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Publications 2024

  • Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Sergio Escalera, Graham W. Taylor, Thomas B. Moeslund, Agglomerative Token Clustering, European Conference on Computer Visión, ECCV, 2024.
  • Rubén Ballester, Carles Casacuberta, Sergio Escalera, Decorrelating neurons using persistence, Proceedings of the 2nd NeurIPS Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, PMLR 228:164-182, 2024.
  • Silvio Giancola et. al., SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Results, Sports Engineering, 2024.
  • Zejian Zhang, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, DualH: A Dual Hierarchical Model for Temporal Action Localization, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, 2024.
  • Agnieszka Dubiel, Dorota Kaminska, Grzegorz Zwoliński, Akbar Anbar Jafari, Prasoon Kumar Vinodkumar, Egils Avots, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Brain Responses to Emotional Avatars Challenge: Dataset and Results, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, 2024.
  • Hao Fang, Ajian Liu, Haocheng Yuan, Junze Zheng, Dingheng Zeng, Yanhong Liu, Jiankang Deng, Sergio Escalera, Xiaoming Liu, Jun Wan, Zhen Lei, Unified Physical-Digital Face Attack Detection, The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2024.
  • Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Cristina Palmero, German Barquero, Hengde Zhu, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth Andre, and Hatice Gunes, REACT 2024: the Second Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge, 2024 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2024.
  • Ruben Ballester, Xavier Arnal, Carles Casacuberta, Meysam Madadi, Ciprian A. Corneanu, Sergio Escalera, Predicting the generalization gap in neural networks using topological data analysis, Neurocomputing, 2024.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, A Transformer Model for Boundary Detection in Continuous Sign Language, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Word separation in continuous sign language using isolated signs and post-processing, Expert Systems With Applications, 2024.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, and Mohammad Sabokrou, Multi-Modal Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition, Expert Systems With Applications, 2024.
  • Hao Fang, Ajian Liu, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Chenxu Zhao, Xu Zhang, Stan Z. Li, Zhen Lei, Surveillance Face Anti-spoofing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiania, Sergio Escalera, Vassilis Athitsos, Mohammad Sabokrou, A Survey on Recent Advances In Sign Language Production, Expert Systems With Applications, 2024.

Publications 2023

  • Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Sergio Escalera, Graham W. Taylor, Thomas B. Moeslund, Which Tokens to Use? Investigating Token Reduction in Vision Transformers, ICCV Workshop on New Ideas in Vision Transformers, ICCV, 2023. Project webpage and code.
  • Artur Xarles, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Albert Clapés, ASTRA: An Action Spotting TRAnsformer for Soccer Videos, MMSports ’23: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, 2023.
  • Christian Keilstrup Ingwersen, Artur Xarles, Albert Clapés, Meysam Madadi, Janus Nørtoft Jensen, Morten Rieger Hannemose, Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Sergio Escalera, Video-based Skill Assessment for Golf: Estimating Golf Handicap, MMSports ’23: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, 2023.
  • Siyang Song, Micol Spitale, Cheng Luo, Germán Barquero, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Michel Valstar, Tobias Baur, Fabien Ringeval, Elisabeth André, Hatice Gunes, REACT2023: The First Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge, MM ’23: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023.
  • Mathilde Papillon, Mustafa Hajij, Audun Myers, Florianand Frantzen, Ghada Zamzmi, Helen Jenne, Johan Mathe, Josef Hoppe, Michael Schaub, Theodore Papamarkou, Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz, Bastian Rieck, Neal Livesay, Tamal Dey, Abraham Rabinowitz, Aiden Brent, Alessandro Salatiello, Alexander Nikitin, Ali Zia, Claudio Battiloro, Dmitrii Gavrilev, Georg Bökman, German Magai, Gleb Bazhenov, Guillermo Bernardez, Indro Spinelli, Jens Agerberg, Kalyan Nadimpalli, Lev Telyatninkov, Luca Scofano, Lucia Testa, Manuel Lecha, Maosheng Yang, Mohammed Hassanin, Odin Hoff Gardaa, Olga Zaghen, Paul Hausner, Paul Snopoff, Pavlo Melnyk, Rubén Ballester, Sadrodin Barikbin, Sergio Escalera, Simone Fiorellino, Henry Kvinge, Jan Meissner, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Michael Scholkemper, Paul Rosen, Robin Walters, Shreyas N. Samaga, Soham Mukherjee, Sophia Sanborn, Tegan Emerson, Timothy Doster, Tolga Birdal, Vincent Grande, Abdelwahed Khamis, Simone Scardapane, Suraj Singh, Tatiana Malygina, Yixiao Yue, Nina Miolane, ICML 2023 Topological Deep Learning Challenge: Design and Results, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Machine Learning (TAG-ML) at International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, PMLR, vol.  221, pp. 3-8, 2023.
  • Benjia Zhou, Zhigang Chen, Albert Clapés, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Sergio Escalera, Zhen Lei, Du Zhang, Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation: Improving from Visual-Language Pretraining, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, 2023.
  • German Barquero, Sergio Escalera, Cristina Palmero, BeLFusion: Latent Diffusion for Behavior-Driven Human Motion Prediction, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, 2023. Code.
  • Anders Skaarup Johansen, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Who cares about the weather? Inferring weather conditions for weather-aware object detection in thermal images, Applied Sciences, New Trends in Image Processing III special issue, section Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2023.
  • Dustin Carrion-Ojeda, Mahbubul Alam, Sergio Escalera, Ahmed Farahat, Dipanjan Ghosh, Teresa Gonzalez Diaz, Chetan Gupta, Isabelle Guyon, Joel Ky, Xian Lee, Xin Liu, Felix Mohr, Manh Nguyen, Emmanuel Pintelas, Stefan Roth, Simone Schaub-Meyer, Haozhe Sun, Ihsan Ullah, Joaquin Vanschoren, Lasitha Vidyaratne, Jiamin Wu, Xiaotian Yin, NeurIPS’22 Cross-Domain MetaDL Challenge: Results and lessons learned, Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2022 Competitions Track, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, pp. 50-72, 2023.
  • Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Carlos Martin-Isla, Louise Nissen, Liliana Szabo, Sergio Escalera, Simon Winther, Morten Bøttcher, Karim Lekadir, Steffen Erhard Petersen, Radiomics analysis enhances the diagnostic performance of CMR stress perfusion: A proof-of-concept study using the Dan-NICAD dataset, short title: Radiomics analysis for CMR perfusion, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, section Cardiovascular Imaging, Brief Research Report, 2023.
  • Cristina Palmero, Oleg V. Komogortsev, Sergio Escalera, and Sachin S. Talathi, Multi-Rate Sensor Fusion for Unconstrained Near-Eye Gaze Estimation, In Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA ’23), 2023. Data.
  • Jun Wan, Guodong Guo, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Stan Z. Li, Advances in Face Presentation Attack Detection, second edition, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision, Springer Cham, 2023.
  • Hugo Bertiche, Niloy J. Mitra, Kuldeep Kulkarni, Chun-Hao P. Huang, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Duygu Ceylan, Blowing in the Wind: CycleNet for Human Cinemagraphs From Still Images, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2023.
  • Hao Fang, Ajian Liu, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Zhen Lei, Surveillance Face Presentation Attack Detection Challenge, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW, 2023.
  • Dong Wang, Jia Guo, Qiqi Shao, Haochi He, Zhian Chen, Chuanbao Xiao, Ajian Liu, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Zhen Lei, Jun Wan, Jiankang Deng, Wild Face Anti-Spoofing Challenge 2023: Benchmark and Results, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW, 2023.
  • Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Beyond AUROC & Co. for Evaluating Out-of-Distribution Detection Performance, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW, 2023.
  • Ihsan Ullah, Dustin Carrión-Ojeda, Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Mike Huisman, Felix Mohr, Jan N. van Rijn, Haozhe Sun, Joaquin Vanschoren, Phan Anh Vu, Meta-Album: Multi-domain Meta-Dataset for Few-Shot Image Classification, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), 2023.
  • Carlos Martin-Isla, Victor M. Campello, Cristian Izquierdo, Kaisar Kushibar, Carla Sendra-Balcells, Polyxeni Gkontra, Alireza Sojoudi, Mitchell J Fulton, Tewodros Weldebirhan Arega, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Lei Li, Xiaowu Sun, Yasmina Al Khalil, Di Liu, Sana Jabbar, Sandro Queiros, Francesco Galati, Moona Mazher, Zheyao Gao, Marcel Beetz, Lennart Tautz, Christoforos Galazis, Marta Varela, Markus Hullebrand, Vicente Grau, Xiahai Zhuang, Domenec Puig, Maria A. Zuluaga, Hassan Mohy-ud-Din, Dimitris Metaxas, Marcel Breeuwer, Rob J. van der Geest, Michelle Noga, Stephanie Bricq, Mark E. Rentschler, Andrea Guala, Steffen E. Petersen, Sergio Escalera, Jose F. Rodriguez Palomares, and Karim Lekadir, Deep Learning Segmentation of the Right Ventricle in Cardiac MRI: The M&Ms Challenge, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023.
  • Javier Selva, Anders S. Johansen, Sergio Escalera, Kamal Nasrollahi, Thomas B. Moeslund, Albert Clapés, Video Transformers: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, 2023.
  • Lei Li, Fuping Wu, Sihan Wang, Xinzhe Luo, Carlos Martin-Isla, Shuwei Zhai, Jianpeng Zhang, Yanfei Liu, Zhen Zhang, Markus J. Ankenbrand, Haochuan Jiang, Xiaoran Zhang, Linhong Wang, Tewodros Weldebirhan, Elif Altunok, Zhou Zhao, Feiyan Li, Jun Ma, Xiaoping Yang, Elodie Puybareau, Ilkay Oksuz, Stephanie Bricq, Weisheng Li, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Laura M. Schreiber, Mingjing Yang, Guocai Liu, Yong Xia, Guotai Wang, Sergio Escalera, Xiahai Zhuang, MyoPS: A Benchmark of Myocardial Pathology Segmentation Combining Three-Sequence Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images, Medical Image Analysis, 2023.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, ZS-GR: Zero-Shot Gesture Recognition from RGB-D Videos, Multimedia Tools and Applications, MTA, 2023.
  • Mickael Cormier, Andreas Specker, Júlio C. S. Jacques Júnior, Lucas Florin, Jürgen Metzler, Thomas B. Moeslund, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Jürgen Beyerer, UPAR Challenge: Pedestrian Attribute Recognition and Attribute-based Person Retrieval – Dataset, Design, and Results. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV (Workshops), pp. 166-175, 2023.

Publications 2022

  • Smriti Joshi, Richard Osuala, Carlos Martín-Isla, Victor M. Campello, Carla Sendra-Balcells, Karim Lekadir, Sergio Escalera, nn-UNet Training on CycleGAN-Translated Images for Cross-modal Domain Adaptation in Biomedical Imaging. In: Crimi, A., Bakas, S. (eds) Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries. BrainLes 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12963. Springer, Cham.
  • Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, and Thomas B. Moeslund, Multi-Scale Hybrid Vision Transformer and Sinkhorn Tokenizer for Sewer Defect Classification, Automation in Construction, Volume 144, 2022.
  • A. S. Johansen, J. C. S. Jacques Junior, K. Nasrollahi, S. Escalera, T. Moeslund, ChaLearn LAP Seasons in Drift Challenge: Dataset, Design and Results, Real-World Surveillance ECCVW, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2022.
  • Manuel Vazquez-Enriquez, Jose Alba-Castro, Laura Docio-Fernandez, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Sergio Escalera, ECCV 2022 Sign Spotting Challenge: Dataset, Design and Results, ECCVW, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2022.
  • Reuben Dorent, Aaron Kujawa, Marina Ivory, Spyridon Bakas, Nicola Rieke, Samuel Joutard, Ben Glocker, Jorge Cardoso, Marc Modat, Kayhan Batmanghelich, Arseniy Belkov, Maria Baldeon Calisto, Jae Won Choi, Benoit M. Dawant, Hexin Dong, Sergio Escalera, Yubo Fan, Lasse Hansen, Mattias P. Heinrich, Smriti Joshi, Victoriya Kashtanova, Hyeon Gyu Kim, Satoshi Kondo, Christian N. Kruse, Susana K. Lai-Yuen, Hao Li, Han Liu, Buntheng Ly, Ipek Oguz, Hyungseob Shin, Boris Shirokikh, Zixian Su, Guotai Wang, Jianghao Wu, Yanwu Xu, Kai Yao, Li Zhanh, Sébastien Ourselin, Jonathan Shapey, Tom Vercauteren, CrossMoDA 2021 challenge: Benchmark of cross-modality domain adaptation techniques for vestibular schwannoma and cochlea segmentation, Medical Image Analysis, MIA, 2022.
  • Terry Amorese, Claudia Greco, Marialucia Cuciniello, Carmela Buono, Cristina Palmero, Pau Buch-Cardona, Sergio Escalera, María Inés Torres, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito, Using Eye Tracking to Investigate Interaction Between Humans and Virtual Agents. CogSIMA 2022, pp. 125-132, 2022.
  • Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Adrien Deliège, Floriane Magera, Vladimir Somers, Le Kang, Xin Zhou, Olivier Barnich, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Alexandre Alahi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Abdulrahman Darwish, Adrien Maglo, Albert Clapés, Andreas Luyts, Andrei Boiarov, Artur Xarles, Astrid Orcesi, Avijit Shah, Baoyu Fan, Bharath Comandur, Chen Chen, Chen Zhang, Chen Zhao, Chengzhi Lin, Cheuk-Yiu Chan, Chun Chuen Hui, Dengjie Li, Fan Yang, Fan Liang, Fang Da, Feng Yan, Fufu Yu, Guanshuo Wang, H. Anthony Chan, He Zhu, Hongwei Kan, Jiaming Chu, Jianming HU, Jianyang Gu, Jin Chen, João V. B. Soares, Jonas Theiner, Jorge De Corte, José Brito, Jun Zhang, Junjie Li, Junwei Liang, Leqi Shen, Lin Ma, Lingchi Chen, Miguel Santos Marques, Mike Azatov, Nikita Kasatkin, Ning Wang, Qiong Jia, Quoc Cuong PHAM, Ralph Ewerth, Ran Song, Rengang Li, Rikke Gade, Ruben Debien, Runze Zhang, Sangrok Lee, Sergio Escalera, Shan Jiang, Shigeyuki Odashima, Shimin Chen, Shoichi Masui, Shouhong Ding, Sin-wai Chan, Siyu Chen, Tallal El-Shabrawy, Tao He, Thomas B. Moeslund, Wan-Chi Siu, Wei Zhang, Wei Li, Xiangwei Wang, Xiao Tan, Xiaochuan Li, Xiaolin Wei, Xiaoqing Ye, Xing Liu, Xinying Wang, Yandong Guo, Yaqian Zhao, Yi Yu, Yingying Li, Yue He, Yujie Zhong, Zhenhua Guo, Zhiheng Li, SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results, ACMMM 2022 Workshop Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, MMSports, 2022.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, and Sergio Escalera, A Deep Co-Attentive Hand-Based Video Question Answering Framework Using Multi-View Skeleton, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022.
  • Victor M. Campello, Carlos Martin-Isla, Cristian Izquierdo, Andrea Guala, Jose F. Rodriguez Palomares, David Vilades, Martin L. Descalzo, Mahir Karakas, Ersin Cavus, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Steffen E. Petersen, Sergio Escalera, Santi Segui, and Karim Lekadir, Minimising multi-centre radiomics variability through image normalisation: A pilot study, Scientific Reports, 2022.
  • Alex Falcon, Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Giuseppe Serra, Sergio Escalera, Oswald Lanz, Relevance-based margin for contrastively-trained video retrieval models, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2022. Code.
  • Zhen Xu, Sergio Escalera, Adrien Pavao, Magali Richard, Wei-Wei Tu, Quanming Yao, Huan Zhao, Isabelle Guyon, Codabench: Flexible, easy-to-use, and reproducible meta-benchmark platform, Patterns, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100543, 2022.
  • Ajian Liu, Chenxu Zhao, Zitong Yu, Jun Wan, Anyang Su, Xing Liu, Zichang Tan, Sergio Escalera, Junliang Xing, Yanyan Liang, Guodong Guo, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li Fellow, Du Zhang, Contrastive Context-Aware Learning for 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2022.

  • Cristina Palmero, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Albert Clapés, Isabelle Guyon, Wei-Wei Tu, Thomas B. Moeslund, Sergio Escalera, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions: Preface, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 173:1-3, 2022.

  • Cristina Palmero, German Barquero, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Albert Clapés, Johnny Núñez, David Curto, Sorina Smeureanu, Javier Selva, Zejian Zhang, David Saeteros, David Gallardo-Pujol, Georgina Guilera, David Leiva, Feng Han, Xiaoxue Feng, Jennifer He, Wei-Wei Tu, Thomas B. Moeslund, Isabelle Guyon, Sergio Escalera, ChaLearn LAP Challenges on Self-Reported Personality Recognition and Non-Verbal Behavior Forecasting During Social Dyadic Interactions: Dataset, Design, and Results, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 173:4-52, 2022.

  • German Barquero, Johnny Núñez, Zhen Xu, Sergio Escalera, Wei-Wei Tu, Isabelle Guyon, Cristina Palmero, Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Models for Human Motion and Pose Forecasting in Face-to-Face Interaction Scenarios, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 173:107-138, 2022.

  • German Barquero, Johnny Núñez, Sergio Escalera, Zhen Xu, Wei-Wei Tu, Isabelle Guyon, Cristina Palmero, Didn’t see that coming: a survey on non-verbal social human behavior forecasting, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 173:139-178, 2022.

  • Ádám Fodor, Rachid R. Saboundji, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Sergio Escalera, David Gallardo-Pujol, András Lőrincz, Multimodal Sentiment and Personality Perception Under Speech: A Comparison of Transformer-based Architectures, Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, PMLR 173:218-241, 2022.

  • Marc Oliu, Sarah Adel Bargal, Stan Sclaroff, Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Multi-varied Cumulative Alignment for Domain Adaptation, ICIAP (2), pp. 324-334, 2022. Code.
  • Cristina Palmero, Maria Inés Torres, Anna Esposito, Sergio Escalera, Guest Editorial: Special issue on computer vision and machine learning for healthcare applications, Pattern Analysis and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-022-01075-2, 2022.
  • Penny Tarling, Mauricio Cantor, Albert Clapes, Sergio Escalera, Deep learning with self-supervision and uncertainty regularization to count fish in underwater images, PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267759, 2022. Data and code.

Publications 2021

  • Albert Rial-Farràs, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, UV-based reconstruction of 3D garments from a single RGB image, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG, 2021. Poster. Video. Best poster award.
  • Hugo Bertiche, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Deep Parametric Surfaces for 3D Outfit Reconstruction from Single View Image, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG, 2021. Poster. Video. Author webpage.
  • Hugo Bertiche, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, PBNS: Physically Based Neural Simulation for Unsupervised Garment Pose Space Deformation, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Siggraph Asia’21 Technical Papers, Volume 40, Issue 6, pp. 1-14, 2021. Short video. Long video. Code. Author webpage.
  • Dorota Kaminska, Kadir Aktas, Davit Rizhinashvili, Danila Kuklyanov, Abdallah Hussein Sham, Sergio Escalera, Kamal Nasrollahi, Thomas B. Moeslund, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Two-stage Recognition and Beyond for Compound Facial Emotion Recognition, Electronics, 2021.
  • Annalisa Appice, Sergio Escalera, Jose A. Gámez, Heike Trautmann, Introduction to the special issue of the ECML PKDD 2021 journal track, Machine Learning, 2021.
  • Annalisa Appice, Sergio Escalera, Jose A. Gámez, Heike Trautmann, Introduction to the special issue of the ECML PKDD 2021 journal track, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2021.
  • Javier M. Olaso, Alain Vázquez, Leila Ben Letaifa, Mikel de Velasco, Aymen Mtibaa, Mohamed Amine Hmani, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Gérard Chollet, César Montenegro, Asier López-Zorrilla, Raquel Justo, Roberto Santana, Jofre Tenorio-Laranga, Eduardo González-Fraile, Begoña Fernández-Ruanova, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito, Kristin Beck Gjellesvik, Anna Torp Johansen, Maria Stylianou Kornes, Colin Pickard, Cornelius Glackin, Gary Cahalane, Pau Buch, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Olga Gordeeva, Olivier Deroo, Anaïs Fernández, Daria Kyslitska, José Antonio Lozano, María Inés Torres, Stephan Schlögl, The EMPATHIC Virtual Coach: a demo, 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI, pp. 848-851, 2021.
  • Claudia Greco, Carmela Buono, Pau Buch-Cardona, Gennaro Cordasco, Sergio Escalera, Anna Esposito, Anais Fernandez, Daria Kyslitska, Maria Stylianou Kornes, Cristina Palmero, Jofre Tenorio Laranga, Anna Torp Johansen, Maria Ines Torres, Emotional Features of Interactions With Empathic Agents, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, pp. 2168-2176, 2021.
  • Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Jordi Gonzàlez, End-to-end Global to Local CNN Learning for Hand Pose Recovery in Depth data, IET Computer Vision, 2021.
  • Victor M. Campello, Polyxeni Gkontra, Cristian Izquierdo, Carlos Martin-Isla, Alireza Sojoudi, Peter M. Full, Klaus Maier-Hein, Yao Zhang, Zhiqiang He, Jun Ma, Mario Parreno, Alberto Albiol, Fanwei Kong, Shawn C. Shadden, Jorge Corral Acero, Vaanathi Sundaresan, Mina Saber, Mustafa Elattar, Hongwei Li, Bjoern Menze, Firas Khader, Christoph Haarburger, Cian M. Scannell, Mitko Veta, Adam Carscadden, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Xiao Liu, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Xiaoqiong Huang, Xin Yang, Lei Li, Xiahai Zhuang, David Vilades, Martin L. Descalzo, Andrea Guala, Lucia La Mura, Matthias G. Friedrich, Ria Garg, Julie Lebel, Filipe Henriques, Mahir Karakas, Ersin Cavus, Steffen E. Petersen, Sergio Escalera, Santi Segui, Jose F. Rodriguez Palomares, and Karim Lekadir, Multi-Centre, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Disease Cardiac Segmentation: The M&Ms Challenge, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, TMI, vol. 40, issue 12, pp. 3543-3554, 2021.
  • Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Guogong Guo, Stan Z. Li, Special Issue on Face Presentation Attack Detection, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, TBIOM, 2021.
  • Meysam Madadi, Hugo Bertiche, and Sergio Escalera, Deep unsupervised 3D human body reconstruction from a sparse set of landmarks, DOI 10.1007/s11263-021-01488-2, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, 2021. Author webpage.
  • Zhengying Liu, Adrien Pavao, Zhen Xu, Sergio Escalera, Fabio Ferreira, Isabelle Guyon, Sirui Hong, Frank Hutter, Rongrong Ji, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Ge Li, Marius Lindauer, Zhipeng Luo, Meysam Madadi, Thomas Nierhoff, Kangning Niu, Chunguang Pan, Danny Stoll, Sebastien Treguer, Jin Wang, Peng Wang, Chenglin Wu, Youcheng Xiong, Arber Zela, Yang Zhang, Winning solutions and post-challenge analyses of the ChaLearn AutoDL challenge 2019, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, vol. 43, issue 9, pp 3108-3125, 2021.
  • Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Sergio Escalera, and Oswald Lanz, Learning to Recognize Actions on Objects in Egocentric Video with Attention Dictionaries, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, 2021.
  • Fatemeh Noroozi, Dorota Kamińska, Ciprian Corneanu, Tomasz Sapiński, Sergio Escalera, and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Survey on Emotional Body Gesture Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2021.
  • Kaustubh Kulkarni, Ciprian Corneanu, Ikechukwu Ofodile, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baro, Sylwia Hyniewska, Juri Allik, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Automatic Recognition of Facial Displays of Unfelt Emotions, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2021.
  • Joan Codina-Filbà, Sergio Escalera, Joan Escudero, Coen Antens, Pau Buch-Cardona, Mireia Farrús, Mobile eHealth Platform for Home Monitoring of Bipolar Disorder, International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM, pp. 330-341, 2021. Talk.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Real-time Isolated Hand Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Networks and SVD, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2021.
  • Cristina Palmero, Javier Selva, Sorina Smeureanu, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Albert Clapes, Alexa Mosegui, Zejian Zhang, David Gallardo, Georgina Guilera, David Leiva, Sergio Escalera, Context-Aware Personality Inference in Dyadic Scenarios: Introducing the UDIVA Dataset, Human Behavior Understanding, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, WACVW, pp. 1-12, 2021. Talk.
  • Ajian Liu, Zichang Tan, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li, CASIA-SURF CeFA: A Benchmark for Multi-modal Cross-Ethnicity Face Anti-Spoofing, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV,  pp. 1178-1186, 2021. Talk.
  • Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Agata Lapedriza, Cristina Palmero, Xavier Baro, Sergio Escalera, Person Perception Biases Exposed: Revisiting the First Impressions Dataset, Human Behavior Understanding, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, WACVW, pp. 13-21, 2021. Talk. Data.

Publications 2020

  • Gonzalez-Fraile, E.; Gonzalez-Pinto, A.; Tenorio-Laranga, J.; Fernandez-Ruanova, B.; Olaso, J. M.; Montenegro, C.; Santana, R.; Vazquez, A.; Justo, R.; Lozano, J.; Esposito, A.; Cordasco, G.; Troncone, A.; Escalera, S.; Palmero Cantarino, C.; Schloeg, Empathic, expressive, advanced virtual coach to improve independent healthy-life-years of the elderly (the empathic project: mid-term achievements), European Psychiatry, 63, 2020.
  • Tomas Sixta, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Pau Buch-Cardona, Eduard Vazquez, Sergio Escalera, FairFace Challenge at ECCV 2020: Analyzing Bias in Face Recognition. Fair Face Recognition and Analysis, ECCV Workshops, pp. 463-481, 2020. Talk.
  • Juan Wachs, Sergio Escalera, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Albert Ali Salah, Arun Ross, Message from the General and Program Chairs FG 2020, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, 2020.
  • Ciprian Corneanu, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Aleix Martinez, Explainable Early Stopping for Action Unit Recognition, Faces and Gestures in E-health and welfare workshop, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, pp. 693-699, 2020. Talk. Spotlight.
  • Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Nelson Maldonato, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Maria Ines Torres, Sergio Escalera, Gennaro Cordasco, Seniors’ ability to decode differently aged facial emotional expressions, Faces and Gestures in E-health and welfare workshop, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, pp. 716-722, 2020. Spotlight.
  • Anna Esposito, Italia Cirillo, Antonietta Esposito, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gian Luca Foresti, Sergio Escalera, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Impairments in decoding facial and vocal emotional expressions in high functioning autistic adults and adolescents, Faces and Gestures in E-health and welfare workshop, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, pp. 667-674, 2020. Spotlight.
  • Albert Clapes, Julio C. S. Jacques-Junior, Carla Morral, and Sergio Escalera, ChaLearn LAP 2020 Challenge on Identity-preserved Human Detection: Dataset and Results, IEEE Faces and Gestures, FG, pp. 801-808, 2020. Talk. Data.
  • Josep Famadas, Meysam Madadi, Cristina Palmero, Sergio Escalera, Generative Video Face Reenactment by AUs and Gaze Regularization, IEEE Faces and Gestures conference, FG, pp. 444-451, 2020. Talk.
  • Carlos Martin-Isla, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Polyxeni Gkontra, Victor M. Campello, Sergio Escalera and Karim Lekadir, Stacked BCDU-net with semantic CMR synthesis: application to Myocardial Pathology Segmentation challenge, MYOPS challenge and workshop, MICCAI, 2020. Talk. Poster. MYOPS challenge best paper award. 2nd challenge winner.
  • Ajian Liu, Xuan Li, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Meysam Madadi, Yi Jin, Zhuoyuan Wu, Xiaogang Yu, Zichang Tan, Qi Yuan, Ruikun Yang, Benjia Zhou, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li, Cross-ethnicity Face Anti-spoofing Recognition Challenge: A Review, IET Biometrics, 2020.
  • Hugo Bertiche, Meysam Madadi, and Sergio Escalera, CLOTH3D: Clothed 3D Humans, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2020. Talk. Supp video. Data. Author webpage.
  • Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Mahmood Fathy, and Sergio Escalera, Attention Deeplabv3+: Multi-level Context Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation, Bioimage computation workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2020. Talk. Code.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Hand pose aware multimodal isolated sign language recognition, Multimedia Tools and Applications, MTAP, 2020.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Sign Language Recognition: A Deep Survey, Expert Systems With Applications, ESWA, 2020.
  • Jun Wan, Chi Lin, Longyin Wen, Yunan Li, Qiguang Miao, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Isabelle Guyon, Guodong Guo, and Stan Z. Li, ChaLearn Looking at People: IsoGD and ConGD Large-scale RGB-D Gesture Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020.
  • Ciprian A. Corneanu, Sergio Escalera, Aleix M. Martinez, Computing the Testing Error Without a Testing Set, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2020. 1min Video. 5min Video. Code. Oral. Paper award nominee.
  • Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Sergio Escalera, Oswald Lanz, Gate-Shift Networks for Video Action Recognition, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2020. Gif. Slides. 1min Video. Code.
  • Meysam Madadi, Hugo Bertiche, Sergio Escalera, SMPLR: Deep learning based SMPL reverse for 3D human pose and shape recovery, Pattern Recognition, PR, 2020. Author webpage.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Video-based Isolated Hand Sign Language Recognition Using a Deep Cascaded Model, Multimedia Tools and Applications, MTAP, 2020.
  • Zhengying Liu, Zhen Xu, Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Julio Jacques Junior, Meysam Madadi, Adrien Pavao, Sebastien Treguer, Wei-Wei Tu, Towards Automated Computer Vision: Analysis of the AutoCV Challenges 2019, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020.
  • Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, Cristina Palmero, Eduardo Gonzalez-Fraile, Anna Torp Johansen, Alain Vazquez, Gennaro Cordasco, Stephan Schlogl, Begoña Fernandez-Ruanova, Micaela Silva, Sergio Escalera, Mikel deVelasco, Joffre Tenorio-Laranga, Anna Esposito, Maria Korsnes, M. Ines Torres, Analysis of the Interaction between Elderly People and a Simulated Virtual Coach, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, AIHC, vol. 11, issue 12, pp. 6125-6140, 2020.
  • Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Xavier Baro, Isabelle Guyon, Meysam Madadi, Jun Wan, Stephane Ayache, Yagmur Gucluurk, and Umut Guclu, Guest Editorial: Image and Video Inpainting and Denoising, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, vol. 42, issue 5, pp. 1021-1024, 2020.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Hand sign language recognition using multi-view hand skeleton, Expert Systems With Applications, ESWA, 2020.
  • Hugo Jair Escalante, Heysem Kaya, Albert Ali Salah, Sergio Escalera, Yagmur Guçluturk, Umut Guçlu, Xavier Baro, Isabelle Guyon, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Meysam Madadi, Stephane Ayache, Evelyne Viegas, Furkan Gurpinar, Achmadnoer Sukma Wicaksana, Cynthia C. S. Liem, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob van Lier, Modeling, Recognizing, and Explaining Apparent Personality from Videos, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2020.
  • Shifeng Zhang, Ajian Liu, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Guogong Guo, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Stan Z. Li, CASIA-SURF: A Dataset and Benchmark for Large-scale Multi-modal Face Anti-spoofing, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 2020. Best 2020 journal paper award by IEEE Biometrics Council.
  • Yunan Li, Jun Wan, Qiguang Miao, Sergio Escalera, Huijuan Fang, Huizhou Chen, Xiangda Qi, and Guodong Guo, CR-Net: A Deep Classification-Regression Network for Multimodal Apparent Personality Analysis, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, 2020.

Publications 2019

  • Sergio Escalera, Marti Soler, Stephane Ayache, Umut Guçlu, Jun Wan, Meysam Madadi, Xavier Baro, Hugo Jair Escalante, and Isabelle Guyon, ChaLearn Looking at People: Inpainting and Denoising Challenges, The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning, pp. 23-44, 2019.

  • Ralf Herbrich and Sergio Escalera, A Guide to the NeurIPS 2018 Competitions, The NeurIPS’18 Competition: From Machine Learning to Intelligent Conversations, The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning, 2019.
  • Zhengying Liu, Zhen Xu, Meysam Madadi, Julio Jacques Junior, Sergio Escalera, Shangeth Rajaa and Isabelle Guyon, Overview and unifying conceptualization of Automated Machine Learning, ECMLPKDD Workshop on Automating Data Science (ADS), 2019.
  • Ricardo Dariıo Perez Principi, Cristina Palmero, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, and Sergio Escalera, On the Effect of Observed Subject Biases in Apparent Personality Analysis from Audio-visual Signals, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2019.
  • Zhengying Liu, Isabelle Guyon, Julio Junior, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Adrien Pavao, Hugo Escalante, Wei-Wei Tu, Zhen Xu, Sebastien Treguer, Autocv challenge design and baseline results, La Conference sur l’Apprentissage Automatique, HAL archive, 2019.
  • Wenlong Deng, Yongli Mou, Takahiro Kashiwa, Sergio Escalera, Kohei Nagai, Kotaro Nakayama, Yutaka Matsuo, Helmut Prendinger, Vision based Pixel-level Bridge Structural Damage Detection Using a Link ASPP Network, Automation in Construction, 2019.
  • Juanjo Rubio, Takahiro Kashiwa, Teera Laiteerapong, Wenlong Deng, Kohei Nagai, Sergio Escalera, Kotaro Nakayama, Yutaka Matsuo, Helmut Prendinger, Multi-class Structural Damage Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Networks, Computers in Industry, 2019.
  • Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Marc Perez, Umut Güçlü, Carlos Andujar, Xavier Baro, Hugo Jair Escalante, Isabelle Guyon, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob van Lier and Sergio Escalera, First Impressions: A Survey on Vision-based Apparent Personality Trait Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, TAC, 2019.
  • María Inés Torres, Javier Mikel Olaso, César Montenegro, Riberto Santana, A. Vázquez, Raquel Justo, J. A. Lozano, Stephan Schlögl, Gérard Chollet, Nazim Dugan, M. Irvine, N. Glackin, C. Pickard, Anna Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Alda Troncone, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Aymen Mtibaa, Mohamed Amine Hmani, M. S. Korsnes, L. J. Martinussen, Sergio Escalera, C. Palmero Cantariño, Olivier Deroo, O. Gordeeva, Jofre Tenorio-Laranga, E. Gonzalez-Fraile, Begoña Fernández-Ruanova, A. Gonzalez-Pinto, The EMPATHIC project: mid-term achievements, Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA, pp. 629-638, 2019.
  • Isabelle Guyon, Lisheng Sun-Hosoya, Marc Boullé, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Zhengying Liu, Damir Jajetic, Bisakha Ray, Mehreen Saeed, Michèle Sebag, Alexander R. Statnikov, Wei-Wei Tu, Evelyne Viegas, Analysis of the AutoML Challenge Series 2015-2018. Automated Machine Learning, CIML Series, Springer, pp. 177-219, 2019.
  • Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Sergio Escalera, Kamal Nasrollahi, Hugo Jair Escalante, Xavier Baro, Jun Wan, Thomas B. Moeslund, Guest editorial: special issue on human abnormal behavioural analysis, Machine Vision and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-019-01031-x, 2019.
  • Egils Avots, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzalez, Xavier Baro, Paul Pallin, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, From 2D to 3D Geodesic-based Garment Matching, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019.
  • Andre Litvin, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Cagri Ozcinar, Thomas B Moeslund, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, A Novel Deep Network Architecture for Reconstructing RGB Facial Images from Thermal for Face Recognition, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019.
  • Ikechukwu Ofodile, Ahmed Helmi, Albert Clapés, Egils Avots, Kerttu Maria Peensoo, Sandhra-Mirella Valdma, Andreas Valdmann, Heli Valtna-Lukner, Sergey Omelkov, Sergio Escalera, Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Action recognition using single-pixel time-of-flight detection, Entropy, 2019.
  • Daniel Sánchez, Meysam Madadi, Marc Oliu, Sergio Escalera, Multi-task human analysis in still images: 2D/3D pose, depth map, and multi-part segmentation, Faces and Gestures, FG, 2019. Poster.
  • Julio Jacques Junior,Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Sergio Escalera, On the effect of age perception biases for real age regression, Faces and Gestures, FG, 2019. Poster. Code.

Publications 2018

  • Ana Teresa Campanico, Antonio Valente, Rogerio Serodio, Sergio Escalera, Data’s Hidden Data: Qualitative Revelations of Sports Efficiency Analysis brought by Neural Network Performance Metrics, Motricidade, vol. 14, n. 4, pp. 94-102, http://dx.doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.15984, 2018.
  • Razieh Rastgoo, Kourosh Kiani, Sergio Escalera, Multi-Modal Deep Hand Sign Language Recognition in Still Images Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine, Entropy, vol. 20, issue 809, doi:10.3390/e20110809, 2018.
  • Cristina Palmero, Elisabeth A. van Dam, Sergio Escalera, Mike Kelia, Guido F. Lichtert, Lucas P.J.J Noldus, Andrew J. Spink, Astrid van Wieringen, Automatic mutual gaze detection in face-to-face dyadic interaction videos, Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2018, ISBN 978-1-910029-39-8, pp. 158-163, 2018.
  • Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Hugo Jair Escalante, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Michel Valstar, Maja Pantic, Jeffrey Cohn, Takeo Kanade, Guest Editorial: The Computational Face, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, Volume: 40 , Issue: 11, pp.2541-2545, 2018.
  • Sergio Escalera, Markus Weimer, Mikhail Burtsev, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Yoshua Bengio, Alexander Rudnicky, Alan W. Black, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Łukasz Kidzinski, Mohanty Sharada, Carmichael Ong, Jennifer Hicks, Sergey Levine, Marcel Salathé, Scott Delp, Iker Huerga, Alexander Grigorenko, Leifur Thorbergsson, Anasuya Das, Kyla Nemitz, Jenna Sandker, Stephen King, Alexander S. Ecker, Leon A. Gatys, Matthias Bethge, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Shi Feng, Pedro Rodriguez, Mohit Iyyer, He He, Hal Daumé III, Sean McGregor, Amir Banifatemi, Alexey Kurakin, Ian Goodfellow, Samy Bengio, Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track, The NIPS ’17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems, pp. 1-23, Editors: Escalera, Sergio, Weimer, Markus (Eds.), Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-94042-7, 2018.
  • Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Alex Carruesco Llorens, Carlos Andujar, Xavier Baro, Jordi Gonzalez, Top-down model fitting for hand pose recovery in sequences of depth images, Image and Vision Computing, IMAVIS, 2018.
  • Marc Oliu, Javier Selva, Sergio Escalera, Folded Recurrent Neural Networks for Future Video Prediction, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2018. Poster. Code.
  • Ciprian Corneanu, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Deep Structure Inference Network for Facial Action Unit Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2018. Poster.
  • Mohamed I Lakhal, Albert Clapes, Sergio Escalera, Oswald Lanz and Andrea Cavallaro, Residual Stacked RNNs for Action Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision, Human Behavior Understanding workshop, ECCVW, 2018. Poster.
  • Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Hugo J. Escalante, Guest Editorial: Apparent Personality Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 9, N. 3, pp. 299-302, 2018.
  • Cristina Palmero, Javier Selva, Mohammad Ali Bagueri, Sergio Escalera, Recurrent CNN for 3D Gaze Estimation using Appearance and Shape Cues, British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC, 2018. Poster. Code.
  • Miguel Angel Bautista, Oriol Pujol, Fernando De la Torre, and Sergio Escalera, Error-Correcting Factorization, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, vol. 40, issue 10, pp. 2388-2401, 2018.
  • Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Exploiting feature representations through similarity learning, post-ranking and ranking aggregation for person re-identification, Image and Vision Computing, IMAVIS, 2018.
  • Yagmur Gucluturk, Umut Guclu, Xavier Baro, Hugo Jair Escalante, Isabelle Guyon, Sergio Escalera, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, and Rob van Lier, Multimodal First Impression Analysis with Deep Residual Networks, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, TAC, Vol. 8, issue 3, pp. 316-329, 2018.
  • Gabriela Ramirez, Esau Villatoro, Bogdan Ionescu, Hugo J. Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Martha Larson, Henning Muller, and Isabelle Guyon, Overview of the Multimedia Information Processing for Personality & Social Networks Analysis Contest, Multimedia Information Processing for Personality and Social Networks Analysis (MIPPSNA 2018), ICPR workshop, 2018.
  • Rain Eric Haamer, Eka Rusadze, Iiris Lüsi, Tauseef Ahmed, Sergio Escalera and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Review on Emotion Recognition Databases, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.72748, in Human-Robot Interaction: Theory and Application, IntechOpen, Published: July 4th 2018, ISBN: 978-1-78923-317-9, Print ISBN: 978-1-78923-316-2.
  • Reza Azad, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Shohreh Kasaei, Sergio Escalera, Dynamic 3D Hand Gesture Recognition by Learning Weighted Depth Motion Maps, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2018.
  • Shanxin Yuan, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Björn Stenger, Gyeongsik Moon, Ju Yong Chang, Kyoung Mu Lee, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Sina Honari, Liuhao Ge, Junsong Yuan, Xinghao Chen, Guijin Wang, Fan Yang, Kai Akiyama, Yang Wu, Qingfu Wan, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Shile Li, Dongheui Lee, Iason Oikonomidis, Antonis Argyros, Tae-Kyun Kim, Depth-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2018.
  • Albert Clapés, Ozan Bilici, Dariia Temirova, Egils Avots, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, and Sergio Escalera, From apparent to real age: gender, age, ethnic, makeup, and expression bias analysis in real age estimation, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, pp. 2373-2382. 2018. Data.
  • Mohammad A. Haque, Ruben B. Bautista, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Christian B. Laursen, Ramin Irani, Ole K. Andersen, Erika G. Spaich, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Thomas B. Moeslund, Marco Bellantonio, Golamreza Anbarjafari, and Fatemeh Noroozi, Deep Multimodal Pain Recognition: A Database and Comparision of Spatio-Temporal Visual Modalities, Faces and Gestures, FG, 2018. Slides. Poster. Data.
  • Rain Eric Haamer, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Nasrin Imanpour, Mohammad Ahsanul Haque, Egils Avots, Michelle Breisch, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Cagri Ozcinar, Xavier Baro, Ahmad R. Naghsh-Nilchi, Thomas B. Moeslund, and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Changes in Facial Expression as Biometric: A Database and Benchmarks of Identification, Faces and Gestures workshops, FGW, FG, 2018. Slides. Ask for the data to: shb@icv.tuit.ut.ee
  • Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Hakan Çevikalp, Sergio Escalera, Ferda Ofli, Recurrent Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Image Classification, IET Computer Vision, 2018.
  • Pau Rodríguez López, Miguel Angel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzalez, Beyond One–hot Encoding: lower dimensional target embedding, Image and Vision Computing, IMAVIS, 2018.
  • Mohammad N. S. Jahromi, Morten Bojesen Bonderup, Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Egils Avots, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio Escalera, Shohreh Kasaei, Thomas B. Moeslund, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Automatic Access Control Based on Face and Hand Biometrics in a Non-cooperative Context, WACV Workshops, pp. 28-36, 2018.
  • Jianzhy Guo, Zhen Lei, Jun Wan, Egils Avots, Noushin Hajarolasvadi, Boris Knyazev, Artem Kuharenko, Julio Jacques Junior, Xavier Baro, Hasan Demirel, Sergio Escalera, Juri Allik, Gholamreza Anbarjari, Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition from Still Images of Faces, IEEE Access, 2018.
  • Pichao Wang, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, RGB-D-based Human Motion Recognition with Deep Learning: A Survey, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU, 2018.
  • Jelena Gorbova, Egils Avots, Iiris Lusi, Mark Fishel, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Integrating Vision and Language for First Impression Personality Analysis, IEEE Multimedia, 2018.
  • Albert Clapes, Alex Pardo, Oriol Pujol, Sergio Escalera, Action detection fusing multiple Kinects and a WIMU: an application to in-home assistive technology for the elderly, Machine Vision and Applications, MVA, 2018.
  • Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Francisco Perales, Josef Kittler, Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Pattern Recognition, volume 79, pp. 55-64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.01.038, 2018.
  • Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Hugo Jair Escalante, Xavier Baró, and Isabelle Guyon, Looking at People Special Issue, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, Volume 126, Issue 2-4, pp. 141-143, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-017-1058-y, 2018.
  • Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Hakan Cevikalp, Sergio Escalera, CRN: End-to-end Convolutional Recurrent Network Structure Applied to Vehicle Classification, VISAPP, 2018. Poster.

Publications 2017

  • Mark Philip Philipsen, Jacob Velling Dueholm, Anders Jørgensen, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund, Organ Segmentation in Poultry Viscera Using RGB-D, Sensors, 2017.
  • Huamin Ren, Nattiya Kanhabua, Andreas Møgelmose, Weifeng Liu, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Thomas B. Moeslund, Back-dropout Transfer Learning for Action Recognition, IET Computer Vision, 2017.
  • José García, Sergio Escalera, Alexandra Psarrou, Isabelle Guyon, Andrew Lewis, Juxi Leitner, Editorial: Special Issue on “Machine Learning Methods Neural Networks applied to Vision and Robotics (MLMVR), Expert Systems, 2017.
  • Albert Clapés, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Sergio Escalera, Darwintrees for action recognition, ICCVW, ICCV, 2017. Poster.
  • Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Hugo Bertiche, Vicent Roig, Shohreh Kasaei, and Sergio Escalera, Action Recognition from RGB-D Data: Comparison and Fusion of Spatio-temporal Handcrafted Features and Deep Strategies, ICCVW, ICCV, 2017. Poster.
  • Yağmur Güçlütürk, Umut Güçlü, Marc Pérez, Hugo Escalante, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Carlos Andujar, Julio Jacques Jr, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, M. A. J. van Gerven, and R. van Lier, Visualizing Apparent Personality Analysis with Deep Residual Networks, ICCVW, ICCV, 2017. Poster.
  • Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Hugo Jair Escalante, Xavier Baro, Isabelle Guyon, Meysam Madadi, Juri Allik, Jelena Gorbova, Chi Lin, and Yiliang Xie, Results and Analysis of ChaLearn LAP Multi-modal Isolated and Continuous Gesture Recognition, and Real versus Fake Expressed Emotions Challenges, ICCVW, ICCV, 2017. Slides.
  • Andrei Polzounov, Artsiom Ablavatski, Sergio Escalera, Shijian Lu, Jianfei Cai, WordFences: Text Localization and Recognition, ICIP, 2017. Slides.
  • Sergio Escalera, Vassilis Athitsos, Isabelle Guyon: Challenges in Multi-modal Gesture Recognition. Gesture Recognition, pp. 1-60, 2017.
  • Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Albert Clapés, Marco Bellantonio, Hugo Jair Escalante, Víctor Ponce-López, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Shohreh Kasaei, Sergio Escalera: Deep Learning for Action and Gesture Recognition in Image Sequences: A Survey. Gesture Recognition, pp. 539-578, 2017.
  • Jordi Esquirol, Cristina Palmero, Vanessa Bayo, Miquel Àngel Cos, Sergio Escalera, David Sánchez, Maider Sánchez, Noelia Serrano, Mireia Relats, Automatic RBG-depth-pressure anthropometric analysis and individualised sleep solution prescription, Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 2017.
  • Fatemeh Noroozi, Marina Marjanovic, Angelina Njegus, Sergio Escalera, and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition in Video Clips, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2017.
  • Hugo Jair Escalante, Isabelle Guyon, Sergio Escalera, Julio Jacques Jr., Meysam Madadi, Xavier Baro, Stephane Ayache, Evelyne Viegas, Yagmur Gucluturk, Umut Guclu, Marcel van Gerven, Rob van Lier. Design of an Explainable Machine Learning Challenge for Video Interviews. Proceedings of the The 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), IEEE, 2017.
  • Eirikur Agustsson, Radu Timofte, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baro, Isabelle Guyon, Rasmus Rothe, Apparent and real age estimation in still images with deep residual regressors on APPA-REAL database, FG, 2017. Appa-real dataset. Slides. Honorable mention award.
  • Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Alex Carruesco Llorens, Carlos Andujar, Xavier Baro, Jordi Gonzalez, Occlusion aware hand pose recovery from sequences of depth images,  FG, 2017. Slides. 3D hand dataset.
  • Julio Cezar Jacques Junior, Xavier Baro, Sergio Escalera, Exploiting feature representations through similarity learning and ranking aggregation for person re-identification, FG, 2017. Slides. Best student paper award.
  • Maryam Asadi-Aghbolaghi, Albert Clapés, Marco Bellantonio, Hugo Jair Escalante,  Victor Ponce-López, Xavier Baró, Isabelle Guyon, Shorheh Kasaei, Sergio Escalera, A survey on deep learning based approaches for action and gesture recognition in image sequences, FG, 2017. Poster. Spotlight.
  • Iiris Lusi, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Jelena Gorbova, Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Hasan Demirel, Juri Allik, Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Joint Challenge on Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition Using Micro Emotion Features and Head-Pose Estimation: Databases, FG workshops, 2017. Video presentation.
  • Christer Loob, Pejman Rasti, Iiris Lusi, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Tomasz Sapinski, Dorota Kaminska, Gholamreza Anbarjafari,  Dominant and Complementary Multi-Emotional Facial Expression Recognition Using C-Support Vector Classification, FG workshops, 2017. Slides.
  • Mohammad Ali Bagheri, Qigang  Gao, Sergio  Escalera, Huamin  Ren, Thomas B. Moeslund, Elham Etemad, Locality Regularized Group Sparse Coding for Action Recognition, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU, 2017.

Publications 2016

  • Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Lukasz Romazco, Lisheng Sun, Sébastien Treguer, Evelyne Viegas, Coopetitions in machine learning: case studies, Challenges in Machine Learning: Gaming and Education, NIPS workshop, 2016.
  • Marc Oliu, Ciprian Corneanu, Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeff rey F. Cohn, Takeo Kanade, and Sergio Escalera, Continuous Supervised Descent Method for Facial Landmark Localisation, ACCV 2016. Slides. Poster. Oral. Code and data webpage.
  • Hugo Jair Escalante, Víctor Ponce López, Jun Wan, Michael Riegler, Baiyu Chen, Albert Clapés, Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Xavier Baro, Pal Halvorsen, Henning Müller, and Martha Larson, ChaLearn Joint Contest on Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis: An overview, ICPRW, 2016.
  • Iiris Lusi, Sergio Escalera, and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Human Head Pose Estimation on SASE database using Random Hough Regression Forests, ICPRW, 2016.
  • Fatemeh Noroozi, Marina Marjanovic, Angelina Njegus, Sergio Escalera, and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Fusion of Classifier Predictions for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition, ICPRW, 2016.
  • Víctor Ponce-López, Baiyu Chen, Marc Oliu, Ciprian Corneanu, Albert Clapés, Isabelle Guyon, Xavier Baró, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, ChaLearn LAP 2016: First Round Challenge on First Impressions – Dataset and Results, ChaLearn Apparent Personality Analysis workshop, ECCV, 2016. Slides.
  • Baiyu Chen, Sergio Escalera, Isabelle Guyon, Victor Ponce-Lopez, Nihar Shah, and Marc Oliu Simon, Overcoming Calibration Problems in Pattern Labeling with Pairwise Ratings, ChaLearn Apparent Personality Analysis workshop, ECCV, 2016.
  • Iiris Lusi, Sergio Escalera, and and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, SASE: RGB-Depth Database for Human Head Pose Estimation, ChaLearn Apparent Personality Analysis workshop, ECCV, 2016. Slides.
  • Xavier Perez-Sala, Fernando De la Torre, Laura Igual, Sergio Escalera, and Cecilio Angulo, Subspace Procrustes Analysis, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, 2016.
  • Frederic Sampedro, Anna Domenech, Sergio Escalera, Ignasi Carrio, Computing quantitative indicators of structural renal damage in pediatric DMSA scans / Cómputo de indicadores cuantitativos de daño renal estructural en imágenes DMSA pediátricas, Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular, 2016.
  • Mikkel Thøgersen, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, and Thomas B. Moeslund, Segmentation of RGB-D Indoor scenes by Stacking Random Forests and Conditional Random Fields, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 80, pp. 208–215, 2016.
  • Avots, E., Daneshmand, M., Traumann, A., Escalera, S., & Anbarjafari, G., Automatic garment retexturing based on infrared information. Computers & Graphics, vol. 59, pp. 28-38, 2016
  • Isabelle Guyon, Imad Chaabane, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Damir Jajetic, James Robert Lloyd, Nuria Macia, Bisakha Ray, Lukasz Romaszko, Michele Sebag, Alexander Statnikov, Sebastien Treguer, Evelyne Viegas, A brief Review of the ChaLearn AutoML Challenge: Any-time Any-dataset Learning without Human Intervention, AutoML workshop, ICML, JMLR proceedings, 2016.
  • Sergio Escalera, Vassilis Athitsos, Isabelle Guyon, Challenges in multimodal gesture recognition, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 17, pp. 1-54, 2016.
  • Cristina Palmero, Jordi Esquirol, Vanessa Bayo, Miquel Àngel Cos, Pouya Ahmadmonfared, Joan Salabert, David Sánchez, and Sergio Escalera, Automatic Sleep System Recommendation by Multi-modal RBG-Depth-Pressure Anthropometric Analysis, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, 2016.
  • Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Isabelle Guyon, Sergio Escalera, Alexandra Psarrou, Andrew Lewis, Miguel Cazorla, Editorial: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Vision and Robotics, Neural Computing and Applications, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00521-016-2330-8, 2016.
  • Mohammad Ali Bagheri, Qigang Gao, and Sergio Escalera, Action Recognition by Pairwise Proximity Function Support Vector Machines with Dynamic Time Warping Kernels, Canadian Conference on AI, pp. 3-14, 2016.
  • Pejman Rasti, Tonis Uiboupin, Sergio Escalera and Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Convolutional Neural Network Super Resolution for Face Recognition in Surveillance Monitoring, Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO, 2016
  • Dennis H. Lundtoft, Kamal Nasrollahi, Thomas B. Moeslund and Sergio Escalera, Spatiotemporal Facial Super-Pixels for Pain Detection, Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO, 2016. Best student paper award.
  • Mark Philip Philipsen, Anders Jørgensen, Thomas B. Moeslund and Sergio Escalera, RGB-D Segmentation of Poultry Entrails, Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO, 2016. Best commercial paper award.
  • Pejman Rasti, Salma Samiei, Mary Agoyi, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafaria, Robust Non-blind Colour Video Watermarking Using QR Decomposition and Entropy Analysis, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2016.
  • Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzalez, Xavier Baro, Fernando Alonso, Martha Mackay, Care Respite: a remote monitoring eHealth system for improving ambient assisted living, Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Applications, IET London: Savoy Place, 2016.
  • J. Ramirez Moreno, J. Revilla, M. Reyes, and S. Escalera, Validación del Software ADIBAS asociado al sensor Kinect de Microsoft para la evaluación de la posición corporal, IV Congreso WCPT-SAR, Argentina, 2016.
  • Marc Oliu, Ciprian Corneanu, Kamal Nasrollahi, Olegs Nikisins, Sergio Escalera, Yunlian Sun, Haiqing Li, Zhenan Sun, Thomas B. Moeslund, and Modris Greitans, Improved RGB-D-T based Face Recognition, IET Biometrics, 2016.
  • Gerard Canal, Sergio Escalera, Cecilio Angulo, A Real-time Human-Robot Interaction system based on gestures for assistive scenarios, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU, 2016.
  • Florin Popescu, Stephane Ayache, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró Solé, Cecile Capponi, Patrick Panciatici, and Isabelle Guyon, From geospatial observations of ocean currents to causal predictors of spatio-economic activity using computer vision and machine learning,  European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2016.
  • Hugo Jair Escalante, Víctor Ponce-López, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Alicia Morales-Reyes, José Martínez-Carranza, Evolving weighting schemes for the Bag of Visual Words, Neural Computing and Applications, 2016.
  • Fernando Alonso, Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, Martha Mackay, Anna Serrahima, CARE RESPITE: TAKING CARE OF THE CAREGIVERS, Theme 5 The Strategic use of Mobile and Digital Health and Care Solutions, 16th International Conference for Integrated Care, International Journal of Integrated Care, 2016, Poster.
  • Ciprian A. Corneanu, Marc Oliu, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Sergio Escalera, Survey on RGB, 3D, Thermal, and Multimodal Approaches for Facial Expression Recognition: History, Trends, and Affect-related Applications, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI, 2016.
  • Antonio Hernandez-Vela, Sergio Escalera, Stan Sclaroff, Poselet-basedContextual Rescoring for Human Pose Estimation via Pictorial Structures, International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV, pp. 49-64, 2016. Web of the project: http://www.cvc.uab.es/~ahernandez/contextual.html

Publications 2015

  • Vıctor Ponce-López, Sergio Escalera, Marc Perez, Oriol Janes, Xavier Baro, Non-Verbal Communication Analysis in Victim-Off ender Mediations, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015.
  • Mohammad Ali Bagheri, Qigang Gao, and Sergio Escalera, Combining Local and Global Learners in the Pairwise Multiclass Classification, Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 4, pp. 845-869, 2015.
  • Isabelle Guyon, Kristin Bennett, Gavin Cawley, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Tin Kam Ho, Nuria Macia, Bisakha Ray, Mehreen Saeed, Alexander Statnikov, Evelyne Viegas, AutoML challenge 2015, BayLearn, 2015.
  • Sergio Escalera, Junior Fabian, Pablo Pardo, Xavier Baro, Jordi Gonzalez, Hugo Escalante, Dusan Misevic, Ulrich Steiner, Isabelle Guyon, ChaLearn Looking at People 2015: Apparent Age and Cultural Event Recognition datasets and results, ChaLearn Looking at People workshop, ICCV, 2015. Slides.
  • Hugo Jair Escalante, Victor Ponce, Xavier Baro, Sergio Escalera, Improving Bag of Visual Words Representations with Genetic Programming, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015.
  • Isabelle Guyon, Kristin Bennett, Gavin Cawley, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Tin Kam Ho, Nuria Macia, Bisakha Ray, Mehreen Saeed, Alexander Statnikov, Evelyne Viegas, The AutoML challenge on codalab, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2015. Slides.
  • Andres Traumann, Sergio Escalera, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, A New Retexturing Method for Virtual Fitting Room Using Kinect 2 Camera, CVPR Workshops, 2015. Slides.
  • Ramin Irani, Kamal Nasrollahi, C. Bahnsen, D.H. Lundtoft, T.B. Moeslund, Marc O. Simon, Ciprian. Corneanu, Sergio Escalera, Tanja L. Pedersen, Maria-Louise Klitgaard, and Laura Petrini, Spatio-temporal Analysis of RGB-D-T Facial Images for Multimodal Pain Level Recognition, CVPR workshops, 2015. Slides.
  • Mohammad Ali Bagheri, Qigang Gao, Sergio Escalera, Albert Clapes, Kamal Nasrollahi, Michael B. Holte, Thomas B. Moeslund, Keep it Accurate and Diverse: Enhancing Action Recognition Performance by Ensemble Learning, CVPR workshops, 2015.
  • Isabelle Guyon, Kristin Bennett, Gavin Cawley, Hugo Jair Escalante, Sergio Escalera, Tin Kam Ho, Nuria Macia, Bisakha Ray, Mehreen Saeed, Alexander Statnikov, Evelyne Viegas, AutoML Challenge 2015: Design and First Results, ICML workshop, JMLR proceedings, 2015.
  • Frederic Sampedro, Sergio Escalera, Anna Domenech and Ignasi Carrio, Automatic Tumor Volume Segmentation in Whole-Body PET/CT Scans: A Supervised Learning Approach, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Volume 5, Number 2, April 2015, pp. 192-201(10).
  • Frederic Sampedro, Sergio Escalera, Anna Domenech, Ignasi Carrio, A computational framework for cancer response assessment based on oncological PET-CT scans, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2015.
  • Firat Ismailoglu, Ida G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Evgueni Smirnov, Sergio Escalera and Ralf Peeters, Fractional Programming Weighted Decoding for Error-Correcting Output Codes, IAPR Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, 2015.

Publications 2014

  • Frederic Sampedro, Anna Domenech, and Sergio Escalera, Static and dynamic computational cancer spread quantification in whole body FDG-PET/CT scans, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 2014.
  • Frederic Sampedro, Sergio Escalera, Anna Puig, Iterative Multiclass Multiscale Stacked Sequential Learning: definition and application to medical volume segmentation, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2014.
  • Xavier Perez-Sala, Fernando De la Torre, Laura Igual, Sergio Escalera, and Cecilio Angulo, Subspace Procrustes Analysis, ChaLearn Looking at People, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2014.
  • Miguel Reyes, José Ramírez-Moreno, Juan R. Revilla, Jesús Lázaro, Ginés Almazán, and Sergio Escalera,Automatic Digital Biometry Analysis System, MiHealth, Barcelona, 2014. Poster.

Publications 2013

  • Laura Igual, Xavier Perez-Sala, Sergio Escalera, Cecilio Angulo, and Fernando De la Torre, Continuous Generalized Procrustes Analysis, Pattern Recognition, PR4883, PII: S0031-3203(13)00327-0, DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2013.08.006, 2013.
  • Antonio Hernandez-Vela, Miguel Angel Bautista, Xavier Perez-Sala, Victor Ponce, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baro, Oriol Pujol, and Cecilio Angulo, Probability-based Dynamic Time Warping and Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words for Human Gesture Recognition in RGB-D, Pattern Recognition Letters, PATREC5825, DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.09.009, 2013.
  • Miguel Reyes, Albert Clapés, José Ramírez, Juan R. Revilla, Sergio Escalera, Automatic Digital Biometry Analysis based on Depth Maps, Computers in Industry, DOI 10.1016/j.compind.2013.04.009, 2013.
  • Miguel Ángel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, On the Design of an ECOC-Compliant Genetic Algorithm, Pattern Recognition, 2013.
  • Mohammad Ali Bagheri, Qigang Gao, and Sergio Escalera, A Genetic-based Subspace Analysis Method for Improving Error-Correcting Output Coding, Pattern Recognition, 2013.
  • Albert Clapés, Miguel Reyes, and Sergio Escalera, Multi-modal User Identification and Object Recognition Surveillance System, Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue SUBA, 2013.
  • Alex Pardo, Albert Clapes, Sergio Escalera, and Oriol Pujol, Actions in Context: System for people with Dementia, 2nd International Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks (Citisen2013) at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS’13), Barcelona, 2013.
  • S. Grau, A. Puig, S. Escalera, and M. Salamó, Intelligent Interactive Volume Classification, Pacific Graphics 2013, B. Levy, X. Tong, and KK. Yin (Guest Editors), Volume 32 (2013), Number 7, 2013.
  • Daniel Sánchez, Tomás Pérez, Miguel Ángel Bautista, Sergio Escalera Human Limb Segmentation based on Error-Correcting Output Codes and Graph Cuts Optimization, CVCRD2013, CVC, Barcelona, 2013. Slides. Poster.
  • Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, F. Xavier Roca, and Felipe Lumbreras, Depth-based Multi-part Body Segmentation, CVCRD2013, Barcelona, 2013. Slides. Poster.
  • Frederic Sampedro and Sergio Escalera, Static and dynamic tumor quantification in PET scans, CVCRD2013, CVC, Barcelona, 2013. Slides. Poster.
  • Marc Oliu and Sergio Escalera. Fast face and eye centre detection in still images CVCRD2013, CVC, Barcelona, 2013.
  • Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzàlez, F. Xavier Roca, and Felipe Lumbreras, Depth-based Multi-part Body Segmentation, CVCRD2013, CVC, Barcelona, 2013. Slides. Poster.
  • Antonio Hernández-Vela, Sergio Escalera, Stan Sclaroff, RGB vs. Depth: Human Pose Recovery and Gesture Recognition, CVCRD2013, CVC, Barcelona, 2013.
  • Victor Ponce-López, Sergio Escalera, and Xavier Baró, Multi-modal Non-Verbal Communication Analysis in Victim-Offender Mediation Sessions. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Symposium, 2013. Poster. Slides.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Josep Moya, Automatic Monitoring and Image Analysis on eHealth, NeuroRescue Final Conference, 2013.Poster.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Josep Moya, Automatic Monitoring and Image Analysis on eHealth, INNO4AGEING 2013, 12th-13th DECEMBER, 2013, 2nd EDITION, VENUE: UVic Auditorium, Barcelona- Catalonia, Spain. Poster.

Publications 2012

  • Laura Igual, Joan Carles Soliva, Antonio Hernandez-Vela, Sergio Escalera, Oscar Vilarroya, Petia Radeva, A Supervised Graph-cut Deformable Model for Brain MRI Segmentation, Deformation Models, Tracking, Animation and Applications, Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, Vol. 7, González Hidalgo, Manuel; Mir Torres, Arnau; Varona Gómez, Javier (Eds.), 2012, 350 p, ISBN 978-94-007-5445-4.
  • Antonio Hernández-Vela, Carlo Gatta, Sergio Escalera, Laura Igual, Victoria Martín-Yuste, Manel Sabaté, and Petia Radeva, Accurate coronary centerline extraction, caliber estimation, and catheter detection in angiographies, Transactions on Information Technology inBioMedicine, 2012.
  • Antonio Hernández-Vela, Nadezhda Zlateva, Alexander Marinov, Miguel Reyes, Petia Radeva, Dimo Dimov, and Sergio Escalera, Human Limb Segmentation in Depth Maps based on Spatio-Temporal Graph Cuts Optimization, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments JAISE, 2012.
  • Albert Clapés, Alex Pardo, Miguel Reyes, Sergio Escalera, and Oriol Pujol, Intelligent Homecare Assistive Technology for People with Dementia in Smart Cities, Smart Cities Expo World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2012. Poster.
  • Miguel Angel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró and Oriol Pujol, A Genetic Inspired Optimization for ECOC, Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012.
  • Miguel Angel Bautista, Antonio Hernández-Vela, Laura Igual, Josep Moya, Verónica Violant, Oriol Pujol, and Sergio Escalera, Automatic Behaviour Analysis for supporting ADHD Diagnose, Donders Discussions, Holland, 2012. Presentation.
  • Antonio Hernández-Vela, Miguel Angel Bautista, Laura Igual, Josep Moya, Verónica Violant, Oriol Pujol, and Sergio Escalera, ADHD Indicators Modelling based on Dynamic Time Warping and Bag of Words from RGBD Data, Donders Discussions, Holland, 2012. Poster.

Publications 2011

  • Miguel Ángel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitrià, and Oriol Pujol, Minimal Design of Error Correcting Output Codes, Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, North Holland, doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2011.09.023, ISSN 0167-8655, 2011.
  • Maria Salamó and Sergio Escalera, Increasing retrieval quality in conversational recommenders, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering TKDE, IEEE, ISSN 1041-4347, 2011.
  • Sergio Escalera, David Masip, Eloi Puertas, Petia Radeva, and Oriol Pujol, Online Error-Correcting Output Codes, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 458-467, Elsevier, North Holland, ISSN 0167-8655, 2011.
  • Sergio Escalera, Alicia Fornés, Oriol Pujol, Josep Lladós, and Petia Radeva, Circular Blurred Shape Model for Multiclass Symbol Recognition, Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions On, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 497-506, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2060481, pp. 1-10, IEEE Society, Hanover, USA, ISSN 1083-4419, 2011.
  • Óscar Amorós, Sergio Escalera, Anna Puig, and Maria Salamó, GPGPU Volume Classification using SimpleOpenCL, CVCR&D2011, VI CVC Workshop on the progress of Research & Development, Barcelona, Computer Vision Center, ISBN 978-84-938351-5-6, pp. 136-141, 28/10/2011. Poster.
  • Xavier Pérez-Sala, Cecilio Angulo, and Sergio Escalera, Biologically Inspired Turn Control in Robot Navigation, 14th Congreso Catalán en Inteligencia Artificial, CCIA 2011, pp. 189-198, doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-842-7-189, ISBN 978-1-60750-841-0 (print), ISBN 978-1-60750-842-7 (online), Lleida, 26/10/2011-28/10/2011, 2011. Presentation.

Publications 2010

  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitrià, and M. Teresa Anguera, Automatic Detection of Dominance and Expected Interest, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Research Article, Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 491819, 12 pages, doi: 10.1155/2010/491819, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, ISSN 1687-6172, 2010.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Re-coding ECOCs without Re-training, Pattern Recognition Letters, volume 31, issue 7, pp. 555-562, Elsevier, North Holland, ISSN 0167-8655, 2010.
  • A. Hernández, P. Radeva, and S. Escalera, Combining Detectors for Human Hand Detection, CVCRD’10, Achievements and New Opportunities in Computer Vision, pp. 50-53, CVC, 29/10/2010, Barcelona, ISBN 978-84-938351-0-1, 2010. Poster. Best Poster award.
  • Miguel Ángel Bautista, Xavier Baró, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitrià, and Sergio Escalera, Compact Evolutive Design of Error-Correcting Output Codes, Supervised and Unsupervised Methods and their Applications (SUEMA), European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, UPC-CNRS, Yahoo Research, 20/09/2010-24/09/2010, Barcelona, 2010. Slides.
  • Drozdzal, A. Hernández, S. Seguí, X. Baró, S. Escalera, A. Lapedriza, D. Masip, P. Radeva, J. Vitrià, Combining Detectors for Human Layout Analysis, 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, The Pascal Visual Object Classes Challenge Workshop 2010, 05/09/2010-11/09/2010, Greece, 2010. Slides. Pascal 2 Person layout challenge winner.

Publications 2009

  • Sergio Escalera, Petia Radeca, Jordi Vitrià, R. M. Martínez-Flores, and M.T. Anguera, Dominance Detection in Face-to-Face Conversations, XI Congreso de Metodologia de las Ciencias Sociales y de la Salud, 15/09/2009-18/09/2009, Malaga, Spain, 2009.
  • Mehdi Mirza-Mohammadi, Francesco Ciompi, Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Ranking Error-Correcting Output Codes for Class Retrieval, 4th CVC Workshop on Research and Development: New Trends and Challenges in Computer Vision, pp. 197-203, CVC, 30/10/2009, Barcelona, ISBN 978-84-937261-1-9, 2009. Poster.
  • Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Jordi Vitrià, and Petia Radeva, Text Detection in Urban Scenes, International Conference of the «Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial», pp. 35-44, CCIA, ACIA, 21/10/2009-23/10/2009, Cardona, Spain, ISBN 978-1-60750-061-2, 2009. Slides.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva, and Jordi Vitria, Measuring Interest of Human Dyadic Interactions, International Conference of the «Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial», pp. 45-54, CCIA, ACIA, 21/10/2009-23/10/2009, Cardona, Spain, ISBN 978-1-60750-061-2, 2009. Slides.
  • Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Petia Radeva, and Jordi Vitrià, Generic Object Recognition in Urban Image Databases, International Conference of the «Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència Artificial», pp. 27-34, CCIA, ACIA, 21/10/2009-23/10/2009, Cardona, Spain, ISBN 978-1-60750-061-2, 2009.
  • Sergio Escalera, Rosa M. Martínez, Jordi Vitrià, Petia Radeva, and M. Teresa Anguera, Dominance detection in face-to-face conversations, 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis, CVPR4HC, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 20/06/2009-25/06/2009, Miami Beach, Florida, ISBN 978-1-4244-3994-2, 2009.
  • Sergio Escalera, Eloi Puertas, Petia Radeva, and Oriol Pujol, Multimodal laughter recognition in video conversations, 2nd IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human communicative Behavior analysis, CVPR4HC, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 20/06/2009-25/06/2009, Miami Beach, Florida, ISBN 978-1-4244-3994-2, 2009. Slides.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Recoding Error-Correcting Output Codes, Multiple Classifier Systems, LNCS 5519, pp. 11-21, 10/06/2009-12/06/2009, Reykjavic, Islandia, ISBN 978-3-642-02325-5, 2009.

Publications 2008

  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Detection of Complex Salient Regions, Journal on Advances in Signal Processing EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi: 10.1155/2008/451389, Article ID 451389, 11 pages, Handawi Publishing Corporation, New York, ISSN 1687-6172,  2008.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Detection of Complex Salient Regions, Journal on Advances in Signal Processing EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi: 10.1155/2008/451389, Article ID 451389, 11 pages, Handawi Publishing Corporation, New York, ISSN 1687-6172, 2008.
  • Ernest Valveny, Philippe Dosch, Alicia Fornés, and Sergio Escalera, Report on the Third Contest on Symbol Recognition, Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities, IAPR, 20/09/2007-21/09/2007, Curitiba, Brazil, ISBN 978-3-540-88184-1, 2008, Contest Award.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Sub-class Error-Correcting Output Codes, pp. 494-504, International Conference on Vision Systems, LNCS, 12/05/2008-15/05/2008, Santorini, ISBN 978-3-540-79546-9, 2008.

Publications 2007

  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Robust Complex Salient Regions, vol. 2, pp. 113-121, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA), IAPR, 06/06/2007-08/06/2007, Gerona, ISBN 978-3-540-72848-1, 2007.
  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, Weighted Startegy for Error-Correcting Output Codes, Computer Vision, Advances in Research and Development, pp. 77-82, Computer Vision Center International Workshop, CVC, 26/10/2007, Barcelona, ISBN 978-84-935251-4-9, 2007.

Publications 2006

  • Sergio Escalera, Oriol Pujol, and Petia Radeva, ECOC-ONE: A novel coding and decoding strategy, vol. 3, pp. 578-581, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, 20/08/2006-24/08/2006, Hong Kong, ISBN 0-7695-2521-0, 2006.

Publications 2005

Publications 2004

  • Sergio Escalera and Petia Radeva, Fast greyscale model matching and recognition, Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, pp. 69-76, Congrés Català en Intel·ligència Artificial, 22/10/2004-23/10/2004, Barcelona, ISBN 1-58603-466-9, CCIA 2004.