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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 (down) 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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  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ CPL2010 Serial 1425  
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Author Fernando Barrera; Felipe Lumbreras; Angel Sappa edit  doi
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  Title Multimodal Template Matching based on Gradient and Mutual Information using Scale-Space Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 2749–2752  
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  Abstract This paper presents the combined use of gradient and mutual information for infrared and intensity templates matching. We propose to joint: (i) feature matching in a multiresolution context and (ii) information propagation through scale-space representations. Our method consists in combining mutual information with a shape descriptor based on gradient, and propagate them following a coarse-to-fine strategy. The main contributions of this work are: to offer a theoretical formulation towards a multimodal stereo matching; to show that gradient and mutual information can be reinforced while they are propagated between consecutive levels; and to show that they are valid cost functions in multimodal template matchings. Comparisons are presented showing the improvements and viability of the proposed approach.  
  Address Hong-Kong  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1522-4880 ISBN 978-1-4244-7992-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIP  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ BLS2010 Serial 1358  
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Author Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Vehicle geolocalization based on video synchronization Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1511–1516  
  Keywords video alignment  
  Abstract TC8.6
This paper proposes a novel method for estimating the geospatial localization of a vehicle. I uses as input a georeferenced video sequence recorded by a forward-facing camera attached to the windscreen. The core of the proposed method is an on-line video synchronization which finds out the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence to the one recorded at each time by the camera on a second drive through the same track. Once found the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence, we transfer its geospatial information of this frame. The key advantages of this method are: 1) the increase of the update rate and the geospatial accuracy with regard to a standard low-cost GPS and 2) the ability to localize a vehicle even when a GPS is not available or is not reliable enough, like in certain urban areas. Experimental results for an urban environments are presented, showing an average of relative accuracy of 1.5 meters.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DPS2010 Serial 1423  
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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 (down) 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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  ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ITSC  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DAS2010 Serial 1424  
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Author Jaume Amores edit  doi
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  Title Vocabulary-based Approaches for Multiple-Instance Data: a Comparative Study Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 4246–4250  
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  Abstract Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has become a hot topic and many different algorithms have been proposed in the last years. Despite this fact, there is a lack of comparative studies that shed light into the characteristics of the different methods and their behavior in different scenarios. In this paper we provide such an analysis. We include methods from different families, and pay special attention to vocabulary-based approaches, a new family of methods that has not received much attention in the MIL literature. The empirical comparison includes seven databases from four heterogeneous domains, implementations of eight popular MIL methods, and a study of the behavior under synthetic conditions. Based on this analysis, we show that, with an appropriate implementation, vocabulary-based approaches outperform other MIL methods in most of the cases, showing in general a more consistent performance.  
  Address Istanbul, Turkey  
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  ISSN 1051-4651 ISBN 978-1-4244-7542-1 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ Amo2010 Serial 1295  
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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 (down) 2010 Publication 3rd IEEE International Conference on Machine Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  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 ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010b Serial 1429  
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Author Javier Marin; David Vazquez; David Geronimo; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Learning Appearance in Virtual Scenarios for Pedestrian Detection Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 137–144  
  Keywords Pedestrian Detection; Domain Adaptation  
  Abstract Detecting pedestrians in images is a key functionality to avoid vehicle-to-pedestrian collisions. The most promising detectors rely on appearance-based pedestrian classifiers trained with labelled samples. This paper addresses the following question: can a pedestrian appearance model learnt in virtual scenarios work successfully for pedestrian detection in real images? (Fig. 1). Our experiments suggest a positive answer, which is a new and relevant conclusion for research in pedestrian detection. More specifically, we record training sequences in virtual scenarios and then appearance-based pedestrian classifiers are learnt using HOG and linear SVM. We test such classifiers in a publicly available dataset provided by Daimler AG for pedestrian detection benchmarking. This dataset contains real world images acquired from a moving car. The obtained result is compared with the one given by a classifier learnt using samples coming from real images. The comparison reveals that, although virtual samples were not specially selected, both virtual and real based training give rise to classifiers of similar performance.  
  Address San Francisco; CA; USA; June 2010  
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  Language English Summary Language English Original Title Learning Appearance in Virtual Scenarios for Pedestrian Detection  
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  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ MVG2010 Serial 1304  
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Author Jose Carlos Rubio; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez; Daniel Ponsa edit   pdf
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  Title Multiple-target tracking for the intelligent headlights control Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 903–910  
  Keywords Intelligent Headlights  
  Abstract TA7.4
Intelligent vehicle lighting systems aim at automatically regulating the headlights' beam to illuminate as much of the road ahead as possible while avoiding dazzling other drivers. A key component of such a system is computer vision software that is able to distinguish blobs due to vehicles' headlights and rear lights from those due to road lamps and reflective elements such as poles and traffic signs. In a previous work, we have devised a set of specialized supervised classifiers to make such decisions based on blob features related to its intensity and shape. Despite the overall good performance, there remain challenging that have yet to be solved: notably, faint and tiny blobs corresponding to quite distant vehicles. In fact, for such distant blobs, classification decisions can be taken after observing them during a few frames. Hence, incorporating tracking could improve the overall lighting system performance by enforcing the temporal consistency of the classifier decision. Accordingly, this paper focuses on the problem of constructing blob tracks, which is actually one of multiple-target tracking (MTT), but under two special conditions: We have to deal with frequent occlusions, as well as blob splits and merges. We approach it in a novel way by formulating the problem as a maximum a posteriori inference on a Markov random field. The qualitative (in video form) and quantitative evaluation of our new MTT method shows good tracking results. In addition, we will also see that the classification performance of the problematic blobs improves due to the proposed MTT algorithm.
 
  Address Madeira Island (Portugal)  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ RSL2010 Serial 1422  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Felipe Lumbreras; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Geographic Information for vision-based Road Detection Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 621–626  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Road detection is a vital task for the development of autonomous vehicles. The knowledge of the free road surface ahead of the target vehicle can be used for autonomous driving, road departure warning, as well as to support advanced driver assistance systems like vehicle or pedestrian detection. Using vision to detect the road has several advantages in front of other sensors: richness of features, easy integration, low cost or low power consumption. Common vision-based road detection approaches use low-level features (such as color or texture) as visual cues to group pixels exhibiting similar properties. However, it is difficult to foresee a perfect clustering algorithm since roads are in outdoor scenarios being imaged from a mobile platform. In this paper, we propose a novel high-level approach to vision-based road detection based on geographical information. The key idea of the algorithm is exploiting geographical information to provide a rough detection of the road. Then, this segmentation is refined at low-level using color information to provide the final result. The results presented show the validity of our approach.  
  Address San Diego; CA; USA  
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  Area Expedition Conference IV  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ ALG2010 Serial 1428  
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Author Jose Manuel Alvarez; Theo Gevers; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title 3D Scene Priors for Road Detection Type Conference Article
  Year (down) 2010 Publication 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 57–64  
  Keywords road detection  
  Abstract Vision-based road detection is important in different areas of computer vision such as autonomous driving, car collision warning and pedestrian crossing detection. However, current vision-based road detection methods are usually based on low-level features and they assume structured roads, road homogeneity, and uniform lighting conditions. Therefore, in this paper, contextual 3D information is used in addition to low-level cues. Low-level photometric invariant cues are derived from the appearance of roads. Contextual cues used include horizon lines, vanishing points, 3D scene layout and 3D road stages. Moreover, temporal road cues are included. All these cues are sensitive to different imaging conditions and hence are considered as weak cues. Therefore, they are combined to improve the overall performance of the algorithm. To this end, the low-level, contextual and temporal cues are combined in a Bayesian framework to classify road sequences. Large scale experiments on road sequences show that the road detection method is robust to varying imaging conditions, road types, and scenarios (tunnels, urban and highway). Further, using the combined cues outperforms all other individual cues. Finally, the proposed method provides highest road detection accuracy when compared to state-of-the-art methods.  
  Address San Francisco; CA; USA; June 2010  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1063-6919 ISBN 978-1-4244-6984-0 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CVPR  
  Notes ADAS;ISE Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ AGL2010a Serial 1302  
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