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	Author	Alejandro Cartas; Jordi Luque; Petia Radeva; Carlos Segura; Mariella Dimiccoli
	Title	Seeing and Hearing Egocentric Actions: How Much Can We Learn?			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4470-4480
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	Abstract	Our interaction with the world is an inherently multimodal experience. However, the understanding of human-to-object interactions has historically been addressed focusing on a single modality. In particular, a limited number of works have considered to integrate the visual and audio modalities for this purpose. In this work, we propose a multimodal approach for egocentric action recognition in a kitchen environment that relies on audio and visual information. Our model combines a sparse temporal sampling strategy with a late fusion of audio, spatial, and temporal streams. Experimental results on the EPIC-Kitchens dataset show that multimodal integration leads to better performance than unimodal approaches. In particular, we achieved a 5.18% improvement over the state of the art on verb classification.
	Address	Seul; Korea; October 2019
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICCVW
	Notes	MILAB; no proj			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CLR2019b			Serial	3385
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	Author	Fahad Shahbaz Khan; Jiaolong Xu; Muhammad Anwer Rao; Joost Van de Weijer; Andrew Bagdanov; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Recognizing Actions through Action-specific Person Detection			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal	TIP
	Volume	24	Issue	11	Pages	4422-4432
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	Abstract	Action recognition in still images is a challenging problem in computer vision. To facilitate comparative evaluation independently of person detection, the standard evaluation protocol for action recognition uses an oracle person detector to obtain perfect bounding box information at both training and test time. The assumption is that, in practice, a general person detector will provide candidate bounding boxes for action recognition. In this paper, we argue that this paradigm is suboptimal and that action class labels should already be considered during the detection stage. Motivated by the observation that body pose is strongly conditioned on action class, we show that: 1) the existing state-of-the-art generic person detectors are not adequate for proposing candidate bounding boxes for action classification; 2) due to limited training examples, the direct training of action-specific person detectors is also inadequate; and 3) using only a small number of labeled action examples, the transfer learning is able to adapt an existing detector to propose higher quality bounding boxes for subsequent action classification. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate transfer learning for the task of action-specific person detection in still images. We perform extensive experiments on two benchmark data sets: 1) Stanford-40 and 2) PASCAL VOC 2012. For the action detection task (i.e., both person localization and classification of the action performed), our approach outperforms methods based on general person detection by 5.7% mean average precision (MAP) on Stanford-40 and 2.1% MAP on PASCAL VOC 2012. Our approach also significantly outperforms the state of the art with a MAP of 45.4% on Stanford-40 and 31.4% on PASCAL VOC 2012. We also evaluate our action detection approach for the task of action classification (i.e., recognizing actions without localizing them). For this task, our approach, without using any ground-truth person localization at test tim- , outperforms on both data sets state-of-the-art methods, which do use person locations.
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	ISSN	1057-7149	ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ADAS; LAMP; 600.076; 600.079			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ KXR2015			Serial	2668
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	Author	Jose Manuel Alvarez; Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
	Title	Automatic Ground-truthing using video registration for on-board detection algorithms			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2009	Publication	16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4389 - 4392
	Keywords
	Abstract	Ground-truth data is essential for the objective evaluation of object detection methods in computer vision. Many works claim their method is robust but they support it with experiments which are not quantitatively assessed with regard some ground-truth. This is one of the main obstacles to properly evaluate and compare such methods. One of the main reasons is that creating an extensive and representative ground-truth is very time consuming, specially in the case of video sequences, where thousands of frames have to be labelled. Could such a ground-truth be generated, at least in part, automatically? Though it may seem a contradictory question, we show that this is possible for the case of video sequences recorded from a moving camera. The key idea is transferring existing frame segmentations from a reference sequence into another video sequence recorded at a different time on the same track, possibly under a different ambient lighting. We have carried out experiments on several video sequence pairs and quantitatively assessed the precision of the transformed ground-truth, which prove that our approach is not only feasible but also quite accurate.
	Address	Cairo, Egypt
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	ISSN	1522-4880	ISBN	978-1-4244-5653-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIP
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ ADS2009			Serial	1201
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	Author	Idoia Ruiz; Joan Serrat
	Title	Hierarchical Novelty Detection for Traffic Sign Recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2022	Publication	Sensors	Abbreviated Journal	SENS
	Volume	22	Issue	12	Pages	4389
	Keywords	Novelty detection; hierarchical classification; deep learning; traffic sign recognition; autonomous driving; computer vision
	Abstract	Recent works have made significant progress in novelty detection, i.e., the problem of detecting samples of novel classes, never seen during training, while classifying those that belong to known classes. However, the only information this task provides about novel samples is that they are unknown. In this work, we leverage hierarchical taxonomies of classes to provide informative outputs for samples of novel classes. We predict their closest class in the taxonomy, i.e., its parent class. We address this problem, known as hierarchical novelty detection, by proposing a novel loss, namely Hierarchical Cosine Loss that is designed to learn class prototypes along with an embedding of discriminative features consistent with the taxonomy. We apply it to traffic sign recognition, where we predict the parent class semantics for new types of traffic signs. Our model beats state-of-the art approaches on two large scale traffic sign benchmarks, Mapillary Traffic Sign Dataset (MTSD) and Tsinghua-Tencent 100K (TT100K), and performs similarly on natural images benchmarks (AWA2, CUB). For TT100K and MTSD, our approach is able to detect novel samples at the correct nodes of the hierarchy with 81% and 36% of accuracy, respectively, at 80% known class accuracy.
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	Notes	ADAS; 600.154			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RuS2022			Serial	3684
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	Author	Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Sabari Nathan; Priya Kansal; Armin Mehri; Parichehr Behjati Ardakani; A.Dalal; A.Akula; D.Sharma; S.Pandey; B.Kumar; J.Yao; R.Wu; KFeng; N.Li; Y.Zhao; H.Patel; V. Chudasama; K.Pjajapati; A.Sarvaiya; K.Upla; K.Raja; R.Ramachandra; C.Bush; F.Almasri; T.Vandamme; O.Debeir; N.Gutierrez; Q.Nguyen; W.Beksi
	Title	Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge – PBVS 2021			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2021	Publication	Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4359-4367
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	Abstract	This paper presents results from the second Thermal Image Super-Resolution (TISR) challenge organized in the framework of the Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS) 2021 workshop. For this second edition, the same thermal image dataset considered during the first challenge has been used; only mid-resolution (MR) and high-resolution (HR) sets have been considered. The dataset consists of 951 training images and 50 testing images for each resolution. A set of 20 images for each resolution is kept aside for evaluation. The two evaluation methodologies proposed for the first challenge are also considered in this opportunity. The first evaluation task consists of measuring the PSNR and SSIM between the obtained SR image and the corresponding ground truth (i.e., the HR thermal image downsampled by four). The second evaluation also consists of measuring the PSNR and SSIM, but in this case, considers the x2 SR obtained from the given MR thermal image; this evaluation is performed between the SR image with respect to the semi-registered HR image, which has been acquired with another camera. The results outperformed those from the first challenge, thus showing an improvement in both evaluation metrics.
	Address	Virtual; June 2021
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CVPRW
	Notes	MSIAU; 600.130; 600.122			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ RSV2021			Serial	3581
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	Author	Claudio Baecchi; Francesco Turchini; Lorenzo Seidenari; Andrew Bagdanov; Alberto del Bimbo
	Title	Fisher vectors over random density forest for object recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2014	Publication	22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4328-4333
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	Address	Stockholm; Sweden; August 2014
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	LAMP; 600.079			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BTS2014			Serial	2518
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	Author	Susana Alvarez; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Texton theory revisited: a bag-of-words approach to combine textons			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2012	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	45	Issue	12	Pages	4312-4325
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	Abstract	The aim of this paper is to revisit an old theory of texture perception and update its computational implementation by extending it to colour. With this in mind we try to capture the optimality of perceptual systems. This is achieved in the proposed approach by sharing well-known early stages of the visual processes and extracting low-dimensional features that perfectly encode adequate properties for a large variety of textures without needing further learning stages. We propose several descriptors in a bag-of-words framework that are derived from different quantisation models on to the feature spaces. Our perceptual features are directly given by the shape and colour attributes of image blobs, which are the textons. In this way we avoid learning visual words and directly build the vocabularies on these lowdimensionaltexton spaces. Main differences between proposed descriptors rely on how co-occurrence of blob attributes is represented in the vocabularies. Our approach overcomes current state-of-art in colour texture description which is proved in several experiments on large texture datasets.
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	ISSN	0031-3203	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ AlV2012a			Serial	2130
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	Author	Ali Furkan Biten; R. Tito; Andres Mafla; Lluis Gomez; Marçal Rusiñol; C.V. Jawahar; Ernest Valveny; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Scene Text Visual Question Answering			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2019	Publication	18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4291-4301
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	Abstract	Current visual question answering datasets do not consider the rich semantic information conveyed by text within an image. In this work, we present a new dataset, ST-VQA, that aims to highlight the importance of exploiting highlevel semantic information present in images as textual cues in the Visual Question Answering process. We use this dataset to define a series of tasks of increasing difficulty for which reading the scene text in the context provided by the visual information is necessary to reason and generate an appropriate answer. We propose a new evaluation metric for these tasks to account both for reasoning errors as well as shortcomings of the text recognition module. In addition we put forward a series of baseline methods, which provide further insight to the newly released dataset, and set the scene for further research.
	Address	Seul; Corea; October 2019
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICCV
	Notes	DAG; 600.129; 600.135; 601.338; 600.121			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BTM2019b			Serial	3285
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	Author	Jaume Amores
	Title	Vocabulary-based Approaches for Multiple-Instance Data: a Comparative Study			Type	Conference Article
	Year	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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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	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	Xavier Perez Sala; Sergio Escalera; Cecilio Angulo; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	A survey on model based approaches for 2D and 3D visual human pose recovery			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2014	Publication	Sensors	Abbreviated Journal	SENS
	Volume	14	Issue	3	Pages	4189-4210
	Keywords	human pose recovery; human body modelling; behavior analysis; computer vision
	Abstract	Human Pose Recovery has been studied in the field of Computer Vision for the last 40 years. Several approaches have been reported, and significant improvements have been obtained in both data representation and model design. However, the problem of Human Pose Recovery in uncontrolled environments is far from being solved. In this paper, we define a general taxonomy to group model based approaches for Human Pose Recovery, which is composed of five main modules: appearance, viewpoint, spatial relations, temporal consistence, and behavior. Subsequently, a methodological comparison is performed following the proposed taxonomy, evaluating current SoA approaches in the aforementioned five group categories. As a result of this comparison, we discuss the main advantages and drawbacks of the reviewed literature.
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	Notes	HuPBA; ISE; 600.046; 600.063; 600.078;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ PEA2014			Serial	2443
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	Author	R. de Nijs; Sebastian Ramos; Gemma Roig; Xavier Boix; Luc Van Gool; K. Kühnlenz.
	Title	On-line Semantic Perception Using Uncertainty			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2012	Publication	International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems	Abbreviated Journal	IROS
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4185-4191
	Keywords	Semantic Segmentation
	Abstract	Visual perception capabilities are still highly unreliable in unconstrained settings, and solutions might not beaccurate in all regions of an image. Awareness of the uncertainty of perception is a fundamental requirement for proper high level decision making in a robotic system. Yet, the uncertainty measure is often sacrificed to account for dependencies between object/region classifiers. This is the case of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), the success of which stems from their ability to infer the most likely world configuration, but they do not directly allow to estimate the uncertainty of the solution. In this paper, we consider the setting of assigning semantic labels to the pixels of an image sequence. Instead of using a CRF, we employ a Perturb-and-MAP Random Field, a recently introduced probabilistic model that allows performing fast approximate sampling from its probability density function. This allows to effectively compute the uncertainty of the solution, indicating the reliability of the most likely labeling in each region of the image. We report results on the CamVid dataset, a standard benchmark for semantic labeling of urban image sequences. In our experiments, we show the benefits of exploiting the uncertainty by putting more computational effort on the regions of the image that are less reliable, and use more efficient techniques for other regions, showing little decrease of performance
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	IROS
	Notes	ADAS			Approved	no
	Call Number	ADAS @ adas @ NRR2012			Serial	2378
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	Author	M. Campos-Taberner; Adriana Romero; Carlo Gatta; Gustavo Camps-Valls
	Title	Shared feature representations of LiDAR and optical images: Trading sparsity for semantic discrimination			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS2015	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	4169 - 4172
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	Abstract	This paper studies the level of complementary information conveyed by extremely high resolution LiDAR and optical images. We pursue this goal following an indirect approach via unsupervised spatial-spectral feature extraction. We used a recently presented unsupervised convolutional neural network trained to enforce both population and lifetime spar-sity in the feature representation. We derived independent and joint feature representations, and analyzed the sparsity scores and the discriminative power. Interestingly, the obtained results revealed that the RGB+LiDAR representation is no longer sparse, and the derived basis functions merge color and elevation yielding a set of more expressive colored edge filters. The joint feature representation is also more discriminative when used for clustering and topological data visualization.
	Address	Milan; Italy; July 2015
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	IGARSS
	Notes	LAMP; 600.079;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ CRG2015			Serial	2724
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	Author	Joan Mas; Josep Llados; Gemma Sanchez; J.A. Jorge
	Title	A syntactic approach based on distortion-tolerant Adjacency Grammars and a spatial-directed parser to interpret sketched diagrams			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	12	Pages	4148–4164
	Keywords	Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Symbol recognition; Diagram understanding; Sketched diagrams; Adjacency Grammars; Incremental parsing; Spatial directed parsing
	Abstract	This paper presents a syntactic approach based on Adjacency Grammars (AG) for sketch diagram modeling and understanding. Diagrams are a combination of graphical symbols arranged according to a set of spatial rules defined by a visual language. AG describe visual shapes by productions defined in terms of terminal and non-terminal symbols (graphical primitives and subshapes), and a set functions describing the spatial arrangements between symbols. Our approach to sketch diagram understanding provides three main contributions. First, since AG are linear grammars, there is a need to define shapes and relations inherently bidimensional using a sequential formalism. Second, our parsing approach uses an indexing structure based on a spatial tessellation. This serves to reduce the search space when finding candidates to produce a valid reduction. This allows order-free parsing of 2D visual sentences while keeping combinatorial explosion in check. Third, working with sketches requires a distortion model to cope with the natural variations of hand drawn strokes. To this end we extended the basic grammar with a distortion measure modeled on the allowable variation on spatial constraints associated with grammar productions. Finally, the paper reports on an experimental framework an interactive system for sketch analysis. User tests performed on two real scenarios show that our approach is usable in interactive settings.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ MLS2010			Serial	1336
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	Author	Umapada Pal; Partha Pratim Roy; N. Tripathya; Josep Llados
	Title	Multi-oriented Bangla and Devnagari text recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	12	Pages	4124–4136
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	Abstract	There are printed complex documents where text lines of a single page may have different orientations or the text lines may be curved in shape. As a result, it is difficult to detect the skew of such documents and hence character segmentation and recognition of such documents are a complex task. In this paper, using background and foreground information we propose a novel scheme towards the recognition of Indian complex documents of Bangla and Devnagari script. In Bangla and Devnagari documents usually characters in a word touch and they form cavity regions. To take care of these cavity regions, background information of such documents is used. Convex hull and water reservoir principle have been applied for this purpose. Here, at first, the characters are segmented from the documents using the background information of the text. Next, individual characters are recognized using rotation invariant features obtained from the foreground part of the characters. For character segmentation, at first, writing mode of a touching component (word) is detected using water reservoir principle based features. Next, depending on writing mode and the reservoir base-region of the touching component, a set of candidate envelope points is then selected from the contour points of the component. Based on these candidate points, the touching component is finally segmented into individual characters. For recognition of multi-sized/multi-oriented characters the features are computed from different angular information obtained from the external and internal contour pixels of the characters. These angular information are computed in such a way that they do not depend on the size and rotation of the characters. Circular and convex hull rings have been used to divide a character into smaller zones to get zone-wise features for higher recognition results. We combine circular and convex hull features to improve the results and these features are fed to support vector machines (SVM) for recognition. From our experiment we obtained recognition results of 99.18% (98.86%) accuracy when tested on 7515 (7874) Devnagari (Bangla) characters.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ PRT2010			Serial	1337
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	Author	Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Determining the Best Suited Semantic Events for Cognitive Surveillance			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2011	Publication	Expert Systems with Applications	Abbreviated Journal	EXSY
	Volume	38	Issue	4	Pages	4068–4079
	Keywords	Cognitive surveillance; Event modeling; Content-based video retrieval; Ontologies; Advanced user interfaces
	Abstract	State-of-the-art systems on cognitive surveillance identify and describe complex events in selected domains, thus providing end-users with tools to easily access the contents of massive video footage. Nevertheless, as the complexity of events increases in semantics and the types of indoor/outdoor scenarios diversify, it becomes difficult to assess which events describe better the scene, and how to model them at a pixel level to fulfill natural language requests. We present an ontology-based methodology that guides the identification, step-by-step modeling, and generalization of the most relevant events to a specific domain. Our approach considers three steps: (1) end-users provide textual evidence from surveilled video sequences; (2) transcriptions are analyzed top-down to build the knowledge bases for event description; and (3) the obtained models are used to generalize event detection to different image sequences from the surveillance domain. This framework produces user-oriented knowledge that improves on existing advanced interfaces for video indexing and retrieval, by determining the best suited events for video understanding according to end-users. We have conducted experiments with outdoor and indoor scenes showing thefts, chases, and vandalism, demonstrating the feasibility and generalization of this proposal.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FBR2011a			Serial	1722
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