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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Horst Bunke
Title Symbol-independent writer identification in old handwritten music scores Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication In proceedings of 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 186–197
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Address La Rochelle, France
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FLS2009a Serial 1222
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Author Alicia Fornes; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; Horst Bunke
Title On the use of textural features for writer identification in old handwritten music scores Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 996 - 1000
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Abstract Writer identification consists in determining the writer of a piece of handwriting from a set of writers. In this paper we present a system for writer identification in old handwritten music scores which uses only music notation to determine the author. The steps of the proposed system are the following. First of all, the music sheet is preprocessed for obtaining a music score without the staff lines. Afterwards, four different methods for generating texture images from music symbols are applied. Every approach uses a different spatial variation when combining the music symbols to generate the textures. Finally, Gabor filters and Grey-scale Co-ocurrence matrices are used to obtain the features. The classification is performed using a k-NN classifier based on Euclidean distance. The proposed method has been tested on a database of old music scores from the 17th to 19th centuries, achieving encouraging identification rates.
Address Barcelona
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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 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ FLS2009b Serial 1223
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Author Agnes Borras; Josep Llados
Title Corest: A measure of color and space stability to detect salient regions according to human criteria Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 204-209
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Address Lisboa, Portugal
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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 ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ BoL2009 Serial 1225
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Author Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
Title Dominance Detection in Face-to-face Conversations Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 97–102
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Abstract Dominance is referred to the level of influence a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on dominance detection from visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers opinion. Moreover, the considered indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analysis shows a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
Address Miami, USA
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2160-7508 ISBN 978-1-4244-3994-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CVPR
Notes HuPBA; OR; MILAB;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2009 Serial 1227
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Author Salim Jouili; Salvatore Tabbone; Ernest Valveny
Title Evaluation of graph matching measures for documents retrieval Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication In proceedings of 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 13–21
Keywords Graph Matching; Graph retrieval; structural representation; Performance Evaluation
Abstract In this paper we evaluate four graph distance measures. The analysis is performed for document retrieval tasks. For this aim, different kind of documents are used which include line drawings (symbols), ancient documents (ornamental letters), shapes and trademark-logos. The experimental results show that the performance of each grahp distance measure depends on the kind of data and the graph representation technique.
Address La Rochelle, France
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-13727-3 Medium
Area Expedition Conference GREC
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ JTV2009a Serial 1230
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Author Angel Sappa; Mohammad Rouhani
Title Efficient Distance Estimation for Fitting Implicit Quadric Surfaces Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 3521–3524
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Abstract This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the shortest Euclidean distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric fitting surface. It first estimates the orthogonal orientation to the surface from the given point; then the shortest distance is directly estimated by intersecting the implicit surface with a line passing through the given point according to the estimated orthogonal orientation. The proposed orthogonal distance estimation is easily obtained without increasing computational complexity; hence it can be used in error minimization surface fitting frameworks. Comparisons of the proposed metric with previous approaches are provided to show both improvements in CPU time as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results. Surfaces fitted by using the proposed geometric distance estimation and state of the art metrics are presented to show the viability of the proposed approach.
Address Cairo, Egypt
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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 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIP
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ SaR2009 Serial 1232
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Author Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; Fernando De la Torre
Title Optimal Feature Selection for Subspace Image Matching Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods in conjunction Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages
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Abstract Image matching has been a central research topic in computer vision over the last decades. Typical approaches to correspondence involve matching feature points between images. In this paper, we present a novel problem for establishing correspondences between a sparse set of image features and a previously learned subspace model. We formulate the matching task as an energy minimization, and jointly optimize over all possible feature assignments and parameters of the subspace model. This problem is in general NP-hard. We propose a convex relaxation approximation, and develop two optimization strategies: naïve gradient-descent and quadratic programming. Alternatively, we reformulate the optimization criterion as a sparse eigenvalue problem, and solve it using a recently proposed backward greedy algorithm. Experimental results on facial feature detection show that the quadratic programming solution provides better selection mechanism for relevant features.
Address Kyoto, Japan
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Area Expedition Conference ICCV
Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ RBT2009 Serial 1233
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal
Title A Complete System for Detection and Recognition of Text in Graphical Documents using Background Information Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages
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Abstract
Address Lisboa, Portugal
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RLP2009 Serial 1238
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
Title Seal detection and recognition: An approach for document indexing Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 101–105
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Abstract Reliable indexing of documents having seal instances can be achieved by recognizing seal information. This paper presents a novel approach for detecting and classifying such multi-oriented seals in these documents. First, Hough Transform based methods are applied to extract the seal regions in documents. Next, isolated text characters within these regions are detected. Rotation and size invariant features and a support vector machine based classifier have been used to recognize these detected text characters. Next, for each pair of character, we encode their relative spatial organization using their distance and angular position with respect to the centre of the seal, and enter this code into a hash table. Given an input seal, we recognize the individual text characters and compute the code for pair-wise character based on the relative spatial organization. The code obtained from the input seal helps to retrieve model hypothesis from the hash table. The seal model to which we get maximum hypothesis is selected for the recognition of the input seal. The methodology is tested to index seal in rotation and size invariant environment and we obtained encouraging results.
Address Barcelona, Spain
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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 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009b Serial 1239
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Author Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados; Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre
Title Multi-Oriented and Multi-Sized Touching Character Segmentation using Dynamic Programming Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 11–15
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Abstract In this paper, we present a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into individual characters. When two or more characters touch, they generate a big cavity region at the background portion. Using Convex Hull information, we use these background information to find some initial points to segment a touching string into possible primitive segments (a primitive segment consists of a single character or a part of a character). Next these primitive segments are merged to get optimum segmentation and dynamic programming is applied using total likelihood of characters as the objective function. SVM classifier is used to find the likelihood of a character. To consider multi-oriented touching strings the features used in the SVM are invariant to character orientation. Circular ring and convex hull ring based approach has been used along with angular information of the contour pixels of the character to make the feature rotation invariant. From the experiment, we obtained encouraging results.
Address Barcelona, Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICDAR
Notes DAG Approved no
Call Number DAG @ dag @ RPL2009a Serial 1240
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Author Carlo Gatta; Petia Radeva
Title Bilateral Enhancers Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 3161-3165
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Abstract Ten years ago the concept of bilateral filtering (BF) became popular in the image processing community. The core of the idea is to blend the effect of a spatial filter, as e.g. the Gaussian filter, with the effect of a filter that acts on image values. The two filters acts on orthogonal domains of a picture: the 2D lattice of the image support and the intensity (or color) domain. The BF approach is an intuitive way to blend these two filters giving rise to algorithms that perform difficult tasks requiring a relatively simple design. In this paper we extend the concept of BF, proposing the bilateral enhancers (BE). We show how to design proper functions to obtain an edge-preserving smoothing and a selective sharpening. Moreover, we show that the proposed algorithm can perform edge-preserving smoothing and selective sharpening simultaneously in a single filtering.
Address Cairo, Egypt
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4244-5653-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ICIP
Notes MILAB Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ GaR2009b Serial 1243
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Author Joan Oliver; Ricardo Toledo; J. Pujol; J. Sorribes; E. Valderrama
Title Un ABP basado en la robotica para las ingenierias informaticas Type Miscellaneous
Year 2009 Publication 15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages 331–338
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Address Barcelona, Spain
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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 ISBN ISBN:978–84–692–2758–9 Medium
Area Expedition Conference JENUI
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ OTP2009 Serial 1253
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu
Title Simultaneous 3D face pose and person-specific shape estimation from a single image using a holistic approach Type Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Issue Pages
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Abstract This paper presents a new approach for the simultaneous estimation of the 3D pose and specific shape of a previously unseen face from a single image. The face pose is not limited to a frontal view. We describe a holistic approach based on a deformable 3D model and a learned statistical facial texture model. Rather than obtaining a person-specific facial surface, the goal of this work is to compute person-specific 3D face shape in terms of a few control parameters that are used by many applications. The proposed holistic approach estimates the 3D pose parameters as well as the face shape control parameters by registering the warped texture to a statistical face texture, which is carried out by a stochastic and genetic optimizer. The proposed approach has several features that make it very attractive: (i) it uses a single grey-scale image, (ii) it is person-independent, (iii) it is featureless (no facial feature extraction is required), and (iv) its learning stage is easy. The proposed approach lends itself nicely to 3D face tracking and face gesture recognition in monocular videos. We describe extensive experiments that show the feasibility and robustness of the proposed approach.
Address Utah, USA
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-5790 ISBN 978-1-4244-5497-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference WACV
Notes OR;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ DoR2009b Serial 1256
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Author David Rotger
Title Analysis and Multi-Modal Fusion of coronary Images Type Book Whole
Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract The framework of this thesis is to study in detail different techniques and tools for medical image registration in order to ease the daily life of clinical experts in cardiology. The first aim of this thesis is providing computer tools for
fusing IVUS and angiogram data is of high clinical interest to help the physicians locate in IVUS data and decide which lesion is observed, how long it is, how far from a bifurcation or another lesions stays, etc. This thesis proves and
validates that we can segment the catheter path in angiographies using geodesic snakes (based on fast marching algorithm), a three-dimensional reconstruction of the catheter inspired in stereo vision and a new technique to fuse IVUS
and angiograms that establishes exact correspondences between them. We have developed a new workstation called iFusion that has four strong advantages: registration of IVUS and angiographic images with sub-pixel precision, it works on- and off-line, it is independent on the X-ray system and there is no need of daily calibration. The second aim of the thesis is devoted to developing a computer-aided analysis of IVUS for image-guided intervention. We have designed, implemented
and validated a robust algorithm for stent extraction and reconstruction from IVUS videos. We consider a very special and recent kind of stents, bioabsorbable stents that represent a great clinical challenge due to their property to be
absorbed by time and thus avoiding the “danger” of neostenosis as one of the main problems of metallic stents. We present a new and very promising algorithm based on an optimized cascade of multiple classifiers to automatically detect individual stent struts of a very novel bioabsorbable drug eluting coronary stent. This problem represents a very challenging target given the variability in contrast, shape and grey levels of the regions to be detected, what is
denoted by the high variability between the specialists (inter-observer variability of 0.14~$\pm$0.12). The obtained results of the automatic strut detection are within the inter-observer variability.
Address Barcelona (Espanya)
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Petia Radeva
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Notes Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Rot2009 Serial 1261
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Author Xavier Baro
Title Probabilistic Darwin Machines: A New Approach to Develop Evolutionary Object Detection Type Book Whole
Year 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Ever since computers were invented, we have wondered whether they might perform some of the human quotidian tasks. One of the most studied and still nowadays less understood problem is the capacity to learn from our experiences and how we generalize the knowledge that we acquire. One of that unaware tasks for the persons and that more interest is awakening in different scientific areas since the beginning, is the one that is known as pattern recognition. The creation of models that represent the world that surrounds us, help us for recognizing objects in our environment, to predict situations, to identify behaviors... All this information allows us to adapt ourselves and to interact with our environment. The capacity of adaptation of individuals to their environment has been related to the amount of patterns that are capable of identifying.

This thesis faces the pattern recognition problem from a Computer Vision point of view, taking one of the most paradigmatic and extended approaches to object detection as starting point. After studying this approach, two weak points are identified: The first makes reference to the description of the objects, and the second is a limitation of the learning algorithm, which hampers the utilization of best descriptors.

In order to address the learning limitations, we introduce evolutionary computation techniques to the classical object detection approach.

After testing the classical evolutionary approaches, such as genetic algorithms, we develop a new learning algorithm based on Probabilistic Darwin Machines, which better adapts to the learning problem. Once the learning limitation is avoided, we introduce a new feature set, which maintains the benefits of the classical feature set, adding the ability to describe non localities. This combination of evolutionary learning algorithm and features is tested on different public data sets, outperforming the results obtained by the classical approach.
Address Barcelona (Spain)
Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Jordi Vitria
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Notes OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no
Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ Bar2009 Serial 1262
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