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	Author	Lichao Zhang; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Joost Van de Weijer; Martin Danelljan; Fahad Shahbaz Khan
	Title	Synthetic Data Generation for End-to-End Thermal Infrared Tracking			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	28	Issue	4	Pages	1837 - 1850
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	Abstract	The usage of both off-the-shelf and end-to-end trained deep networks have significantly improved the performance of visual tracking on RGB videos. However, the lack of large labeled datasets hampers the usage of convolutional neural networks for tracking in thermal infrared (TIR) images. Therefore, most state-of-the-art methods on tracking for TIR data are still based on handcrafted features. To address this problem, we propose to use image-to-image translation models. These models allow us to translate the abundantly available labeled RGB data to synthetic TIR data. We explore both the usage of paired and unpaired image translation models for this purpose. These methods provide us with a large labeled dataset of synthetic TIR sequences, on which we can train end-to-end optimal features for tracking. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to train end-to-end features for TIR tracking. We perform extensive experiments on the VOT-TIR2017 dataset. We show that a network trained on a large dataset of synthetic TIR data obtains better performance than one trained on the available real TIR data. Combining both data sources leads to further improvement. In addition, when we combine the network with motion features, we outperform the state of the art with a relative gain of over 10%, clearly showing the efficiency of using synthetic data to train end-to-end TIR trackers.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ YGW2019			Serial	3228
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	Author	Simone Balocco; Francesco Ciompi; Juan Rigla; Xavier Carrillo; Josefina Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	Assessment of intracoronary stent location and extension in intravascular ultrasound sequences			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Medical Physics	Abbreviated Journal	MEDPHYS
	Volume	46	Issue	2	Pages	484-493
	Keywords	IVUS; malapposition; stent; ultrasound
	Abstract	PURPOSE: An intraluminal coronary stent is a metal scaffold deployed in a stenotic artery during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). In order to have an effective deployment, a stent should be optimally placed with regard to anatomical structures such as bifurcations and stenoses. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a catheter-based imaging technique generally used for PCI guiding and assessing the correct placement of the stent. A novel approach that automatically detects the boundaries and the position of the stent along the IVUS pullback is presented. Such a technique aims at optimizing the stent deployment. METHODS: The method requires the identification of the stable frames of the sequence and the reliable detection of stent struts. Using these data, a measure of likelihood for a frame to contain a stent is computed. Then, a robust binary representation of the presence of the stent in the pullback is obtained applying an iterative and multiscale quantization of the signal to symbols using the Symbolic Aggregate approXimation algorithm. RESULTS: The technique was extensively validated on a set of 103 IVUS of sequences of in vivo coronary arteries containing metallic and bioabsorbable stents acquired through an international multicentric collaboration across five clinical centers. The method was able to detect the stent position with an overall F-measure of 86.4%, a Jaccard index score of 75% and a mean distance of 2.5 mm from manually annotated stent boundaries, and in bioabsorbable stents with an overall F-measure of 88.6%, a Jaccard score of 77.7 and a mean distance of 1.5 mm from manually annotated stent boundaries. Additionally, a map indicating the distance between the lumen and the stent along the pullback is created in order to show the angular sectors of the sequence in which the malapposition is present. CONCLUSIONS: Results obtained comparing the automatic results vs the manual annotation of two observers shows that the method approaches the interobserver variability. Similar performances are obtained on both metallic and bioabsorbable stents, showing the flexibility and robustness of the method.
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	Notes	MILAB; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BCR2019			Serial	3231
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	Author	Lasse Martensson; Ekta Vats; Anders Hast; Alicia Fornes
	Title	In Search of the Scribe: Letter Spotting as a Tool for Identifying Scribes in Large Handwritten Text Corpora			Type	Journal
	Year	2019	Publication	Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science	Abbreviated Journal	HUMAN IT
	Volume	14	Issue	2	Pages	95-120
	Keywords	Scribal attribution/ writer identification; digital palaeography; word spotting; mediaeval charters; mediaeval manuscripts
	Abstract	In this article, a form of the so-called word spotting-method is used on a large set of handwritten documents in order to identify those that contain script of similar execution. The point of departure for the investigation is the mediaeval Swedish manuscript Cod. Holm. D 3. The main scribe of this manuscript has yet not been identified in other documents. The current attempt aims at localising other documents that display a large degree of similarity in the characteristics of the script, these being possible candidates for being executed by the same hand. For this purpose, the method of word spotting has been employed, focusing on individual letters, and therefore the process is referred to as letter spotting in the article. In this process, a set of ‘g’:s, ‘h’:s and ‘k’:s have been selected as templates, and then a search has been made for close matches among the mediaeval Swedish charters. The search resulted in a number of charters that displayed great similarities with the manuscript D 3. The used letter spotting method thus proofed to be a very efficient sorting tool localising similar script samples.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MVH2019			Serial	3234
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	Author	Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez; M. Carmen Parafita; C. Alejandro Parraga; Markus F. Damian
	Title	Testing alternative theoretical accounts of code-switching: Insights from comparative judgments of adjective noun order			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	International journal of bilingualism: interdisciplinary studies of multilingual behaviour	Abbreviated Journal	IJB
	Volume	23	Issue	1	Pages	200-220
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	Abstract	Objectives: Spanish and English contrast in adjective–noun word order: for example, brown dress (English) vs. vestido marrón (‘dress brown’, Spanish). According to the Matrix Language model (MLF) word order in code-switched sentences must be compatible with the word order of the matrix language, but working within the minimalist program (MP), Cantone and MacSwan arrived at the descriptive generalization that the position of the noun phrase relative to the adjective is determined by the adjective’s language. Our aim is to evaluate the predictions derived from these two models regarding adjective–noun order in Spanish–English code-switched sentences. Methodology: We contrasted the predictions from both models regarding the acceptability of code-switched sentences with different adjective–noun orders that were compatible with the MP, the MLF, both, or none. Acceptability was assessed in Experiment 1 with a 5-point Likert and in Experiment 2 with a 2-Alternative Forced Choice (2AFC) task.
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	Notes	NEUROBIT; no menciona			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SPP2019			Serial	3242
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	Author	Xinhang Song; Shuqiang Jiang; Luis Herranz; Chengpeng Chen
	Title	Learning Effective RGB-D Representations for Scene Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	28	Issue	2	Pages	980-993
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	Abstract	Deep convolutional networks can achieve impressive results on RGB scene recognition thanks to large data sets such as places. In contrast, RGB-D scene recognition is still underdeveloped in comparison, due to two limitations of RGB-D data we address in this paper. The ﬁrst limitation is the lack of depth data for training deep learning models. Rather than ﬁne tuning or transferring RGB-speciﬁc features, we address this limitation by proposing an architecture and a two-step training approach that directly learns effective depth-speciﬁc features using weak supervision via patches. The resulting RGB-D model also beneﬁts from more complementary multimodal features. Another limitation is the short range of depth sensors (typically 0.5 m to 5.5 m), resulting in depth images not capturing distant objects in the scenes that RGB images can. We show that this limitation can be addressed by using RGB-D videos, where more comprehensive depth information is accumulated as the camera travels across the scenes. Focusing on this scenario, we introduce the ISIA RGB-D video data set to evaluate RGB-D scene recognition with videos. Our video recognition architecture combines convolutional and recurrent neural networks that are trained in three steps with increasingly complex data to learn effective features (i.e., patches, frames, and sequences). Our approach obtains the state-of-the-art performances on RGB-D image (NYUD2 and SUN RGB-D) and video (ISIA RGB-D) scene recognition.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ SJH2019			Serial	3247
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	Author	Thanh Ha Do; Oriol Ramos Terrades; Salvatore Tabbone
	Title	DSD: document sparse-based denoising algorithm			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Pattern Analysis and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	PAA
	Volume	22	Issue	1	Pages	177–186
	Keywords	Document denoising; Sparse representations; Sparse dictionary learning; Document degradation models
	Abstract	In this paper, we present a sparse-based denoising algorithm for scanned documents. This method can be applied to any kind of scanned documents with satisfactory results. Unlike other approaches, the proposed approach encodes noise documents through sparse representation and visual dictionary learning techniques without any prior noise model. Moreover, we propose a precision parameter estimator. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach compared to the state-of-the-art methods on document denoising.
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	Notes	DAG; 600.097; 600.140; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ DRT2019			Serial	3254
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	Author	Chris Bahnsen; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Thomas B. Moeslund
	Title	Learning to Remove Rain in Traffic Surveillance by Using Synthetic Data			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	14th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	123-130
	Keywords	Rain Removal; Traffic Surveillance; Image Denoising
	Abstract	Rainfall is a problem in automated traffic surveillance. Rain streaks occlude the road users and degrade the overall visibility which in turn decrease object detection performance. One way of alleviating this is by artificially removing the rain from the images. This requires knowledge of corresponding rainy and rain-free images. Such images are often produced by overlaying synthetic rain on top of rain-free images. However, this method fails to incorporate the fact that rain fall in the entire three-dimensional volume of the scene. To overcome this, we introduce training data from the SYNTHIA virtual world that models rain streaks in the entirety of a scene. We train a conditional Generative Adversarial Network for rain removal and apply it on traffic surveillance images from SYNTHIA and the AAU RainSnow datasets. To measure the applicability of the rain-removed images in a traffic surveillance context, we run the YOLOv2 object detection algorithm on the original and rain-removed frames. The results on SYNTHIA show an 8% increase in detection accuracy compared to the original rain image. Interestingly, we find that high PSNR or SSIM scores do not imply good object detection performance.
	Address	Praga; Czech Republic; February 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	VISIGRAPP
	Notes	ADAS; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BVL2019			Serial	3256
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	Author	W.Win; B.Bao; Q.Xu; Luis Herranz; Shuqiang Jiang
	Title	Editorial Note: Efficient Multimedia Processing Methods and Applications			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	2019	Publication	Multimedia Tools and Applications	Abbreviated Journal	MTAP
	Volume	78	Issue	1	Pages
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WBX2019			Serial	3257
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	Author	Pau Rodriguez
	Title	Towards Robust Neural Models for Fine-Grained Image Recognition			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2019	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Fine-grained recognition, i.e. identifying similar subcategories of the same superclass, is central to human activity. Recognizing a friend, finding bacteria in microscopic imagery, or discovering a new kind of galaxy, are just but few examples. However, fine-grained image recognition is still a challenging computer vision task since the differences between two images of the same category can overwhelm the differences between two images of different fine-grained categories. In this regime, where the difference between two categories resides on subtle input changes, excessively invariant CNNs discard those details that help to discriminate between categories and focus on more obvious changes, yielding poor classification performance. On the other hand, CNNs with too much capacity tend to memorize instance-specific details, thus causing overfitting. In this thesis,motivated by the potential impact of automatic fine-grained image recognition, we tackle the previous challenges and demonstrate that proper alignment of the inputs, multiple levels of attention, regularization, and explicitmodeling of the output space, results inmore accurate fine-grained recognitionmodels, that generalize better, and are more robust to intra-class variation. Concretely, we study the different stages of the neural network pipeline: input pre-processing, attention to regions, feature activations, and the label space. In each stage, we address different issues that hinder the recognition performance on various fine-grained tasks, and devise solutions in each chapter: i)We deal with the sensitivity to input alignment on fine-grained human facial motion such as pain. ii) We introduce an attention mechanism to allow CNNs to choose and process in detail the most discriminate regions of the image. iii)We further extend attention mechanisms to act on the network activations, thus allowing them to correct their predictions by looking back at certain regions, at different levels of abstraction. iv) We propose a regularization loss to prevent high-capacity neural networks to memorize instance details by means of almost-identical feature detectors. v)We finally study the advantages of explicitly modeling the output space within the error-correcting framework. As a result, in this thesis we demonstrate that attention and regularization seem promising directions to overcome the problems of fine-grained image recognition, as well as proper treatment of the input and the output space.
	Address	March 2019
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Jordi Gonzalez;Josep M. Gonfaus;Xavier Roca
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-948531-3-5	Medium
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	Notes	ISE; 600.119			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Rod2019			Serial	3258
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	Author	Xim Cerda-Company
	Title	Understanding color vision: from psychophysics to computational modeling			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2019	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	In this PhD we have approached the human color vision from two different points of view: psychophysics and computational modeling. First, we have evaluated 15 different tone-mapping operators (TMOs). We have conducted two experiments that consider two different criteria: the first one evaluates the local relationships among intensity levels and the second one evaluates the global appearance of the tonemapped imagesw.r.t. the physical one (presented side by side). We conclude that the rankings depend on the criterion and they are not correlated. Considering both criteria, the best TMOs are KimKautz (Kim and Kautz, 2008) and Krawczyk (Krawczyk, Myszkowski, and Seidel, 2005). Another conclusion is that a more standardized evaluation criteria is needed to do a fair comparison among TMOs. Secondly, we have conducted several psychophysical experiments to study the color induction. We have studied two different properties of the visual stimuli: temporal frequency and luminance spatial distribution. To study the temporal frequency we defined equiluminant stimuli composed by both uniform and striped surrounds and we flashed them varying the flash duration. For uniform surrounds, the results show that color induction depends on both the flash duration and inducer’s chromaticity. As expected, in all chromatic conditions color contrast was induced. In contrast, for striped surrounds, we expected to induce color assimilation, but we observed color contrast or no induction. Since similar but not equiluminant striped stimuli induce color assimilation, we concluded that luminance differences could be a key factor to induce color assimilation. Thus, in a subsequent study, we have studied the luminance differences’ effect on color assimilation. We varied the luminance difference between the target region and its inducers and we observed that color assimilation depends on both this difference and the inducer’s chromaticity. For red-green condition (where the first inducer is red and the second one is green), color assimilation occurs in almost all luminance conditions. Instead, for green-red condition, color assimilation never occurs. Purple-lime and lime-purple chromatic conditions show that luminance difference is a key factor to induce color assimilation. When the target is darker than its surround, color assimilation is stronger in purple-lime, while when the target is brighter, color assimilation is stronger in lime-purple (’mirroring’ effect). Moreover, we evaluated whether color assimilation is due to luminance or brightness differences. Similarly to equiluminance condition, when the stimuli are equibrightness no color assimilation is induced. Our results support the hypothesis that mutual-inhibition plays a major role in color perception, or at least in color induction. Finally, we have defined a new firing rate model of color processing in the V1 parvocellular pathway. We have modeled two different layers of this cortical area: layers 4Cb and 2/3. Our model is a recurrent dynamic computational model that considers both excitatory and inhibitory cells and their lateral connections. Moreover, it considers the existent laminar differences and the cells’ variety. Thus, we have modeled both single- and double-opponent simple cells and complex cells, which are a pool of double-opponent simple cells. A set of sinusoidal drifting gratings have been used to test the architecture. In these gratings we have varied several spatial properties such as temporal and spatial frequencies, grating’s area and orientation. To reproduce the electrophysiological observations, the architecture has to consider the existence of non-oriented double-opponent cells in layer 4Cb and the lack of lateral connections between single-opponent cells. Moreover, we have tested our lateral connections simulating the center-surround modulation and we have reproduced physiological measurements where for high contrast stimulus, the result of the lateral connections is inhibitory, while it is facilitatory for low contrast stimulus.
	Address	March 2019
	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication		Editor	Xavier Otazu
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	ISSN		ISBN	978-84-948531-4-2	Medium
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	Notes	NEUROBIT			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Cer2019			Serial	3259
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	Author	Mikhail Mozerov; Fei Yang; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Sparse Data Interpolation Using the Geodesic Distance Affinity Space			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	IEEE Signal Processing Letters	Abbreviated Journal	SPL
	Volume	26	Issue	6	Pages	943 - 947
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	Abstract	In this letter, we adapt the geodesic distance-based recursive filter to the sparse data interpolation problem. The proposed technique is general and can be easily applied to any kind of sparse data. We demonstrate its superiority over other interpolation techniques in three experiments for qualitative and quantitative evaluation. In addition, we compare our method with the popular interpolation algorithm presented in the paper on EpicFlow optical flow, which is intuitively motivated by a similar geodesic distance principle. The comparison shows that our algorithm is more accurate and considerably faster than the EpicFlow interpolation technique.
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	Notes	LAMP; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ MYW2019			Serial	3261
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	Author	Julio C. S. Jacques Junior; Cagri Ozcinar; Marina Marjanovic; Xavier Baro; Gholamreza Anbarjafari; Sergio Escalera
	Title	On the effect of age perception biases for real age regression			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Automatic age estimation from facial images represents an important task in computer vision. This paper analyses the effect of gender, age, ethnic, makeup and expression attributes of faces as sources of bias to improve deep apparent age prediction. Following recent works where it is shown that apparent age labels benefit real age estimation, rather than direct real to real age regression, our main contribution is the integration, in an end-to-end architecture, of face attributes for apparent age prediction with an additional loss for real age regression. Experimental results on the APPA-REAL dataset indicate the proposed network successfully take advantage of the adopted attributes to improve both apparent and real age estimation. Our model outperformed a state-of-the-art architecture proposed to separately address apparent and real age regression. Finally, we present preliminary results and discussion of a proof of concept application using the proposed model to regress the apparent age of an individual based on the gender of an external observer.
	Address	Lille; France; May 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	FG
	Notes	HuPBA; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ JOM2019			Serial	3262
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	Author	Bojana Gajic; Ariel Amato; Ramon Baldrich; Carlo Gatta
	Title	Bag of Negatives for Siamese Architectures			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	30th British Machine Vision Conference	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Training a Siamese architecture for re-identification with a large number of identities is a challenging task due to the difficulty of finding relevant negative samples efficiently. In this work we present Bag of Negatives (BoN), a method for accelerated and improved training of Siamese networks that scales well on datasets with a very large number of identities. BoN is an efficient and loss-independent method, able to select a bag of high quality negatives, based on a novel online hashing strategy.
	Address	Cardiff; United Kingdom; September 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	BMVC
	Notes	CIC; 600.140; 600.118			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GAB2019b			Serial	3263
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	Author	Carola Figueroa Flores; Abel Gonzalez-Garcia; Joost Van de Weijer; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Saliency for fine-grained object recognition in domains with scarce training data			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	94	Issue		Pages	62-73
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	Abstract	This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an existing CNN architecture which is used to modulate the standard bottom-up visual features from the original image input, acting as an attentional mechanism that guides the feature extraction process. The main aim of the proposed approach is to enable the effective training of a fine-grained recognition model with limited training samples and to improve the performance on the task, thereby alleviating the need to annotate a large dataset. The vast majority of saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline. Our proposed pipeline allows to evaluate saliency methods for the high-level task of object recognition. We perform extensive experiments on various fine-grained datasets (Flowers, Birds, Cars, and Dogs) under different conditions and show that saliency can considerably improve the network’s performance, especially for the case of scarce training data. Furthermore, our experiments show that saliency methods that obtain improved saliency maps (as measured by traditional saliency benchmarks) also translate to saliency methods that yield improved performance gains when applied in an object recognition pipeline.
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	Notes	LAMP; OR; 600.109; 600.141; 600.120			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FGW2019			Serial	3264
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	Author	Raul Gomez; Ali Furkan Biten; Lluis Gomez; Jaume Gibert; Marçal Rusiñol; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Selective Style Transfer for Text			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	805-812
	Keywords	transfer; text style transfer; data augmentation; scene text detection
	Abstract	This paper explores the possibilities of image style transfer applied to text maintaining the original transcriptions. Results on different text domains (scene text, machine printed text and handwritten text) and cross-modal results demonstrate that this is feasible, and open different research lines. Furthermore, two architectures for selective style transfer, which means transferring style to only desired image pixels, are proposed. Finally, scene text selective style transfer is evaluated as a data augmentation technique to expand scene text detection datasets, resulting in a boost of text detectors performance. Our implementation of the described models is publicly available.
	Address	Sydney; Australia; September 2019
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICDAR
	Notes	DAG; 600.129; 600.135; 601.338; 601.310; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	GBG2019			Serial	3265
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