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Maria Salamo; Sergio Escalera |
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Increasing Retrieval Quality in Conversational Recommenders |
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2011 |
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering |
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IF JCR CCIA 2.286 2009 24/103
JCR Impact Factor 2010: 1.851
A major task of research in conversational recommender systems is personalization. Critiquing is a common and powerful form of feedback, where a user can express her feature preferences by applying a series of directional critiques over the recommendations instead of providing specific preference values. Incremental Critiquing is a conversational recommender system that uses critiquing as a feedback to efficiently personalize products. The expectation is that in each cycle the system retrieves the products that best satisfy the user’s soft product preferences from a minimal information input. In this paper, we present a novel technique that increases retrieval quality based on a combination of compatibility and similarity scores. Under the hypothesis that a user learns Turing the recommendation process, we propose two novel exponential reinforcement learning approaches for compatibility that take into account both the instant at which the user makes a critique and the number of satisfied critiques. Moreover, we consider that the impact of features on the similarity differs according to the preferences manifested by the user. We propose a global weighting approach that uses a common weight for nearest cases in order to focus on groups of relevant products. We show that our methodology significantly improves recommendation efficiency in four data sets of different sizes in terms of session length in comparison with state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, our recommender shows higher robustness against noisy user data when compared to classical approaches |
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MILAB; HuPBA |
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Admin @ si @ SaE2011 |
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Sergio Escalera |
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Multi-Modal Human Behaviour Analysis from Visual Data Sources |
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2013 |
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ERCIM News journal |
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The Human Pose Recovery and Behaviour Analysis group (HuPBA), University of Barcelona, is developing a line of research on multi-modal analysis of humans in visual data. The novel technology is being applied in several scenarios with high social impact, including sign language recognition, assisted technology and supported diagnosis for the elderly and people with mental/physical disabilities, fitness conditioning, and Human Computer Interaction. |
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Admin @ si @ Esc2013 |
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Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Puig |
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Iterative Multiclass Multiscale Stacked Sequential Learning: definition and application to medical volume segmentation |
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2014 |
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Pattern Recognition Letters |
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Machine learning; Sequential learning; Multi-class problems; Contextual learning; Medical volume segmentation |
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In this work we present the iterative multi-class multi-scale stacked sequential learning framework (IMMSSL), a novel learning scheme that is particularly suited for medical volume segmentation applications. This model exploits the inherent voxel contextual information of the structures of interest in order to improve its segmentation performance results. Without any feature set or learning algorithm prior assumption, the proposed scheme directly seeks to learn the contextual properties of a region from the predicted classifications of previous classifiers within an iterative scheme. Performance results regarding segmentation accuracy in three two-class and multi-class medical volume datasets show a significant improvement with respect to state of the art alternatives. Due to its easiness of implementation and its independence of feature space and learning algorithm, the presented machine learning framework could be taken into consideration as a first choice in complex volume segmentation scenarios. |
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Admin @ si @ SEP2014 |
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Meysam Madadi; Sergio Escalera; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca; Felipe Lumbreras |
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Multi-part body segmentation based on depth maps for soft biometry analysis |
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2015 |
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Pattern Recognition Letters |
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3D shape context; 3D point cloud alignment; Depth maps; Human body segmentation; Soft biometry analysis |
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This paper presents a novel method extracting biometric measures using depth sensors. Given a multi-part labeled training data, a new subject is aligned to the best model of the dataset, and soft biometrics such as lengths or circumference sizes of limbs and body are computed. The process is performed by training relevant pose clusters, defining a representative model, and fitting a 3D shape context descriptor within an iterative matching procedure. We show robust measures by applying orthogonal plates to body hull. We test our approach in a novel full-body RGB-Depth data set, showing accurate estimation of soft biometrics and better segmentation accuracy in comparison with random forest approach without requiring large training data. |
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HuPBA; ISE; ADAS; 600.076;600.049; 600.063; 600.054; 302.018;MILAB |
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Admin @ si @ MEG2015 |
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Frederic Sampedro; Sergio Escalera; Anna Domenech; Ignasi Carrio |
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A computational framework for cancer response assessment based on oncological PET-CT scans |
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2014 |
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Computers in Biology and Medicine |
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Computer aided diagnosis; Nuclear medicine; Machine learning; Image processing; Quantitative analysis |
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In this work we present a comprehensive computational framework to help in the clinical assessment of cancer response from a pair of time consecutive oncological PET-CT scans. In this scenario, the design and implementation of a supervised machine learning system to predict and quantify cancer progression or response conditions by introducing a novel feature set that models the underlying clinical context is described. Performance results in 100 clinical cases (corresponding to 200 whole body PET-CT scans) in comparing expert-based visual analysis and classifier decision making show up to 70% accuracy within a completely automatic pipeline and 90% accuracy when providing the system with expert-guided PET tumor segmentation masks. |
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