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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; Joan Serrat; Cristina Cañero; Felipe Lumbreras edit   pdf
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  Title Robust Lane Lines Detection and Quantitative Assessment Type Conference Article
  Year 2007 Publication 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 4477 Issue Pages 274–281  
  Keywords lane markings  
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  Address Girona (Spain)  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Editor J. Marti et al  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LSC2007 Serial 881  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; Joan Serrat; Cristina Cañero; Felipe Lumbreras; T. Graf edit   pdf
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  Title Robust lane markings detection and road geometry computation Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication International Journal of Automotive Technology Abbreviated Journal IJAT  
  Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 395–407  
  Keywords lane markings  
  Abstract Detection of lane markings based on a camera sensor can be a low-cost solution to lane departure and curve-over-speed warnings. A number of methods and implementations have been reported in the literature. However, reliable detection is still an issue because of cast shadows, worn and occluded markings, variable ambient lighting conditions, for example. We focus on increasing detection reliability in two ways. First, we employed an image feature other than the commonly used edges: ridges, which we claim addresses this problem better. Second, we adapted RANSAC, a generic robust estimation method, to fit a parametric model of a pair of lane lines to the image features, based on both ridgeness and ridge orientation. In addition, the model was fitted for the left and right lane lines simultaneously to enforce a consistent result. Four measures of interest for driver assistance applications were directly computed from the fitted parametric model at each frame: lane width, lane curvature, and vehicle yaw angle and lateral offset with regard the lane medial axis. We qualitatively assessed our method in video sequences captured on several road types and under very different lighting conditions. We also quantitatively assessed it on synthetic but realistic video sequences for which road geometry and vehicle trajectory ground truth are known.  
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  Publisher The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1229-9138 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LSC2010 Serial 1300  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; Joan Serrat; J. Saludes; Cristina Cañero; Felipe Lumbreras; T. Graf edit   pdf
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  Title Ridgeness for Detecting Lane Markings Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2005 Publication 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (WIT2005), Conference Proceedings (Sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society, Germany Chapter) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords lane markings  
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  Address Hamburg (Germany)  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LSS2005 Serial 548  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; Ricardo Toledo; Joan Serrat; Juan J. Villanueva edit  openurl
  Title Extraction of vessel centerlines from 2D coronary angiographies Type Miscellaneous
  Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes. pgs. 489–496, volume I Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Bilbao  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LTS1999 Serial 14  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; W. Niessen; Joan Serrat; K. Nicolay; Bart M. Ter Haar Romeny; Juan J. Villanueva; M. Viergever edit  openurl
  Title New improvements in the multiscale analysis of trabecular bone patterns. Type Miscellaneous
  Year 2000 Publication Pattern Recognition and Applications, IOS Press, 251–260. Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LNS2000 Serial 332  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; W. Niessen; Joan Serrat; K. Nicolay; Bart M. Ter Haar Romeny; Juan J. Villanueva; M. Viergever edit  openurl
  Title New improvements in the multiscale analysis of trabecular bone patterns. Type Miscellaneous
  Year 1999 Publication Proceedings of the VIII Symposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes (SNRFAI’99), pags. 497–504 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Bilbao  
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  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ LNS1999 Serial 17  
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Author (up) Antonio Lopez; W. Niessen; Joan Serrat; K. Nikolay; B. Ter Haar Romeny; Juan J. Villanueva; M. Viergerver edit  url
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  Title New improvements in the multiscale analysis of trabecular bone patterns Type Book Chapter
  Year 2000 Publication Pattern Recognition and Applications Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 251-260  
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  Notes ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Serial 3418  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia edit  isbn
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  Title Computational Model of Visual Perception: From Colour to Form Type Book Whole
  Year 2017 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The original idea of this project was to study the role of colour in the challenging task of object recognition. We started by extending previous research on colour naming showing that it is feasible to capture colour terms through parsimonious ellipsoids. Although, the results of our model exceeded state-of-the-art in two benchmark datasets, we realised that the two phenomena of metameric lights and colour constancy must be addressed prior to any further colour processing. Our investigation of metameric pairs reached the conclusion that they are infrequent in real world scenarios. Contrary to that, the illumination of a scene often changes dramatically. We addressed this issue by proposing a colour constancy model inspired by the dynamical centre-surround adaptation of neurons in the visual cortex. This was implemented through two overlapping asymmetric Gaussians whose variances and heights are adjusted according to the local contrast of pixels. We complemented this model with a generic contrast-variant pooling mechanism that inversely connect the percentage of pooled signal to the local contrast of a region. The results of our experiments on four benchmark datasets were indeed promising: the proposed model, although simple, outperformed even learning-based approaches in many cases. Encouraged by the success of our contrast-variant surround modulation, we extended this approach to detect boundaries of objects. We proposed an edge detection model based on the first derivative of the Gaussian kernel. We incorporated four types of surround: full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation. Furthermore, we accounted for the pooling mechanism at higher cortical areas and the shape feedback sent to lower areas. Our results in three benchmark datasets showed significant improvement over non-learning algorithms.
To summarise, we demonstrated that biologically-inspired models offer promising solutions to computer vision problems, such as, colour naming, colour constancy and edge detection. We believe that the greatest contribution of this Ph.D dissertation is modelling the concept of dynamic surround modulation that shows the significance of contrast-variant surround integration. The models proposed here are grounded on only a portion of what we know about the human visual system. Therefore, it is only natural to complement them accordingly in future works.
 
  Address October 2017  
  Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis  
  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor C. Alejandro Parraga  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-945373-4-9 Medium  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ Akb2017 Serial 3019  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Colour Constancy Beyond the Classical Receptive Field Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 40 Issue 9 Pages 2081 - 2094  
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  Abstract The problem of removing illuminant variations to preserve the colours of objects (colour constancy) has already been solved by the human brain using mechanisms that rely largely on centre-surround computations of local contrast. In this paper we adopt some of these biological solutions described by long known physiological findings into a simple, fully automatic, functional model (termed Adaptive Surround Modulation or ASM). In ASM, the size of a visual neuron's receptive field (RF) as well as the relationship with its surround varies according to the local contrast within the stimulus, which in turn determines the nature of the centre-surround normalisation of cortical neurons higher up in the processing chain. We modelled colour constancy by means of two overlapping asymmetric Gaussian kernels whose sizes are adapted based on the contrast of the surround pixels, resembling the change of RF size. We simulated the contrast-dependent surround modulation by weighting the contribution of each Gaussian according to the centre-surround contrast. In the end, we obtained an estimation of the illuminant from the set of the most activated RFs' outputs. Our results on three single-illuminant and one multi-illuminant benchmark datasets show that ASM is highly competitive against the state-of-the-art and it even outperforms learning-based algorithms in one case. Moreover, the robustness of our model is more tangible if we consider that our results were obtained using the same parameters for all datasets, that is, mimicking how the human visual system operates. These results might provide an insight on how dynamical adaptation mechanisms contribute to make object's colours appear constant to us.  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2018a Serial 2990  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Feedback and Surround Modulated Boundary Detection Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV  
  Volume 126 Issue 12 Pages 1367–1380  
  Keywords Boundary detection; Surround modulation; Biologically-inspired vision  
  Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of receptive field surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on three benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2018b Serial 2991  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically plausible boundary detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication 27th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on two benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.  
  Address York; UK; September 2016  
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  Area Expedition Conference BMVC  
  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016a Serial 2867  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  openurl
  Title Dynamically Adjusted Surround Contrast Enhances Boundary Detection, European Conference on Visual Perception Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Barcelona; Spain; August 2016  
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  Area Expedition Conference ECVP  
  Notes NEUROBIT Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016b Serial 2900  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically Plausible Colour Naming Model Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP2015 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Liverpool; UK; August 2015  
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  Area Expedition Conference ECVP  
  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2015 Serial 2660  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga; Marta Exposito; Bogdan Raducanu; Xavier Otazu edit  openurl
  Title Can biological solutions help computers detect symmetry? Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 40th European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Berlin; Germany; August 2017  
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  Area Expedition Conference ECVP  
  Notes NEUROBIT Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ APE2017 Serial 2995  
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Author (up) Arash Akbarinia; Karl R. Gegenfurtner edit  doi
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  Title Metameric Mismatching in Natural and Artificial Reflectances Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Journal of Vision Abbreviated Journal JV  
  Volume 17 Issue 10 Pages 390-390  
  Keywords Metamer; colour perception; spectral discrimination; photoreceptors  
  Abstract The human visual system and most digital cameras sample the continuous spectral power distribution through three classes of receptors. This implies that two distinct spectral reflectances can result in identical tristimulus values under one illuminant and differ under another – the problem of metamer mismatching. It is still debated how frequent this issue arises in the real world, using naturally occurring reflectance functions and common illuminants.

We gathered more than ten thousand spectral reflectance samples from various sources, covering a wide range of environments (e.g., flowers, plants, Munsell chips) and evaluated their responses under a number of natural and artificial source of lights. For each pair of reflectance functions, we estimated the perceived difference using the CIE-defined distance ΔE2000 metric in Lab color space.

The degree of metamer mismatching depended on the lower threshold value l when two samples would be considered to lead to equal sensor excitations (ΔE < l), and on the higher threshold value h when they would be considered different. For example, for l=h=1, we found that 43.129 comparisons out of a total of 6×107 pairs would be considered metameric (1 in 104). For l=1 and h=5, this number reduced to 705 metameric pairs (2 in 106). Extreme metamers, for instance l=1 and h=10, were rare (22 pairs or 6 in 108), as were instances where the two members of a metameric pair would be assigned to different color categories. Not unexpectedly, we observed variations among different reflectance databases and illuminant spectra with more frequency under artificial illuminants than natural ones.

Overall, our numbers are not very different from those obtained earlier (Foster et al, JOSA A, 2006). However, our results also show that the degree of metamerism is typically not very strong and that category switches hardly ever occur.
 
  Address Florida, USA; May 2017  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; no menciona Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkG2017 Serial 2899  
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