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Author | Ariel Amato; Ivan Huerta; Mikhail Mozerov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez | ||||
Title | Moving Cast Shadows Detection Methods for Video Surveillance Applications | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2014 | Publication | Augmented Vision and Reality | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Abstract | Moving cast shadows are a major concern in today’s performance from broad range of many vision-based surveillance applications because they highly difficult the object classification task. Several shadow detection methods have been reported in the literature during the last years. They are mainly divided into two domains. One usually works with static images, whereas the second one uses image sequences, namely video content. In spite of the fact that both cases can be analogously analyzed, there is a difference in the application field. The first case, shadow detection methods can be exploited in order to obtain additional geometric and semantic cues about shape and position of its casting object (‘shape from shadows’) as well as the localization of the light source. While in the second one, the main purpose is usually change detection, scene matching or surveillance (usually in a background subtraction context). Shadows can in fact modify in a negative way the shape and color of the target object and therefore affect the performance of scene analysis and interpretation in many applications. This chapter wills mainly reviews shadow detection methods as well as their taxonomies related with the second case, thus aiming at those shadows which are associated with moving objects (moving shadows). | ||||
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Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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ISSN | 2190-5916 | ISBN | 978-3-642-37840-9 | Medium | |
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Notes | ISE; 605.203; 600.049; 302.018; 302.012; 600.078 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ AHM2014 | Serial | 2223 | ||
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Author | Fernando Barrera; Felipe Lumbreras; Angel Sappa | ||||
Title | Multimodal Stereo Vision System: 3D Data Extraction and Algorithm Evaluation | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2012 | Publication | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | Abbreviated Journal | J-STSP |
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Abstract | This paper proposes an imaging system for computing sparse depth maps from multispectral images. A special stereo head consisting of an infrared and a color camera defines the proposed multimodal acquisition system. The cameras are rigidly attached so that their image planes are parallel. Details about the calibration and image rectification procedure are provided. Sparse disparity maps are obtained by the combined use of mutual information enriched with gradient information. The proposed approach is evaluated using a Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Furthermore, a multispectral dataset, color and infrared images, together with their corresponding ground truth disparity maps, is generated and used as a test bed. Experimental results in real outdoor scenarios are provided showing its viability and that the proposed approach is not restricted to a specific domain. | ||||
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ISSN | 1932-4553 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ BLS2012b | Serial | 2155 | ||
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Author | Olivier Penacchio; Laura Dempere-Marco; Xavier Otazu | ||||
Title | A Neurodynamical Model Of Brightness Induction In V1 Following Static And Dynamic Contextual Influences | Type | Abstract | ||
Year | 2012 | Publication | 8th Federation of European Neurosciences | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Abstract | Brightness induction is the modulation of the perceived intensity of an area by the luminance of surrounding areas. Although striate cortex is traditionally regarded as an area mostly responsive to ensory (i.e. retinal) information,
neurophysiological evidence suggests that perceived brightness information mightbe explicitly represented in V1. Such evidence has been observed both in anesthetised cats where neuronal response modulations have been found to follow luminance changes outside the receptive felds and in human fMRI measurements. In this work, possible neural mechanisms that ofer a plausible explanation for such phenomenon are investigated. To this end, we consider the model proposed by Z.Li (Li, Network:Comput. Neural Syst., 10 (1999)) which is based on neurophysiological evidence and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual infuences, i.e. layer 2-3 pyramidal cells, interneurons, and horizontal intracortical connections. This model has reproduced other phenomena such as contour detection and preattentive segmentation, which share with brightness induction the relevant efect of contextual infuences. We have extended the original model such that the input to the network is obtained from a complete multiscale and multiorientation wavelet decomposition, thereby allowing the recovery of an image refecting the perceived intensity. The proposed model successfully accounts for well known psychophysical efects for static contexts (among them: the White's and modifed White's efects, the Todorovic, Chevreul, achromatic ring patterns, and grating induction efects) and also for brigthness induction in dynamic contexts defned by modulating the luminance of surrounding areas (e.g. the brightness of a static central area is perceived to vary in antiphase to the sinusoidal luminance changes of its surroundings). This work thus suggests that intra-cortical interactions in V1 could partially explain perceptual brightness induction efects and reveals how a common general architecture may account for several different fundamental processes emerging early in the visual processing pathway. |
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ PDO2012b | Serial | 2181 | ||
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Author | Antonio Clavelli; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Josep Llados; Mario Ferraro; Giuseppe Boccignone | ||||
Title | Modelling task-dependent eye guidance to objects in pictures | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2014 | Publication | Cognitive Computation | Abbreviated Journal | CoCom |
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Keywords | Visual attention; Gaze guidance; Value; Payoff; Stochastic fixation prediction | ||||
Abstract | 5Y Impact Factor: 1.14 / 3rd (Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence)
We introduce a model of attentional eye guidance based on the rationale that the deployment of gaze is to be considered in the context of a general action-perception loop relying on two strictly intertwined processes: sensory processing, depending on current gaze position, identifies sources of information that are most valuable under the given task; motor processing links such information with the oculomotor act by sampling the next gaze position and thus performing the gaze shift. In such a framework, the choice of where to look next is task-dependent and oriented to classes of objects embedded within pictures of complex scenes. The dependence on task is taken into account by exploiting the value and the payoff of gazing at certain image patches or proto-objects that provide a sparse representation of the scene objects. The different levels of the action-perception loop are represented in probabilistic form and eventually give rise to a stochastic process that generates the gaze sequence. This way the model also accounts for statistical properties of gaze shifts such as individual scan path variability. Results of the simulations are compared either with experimental data derived from publicly available datasets and from our own experiments. |
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Publisher | Springer US | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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ISSN | 1866-9956 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | DAG; 600.056; 600.045; 605.203; 601.212; 600.077 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ CKL2014 | Serial | 2419 | ||
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Author | Katerine Diaz; Jesus Martinez del Rincon; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil | ||||
Title | Continuous head pose estimation using manifold subspace embedding and multivariate regression | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2018 | Publication | IEEE Access | Abbreviated Journal | ACCESS |
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6 | Issue | Pages | 18325 - 18334 | |
Keywords | Head Pose estimation; HOG features; Generalized Discriminative Common Vectors; B-splines; Multiple linear regression | ||||
Abstract | In this paper, a continuous head pose estimation system is proposed to estimate yaw and pitch head angles from raw facial images. Our approach is based on manifold learningbased methods, due to their promising generalization properties shown for face modelling from images. The method combines histograms of oriented gradients, generalized discriminative common vectors and continuous local regression to achieve successful performance. Our proposal was tested on multiple standard face datasets, as well as in a realistic scenario. Results show a considerable performance improvement and a higher consistence of our model in comparison with other state-of-art methods, with angular errors varying between 9 and 17 degrees. | ||||
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ISSN | 2169-3536 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | ADAS; 600.118 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ DMH2018b | Serial | 3091 | ||
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Author | Jianzhy Guo; Zhen Lei; Jun Wan; Egils Avots; Noushin Hajarolasvadi; Boris Knyazev; Artem Kuharenko; Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Xavier Baro; Hasan Demirel; Sergio Escalera; Juri Allik; Gholamreza Anbarjafari | ||||
Title | Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition from Still Images of Faces | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2018 | Publication | IEEE Access | Abbreviated Journal | ACCESS |
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Abstract | Emotion recognition has a key role in affective computing. Recently, fine-grained emotion analysis, such as compound facial expression of emotions, has attracted high interest of researchers working on affective computing. A compound facial emotion includes dominant and complementary emotions (e.g., happily-disgusted and sadly-fearful), which is more detailed than the seven classical facial emotions (e.g., happy, disgust, and so on). Current studies on compound emotions are limited to use data sets with limited number of categories and unbalanced data distributions, with labels obtained automatically by machine learning-based algorithms which could lead to inaccuracies. To address these problems, we released the iCV-MEFED data set, which includes 50 classes of compound emotions and labels assessed by psychologists. The task is challenging due to high similarities of compound facial emotions from different categories. In addition, we have organized a challenge based on the proposed iCV-MEFED data set, held at FG workshop 2017. In this paper, we analyze the top three winner methods and perform further detailed experiments on the proposed data set. Experiments indicate that pairs of compound emotion (e.g., surprisingly-happy vs happily-surprised) are more difficult to be recognized if compared with the seven basic emotions. However, we hope the proposed data set can help to pave the way for further research on compound facial emotion recognition. | ||||
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Notes | HUPBA; no proj | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ GLW2018 | Serial | 3122 | ||
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Author | V. Valev; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | Determining Structural Description by Boolean Formulas. | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 1992 | Publication | Advances in Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Abstract | Pattern recognition is an active area of research with many applications, some of which have reached commercial maturity. Structural and syntactic methods are very powerful. They are based on symbolic data structures together with matching, parsing, and reasoning procedures that are able to infer interpretations of complex input patterns.
This book gives an overview of the latest developments and achievements in the field. |
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Publisher | World Scientific | Place of Publication | Editor | H. Bunke | |
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Series Editor | Series Title | Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence: | Abbreviated Series Title | ||
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ISSN | ISBN | 978-981-279-791-9 | Medium | ||
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Notes | MILAB | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ VaR1992c | Serial | 254 | ||
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Author | Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Carme Julia | ||||
Title | A PBL experience in the teaching of Computer Graphics | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | EUROGRAPHICS Proceedings | Abbreviated Journal | |
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5 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 95-103 |
Keywords | project-based learning; computer graphics education; Open GL; rendering techniques; computer animation techniques; Graphics packages; Hierarchy and geometric transformations; Animation; Color; shading; shadowing and texture; fractals; hidden line/surface removal; Problem Based Learning | ||||
Abstract | Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an educational strategy to improve student’s learning capability that, in recent years, has had a progressive acceptance in undergraduate studies. This methodology is based on solving a problem or project in a student working group. In this way, PBL focuses on learning the necessary tools to correctly find a solution to given problems. Since the learning initiative is transferred to the student, the PBL method promotes students own abilities. This allows a better assessment of the true workload that carries out the student in the subject. It follows that the methodology conforms to the guidelines of the Bologna document, which quantifies the student workload in a subject by means of the European credit transfer system (ECTS). PBL is currently applied in undergraduate studies needing strong practical training such as medicine, nursing or law sciences. Although this is also the case in engineering studies, amazingly, few experiences have been reported. In this paper we propose to use PBL in the educational organization of the Computer Graphics subjects in the Computer Science degree. Our PBL project focuses in the development of a C++ graphical environment based on the OpenGL libraries for visualization and handling of different graphical objects. The starting point is a basic skeleton that already includes lighting functions, perspective projection with mouse interaction to change the point of view and three predefined objects. Students have to complete this skeleton by adding their own functions to solve the project. A total number of 10 projects have been proposed and successfully solved. The exercises range from human face rendering to articulated objects, such as robot arms or puppets. In the present paper we extensively report the statement and educational objectives for two of the projects: solar system visualization and a chess game. We report our earlier educational experience based on the standard classroom theoretical, problem and practice sessions and the reasons that motivated searching for other learning methods. We have mainly chosen PBL because it improves the student learning initiative. We have applied the PBL educational model since the beginning of the second semester. The student’s feedback increases in his interest for the subject. We present a comparative study of the teachers’ and students’ workload between PBL and the classic teaching approach, which suggests that the workload increase in PBL is not as high as it seems. | ||||
Address | Dublin; Ireland; September 2005 | ||||
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Notes | IAM;ADAS; | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | IAM @ iam @ MGJ2005 | Serial | 1593 | ||
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Author | Oriol Rodriguez-Leon.A.Carol;H.Tizon; Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias; Josefina Mauri; Vicente del Valle; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Petia Radeva | ||||
Title | Model estadístic-determinístic per la segmentació de l adventicia en imatges d ecografía intracoronaria | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Rev Societat Catalana Cardiologia | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Call Number | IAM @ iam @ RCT2005 | Serial | 1637 | ||
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Author | Javier Marin; David Geronimo; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez | ||||
Title | Pedestrian Detection: Exploring Virtual Worlds | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2012 | Publication | Handbook of Pattern Recognition: Methods and Application | Abbreviated Journal | |
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5 | Issue | Pages | 145-162 | |
Keywords | Virtual worlds; Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation | ||||
Abstract | Handbook of pattern recognition will include contributions from university educators and active research experts. This Handbook is intended to serve as a basic reference on methods and applications of pattern recognition. The primary aim of this handbook is providing the community of pattern recognition with a readable, easy to understand resource that covers introductory, intermediate and advanced topics with equal clarity. Therefore, the Handbook of pattern recognition can serve equally well as reference resource and as classroom textbook. Contributions cover all methods, techniques and applications of pattern recognition. A tentative list of relevant topics might include: 1- Statistical, structural, syntactic pattern recognition. 2- Neural networks, machine learning, data mining. 3- Discrete geometry, algebraic, graph-based techniques for pattern recognition. 4- Face recognition, Signal analysis, image coding and processing, shape and texture analysis. 5- Document processing, text and graphics recognition, digital libraries. 6- Speech recognition, music analysis, multimedia systems. 7- Natural language analysis, information retrieval. 8- Biometrics, biomedical pattern analysis and information systems. 9- Other scientific, engineering, social and economical applications of pattern recognition. 10- Special hardware architectures, software packages for pattern recognition. | ||||
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Publisher | iConcept Press | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Call Number | ADAS @ adas @ MGV2012 | Serial | 1979 | ||
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Author | Ferran Poveda; Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Francesc Carreras; Manel Ballester | ||||
Title | Helical Structure of Ventricular Anatomy by Diffusion Tensor Cardiac MR Tractography | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2012 | Publication | Journal of American College of Cardiology | Abbreviated Journal | JACC |
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Abstract | It is widely accepted that myocardial fiber architecture plays a critical role in myocardial contractility and relaxation (1). However, there is a lack of consensus about the distribution of the myocardial fibers and their spatial arrangement in the left and right ventricles. An understanding of the cardiac architecture should benefit the ventricular functional assessment, left ventricular reconstructive surgery planning, or resynchronization therapy in heart failure. Researchers have proposed several conceptual models to describe the architecture of the heart, ranging from gross dissection to histological presentation. The cardiac mesh model (2) proposes that the myocytes are arranged longitudinally and radially change their angulation along the myocardial depth. By contrast, the helical ventricular myocardial model states that the ventricular myocardium is a continuous anatomical helical layout of myocardial fibers (1 | ||||
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Call Number | IAM @ iam @ PMG2012 | Serial | 1985 | ||
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Author | Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Domenech; Ignasi Carrio | ||||
Title | Automatic Tumor Volume Segmentation in Whole-Body PET/CT Scans: A Supervised Learning Approach Source | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2015 | Publication | Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics | Abbreviated Journal | JMIHI |
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Keywords | CONTEXTUAL CLASSIFICATION; PET/CT; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TUMOR SEGMENTATION; WHOLE BODY | ||||
Abstract | Whole-body 3D PET/CT tumoral volume segmentation provides relevant diagnostic and prognostic information in clinical oncology and nuclear medicine. Carrying out this procedure manually by a medical expert is time consuming and suffers from inter- and intra-observer variabilities. In this paper, a completely automatic approach to this task is presented. First, the problem is stated and described both in clinical and technological terms. Then, a novel supervised learning segmentation framework is introduced. The segmentation by learning approach is defined within a Cascade of Adaboost classifiers and a 3D contextual proposal of Multiscale Stacked Sequential Learning. Segmentation accuracy results on 200 Breast Cancer whole body PET/CT volumes show mean 49% sensitivity, 99.993% specificity and 39% Jaccard overlap Index, which represent good performance results both at the clinical and technological level. | ||||
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ SED2015 | Serial | 2584 | ||
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Author | Enric Marti; J.Roncaries; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Antoni Gurgui; Ferran Poveda | ||||
Title | PBL On Line: A proposal for the organization, part-time monitoring and assessment of PBL group activities | Type | Journal | ||
Year | 2015 | Publication | Journal of Technology and Science Education | Abbreviated Journal | JOTSE |
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Notes | IAM; ADAS; 600.076; 600.075 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Admin @ si @ MRG2015 | Serial | 2608 | ||
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Author | Carles Sanchez; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Patricia Marquez; Enric Marti; J.Roncaries; Debora Gil | ||||
Title | Automatic evaluation of practices in Moodle for Self Learning in Engineering | Type | Journal | ||
Year | 2015 | Publication | Journal of Technology and Science Education | Abbreviated Journal | JOTSE |
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ SRM2015 | Serial | 2610 | ||
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Author | Jean-Pascal Jacob; Mariella Dimiccoli; Lionel Moisan | ||||
Title | Active skeleton for bacteria modeling | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2016 | Publication | Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization | Abbreviated Journal | CMBBE |
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Keywords | Bacteria modelling; medial axis; active contours; active skeleton; shape contraints | ||||
Abstract | The investigation of spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cells and their molecular components requires automated image analysis tools to track cell shape properties and molecular component locations inside the cells. In the study of bacteria aging, the molecular components of interest are protein aggregates accumulated near bacteria boundaries. This particular location makes very ambiguous the correspondence between aggregates and cells, since computing accurately bacteria boundaries in phase-contrast time-lapse imaging is a challenging task. This paper proposes an active skeleton formulation for bacteria modeling which provides several advantages: an easy computation of shape properties (perimeter, length, thickness, orientation), an improved boundary accuracy in noisy images, and a natural bacteria-centered coordinate system that permits the intrinsic location of molecular components inside the cell. Starting from an initial skeleton estimate, the medial axis of the bacterium is obtained by minimizing an energy function which incorporates bacteria shape constraints. Experimental results on biological images and comparative evaluation of the performances validate the proposed approach for modeling cigar-shaped bacteria like Escherichia coli. The Image-J plugin of the proposed method can be found online at this http URL | ||||
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Call Number | Admin @ si @ JDM2016 | Serial | 2711 | ||
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