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	Author	Mario Hernandez; Joao Sanchez; Jordi Vitria
	Title	Selected papers from Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2012	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	45	Issue	9	Pages	3047-3582
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	OR;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ HSV2012			Serial	2069
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	Author	Susana Alvarez; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Texton theory revisited: a bag-of-words approach to combine textons			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	45	Issue	12	Pages	4312-4325
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	Abstract	The aim of this paper is to revisit an old theory of texture perception and update its computational implementation by extending it to colour. With this in mind we try to capture the optimality of perceptual systems. This is achieved in the proposed approach by sharing well-known early stages of the visual processes and extracting low-dimensional features that perfectly encode adequate properties for a large variety of textures without needing further learning stages. We propose several descriptors in a bag-of-words framework that are derived from different quantisation models on to the feature spaces. Our perceptual features are directly given by the shape and colour attributes of image blobs, which are the textons. In this way we avoid learning visual words and directly build the vocabularies on these lowdimensionaltexton spaces. Main differences between proposed descriptors rely on how co-occurrence of blob attributes is represented in the vocabularies. Our approach overcomes current state-of-art in colour texture description which is proved in several experiments on large texture datasets.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AlV2012a			Serial	2130
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	Author	Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados; Mathieu Nicolas Delalandre
	Title	Multi-oriented touching text character segmentation in graphical documents using dynamic programming			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	45	Issue	5	Pages	1972-1983
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	Abstract	2,292 JCR The touching character segmentation problem becomes complex when touching strings are multi-oriented. Moreover in graphical documents sometimes characters in a single-touching string have different orientations. Segmentation of such complex touching is more challenging. In this paper, we present a scheme towards the segmentation of English multi-oriented touching strings into individual characters. When two or more characters touch, they generate a big cavity region in the background portion. Based on the convex hull information, at first, we use this background information to find some initial points for segmentation of a touching string into possible primitives (a primitive consists of a single character or part of a character). Next, the primitives are merged to get optimum segmentation. A dynamic programming algorithm is applied for this purpose using the total likelihood of characters as the objective function. A SVM classifier is used to find the likelihood of a character. To consider multi-oriented touching strings the features used in the SVM are invariant to character orientation. Experiments were performed in different databases of real and synthetic touching characters and the results show that the method is efficient in segmenting touching characters of arbitrary orientations and sizes.
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RPL2012a			Serial	2133
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	Author	Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Mireia Brunat;Steven Jansen; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta
	Title	Structure-preserving smoothing of biomedical images			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	44	Issue	9	Pages	1842-1851
	Keywords	Non-linear smoothing; Differential geometry; Anatomical structures; segmentation; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Computerized tomography
	Abstract	Smoothing of biomedical images should preserve gray-level transitions between adjacent tissues, while restoring contours consistent with anatomical structures. Anisotropic diffusion operators are based on image appearance discontinuities (either local or contextual) and might fail at weak inter-tissue transitions. Meanwhile, the output of block-wise and morphological operations is prone to present a block structure due to the shape and size of the considered pixel neighborhood. In this contribution, we use differential geometry concepts to define a diffusion operator that restricts to image consistent level-sets. In this manner, the final state is a non-uniform intensity image presenting homogeneous inter-tissue transitions along anatomical structures, while smoothing intra-structure texture. Experiments on different types of medical images (magnetic resonance, computerized tomography) illustrate its benefit on a further process (such as segmentation) of images.
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	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	IAM; ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GHB2011			Serial	1526
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	Author	Palaiahnakote Shivakumara; Anjan Dutta; Trung Quy Phan; Chew Lim Tan; Umapada Pal
	Title	A Novel Mutual Nearest Neighbor based Symmetry for Text Frame Classification in Video			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	44	Issue	8	Pages	1671-1683
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	Abstract	In the field of multimedia retrieval in video, text frame classification is essential for text detection, event detection, event boundary detection, etc. We propose a new text frame classification method that introduces a combination of wavelet and median moment with k-means clustering to select probable text blocks among 16 equally sized blocks of a video frame. The same feature combination is used with a new Max–Min clustering at the pixel level to choose probable dominant text pixels in the selected probable text blocks. For the probable text pixels, a so-called mutual nearest neighbor based symmetry is explored with a four-quadrant formation centered at the centroid of the probable dominant text pixels to know whether a block is a true text block or not. If a frame produces at least one true text block then it is considered as a text frame otherwise it is a non-text frame. Experimental results on different text and non-text datasets including two public datasets and our own created data show that the proposed method gives promising results in terms of recall and precision at the block and frame levels. Further, we also show how existing text detection methods tend to misclassify non-text frames as text frames in term of recall and precision at both the block and frame levels.
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SDP2011			Serial	1727
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	Author	Carlo Gatta; Eloi Puertas; Oriol Pujol
	Title	Multi-Scale Stacked Sequential Learning			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	44	Issue	10-11	Pages	2414-2416
	Keywords	Stacked sequential learning; Multiscale; Multiresolution; Contextual classification
	Abstract	One of the most widely used assumptions in supervised learning is that data is independent and identically distributed. This assumption does not hold true in many real cases. Sequential learning is the discipline of machine learning that deals with dependent data such that neighboring examples exhibit some kind of relationship. In the literature, there are different approaches that try to capture and exploit this correlation, by means of different methodologies. In this paper we focus on meta-learning strategies and, in particular, the stacked sequential learning approach. The main contribution of this work is two-fold: first, we generalize the stacked sequential learning. This generalization reflects the key role of neighboring interactions modeling. Second, we propose an effective and efficient way of capturing and exploiting sequential correlations that takes into account long-range interactions by means of a multi-scale pyramidal decomposition of the predicted labels. Additionally, this new method subsumes the standard stacked sequential learning approach. We tested the proposed method on two different classification tasks: text lines classification in a FAQ data set and image classification. Results on these tasks clearly show that our approach outperforms the standard stacked sequential learning. Moreover, we show that the proposed method allows to control the trade-off between the detail and the desired range of the interactions.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	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
	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GPP2011			Serial	1802
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	Author	Partha Pratim Roy; Umapada Pal; Josep Llados
	Title	Document Seal Detection Using Ght and Character Proximity Graphs			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	44	Issue	6	Pages	1282-1295
	Keywords	Seal recognition; Graphical symbol spotting; Generalized Hough transform; Multi-oriented character recognition
	Abstract	This paper deals with automatic detection of seal (stamp) from documents with cluttered background. Seal detection involves a difficult challenge due to its multi-oriented nature, arbitrary shape, overlapping of its part with signature, noise, etc. Here, a seal object is characterized by scale and rotation invariant spatial feature descriptors computed from recognition result of individual connected components (characters). Scale and rotation invariant features are used in a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to recognize multi-scale and multi-oriented text characters. The concept of generalized Hough transform (GHT) is used to detect the seal and a voting scheme is designed for finding possible location of the seal in a document based on the spatial feature descriptor of neighboring component pairs. The peak of votes in GHT accumulator validates the hypothesis to locate the seal in a document. Experiment is performed in an archive of historical documents of handwritten/printed English text. Experimental results show that the method is robust in locating seal instances of arbitrary shape and orientation in documents, and also efficient in indexing a collection of documents for retrieval purposes.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RPL2011			Serial	1820
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	Author	Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa; K. Riesen; Horst Bunke
	Title	Generalized Median Graph Computation by Means of Graph Embedding in Vector Spaces			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	4	Pages	1642–1655
	Keywords	Graph matching; Weighted mean of graphs; Median graph; Graph embedding; Vector spaces
	Abstract	The median graph has been presented as a useful tool to represent a set of graphs. Nevertheless its computation is very complex and the existing algorithms are restricted to use limited amount of data. In this paper we propose a new approach for the computation of the median graph based on graph embedding. Graphs are embedded into a vector space and the median is computed in the vector domain. We have designed a procedure based on the weighted mean of a pair of graphs to go from the vector domain back to the graph domain in order to obtain a final approximation of the median graph. Experiments on three different databases containing large graphs show that we succeed to compute good approximations of the median graph. We have also applied the median graph to perform some basic classification tasks achieving reasonable good results. These experiments on real data open the door to the application of the median graph to a number of more complex machine learning algorithms where a representative of a set of graphs is needed.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ FVS2010			Serial	1294
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	Author	Joan Mas; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; J.A. Jorge
	Title	A syntactic approach based on distortion-tolerant Adjacency Grammars and a spatial-directed parser to interpret sketched diagrams			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	12	Pages	4148–4164
	Keywords	Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Symbol recognition; Diagram understanding; Sketched diagrams; Adjacency Grammars; Incremental parsing; Spatial directed parsing
	Abstract	This paper presents a syntactic approach based on Adjacency Grammars (AG) for sketch diagram modeling and understanding. Diagrams are a combination of graphical symbols arranged according to a set of spatial rules defined by a visual language. AG describe visual shapes by productions defined in terms of terminal and non-terminal symbols (graphical primitives and subshapes), and a set functions describing the spatial arrangements between symbols. Our approach to sketch diagram understanding provides three main contributions. First, since AG are linear grammars, there is a need to define shapes and relations inherently bidimensional using a sequential formalism. Second, our parsing approach uses an indexing structure based on a spatial tessellation. This serves to reduce the search space when finding candidates to produce a valid reduction. This allows order-free parsing of 2D visual sentences while keeping combinatorial explosion in check. Third, working with sketches requires a distortion model to cope with the natural variations of hand drawn strokes. To this end we extended the basic grammar with a distortion measure modeled on the allowable variation on spatial constraints associated with grammar productions. Finally, the paper reports on an experimental framework an interactive system for sketch analysis. User tests performed on two real scenarios show that our approach is usable in interactive settings.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ MLS2010			Serial	1336
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	Author	Umapada Pal; Partha Pratim Roy; N. Tripathya; Josep Llados
	Title	Multi-oriented Bangla and Devnagari text recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	12	Pages	4124–4136
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	Abstract	There are printed complex documents where text lines of a single page may have different orientations or the text lines may be curved in shape. As a result, it is difficult to detect the skew of such documents and hence character segmentation and recognition of such documents are a complex task. In this paper, using background and foreground information we propose a novel scheme towards the recognition of Indian complex documents of Bangla and Devnagari script. In Bangla and Devnagari documents usually characters in a word touch and they form cavity regions. To take care of these cavity regions, background information of such documents is used. Convex hull and water reservoir principle have been applied for this purpose. Here, at first, the characters are segmented from the documents using the background information of the text. Next, individual characters are recognized using rotation invariant features obtained from the foreground part of the characters. For character segmentation, at first, writing mode of a touching component (word) is detected using water reservoir principle based features. Next, depending on writing mode and the reservoir base-region of the touching component, a set of candidate envelope points is then selected from the contour points of the component. Based on these candidate points, the touching component is finally segmented into individual characters. For recognition of multi-sized/multi-oriented characters the features are computed from different angular information obtained from the external and internal contour pixels of the characters. These angular information are computed in such a way that they do not depend on the size and rotation of the characters. Circular and convex hull rings have been used to divide a character into smaller zones to get zone-wise features for higher recognition results. We combine circular and convex hull features to improve the results and these features are fed to support vector machines (SVM) for recognition. From our experiment we obtained recognition results of 99.18% (98.86%) accuracy when tested on 7515 (7874) Devnagari (Bangla) characters.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ PRT2010			Serial	1337
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	Author	Jose Antonio Rodriguez; Florent Perronnin
	Title	Handwritten word-spotting using hidden Markov models and universal vocabularies			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	42	Issue	9	Pages	2103-2116
	Keywords	Word-spotting; Hidden Markov model; Score normalization; Universal vocabulary; Handwriting recognition
	Abstract	Handwritten word-spotting is traditionally viewed as an image matching task between one or multiple query word-images and a set of candidate word-images in a database. This is a typical instance of the query-by-example paradigm. In this article, we introduce a statistical framework for the word-spotting problem which employs hidden Markov models (HMMs) to model keywords and a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for score normalization. We explore the use of two types of HMMs for the word modeling part: continuous HMMs (C-HMMs) and semi-continuous HMMs (SC-HMMs), i.e. HMMs with a shared set of Gaussians. We show on a challenging multi-writer corpus that the proposed statistical framework is always superior to a traditional matching system which uses dynamic time warping (DTW) for word-image distance computation. A very important finding is that the SC-HMM is superior when labeled training data is scarce—as low as one sample per keyword—thanks to the prior information which can be incorporated in the shared set of Gaussians.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RoP2009			Serial	1053
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	Author	Ignasi Rius; Jordi Gonzalez; Javier Varona; Xavier Roca
	Title	Action-specific motion prior for efficient bayesian 3D human body tracking			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	42	Issue	11	Pages	2907–2921
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	Abstract	In this paper, we aim to reconstruct the 3D motion parameters of a human body model from the known 2D positions of a reduced set of joints in the image plane. Towards this end, an action-speciﬁc motion model is trained from a database of real motion-captured performances. The learnt motion model is used within a particle ﬁltering framework as a priori knowledge on human motion. First, our dynamic model guides the particles according to similar situations previously learnt. Then, the solution space is constrained so only feasible human postures are accepted as valid solutions at each time step. As a result, we are able to track the 3D conﬁguration of the full human body from several cycles of walking motion sequences using only the 2D positions of a very reduced set of joints from lateral or frontal viewpoints.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	ISE @ ise @ RGV2009			Serial	1159
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	Author	Miquel Ferrer; Ernest Valveny; F. Serratosa
	Title	Median Graphs: A Genetic Approach based on New Theoretical Properties			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	42	Issue	9	Pages	2003–2012
	Keywords	Median graph; Genetic search; Maximum common subgraph; Graph matching; Structural pattern recognition
	Abstract	Given a set of graphs, the median graph has been theoretically presented as a useful concept to infer a representative of the set. However, the computation of the median graph is a highly complex task and its practical application has been very limited up to now. In this work we present two major contributions. On one side, and from a theoretical point of view, we show new theoretical properties of the median graph. On the other side, using these new properties, we present a new approximate algorithm based on the genetic search, that improves the computation of the median graph. Finally, we perform a set of experiments on real data, where none of the existing algorithms for the median graph computation could be applied up to now due to their computational complexity. With these results, we show how the concept of the median graph can be used in real applications and leaves the box of the only-theoretical concepts, demonstrating, from a practical point of view, that can be a useful tool to represent a set of graphs.
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ FVS2009b			Serial	1167
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	Author	Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Variance reduction techniques in particle-based visual contour Tracking			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2009	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	42	Issue	11	Pages	2372–2391
	Keywords	Contour tracking; Active shape models; Kalman filter; Particle filter; Importance sampling; Unscented particle filter; Rao-Blackwellization; Partitioned sampling
	Abstract	This paper presents a comparative study of three different strategies to improve the performance of particle filters, in the context of visual contour tracking: the unscented particle filter, the Rao-Blackwellized particle filter, and the partitioned sampling technique. The tracking problem analyzed is the joint estimation of the global and local transformation of the outline of a given target, represented following the active shape model approach. The main contributions of the paper are the novel adaptations of the considered techniques on this generic problem, and the quantitative assessment of their performance in extensive experimental work done.
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	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ PoL2009a			Serial	1168
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	Author	Oriol Pujol; Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva
	Title	An Incremental Node Embedding Technique for Error Correcting Output Codes			Type	Journal
	Year	2008	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	41	Issue	2	Pages	713–725
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	Notes	MILAB;HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ PER2008			Serial	942
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