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Author Ivet Rafegas; Javier Vazquez; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Susana Alvarez edit  url
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  Title Enhancing spatio-chromatic representation with more-than-three color coding for image description Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Journal of the Optical Society of America A Abbreviated Journal JOSA A  
  Volume 34 Issue 5 Pages 827-837  
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  Abstract Extraction of spatio-chromatic features from color images is usually performed independently on each color channel. Usual 3D color spaces, such as RGB, present a high inter-channel correlation for natural images. This correlation can be reduced using color-opponent representations, but the spatial structure of regions with small color differences is not fully captured in two generic Red-Green and Blue-Yellow channels. To overcome these problems, we propose a new color coding that is adapted to the specific content of each image. Our proposal is based on two steps: (a) setting the number of channels to the number of distinctive colors we find in each image (avoiding the problem of channel correlation), and (b) building a channel representation that maximizes contrast differences within each color channel (avoiding the problem of low local contrast). We call this approach more-than-three color coding (MTT) to enhance the fact that the number of channels is adapted to the image content. The higher color complexity an image has, the more channels can be used to represent it. Here we select distinctive colors as the most predominant in the image, which we call color pivots, and we build the new color coding using these color pivots as a basis. To evaluate the proposed approach we measure its efficiency in an image categorization task. We show how a generic descriptor improves its performance at the description level when applied on the MTT coding.  
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Author Hassan Ahmed Sial; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Deep intrinsic decomposition trained on surreal scenes yet with realistic light effects Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Journal of the Optical Society of America A Abbreviated Journal JOSA A  
  Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 1-15  
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  Abstract Estimation of intrinsic images still remains a challenging task due to weaknesses of ground-truth datasets, which either are too small or present non-realistic issues. On the other hand, end-to-end deep learning architectures start to achieve interesting results that we believe could be improved if important physical hints were not ignored. In this work, we present a twofold framework: (a) a flexible generation of images overcoming some classical dataset problems such as larger size jointly with coherent lighting appearance; and (b) a flexible architecture tying physical properties through intrinsic losses. Our proposal is versatile, presents low computation time, and achieves state-of-the-art results.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ SBV2019 Serial 3311  
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Author Hassan Ahmed Sial; S. Sancho; Ramon Baldrich; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Color-based data augmentation for Reflectance Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 26th Color Imaging Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 284-289  
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  Abstract Deep convolutional architectures have shown to be successful frameworks to solve generic computer vision problems. The estimation of intrinsic reflectance from single image is not a solved problem yet. Encoder-Decoder architectures are a perfect approach for pixel-wise reflectance estimation, although it usually suffers from the lack of large datasets. Lack of data can be partially solved with data augmentation, however usual techniques focus on geometric changes which does not help for reflectance estimation. In this paper we propose a color-based data augmentation technique that extends the training data by increasing the variability of chromaticity. Rotation on the red-green blue-yellow plane of an opponent space enable to increase the training set in a coherent and sound way that improves network generalization capability for reflectance estimation. We perform some experiments on the Sintel dataset showing that our color-based augmentation increase performance and overcomes one of the state-of-the-art methods.  
  Address Vancouver; November 2018  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ SSB2018a Serial 3129  
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Author Danna Xue; Luis Herranz; Javier Vazquez; Yanning Zhang edit  url
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  Title Burst Perception-Distortion Tradeoff: Analysis and Evaluation Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Burst image restoration attempts to effectively utilize the complementary cues appearing in sequential images to produce a high-quality image. Most current methods use all the available images to obtain the reconstructed image. However, using more images for burst restoration is not always the best option regarding reconstruction quality and efficiency, as the images acquired by handheld imaging devices suffer from degradation and misalignment caused by the camera noise and shake. In this paper, we extend the perception-distortion tradeoff theory by introducing multiple-frame information. We propose the area of the unattainable region as a new metric for perception-distortion tradeoff evaluation and comparison. Based on this metric, we analyse the performance of burst restoration from the perspective of the perception-distortion tradeoff under both aligned bursts and misaligned bursts situations. Our analysis reveals the importance of inter-frame alignment for burst restoration and shows that the optimal burst length for the restoration model depends both on the degree of degradation and misalignment.  
  Address Rodhes Islands; Greece; June 2023  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ XHV2023 Serial 3909  
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Author Yawei Li; Yulun Zhang; Radu Timofte; Luc Van Gool; Zhijun Tu; Kunpeng Du; Hailing Wang; Hanting Chen; Wei Li; Xiaofei Wang; Jie Hu; Yunhe Wang; Xiangyu Kong; Jinlong Wu; Dafeng Zhang; Jianxing Zhang; Shuai Liu; Furui Bai; Chaoyu Feng; Hao Wang; Yuqian Zhang; Guangqi Shao; Xiaotao Wang; Lei Lei; Rongjian Xu; Zhilu Zhang; Yunjin Chen; Dongwei Ren; Wangmeng Zuo; Qi Wu; Mingyan Han; Shen Cheng; Haipeng Li; Ting Jiang; Chengzhi Jiang; Xinpeng Li; Jinting Luo; Wenjie Lin; Lei Yu; Haoqiang Fan; Shuaicheng Liu; Aditya Arora; Syed Waqas Zamir; Javier Vazquez; Konstantinos G. Derpanis; Michael S. Brown; Hao Li; Zhihao Zhao; Jinshan Pan; Jiangxin Dong; Jinhui Tang; Bo Yang; Jingxiang Chen; Chenghua Li; Xi Zhang; Zhao Zhang; Jiahuan Ren; Zhicheng Ji; Kang Miao; Suiyi Zhao; Huan Zheng; YanYan Wei; Kangliang Liu; Xiangcheng Du; Sijie Liu; Yingbin Zheng; Xingjiao Wu; Cheng Jin; Rajeev Irny; Sriharsha Koundinya; Vighnesh Kamath; Gaurav Khandelwal; Sunder Ali Khowaja; Jiseok Yoon; Ik Hyun Lee; Shijie Chen; Chengqiang Zhao; Huabin Yang; Zhongjian Zhang; Junjia Huang; Yanru Zhang edit  url
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  Title NTIRE 2023 challenge on image denoising: Methods and results Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1904-1920  
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  Abstract This paper reviews the NTIRE 2023 challenge on image denoising (σ = 50) with a focus on the proposed solutions and results. The aim is to obtain a network design capable to produce high-quality results with the best performance measured by PSNR for image denoising. Independent additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is assumed and the noise level is 50. The challenge had 225 registered participants, and 16 teams made valid submissions. They gauge the state-of-the-art for image denoising.  
  Address Vancouver; Canada; June 2023  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ LZT2023 Serial 3910  
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Author Yasuko Sugito; Trevor Canham; Javier Vazquez; Marcelo Bertalmio edit  url
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  Title A Study of Objective Quality Metrics for HLG-Based HDR/WCG Image Coding Type Journal
  Year 2021 Publication SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal Abbreviated Journal SMPTE  
  Volume 130 Issue 4 Pages 53 - 65  
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  Abstract In this work, we study the suitability of high dynamic range, wide color gamut (HDR/WCG) objective quality metrics to assess the perceived deterioration of compressed images encoded using the hybrid log-gamma (HLG) method, which is the standard for HDR television. Several image quality metrics have been developed to deal specifically with HDR content, although in previous work we showed that the best results (i.e., better matches to the opinion of human expert observers) are obtained by an HDR metric that consists simply in applying a given standard dynamic range metric, called visual information fidelity (VIF), directly to HLG-encoded images. However, all these HDR metrics ignore the chroma components for their calculations, that is, they consider only the luminance channel. For this reason, in the current work, we conduct subjective evaluation experiments in a professional setting using compressed HDR/WCG images encoded with HLG and analyze the ability of the best HDR metric to detect perceivable distortions in the chroma components, as well as the suitability of popular color metrics (including ΔITPR , which supports parameters for HLG) to correlate with the opinion scores. Our first contribution is to show that there is a need to consider the chroma components in HDR metrics, as there are color distortions that subjects perceive but that the best HDR metric fails to detect. Our second contribution is the surprising result that VIF, which utilizes only the luminance channel, correlates much better with the subjective evaluation scores than the metrics investigated that do consider the color components.  
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  Call Number SCV2021 Serial 3671  
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Author Trevor Canham; Javier Vazquez; Elise Mathieu; Marcelo Bertalmío edit   pdf
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  Title Matching visual induction effects on screens of different size Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal JOV  
  Volume 21 Issue 6(10) Pages 1-22  
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  Abstract In the film industry, the same movie is expected to be watched on displays of vastly different sizes, from cinema screens to mobile phones. But visual induction, the perceptual phenomenon by which the appearance of a scene region is affected by its surroundings, will be different for the same image shown on two displays of different dimensions. This phenomenon presents a practical challenge for the preservation of the artistic intentions of filmmakers, because it can lead to shifts in image appearance between viewing destinations. In this work, we show that a neural field model based on the efficient representation principle is able to predict induction effects and how, by regularizing its associated energy functional, the model is still able to represent induction but is now invertible. From this finding, we propose a method to preprocess an image in a screen–size dependent way so that its perception, in terms of visual induction, may remain constant across displays of different size. The potential of the method is demonstrated through psychophysical experiments on synthetic images and qualitative examples on natural images.  
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Author Bojana Gajic; Eduard Vazquez; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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  Title Evaluation of Deep Image Descriptors for Texture Retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2017) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 251-257  
  Keywords Texture Representation; Texture Retrieval; Convolutional Neural Networks; Psychophysical Evaluation  
  Abstract The increasing complexity learnt in the layers of a Convolutional Neural Network has proven to be of great help for the task of classification. The topic has received great attention in recently published literature.
Nonetheless, just a handful of works study low-level representations, commonly associated with lower layers. In this paper, we explore recent findings which conclude, counterintuitively, the last layer of the VGG convolutional network is the best to describe a low-level property such as texture. To shed some light on this issue, we are proposing a psychophysical experiment to evaluate the adequacy of different layers of the VGG network for texture retrieval. Results obtained suggest that, whereas the last convolutional layer is a good choice for a specific task of classification, it might not be the best choice as a texture descriptor, showing a very poor performance on texture retrieval. Intermediate layers show the best performance, showing a good combination of basic filters, as in the primary visual cortex, and also a degree of higher level information to describe more complex textures.
 
  Address Porto, Portugal; 27 February – 1 March 2017  
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Author Domicele Jonauskaite; Lucia Camenzind; C. Alejandro Parraga; Cecile N Diouf; Mathieu Mercapide Ducommun; Lauriane Müller; Melanie Norberg; Christine Mohr edit  url
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  Title Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication PeerJ Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 9 Issue Pages e11180  
  Keywords Affect; Chromotherapy; Colour cognition; Colour vision deficiency; Cross-modal correspondences; Daltonism; Deuteranopia; Dichromatic; Emotion; Protanopia.  
  Abstract Colours and emotions are associated in languages and traditions. Some of us may convey sadness by saying feeling blue or by wearing black clothes at funerals. The first example is a conceptual experience of colour and the second example is an immediate perceptual experience of colour. To investigate whether one or the other type of experience more strongly drives colour-emotion associations, we tested 64 congenitally red-green colour-blind men and 66 non-colour-blind men. All participants associated 12 colours, presented as terms or patches, with 20 emotion concepts, and rated intensities of the associated emotions. We found that colour-blind and non-colour-blind men associated similar emotions with colours, irrespective of whether colours were conveyed via terms (r = .82) or patches (r = .80). The colour-emotion associations and the emotion intensities were not modulated by participants' severity of colour blindness. Hinting at some additional, although minor, role of actual colour perception, the consistencies in associations for colour terms and patches were higher in non-colour-blind than colour-blind men. Together, these results suggest that colour-emotion associations in adults do not require immediate perceptual colour experiences, as conceptual experiences are sufficient.  
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  Notes CIC; LAMP; 600.120; 600.128 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ JCP2021 Serial 3564  
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Author Ivet Rafegas; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Color encoding in biologically-inspired convolutional neural networks Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication Vision Research Abbreviated Journal VR  
  Volume 151 Issue Pages 7-17  
  Keywords Color coding; Computer vision; Deep learning; Convolutional neural networks  
  Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks have been proposed as suitable frameworks to model biological vision. Some of these artificial networks showed representational properties that rival primate performances in object recognition. In this paper we explore how color is encoded in a trained artificial network. It is performed by estimating a color selectivity index for each neuron, which allows us to describe the neuron activity to a color input stimuli. The index allows us to classify whether they are color selective or not and if they are of a single or double color. We have determined that all five convolutional layers of the network have a large number of color selective neurons. Color opponency clearly emerges in the first layer, presenting 4 main axes (Black-White, Red-Cyan, Blue-Yellow and Magenta-Green), but this is reduced and rotated as we go deeper into the network. In layer 2 we find a denser hue sampling of color neurons and opponency is reduced almost to one new main axis, the Bluish-Orangish coinciding with the dataset bias. In layers 3, 4 and 5 color neurons are similar amongst themselves, presenting different type of neurons that detect specific colored objects (e.g., orangish faces), specific surrounds (e.g., blue sky) or specific colored or contrasted object-surround configurations (e.g. blue blob in a green surround). Overall, our work concludes that color and shape representation are successively entangled through all the layers of the studied network, revealing certain parallelisms with the reported evidences in primate brains that can provide useful insight into intermediate hierarchical spatio-chromatic representations.  
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  Notes CIC; 600.051; 600.087 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @RaV2018 Serial 3114  
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Author Marcos V Conde; Florin Vasluianu; Javier Vazquez; Radu Timofte edit   pdf
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  Title Perceptual image enhancement for smartphone real-time applications Type Conference Article
  Year 2023 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1848-1858  
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  Abstract Recent advances in camera designs and imaging pipelines allow us to capture high-quality images using smartphones. However, due to the small size and lens limitations of the smartphone cameras, we commonly find artifacts or degradation in the processed images. The most common unpleasant effects are noise artifacts, diffraction artifacts, blur, and HDR overexposure. Deep learning methods for image restoration can successfully remove these artifacts. However, most approaches are not suitable for real-time applications on mobile devices due to their heavy computation and memory requirements. In this paper, we propose LPIENet, a lightweight network for perceptual image enhancement, with the focus on deploying it on smartphones. Our experiments show that, with much fewer parameters and operations, our model can deal with the mentioned artifacts and achieve competitive performance compared with state-of-the-art methods on standard benchmarks. Moreover, to prove the efficiency and reliability of our approach, we deployed the model directly on commercial smartphones and evaluated its performance. Our model can process 2K resolution images under 1 second in mid-level commercial smartphones.  
  Address Waikoloa; Hawai; USA; January 2023  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ CVV2023 Serial 3900  
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Author M. Gonzalez-Audicana; Xavier Otazu; O. Fors; A. Seco edit  url
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  Title Comparison between Mallats and the trous discrete wavelet transform based algorithms for the fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images Type Journal
  Year 2005 Publication International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(3):595–614 (IF: 0.925) Abbreviated Journal  
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Author Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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  Title A data set for fuzzy colour naming Type Journal
  Year 2006 Publication Color Research & Application, 31(1):48–56 Abbreviated Journal  
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