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Author Sianna Puente; Cindy Madrid; Miguel Realpe; Boris X. Vintimilla
Title An Empirical Comparison of DCNN libraries to implement the Vision Module of a Danger Management System Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 2017 International Conference on Deep Learning Technologies (ICDLT 2017) Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) Part F128535 Issue Pages 60-65
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Author Patricia L. Suarez; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla
Title Vegetation Index Estimation from Monospectral Images Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication 15th International Conference, Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2018), Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 10882 Issue Pages 353-362
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Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate Normalized

Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from just the red channel of

a RGB image. The NDVI index is defined as the ratio of the difference

of the red and infrared radiances over their sum. In other words, information

from the red channel of a RGB image and the corresponding

infrared spectral band are required for its computation. In the current

work the NDVI index is estimated just from the red channel by training a

Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN). The architecture

proposed for the generative network consists of a single level structure,

which combines at the final layer results from convolutional operations

together with the given red channel with Gaussian noise to enhance

details, resulting in a sharp NDVI image. Then, the discriminative model

estimates the probability that the NDVI generated index came from the

training dataset, rather than the index automatically generated. Experimental

results with a large set of real images are provided showing that

a Conditional GAN single level model represents an acceptable approach

to estimate NDVI index.
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Author Rafael E. Rivadeneira, Angel D. Sappa, Boris X. Vintimilla, Chenyang Wang, Junjun Jiang, Xianming Liu, Zhiwei Zhong, Dai Bin, Li Ruodi, Li Shengye
Title Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge Results – PBVS 2023 Type Conference Article
Year 2023 Publication 19th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum de la Conferencia Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition CVPR 2023, junio 18-28 Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 2023-June Issue Pages 470 - 478
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Call Number cidis @ cidis @ Serial 210
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Author Rafael E. Rivadeneira, Angel D. Sappa, Boris X. Vintimilla, Jin Kim, Dogun Kim et al.
Title Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge Results- PBVS 2022. Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, (CVPRW 2022), junio 19-24. Abbreviated Journal CONFERENCE
Volume (down) 2022-June Issue Pages 349-357
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Abstract This paper presents results from the third Thermal Image

Super-Resolution (TISR) challenge organized in the Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS) 2022 workshop.

The challenge uses the same thermal image dataset as the

first two challenges, with 951 training images and 50 validation images at each resolution. A set of 20 images was

kept aside for testing. The evaluation tasks were to measure

the PSNR and SSIM between the SR image and the ground

truth (HR thermal noisy image downsampled by four), and

also to measure the PSNR and SSIM between the SR image

and the semi-registered HR image (acquired with another

camera). The results outperformed those from last year’s

challenge, improving both evaluation metrics. This year,

almost 100 teams participants registered for the challenge,

showing the community’s interest in this hot topic.
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Author Patricia L. Suárez, Angel D. Sappa, Boris X. Vintimilla
Title Cycle generative adversarial network: towards a low-cost vegetation index estimation Type Conference Article
Year 2021 Publication IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2021) Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 2021-September Issue Pages 2783-2787
Keywords CyclicGAN, NDVI, near infrared spectra, instance normalization.
Abstract This paper presents a novel unsupervised approach to estimate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI).The NDVI is obtained as the ratio between information from the visible and near infrared spectral bands; in the current work, the NDVI is estimated just from an image of the visible spectrum through a Cyclic Generative Adversarial Network (CyclicGAN). This unsupervised architecture learns to estimate the NDVI index by means of an image translation between the red channel of a given RGB image and the NDVI unpaired index’s image. The translation is obtained by means of a ResNET architecture and a multiple loss function. Experimental results obtained with this unsupervised scheme show the validity of the implemented model. Additionally, comparisons with the state of the art approaches are provided showing improvements with the proposed approach.
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Author Rafael E. Rivadeneira; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla; Lin Guo; Jiankun Hou; Armin Mehri; Parichehr Behjati; Ardakani Heena Patel; Vishal Chudasama; Kalpesh Prajapati; Kishor P. Upla; Raghavendra Ramachandra; Kiran Raja; Christoph Busch; Feras Almasri; Olivier Debeir; Sabari Nathan; Priya Kansal; Nolan Gutierrez; Bardia Mojra; William J. Beksi
Title Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge – PBVS 2020 Type Conference Article
Year 2020 Publication The 16th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum on the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recongnition (CVPR 2020) Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 2020-June Issue 9151059 Pages 432-439
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Abstract This paper summarizes the top contributions to the first challenge on thermal image super-resolution (TISR) which was organized as part of the Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (PBVS) 2020 workshop. In this challenge, a novel thermal image dataset is considered together with stateof-the-art approaches evaluated under a common framework.

The dataset used in the challenge consists of 1021 thermal images, obtained from three distinct thermal cameras at different resolutions (low-resolution, mid-resolution, and high-resolution), resulting in a total of 3063 thermal images. From each resolution, 951 images are used for training and 50 for testing while the 20 remaining images are used for two proposed evaluations. The first evaluation consists of downsampling the low-resolution, midresolution, and high-resolution thermal images by x2, x3 and x4 respectively, and comparing their super-resolution

results with the corresponding ground truth images. The second evaluation is comprised of obtaining the x2 superresolution from a given mid-resolution thermal image and comparing it with the corresponding semi-registered highresolution thermal image. Out of 51 registered participants, 6 teams reached the final validation phase.
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Author Patricia L. Suarez; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla
Title Infrared Image Colorization based on a Triplet DCGAN Architecture. Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 13th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum – In conjunction with CVPR 2017. (This paper has been selected as “Best Paper Award” ) Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 2017-July Issue Pages 212-217
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Author Patricia L. Suarez; Angel D. Sappa; Boris X. Vintimilla
Title Adaptive Harris Corners Detector Evaluated with Cross-Spectral Images Type Conference Article
Year 2018 Publication International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018). ICITS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 721 Issue Pages
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Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach to use cross-spectral

images to achieve a better performance with the proposed Adaptive Harris

corner detector comparing its obtained results with those achieved

with images of the visible spectra. The images of urban, field, old-building

and country category were used for the experiments, given the variety of

the textures present in these images, with which the complexity of the

proposal is much more challenging for its verification. It is a new scope,

which means improving the detection of characteristic points using crossspectral

images (NIR, G, B) and applying pruning techniques, the combination

of channels for this fusion is the one that generates the largest

variance based on the intensity of the merged pixels, therefore, it is that

which maximizes the entropy in the resulting Cross-spectral images.

Harris is one of the most widely used corner detection algorithm, so

any improvement in its efficiency is an important contribution in the

field of computer vision. The experiments conclude that the inclusion of

a (NIR) channel in the image as a result of the combination of the spectra,

greatly improves the corner detection due to better entropy of the

resulting image after the fusion, Therefore the fusion process applied to

the images improves the results obtained in subsequent processes such as

identification of objects or patterns, classification and/or segmentation.
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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 (down) 417 Issue Pages 517-528
Keywords Monocular Visual Odometry; LWIR-RGB cross-spectral Imaging; Image Fusion
Abstract 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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Author Mildred Cruz; Cristhian A. Aguilera; Boris X. Vintimilla; Ricardo Toledo; Ángel D. Sappa
Title Cross-spectral image registration and fusion: an evaluation study Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication 2nd International Conference on Machine Vision and Machine Learning Abbreviated Journal
Volume (down) 331 Issue Pages
Keywords multispectral imaging; image registration; data fusion; infrared and visible spectra
Abstract This paper presents a preliminary study on the registration and fusion of cross-spectral imaging. The objective is to evaluate the validity of widely used computer vision approaches when they are applied at different spectral bands. In particular, we are interested in merging images from the infrared (both long wave infrared: LWIR and near infrared: NIR) and visible spectrum (VS). Experimental results with different data sets are presented.
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Call Number cidis @ cidis @ Serial 35
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