sample of publications

• articles 

  • URI-CADS: A Fully Automated Computer-Aided Diagnosis System for Ultrasound Renal Imaging..  Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine.  2024:1-17. 2024
  • Pain Level and Pain-Related Behaviour Classification Using GRU-Based Sparsely-Connected RNNs.  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.  17:677-688. 2023
  • An interpretable CNN-based CAD system for skin lesion diagnosis.  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.  132:1-13. 2022
  • ACME: Automatic feature extraction for cell migration examination through intravital microscopy imaging.  MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS.  77:1-19. 2022
  • Behavioural immune landscapes of inflammation.  NATURE.  601:415-421. 2022
  • Training deep retrieval models with noisy datasets: Bag exponential loss.  PATTERN RECOGNITION.  112:1-13. 2021
  • Interpretable global-local dynamics for the prediction of eye fixations in autonomous driving scenarios.  IEEE Access.  8:217068-217085. 2020
  • A multi-threshold approach and a realistic error measure for vanishing point detection in natural landscapes.  ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.  85:713-726. 2019
  • Predicting image aesthetics for intelligent tourism information systems.  Electronics.  8:1-15. 2019
  • Efficient scale-adaptive license plate detection system.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS.  20:2109-2121. 2019
  • Finding landmarks within settled areas using hierarchical density-based clustering and meta-data from publicly available images.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  123:315-327. 2019
  • Probabilistic Topic Model for Context-Driven Visual Attention Understanding.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  30:1653-1667. 2019
  • Emotion and attention: Audiovisual models for group-level skin response recognition in short movies.  Web Intelligence.  17:29-40. 2019
  • Exploiting visual saliency for assessing the impact of car commercials upon viewers.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  77:18903-18933. 2018
  • Enriched dermoscopic-structure-based cad system for melanoma diagnosis.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  77:12171-12202. 2018
  • Directional Transforms for Video Coding Based on Lifting on Graphs.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  28:933-946. 2018
  • Optimized Update/Prediction Assignment for Lifting Transforms on Graphs.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING.  66:2098-2111. 2018
  • Adaptive Lagrange multiplier estimation algorithm in HEVC.  SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION.  56:40-51. 2017
  • Bayesian adaptive algorithm for fast coding unit decision in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.  SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION.  56:1-11. 2017
  • Neighborhood Matching for Image Retrieval.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  19:544-558. 2017
  • Comparing visual descriptors and automatic rating strategies for video aesthetics prediction.  SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION.  47:280-288. 2016
  • Complexity Control Based on a Fast Coding Unit Decision Method in the HEVC Video Coding Standard.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  18:563-575. 2016
  • Two-level sliding-window VBR control algorithm for video on demand streaming.  SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION.  36:1-13. 2015
  • Succeeding metadata based annotation scheme and visual tips for the automatic assessment of video aesthetic quality in car commercials.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  42:293-305. 2015
  • Temporal segmentation and keyframe selection methods for user-generated video search-based annotation.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  42:488-502. 2015
  • Standard-Compliant Low-Pass Temporal Filter to Reduce the Perceived Flicker Artifact.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  16:1863-1873. 2014
  • Improved Method to Select the Lagrange Multiplier for Rate-Distortion Based Motion Estimation in Video Coding.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  24:452-464. 2014
  • A Generative Model for Concurrent Image Retrieval and ROI Segmentation.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  16:169-183. 2014
  • A region-centered topic model for object discovery and category-based image segmentation.  PATTERN RECOGNITION.  46:2437-2449. 2013
  • Mode Decision-Based Algorithm for Complexity Control in H.264/AVC.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  15:1094-1109. 2013
  • Design of an embedded speech-centric interface for applications in handheld terminals.  IEEE AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS MAGAZINE.  28:24-33. 2013
  • In-Layer Multibuffer Framework for Rate-Controlled Scalable Video Coding.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  22:1199-1212. 2012
  • Real-Time Robust Automatic Speech Recognition Using Compact Support Vector Machines.  IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.  20:1347-1361. 2012
  • A Two-Level Classification-Based Approach to Inter Mode Decision in H.264/AVC.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  21:1719-1732. 2011
  • RBF-Based QP Estimation Model for VBR Control in H.264/SVC.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  21:1263-1277. 2011
  • A Low-Complexity Pre-Processing System for Restoring Low-Quality QR Code Images.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.  57:1320-1328. 2011
  • State-space dynamics distance for clustering sequential data.  PATTERN RECOGNITION.  44:1014-1022. 2011
  • Data Balancing for Efficient Training of Hybrid ANN/HMM Automatic Speech Recognition Systems.  IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.  19:468-481. 2011
  • An Improved Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for Intraprediction in H.264/AVC Video Coding.  SIGNAL PROCESSING.  25:709-716. 2010
  • Cauchy-Density-Based Basic Unit Layer Rate Controller for H.264/AVC.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  20:1139-1143. 2010
  • An Adaptive Algorithm for Fast Inter Mode Decision in the H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.  56:826-834. 2010
  • Uncertainty decoding on Frequency Filtered Parameters for Robust ASR.  SPEECH COMMUNICATION.  52:440-449. 2010
  • Characterization of Healthy and Pathological Voice Through Measures Based on Nonlinear Dynamics.  IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.  17:1186-1195. 2009
  • A New Distance Measure for Model-Based Sequence Clustering.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE.  31:1325-1331. 2009
  • Adaptive Multipattern Fast Block-Matching Algorithm Based on Motion Classification Techniques.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  18:1369-1382. 2008

• conference contributions 

  • Learning RL policies for anticipative assistive robots by simulating human-robot interactions in real scenarios using egocentric videos 2023
  • Automatic learning of image representations combining content and metadata.  1972-1976. 2018
  • Emotion and attention: predicting electrodermal activity through video visual descriptors.  914-923. 2017
  • A probabilistic topic approach for context-aware visual attention modeling.  1-6. 2016
  • A Bayesian model for brain tumor classification using clinical-based features.  2779-2783. 2014
  • Combining audio-visual features for viewers' perception classification of Youtube car commercials.  14-18. 2014
  • Filter optimization and complexity reduction for video coding using graph-based transforms.  1948-1952. 2013
  • Mid-level feature set for specific event and anomaly detection in crowded scenes.  4001-4005. 2013
  • Standard compliant flicker reduction method with PSNR loss control.  1729-1733. 2013
  • A generative model for concurrent image retrieval and ROI segmentationn.  90-95. 2012
  • A simplified subjective video quality assessment method based on signal detection theory.  237-240. 2012
  • Perceptually-Aware Bilateral Filtering for Quality Improvement in Low Bit Rate Video Coding.  477-480. 2012
  • UEP-driven extended feature extraction for ASR over 3G speech channels.  1-5. 2012
  • A Region-Dependent Image Marching Method for Image and Video Annotation 2011
  • Low-complexity motion-based saliency map estimation for perceptual video coding.  1-6. 2011
  • Neighborhood Marching for Object Recognition Algorithms Based on Local Image Features.  157-162. 2011
  • On the Optimal Lagrangian Parameter for Motion Estimation: A Low-cost and Effective Method for Improving Video Coding Performance.  1-6. 2011
  • Rate Control Initialization Algorithm for Scalable Video Coding.  3497-3500. 2011
  • Video Encoder based on Lifting Transforms on Graphs.  3509-3512. 2011
  • Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Mid Level Features in a Region Segmentation Algorithm for Video Sequences 2008
  • UC3M High Level Feature Extraction at TRECVID 2008 2008