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| Author | Pejman Rasti; Tonis Uiboupin; Sergio Escalera; Gholamreza Anbarjafari | ||||
| Title | Convolutional Neural Network Super Resolution for Face Recognition in Surveillance Monitoring | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 9th Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Palma de Mallorca; Spain; July 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | AMDO | ||
| Notes | HuPBA;MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RUE2016 | Serial | 2846 | ||
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| Author | Mark Philip Philipsen; Anders Jorgensen; Thomas B. Moeslund; Sergio Escalera | ||||
| Title | RGB-D Segmentation of Poultry Entrails | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 9th Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Best commercial paper award. | ||||
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| Notes | HuPBA;MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ PJM2016 | Serial | 2848 | ||
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| Author | Antonio Esteban Lansaque; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil | ||||
| Title | Stable Airway Center Tracking for Bronchoscopic Navigation | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 28th Conference of the international Society for Medical Innovation and Technology | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Bronchoscopists use X‐ray fluoroscopy to guide bronchoscopes to the lesion to be biopsied without any kind of incisions. Reducing exposure to X‐ray is important for both patients and doctors but alternatives like electromagnetic navigation require specific equipment and increase the cost of the clinical procedure. We propose a guiding system based on the extraction of airway centers from intra‐operative videos. Such anatomical landmarks could be
matched to the airway centerline extracted from a pre‐planned CT to indicate the best path to the lesion. We present an extraction of lumen centers from intra‐operative videos based on tracking of maximal stable regions of energy maps. |
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| Address | Delft; Rotterdam; Leiden; The Netherlands; October 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | SMIT | ||
| Notes | IAM; | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ LSB2016a | Serial | 2856 | ||
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| Author | Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Baro; Fernando Alonso; Martha Mackay | ||||
| Title | Care Respite: a remote monitoring eHealth system for improving ambient assisted living | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Advances in technology that capture human motion have been quite remarkable during the last five years. New sensors have been developed, such as the Microsoft Kinect, Asus Xtion Pro live, PrimeSense Carmine and Leap Motion. Their main advantages are their non-intrusive nature, low cost and widely available support for developers offered by large corporations or Open Communities. Although they were originally developed for computer games, they have inspired numerous healthcare related ideas and projects in areas such as Medical Disorder Diagnosis, Assisted Living, Rehabilitation and Surgery.
In Assisted Living, human motion analysis allows continuous monitoring of elderly and vulnerable people and their activities to potentially detect life-threatening events such as falls. Human motion analysis in rehabilitation provides the opportunity for motivating patients through gamification, evaluating prescribed programmes of exercises and assessing patients’ progress. In operating theatres, surgeons may use a gesture-based interface to access medical information or control a tele-surgery system. Human motion analysis may also be used to diagnose a range of mental and physical diseases and conditions. This event will discuss recent advances in human motion sensing and provide an application to healthcare for networking and exploring potential synergies and collaborations. |
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| Address | Savoy Place; London; uk; May 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | HMAHA | ||
| Notes | HuPBA; ISE; | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ EGB2016 | Serial | 2852 | ||
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| Author | Jose Ramirez Moreno; Juan R Revilla; Miguel Reyes; Sergio Escalera | ||||
| Title | Validación del Software ADIBAS asociado al sensor Kinect de Microsoft para la evaluación de la posición corporal | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 4th Congreso WCPT-SAR | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Buenos Aires; Argentina; June 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | WCPT-SAR | ||
| Notes | HuPBA;MILAB | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RRR2016 | Serial | 2853 | ||
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| Author | Fernando Alonso; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Martha Mackay; Anna Serrahima | ||||
| Title | CARE RESPITE: TAKING CARE OF THE CAREGIVERS, Theme 5 The Strategic use of Mobile and Digital Health and Care Solutions | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 16th International Conference for Integrated Care | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Address | Barcelona; Spain; May 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | ICIC | ||
| Notes | HuPBA; ISE;MV | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ ABE2016 | Serial | 2855 | ||
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| Author | Antonio Esteban Lansaque; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil | ||||
| Title | Stable Anatomical Structure Tracking for video-bronchoscopy Navigation | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Workshops | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | Lung cancer diagnosis; video-bronchoscopy; airway lumen detection; region tracking | ||||
| Abstract | Bronchoscopy allows to examine the patient airways for detection of lesions and sampling of tissues without surgery. A main drawback in lung cancer diagnosis is the diculty to check whether the exploration is following the correct path to the nodule that has to be biopsied. The most extended guidance uses uoroscopy which implies repeated radiation of clinical sta and patients. Alternatives such as virtual bronchoscopy or electromagnetic navigation are very expensive and not completely robust to blood, mocus or deformations as to be extensively used. We propose a method that extracts and tracks stable lumen regions at di erent levels of the bronchial tree. The tracked regions are stored in a tree that encodes the anatomical structure of the scene which can be useful to retrieve the path to the lesion that the clinician should follow to do the biopsy. We present a multi-expert validation of our anatomical landmark extraction in 3 intra-operative ultrathin explorations. | ||||
| Address | Athens; Greece; October 2016 | ||||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | MICCAIW | ||
| Notes | IAM; 600.075 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ LSB2016b | Serial | 2857 | ||
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| Author | German Ros | ||||
| Title | Visual Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles: Understanding Where and What | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Making Ground Autonomous Vehicles (GAVs) a reality as a service for the society is one of the major scientific and technological challenges of this century. The potential benefits of autonomous vehicles include reducing accidents, improving traffic congestion and better usage of road infrastructures, among others. These vehicles must operate in our cities, towns and highways, dealing with many different types of situations while respecting traffic rules and protecting human lives. GAVs are expected to deal with all types of scenarios and situations, coping with an uncertain and chaotic world.
Therefore, in order to fulfill these demanding requirements GAVs need to be endowed with the capability of understanding their surrounding at many different levels, by means of affordable sensors and artificial intelligence. This capacity to understand the surroundings and the current situation that the vehicle is involved in is called scene understanding. In this work we investigate novel techniques to bring scene understanding to autonomous vehicles by combining the use of cameras as the main source of information—due to their versatility and affordability—and algorithms based on computer vision and machine learning. We investigate different degrees of understanding of the scene, starting from basic geometric knowledge about where is the vehicle within the scene. A robust and efficient estimation of the vehicle location and pose with respect to a map is one of the most fundamental steps towards autonomous driving. We study this problem from the point of view of robustness and computational efficiency, proposing key insights to improve current solutions. Then we advance to higher levels of abstraction to discover what is in the scene, by recognizing and parsing all the elements present on a driving scene, such as roads, sidewalks, pedestrians, etc. We investigate this problem known as semantic segmentation, proposing new approaches to improve recognition accuracy and computational efficiency. We cover these points by focusing on key aspects such as: (i) how to leverage computation moving semantics to an offline process, (ii) how to train compact architectures based on deconvolutional networks to achieve their maximum potential, (iii) how to use virtual worlds in combination with domain adaptation to produce accurate models in a cost-effective fashion, and (iv) how to use transfer learning techniques to prepare models to new situations. We finally extend the previous level of knowledge enabling systems to reasoning about what has change in a scene with respect to a previous visit, which in return allows for efficient and cost-effective map updating. |
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| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Angel Sappa;Julio Guerrero;Antonio Lopez | |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Ros2016 | Serial | 2860 | ||
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| Author | Francisco Cruz | ||||
| Title | Probabilistic Graphical Models for Document Analysis | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | Latest advances in digitization techniques have fostered the interest in creating digital copies of collections of documents. Digitized documents permit an easy maintenance, loss-less storage, and efficient ways for transmission and to perform information retrieval processes. This situation has opened a new market niche to develop systems able to automatically extract and analyze information contained in these collections, specially in the ambit of the business activity.
Due to the great variety of types of documents this is not a trivial task. For instance, the automatic extraction of numerical data from invoices differs substantially from a task of text recognition in historical documents. However, in order to extract the information of interest, is always necessary to identify the area of the document where it is located. In the area of Document Analysis we refer to this process as layout analysis, which aims at identifying and categorizing the different entities that compose the document, such as text regions, pictures, text lines, or tables, among others. To perform this task it is usually necessary to incorporate a prior knowledge about the task into the analysis process, which can be modeled by defining a set of contextual relations between the different entities of the document. The use of context has proven to be useful to reinforce the recognition process and improve the results on many computer vision tasks. It presents two fundamental questions: What kind of contextual information is appropriate for a given task, and how to incorporate this information into the models. In this thesis we study several ways to incorporate contextual information to the task of document layout analysis, and to the particular case of handwritten text line segmentation. We focus on the study of Probabilistic Graphical Models and other mechanisms for this purpose, and propose several solutions to these problems. First, we present a method for layout analysis based on Conditional Random Fields. With this model we encode local contextual relations between variables, such as pair-wise constraints. Besides, we encode a set of structural relations between different classes of regions at feature level. Second, we present a method based on 2D-Probabilistic Context-free Grammars to encode structural and hierarchical relations. We perform a comparative study between Probabilistic Graphical Models and this syntactic approach. Third, we propose a method for structured documents based on Bayesian Networks to represent the document structure, and an algorithm based in the Expectation-Maximization to find the best configuration of the page. We perform a thorough evaluation of the proposed methods on two particular collections of documents: a historical collection composed of ancient structured documents, and a collection of contemporary documents. In addition, we present a general method for the task of handwritten text line segmentation. We define a probabilistic framework where we combine the EM algorithm with variational approaches for computing inference and parameter learning on a Markov Random Field. We evaluate our method on several collections of documents, including a general dataset of annotated administrative documents. Results demonstrate the applicability of our method to real problems, and the contribution of the use of contextual information to this kind of problems. |
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| Publisher | Ediciones Graficas Rey | Place of Publication | Editor | Oriol Ramos Terrades | |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Cru2016 | Serial | 2861 | ||
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| Author | Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Lluis Albarracin; Daniel Calvo; Nuria Gorgorio | ||||
| Title | EyeMath: Identifying Mathematics Problem Solving Processes in a RTS Video Game | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | 5th International Conference Games and Learning Alliance | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 10056 | Issue | Pages | 50-59 | |
| 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. | ||||
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| Notes | ADAS;IAM; | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | HAC2016 | Serial | 2864 | ||
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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 | 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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| Notes | ADAS;IAM; 600.085; 600.076 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | MHE2016 | Serial | 2865 | ||
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| Author | Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Biologically plausible boundary detection | Type | 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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| Notes | NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ AkP2016a | Serial | 2867 | ||
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| Author | Azadeh S. Mozafari; David Vazquez; Mansour Jamzad; Antonio Lopez | ||||
| Title | Node-Adapt, Path-Adapt and Tree-Adapt:Model-Transfer Domain Adaptation for Random Forest | Type | Miscellaneous | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Arxiv | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian detection; Random Forest | ||||
| Abstract | Random Forest (RF) is a successful paradigm for learning classifiers due to its ability to learn from large feature spaces and seamlessly integrate multi-class classification, as well as the achieved accuracy and processing efficiency. However, as many other classifiers, RF requires domain adaptation (DA) provided that there is a mismatch between the training (source) and testing (target) domains which provokes classification degradation. Consequently, different RF-DA methods have been proposed, which not only require target-domain samples but revisiting the source-domain ones, too. As novelty, we propose three inherently different methods (Node-Adapt, Path-Adapt and Tree-Adapt) that only require the learned source-domain RF and a relatively few target-domain samples for DA, i.e. source-domain samples do not need to be available. To assess the performance of our proposals we focus on image-based object detection, using the pedestrian detection problem as challenging proof-of-concept. Moreover, we use the RF with expert nodes because it is a competitive patch-based pedestrian model. We test our Node-, Path- and Tree-Adapt methods in standard benchmarks, showing that DA is largely achieved. | ||||
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| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ MVJ2016 | Serial | 2868 | ||
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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 | 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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| Notes | IAM; MV; 600.060; 600.075 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ SGB2016 | Serial | 2885 | ||
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| Author | Lluis Gomez | ||||
| Title | Exploiting Similarity Hierarchies for Multi-script Scene Text Understanding | Type | Book Whole | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | This thesis addresses the problem of automatic scene text understanding in unconstrained conditions. In particular, we tackle the tasks of multi-language and arbitrary-oriented text detection, tracking, and script identification in natural scenes.
For this we have developed a set of generic methods that build on top of the basic observation that text has always certain key visual and structural characteristics that are independent of the language or script in which it is written. Text instances in any language or script are always formed as groups of similar atomic parts, being them either individual characters, small stroke parts, or even whole words in the case of cursive text. This holistic (sumof-parts) and recursive perspective has lead us to explore different variants of the “segmentation and grouping” paradigm of computer vision. Scene text detection methodologies are usually based in classification of individual regions or patches, using a priory knowledge for a given script or language. Human perception of text, on the other hand, is based on perceptual organization through which text emerges as a perceptually significant group of atomic objects. In this thesis, we argue that the text detection problem must be posed as the detection of meaningful groups of regions. We address the problem of text detection in natural scenes from a hierarchical perspective, making explicit use of the recursive nature of text, aiming directly to the detection of region groupings corresponding to text within a hierarchy produced by an agglomerative similarity clustering process over individual regions. We propose an optimal way to construct such an hierarchy introducing a feature space designed to produce text group hypothese with high recall and a novel stopping rule combining a discriminative classifier and a probabilistic measure of group meaningfulness based in perceptual organization. Within this generic framework, we design a text-specific object proposals algorithm that, contrary to existing generic object proposals methods, aims directly to the detection of text regions groupings. For this, we abandon the rigid definition of “what is text” of traditional specialized text detectors, and move towards more fuzzy perspective of grouping-based object proposals methods. Then, we present a hybrid algorithm for detection and tracking of scene text where the notion of region groupings plays also a central role. By leveraging the structural arrangement of text group components between consecutive frames we can improve the overall tracking performance of the system. Finally, since our generic detection framework is inherently designed for multi-language environments, we focus on the problem of script identification in order to build a multi-language end-toend reading system. Facing this problem with state of the art CNN classifiers is not straightforward, as they fail to address a key characteristic of scene text instances: their extremely variable aspect ratio. Instead of resizing input images to a fixed size as in the typical use of holistic CNN classifiers, we propose a patch-based classification framework in order to preserve discriminative parts of the image that are characteristic of its class. We describe a novel method based on the use of ensembles of conjoined networks to jointly learn discriminative stroke-parts representations and their relative importance in a patch-based classification scheme. |
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Editor | Dimosthenis Karatzas | ||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Gom2016 | Serial | 2891 | ||
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