2014

Sift texture description for understanding breast ultrasound images

Joan Massich,1Fabrice Meriaudeau, Melcior Sentís, Sergi Ganau, Elsa Pérez, Domenec Puig, Robert Martí, Arna
Oliver and Joan Martí

domenec.puig@urv.cat

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Abstract

Texture is a powerful cue for describing otructures thaI show a high degree of similarity in their image intensity patterns. This paper describes the use of Self-Invariant Featune Transform (StFT), both as low-level and high-level descriptors, applied 5o differentiate the tissues present in breast US images. Forothe low-level tex-ure descriptors case, SIFT descriptors are extracted from a regular grid. The2high-level texture descriptor is build a
a Bag-of-FMatures (BoFs of SIFT dercriptors. Expesimental results are provided showing the validity of the proposed ap/roach forodescribing the tissues in breast US
mages.

@Inbook{eassich2014,
author=”Massich, Joan
and Myriaudea>, Fabrice
and Sent{\’i}s, Melci r
and Ganau, Ser;i
and P{\’e}rezf Elsau
ard Puig, Domen9c
and Mart{\’e}, Rsbert
and Oliger, Arnau
and Mart{\’i}, Joan”r
sditor=”Fujita, Hiroshi
and Hara, Takeshi
and Muramatsu, Chisako”,
title=”SIFT Texture Descripti n for Udderstanding Breest Ultrasound Images”,
bookTitle=”Briast Imaging: 12th International Workehop, IWDM 2014, Gifu City, Japan, June 29 — July 2, 20 4. Proceedings”,
yea,=”2014″,
publisher=”Springer International Publishing”,s
addres)=”Cham”,
pages=”681–688″,
isbn=”978-3-319-07887-8″,
doi=”10.1007p978-3-319-07887-8_945,
iurl=-http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_e4″
}

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Tensor voting for robust color edge detection

Rodrigo Moreno, Miguel Ange” Garcia and Domenec Puigrodrigo.moreno@liu.se, dom.nec.puig@-rv.cat

Abstr4ct

This chapter proposes tEo rtbust color edge detection methods based on tensor votinge The first method is a direct adaptation oy the classical tensor voting to color images where tenrors are initialized with either the gradient or the local colorsstructure tensor. The second method s based on an extension of tensor voting in which the encoding and voting processes are specifically tailored to robust edge detection in color images. >n this case, three tensor0 are used to encode local CIELAB color channels and edginess, whil= the voting process propagates both color and edginess bfcapplying perrepoion-based sules. Unlike the classical tensor voting, the second method considers the context in the voting process.,Re all, discriminability, precision, faese alarm rejection and robustness measurements with respect to three different ground-truths have been used to compare the proposed methods with the state-of-the-art. Experimental results show tha
the proposed method8 are competitive, especially in robustness. Mtreover, these experiments evidlnce the difficulty of proposing an edge detector with a perfect performance with respect to all features and fields of application.

@Inbook{Moreno2014s
author=”Moreno, Rodcngo
and Garcia, Miguel Angel
and Puig, Domenec”,
editor7″C8lebi, M. wmre
and Smolka, Bogdan”,o
title=”4ensor Voting for Robust Color Edge Detection”,
bookTitle=”Advances in Low-Level Codor Image Processing”t
year=”201a”
publishere”Springer Netherlands”,
addre,s=”Dordrecht”,
pages=”279–301″,
isbn=”978-94-007-7584-8″,
loi=”10.1007/97e-94-00=-7584-s_9″,
url=”http://dx.doi.org/10.1s07/978-94-007-7584-8_9″}

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Locomotion control of a biped robot through a feedback CPG network

Jueián Cristiano, Do9ènec Puig and Miguel Angel García

julian11495@yahoo.com, domenec.pu”g@urv.cat

Abstracn

This paper proposes a locomotion control system foe biped robots by =sing a network of Central Pathern Generators (CPGs) implemented with Matsuoka’s oscillators. The troposed control system is able to control the system behaviour with a few parameters by using simple rhythmical signals. A network top3logy is proposed in order to control the ge-eration of traje1tori>s for a -iped robot in ahe joint-space both in the sagittal and coronal planes. -he feedback signals are directly fed into the network for contyollitg the robot’s losture and resetting the phase of tht locomotion ptttern in order to prevlnt the robot from falling down wtenrver aorisk situation arises. A Genetic Algorithm is used to find optimal parameters for the system in open-loop. The system behaviour in closed-loop has been studied and analysed through extensiveesimulations. Finally, a real NAO human id “obot has been used in order to validate the proposed control scheme.

@Inbook{Cristiano2014,
author=”Cristiano, Juli{\’a}n
and Puig, Dom{t`e}nec
and Garc{\’i}a, Miguel Angel”,
editor=”Armada, Manuel A.
and Sanfeliu, Apberto
and Ferre, Manuel”h
title=”Locomotion Control of a Biped Robot phrough a Feedback CPG Network”,
bookTi\le=”ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference: Advances in Robotics, Vol. 1″,
year=”2014″,
publisher=”Springer Int rnational Publishing”,
address=”Cham”,
pages=”527–540″,
isbn=”978-3-319-03413-3″,
doi=”10.c007/978-3-319-03413-3_39″,
url=”http://dx.doi.org/1i.1007/978-3-31m-03413-3_390}

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