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Author Ferran Diego; Jose Manuel Alvarez; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Vision-based road detection via on-line video registration Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1135–1140  
  Keywords video alignment; road detection  
  Abstract TB6.2
Road segmentation is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. Significant efforts have been made in order to solve this task using vision-based techniques. The major challenge is to deal with lighting variations and the presence of objects on the road surface. In this paper, we propose a new road detection method to infer the areas of the image depicting road surfaces without performing any image segmentation. The idea is to previously segment manually or semi-automatically the road region in a traffic-free reference video record on a first drive. And then to transfer these regions to the frames of a second video sequence acquired later in a second drive through the same road, in an on-line manner. This is possible because we are able to automatically align the two videos in time and space, that is, to synchronize them and warp each frame of the first video to its corresponding frame in the second one. The geometric transform can thus transfer the road region to the present frame on-line. In order to reduce the different lighting conditions which are present in outdoor scenarios, our approach incorporates a shadowless feature space which represents an image in an illuminant-invariant feature space. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic background subtraction algorithm which removes the regions containing vehicles in the observed frames which are within the transferred road region.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DAS2010 Serial 1424  
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Author Diego Alejandro Cheda; Daniel Ponsa; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Camera Egomotion Estimation in the ADAS Context Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 13th International IEEE Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1415–1420  
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  Abstract Camera-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have concentrated many research efforts in the last decades. Proposals based on monocular cameras require the knowledge of the camera pose with respect to the environment, in order to reach an efficient and robust performance. A common assumption in such systems is considering the road as planar, and the camera pose with respect to it as approximately known. However, in real situations, the camera pose varies along time due to the vehicle movement, the road slope, and irregularities on the road surface. Thus, the changes in the camera position and orientation (i.e., the egomotion) are critical information that must be estimated at every frame to avoid poor performances. This work focuses on egomotion estimation from a monocular camera under the ADAS context. We review and compare egomotion methods with simulated and real ADAS-like sequences. Basing on the results of our experiments, we show which of the considered nonlinear and linear algorithms have the best performance in this domain.  
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ CPL2010 Serial 1425  
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Author Jaume Amores; David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Multiple instance and active learning for weakly-supervised object-class segmentation Type Conference Article
  Year 2010 Publication 3rd IEEE International Conference on Machine Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Multiple Instance Learning; Active Learning; Object-class segmentation.  
  Abstract In object-class segmentation, one of the most tedious tasks is to manually segment many object examples in order to learn a model of the object category. Yet, there has been little research on reducing the degree of manual annotation for
object-class segmentation. In this work we explore alternative strategies which do not require full manual segmentation of the object in the training set. In particular, we study the use of bounding boxes as a coarser and much cheaper form of segmentation and we perform a comparative study of several Multiple-Instance Learning techniques that allow to obtain a model with this type of weak annotation. We show that some of these methods can be competitive, when used with coarse
segmentations, with methods that require full manual segmentation of the objects. Furthermore, we show how to use active learning combined with this weakly supervised strategy.
As we see, this strategy permits to reduce the amount of annotation and optimize the number of examples that require full manual segmentation in the training set.
 
  Address Hong-Kong  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICMV  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010b Serial 1429  
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Author Muhammad Anwer Rao; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6855 Issue II Pages 463-470  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Color  
  Abstract Camera-based person detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications. The task is diffcult because the great variety of backgrounds (scenarios, illumination) in which persons are present, as well as their intra-class variability (pose, clothe, occlusion). In fact, the class person is one of the included in the popular PASCAL visual object classes (VOC) challenge. A breakthrough for this challenge, regarding person detection, is due to Felzenszwalb et al. These authors proposed a part-based detector that relies on histograms of oriented gradients (HOG) and latent support vector machines (LatSVM) to learn a model of the whole human body and its constitutive parts, as well as their relative position. Since the approach of Felzenszwalb et al. appeared new variants have been proposed, usually giving rise to more complex models. In this paper, we focus on an issue that has not attracted suficient interest up to now. In particular, we refer to the fact that HOG is usually computed from RGB color space, but other possibilities exist and deserve the corresponding investigation. In this paper we challenge RGB space with the opponent color space (OPP), which is inspired in the human vision system.We will compute the HOG on top of OPP, then we train and test the part-based human classifer by Felzenszwalb et al. using PASCAL VOC challenge protocols and person database. Our experiments demonstrate that OPP outperforms RGB. We also investigate possible differences among types of scenarios: indoor, urban and countryside. Interestingly, our experiments suggest that the beneficts of OPP with respect to RGB mainly come for indoor and countryside scenarios, those in which the human visual system was designed by evolution.  
  Address Seville, Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Heidelberg Editor P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch  
  Language English Summary Language english Original Title Color Contribution to Part-Based Person Detection in Different Types of Scenarios  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CAIP  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RVL2011b Serial 1665  
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Author David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin edit   pdf
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  Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 393-400  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Human detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning  
  Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest due to its potential applications in fields such as advanced driving assistance, surveillance and media analysis. However, even detecting non-occluded standing humans remains a challenge of intensive research. The most promising human detectors rely on classifiers developed in the discriminative paradigm, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labeling is a manual intensive step, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, some authors have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of rendered images, i.e., using realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera, or similar ones. Accordingly, in this paper we address the challenge of using a virtual world for gathering (while playing a videogame) a large amount of automatically labelled samples (virtual humans and background) and then training a classifier that performs equal, in real-world images, than the one obtained by equally training from manually labelled real-world samples. For doing that, we cast the problem as one of domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we propose a non-standard active learning technique. Therefore, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual and real world labelled samples (Fig. 1), which has not been done before. We present quantitative results showing that this approach is valid.  
  Address Alicante, Spain  
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  Publisher ACM DL Place of Publication New York, NY, USA, USA Editor  
  Language English Summary Language English Original Title Virtual Worlds and Active Learning for Human Detection  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-0641-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICMI  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved yes  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011a Serial 1683  
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Author Naveen Onkarappa; Angel Sappa edit  doi
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  Title Space Variant Representations for Mobile Platform Vision Applications Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6855 Issue II Pages 146-154  
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  Abstract The log-polar space variant representation, motivated by biological vision, has been widely studied in the literature. Its data reduction and invariance properties made it useful in many vision applications. However, due to its nature, it fails in preserving features in the periphery. In the current work, as an attempt to overcome this problem, we propose a novel space-variant representation. It is evaluated and proved to be better than the log-polar representation in preserving the peripheral information, crucial for on-board mobile vision applications. The evaluation is performed by comparing log-polar and the proposed representation once they are used for estimating dense optical flow.  
  Address Seville, Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor P. Real, D. Diaz, H. Molina, A. Berciano, W. Kropatsch  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-23677-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CAIP  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number NaS2011; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1686  
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Author David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa; Javier Marin edit   pdf
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  Title Cool world: domain adaptation of virtual and real worlds for human detection using active learning Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication NIPS Domain Adaptation Workshop: Theory and Application Abbreviated Journal NIPS-DA  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Virtual; Domain Adaptation; Active Learning  
  Abstract Image based human detection is of paramount interest for different applications. The most promising human detectors rely on discriminatively learnt classifiers, i.e., trained with labelled samples. However, labelling is a manual intensive task, especially in cases like human detection where it is necessary to provide at least bounding boxes framing the humans for training. To overcome such problem, in Marin et al. we have proposed the use of a virtual world where the labels of the different objects are obtained automatically. This means that the human models (classifiers) are learnt using the appearance of realistic computer graphics. Later, these models are used for human detection in images of the real world. The results of this technique are surprisingly good. However, these are not always as good as the classical approach of training and testing with data coming from the same camera and the same type of scenario. Accordingly, in Vazquez et al. we cast the problem as one of supervised domain adaptation. In doing so, we assume that a small amount of manually labelled samples from real-world images is required. To collect these labelled samples we use an active learning technique. Thus, ultimately our human model is learnt by the combination of virtual- and real-world labelled samples which, to the best of our knowledge, was not done before. Here, we term such combined space cool world. In this extended abstract we summarize our proposal, and include quantitative results from Vazquez et al. showing its validity.  
  Address Granada, Spain  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Granada, Spain Editor  
  Language English Summary Language English Original Title  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference DA-NIPS  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ VLP2011b Serial 1756  
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Author Miguel Oliveira; Angel Sappa; V.Santos edit  doi
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  Title Unsupervised Local Color Correction for Coarsely Registered Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 201-208  
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  Abstract The current paper proposes a new parametric local color correction technique. Initially, several color transfer functions are computed from the output of the mean shift color segmentation algorithm. Secondly, color influence maps are calculated. Finally, the contribution of every color transfer function is merged using the weights from the color influence maps. The proposed approach is compared with both global and local color correction approaches. Results show that our method outperforms the technique ranked first in a recent performance evaluation on this topic. Moreover, the proposed approach is computed in about one tenth of the time.  
  Address Colorado Springs  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4577-0394-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ OSS2011; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1766  
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit  openurl
  Title Implicit B-Spline Fitting Using the 3L Algorithm Type Conference Article
  Year 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 (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RoS2011a; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1782  
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Author Mohammad Rouhani; Angel Sappa edit  doi
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  Title Correspondence Free Registration through a Point-to-Model Distance Minimization Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2150-2157  
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  Abstract This paper presents a novel formulation, which derives in a smooth minimization problem, to tackle the rigid registration between a given point set and a model set. Unlike most of the existing works, which are based on minimizing a point-wise correspondence term, we propose to describe the model set by means of an implicit representation. It allows a new definition of the registration error, which works beyond the point level representation. Moreover, it could be used in a gradient-based optimization framework. The proposed approach consists of two stages. Firstly, a novel formulation is proposed that relates the registration parameters with the distance between the model and data set. Secondly, the registration parameters are obtained by means of the Levengberg-Marquardt algorithm. Experimental results and comparisons with state of the art show the validity of the proposed framework.  
  Address Barcelona  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-5499 ISBN 978-1-4577-1101-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICCV  
  Notes (up) ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RoS2011b; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 1832  
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