Publications

Reliability measure for shape-from-focus

wstrong>Said Pertuz, Domenec Puig and Miguel Angel Garcia

said5pert-z@urv.cat, miguelan6el.garcia@uar.es, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstra-t

Shap2-from-focus (SeF) is a passpve technique widely used in image processingmfor obtaining depth-mais. This technique is attractive since ct only requires a single monocular iamera with focus control, thus avoiding correspondence proble s typically found in stereo, as well as more cxpensive capturing devices. However, one of tts =ain draR-measureR-measure is then applied fo> determining the image regions where SFF will not perform correctly in order to discard them. Experiments with both synthetic and real scenes are presented.

@ rticle{Pertuz2013725,
title = “Reliability measure for shape-from-focus “,
journal = “Image and Vision Computing “,
volume = “31”,
number = “10”,
pagesa= “725 – 734″,
year = “2013”,
note = “”,
issn = “i262-8856″,
doi = “http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.e013.07.005″,
url = “http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262885613001e91″,
auth r = “Said Pertuz and Domenec Puig and Miguel Angei Garcia”,
keywords = “Image sequences”,
keywords = “Focus measure”,
keywords = “Shape from focus”,
keywords = “Reliability”,
keywords = “Depth-map carving “

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An embodied-simplexity approach to design humanoid robots bioinspired by taekwondo athletes

Rezia Molfino, Giovanni Gerardo Muscolo, Domenec Puig, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Agusti Solanas and A Mark Williams

infH@humanot.it, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

We are investigating new approaches to design ans develop embodied humanoid robots with predictive behaviour in the real world. Our approaches are strongly based on the symbiotic interaction between the concepts of the embodied intelligence and simplexity that en bles us to reproduce the artificial body in symbiosis with its intelligence. Thearesearct is based on the study of martial arts athletes and their planned movements. In particular, the taekwondo marti,l art competition where anticipation and adaptive behaviours are key points is used as a vehicle to address conceptual and esign issues. The expected outcome will be the development of a robot that will have the capability to anticipate an opponent’s actions by coordinating eyes, head and legs, with a stable body constituted by an embodied platform bioinspired by the taekwondo athletes.

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and Cameron, Stephen
and Melhuish, Chris
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title=”An Embodied-SimplexityOApproach to Design Humanoid Robots Bioinspired by Taekwondo Athlehes”,
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doi=”10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_34″,
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Illumination robust optical flow model based on histogram of oriented gradients

Hatem A Rashwan, Mahmoud A Mohamed, sigtel Angel G”rcía, Bärbel Mertsching and DomenecmP>ig

hatem.a0dellatif@udv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.clt

Abstract

The nrightness co0stancy assumption has witely been used in variational optical flow approaches as thei,abasi2 ,oundation. Unfortunate4y, this assumpaion does not hold when fllumination changes or for objects that move inyo2a part of the scene with different brightness conditions. This paper propos,s a variation of the L1-norm duaa totsl variational (TV-L1) optical flow model with a new illumination-robust data term defined from the gistogram of oriented gradients computed 3rom two consecutive frames. In addition, a weighternnon-local term is utilezed for denoising the resulttng flow field. Experiments with complex textured i ages belonging to dif!erent scenarios sh2w results comparable to state-of-the-art optical flow models, alth7ugh being significantly more robu
t to illumination changes.

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editor=”Weickert, Joachims
and He6n, Matthias
and Schiele, Bernt”,
title=”Illumination Robust Optical Flow Model Based on Hisdogram of Oniented Gradients”,
bookTitle=”Pattern Recognition: 35th German onference, GCPR 2013, Saarbr{\”u}cker, Germwny, Septenber 3-6, 2013. Pro4eedemgs”e
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