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	Author	Albert Gordo
	Title	Document Image Representation, Classification and Retrieval in Large-Scale Domains			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2013	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Despite the “paperless office” ideal that started in the decade of the seventies, businesses still strive against an increasing amount of paper documentation. Companies still receive huge amounts of paper documentation that need to be analyzed and processed, mostly in a manual way. A solution for this task consists in, first, automatically scanning the incoming documents. Then, document images can be analyzed and information can be extracted from the data. Documents can also be automatically dispatched to the appropriate workflows, used to retrieve similar documents in the dataset to transfer information, etc. Due to the nature of this “digital mailroom”, we need document representation methods to be general, i.e., able to cope with very different types of documents. We need the methods to be sound, i.e., able to cope with unexpected types of documents, noise, etc. And, we need to methods to be scalable, i.e., able to cope with thousands or millions of documents that need to be processed, stored, and consulted. Unfortunately, current techniques of document representation, classification and retrieval are not apt for this digital mailroom framework, since they do not fulfill some or all of these requirements. Through this thesis we focus on the problem of document representation aimed at classification and retrieval tasks under this digital mailroom framework. We first propose a novel document representation based on runlength histograms, and extend it to cope with more complex documents such as multiple-page documents, or documents that contain more sources of information such as extracted OCR text. Then we focus on the scalability requirements and propose a novel binarization method which we dubbed PCAE, as well as two general asymmetric distances between binary embeddings that can significantly improve the retrieval results at a minimal extra computational cost. Finally, we note the importance of supervised learning when performing large-scale retrieval, and study several approaches that can significantly boost the results at no extra cost at query time.
	Address	Barcelona
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Ernest Valveny;Florent Perronnin
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
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	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Gor2013			Serial	2277
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	Author	Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; Jean-Yves Ramel; Josep Llados
	Title	Multilevel Analysis of Attributed Graphs for Explicit Graph Embedding in Vector Spaces			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2013	Publication	Graph Embedding for Pattern Analysis	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-26
	Keywords
	Abstract	Ability to recognize patterns is among the most crucial capabilities of human beings for their survival, which enables them to employ their sophisticated neural and cognitive systems [1], for processing complex audio, visual, smell, touch, and taste signals. Man is the most complex and the best existing system of pattern recognition. Without any explicit thinking, we continuously compare, classify, and identify huge amount of signal data everyday [2], starting from the time we get up in the morning till the last second we fall asleep. This includes recognizing the face of a friend in a crowd, a spoken word embedded in noise, the proper key to lock the door, smell of coffee, the voice of a favorite singer, the recognition of alphabetic characters, and millions of more tasks that we perform on regular basis.
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	Publisher	Springer New York	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1-4614-4456-5	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ LRL2013b			Serial	2271
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	Author	Isabel Guitart; Jordi Conesa; Luis Villarejo; Agata Lapedriza; David Masip; Antoni Perez; Elena Planas
	Title	Opinion Mining on Educational Resources at the Open University of Catalonia			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	3rd International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional approaches. In conjunction with CISIS 2013: The 7th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	385 - 390
	Keywords
	Abstract	In order to make improvements to teaching, it is vital to know what students think of the way they are taught. With that purpose in mind, exhaustively analyzing the forums associated with the subjects taught at the Universitat Oberta de Cataluya (UOC) would be extremely helpful, as the university's students often post comments on their learning experiences in them. Exploiting the content of such forums is not a simple undertaking. The volume of data involved is very large, and performing the task manually would require a great deal of effort from lecturers. As a first step to solve this problem, we propose a tool to automatically analyze the posts in forums of communities of UOC students and teachers, with a view to systematically mining the opinions they contain. This article defines the architecture of such tool and explains how lexical-semantic and language technology resources can be used to that end. For pilot testing purposes, the tool has been used to identify students' opinions on the UOC's Business Intelligence master's degree course during the last two years. The paper discusses the results of such test. The contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates the feasibility of using natural language parsing techniques to help teachers to make decisions. Secondly, it introduces a simple tool that can be refined and adapted to a virtual environment for the purpose in question.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-0-7695-4992-7	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ALICE
	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	GCV2013			Serial	2268
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	Author	Shida Beigpour
	Title	Illumination and object reflectance modeling			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2013	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords
	Abstract	More realistic and accurate models of the scene illumination and object reflectance can greatly improve the quality of many computer vision and computer graphics tasks. Using such model, a more profound knowledge about the interaction of light with object surfaces can be established which proves crucial to a variety of computer vision applications. In the current work, we investigate the various existing approaches to illumination and reflectance modeling and form an analysis on their shortcomings in capturing the complexity of real-world scenes. Based on this analysis we propose improvements to different aspects of reflectance and illumination estimation in order to more realistically model the real-world scenes in the presence of complex lighting phenomena (i.e, multiple illuminants, interreflections and shadows). Moreover, we captured our own multi-illuminant dataset which consists of complex scenes and illumination conditions both outdoor and in laboratory conditions. In addition we investigate the use of synthetic data to facilitate the construction of datasets and improve the process of obtaining ground-truth information.
	Address	Barcelona
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Joost Van de Weijer;Ernest Valveny
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Bei2013			Serial	2267
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	Author	Rahat Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Damien Muselet
	Title	Towards multispectral data acquisition with hand-held devices			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2053 - 2057
	Keywords	Multispectral; mobile devices; color measurements
	Abstract	We propose a method to acquire multispectral data with handheld devices with front-mounted RGB cameras. We propose to use the display of the device as an illuminant while the camera captures images illuminated by the red, green and blue primaries of the display. Three illuminants and three response functions of the camera lead to nine response values which are used for reflectance estimation. Results are promising and show that the accuracy of the spectral reconstruction improves in the range from 30-40% over the spectral reconstruction based on a single illuminant. Furthermore, we propose to compute sensor-illuminant aware linear basis by discarding the part of the reflectances that falls in the sensorilluminant null-space. We show experimentally that optimizing reflectance estimation on these new basis functions decreases the RMSE significantly over basis functions that are independent to sensor-illuminant. We conclude that, multispectral data acquisition is potentially possible with consumer hand-held devices such as tablets, mobiles, and laptops, opening up applications which are currently considered to be unrealistic.
	Address	Melbourne; Australia; September 2013
	Corporate Author				Thesis
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	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	CIC; DAG; 600.048			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KWK2013b			Serial	2265
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	Author	Shida Beigpour; Marc Serra; Joost Van de Weijer; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Olivier Penacchio; Dimitris Samaras
	Title	Intrinsic Image Evaluation On Synthetic Complex Scenes			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	285 - 289
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	Abstract	Scene decomposition into its illuminant, shading, and reflectance intrinsic images is an essential step for scene understanding. Collecting intrinsic image groundtruth data is a laborious task. The assumptions on which the ground-truth procedures are based limit their application to simple scenes with a single object taken in the absence of indirect lighting and interreflections. We investigate synthetic data for intrinsic image research since the extraction of ground truth is straightforward, and it allows for scenes in more realistic situations (e.g, multiple illuminants and interreflections). With this dataset we aim to motivate researchers to further explore intrinsic image decomposition in complex scenes.
	Address	Melbourne; Australia; September 2013
	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		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	CIC; 600.048; 600.052; 600.051			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BSW2013			Serial	2264
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	Author	Rahat Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Damien Muselet; christophe Ducottet; Cecile Barat
	Title	Discriminative Color Descriptors			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2866 - 2873
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	Abstract	Color description is a challenging task because of large variations in RGB values which occur due to scene accidental events, such as shadows, shading, specularities, illuminant color changes, and changes in viewing geometry. Traditionally, this challenge has been addressed by capturing the variations in physics-based models, and deriving invariants for the undesired variations. The drawback of this approach is that sets of distinguishable colors in the original color space are mapped to the same value in the photometric invariant space. This results in a drop of discriminative power of the color description. In this paper we take an information theoretic approach to color description. We cluster color values together based on their discriminative power in a classification problem. The clustering has the explicit objective to minimize the drop of mutual information of the final representation. We show that such a color description automatically learns a certain degree of photometric invariance. We also show that a universal color representation, which is based on other data sets than the one at hand, can obtain competing performance. Experiments show that the proposed descriptor outperforms existing photometric invariants. Furthermore, we show that combined with shape description these color descriptors obtain excellent results on four challenging datasets, namely, PASCAL VOC 2007, Flowers-102, Stanford dogs-120 and Birds-200.
	Address	Portland; Oregon; June 2013
	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	1063-6919	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPR
	Notes	CIC; 600.048			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KWK2013a			Serial	2262
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	Author	Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier
	Title	Automatic text localisation in scanned comic books			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	814-819
	Keywords	Text localization; comics; text/graphic separation; complex background; unstructured document
	Abstract	Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comics book understanding. We focus on speech text as it is semantically important and represents the majority of the text present in comics. The approach is compared with existing methods of text localization found in the literature and results are presented.
	Address	Barcelona; February 2013
	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		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISAPP
	Notes	DAG; CIC; 600.056			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RKW2013b			Serial	2261
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	Author	Christophe Rigaud; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Joost Van de Weijer; Jean-Christophe Burie; Jean-Marc Ogier
	Title	An active contour model for speech balloon detection in comics			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1240-1244
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	Abstract	Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent comic book understanding would enable a variety of new applications, including content-based retrieval and content retargeting. Document understanding in this domain is challenging as comics are semi-structured documents, combining semantically important graphical and textual parts. Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for closed and non-closed speech balloon localization in scanned comic book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comic book understanding. The approach is compared with existing methods for closed balloon localization found in the literature and results are presented.
	Address	washington; USA; August 2013
	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		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG; CIC; 600.056			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RKW2013a			Serial	2260
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	Author	Laura Igual; Xavier Baro
	Title	Experiencia de aprendizaje de programación basada en proyectos. Simposio-Taller Estrategias y herramientas para el aprendizaje y la evaluación			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2013	Publication	Simposio-Taller Estrategias y herramientas para el aprendizaje y la evaluación, de las XIX Jornadas sobre la Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática	Abbreviated Journal
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	JENUI
	Notes	OR;HuPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ IgB2013			Serial	2257
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	Author	S.Grau; Anna Puig; Sergio Escalera; Maria Salamo; Oscar Amoros
	Title	Efficient complementary viewpoint selection in volume rendering			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	21st WSCG Conference on Computer Graphics,	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Dual camera; Visualization; Interactive Interfaces; Dynamic Time Warping.
	Abstract	A major goal of visualization is to appropriately express knowledge of scientific data. Generally, gathering visual information contained in the volume data often requires a lot of expertise from the final user to setup the parameters of the visualization. One way of alleviating this problem is to provide the position of inner structures with different viewpoint locations to enhance the perception and construction of the mental image. To this end, traditional illustrations use two or three different views of the regions of interest. Similarly, with the aim of assisting the users to easily place a good viewpoint location, this paper proposes an automatic and interactive method that locates different complementary viewpoints from a reference camera in volume datasets. Specifically, the proposed method combines the quantity of information each camera provides for each structure and the shape similarity of the projections of the remaining viewpoints based on Dynamic Time Warping. The selected complementary viewpoints allow a better understanding of the focused structure in several applications. Thus, the user interactively receives feedback based on several viewpoints that helps him to understand the visual information. A live-user evaluation on different data sets show a good convergence to useful complementary viewpoints.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-808694374-9	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	WSCG
	Notes	HuPBA; 600.046;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GPE2013a			Serial	2255
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	Author	Vitaliy Konovalov; Albert Clapes; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Automatic Hand Detection in RGB-Depth Data Sequences			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	16th Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	91-100
	Keywords
	Abstract	Detecting hands in multi-modal RGB-Depth visual data has become a challenging Computer Vision problem with several applications of interest. This task involves dealing with changes in illumination, viewpoint variations, the articulated nature of the human body, the high flexibility of the wrist articulation, and the deformability of the hand itself. In this work, we propose an accurate and efficient automatic hand detection scheme to be applied in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) applications in which the user is seated at the desk and, thus, only the upper body is visible. Our main hypothesis is that hand landmarks remain at a nearly constant geodesic distance from an automatically located anatomical reference point. In a given frame, the human body is segmented first in the depth image. Then, a graph representation of the body is built in which the geodesic paths are computed from the reference point. The dense optical flow vectors on the corresponding RGB image are used to reduce ambiguities of the geodesic paths’ connectivity, allowing to eliminate false edges interconnecting different body parts. Finally, we are able to detect the position of both hands based on invariant geodesic distances and optical flow within the body region, without involving costly learning procedures.
	Address	Vic; October 2013
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CCIA
	Notes	HuPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KCE2013			Serial	2323
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	Author	Andreas Møgelmose; Chris Bahnsen; Thomas B. Moeslund; Albert Clapes; Sergio Escalera
	Title	Tri-modal Person Re-identification with RGB, Depth and Thermal Features			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	9th IEEE Workshop on Perception beyond the visible Spectrum, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	301-307
	Keywords
	Abstract	Person re-identification is about recognizing people who have passed by a sensor earlier. Previous work is mainly based on RGB data, but in this work we for the first time present a system where we combine RGB, depth, and thermal data for re-identification purposes. First, from each of the three modalities, we obtain some particular features: from RGB data, we model color information from different regions of the body, from depth data, we compute different soft body biometrics, and from thermal data, we extract local structural information. Then, the three information types are combined in a joined classifier. The tri-modal system is evaluated on a new RGB-D-T dataset, showing successful results in re-identification scenarios.
	Address	Portland; oregon; June 2013
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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		ISBN	978-0-7695-4990-3	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPRW
	Notes	HUPBA;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MBM2013			Serial	2253
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	Author	Alicia Fornes; Xavier Otazu; Josep Llados
	Title	Show through cancellation and image enhancement by multiresolution contrast processing			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	200-204
	Keywords
	Abstract	Historical documents suffer from different types of degradation and noise such as background variation, uneven illumination or dark spots. In case of double-sided documents, another common problem is that the back side of the document usually interferes with the front side because of the transparency of the document or ink bleeding. This effect is called the show through phenomenon. Many methods are developed to solve these problems, and in the case of show-through, by scanning and matching both the front and back sides of the document. In contrast, our approach is designed to use only one side of the scanned document. We hypothesize that show-trough are low contrast components, while foreground components are high contrast ones. A Multiresolution Contrast (MC) decomposition is presented in order to estimate the contrast of features at different spatial scales. We cancel the show-through phenomenon by thresholding these low contrast components. This decomposition is also able to enhance the image removing shadowed areas by weighting spatial scales. Results show that the enhanced images improve the readability of the documents, allowing scholars both to recover unreadable words and to solve ambiguities.
	Address	Washington; USA; August 2013
	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		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG; 602.006; 600.045; 600.061; 600.052;CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FOL2013			Serial	2241
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	Author	Santiago Segui; Michal Drozdzal; Ekaterina Zaytseva; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria
	Title	A new image centrality descriptor for wrinkle frame detection in WCE videos			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2013	Publication	13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Small bowel motility dysfunctions are a widespread functional disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits in the absence of specific and unique organic pathology. Current methods of diagnosis are complex and can only be conducted at some highly specialized referral centers. Wireless Video Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) could be an interesting diagnostic alternative that presents excellent clinical advantages, since it is non-invasive and can be conducted by non specialists. The purpose of this work is to present a new method for the detection of wrinkle frames in WCE, a critical characteristic to detect one of the main motility events: contractions. The method goes beyond the use of one of the classical image feature, the Histogram
	Address	Kyoto; Japan; May 2013
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	MVA
	Notes	OR; MILAB; 600.046;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SDZ2013			Serial	2239
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