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Author Alicia Fornes; Xavier Otazu; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  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 (down) Issue Pages 200-204  
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  Abstract Historical documents suffer from different types of degradation and noise such as background variation, uneven illumination or dark spots.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  
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  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 edit   pdf
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  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  
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  Notes OR; MILAB; 600.046;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SDZ2013 Serial 2239  
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Author Xavier Baro; David Masip; Elena Planas; Julia Minguillon edit  openurl
  Title PeLP: Plataforma para el Aprendizaje de Lenguajes de Programación Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2013 Publication XV Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica Abbreviated Journal  
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  Notes OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BMP2013 Serial 2237  
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Author Victor Borjas; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva edit   pdf
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  Title Gradient Histogram Background Modeling for People Detection in Stationary Camera Environments Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 13th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Best Poster AwardOne of the big challenges of today person detectors is the decreasing of the false positive rate. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to customize person detectors in static camera scenarios in order to reduce this rate. This scheme includes background modeling for subtraction based on gradient histograms and Mean-Shift clustering. Our experiments show that the detection improved compared to using only the output from the pedestrian detector reducing 87% of the false positives and therefore the overall precision of the detection
was increased signi cantly.
 
  Address Kyoto; Japan; May 2013  
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  Notes OR; MILAB;MV Approved no  
  Call Number BVR2013 Serial 2238  
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Author Fadi Dornaika; Bogdan Raducanu edit   pdf
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  Title Out-of-Sample Embedding for Manifold Learning Applied to Face Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (down) Issue Pages 862-868  
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  Abstract Manifold learning techniques are affected by two critical aspects: (i) the design of the adjacency graphs, and (ii) the embedding of new test data---the out-of-sample problem. For the first aspect, the proposed schemes were heuristically driven. For the second aspect, the difficulty resides in finding an accurate mapping that transfers unseen data samples into an existing manifold. Past works addressing these two aspects were heavily parametric in the sense that the optimal performance is only reached for a suitable parameter choice that should be known in advance. In this paper, we demonstrate that sparse coding theory not only serves for automatic graph reconstruction as shown in recent works, but also represents an accurate alternative for out-of-sample embedding. Considering for a case study the Laplacian Eigenmaps, we applied our method to the face recognition problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed out-of-sample embedding, experiments are conducted using the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Kernel Support Vector Machines (KSVM) classifiers on four public face databases. The experimental results show that the proposed model is able to achieve high categorization effectiveness as well as high consistency with non-linear embeddings/manifolds obtained in batch modes.  
  Address Portland; USA; June 2013  
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  Notes OR; 600.046;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DoR2013 Serial 2236  
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Author German Ros; J. Guerrero; Angel Sappa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title VSLAM pose initialization via Lie groups and Lie algebras optimization Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (down) Issue Pages 5740 - 5747  
  Keywords SLAM  
  Abstract We present a novel technique for estimating initial 3D poses in the context of localization and Visual SLAM problems. The presented approach can deal with noise, outliers and a large amount of input data and still performs in real time in a standard CPU. Our method produces solutions with an accuracy comparable to those produced by RANSAC but can be much faster when the percentage of outliers is high or for large amounts of input data. On the current work we propose to formulate the pose estimation as an optimization problem on Lie groups, considering their manifold structure as well as their associated Lie algebras. This allows us to perform a fast and simple optimization at the same time that conserve all the constraints imposed by the Lie group SE(3). Additionally, we present several key design concepts related with the cost function and its Jacobian; aspects that are critical for the good performance of the algorithm.  
  Address Karlsruhe; Germany; May 2013  
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  ISSN 1050-4729 ISBN 978-1-4673-5641-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICRA  
  Notes ADAS; 600.054; 600.055; 600.057 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RGS2013a; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 2225  
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Author David Aldavert; Marçal Rusiñol; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados edit   pdf
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  Title Integrating Visual and Textual Cues for Query-by-String Word Spotting Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (down) Issue Pages 511 - 515  
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  Abstract In this paper, we present a word spotting framework that follows the query-by-string paradigm where word images are represented both by textual and visual representations. The textual representation is formulated in terms of character $n$-grams while the visual one is based on the bag-of-visual-words scheme. These two representations are merged together and projected to a sub-vector space. This transform allows to, given a textual query, retrieve word instances that were only represented by the visual modality. Moreover, this statistical representation can be used together with state-of-the-art indexation structures in order to deal with large-scale scenarios. The proposed method is evaluated using a collection of historical documents outperforming state-of-the-art performances.  
  Address Washington; USA; August 2013  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes DAG; ADAS; 600.045; 600.055; 600.061 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ ART2013 Serial 2224  
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Author Antonio Hernandez; Miguel Angel Bautista; Xavier Perez Sala; Victor Ponce; Xavier Baro; Oriol Pujol; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title BoVDW: Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words for Gesture Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract We present a Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words (BoVDW) model for gesture recognition, an extension of the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BoVW) model, that benefits from the multimodal fusion of visual and depth features. State-of-the-art RGB and depth features, including a new proposed depth descriptor, are analysed and combined in a late fusion fashion. The method is integrated in a continuous gesture recognition pipeline, where Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm is used to perform prior segmentation of gestures. Results of the method in public data sets, within our gesture recognition pipeline, show better performance in comparison to a standard BoVW model.  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ HBP2012 Serial 2122  
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Author Anjan Dutta; Jaume Gibert; Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Umapada Pal edit   pdf
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  Title Combination of Product Graph and Random Walk Kernel for Symbol Spotting in Graphical Documents Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (down) Issue Pages 1663-1666  
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  Abstract This paper explores the utilization of product graph for spotting symbols on graphical documents. Product graph is intended to find the candidate subgraphs or components in the input graph containing the paths similar to the query graph. The acute angle between two edges and their length ratio are considered as the node labels. In a second step, each of the candidate subgraphs in the input graph is assigned with a distance measure computed by a random walk kernel. Actually it is the minimum of the distances of the component to all the components of the model graph. This distance measure is then used to eliminate dissimilar components. The remaining neighboring components are grouped and the grouped zone is considered as a retrieval zone of a symbol similar to the queried one. The entire method works online, i.e., it doesn't need any preprocessing step. The present paper reports the initial results of the method, which are very encouraging.  
  Address Tsukuba, Japan  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4673-2216-4 Medium  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ DGL2012 Serial 2125  
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Author Javier Vazquez; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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  Title Naming constraints constancy Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 2nd Joint AVA / BMVA Meeting on Biological and Machine Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Different studies have shown that languages from industrialized cultures
share a set of 11 basic colour terms: red, green, blue, yellow, pink, purple, brown, orange, black, white, and grey (Berlin & Kay, 1969, Basic Color Terms, University of California Press)( Kay & Regier, 2003, PNAS, 100, 9085-9089). Some of these studies have also reported the best representatives or focal values of each colour (Boynton and Olson, 1990, Vision Res. 30,1311–1317), (Sturges and Whitfield, 1995, CRA, 20:6, 364–376). Some further studies have provided us with fuzzy datasets for color naming by asking human observers to rate colours in terms of membership values (Benavente -et al-, 2006, CRA. 31:1, 48–56,). Recently, a computational model based on these human ratings has been developed (Benavente -et al-, 2008, JOSA-A, 25:10, 2582-2593). This computational model follows a fuzzy approach to assign a colour name to a particular RGB value. For example, a pixel with a value (255,0,0) will be named 'red' with membership 1, while a cyan pixel with a RGB value of (0, 200, 200) will be considered to be 0.5 green and 0.5 blue. In this work, we show how this colour naming paradigm can be applied to different computer vision tasks. In particular, we report results in colour constancy (Vazquez-Corral -et al-, 2012, IEEE TIP, in press) showing that the classical constraints on either illumination or surface reflectance can be substituted by
the statistical properties encoded in the colour names. [Supported by projects TIN2010-21771-C02-1, CSD2007-00018].
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ VBV2012 Serial 2131  
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Author Xavier Otazu; Olivier Penacchio; Laura Dempere-Marco edit   pdf
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  Title An investigation into plausible neural mechanisms related to the the CIWaM computational model for brightness induction Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 2nd Joint AVA / BMVA Meeting on Biological and Machine Vision 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. From a purely computational perspective, we built a low-level computational model (CIWaM) of early sensory processing based on multi-resolution wavelets with the aim of replicating brightness and colour (Otazu et al., 2010, Journal of Vision, 10(12):5) induction effects. Furthermore, we successfully used the CIWaM architecture to define a computational saliency model (Murray et al, 2011, CVPR, 433-440; Vanrell et al, submitted to AVA/BMVA'12). From a biological perspective, neurophysiological evidence suggests that perceived brightness information may be explicitly represented in V1. In this work we investigate possible neural mechanisms that offer a plausible explanation for such effects. To this end, we consider the model by Z.Li (Li, 1999, Network:Comput. Neural Syst., 10, 187-212) which is based on biological data and focuses on the part of V1 responsible for contextual influences, namely, layer 2-3 pyramidal cells, interneurons, and horizontal intracortical connections. This model has proven to account for phenomena such as visual saliency, which share with brightness induction the relevant effect of contextual influences (the ones modelled by CIWaM). In the proposed model, the input to the network is derived from a complete multiscale and multiorientation wavelet decomposition taken from the computational model (CIWaM).
This model successfully accounts for well known pyschophysical effects (among them: the White's and modied White's effects, the Todorovic, Chevreul, achromatic ring patterns, and grating induction effects) for static contexts and also for brigthness induction in dynamic contexts defined by modulating the luminance of surrounding areas. From a methodological point of view, we conclude that the results obtained by the computational model (CIWaM) are compatible with the ones obtained by the neurodynamical model proposed here.
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ OPD2012a Serial 2132  
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades edit   pdf
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  Title Text/graphic separation using a sparse representation with multi-learned dictionaries Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords Graphics Recognition; Layout Analysis; Document Understandin  
  Abstract In this paper, we propose a new approach to extract text regions from graphical documents. In our method, we first empirically construct two sequences of learned dictionaries for the text and graphical parts respectively. Then, we compute the sparse representations of all different sizes and non-overlapped document patches in these learned dictionaries. Based on these representations, each patch can be classified into the text or graphic category by comparing its reconstruction errors. Same-sized patches in one category are then merged together to define the corresponding text or graphic layers which are combined to createfinal text/graphic layer. Finally, in a post-processing step, text regions are further filtered out by using some learned thresholds.  
  Address Tsukuba  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2012a Serial 2135  
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Author Thanh Ha Do; Salvatore Tabbone; Oriol Ramos Terrades edit   pdf
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  Title Noise suppression over bi-level graphical documents using a sparse representation Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Colloque International Francophone sur l'Écrit et le Document Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Bordeaux  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ DTR2012b Serial 2136  
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Author Adriana Romero; Simeon Petkov; Carlo Gatta; M.Sabate; Petia Radeva edit   pdf
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  Title Efficient automatic segmentation of vessels Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 16th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Swansea, United Kingdom  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 2137  
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Author Pedro Martins; Carlo Gatta; Paulo Carvalho edit   pdf
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  Title Feature-driven Maximally Stable Extremal Regions Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume (down) Issue Pages 490-497  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ MGC2012 Serial 2139  
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