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Author Javier Vazquez; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 38 Issue Pages 180  
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Abstract 38(Suppl.)ECVP Abstract Supplement
We developed a new psychophysical method to compare different colour appearance models when applied to natural scenes. The method was as follows: two images (processed by different algorithms) were displayed on a CRT monitor and observers were asked to select the most natural of them. The original images were gathered by means of a calibrated trichromatic digital camera and presented one on top of the other on a calibrated screen. The selection was made by pressing on a 6-button IR box, which allowed observers to consider not only the most natural but to rate their selection. The rating system allowed observers to register how much more natural was their chosen image (eg, much more, definitely more, slightly more), which gave us valuable extra information on the selection process. The results were analysed considering both the selection as a binary choice (using Thurstone's law of comparative judgement) and using Bradley-Terry method for ordinal comparison. Our results show a significant difference in the rating scales obtained. Although this method has been used in colour constancy algorithm comparisons, its uses are much wider, eg to compare algorithms of image compression, rendering, recolouring, etc.
 
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Author Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title (up) Parametric Fuzzy Sets for Automatic Color Naming Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Journal of the Optical Society of America A Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 25 Issue 10 Pages 2582–2593  
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Author Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Parametrizacion del Espacio de Categorias de Color Type Miscellaneous
Year 2007 Publication Proceedings del VIII Congreso Nacional del Color Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 77–78  
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Address Madrid (Spain)  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Naila Murray; Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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Title (up) Perception Based Representations for Computational Colour Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 6626 Issue Pages 16-30  
Keywords colour perception, induction, naming, psychophysical data, saliency, segmentation  
Abstract The perceived colour of a stimulus is dependent on multiple factors stemming out either from the context of the stimulus or idiosyncrasies of the observer. The complexity involved in combining these multiple effects is the main reason for the gap between classical calibrated colour spaces from colour science and colour representations used in computer vision, where colour is just one more visual cue immersed in a digital image where surfaces, shadows and illuminants interact seemingly out of control. With the aim to advance a few steps towards bridging this gap we present some results on computational representations of colour for computer vision. They have been developed by introducing perceptual considerations derived from the interaction of the colour of a point with its context. We show some techniques to represent the colour of a point influenced by assimilation and contrast effects due to the image surround and we show some results on how colour saliency can be derived in real images. We outline a model for automatic assignment of colour names to image points directly trained on psychophysical data. We show how colour segments can be perceptually grouped in the image by imposing shading coherence in the colour space.  
Address Milan, Italy  
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga, Alain Trémeau  
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20403-6 Medium  
Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
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Call Number Admin @ si @ VMB2011 Serial 1733  
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Author Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu edit  doi
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Title (up) Perceptual color texture codebooks for retrieving in highly diverse texture datasets Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 866–869  
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Abstract Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in a useful visual descriptor is not an obvious step. One way to combine both features is to compute texture descriptors independently on each color channel. A second way is integrate the features at a descriptor level, in this case arises the problem of normalizing both cues. A significant progress in the last years in object recognition has provided the bag-of-words framework that again deals with the problem of feature combination through the definition of vocabularies of visual words. Inspired in this framework, here we present perceptual textons that will allow to fuse color and texture at the level of p-blobs, which is our feature detection step. Feature representation is based on two uniform spaces representing the attributes of the p-blobs. The low-dimensionality of these text on spaces will allow to bypass the usual problems of previous approaches. Firstly, no need for normalization between cues; and secondly, vocabularies are directly obtained from the perceptual properties of text on spaces without any learning step. Our proposal improve current state-of-art of color-texture descriptors in an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.  
Address Istanbul (Turkey)  
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ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ ASV2010b Serial 1426  
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Author Ramon Baldrich; Ricardo Toledo; Ernest Valveny; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Perceptual Colour Image Segmentation. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2002 Publication Proceeding of the Second IASTED International Conference Visualization, Imaging and Image Proceesing VIIP 2002: 145–150. Abbreviated Journal  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BTV2002 Serial 290  
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Author Xavier Otazu; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Perceptual representation of textured images Type Journal
Year 2005 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 49(3):262–271 (IF: 0.522) Abbreviated Journal  
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Author Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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Title (up) Portmanteau Vocabularies for Multi-Cue Image Representation Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Abbreviated Journal  
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Abstract We describe a novel technique for feature combination in the bag-of-words model of image classification. Our approach builds discriminative compound words from primitive cues learned independently from training images. Our main observation is that modeling joint-cue distributions independently is more statistically robust for typical classification problems than attempting to empirically estimate the dependent, joint-cue distribution directly. We use Information theoretic vocabulary compression to find discriminative combinations of cues and the resulting vocabulary of portmanteau words is compact, has the cue binding property, and supports individual weighting of cues in the final image representation. State-of-the-art results on both the Oxford Flower-102 and Caltech-UCSD Bird-200 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique compared to other, significantly more complex approaches to multi-cue image representation  
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Author Jordi Roca; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell edit   pdf
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Title (up) Predicting categorical colour perception in successive colour constancy Type Abstract
Year 2012 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 41 Issue Pages 138  
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Abstract Colour constancy is a perceptual mechanism that seeks to keep the colour of objects relatively stable under an illumination shift. Experiments haveshown that its effects depend on the number of colours present in the scene. We
studied categorical colour changes under different adaptation states, in particular, whether the colour categories seen under a chromatically neutral illuminant are the same after a shift in the chromaticity of the illumination. To do this, we developed the chromatic setting paradigm (2011 Journal of Vision11 349), which is as an extension of achromatic setting to colour categories. The paradigm exploits the ability of subjects to reliably reproduce the most representative examples of each category, adjusting multiple test patches embedded in a coloured Mondrian. Our experiments were run on a CRT monitor (inside a dark room) under various simulated illuminants and restricting the number of colours of the Mondrian background to three, thus weakening the adaptation effect. Our results show a change in the colour categories present before (under neutral illumination) and after adaptation (under coloured illuminants) with a tendency for adapted colours to be less saturated than before adaptation. This behaviour was predicted by a simple
affine matrix model, adjusted to the chromatic setting results.
 
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Call Number Admin @ si @ RPV2012 Serial 2188  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  url
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Title (up) Psychophysical measurements to model inter-colour regions of colour-naming space Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Journal of Imaging Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal  
Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 031106 (8 pages)  
Keywords image processing; Analysis  
Abstract JCR Impact Factor 2009: 0.391
In this paper, we present a fuzzy-set of parametric functions which segment the CIE lab space into eleven regions which correspond to the group of common universal categories present in all evolved languages as identified by anthropologists and linguists. The set of functions is intended to model a color-name assignment task by humans and differs from other models in its emphasis on the inter-color boundary regions, which were explicitly measured by means of a psychophysics experiment. In our particular implementation, the CIE lab space was segmented into eleven color categories using a Triple Sigmoid as the fuzzy sets basis, whose parameters are included in this paper. The model’s parameters were adjusted according to the psychophysical results of a yes/no discrimination paradigm where observers had to choose (English) names for isoluminant colors belonging to regions in-between neighboring categories. These colors were presented on a calibrated CRT monitor (14-bit x 3 precision). The experimental results show that inter- color boundary regions are much less defined than expected and color samples other than those near the most representatives are needed to define the position and shape of boundaries between categories. The extended set of model parameters is given as a table.
 
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Author X. Binefa; Jordi Vitria; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Reconstruccion tridimensional de imagenes Microscopicas. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1992 Publication V Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes Abbreviated Journal  
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Author Francesc Tous; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich edit  openurl
Title (up) Relaxed Grey-World: Computational Colour Constancy by Surface Matching Type Book Chapter
Year 2005 Publication Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2005), LNCS 3522:192–199 Abbreviated Journal  
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Address Estoril (Portugal)  
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ TVB2005 Serial 555  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Olivier Penacchio; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
Title (up) Retinal Filtering Matches Natural Image Statistics at Low Luminance Levels Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
Volume 40 Issue Pages 96  
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Abstract The assumption that the retina’s main objective is to provide a minimum entropy representation to higher visual areas (ie efficient coding principle) allows to predict retinal filtering in space–time and colour (Atick, 1992 Network 3 213–251). This is achieved by considering the power spectra of natural images (which is proportional to 1/f2) and the suppression of retinal and image noise. However, most studies consider images within a limited range of lighting conditions (eg near noon) whereas the visual system’s spatial filtering depends on light intensity and the spatiochromatic properties of natural scenes depend of the time of the day. Here, we explore whether the dependence of visual spatial filtering on luminance match the changes in power spectrum of natural scenes at different times of the day. Using human cone-activation based naturalistic stimuli (from the Barcelona Calibrated Images Database), we show that for a range of luminance levels, the shape of the retinal CSF reflects the slope of the power spectrum at low spatial frequencies. Accordingly, the retina implements the filtering which best decorrelates the input signal at every luminance level. This result is in line with the body of work that places efficient coding as a guiding neural principle.  
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Author Naila Murray; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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Title (up) Saliency Estimation Using a Non-Parametric Low-Level Vision Model Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
Volume Issue Pages 433-440  
Keywords Gaussian mixture model;ad hoc parameter selection;center-surround inhibition windows;center-surround mechanism;color appearance model;convolution;eye-fixation data;human vision;innate spatial pooling mechanism;inverse wavelet transform;low-level visual front-end;nonparametric low-level vision model;saliency estimation;saliency map;scale integration;scale-weighted center-surround response;scale-weighting function;visual task;Gaussian processes;biology;biology computing;colour vision;computer vision;visual perception;wavelet transforms  
Abstract Many successful models for predicting attention in a scene involve three main steps: convolution with a set of filters, a center-surround mechanism and spatial pooling to construct a saliency map. However, integrating spatial information and justifying the choice of various parameter values remain open problems. In this paper we show that an efficient model of color appearance in human vision, which contains a principled selection of parameters as well as an innate spatial pooling mechanism, can be generalized to obtain a saliency model that outperforms state-of-the-art models. Scale integration is achieved by an inverse wavelet transform over the set of scale-weighted center-surround responses. The scale-weighting function (termed ECSF) has been optimized to better replicate psychophysical data on color appearance, and the appropriate sizes of the center-surround inhibition windows have been determined by training a Gaussian Mixture Model on eye-fixation data, thus avoiding ad-hoc parameter selection. Additionally, we conclude that the extension of a color appearance model to saliency estimation adds to the evidence for a common low-level visual front-end for different visual tasks.  
Address Colorado Springs  
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ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4577-0394-2 Medium  
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Call Number Admin @ si @ MVO2011 Serial 1757  
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