 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RLL2016 Serial 2871
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Author Pau Riba; Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados
Title Towards the Alignment of Handwritten Music Scores Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract It is very common to find different versions of the same music work in archives of Opera Theaters. These differences correspond to modifications and annotations from the musicians. From the musicologist point of view, these variations are very interesting and deserve study. This paper explores the alignment of music scores as a tool for automatically detecting the passages that contain such differences. Given the difficulties in the recognition of handwritten music scores, our goal is to align the music scores and at the same time, avoid the recognition of music elements as much as possible. After removing the staff lines, braces and ties, the bar lines are detected. Then, the bar units are described as a whole using the Blurred Shape Model. The bar units alignment is performed by using Dynamic Time Warping. The analysis of the alignment path is used to detect the variations in the music scores. The method has been evaluated on a subset of the CVC-MUSCIMA dataset, showing encouraging results.
Address Nancy; France; August 2015
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor Bart Lamiroy; Rafael Dueire Lins
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-52158-9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 2874
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Author Anjan Dutta; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
Title Compact Correlated Features for Writer Independent Signature Verification Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract This paper considers the offline signature verification problem which is considered to be an important research line in the field of pattern recognition. In this work we propose hybrid features that consider the local features and their global statistics in the signature image. This has been done by creating a vocabulary of histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs). We impose weights on these local features based on the height information of water reservoirs obtained from the signature. Spatial information between local features are thought to play a vital role in considering the geometry of the signatures which distinguishes the originals from the forged ones. Nevertheless, learning a condensed set of higher order neighbouring features based on visual words, e.g., doublets and triplets, continues to be a challenging problem as possible combinations of visual words grow exponentially. To avoid this explosion of size, we create a code of local pairwise features which are represented as joint descriptors. Local features are paired based on the edges of a graph representation built upon the Delaunay triangulation. We reveal the advantage of combining both type of visual codebooks (order one and pairwise) for signature verification task. This is validated through an encouraging result on two benchmark datasets viz. CEDAR and GPDS300.
Address Cancun; Mexico; December 2016
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Area Expedition Conference ICPR
Notes DAG; 600.097 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DPL2016 Serial 2875
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Author Sounak Dey; Anguelos Nicolaou; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title Local Binary Pattern for Word Spotting in Handwritten Historical Document Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 574-583
Keywords Local binary patterns; Spatial sampling; Learning-free; Word spotting; Handwritten; Historical document analysis; Large-scale data
Abstract Digital libraries store images which can be highly degraded and to index this kind of images we resort to word spotting as our information retrieval system. Information retrieval for handwritten document images is more challenging due to the difficulties in complex layout analysis, large variations of writing styles, and degradation or low quality of historical manuscripts. This paper presents a simple innovative learning-free method for word spotting from large scale historical documents combining Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and spatial sampling. This method offers three advantages: firstly, it operates in completely learning free paradigm which is very different from unsupervised learning methods, secondly, the computational time is significantly low because of the LBP features, which are very fast to compute, and thirdly, the method can be used in scenarios where annotations are not available. Finally, we compare the results of our proposed retrieval method with other methods in the literature and we obtain the best results in the learning free paradigm.
Address Merida; Mexico; December 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference S+SSPR
Notes DAG; 600.097; 602.006; 603.053 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DNL2016 Serial 2876
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Author Juan Ignacio Toledo; Sebastian Sudholt; Alicia Fornes; Jordi Cucurull; A. Fink; Josep Llados
Title Handwritten Word Image Categorization with Convolutional Neural Networks and Spatial Pyramid Pooling Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10029 Issue Pages 543-552
Keywords Document image analysis; Word image categorization; Convolutional neural networks; Named entity detection
Abstract The extraction of relevant information from historical document collections is one of the key steps in order to make these documents available for access and searches. The usual approach combines transcription and grammars in order to extract semantically meaningful entities. In this paper, we describe a new method to obtain word categories directly from non-preprocessed handwritten word images. The method can be used to directly extract information, being an alternative to the transcription. Thus it can be used as a first step in any kind of syntactical analysis. The approach is based on Convolutional Neural Networks with a Spatial Pyramid Pooling layer to deal with the different shapes of the input images. We performed the experiments on a historical marriage record dataset, obtaining promising results.
Address Merida; Mexico; December 2016
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-49054-0 Medium
Area Expedition Conference S+SSPR
Notes DAG; 600.097; 602.006 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ TSF2016 Serial 2877
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Author Daniel Hernandez; Antonio Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Juan Carlos Moure
Title Embedded Real-time Stixel Computation Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication GPU Technology Conference Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords GPU; CUDA; Stixels; Autonomous Driving
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Address Silicon Valley; USA; May 2017
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Area Expedition Conference GTC
Notes ADAS; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ HEV2017a Serial 2879
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Author David Vazquez; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Antonio Lopez; Adriana Romero; Michal Drozdzal; Aaron Courville
Title A Benchmark for Endoluminal Scene Segmentation of Colonoscopy Images Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 31st International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
Keywords Deep Learning; Medical Imaging
Abstract Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third cause of cancer death worldwide. Currently, the standard approach to reduce CRC-related mortality is to perform regular screening in search for polyps and colonoscopy is the screening tool of choice. The main limitations of this screening procedure are polyp miss-rate and inability to perform visual assessment of polyp malignancy. These drawbacks can be reduced by designing Decision Support Systems (DSS) aiming to help clinicians in the different stages of the procedure by providing endoluminal scene segmentation. Thus, in this paper, we introduce an extended benchmark of colonoscopy image, with the hope of establishing a new strong benchmark for colonoscopy image analysis research. We provide new baselines on this dataset by training standard fully convolutional networks (FCN) for semantic segmentation and significantly outperforming, without any further post-processing, prior results in endoluminal scene segmentation.
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Notes ADAS; MV; 600.075; 600.085; 600.076; 601.281; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VBS2017a Serial 2880
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Author Antoni Gurgui; Debora Gil; Enric Marti; Vicente Grau
Title Left-Ventricle Basal Region Constrained Parametric Mapping to Unitary Domain Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 7th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases & Computational Modelling of the Heart Abbreviated Journal
Volume 10124 Issue Pages 163-171
Keywords Laplacian; Constrained maps; Parameterization; Basal ring
Abstract Due to its complex geometry, the basal ring is often omitted when putting different heart geometries into correspondence. In this paper, we present the first results on a new mapping of the left ventricle basal rings onto a normalized coordinate system using a fold-over free approach to the solution to the Laplacian. To guarantee correspondences between different basal rings, we imposed some internal constrained positions at anatomical landmarks in the normalized coordinate system. To prevent internal fold-overs, constraints are handled by cutting the volume into regions defined by anatomical features and mapping each piece of the volume separately. Initial results presented in this paper indicate that our method is able to handle internal constrains without introducing fold-overs and thus guarantees one-to-one mappings between different basal ring geometries.
Address Athens; October 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference STACOM
Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GGM2016 Serial 2884
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Author Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell
Title Navigation Path Retrieval from Videobronchoscopy using Bronchial Branches Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9401 Issue Pages 62-70
Keywords Bronchoscopy navigation; Lumen center; Brochial branches; Navigation path; Videobronchoscopy
Abstract Bronchoscopy biopsy can be used to diagnose lung cancer without risking complications of other interventions like transthoracic needle aspiration. During bronchoscopy, the clinician has to navigate through the bronchial tree to the target lesion. A main drawback is the difficulty to check whether the exploration is following the correct path. The usual guidance using fluoroscopy implies repeated radiation of the clinician, while alternative systems (like electromagnetic navigation) require specific equipment that increases intervention costs. We propose to compute the navigated path using anatomical landmarks extracted from the sole analysis of videobronchoscopy images. Such landmarks allow matching the current exploration to the path previously planned on a CT to indicate clinician whether the planning is being correctly followed or not. We present a feasibility study of our landmark based CT-video matching using bronchoscopic videos simulated on a virtual bronchoscopy interactive interface.
Address Quebec; Canada; September 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAIW
Notes IAM; MV; 600.060; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SGB2016 Serial 2885
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Author Juan A. Carvajal Ayala; Dennis Romero; Angel Sappa
Title Fine-tuning based deep convolutional networks for lepidopterous genus recognition Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 21st Ibero American Congress on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 467-475
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Abstract This paper describes an image classification approach oriented to identify specimens of lepidopterous insects at Ecuadorian ecological reserves. This work seeks to contribute to studies in the area of biology about genus of butterflies and also to facilitate the registration of unrecognized specimens. The proposed approach is based on the fine-tuning of three widely used pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This strategy is intended to overcome the reduced number of labeled images. Experimental results with a dataset labeled by expert biologists is presented, reaching a recognition accuracy above 92%.
Address Lima; Perú; November 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference CIARP
Notes ADAS; 600.086 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ CRS2016 Serial 2913
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