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Author Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Domenech; Ignasi Carrio edit  doi
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  Title A computational framework for cancer response assessment based on oncological PET-CT scans Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Computers in Biology and Medicine Abbreviated Journal CBM  
  Volume (up) 55 Issue Pages 92–99  
  Keywords Computer aided diagnosis; Nuclear medicine; Machine learning; Image processing; Quantitative analysis  
  Abstract In this work we present a comprehensive computational framework to help in the clinical assessment of cancer response from a pair of time consecutive oncological PET-CT scans. In this scenario, the design and implementation of a supervised machine learning system to predict and quantify cancer progression or response conditions by introducing a novel feature set that models the underlying clinical context is described. Performance results in 100 clinical cases (corresponding to 200 whole body PET-CT scans) in comparing expert-based visual analysis and classifier decision making show up to 70% accuracy within a completely automatic pipeline and 90% accuracy when providing the system with expert-guided PET tumor segmentation masks.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ SED2014 Serial 2606  
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Author Cesar Isaza; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Rendering ground truth data sets to detect shadows cast by static objects in outdoors Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP  
  Volume (up) 70 Issue 1 Pages 557-571  
  Keywords Synthetic ground truth data set; Sun position; Shadow detection; Static objects shadow detection  
  Abstract In our work, we are particularly interested in studying the shadows cast by static objects in outdoor environments, during daytime. To assess the accuracy of a shadow detection algorithm, we need ground truth information. The collection of such information is a very tedious task because it is a process that requires manual annotation. To overcome this severe limitation, we propose in this paper a methodology to automatically render ground truth using a virtual environment. To increase the degree of realism and usefulness of the simulated environment, we incorporate in the scenario the precise longitude, latitude and elevation of the actual location of the object, as well as the sun’s position for a given time and day. To evaluate our method, we consider a qualitative and a quantitative comparison. In the quantitative one, we analyze the shadow cast by a real object in a particular geographical location and its corresponding rendered model. To evaluate qualitatively the methodology, we use some ground truth images obtained both manually and automatically.  
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  Publisher Springer US Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1380-7501 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes LAMP; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ISR2014 Serial 2229  
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Author Palaiahnakote Shivakumara; Anjan Dutta; Chew Lim Tan; Umapada Pal edit  doi
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  Title Multi-oriented scene text detection in video based on wavelet and angle projection boundary growing Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Multimedia Tools and Applications Abbreviated Journal MTAP  
  Volume (up) 72 Issue 1 Pages 515-539  
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  Abstract In this paper, we address two complex issues: 1) Text frame classification and 2) Multi-oriented text detection in video text frame. We first divide a video frame into 16 blocks and propose a combination of wavelet and median-moments with k-means clustering at the block level to identify probable text blocks. For each probable text block, the method applies the same combination of feature with k-means clustering over a sliding window running through the blocks to identify potential text candidates. We introduce a new idea of symmetry on text candidates in each block based on the observation that pixel distribution in text exhibits a symmetric pattern. The method integrates all blocks containing text candidates in the frame and then all text candidates are mapped on to a Sobel edge map of the original frame to obtain text representatives. To tackle the multi-orientation problem, we present a new method called Angle Projection Boundary Growing (APBG) which is an iterative algorithm and works based on a nearest neighbor concept. APBG is then applied on the text representatives to fix the bounding box for multi-oriented text lines in the video frame. Directional information is used to eliminate false positives. Experimental results on a variety of datasets such as non-horizontal, horizontal, publicly available data (Hua’s data) and ICDAR-03 competition data (camera images) show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods proposed for video and the state of the art methods for scene text as well.  
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  ISSN 1380-7501 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SDT2014 Serial 2357  
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Author Cristhian A. Aguilera-Carrasco edit  openurl
  Title Evaluation of feature detectors and descriptors in VISIBLE-LWIR cross-spectral imaging Type Report
  Year 2014 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 177 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Multi-spectral; Cross-spectral; Visible-LWIR imaging; Multimodal.  
  Abstract This thesis evaluates the performance of different state-of-art feature detectors and descriptors algorithms in the Visible-LWIR cross-spectral scenario. The focus is to determine if current detector and descriptor algorithms can be used to match features between the LWIR spectrum and the visible spectrum in applications such as, visual odometry, object recognition, image registration and stereo vision. An outdoor cross-spectral dataset was created to evaluate the suitability of the different algorithms. The results
show that the tested algorithms are not suitable to the task of matching features across different spectra. The repeatability ratio was smaller than the 30 percent in the best case and in general matched features were not accurate located. Additionally, these results also suggest that is necessary to create new algorithms that take into account the nature of the different spectra, describing characteristics that exist in both spectra such as discontinuities.
 
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  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.076 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @Agu2014 Serial 2526  
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Author Ricard Balague edit  openurl
  Title Exploring the combination of color cues for intrinsic image decomposition Type Report
  Year 2014 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 178 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Intrinsic image decomposition is a challenging problem that consists in separating an image into its physical characteristics: reflectance and shading. This problem can be solved in different ways, but most methods have combined information from several visual cues. In this work we describe an extension of an existing method proposed by Serra et al. which considers two color descriptors and combines them by means of a Markov Random Field. We analyze in depth the weak points of the method and we explore more possibilities to use in both descriptors. The proposed extension depends on the combination of the cues considered to overcome some of the limitations of the original method. Our approach is tested on the MIT dataset and Beigpour et al. dataset, which contain images of real objects acquired under controlled conditions and synthetic images respectively, with their corresponding ground truth.  
  Address UAB; September 2014  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes CIC; 600.074 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Bal2014 Serial 2579  
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Author Antonio Esteban Lansaque edit  openurl
  Title 3D reconstruction and recognition using structured ligth Type Report
  Year 2014 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 179 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract This work covers the problem of 3D reconstruction, recognition and 6DOF pose estimation. The goal of this project is to reconstruct a 3D scene and to align an object model of the industrial pieces onto the reconstructed scene. The reconstruction algorithm is based on stereo techniques and the recognition algorithm is based on SHOT descriptors computed on a set of uniform keypoints. Correspondences are used to estimate a first 6DOF transformation that maps the model onto the scene and then ICP algorithm is used to refine the transformation. In order to check the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, several experiments were performed. These experiments were conducted on a lab environment in order to get results under the same conditions in all of them. Although obtained results are not real time results, the proposed algorithm ends up with high rates of object recognition.  
  Address UAB; September 2014  
  Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis  
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  Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Est2014 Serial 2578  
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Author Maedeh Aghaei; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Bag-of-Tracklets for Person Tracking in Life-Logging Data Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 17th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 269 Issue Pages 35-44  
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  Abstract By increasing popularity of wearable cameras, life-logging data analysis is becoming more and more important and useful to derive significant events out of this substantial collection of images. In this study, we introduce a new tracking method applied to visual life-logging, called bag-of-tracklets, which is based on detecting, localizing and tracking of people. Given the low spatial and temporal resolution of the image data, our model generates and groups tracklets in a unsupervised framework and extracts image sequences of person appearance according to a similarity score of the bag-of-tracklets. The model output is a meaningful sequence of events expressing human appearance and tracking them in life-logging data. The achieved results prove the robustness of our model in terms of efficiency and accuracy despite the low spatial and temporal resolution of the data.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-61499-451-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AgR2015 Serial 2607  
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Author Agata Lapedriza; David Masip; David Sanchez edit  doi
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  Title Emotions Classification using Facial Action Units Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 17th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 269 Issue Pages 55-64  
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  Abstract In this work we build a system for automatic emotion classification from image sequences. We analyze subtle changes in facial expressions by detecting a subset of 12 representative facial action units (AUs). Then, we classify emotions based on the output of these AUs classifiers, i.e. the presence/absence of AUs. We base the AUs classification upon a set of spatio-temporal geometric and appearance features for facial representation, fusing them within the emotion classifier. A decision tree is trained for emotion classifying, making the resulting model easy to interpret by capturing the combination of AUs activation that lead to a particular emotion. For Cohn-Kanade database, the proposed system classifies 7 emotions with a mean accuracy of near 90%, attaining a similar recognition accuracy in comparison with non-interpretable models that are not based in AUs detection.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-61499-451-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIA  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ LMS2014 Serial 2622  
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Author David Roche; Debora Gil; Jesus Giraldo edit  doi
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  Title Mathematical modeling of G protein-coupled receptor function: What can we learn from empirical and mechanistic models? Type Book Chapter
  Year 2014 Publication G Protein-Coupled Receptors – Modeling and Simulation Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 796 Issue 3 Pages 159-181  
  Keywords β-arrestin; biased agonism; curve fitting; empirical modeling; evolutionary algorithm; functional selectivity; G protein; GPCR; Hill coefficient; intrinsic efficacy; inverse agonism; mathematical modeling; mechanistic modeling; operational model; parameter optimization; receptor dimer; receptor oligomerization; receptor constitutive activity; signal transduction; two-state model  
  Abstract Empirical and mechanistic models differ in their approaches to the analysis of pharmacological effect. Whereas the parameters of the former are not physical constants those of the latter embody the nature, often complex, of biology. Empirical models are exclusively used for curve fitting, merely to characterize the shape of the E/[A] curves. Mechanistic models, on the contrary, enable the examination of mechanistic hypotheses by parameter simulation. Regretfully, the many parameters that mechanistic models may include can represent a great difficulty for curve fitting, representing, thus, a challenge for computational method development. In the present study some empirical and mechanistic models are shown and the connections, which may appear in a number of cases between them, are analyzed from the curves they yield. It may be concluded that systematic and careful curve shape analysis can be extremely useful for the understanding of receptor function, ligand classification and drug discovery, thus providing a common language for the communication between pharmacologists and medicinal chemists.  
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  Publisher Springer Netherlands Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 0065-2598 ISBN 978-94-007-7422-3 Medium  
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  Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ RGG2014 Serial 2197  
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Author Juan Ramon Terven Salinas; Joaquin Salas; Bogdan Raducanu edit  doi
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  Title Robust Head Gestures Recognition for Assistive Technology Type Book Chapter
  Year 2014 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8495 Issue Pages 152-161  
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  Abstract This paper presents a system capable of recognizing six head gestures: nodding, shaking, turning right, turning left, looking up, and looking down. The main difference of our system compared to other methods is that the Hidden Markov Models presented in this paper, are fully connected and consider all possible states in any given order, providing the following advantages to the system: (1) allows unconstrained movement of the head and (2) it can be easily integrated into a wearable device (e.g. glasses, neck-hung devices), in which case it can robustly recognize gestures in the presence of ego-motion. Experimental results show that this approach outperforms common methods that use restricted HMMs for each gesture.  
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  Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-07490-0 Medium  
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  Notes LAMP; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ TSR2014b Serial 2505  
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Author Oualid M. Benkarim; Petia Radeva; Laura Igual edit   pdf
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  Title Label Consistent Multiclass Discriminative Dictionary Learning for MRI Segmentation Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 8th Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8563 Issue Pages 138-147  
  Keywords MRI segmentation; sparse representation; discriminative dic- tionary learning; multiclass classi cation  
  Abstract The automatic segmentation of multiple subcortical structures in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) still remains a challenging task. In this paper, we address this problem using sparse representation and discriminative dictionary learning, which have shown promising results in compression, image denoising and recently in MRI segmentation. Particularly, we use multiclass dictionaries learned from a set of brain atlases to simultaneously segment multiple subcortical structures.
We also impose dictionary atoms to be specialized in one given class using label consistent K-SVD, which can alleviate the bias produced by unbalanced libraries, present when dealing with small structures. The proposed method is compared with other state of the art approaches for the segmentation of the Basal Ganglia of 35 subjects of a public dataset.
The promising results of the segmentation method show the eciency of the multiclass discriminative dictionary learning algorithms in MRI segmentation problems.
 
  Address Palma de Mallorca; July 2014  
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  Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-319-08848-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference AMDO  
  Notes MILAB; OR Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BRI2014 Serial 2494  
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Author Marc Bolaños; Maite Garolera; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Video Segmentation of Life-Logging Videos Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 8th Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8563 Issue Pages 1-9  
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  Notes MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BGR2014 Serial 2558  
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Author Jorge Bernal; Joan M. Nuñez; F. Javier Sanchez; Fernando Vilariño edit   pdf
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  Title Polyp Segmentation Method in Colonoscopy Videos by means of MSA-DOVA Energy Maps Calculation Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 3rd MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8680 Issue Pages 41-49  
  Keywords Image segmentation; Polyps; Colonoscopy; Valley information; Energy maps  
  Abstract In this paper we present a novel polyp region segmentation method for colonoscopy videos. Our method uses valley information associated to polyp boundaries in order to provide an initial segmentation. This first segmentation is refined to eliminate boundary discontinuities caused by image artifacts or other elements of the scene. Experimental results over a publicly annotated database show that our method outperforms both general and specific segmentation methods by providing more accurate regions rich in polyp content. We also prove how image preprocessing is needed to improve final polyp region segmentation.  
  Address Boston; USA; September 2014  
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  Notes MV; 600.060; 600.044; 600.047;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BNS2014 Serial 2502  
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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal edit   pdf
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  Title A Product Graph Based Method for Dual Subgraph Matching Applied to Symbol Spotting Type Book Chapter
  Year 2014 Publication Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8746 Issue Pages 7-11  
  Keywords Product graph; Dual edge graph; Subgraph matching; Random walks; Graph kernel  
  Abstract Product graph has been shown as a way for matching subgraphs. This paper reports the extension of the product graph methodology for subgraph matching applied to symbol spotting in graphical documents. Here we focus on the two major limitations of the previous version of the algorithm: (1) spurious nodes and edges in the graph representation and (2) inefficient node and edge attributes. To deal with noisy information of vectorized graphical documents, we consider a dual edge graph representation on the original graph representing the graphical information and the product graph is computed between the dual edge graphs of the pattern graph and the target graph. The dual edge graph with redundant edges is helpful for efficient and tolerating encoding of the structural information of the graphical documents. The adjacency matrix of the product graph locates the pair of similar edges of two operand graphs and exponentiating the adjacency matrix finds similar random walks of greater lengths. Nodes joining similar random walks between two graphs are found by combining different weighted exponentials of adjacency matrices. An experimental investigation reveals that the recall obtained by this approach is quite encouraging.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Bart Lamiroy; Jean-Marc Ogier  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-662-44853-3 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DLB2014 Serial 2698  
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Ernest Valveny; Gemma Sanchez edit  doi
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  Title Unsupervised and Notation-Independent Wall Segmentation in Floor Plans Using a Combination of Statistical and Structural Strategies Type Book Chapter
  Year 2014 Publication Graphics Recognition. Current Trends and Challenges Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (up) 8746 Issue Pages 109-121  
  Keywords Graphics recognition; Floor plan analysis; Object segmentation  
  Abstract In this paper we present a wall segmentation approach in floor plans that is able to work independently to the graphical notation, does not need any pre-annotated data for learning, and is able to segment multiple-shaped walls such as beams and curved-walls. This method results from the combination of the wall segmentation approaches [3, 5] presented recently by the authors. Firstly, potential straight wall segments are extracted in an unsupervised way similar to [3], but restricting even more the wall candidates considered in the original approach. Then, based on [5], these segments are used to learn the texture pattern of walls and spot the lost instances. The presented combination of both methods has been tested on 4 available datasets with different notations and compared qualitatively and quantitatively to the state-of-the-art applied on these collections. Additionally, some qualitative results on floor plans directly downloaded from the Internet are reported in the paper. The overall performance of the method demonstrates either its adaptability to different wall notations and shapes, and to document qualities and resolutions.  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-662-44853-3 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.076; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HVS2014 Serial 2535  
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