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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
Title Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph and Approximate Neighborhood String Matching for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 1078-1082
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Abstract This paper deals with a subgraph matching problem in Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) applied to symbol spotting in graphical documents. RAG is a very important, efficient and natural way of representing graphical information with a graph but this is limited to cases where the information is well defined with perfectly delineated regions. What if the information we are interested in is not confined within well defined regions? This paper addresses this particular problem and solves it by defining near convex grouping of oriented line segments which results in near convex regions. Pure convexity imposes hard constraints and can not handle all the cases efficiently. Hence to solve this problem we have defined a new type of convexity of regions, which allows convex regions to have concavity to some extend. We call this kind of regions Near Convex Regions (NCRs). These NCRs are then used to create the Near Convex Region Adjacency Graph (NCRAG) and with this representation we have formulated the problem of symbol spotting in graphical documents as a subgraph matching problem. For subgraph matching we have used the Approximate Edit Distance Algorithm (AEDA) on the neighborhood string, which starts working after finding a key node in the input or target graph and iteratively identifies similar nodes of the query graph in the neighborhood of the key node. The experiments are performed on artificial, real and distorted datasets.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.056; 600.061; 601.152 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DLB2013a Serial 2358
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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal
Title A Product graph based method for dual subgraph matching applied to symbol spotting Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
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Abstract Product graph has been shown to be an efficient way for matching subgraphs. This paper reports the extension of the product graph methodology for subgraph matching applied to symbol spotting in graphical documents. This paper focuses on the two major limitations of the previous version of product graph: (1) Spurious nodes and edges in the graph representation and (2) Inefficient node and edge attributes. To deal with noisy information of vectorized graphical documents, we consider a dual graph representation on the original graph representing the graphical information and the product graph is computed between the dual graphs of the query graphs and the input graph.
The dual graph with redundant edges is helpful for efficient and tolerating encoding of the structural information of the graphical documents. The adjacency matrix of the product graph locates similar path information of two graphs and exponentiating the adjacency matrix finds similar paths of greater lengths. Nodes joining similar paths between two graphs are found by combining different exponentials of adjacency matrices. An experimental investigation reveals that the recall obtained by this approach is quite encouraging.
Address Bethlehem; PA; USA; August 2013
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DLB2013b Serial 2359
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Author Alex Pardo; Albert Clapes; Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol
Title Actions in Context: System for people with Dementia Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks (Citisen2013) at the European Conference on Complex Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 3-14
Keywords Multi-modal data Fusion; Computer vision; Wearable sensors; Gesture recognition; Dementia
Abstract In the next forty years, the number of people living with dementia is expected to triple. In the last stages, people affected by this disease become dependent. This hinders the autonomy of the patient and has a huge social impact in time, money and effort. Given this scenario, we propose an ubiquitous system capable of recognizing daily specific actions. The system fuses and synchronizes data obtained from two complementary modalities – ambient and egocentric. The ambient approach consists in a fixed RGB-Depth camera for user and object recognition and user-object interaction, whereas the egocentric point of view is given by a personal area network (PAN) formed by a few wearable sensors and a smartphone, used for gesture recognition. The system processes multi-modal data in real-time, performing paralleled task recognition and modality synchronization, showing high performance recognizing subjects, objects, and interactions, showing its reliability to be applied in real case scenarios.
Address Barcelona; September 2013
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-04177-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCS
Notes HUPBA;MILAB Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ PCE2013 Serial 2354
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Author Yainuvis Socarras; Sebastian Ramos; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Theo Gevers
Title Adapting Pedestrian Detection from Synthetic to Far Infrared Images Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication ICCV Workshop on Visual Domain Adaptation and Dataset Bias Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
Keywords Domain Adaptation; Far Infrared; Pedestrian Detection
Abstract We present different techniques to adapt a pedestrian classifier trained with synthetic images and the corresponding automatically generated annotations to operate with far infrared (FIR) images. The information contained in this kind of images allow us to develop a robust pedestrian detector invariant to extreme illumination changes.
Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013
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Publisher Place of Publication Sydney, Australy Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
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Area Expedition Conference ICCVW-VisDA
Notes ADAS; 600.054; 600.055; 600.057; 601.217;ISE Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SRV2013 Serial 2334
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Author V.C.Kieu; Alicia Fornes; M. Visani; N.Journet ; Anjan Dutta
Title The ICDAR/GREC 2013 Music Scores Competition on Staff Removal Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
Keywords Competition; Music scores; Staff Removal
Abstract The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR and GREC in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated both at staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we propose a staff removal competition where we simulate old music scores. Thus, we have created a new set of images, which contain noise and 3D distortions. This paper describes the distortion methods, metrics, the participant’s methods and the obtained results.
Address Bethlehem; PA; USA; August 2013
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Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ KFV2013 Serial 2337
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Author M. Visani; V.C.Kieu; Alicia Fornes; N.Journet
Title The ICDAR 2013 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 1439-1443
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Abstract The first competition on music scores that was organized at ICDAR in 2011 awoke the interest of researchers, who participated both at staff removal and writer identification tasks. In this second edition, we focus on the staff removal task and simulate a real case scenario: old music scores. For this purpose, we have generated a new set of images using two kinds of degradations: local noise and 3D distortions. This paper describes the dataset, distortion methods, evaluation metrics, the participant's methods and the obtained results.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.061 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ VKF2013 Serial 2338
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Author Jorge Bernal; David Vazquez (eds)
Title Computer vision Trends and Challenges Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication Computer vision Trends and Challenges Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
Keywords CVCRD; Computer Vision
Abstract This book contains the papers presented at the Eighth CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges (CVCR&D'2013). The workshop was held at the Computer Vision Center (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the October 25th, 2013. The CVC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for young researchers and project engineers to share new ideas and knowledge about the progress of their work, and also, to discuss about challenges and future perspectives. In addition, the workshop is the welcome event for new people that recently have joined the institute.

The program of CVCR&D is organized in a single-track single-day workshop. It comprises several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each session, a doctor working on the topic introduces the general research lines. The PhD students expose their specific research. A poster session will be held for open questions. Session topics cover the current research lines and development projects of the CVC: Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging, Color & Texture Analysis, Object Recognition, Image Sequence Evaluation, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Machine Vision, Document Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Applications. We want to thank all paper authors and Program Committee members. Their contribution shows that the CVC has a dynamic, active, and promising scientific community.

We hope you all enjoy this Eighth workshop and we are looking forward to meeting you and new people next year in the Ninth CVCR&D.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor Jorge Bernal; David Vazquez
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN ISBN 978-84-940902-2-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ BeV2013 Serial 2339
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Author Patricia Marquez; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate
Title Evaluation of the Capabilities of Confidence Measures for Assessing Optical Flow Quality Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: From Earth to Mars Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 624-631
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Abstract Assessing Optical Flow (OF) quality is essential for its further use in reliable decision support systems. The absence of ground truth in such situations leads to the computation of OF Confidence Measures (CM) obtained from either input or output data. A fair comparison across the capabilities of the different CM for bounding OF error is required in order to choose the best OF-CM pair for discarding points where OF computation is not reliable. This paper presents a statistical probabilistic framework for assessing the quality of a given CM. Our quality measure is given in terms of the percentage of pixels whose OF error bound can not be determined by CM values. We also provide statistical tools for the computation of CM values that ensures a given accuracy of the flow field.
Address Sydney; Australia; December 2013
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Area Expedition Conference CVTT:E2M
Notes IAM; ADAS; 600.044; 600.057; 601.145 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ MGH2013b Serial 2351
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; V. Poulain d'Andecy; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
Title Classification of Administrative Document Images by Logo Identification Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
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Abstract This paper is focused on the categorization of administrative document images (such as invoices) based on the recognition of the supplier's graphical logo. Two different methods are proposed, the first one uses a bag-of-visual-words model whereas the second one tries to locate logo images described by the blurred shape model descriptor within documents by a sliding-window technique. Preliminar results are reported with a dataset of real administrative documents.
Address Bethlehem; PA; USA; August 2013
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 605.203 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 2348
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados
Title Spotting Graphical Symbols in Camera-Acquired Documents in Real Time Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 10th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract In this paper we present a system devoted to spot graphical symbols in camera-acquired document images. The system is based on the extraction and further matching of ORB compact local features computed over interest key-points. Then, the FLANN indexing framework based on approximate nearest neighbor search allows to efficiently match local descriptors between the captured scene and the graphical models. Finally, the RANSAC algorithm is used in order to compute the homography between the spotted symbol and its appearance in the document image. The proposed approach is efficient and is able to work in real time.
Address Bethlehem; PA; USA; August 2013
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Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG; 600.045; 600.055; 600.061; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RKL2013 Serial 2347
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; T.Benkhelfallah; V. Poulain d'Andecy
Title Field Extraction from Administrative Documents by Incremental Structural Templates Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 1100 - 1104
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Abstract In this paper we present an incremental framework aimed at extracting field information from administrative document images in the context of a Digital Mail-room scenario. Given a single training sample in which the user has marked which fields have to be extracted from a particular document class, a document model representing structural relationships among words is built. This model is incrementally refined as the system processes more and more documents from the same class. A reformulation of the tf-idf statistic scheme allows to adjust the importance weights of the structural relationships among words. We report in the experimental section our results obtained with a large dataset of real invoices.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.56; 600.045; 605.203; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBP2013 Serial 2346
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Author Albert Gordo; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Andrew Bagdanov
Title Document Classification and Page Stream Segmentation for Digital Mailroom Applications Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 621-625
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Abstract In this paper we present a method for the segmentation of continuous page streams into multipage documents and the simultaneous classification of the resulting documents. We first present an approach to combine the multiple pages of a document into a single feature vector that represents the whole document. Despite its simplicity and low computational cost, the proposed representation yields results comparable to more complex methods in multipage document classification tasks. We then exploit this representation in the context of page stream segmentation. The most plausible segmentation of a page stream into a sequence of multipage documents is obtained by optimizing a statistical model that represents the probability of each segmented multipage document belonging to a particular class. Experimental results are reported on a large sample of real administrative multipage documents.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG; 600.056; 602.101 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ GRK2013c Serial 2345
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Author L. Rothacker; Marçal Rusiñol; G.A. Fink
Title Bag-of-Features HMMs for segmentation-free word spotting in handwritten documents Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 1305 - 1309
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Abstract Recent HMM-based approaches to handwritten word spotting require large amounts of learning samples and mostly rely on a prior segmentation of the document. We propose to use Bag-of-Features HMMs in a patch-based segmentation-free framework that are estimated by a single sample. Bag-of-Features HMMs use statistics of local image feature representatives. Therefore they can be considered as a variant of discrete HMMs allowing to model the observation of a number of features at a point in time. The discrete nature enables us to estimate a query model with only a single example of the query provided by the user. This makes our method very flexible with respect to the availability of training data. Furthermore, we are able to outperform state-of-the-art results on the George Washington dataset.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RRF2013 Serial 2344
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Author Jiaolong Xu; Sebastian Ramos; Xu Hu; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez
Title Multi-task Bilinear Classifiers for Visual Domain Adaptation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages
Keywords Domain Adaptation; Pedestrian Detection; ADAS
Abstract We propose a method that aims to lessen the significant accuracy degradation
that a discriminative classifier can suffer when it is trained in a specific domain (source domain) and applied in a different one (target domain). The principal reason for this degradation is the discrepancies in the distribution of the features that feed the classifier in different domains. Therefore, we propose a domain adaptation method that maps the features from the different domains into a common subspace and learns a discriminative domain-invariant classifier within it. Our algorithm combines bilinear classifiers and multi-task learning for domain adaptation.
The bilinear classifier encodes the feature transformation and classification
parameters by a matrix decomposition. In this way, specific feature transformations for multiple domains and a shared classifier are jointly learned in a multi-task learning framework. Focusing on domain adaptation for visual object detection, we apply this method to the state-of-the-art deformable part-based model for cross domain pedestrian detection. Experimental results show that our method significantly avoids the domain drift and improves the accuracy when compared to several baselines.
Address Lake Tahoe; Nevada; USA; December 2013
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Area Expedition Conference NIPSW
Notes ADAS; 600.054; 600.057; 601.217;ISE Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ XRH2013 Serial 2340
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades
Title New Approach for Symbol Recognition Combining Shape Context of Interest Points with Sparse Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (up) Issue Pages 265-269
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Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbol description. Our method is built based on the combination of shape context of interest points descriptor and sparse representation. More specifically, we first learn a dictionary describing shape context of interest point descriptors. Then, based on information retrieval techniques, we build a vector model for each symbol based on its sparse representation in a visual vocabulary whose visual words are columns in the learneddictionary. The retrieval task is performed by ranking symbols based on similarity between vector models. Evaluation of our method, using benchmark datasets, demonstrates the validity of our approach and shows that it outperforms related state-of-theart methods.
Address Washington; USA; August 2013
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2013b Serial 2331
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