• openAccess   Single-shot color digital holography based on the fractional Talbot effect 

      Araiza Esquivel, María A.; Martínez-León, Lluís; Javidi, Bahram; Andrés, Pedro; Lancis, Jesús; Tajahuerce, Enrique Optical Society of America (2011-02-28)
      We present a method for recording on-axis color digital holograms in a single shot. Our system performs parallel phase-shifting interferometry by using the fractional Talbot effect for every chromatic channel simultaneously. ...
    • closedAccess   View-dependent pruning for real-time rendering of trees 

      Gumbau Portalés, Jesús; Chover, Miguel; Remolar, Inmaculada; Rebollo Santamaría, Cristina Elsevier (2011-04)
      The main problem in the real-time rendering of vegetation is the massive amount of primitives to be rendered. These primitives are needed to fully describe the geometry of the plants. However, some of them are not visible ...
    • openAccess   A new approach to visual-based sensory system for navigation into orange groves 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Nebot Roglá, Patricio MDPI Publishing (2011-04-06)
      One of the most important parts of an autonomous robot is to establish the path by which it should navigate in order to successfully achieve its goals. In the case of agricultural robotics, a procedure that determines this ...
    • openAccess   A new HLA-based distributed control architecture for agricultural teams of robots in hybrid applications with real and simulated devices or environments 

      Nebot Roglá, Patricio; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Martínez, Rafael J. MDPI Publishing (2011-04-14)
      The control architecture is one of the most important part of agricultural robotics and other robotic systems. Furthermore its importance increases when the system involves a group of heterogeneous robots that should ...
    • openAccess   Perception of products by progressive multisensory integration: a study on hammers 

      Vergara, Margarita; Mondragón Donés, Salvador; Sancho-Bru, Joaquin L.; Company, Pedro; Agost, Maria-Jesus Elsevier (2011-07)
      The aim of this work is to determine the influence of multisensory (visual-haptic) integration and the level of interaction (seeing photographs, seeing the actual product, touching it and using it) on the perception of ...
    • openAccess   Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information 

      Schade, Sven; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Ostermann, Frank; Spinsanti, Laura; Luraschi, Gianluca; Cox, Simon; Núñez Redó, Manuela; De Longueville, Bertrand Springer Verlag (2011-07-19)
      Thanks to recent convergence of greater access to broadband connections, the availability of Global Positioning Systems in small packages at affordable prices and more participative forms of interaction on the Web (Web ...
    • closedAccess   On the characterization of parabolicity and hyperbolicity of submanifolds 

      Esteve Siscar, Antonio; Palmer Andreu, Vicente London Mathematical Society (2011-08)
      We give a set of sufficient and necessary conditions for parabolicity and hyperbolicity of a submanifold with controlled mean curvature in a Riemannian manifold with a pole and with sectional curvatures bounded from above ...
    • closedAccess   Visualization of level-of-detail meshes on the GPU 

      Ripollés Mateu, Oscar Enrique; Ramos, Jose Francisco; Chover, Miguel Springer Verlag (2011-09-01)
      Extensive research has been carried out in multiresolution models for many decades. The tendency in recent years has been to harness the potential of GPUs to perform the level-of-detail extraction on graphics hardware. The ...
    • openAccess   Coherence revivals in two-photon frequency combs 

      Torres Company, Víctor; Lancis, Jesús; Lajunen, Hanna; Friberg, Ari T. American Physical Society (2011-09-16)
      We describe and theoretically analyze the self-imaging Talbot effect of entangled photon pairs in the time domain. Rich phenomena are observed in coherence propagation along dispersive media of mode-locked two- photon ...
    • openAccess   Tsallis entropy for geometry simplification 

      Castelló Boscá, Pascual; González, Carlos; Sbert Casasayas, Mateu; Feixas, Miguel; Chover, Miguel MDPI Publishing (2011-09-29)
      This paper presents a study and a comparison of the use of different information-theoretic measures for polygonal mesh simplification. Generalized measures from Information Theory such as Havrda–Charva ́t–Tsallis entropy ...
    • openAccess   Development of spatial density maps based on geoprocessing web services: application to tuberculosis incidence in Barcelona, Spain 

      Dominkovics, Pau; Granell, Carlos; Perez-Navarro, Antoni; Casals, Martí; Orcau, Àngels; Caylà, Joan A. BioMed Central (2011-11-29)
      Background: Health professionals and authorities strive to cope with heterogeneous data, services, and statistical models to support decision making on public health. Sophisticated analysis and distributed processing ...
    • openAccess   On the Dynamic Time Warping of Cyclic Sequences for Shape Retrieval 

      Palazón González, Vicente; Marzal Varó, Andrés Elsevier (2012)
      In the last years, in shape retrieval, methods based on Dynamic Time Warping and sequences where each point of the contour is represented by elements of several dimensions have had a significant presence. In this approach ...
    • closedAccess   Exploring the behaviour of base classifiers in credit scoring ensembles 

      Marqués Marzal, Ana Isabel; García, Vicente; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Elsevier (2012)
      Many techniques have been proposed for credit risk assessment, from statistical models to artificial intelligence methods. During the last few years, different approaches to classifier ensembles have successfully been ...
    • openAccess   Developing a Forest Data Portal to Support Multi-Scale Decision Making 

      McInerney, Daniel; Bastin, Lucy; Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Figueiredo, Carlos A.; Barredo, José I.; San Miguel-Ayanz, Jesús Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2012)
      Forests play a pivotal role in timber production, maintenance and development of biodiversity and in carbon sequestration and storage in the context of the Kyoto Protocol. Policy makers and forest experts therefore require ...
    • openAccess   Multispectral integral imaging acquisition and processing using a monochrome camera and a liquid crystal tunable filter 

      Latorre Carmona, Pedro; Sánchez Ortiga, Emilio; Xiao, Xiao; Pla, Filiberto; Martínez Corral, Manuel; Navarro, Héctor; Saavedra, Genaro; Javidi, Bahram Optical Society of America (2012)
      This paper presents an acquisition system and a procedure to capture 3D scenes in different spectral bands. The acquisition system is formed by a monochrome camera, and a Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter (LCTF) that allows ...
    • openAccess   Ultrashort pulse fiber delivery with optimized dispersion control by reflection grisms at 800 nm 

      Kalashyan, Meri; Lefort, Claire; Martínez-León, Lluís; Mansuryan, Tigran; Mouradian, Levon; Louradour, Frederic Optical Society of America (2012)
      We experimentally demonstrate a compact and efficient arrangement for fiber delivery of sub-30 fs energetic light pulses at 800 nm. Pulses coming from a broadband Ti:Sapphire oscillator are negatively pre-chirped by a ...
    • openAccess   Comparison results for capacity 

      Hurtado, Ana; Palmer Andreu, Vicente; Ritoré, Manuel Indiana University Mathematics Journal (2012)
      We obtain in this paper bounds for the capacity of a compact set $K$. If $K$ is contained in an $(n+1)$-dimensional Cartan-Hadamard manifold, has smooth boundary, and the principal curvatures of $\partial K$ are larger ...
    • openAccess   Surrounding neighborhood-based SMOTE for learning from imbalanced data sets 

      García, Vicente; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador; Martín Félez, Raúl; Mollineda, Ramón A. Springer (2012)
      Many traditional approaches to pattern classifi- cation assume that the problem classes share similar prior probabilities. However, in many real-life applications, this assumption is grossly violated. Often, the ratios ...
    • openAccess   Volume growth, number of ends and the topology of complete submanifolds 

      Gimeno, Vicent; Palmer Andreu, Vicente arXIV (2012)
      Given a complete isometric immersion $\phi: P^m \longrightarrow N^n$ in an ambient Riemannian manifold $N^n$ with a pole and with radial sectional curvatures bounded from above by the corresponding radial sectional curvatures ...
    • closedAccess   On the effectiveness of preprocessing methods when dealing with different levels of class imbalance 

      Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador; García, Vicente; Mollineda, Ramón A. Elsevier (2012)
      The present paper investigates the influence of both the imbalance ratio and the classifier on the performance of several resampling strategies to deal with imbalanced data sets. The study focuses on evaluating how learning ...