• closedAccess   Log-polar mapping template design: From task-level requirements to geometry parameters 

      Traver Roig, Vicente Javier; Pla, Filiberto Elsevier (2008)
      The best parameters defining the geometry of a visual sensor generally depend on the particular visual task the sensor is intended to be used in. However, translating task requirements directly into low-level geometric ...
    • closedAccess   Impact of the -1438G>A polymorphism in the serotonin 2A receptor gene on anthropometric profile and obesity risk: A case-control study in a Spanish Mediterranean population 

      Sorlí, José V; Francés, F.; González, José I.; Guillen, Montserrat; Portolés, Olga; Sabater, Antonio; Coltell, Oscar; Corella, Dolores (2008)
      Research into the genetic factors that regulate food intake is arousing great interest. The polymorphism -1438G>A in the serotonin 2A receptor or 5-hydroxytriptamine (5-HT) type 2A receptor (5-HTR2A) gene has been ...
    • closedAccess   Motion Analysis with the Radon Transform on Log-Polar Images 

      Traver Roig, Vicente Javier; Pla, Filiberto Springer US (2008-02)
      Image projections provide an effective way of describing image contents or estimate particular kinds of motion. However, most (if not all) of previous literature on projections has been done on Cartesian images. In contrast, ...
    • openAccess   Dealing with inaccurate face detection for automatic gender recognition with partially occluded faces 

      Andreu Cabedo, Yasmina; García-Sevilla, Pedro; Mollineda, Ramón A. Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      Gender recognition problem has not been extensively studied in situations where the face cannot be accurately detected and it also can be partially occluded. In this contribution, a comparison of several characterisation ...
    • openAccess   Un sistema de Realidad Virtual distribuido basado en la gestión de recursos federados 

      Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Castañeda Garay, Miguel; Fernández Mota, David; Gil, José; Aguado González, Sergio; Varella Cerdá, Ester; Núñez Redó, Manuela; Segarra Sola, José Vicente Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (2009)
      The vast majority of distributed virtual environments use ad-hoc protocols to share resources and synchronize the interaction of multiple users on a shared virtual world. In this scenario, it is difficult to incorporate ...
    • openAccess   Multidimensional integrated ontologies: a framework for designing semantic data warehouses 

      Nebot Romero, Victoria; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Pérez Martínez, Juan Manuel; Aramburu Cabo, María José; Pedersen, Torben Bach Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      The Semantic Web enables companies and organizations to gather huge amounts of valuable semantically annotated data concerning their subjects of interest. Nowadays, many applications attach metadata and semantic annotations ...
    • openAccess   Ontology integration using mappings: towards getting the right logical consequences 

      Jiménez Ruiz, Ernesto; Cuenca Grau, Bernardo; Horrocks, Ian; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      We propose a general method and novel algorithmic techniques to facilitate the integration of independently developed ontologies using mappings. Our method and techniques aim at helping users understand and evaluate the ...
    • openAccess   A template-based recognition system for on-line handwritten characters 

      Prat Villar, Federico; Marzal Varó, Andrés; Martín, Sergio; Ramos Garijo, Rafael; Castro Bleda, María José Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica (2009)
      New developments on our real-time recognition engine for isolated handwritten characters are presented. This engine is based on approximate Dynamic Time Warping comparisons with prototypes selected by fast, less accurate ...
    • openAccess   Octahedral Transforms for 3D Image Processing 

      Lenz, Reiner; Latorre Carmona, Pedro Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2009)
      The octahedral group is one of the finite subgroups of the rotation group in three-dimensional Euclidean space and a symmetry group of the cubic grid. Compression and filtering of three-dimensional volumes are given as ...
    • openAccess   Use of ensemble based on GA for imbalance problem 

      Cleofás Sánchez, Laura; Valdovinos Rosas, Rosa María; García, Vicente; Alejo Eleuterio, Roberto Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      In real-world applications, it has been observed that class imbalance (significant differences in class prior probabilities) may produce an important deterioration of the classifier performance, in particular with patterns ...
    • openAccess   Exploring early classification strategies of streaming data with delayed attributes 

      Millán Giraldo, Mónica; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador; Traver Roig, Vicente Javier Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      In contrast to traditional machine learning algorithms, where all data are available in batch mode, the new paradigm of streaming data poses additional difficulties, since data samples arrive in a sequence and many hard ...
    • openAccess   Filter banks for hyperspectral pixel classification of satellite images 

      Rajadell Rojas, Olga; García-Sevilla, Pedro; Pla, Filiberto Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      Satellite hyperspectral imaging deals with heterogenous images containing different texture areas. Filter banks are frequently used to characterize textures in the image performing pixel classification. This filters are ...
    • openAccess   Melodic track identification in MIDI files considering the imbalanced context 

      Martín Félez, Raúl; Mollineda, Ramón A.; García, Vicente Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      In this paper, the problem of identifying the melodic track of a MIDI file in imbalanced scenarios is addressed. A polyphonic MIDI file is a digital score that consists of a set of tracks where usually only one of them ...
    • openAccess   Iniciativas globales para la Observación de la Tierra: Contribuciones europeas a GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (2009)
      El presente trabajo introduce las iniciativas europeas en materia de política espacial y datos medioambientales que contribuyen al Sistema Global de Sistemas para la Observación de la Tierra (Global Earth Observation ...
    • openAccess   Index of balanced accuracy: a performance measure for skewed class distributions 

      García, Vicente; Mollineda, Ramón A.; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      This paper introduces a new metric, named Index of Balanced Accuracy, for evaluating learning processes in two-class imbalanced domains. The method combines an unbiased index of its overall accuracy and a measure about how ...
    • openAccess   Information theory tools for viewpoint selection, mesh saliency and geometry simplification 

      Sbert Casasayas, Mateu; Feixas, Miguel; Castelló Boscá, Pascual; Chover, Miguel Springer (2009)
      In this chapter we review the use of an information channel as a unified framework for viewpoint selection, mesh saliency and geometry simplification. Taking the viewpoint distribution as input and object mesh polygons as ...
    • closedAccess   Efficient retrieval of ontology fragments using an interval labeling scheme 

      Nebot Romero, Victoria; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael Elsevier (2009)
      Nowadays very large domain ontologies are being developed in life-science areas like Biomedicine, Agronomy, Astronomy, etc. Users and applications can benefit enormously from these ontologies in very different tasks, such ...
    • closedAccess   Generating complex ontology instances from documents 

      Danger, Roxana; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael Elsevier (2009)
      This paper presents a novel Information Extraction system able to generate complex instances from free text available on the Web. The approach is based on a non-monotonical processing over ontologies, and makes use of ...
    • closedAccess   User-assisted simplification method for triangle meshes preserving boundaries 

      González, Carlos; Gumbau Portalés, Jesús; Chover, Miguel; Ramos, Jose Francisco; Quirós Bauset, Ricardo Elsevier (2009)
      This paper proposes a user-assisted mesh simplification method applied to CAD models converted to triangle meshes. This work offers the possibility of simplifying each subobject independently and at different levels of ...
    • closedAccess   Rendering continuous level-of-detail meshes by Masking Strips 

      Ripollés Mateu, Oscar Enrique; Chover, Miguel; Gumbau Portalés, Jesús; Ramos, Jose Francisco; Puig Centelles, Anna Elsevier (2009)
      In this paper we present a new continuous multiresolution approach which has been developed for the interactive visualization of meshes in real-time applications. Our interest is to offer an efficient solution which considers ...