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Author Antonio Hernandez; Carlo Gatta; Sergio Escalera; Laura Igual; Victoria Martin Yuste; Petia Radeva edit  isbn
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  Title Accurate and Robust Fully-Automatic QCA: Method and Numerical Validation Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 14 Issue 3 Pages 496-503  
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  Abstract The Quantitative Coronary Angiography (QCA) is a methodology used to evaluate the arterial diseases and, in particular, the degree of stenosis. In this paper we propose AQCA, a fully automatic method for vessel segmentation based on graph cut theory. Vesselness, geodesic paths and a new multi-scale edgeness map are used to compute a globally optimal artery segmentation. We evaluate the method performance in a rigorous numerical way on two datasets. The method can detect an artery with precision 92.9 +/- 5% and sensitivity 94.2 +/- 6%. The average absolute distance error between detected and ground truth centerline is 1.13 +/- 0.11 pixels (about 0.27 +/- 0.025 mm) and the absolute relative error in the vessel caliber estimation is 2.93% with almost no bias. Moreover, the method can discriminate between arteries and catheter with an accuracy of 96.4%.  
  Address Toronto, Canada  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-23625-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MICCAI  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HGE2011 Serial 1769  
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera edit  url
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  Title Human Behavior Analysis from Video Data Using Bag-of-Gestures Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 3 Issue Pages 2836-2837  
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  Abstract Human Behavior Analysis in Uncontrolled Environments can be categorized in two main challenges: 1) Feature extraction and 2) Behavior analysis from a set of corporal language vocabulary. In this work, we present our achievements characterizing some simple behaviors from visual data on different real applications and discuss our plan for future work: low level vocabulary definition from bag-of-gesture units and high level modelling and inference of human behaviors.  
  Address Barcelona  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-1-57735-516-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IJCAI  
  Notes HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011b Serial 1770  
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Author Miguel Angel Bautista; Oriol Pujol; Xavier Baro; Sergio Escalera edit  url
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  Title Introducing the Separability Matrix for Error Correcting Output Codes Coding Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 10th International conference on Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6713 Issue Pages 227-236  
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  Abstract Error Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) have demonstrate to be a powerful tool for treating multi-class problems. Nevertheless, predefined ECOC designs may not benefit from Error-correcting principles for particular multi-class data. In this paper, we introduce the Separability matrix as a tool to study and enhance designs for ECOC coding. In addition, a novel problem-dependent coding design based on the Separability matrix is tested over a wide set of challenging multi-class problems, obtaining very satisfactory results.  
  Address Napoles, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Carlo Sansone; Josef Kittler; Fabio Roli  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-21556-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MCS  
  Notes MILAB; OR;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BPB2011a Serial 1771  
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Author Eloi Puertas; Sergio Escalera; Oriol Pujol edit  openurl
  Title Multi-Class Multi-Scale Stacked Sequential Learning Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 10th International Conference on Multiple Classifier Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6713 Issue Pages 197-206  
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  Address Napoles, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Carlo Sansone; Josef Kittler; Fabio Roli  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MCS  
  Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PEP2011b Serial 1772  
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Author Xavier Perez; Cecilio Angulo; Sergio Escalera edit  doi
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  Title Biologically Inspired Path Execution Using SURF Flow in Robot Navigation Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 11th International Work Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume II Issue Pages 581--588  
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  Abstract An exportable and robust system using only camera images is proposed for path execution in robot navigation. Motion information is extracted in the form of optical flow from SURF robust descriptors of consecutive frames, so the method is called SURF flow. This information is used to correct robot displacement when a straight forward path command is sent to the robot, but it is not really executed due to several robot and environmental concerns. The proposed system has been successfully tested on the legged robot Aibo.  
  Address Malaga  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21497-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IWANN  
  Notes HuPBA;MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PAE2011b Serial 1773  
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Author Oscar Amoros; Sergio Escalera; Anna Puig edit  openurl
  Title Adaboost GPU-based Classifier for Direct Volume Rendering Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 215-219  
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  Abstract In volume visualization, the voxel visibitity and materials are carried out through an interactive editing of Transfer Function. In this paper, we present a two-level GPU-based labeling method that computes in times of rendering a set of labeled structures using the Adaboost machine learning classifier. In a pre-processing step, Adaboost trains a binary classifier from a pre-labeled dataset and, in each sample, takes into account a set of features. This binary classifier is a weighted combination of weak classifiers, which can be expressed as simple decision functions estimated on a single feature values. Then, at the testing stage, each weak classifier is independently applied on the features of a set of unlabeled samples. We propose an alternative representation of these classifiers that allow a GPU-based parallelizated testing stage embedded into the visualization pipeline. The empirical results confirm the OpenCL-based classification of biomedical datasets as a tough problem where an opportunity for further research emerges.  
  Address Algarve, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference GRAPP  
  Notes MILAB; HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AEP2011 Serial 1774  
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Author Arnau Ramisa; David Aldavert; Shrihari Vasudevan; Ricardo Toledo; Ramon Lopez de Mantaras edit  url
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  Title The IIIA30 MObile Robot Object Recognition Datset Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 11th Portuguese Robotics Open Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Object perception is a key feature in order to make mobile robots able to perform high-level tasks. However, research aimed at addressing the constraints and limitations encountered in a mobile robotics scenario, like low image resolution, motion blur or tight computational constraints, is still very scarce. In order to facilitate future research in this direction, in this work we present an object detection and recognition dataset acquired using a mobile robotic platform. As a baseline for the dataset, we evaluated the cascade of weak classifiers object detection method from Viola and Jones.  
  Address Lisboa  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference Robotica  
  Notes RV;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RAV2011 Serial 1777  
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Author Joost Van de Weijer; Shida Beigpour edit   pdf
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  Title The Dichromatic Reflection Model: Future Research Directions and Applications Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication International Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords dblp  
  Abstract The dichromatic reflection model (DRM) predicts that color distributions form a parallelogram in color space, whose shape is defined by the body reflectance and the illuminant color. In this paper we resume the assumptions which led to the DRM and shortly recall two of its main applications domains: color image segmentation and photometric invariant feature computation. After having introduced the model we discuss several limitations of the theory, especially those which are raised once working on real-world uncalibrated images. In addition, we summerize recent extensions of the model which allow to handle more complicated light interactions. Finally, we suggest some future research directions which would further extend its applicability.  
  Address Algarve, Portugal  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher SciTePress Place of Publication Editor Mestetskiy, Leonid and Braz, José  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-989-8425-47-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference VISIGRAPP  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ WeB2011 Serial 1778  
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Author Koen E.A. van de Sande; Jasper Uilings; Theo Gevers; Arnold Smeulders edit  doi
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  Title Segmentation as Selective Search for Object Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1879-1886  
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  Abstract For object recognition, the current state-of-the-art is based on exhaustive search. However, to enable the use of more expensive features and classifiers and thereby progress beyond the state-of-the-art, a selective search strategy is needed. Therefore, we adapt segmentation as a selective search by reconsidering segmentation: We propose to generate many approximate locations over few and precise object delineations because (1) an object whose location is never generated can not be recognised and (2) appearance and immediate nearby context are most effective for object recognition. Our method is class-independent and is shown to cover 96.7% of all objects in the Pascal VOC 2007 test set using only 1,536 locations per image. Our selective search enables the use of the more expensive bag-of-words method which we use to substantially improve the state-of-the-art by up to 8.5% for 8 out of 20 classes on the Pascal VOC 2010 detection challenge.  
  Address Barcelona  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes ISE Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SUG2011 Serial 1780  
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Author Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer edit   pdf
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  Title Object Recoloring Based on Intrinsic Image Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference in Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 327 - 334  
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  Abstract Object recoloring is one of the most popular photo-editing tasks. The problem of object recoloring is highly under-constrained, and existing recoloring methods limit their application to objects lit by a white illuminant. Application of these methods to real-world scenes lit by colored illuminants, multiple illuminants, or interreflections, results in unrealistic recoloring of objects. In this paper, we focus on the recoloring of single-colored objects presegmented from their background. The single-color constraint allows us to fit a more comprehensive physical model to the object. We demonstrate that this permits us to perform realistic recoloring of objects lit by non-white illuminants, and multiple illuminants. Moreover, the model allows for more realistic handling of illuminant alteration of the scene. Recoloring results captured by uncalibrated cameras demonstrate that the proposed framework obtains realistic recoloring for complex natural images. Furthermore we use the model to transfer color between objects and show that the results are more realistic than existing color transfer methods.  
  Address Barcelona  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BeW2011 Serial 1781  
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Author Joan M. Nuñez edit   pdf
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  Title Computer vision techniques for characterization of finger joints in X-ray image Type Report
  Year (up) 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 165 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Rheumatoid arthritis, X-ray, Sharp Van der Heijde, joint characterization, sclerosis detection, bone detection, edge, ridge  
  Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory type of arthritis which mainly affects hands on its first stages. Though it is a chronic disease and there is no cure for it, treatments require an accurate assessment of illness evolution. Such assessment is based on evaluation of hand X-ray images by using one of the several available semi-quantitative methods. This task requires highly trained medical personnel. That is why the automation of the assessment would allow professionals to save time and effort. Two stages are involved in this task. Firstly, the joint detection, afterwards, the joint characterization. Unlike the little existing previous work, this contribution clearly separates those two stages and sets the foundations of a modular assessment system focusing on the characterization stage. A hand joint dataset is created and an accurate data analysis is achieved in order to identify relevant features. Since the sclerosis and the lower bone were decided to be the most important features, different computer vision techniques were used in order to develop a detector system for both of them. Joint space width measures are provided and their correlation with Sharp-Van der Heijde is verified  
  Address Bellaterra (Barcelona)  
  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor Dr. Fernando Vilariño and Dra. Debora Gil  
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  Notes MV;IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Nuñ2011 Serial 1795  
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit  openurl
  Title Implicit B-Spline Fitting Using the 3L Algorithm Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 893-896  
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  Address Brussels, Belgium  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RoS2011a; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1782  
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Author Victor Ponce; Mario Gorga; Xavier Baro; Petia Radeva; Sergio Escalera edit  url
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  Title Analisis de la Expresion Oral y Gestual en Proyectos Fin de Carrera Via un Sistema de Vision Artificial Type Miscellaneous
  Year (up) 2011 Publication Revista electronica de la asociacion de enseñantes universitarios de la informatica AENUI Abbreviated Journal ReVision  
  Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 8-18  
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  Abstract La comunicación y expresión oral es una competencia de especial relevancia en el EEES. No obstante, en muchas enseñanzas superiores la puesta en práctica de esta competencia ha sido relegada principalmente a la presentación de proyectos fin de carrera. Dentro de un proyecto de innovación docente, se ha desarrollado una herramienta informática para la extracción de información objetiva para el análisis de la expresión oral y gestual de los alumnos. El objetivo es dar un “feedback” a los estudiantes que les permita mejorar la calidad de sus presentaciones. El prototipo inicial que se presenta en este trabajo permite extraer de forma automática información audiovisual y analizarla mediante técnicas de aprendizaje. El sistema ha sido aplicado a 15 proyectos fin de carrera y 15 exposiciones dentro de una asignatura de cuarto curso. Los resultados obtenidos muestran la viabilidad del sistema para sugerir factores que ayuden tanto en el éxito de la comunicación así como en los criterios de evaluación.  
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  ISSN 1989-1199 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes MILAB;HuPBA;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PGB2011c Serial 1783  
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Author Sergio Escalera; Alicia Fornes; Oriol Pujol; Josep Llados; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Circular Blurred Shape Model for Multiclass Symbol Recognition Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part B) (IEEE) Abbreviated Journal TSMCB  
  Volume 41 Issue 2 Pages 497-506  
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  Abstract In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. The feature extraction is performed by capturing the spatial arrangement of significant object characteristics in a correlogram structure. The shape information from objects is shared among correlogram regions, where a prior blurring degree defines the level of distortion allowed in the symbol, making the descriptor tolerant to irregular deformations. Moreover, the descriptor is rotation invariant by definition. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor in both the multiclass symbol recognition and symbol detection domains. In order to perform the symbol detection, the descriptors are learned using a cascade of classifiers. In the case of multiclass categorization, the new feature space is learned using a set of binary classifiers which are embedded in an error-correcting output code design. The results over four symbol data sets show the significant improvements of the proposed descriptor compared to the state-of-the-art descriptors. In particular, the results are even more significant in those cases where the symbols suffer from elastic deformations.  
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  ISSN 1083-4419 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; DAG;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ EFP2011 Serial 1784  
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Author Javier Vazquez edit  openurl
  Title Colour Constancy in Natural Through Colour Naming and Sensor Sharpening Type Book Whole
  Year (up) 2011 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Colour is derived from three physical properties: incident light, object reflectance and sensor sensitivities. Incident light varies under natural conditions; hence, recovering scene illuminant is an important issue in computational colour. One way to deal with this problem under calibrated conditions is by following three steps, 1) building a narrow-band sensor basis to accomplish the diagonal model, 2) building a feasible set of illuminants, and 3) defining criteria to select the best illuminant. In this work we focus on colour constancy for natural images by introducing perceptual criteria in the first and third stages.
To deal with the illuminant selection step, we hypothesise that basic colour categories can be used as anchor categories to recover the best illuminant. These colour names are related to the way that the human visual system has evolved to encode relevant natural colour statistics. Therefore the recovered image provides the best representation of the scene labelled with the basic colour terms. We demonstrate with several experiments how this selection criterion achieves current state-of-art results in computational colour constancy. In addition to this result, we psychophysically prove that usual angular error used in colour constancy does not correlate with human preferences, and we propose a new perceptual colour constancy evaluation.
The implementation of this selection criterion strongly relies on the use of a diagonal
model for illuminant change. Consequently, the second contribution focuses on building an appropriate narrow-band sensor basis to represent natural images. We propose to use the spectral sharpening technique to compute a unique narrow-band basis optimised to represent a large set of natural reflectances under natural illuminants and given in the basis of human cones. The proposed sensors allow predicting unique hues and the World colour Survey data independently of the illuminant by using a compact singularity function. Additionally, we studied different families of sharp sensors to minimise different perceptual measures. This study brought us to extend the spherical sampling procedure from 3D to 6D.
Several research lines still remain open. One natural extension would be to measure the
effects of using the computed sharp sensors on the category hypothesis, while another might be to insert spatial contextual information to improve category hypothesis. Finally, much work still needs to be done to explore how individual sensors can be adjusted to the colours in a scene.
 
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  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Maria Vanrell;Graham D. Finlayson  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Vaz2011a Serial 1785  
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