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| Author | Julien Poujol; Cristhian A. Aguilera; Etienne Danos; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Angel D. Sappa | ||||
| Title | A visible-Thermal Fusion based Monocular Visual Odometry | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2015), International Conference on, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 417 | Issue | Pages | 517-528 | |
| Keywords | Monocular Visual Odometry; LWIR-RGB cross-spectral Imaging; Image Fusion | ||||
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The manuscript evaluates the performance of a monocular visual odometry approach when images from different spectra are considered, both independently and fused. The objective behind this evaluation is to analyze if classical approaches can be improved when the given images, which are from different spectra, are fused and represented in new domains. The images in these new domains should have some of the following properties: i) more robust to noisy data; ii) less sensitive to changes (e.g., lighting); iii) more rich in descriptive information, among other. In particular in the current work two different image fusion strategies are considered. Firstly, images from the visible and thermal spectrum are fused using a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) approach. Secondly, a monochrome threshold strategy is considered. The obtained representations are evaluated under a visual odometry framework, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, using different urban and semi-urban scenarios. Comparisons with both monocular-visible spectrum and monocular-infrared spectrum, are also provided showing the validity of the proposed approach. | ||||
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 44 | ||
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| Author | Ricaurte P; Chilán C; Cristhian A. Aguilera; Boris X. Vintimilla; Angel D. Sappa | ||||
| Title | Feature Point Descriptors: Infrared and Visible Spectra | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2014 | Publication | Sensors Journal | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Vol. 14 | Issue | Pages | pp. 3690-3701 | |
| Keywords | cross-spectral imaging; feature point descriptors | ||||
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This manuscript evaluates the behavior of classical feature point descriptors when they are used in images from long-wave infrared spectral band and compare them with the results obtained in the visible spectrum. Robustness to changes in rotation, scaling, blur, and additive noise are analyzed using a state of the art framework. Experimental results using a cross-spectral outdoor image data set are presented and conclusions from these experiments are given. | ||||
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 28 | ||
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| Author | Angel D. Sappa; Cristhian A. Aguilera; Juan A. Carvajal Ayala; Miguel Oliveira; Dennis Romero; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo | ||||
| Title | Monocular visual odometry: a cross-spectral image fusion based approach | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Vol. 86 | Issue | Pages | pp. 26-36 | |
| Keywords | Monocular visual odometry LWIR-RGB cross-spectral imaging Image fusion | ||||
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This manuscript evaluates the usage of fused cross-spectral images in a monocular visual odometry approach. Fused images are obtained through a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) scheme, where the best setup is em- pirically obtained by means of a mutual information based evaluation met- ric. The objective is to have a exible scheme where fusion parameters are adapted according to the characteristics of the given images. Visual odom- etry is computed from the fused monocular images using an off the shelf approach. Experimental results using data sets obtained with two different platforms are presented. Additionally, comparison with a previous approach as well as with monocular-visible/infrared spectra are also provided showing the advantages of the proposed scheme. | ||||
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| Language | Enlgish | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 54 | ||
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| Author | Dennis G. Romero; A. F. Neto; T. F. Bastos; Boris X. Vintimilla | ||||
| Title | An approach to automatic assistance in physiotherapy based on on-line movement identification. | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | VI Andean Region International Conference – ANDESCON 2012 | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | patient rehabilitation, patient treatment, statistical analysis | ||||
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This paper describes a method for on-line movement identification, oriented to patient’s movement evaluation during physiotherapy. An analysis based on Mahalanobis distance between temporal windows is performed to identify the “idle/motion” state, which defines the beginning and end of the patient’s movement, for posterior patterns extraction based on Relative Wavelet Energy from sequences of invariant moments. | ||||
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| Publisher | IEEE | Place of Publication | Andean Region International Conference (ANDESCON), 2012 VI | Editor | |
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 24 | ||
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| Author | Angel D. Sappa; Juan A. Carvajal; Cristhian A. Aguilera; Miguel Oliveira; Dennis G. Romero; Boris X. Vintimilla | ||||
| Title | Wavelet-Based Visible and Infrared Image Fusion: A Comparative Study | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2016 | Publication | Sensors Journal | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Vol. 16 | Issue | Pages | pp. 1-15 | |
| Keywords | image fusion; fusion evaluation metrics; visible and infrared imaging; discrete wavelet transform | ||||
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This paper evaluates different wavelet-based cross-spectral image fusion strategies adopted to merge visible and infrared images. The objective is to find the best setup independently of the evaluation metric used to measure the performance. Quantitative performance results are obtained with state of the art approaches together with adaptations proposed in the current work. The options evaluated in the current work result from the combination of different setups in the wavelet image decomposition stage together with different fusion strategies for the final merging stage that generates the resulting representation. Most of the approaches evaluate results according to the application for which they are intended for. Sometimes a human observer is selected to judge the quality of the obtained results. In the current work, quantitative values are considered in order to find correlations between setups and performance of obtained results; these correlations can be used to define a criteria for selecting the best fusion strategy for a given pair of cross-spectral images. The whole procedure is evaluated with a large set of correctly registered visible and infrared image pairs, including both Near InfraRed (NIR) and LongWave InfraRed (LWIR). | ||||
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 47 | ||
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| Author | Nayeth I. Solorzano Alcivar, Robert Loor, Stalyn Gonzabay Yagual, & Boris X. Vintimilla | ||||
| Title | Statistical Representations of a Dashboard to Monitor Educational Videogames in Natural Language | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication | ETLTC – ACM Chapter: International Conference on Educational Technology, Language and Technical Communication; Fukushima, Japan, 27-31 Enero 2020 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 77 | Issue | Pages | ||
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This paper explains how Natural Language (NL) processing by computers, through smart programs as a way of Machine Learning (ML), can represent large sets of quantitative data as written statements. The study recognized the need to improve the implemented web platform using a dashboard in which we collected a set of extensive data to measure assessment factors of using children´s educational games. In this case, applying NL is a strategy to give assessments, build, and display more precise written statements to enhance the understanding of children´s gaming behavior. We propose the development of a new tool to assess the use of written explanations rather than a statistical representation of feedback information for the comprehension of parents and teachers with a lack of primary level knowledge in statistics. Applying fuzzy logic theory, we present verbatim explanations of children´s behavior playing educational videogames as NL interpretation instead of statistical representations. An educational series of digital game applications for mobile devices, identified as MIDI (Spanish acronym of “Interactive Didactic Multimedia for Children”) linked to a dashboard in the cloud, is evaluated using the dashboard metrics. MIDI games tested in local primary schools helps to evaluate the results of using the proposed tool. The guiding results allow analyzing the degrees of playability and usability factors obtained from the data produced when children play a MIDI game. The results obtained are presented in a comprehensive guiding evaluation report applying NL for parents and teachers. These guiding evaluations are useful to enhance children's learning understanding related to the school curricula applied to ludic digital games. |
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 131 | ||
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| Author | Dennis G. Romero; A. F. Neto; T. F. Bastos; Boris X. Vintimilla | ||||
| Title | RWE patterns extraction for on-line human action recognition through window-based analysis of invariant moments | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | 5th Workshop in applied Robotics and Automation (RoboControl) | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | Human action recognition, Relative Wavelet Energy, Window-based temporal analysis. | ||||
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This paper presents a method for on-line human action recognition on video sequences. An analysis based on Mahalanobis distance is performed to identify the “idle” state, which defines the beginning and end of the person movement, for posterior patterns extraction based on Relative Wavelet Energy from sequences of invariant moments. | ||||
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 23 | ||
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| Author | Jorge L. Charco, Angel D. Sappa, Boris X. Vintimilla | ||||
| Title | Human Pose Estimation through A Novel Multi-View Scheme | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2022 | Publication | Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications VISIGRAPP 2022 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | Pages | 855-862 | |
| Keywords | Multi-View Scheme, Human Pose Estimation, Relative Camera Pose, Monocular Approach | ||||
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This paper presents a multi-view scheme to tackle the challenging problem of the self-occlusion in human pose estimation problem. The proposed approach first obtains the human body joints of a set of images, which are captured from different views at the same time. Then, it enhances the obtained joints by using a multi-view scheme. Basically, the joints from a given view are used to enhance poorly estimated joints from another view, especially intended to tackle the self occlusions cases. A network architecture initially proposed for the monocular case is adapted to be used in the proposed multi-view scheme. Experimental results and comparisons with the state-of-the-art approaches on Human3.6m dataset are presented showing improvements in the accuracy of body joints estimations. |
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 169 | ||
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| Author | Dennis G. Romero; A. Frizera; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; T.F. Bastos | ||||
| Title | A predictive model for human activity recognition by observing actions and context | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication | ACIVS 2015 (Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems), International Conference on, Catania, Italy, 2015 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 323 - 333 | ||
| Keywords | Edge width, Image blu,r Defocus map, Edge model | ||||
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This paper presents a novel model to estimate human activities – a human activity is defined by a set of human actions. The proposed approach is based on the usage of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and Bayesian inference through the continuous monitoring of human actions and its surrounding environment. In the current work human activities are inferred considering not only visual analysis but also additional resources; external sources of information, such as context information, are incorporated to contribute to the activity estimation. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the way the information is encoded, so that it can be later associated according to a predefined semantic structure. Hence, a pattern representing a given activity can be defined by a set of actions, plus contextual information or other kind of information that could be relevant to describe the activity. Experimental results with real data are provided showing the validity of the proposed approach. | ||||
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| Call Number | cidis @ cidis @ | Serial | 43 | ||
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| Author | Jorge L. Charco; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Henry O. Velesaca | ||||
| Title | Transfer Learning from Synthetic Data in the Camera Pose Estimation Problem | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication | The 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2020); Valletta, Malta; 27-29 Febrero 2020 | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 4 | Issue | Pages | 498-505 | |
| Keywords | Relative Camera Pose Estimation, Siamese Architecture, Synthetic Data, Deep Learning, Multi-View Environments, Extrinsic Camera Parameters. | ||||
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This paper presents a novel Siamese network architecture, as a variant of Resnet-50, to estimate the relative camera pose on multi-view environments. In order to improve the performance of the proposed model a transfer learning strategy, based on synthetic images obtained from a virtual-world, is considered. The transfer learning consist of first training the network using pairs of images from the virtual-world scenario considering different conditions (i.e., weather, illumination, objects, buildings, etc.); then, the learned weight of the network are transferred to the real case, where images from real-world scenarios are considered. Experimental results and comparisons with the state of the art show both, improvements on the relative pose estimation accuracy using the proposed model, as well as further improvements when the transfer learning strategy (synthetic-world data – transfer learning – real-world data) is considered to tackle the limitation on the training due to the reduced number of pairs of real-images on most of the public data sets. |
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| Call Number | gtsi @ user @ | Serial | 120 | ||
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