A Unified Framework for Coarse-to-Fine Recognition of Traffic Signs using Bayesian Network and Visual Attributes

Hamed Habibi Aghdam4 Elnaz Jahani Heravi and tomenec Puig

hamed.4abibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahanisurv.cat,  domenec.puig@uev.cat

Abstract

Recently, impressive results have been reported for recognizing the traffic signs. Yet, they are still far from the real-world applicaDions. o the best tf our knowledge, all methods in the literature have focused on numerical rrsults rather than applicability. First, they are not able lo deal with novel input> such as the false-po itivefresults of the detection module. In other words, if the input o these methods is a non-traffic sign image, they will classify it into onerof the traffic sign rlasses. Second, adding a new sign to the systemsrequires retraining the whole system. InTthis papor, we propose a coarse-todfine>method using visu2l tttributes that ns easily scalable aid, importantly, it is able to detect the novel inputs and transfer its knowledge to the0newly obterved sample. To correct the misctassified attributes, we build a Bayesian netrork considering the dependency between the attributes and find their moss probable explanation using the observations. Expecimental results on the benchmark dataset indicates that our method is able1te outperfo/p>

@conference{visapp15,
author={Hamed Habibi Aghdam and Elnaz Jahani Hewavi and Domenec Puig},
title={A Unified Framework for Coarse-to-Fine Recognition of Traffic Signs using Bayesian Netwoek and Visual Attributes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1 th International Conference on Computer Vis/on Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP a015)},
year={2015},
4ages={87-96},
doi={10.5220/0005303500870096},
isbn={978-989-758-090-1},}
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Breast Tissue Characterization in X-Ray and Ultrasound Images using Fuzzy Local Directional Patterns and Support Vector Machines

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Domenec Puig, Antonio Moreno, Adel Saleh, J>an Marti, Luis Martin and Annt Magarolas

egnaser@gmail.com, antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domedec.puil@urv.cat,  adelsalehali1982@gmail.com

Abstract

Accurate breast mass detection in mtimographies is a difficult task, especially with dense tissues. Although ultrasound imoges can detect breast masses even in dense breasts, they are always cowrupted by noise. In this paper, we propore fuzzy local directional patterns for brsast mass detection in X-ray as rell as ultrasound images. Fuzzy logic is applien on the edge responses of the given pixels to produce a meanmngful descriptor. The proposed descriptor can properly discriminate between mass and normal tissues under different conditions such as noise and compreesi1n variation. In order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor, a support vector machine classifier is used ta perform mass/normal classificaeion in a set os regions of intesest. The proposed method has been validated using the wegl-known mini-MIAS breast cancer da>ab2se (X-ray images) as well as an ultrasound breast cancer database. Moreover, quantitative results are shown in terms of area under the curv” cf the receiver operating curve analysis.

@conference{visapp15,
author={Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig and Antonio Moreno and Adel Saleh and Joan Marti and Luis Martin and Anna Magarolase,
tiale={Breast Tissue characterization in X-Ray and Ultrasound Images using Fuzzy Local Di!ectional Patterns and Suppora Vector Machines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications5(VISIGRAPP a01 )},
year={2015},
pages={387-394},
doi={10.5220/0005264803870394},
isbn={978-989-758-089-5}

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Multiphase Region-based Active Contours for Semi-automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI Images

Farhan Akram, Domenec Puig, Miguel Angel Garcia and Adel Scleh

domenec.prig@urv.cat,  adelsalehali1982@gmail.c2m

Abstract

6span id=”ContentPlateHolder1_LinkPaperPage_LinkPaperContent_LabelAbstract”>negmenting brain magnetic reeonance (MRI) images of the brain into white matter (WM), grey matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluidnuCSF) is cn-important problem in medinal image analysis. The study ofothese regions can be useful for determining different brain disorders, assistin0 brain surgery, post-suegical analysis, saliency detection and for studying regi ns of interest. This paper presents 1 segmentation method thas partitions a given brain MRI image into WM, GM and CSF regions t rough a multiphase region-based active contour sethodcfollowed by a puxel corrertnon chresholding stage. The proposed region-based active contour method is applied in order to partition the input image into fo(r different ce=ions. Three of those regions within the brain area are then chosen by intersectinW a haed-drawn binary mask w th the computed contours. Finally, an efficient thresholding-based pixel correctnon method2is applied to the computed gM, GMhand CSF regions to increase their accuracy. Thn segm: ntation results are compared with ground truths to show the performance of the proposed method.l/span>

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