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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Towards a general model of colour categorization which considers context | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Perception. ECVP Abstract Supplement | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | In two previous experiments [Parraga et al, 2009 J. of Im. Sci. and Tech 53(3) 031106; Benavente et al,2009 Perception 38 ECVP Supplement, 36] the boundaries of basic colour categories were measured.
In the first experiment, samples were presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) and boundaries were measured using a yes/no paradigm. In the second, subjects adjusted the chromaticity of a sample presented on a random Mondrian background to find the boundary between pairs of adjacent colours. Results from these experiments showed significant di erences but it was not possible to conclude whether this discrepancy was due to the absence/presence of a colourful background or to the di erences in the paradigms used. In this work, we settle this question by repeating the first experiment (ie samples presented on a dark background) using the second paradigm. A comparison of results shows that although boundary locations are very similar, boundaries measured in context are significantly di erent(more di use) than those measured in isolation (confirmed by a Student’s t-test analysis on the subject’s answers statistical distributions). In addition, we completed the mapping of colour name space by measuring the boundaries between chromatic colours and the achromatic centre. With these results we completed our parametric fuzzy-sets model of colour naming space. |
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| Call Number | CAT @ cat @ PBV2010b | Serial | 1326 | ||
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| Author | Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Natural Scene Statistics account for Human Cones Ratios | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Perception. ECVP Abstract Supplement | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | In two previous experiments [Parraga et al, 2009 J. of Im. Sci. and Tech 53(3) 031106; Benavente et al,2009 Perception 38 ECVP Supplement, 36] the boundaries of basic colour categories were measured.
In the first experiment, samples were presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) and boundaries were measured using a yes/no paradigm. In the second, subjects adjusted the chromaticity of a sample presented on a random Mondrian background to find the boundary between pairs of adjacent colours. Results from these experiments showed significant di erences but it was not possible to conclude whether this discrepancy was due to the absence/presence of a colourful background or to the di erences in the paradigms used. In this work, we settle this question by repeating the first experiment (ie samples presented on a dark background) using the second paradigm. A comparison of results shows that although boundary locations are very similar, boundaries measured in context are significantly di erent(more di use) than those measured in isolation (confirmed by a Student’s t-test analysis on the subject’s answers statistical distributions). In addition, we completed the mapping of colour name space by measuring the boundaries between chromatic colours and the achromatic centre. With these results we completed our parametric fuzzy-sets model of colour naming space. |
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| Call Number | CAT @ cat @ PPV2010 | Serial | 1357 | ||
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| Author | Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | What is the best criterion for an efficient design of retinal photoreceptor mosaics? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Perception | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | The proportions of L, M and S photoreceptors in the primate retina are arguably determined by evolutionary pressure and the statistics of the visual environment. Two information theory-based approaches have been recently proposed for explaining the asymmetrical spatial densities of photoreceptors in humans. In the first approach Garrigan et al (2010 PLoS ONE 6 e1000677), a model for computing the information transmitted by cone arrays which considers the differential blurring produced by the long-wavelength accommodation of the eye’s lens is proposed. Their results explain the sparsity of S-cones but the optimum depends weakly on the L:M cone ratio. In the second approach (Penacchio et al, 2010 Perception 39 ECVP Supplement, 101), we show that human cone arrays make the visual representation scale-invariant, allowing the total entropy of the signal to be preserved while decreasing individual neurons’ entropy in further retinotopic representations. This criterion provides a thorough description of the distribution of L:M cone ratios and does not depend on differential blurring of the signal by the lens. Here, we investigate the similarities and differences of both approaches when applied to the same database. Our results support a 2-criteria optimization in the space of cone ratios whose components are arguably important and mostly unrelated.
[This work was partially funded by projects TIN2010-21771-C02-1 and Consolider-Ingenio 2010-CSD2007-00018 from the Spanish MICINN. CAP was funded by grant RYC-2007-00484] |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ PeP2011a | Serial | 1719 | ||
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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga; Olivier Penacchio; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Retinal Filtering Matches Natural Image Statistics at Low Luminance Levels | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2011 | Publication | Perception | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | The assumption that the retina’s main objective is to provide a minimum entropy representation to higher visual areas (ie efficient coding principle) allows to predict retinal filtering in space–time and colour (Atick, 1992 Network 3 213–251). This is achieved by considering the power spectra of natural images (which is proportional to 1/f2) and the suppression of retinal and image noise. However, most studies consider images within a limited range of lighting conditions (eg near noon) whereas the visual system’s spatial filtering depends on light intensity and the spatiochromatic properties of natural scenes depend of the time of the day. Here, we explore whether the dependence of visual spatial filtering on luminance match the changes in power spectrum of natural scenes at different times of the day. Using human cone-activation based naturalistic stimuli (from the Barcelona Calibrated Images Database), we show that for a range of luminance levels, the shape of the retinal CSF reflects the slope of the power spectrum at low spatial frequencies. Accordingly, the retina implements the filtering which best decorrelates the input signal at every luminance level. This result is in line with the body of work that places efficient coding as a guiding neural principle. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ PPV2011 | Serial | 1720 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Otazu | ||||
| Title | Perceptual tone-mapping operator based on multiresolution contrast decomposition | Type | Abstract | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Perception | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | Tone-mapping operators (TMO) are used to display high dynamic range(HDR) images in low dynamic range (LDR) displays. Many computational and biologically inspired approaches have been used in the literature, being many of them based on multiresolution decompositions. In this work, a simple two stage model for TMO is presented. The first stage is a novel multiresolution contrast decomposition, which is inspired in a pyramidal contrast decomposition (Peli, 1990 Journal of the Optical Society of America7(10), 2032-2040).
This novel multiresolution decomposition represents the Michelson contrast of the image at different spatial scales. This multiresolution contrast representation, applied on the intensity channel of an opponent colour decomposition, is processed by a non-linear saturating model of V1 neurons (Albrecht et al, 2002 Journal ofNeurophysiology 88(2) 888-913). This saturation model depends on the visual frequency, and it has been modified in order to include information from the extended Contrast Sensitivity Function (e-CSF) (Otazu et al, 2010 Journal ofVision10(12) 5). A set of HDR images in Radiance RGBE format (from CIS HDR Photographic Survey and Greg Ward database) have been used to test the model, obtaining a set of LDR images. The resulting LDR images do not show the usual halo or color modification artifacts. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ Ota2012 | Serial | 2179 | ||
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| Author | Olivier Penacchio; Laura Dempere-Marco; Xavier Otazu | ||||
| Title | Switching off brightness induction through induction-reversed images | Type | Abstract | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Perception | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | Brightness induction is the modulation of the perceived intensity of an
area by the luminance of surrounding areas. Although V1 is traditionally regarded as an area mostly responsive to retinal information, neurophysiological evidence suggests that it may explicitly represent brightness information. In this work, we investigate possible neural mechanisms underlying brightness induction. To this end, we consider the model by Z Li (1999 Computation and Neural Systems10187-212) which is constrained by neurophysiological data and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual influences. This model, which has proven to account for phenomena such as contour detection and preattentive segmentation, shares with brightness induction the relevant effect of contextual influences. Importantly, the input to our network model derives from a complete multiscale and multiorientation wavelet decomposition, which makes it possible to recover an image reflecting the perceived luminance and successfully accounts for well known psychophysical effects for both static and dynamic contexts. By further considering inverse problem techniques we define induction-reversed images: given a target image, we build an image whose perceived luminance matches the actual luminance of the original stimulus, thus effectively canceling out brightness induction effects. We suggest that induction-reversed images may help remove undesired perceptual effects and can find potential applications in fields such as radiological image interpretation |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ PDO2012a | Serial | 2180 | ||
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| Author | Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Predicting categorical colour perception in successive colour constancy | Type | Abstract | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Perception | Abbreviated Journal | PER |
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| Abstract | Colour constancy is a perceptual mechanism that seeks to keep the colour of objects relatively stable under an illumination shift. Experiments haveshown that its effects depend on the number of colours present in the scene. We
studied categorical colour changes under different adaptation states, in particular, whether the colour categories seen under a chromatically neutral illuminant are the same after a shift in the chromaticity of the illumination. To do this, we developed the chromatic setting paradigm (2011 Journal of Vision11 349), which is as an extension of achromatic setting to colour categories. The paradigm exploits the ability of subjects to reliably reproduce the most representative examples of each category, adjusting multiple test patches embedded in a coloured Mondrian. Our experiments were run on a CRT monitor (inside a dark room) under various simulated illuminants and restricting the number of colours of the Mondrian background to three, thus weakening the adaptation effect. Our results show a change in the colour categories present before (under neutral illumination) and after adaptation (under coloured illuminants) with a tendency for adapted colours to be less saturated than before adaptation. This behaviour was predicted by a simple affine matrix model, adjusted to the chromatic setting results. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ RPV2012 | Serial | 2188 | ||
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| Author | Daniel Ponsa; Robert Benavente; Felipe Lumbreras; Judit Martinez; Xavier Roca | ||||
| Title | Quality control of safety belts by machine vision inspection for real-time production | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2003 | Publication | Optical Engineering (IF: 0.877) | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ PRL2003 | Serial | 399 | ||
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| Author | Noha Elfiky; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
| Title | Discriminative Compact Pyramids for Object and Scene Recognition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | PR |
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| Abstract | Spatial pyramids have been successfully applied to incorporating spatial information into bag-of-words based image representation. However, a major drawback is that it leads to high dimensional image representations. In this paper, we present a novel framework for obtaining compact pyramid representation. First, we investigate the usage of the divisive information theoretic feature clustering (DITC) algorithm in creating a compact pyramid representation. In many cases this method allows us to reduce the size of a high dimensional pyramid representation up to an order of magnitude with little or no loss in accuracy. Furthermore, comparison to clustering based on agglomerative information bottleneck (AIB) shows that our method obtains superior results at significantly lower computational costs. Moreover, we investigate the optimal combination of multiple features in the context of our compact pyramid representation. Finally, experiments show that the method can obtain state-of-the-art results on several challenging data sets. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ EKW2012 | Serial | 1807 | ||
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| Author | Susana Alvarez; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Texton theory revisited: a bag-of-words approach to combine textons | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | PR |
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| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to revisit an old theory of texture perception and
update its computational implementation by extending it to colour. With this in mind we try to capture the optimality of perceptual systems. This is achieved in the proposed approach by sharing well-known early stages of the visual processes and extracting low-dimensional features that perfectly encode adequate properties for a large variety of textures without needing further learning stages. We propose several descriptors in a bag-of-words framework that are derived from different quantisation models on to the feature spaces. Our perceptual features are directly given by the shape and colour attributes of image blobs, which are the textons. In this way we avoid learning visual words and directly build the vocabularies on these lowdimensionaltexton spaces. Main differences between proposed descriptors rely on how co-occurrence of blob attributes is represented in the vocabularies. Our approach overcomes current state-of-art in colour texture description which is proved in several experiments on large texture datasets. |
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ AlV2012a | Serial | 2130 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Multiresolution Wavelet Framework Models Brightness Induction Effects | Type | Journal | ||
| Year | 2008 | Publication | Vision Research | Abbreviated Journal | VR |
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| Call Number | CAT @ cat @ OVP2008a | Serial | 927 | ||
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| Author | Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Marc Masana | ||||
| Title | Interactive Visual and Semantic Image Retrieval | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | One direct consequence of recent advances in digital visual data generation and the direct availability of this information through the World-Wide Web, is a urgent demand for efficient image retrieval systems. The objective of image retrieval is to allow users to efficiently browse through this abundance of images. Due to the non-expert nature of the majority of the internet users, such systems should be user friendly, and therefore avoid complex user interfaces. In this chapter we investigate how high-level information provided by recently developed object recognition techniques can improve interactive image retrieval. Wel apply a bagof- word based image representation method to automatically classify images in a number of categories. These additional labels are then applied to improve the image retrieval system. Next to these high-level semantic labels, we also apply a low-level image description to describe the composition and color scheme of the scene. Both descriptions are incorporated in a user feedback image retrieval setting. The main objective is to show that automatic labeling of images with semantic labels can improve image retrieval results. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | Angel Sappa; Jordi Vitria | |
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| ISSN | 1868-4394 | ISBN | 978-3-642-35931-6 | Medium | |
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| Notes | CIC; 605.203; 600.048 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ WKC2013 | Serial | 2284 | ||
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| Author | Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Robert Benavente; Olivier Penacchio; Javier Vazquez; Maria Vanrell; C. Alejandro Parraga | ||||
| Title | Coloresia: An Interactive Colour Perception Device for the Visually Impaired | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Multimodal Interaction in Image and Video Applications | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | A significative percentage of the human population suffer from impairments in their capacity to distinguish or even see colours. For them, everyday tasks like navigating through a train or metro network map becomes demanding. We present a novel technique for extracting colour information from everyday natural stimuli and presenting it to visually impaired users as pleasant, non-invasive sound. This technique was implemented inside a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) portable device. In this implementation, colour information is extracted from the input image and categorised according to how human observers segment the colour space. This information is subsequently converted into sound and sent to the user via speakers or headphones. In the original implementation, it is possible for the user to send its feedback to reconfigure the system, however several features such as these were not implemented because the current technology is limited.We are confident that the full implementation will be possible in the near future as PDA technology improves. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 1868-4394 | ISBN | 978-3-642-35931-6 | Medium | |
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| Notes | CIC; 600.052; 605.203 | Approved | no | ||
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| Author | C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich | ||||
| Title | Psychophysical measurements to model inter-colour regions of colour-naming space | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | Journal of Imaging Science and Technology | Abbreviated Journal | |
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53 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 031106 (8 pages) |
| Keywords | image processing; Analysis | ||||
| Abstract | JCR Impact Factor 2009: 0.391
In this paper, we present a fuzzy-set of parametric functions which segment the CIE lab space into eleven regions which correspond to the group of common universal categories present in all evolved languages as identified by anthropologists and linguists. The set of functions is intended to model a color-name assignment task by humans and differs from other models in its emphasis on the inter-color boundary regions, which were explicitly measured by means of a psychophysics experiment. In our particular implementation, the CIE lab space was segmented into eleven color categories using a Triple Sigmoid as the fuzzy sets basis, whose parameters are included in this paper. The model’s parameters were adjusted according to the psychophysical results of a yes/no discrimination paradigm where observers had to choose (English) names for isoluminant colors belonging to regions in-between neighboring categories. These colors were presented on a calibrated CRT monitor (14-bit x 3 precision). The experimental results show that inter- color boundary regions are much less defined than expected and color samples other than those near the most representatives are needed to define the position and shape of boundaries between categories. The extended set of model parameters is given as a table. |
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| Author | Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich | ||||
| Title | Color Constancy Algorithms: Psychophysical Evaluation on a New Dataset | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2009 | Publication | Journal of Imaging Science and Technology | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Abstract | The estimation of the illuminant of a scene from a digital image has been the goal of a large amount of research in computer vision. Color constancy algorithms have dealt with this problem by defining different heuristics to select a unique solution from within the feasible set. The performance of these algorithms has shown that there is still a long way to go to globally solve this problem as a preliminary step in computer vision. In general, performance evaluation has been done by comparing the angular error between the estimated chromaticity and the chromaticity of a canonical illuminant, which is highly dependent on the image dataset. Recently, some workers have used high-level constraints to estimate illuminants; in this case selection is based on increasing the performance on the subsequent steps of the systems. In this paper we propose a new performance measure, the perceptual angular error. It evaluates the performance of a color constancy algorithm according to the perceptual preferences of humans, or naturalness (instead of the actual optimal solution) and is independent of the visual task. We show the results of a new psychophysical experiment comparing solutions from three different color constancy algorithms. Our results show that in more than a half of the judgments the preferred solution is not the one closest to the optimal solution. Our experiments were performed on a new dataset of images acquired with a calibrated camera with an attached neutral grey sphere, which better copes with the illuminant variations of the scene. | ||||
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| Author | David Geronimo; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Ramon Baldrich | ||||
| Title | Traffic sign recognition for computer vision project-based learning | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | IEEE Transactions on Education | Abbreviated Journal | T-EDUC |
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| Abstract | This paper presents a graduate course project on computer vision. The aim of the project is to detect and recognize traffic signs in video sequences recorded by an on-board vehicle camera. This is a demanding problem, given that traffic sign recognition is one of the most challenging problems for driving assistance systems. Equally, it is motivating for the students given that it is a real-life problem. Furthermore, it gives them the opportunity to appreciate the difficulty of real-world vision problems and to assess the extent to which this problem can be solved by modern computer vision and pattern classification techniques taught in the classroom. The learning objectives of the course are introduced, as are the constraints imposed on its design, such as the diversity of students' background and the amount of time they and their instructors dedicate to the course. The paper also describes the course contents, schedule, and how the project-based learning approach is applied. The outcomes of the course are discussed, including both the students' marks and their personal feedback. | ||||
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| Call Number | Admin @ si @ GSL2013; ADAS @ adas @ | Serial | 2160 | ||
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| Author | Xavier Boix; Josep M. Gonfaus; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Joan Serrat; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
| Title | Harmony Potentials: Fusing Global and Local Scale for Semantic Image Segmentation | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | International Journal of Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal | IJCV |
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| Abstract | The Hierarchical Conditional Random Field(HCRF) model have been successfully applied to a number of image labeling problems, including image segmentation. However, existing HCRF models of image segmentation do not allow multiple classes to be assigned to a single region, which limits their ability to incorporate contextual information across multiple scales.
At higher scales in the image, this representation yields an oversimpli ed model since multiple classes can be reasonably expected to appear within large regions. This simpli ed model particularly limits the impact of information at higher scales. Since class-label information at these scales is usually more reliable than at lower, noisier scales, neglecting this information is undesirable. To address these issues, we propose a new consistency potential for image labeling problems, which we call the harmony potential. It can encode any possible combi- nation of labels, penalizing only unlikely combinations of classes. We also propose an e ective sampling strategy over this expanded label set that renders tractable the underlying optimization problem. Our approach obtains state-of-the-art results on two challenging, standard benchmark datasets for semantic image segmentation: PASCAL VOC 2010, and MSRC-21. |
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| ISSN | 0920-5691 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | ISE;CIC;ADAS | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ BGW2012 | Serial | 1718 | ||
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| Author | Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Maria Vanrell | ||||
| Title | Modulating Shape Features by Color Attention for Object Recognition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | International Journal of Computer Vision | Abbreviated Journal | IJCV |
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98 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 49-64 |
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| Abstract | Bag-of-words based image representation is a successful approach for object recognition. Generally, the subsequent stages of the process: feature detection,feature description, vocabulary construction and image representation are performed independent of the intentioned object classes to be detected. In such a framework, it was found that the combination of different image cues, such as shape and color, often obtains below expected results. This paper presents a novel method for recognizing object categories when using ultiple cues by separately processing the shape and color cues and combining them by modulating the shape features by category specific color attention. Color is used to compute bottom up and top-down attention maps. Subsequently, these color attention maps are used to modulate the weights of the shape features. In regions with higher attention shape features are given more weight than in regions with low attention. We compare our approach with existing methods that combine color and shape cues on five data sets containing varied importance of both cues, namely, Soccer (color predominance), Flower (color and hape parity), PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2009 (shape predominance) and Caltech-101 (color co-interference). The experiments clearly demonstrate that in all five data sets our proposed framework significantly outperforms existing methods for combining color and shape information. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 0920-5691 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | CIC | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Admin @ si @ KWV2012 | Serial | 1864 | ||
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