Publicacions CVC -- Query Results

	Publicacions CVC Home \| Show All \| Simple Search \| Advanced Search \| Add Record \| Import	Login Quick Search: Field: contains: ...
	436–450 of 3413 records found matching your query (RSS \| history):

Search & Display Options

Select All Deselect All

[11–20] << 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 >> [31–40]

List View

Citations

Details

	Records
	Author	Ivan Huerta; Michael Holte; Thomas B. Moeslund; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Detection and Removal of Chromatic Moving Shadows in Surveillance Scenarios			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	12th International Conference on Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1499 - 1506
	Keywords
	Abstract	Segmentation in the surveillance domain has to deal with shadows to avoid distortions when detecting moving objects. Most segmentation approaches dealing with shadow detection are typically restricted to penumbra shadows. Therefore, such techniques cannot cope well with umbra shadows. Consequently, umbra shadows are usually detected as part of moving objects. In this paper we present a novel technique based on gradient and colour models for separating chromatic moving cast shadows from detected moving objects. Firstly, both a chromatic invariant colour cone model and an invariant gradient model are built to perform automatic segmentation while detecting potential shadows. In a second step, regions corresponding to potential shadows are grouped by considering “a bluish effect” and an edge partitioning. Lastly, (i) temporal similarities between textures and (ii) spatial similarities between chrominance angle and brightness distortions are analysed for all potential shadow regions in order to finally identify umbra shadows. Unlike other approaches, our method does not make any a-priori assumptions about camera location, surface geometries, surface textures, shapes and types of shadows, objects, and background. Experimental results show the performance and accuracy of our approach in different shadowed materials and illumination conditions.
	Address	Kyoto, Japan
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1550-5499	ISBN	978-1-4244-4420-5	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICCV
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	ISE @ ise @ HHM2009			Serial	1213
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Petia Radeva; Joan Serrat; Enric Marti
	Title	A snake for model-based segmentation			Type	Conference Article
	Year	1995	Publication	Proc. Conf. Fifth Int Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	816-821
	Keywords	snakes; elastic matching; model-based segmenta tion
	Abstract	Despite the promising results of numerous applications, the hitherto proposed snake techniques share some common problems: snake attraction by spurious edge points, snake degeneration (shrinking and attening), convergence and stability of the deformation process, snake initialization and local determination of the parameters of elasticity. We argue here that these problems can be solved only when all the snake aspects are considered. The snakes proposed here implement a new potential eld and external force in order to provide a deformation convergence, attraction by both near and far edges as well as snake behaviour selective according to the edge orientation. Furthermore, we conclude that in the case of model-based seg mentation, the internal force should include structural information about the expected snake shape. Experiments using this kind of snakes for segmenting bones in complex hand radiographs show a signicant improvement.
	Address
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	MILAB;ADAS;IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ RSM1995			Serial	1634
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Bogdan Raducanu; Jordi Vitria; D. Gatica-Perez
	Title	You are Fired! Nonverbal Role Analysis in Competitive Meetings			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1949–1952
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper addresses the problem of social interaction analysis in competitive meetings, using nonverbal cues. For our study, we made use of ldquoThe Apprenticerdquo reality TV show, which features a competition for a real, highly paid corporate job. Our analysis is centered around two tasks regarding a person's role in a meeting: predicting the person with the highest status and predicting the fired candidates. The current study was carried out using nonverbal audio cues. Results obtained from the analysis of a full season of the show, representing around 90 minutes of audio data, are very promising (up to 85.7% of accuracy in the first case and up to 92.8% in the second case). Our approach is based only on the nonverbal interaction dynamics during the meeting without relying on the spoken words.
	Address	Taipei, Taiwan
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1520-6149	ISBN	978-1-4244-2353-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICASSP
	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ RVG2009			Serial	1154
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Laura Igual; Joan Carles Soliva; Antonio Hernandez; Sergio Escalera; Oscar Vilarroya; Petia Radeva
	Title	Supervised Brain Segmentation and Classification in Diagnostic of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	High Performance Computing and Simulation, International Conference on	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	182-187
	Keywords
	Abstract	This paper presents an automatic method for external and internal segmentation of the caudate nucleus in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) based on statistical and structural machine learning approaches. This method is applied in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis. The external segmentation method adapts the Graph Cut energy-minimization model to make it suitable for segmenting small, low-contrast structures, such as the caudate nucleus. In particular, new energy function data and boundary potentials are defined and a supervised energy term based on contextual brain structures is added. Furthermore, the internal segmentation method learns a classifier based on shape features of the Region of Interest (ROI) in MRI slices. The results show accurate external and internal caudate segmentation in a real data set and similar performance of ADHD diagnostic test to manual annotation.
	Address	Madrid
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher	IEEE Xplore	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4673-2359-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	HPCS
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ISH2012a			Serial	2038
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Petia Radeva; Michal Drozdzal; Santiago Segui; Laura Igual; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Jordi Vitria
	Title	Active labeling: Application to wireless endoscopy analysis			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	High Performance Computing and Simulation, International Conference on	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	174-181
	Keywords
	Abstract	Today, robust learners trained in a real supervised machine learning application should count with a rich collection of positive and negative examples. Although in many applications, it is not difficult to obtain huge amount of data, labeling those data can be a very expensive process, especially when dealing with data of high variability and complexity. A good example of such cases are data from medical imaging applications where annotating anomalies like tumors, polyps, atherosclerotic plaque or informative frames in wireless endoscopy need highly trained experts. Building a representative set of training data from medical videos (e.g. Wireless Capsule Endoscopy) means that thousands of frames to be labeled by an expert. It is quite normal that data in new videos come different and thus are not represented by the training set. In this paper, we review the main approaches on active learning and illustrate how active learning can help to reduce expert effort in constructing the training sets. We show that applying active learning criteria, the number of human interventions can be significantly reduced. The proposed system allows the annotation of informative/non-informative frames of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy video containing more than 30000 frames each one with less than 100 expert ”clicks”.
	Address
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4673-2359-8	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	HPCS
	Notes	MILAB; OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RDS2012			Serial	2152
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Laura Lopez-Fuentes; Sebastia Massanet; Manuel Gonzalez-Hidalgo
	Title	Image vignetting reduction via a maximization of fuzzy entropy			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	In many computer vision applications, vignetting is an undesirable effect which must be removed in a pre-processing step. Recently, an algorithm for image vignetting correction has been presented by means of a minimization of log-intensity entropy. This method relies on an increase of the entropy of the image when it is affected with vignetting. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to reduce image vignetting via a maximization of the fuzzy entropy of the image. Fuzzy entropy quantifies the fuzziness degree of a fuzzy set and its value is also modified by the presence of vignetting. The experimental results show that this novel algorithm outperforms in most cases the algorithm based on the minimization of log-intensity entropy both from the qualitative and the quantitative point of view.
	Address	Napoles; Italia; July 2017
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FUZZ-IEEE
	Notes	LAMP; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LMG2017			Serial	2972
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Rain Eric Haamer; Kaustubh Kulkarni; Nasrin Imanpour; Mohammad Ahsanul Haque; Egils Avots; Michelle Breisch; Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; Cagri Ozcinar; Xavier Baro; Ahmad R. Naghsh-Nilchi; Thomas B. Moeslund; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
	Title	Changes in Facial Expression as Biometric: A Database and Benchmarks of Identification			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	8th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	Facial dynamics can be considered as unique signatures for discrimination between people. These have started to become important topic since many devices have the possibility of unlocking using face recognition or verification. In this work, we evaluate the efficacy of the transition frames of video in emotion as compared to the peak emotion frames for identification. For experiments with transition frames we extract features from each frame of the video from a fine-tuned VGG-Face Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and geometric features from facial landmark points. To model the temporal context of the transition frames we train a Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) on the geometric and the CNN features. Furthermore, we employ two fusion strategies: first, an early fusion, in which the geometric and the CNN features are stacked and fed to the LSTM. Second, a late fusion, in which the prediction of the LSTMs, trained independently on the two features, are stacked and used with a Support Vector Machine (SVM). Experimental results show that the late fusion strategy gives the best results and the transition frames give better identification results as compared to the peak emotion frames.
	Address	Xian; China; May 2018
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FGW
	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HKI2018			Serial	3118
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Mohammad A. Haque; Ruben B. Bautista; Kamal Nasrollahi; Sergio Escalera; Christian B. Laursen; Ramin Irani; Ole K. Andersen; Erika G. Spaich; Kaustubh Kulkarni; Thomas B. Moeslund; Marco Bellantonio; Golamreza Anbarjafari; Fatemeh Noroozi
	Title	Deep Multimodal Pain Recognition: A Database and Comparision of Spatio-Temporal Visual Modalities, Faces and Gestures			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2018	Publication	13th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	250 - 257
	Keywords
	Abstract	Pain is a symptom of many disorders associated with actual or potential tissue damage in human body. Managing pain is not only a duty but also highly cost prone. The most primitive state of pain management is the assessment of pain. Traditionally it was accomplished by self-report or visual inspection by experts. However, automatic pain assessment systems from facial videos are also rapidly evolving due to the need of managing pain in a robust and cost effective way. Among different challenges of automatic pain assessment from facial video data two issues are increasingly prevalent: first, exploiting both spatial and temporal information of the face to assess pain level, and second, incorporating multiple visual modalities to capture complementary face information related to pain. Most works in the literature focus on merely exploiting spatial information on chromatic (RGB) video data on shallow learning scenarios. However, employing deep learning techniques for spatio-temporal analysis considering Depth (D) and Thermal (T) along with RGB has high potential in this area. In this paper, we present the first state-of-the-art publicly available database, 'Multimodal Intensity Pain (MIntPAIN)' database, for RGBDT pain level recognition in sequences. We provide a first baseline results including 5 pain levels recognition by analyzing independent visual modalities and their fusion with CNN and LSTM models. From the experimental evaluation we observe that fusion of modalities helps to enhance recognition performance of pain levels in comparison to isolated ones. In particular, the combination of RGB, D, and T in an early fusion fashion achieved the best recognition rate.
	Address	Xian; China; May 2018
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HBN2018			Serial	3117
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Alex Carruesco; Carlos Andujar; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Occlusion Aware Hand Pose Recovery from Sequences of Depth Images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	State-of-the-art approaches on hand pose estimation from depth images have reported promising results under quite controlled considerations. In this paper we propose a two-step pipeline for recovering the hand pose from a sequence of depth images. The pipeline has been designed to deal with images taken from any viewpoint and exhibiting a high degree of finger occlusion. In a first step we initialize the hand pose using a part-based model, fitting a set of hand components in the depth images. In a second step we consider temporal data and estimate the parameters of a trained bilinear model consisting of shape and trajectory bases. Results on a synthetic, highly-occluded dataset demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms most recent pose recovering approaches, including those based on CNNs.
	Address
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; ISE; 602.143; 600.098; 600.119			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MEC2017			Serial	2970
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Eirikur Agustsson; Radu Timofte; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Isabelle Guyon; Rasmus Rothe
	Title	Apparent and real age estimation in still images with deep residual regressors on APPA-REAL database			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	After decades of research, the real (biological) age estimation from a single face image reached maturity thanks to the availability of large public face databases and impressive accuracies achieved by recently proposed methods. The estimation of “apparent age” is a related task concerning the age perceived by human observers. Significant advances have been also made in this new research direction with the recent Looking At People challenges. In this paper we make several contributions to age estimation research. (i) We introduce APPA-REAL, a large face image database with both real and apparent age annotations. (ii) We study the relationship between real and apparent age. (iii) We develop a residual age regression method to further improve the performance. (iv) We show that real age estimation can be successfully tackled as an apparent age estimation followed by an apparent to real age residual regression. (v) We graphically reveal the facial regions on which the CNN focuses in order to perform apparent and real age estimation tasks.
	Address	Washington;USA; May 2017
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ ATE2017			Serial	3013
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Exploiting feature representations through similarity learning and ranking aggregation for person re-identification			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	Person re-identification has received special attentionby the human analysis community in the last few years.To address the challenges in this field, many researchers haveproposed different strategies, which basically exploit eithercross-view invariant features or cross-view robust metrics. Inthis work we propose to combine different feature representationsthrough ranking aggregation. Spatial information, whichpotentially benefits the person matching, is represented usinga 2D body model, from which color and texture informationare extracted and combined. We also consider contextualinformation (background and foreground data), automaticallyextracted via Deep Decompositional Network, and the usage ofConvolutional Neural Network (CNN) features. To describe thematching between images we use the polynomial feature map,also taking into account local and global information. Finally,the Stuart ranking aggregation method is employed to combinecomplementary ranking lists obtained from different featurerepresentations. Experimental results demonstrated that weimprove the state-of-the-art on VIPeR and PRID450s datasets,achieving 58.77% and 71.56% on top-1 rank recognitionrate, respectively, as well as obtaining competitive results onCUHK01 dataset.
	Address	Washington; DC; USA; May 2017
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; 602.143			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ JBE2017			Serial	2923
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Chirster Loob; Pejman Rasti; Iiris Lusi; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Tomasz Sapinski; Dorota Kaminska; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
	Title	Dominant and Complementary Multi-Emotional Facial Expression Recognition Using C-Support Vector Classification			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	We are proposing a new facial expression recognition model which introduces 30+ detailed facial expressions recognisable by any artificial intelligence interacting with a human. Throughout this research, we introduce two categories for the emotions, namely, dominant emotions and complementary emotions. In this research paper the complementary emotion is recognised by using the eye region if the dominant emotion is angry, fearful or sad, and if the dominant emotion is disgust or happiness the complementary emotion is mainly conveyed by the mouth. In order to verify the tagged dominant and complementary emotions, randomly chosen people voted for the recognised multi-emotional facial expressions. The average results of voting are showing that 73.88% of the voters agree on the correctness of the recognised multi-emotional facial expressions.
	Address	Washington; DC; USA; May 2017
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LRL2017			Serial	2925
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Iiris Lusi; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Jelena Gorbova; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Hasan Demirel; Juri Allik; Cagri Ozcinar; Gholamreza Anbarjafari
	Title	Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation: Databases			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2017	Publication	12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	In this work two databases for the Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation1 are introduced. Head pose estimation paired with and detailed emotion recognition have become very important in relation to human-computer interaction. The 3D head pose database, SASE, is a 3D database acquired with Microsoft Kinect 2 camera, including RGB and depth information of different head poses which is composed by a total of 30000 frames with annotated markers, including 32 male and 18 female subjects. For the dominant and complementary emotion database, iCVMEFED, includes 31250 images with different emotions of 115 subjects whose gender distribution is almost uniform. For each subject there are 5 samples. The emotions are composed by 7 basic emotions plus neutral, being defined as complementary and dominant pairs. The emotion associated to the images were labeled with the support of psychologists.
	Address	Washington; DC; USA; May 2017
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HUPBA; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LJG2017			Serial	2924
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Mario Rojas; David Masip; Jordi Vitria
	Title	Predicting Dominance Judgements Automatically: A Machine Learning Approach.			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	939-944
	Keywords
	Abstract	The amount of multimodal devices that surround us is growing everyday. In this context, human interaction and communication have become a focus of attention and a hot topic of research. A crucial element in human relations is the evaluation of individuals with respect to facial traits, what is called a first impression. Studies based on appearance have suggested that personality can be expressed by appearance and the observer may use such information to form judgments. In the context of rapid facial evaluation, certain personality traits seem to have a more pronounced effect on the relations and perceptions inside groups. The perception of dominance has been shown to be an active part of social roles at different stages of life, and even play a part in mate selection. The aim of this paper is to study to what extent this information is learnable from the point of view of computer science. Specifically we intend to determine if judgments of dominance can be learned by machine learning techniques. We implement two different descriptors in order to assess this. The first is the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and the second is a probabilistic appearance descriptor based on the frequencies of grouped binary tests. State of the art classification rules validate the performance of both descriptors, with respect to the prediction task. Experimental results show that machine learning techniques can predict judgments of dominance rather accurately (accuracies up to 90%) and that the HOG descriptor may characterize appropriately the information necessary for such task.
	Address	Santa Barbara, CA
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4244-9140-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	SBA
	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RMV2011b			Serial	1760
Permanent link to this record



	Author	Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; F. de la Torre; Joan Serrat; C. Vilella
	Title	Hierarchical CRF with product label spaces for parts-based Models			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2011	Publication	IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	657-664
	Keywords	Shape; Computational modeling; Principal component analysis; Random variables; Color; Upper bound; Facial features
	Abstract	Non-rigid object detection is a challenging an open research problem in computer vision. It is a critical part in many applications such as image search, surveillance, human-computer interaction or image auto-annotation. Most successful approaches to non-rigid object detection make use of part-based models. In particular, Conditional Random Fields (CRF) have been successfully embedded into a discriminative parts-based model framework due to its effectiveness for learning and inference (usually based on a tree structure). However, CRF-based approaches do not incorporate global constraints and only model pairwise interactions. This is especially important when modeling object classes that may have complex parts interactions (e.g. facial features or body articulations), because neglecting them yields an oversimplified model with suboptimal performance. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a novel hierarchical CRF (HCRF). The main contribution is to build a hierarchy of part combinations by extending the label set to a hierarchy of product label spaces. In order to keep the inference computation tractable, we propose an effective method to reduce the new label set. We test our method on two applications: facial feature detection on the Multi-PIE database and human pose estimation on the Buffy dataset.
	Address	Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2011
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RBT2011			Serial	1862
Permanent link to this record