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Author Arnau Ramisa; Alex Goldhoorn; David Aldavert; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras edit  doi
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  Title Combining Invariant Features and the ALV Homing Method for Autonomous Robot Navigation Based on Panoramas Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Abbreviated Journal JIRC  
  Volume (up) 64 Issue 3-4 Pages 625-649  
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  Abstract Biologically inspired homing methods, such as the Average Landmark Vector, are an interesting solution for local navigation due to its simplicity. However, usually they require a modification of the environment by placing artificial landmarks in order to work reliably. In this paper we combine the Average Landmark Vector with invariant feature points automatically detected in panoramic images to overcome this limitation. The proposed approach has been evaluated first in simulation and, as promising results are found, also in two data sets of panoramas from real world environments.  
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  Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0921-0296 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes RV;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RGA2011 Serial 1728  
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Author Maria Salamo; Sergio Escalera edit  openurl
  Title Increasing Retrieval Quality in Conversational Recommenders Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Abbreviated Journal TKDE  
  Volume (up) 99 Issue Pages 1-1  
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  Abstract IF JCR CCIA 2.286 2009 24/103
JCR Impact Factor 2010: 1.851
A major task of research in conversational recommender systems is personalization. Critiquing is a common and powerful form of feedback, where a user can express her feature preferences by applying a series of directional critiques over the recommendations instead of providing specific preference values. Incremental Critiquing is a conversational recommender system that uses critiquing as a feedback to efficiently personalize products. The expectation is that in each cycle the system retrieves the products that best satisfy the user’s soft product preferences from a minimal information input. In this paper, we present a novel technique that increases retrieval quality based on a combination of compatibility and similarity scores. Under the hypothesis that a user learns Turing the recommendation process, we propose two novel exponential reinforcement learning approaches for compatibility that take into account both the instant at which the user makes a critique and the number of satisfied critiques. Moreover, we consider that the impact of features on the similarity differs according to the preferences manifested by the user. We propose a global weighting approach that uses a common weight for nearest cases in order to focus on groups of relevant products. We show that our methodology significantly improves recommendation efficiency in four data sets of different sizes in terms of session length in comparison with state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, our recommender shows higher robustness against noisy user data when compared to classical approaches
 
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  Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1041-4347 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SaE2011 Serial 1713  
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Author Miquel Ferrer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ernest Valveny; I. Bardaji; Horst Bunke edit  openurl
  Title A Generic Framework for Median Graph Computation based on a Recursive Embedding Approach Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Computer Vision and Image Understanding Abbreviated Journal CVIU  
  Volume (up) 115 Issue 7 Pages 919-928  
  Keywords Median Graph, Graph Embedding, Graph Matching, Structural Pattern Recognition  
  Abstract The median graph has been shown to be a good choice to obtain a represen- tative of a set of graphs. However, its computation is a complex problem. Recently, graph embedding into vector spaces has been proposed to obtain approximations of the median graph. The problem with such an approach is how to go from a point in the vector space back to a graph in the graph space. The main contribution of this paper is the generalization of this previ- ous method, proposing a generic recursive procedure that permits to recover the graph corresponding to a point in the vector space, introducing only the amount of approximation inherent to the use of graph matching algorithms. In order to evaluate the proposed method, we compare it with the set me- dian and with the other state-of-the-art embedding-based methods for the median graph computation. The experiments are carried out using four dif- ferent databases (one semi-artificial and three containing real-world data). Results show that with the proposed approach we can obtain better medi- ans, in terms of the sum of distances to the training graphs, than with the previous existing methods.  
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  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ FKV2011 Serial 1831  
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Author Joan M. Nuñez edit   pdf
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  Title Computer vision techniques for characterization of finger joints in X-ray image Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 165 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rheumatoid arthritis, X-ray, Sharp Van der Heijde, joint characterization, sclerosis detection, bone detection, edge, ridge  
  Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory type of arthritis which mainly affects hands on its first stages. Though it is a chronic disease and there is no cure for it, treatments require an accurate assessment of illness evolution. Such assessment is based on evaluation of hand X-ray images by using one of the several available semi-quantitative methods. This task requires highly trained medical personnel. That is why the automation of the assessment would allow professionals to save time and effort. Two stages are involved in this task. Firstly, the joint detection, afterwards, the joint characterization. Unlike the little existing previous work, this contribution clearly separates those two stages and sets the foundations of a modular assessment system focusing on the characterization stage. A hand joint dataset is created and an accurate data analysis is achieved in order to identify relevant features. Since the sclerosis and the lower bone were decided to be the most important features, different computer vision techniques were used in order to develop a detector system for both of them. Joint space width measures are provided and their correlation with Sharp-Van der Heijde is verified  
  Address Bellaterra (Barcelona)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Dr. Fernando Vilariño and Dra. Debora Gil  
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  Notes MV;IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Nuñ2011 Serial 1795  
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Author Alejandro Gonzalez Alzate edit  openurl
  Title Evaluation of spatiotemporal descriptors for pedestrian detection in video sequences Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 166 Issue Pages  
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  Address Bellaterra (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Gon2011 Serial 1932  
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Author Yainuvis Socarras edit  openurl
  Title Image segmentation for improving pedestrian detection Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 167 Issue Pages  
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  Address Bellaterra (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes ADAS; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Soc2011 Serial 1933  
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Author Carles Sanchez edit   pdf
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  Title Tracheal ring detection in bronchoscopy Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 168 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, segmentation  
  Abstract Endoscopy is the process in which a camera is introduced inside a human.
Given that endoscopy provides realistic images (in contrast to other modalities) and allows non-invase minimal intervention procedures (which can aid in diagnosis and surgical interventions), its use has spreaded during last decades.
In this project we will focus on bronchoscopic procedures, during which the camera is introduced through the trachea in order to have a diagnostic of the patient. The diagnostic interventions are focused on: degree of stenosis (reduction in tracheal area), prosthesis or early diagnosis of tumors. In the first case, assessment of the luminal area and the calculation of the diameters of the tracheal rings are required. A main limitation is that all the process is done by hand,
which means that the doctor takes all the measurements and decisions just by looking at the screen. As far as we know there is no computational framework for helping the doctors in the diagnosis.
This project will consist of analysing bronchoscopic videos in order to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the degree of stenosis. In particular we will focus on segmentation of the tracheal rings. As a result of this project several strategies (for detecting tracheal rings) had been implemented in order to compare their performance.
 
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  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil, F.Javier Sanchez  
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  Notes IAM;MV Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ San2011 Serial 1841  
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Author Maria del Camp Davesa edit  openurl
  Title Human action categorization in image sequences Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 169 Issue Pages  
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  Address Bellaterra (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes CiC;CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Dav2011 Serial 1934  
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Author Bogdan Raducanu; Fadi Dornaika edit  doi
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  Title A Discriminative Non-Linear Manifold Learning Technique for Face Recognition Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Informatics Engineering and Information Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 254 Issue 6 Pages 339-353  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose a novel non-linear discriminative analysis technique for manifold learning. The proposed approach is a discriminant version of Laplacian Eigenmaps which takes into account the class label information in order to guide the procedure of non-linear dimensionality reduction. By following the large margin concept, the graph Laplacian is split in two components: within-class graph and between-class graph to better characterize the discriminant property of the data.
Our approach has been tested on several challenging face databases and it has been conveniently compared with other linear and non-linear techniques. The experimental results confirm that our method outperforms, in general, the existing ones. Although we have concentrated in this paper on the face recognition problem, the proposed approach could also be applied to other category of objects characterized by large variance in their appearance.
 
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1865-0929 ISBN 978-3-642-25482-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIEIS  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RaD2011 Serial 1804  
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Author Olivier Penacchio edit   pdf
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  Title Mixed Hodge Structures and Equivariant Sheaves on the Projective Plane Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Mathematische Nachrichten Abbreviated Journal MN  
  Volume (up) 284 Issue 4 Pages 526-542  
  Keywords Mixed Hodge structures, equivariant sheaves, MSC (2010) Primary: 14C30, Secondary: 14F05, 14M25  
  Abstract We describe an equivalence of categories between the category of mixed Hodge structures and a category of equivariant vector bundles on a toric model of the complex projective plane which verify some semistability condition. We then apply this correspondence to define an invariant which generalizes the notion of R-split mixed Hodge structure and give calculations for the first group of cohomology of possibly non smooth or non-complete curves of genus 0 and 1. Finally, we describe some extension groups of mixed Hodge structures in terms of equivariant extensions of coherent sheaves. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim  
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  Publisher WILEY-VCH Verlag Place of Publication Editor R. Mennicken  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1522-2616 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Pen2011 Serial 1721  
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Author Sergio Escalera; David M.J. Tax; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva; Robert P.W. Duin edit  doi
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  Title Multi-Class Classification in Image Analysis Via Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Innovations in Intelligent Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 339 Issue Pages 7-29  
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  Abstract A common way to model multi-class classification problems is by means of Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC). Given a multi-class problem, the ECOC technique designs a codeword for each class, where each position of the code identifies the membership of the class for a given binary problem.A classification decision is obtained by assigning the label of the class with the closest code. In this paper, we overview the state-of-the-art on ECOC designs and test them in real applications. Results on different multi-class data sets show the benefits of using the ensemble of classifiers when categorizing objects in images.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Berlin Editor H. Kawasnicka; L.Jain  
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  ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-17933-4 Medium  
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  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ETP2011 Serial 1746  
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva edit  url
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  Title On the Design of Low Redundancy Error-Correcting Output Codes Type Book Chapter
  Year 2011 Publication Ensembles in Machine Learning Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 373 Issue 2 Pages 21-38  
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  Abstract The classification of large number of object categories is a challenging trend in the Pattern Recognition field. In the literature, this is often addressed using an ensemble of classifiers . In this scope, the Error-Correcting Output Codes framework has demonstrated to be a powerful tool for combining classifiers. However, most of the state-of-the-art ECOC approaches use a linear or exponential number of classifiers, making the discrimination of a large number of classes unfeasible. In this paper, we explore and propose a compact design of ECOC in terms of the number of classifiers. Evolutionary computation is used for tuning the parameters of the classifiers and looking for the best compact ECOC code configuration. The results over several public UCI data sets and different multi-class Computer Vision problems show that the proposed methodology obtains comparable (even better) results than the state-of-the-art ECOC methodologies with far less number of dichotomizers.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-22909-1 Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BEB2011b Serial 1886  
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Author Mirko Arnold; Stephan Ameling; Anarta Ghosh; Gerard Lacey edit  doi
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  Title Quality Improvement of Endoscopy Videos Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 723 Issue Pages  
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  Notes MV Approved no  
  Call Number fernando @ fernando @ Serial 2426  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados edit  doi
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  Title Interactive Trademark Image Retrieval by Fusing Semantic and Visual Content. Advances in Information Retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 6611 Issue Pages 314-325  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose an efficient queried-by-example retrieval system which is able to retrieve trademark images by similarity from patent and trademark offices' digital libraries. Logo images are described by both their semantic content, by means of the Vienna codes, and their visual contents, by using shape and color as visual cues. The trademark descriptors are then indexed by a locality-sensitive hashing data structure aiming to perform approximate k-NN search in high dimensional spaces in sub-linear time. The resulting ranked lists are combined by using the Condorcet method and a relevance feedback step helps to iteratively revise the query and refine the obtained results. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of this system on a realistic and large dataset.  
  Address Dublin, Ireland  
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Editor P. Clough; C. Foley; C. Gurrin; G.J.F. Jones; W. Kraaij; H. Lee; V. Murdoch  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20160-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECIR  
  Notes DAG; RV;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RAK2011 Serial 1737  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Naila Murray; Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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  Title Perception Based Representations for Computational Colour Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 6626 Issue Pages 16-30  
  Keywords colour perception, induction, naming, psychophysical data, saliency, segmentation  
  Abstract The perceived colour of a stimulus is dependent on multiple factors stemming out either from the context of the stimulus or idiosyncrasies of the observer. The complexity involved in combining these multiple effects is the main reason for the gap between classical calibrated colour spaces from colour science and colour representations used in computer vision, where colour is just one more visual cue immersed in a digital image where surfaces, shadows and illuminants interact seemingly out of control. With the aim to advance a few steps towards bridging this gap we present some results on computational representations of colour for computer vision. They have been developed by introducing perceptual considerations derived from the interaction of the colour of a point with its context. We show some techniques to represent the colour of a point influenced by assimilation and contrast effects due to the image surround and we show some results on how colour saliency can be derived in real images. We outline a model for automatic assignment of colour names to image points directly trained on psychophysical data. We show how colour segments can be perceptually grouped in the image by imposing shading coherence in the colour space.  
  Address Milan, Italy  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga, Alain Trémeau  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20403-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ VMB2011 Serial 1733  
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