sample of publications

• articles 

  • 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
  • Perceptually-guided deep neural networks for ego-action prediction: Object grasping.  PATTERN RECOGNITION.  88:223-235. 2019
  • DermaKNet: Incorporating the Knowledge of Dermatologists to Convolutional Neural Networks for Skin Lesion Diagnosis.  IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.  23:547-559. 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
  • Neighborhood Matching for Image Retrieval.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA.  19:544-558. 2017
  • Perceptual modeling in the problem of active object recognition in visual scenes.  PATTERN RECOGNITION.  56:129-141. 2016
  • Goal-oriented top-down probabilistic visual attention model for recognition of manipulated objects in egocentric videos.  SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION.  39:418-431. 2015
  • Temporal segmentation and keyframe selection methods for user-generated video search-based annotation.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  42:488-502. 2015
  • 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
  • A Low-Complexity Pre-Processing System for Restoring Low-Quality QR Code Images.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.  57:1320-1328. 2011
  • Adaptive Multipattern Fast Block-Matching Algorithm Based on Motion Classification Techniques.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY.  18:1369-1382. 2008

• book chapters 

  • Recognition of instrumental activities of daily living in egocentric video for activity monitoring of patients with dementia. In: Health monitoring and personalized feedback using multimedia data.  SPRINGER. 161-178. 2015
  • Fusion of Multiple Visual Cues for Object Recognition in Videos. In: Fusion in Computer Vision : Understanding Complex Visual Content.  SPRINGER. 79-107. 2014

• conference contributions 

  • Automatic learning of image representations combining content and metadata.  1972-1976. 2018
  • Perceptually-guided Understanding of Egocentric Video Content: Recognition of Objects to Grasp.  434-441. 2018
  • A probabilistic topic approach for context-aware visual attention modeling.  1-6. 2016
  • Object recognition with top-down visual attention modeling for behavioral studies.  4431-4435. 2015
  • A Bayesian model for brain tumor classification using clinical-based features.  2779-2783. 2014
  • Mid-level feature set for specific event and anomaly detection in crowded scenes.  4001-4005. 2013
  • Modeling instrumental activities of daily living in egocentric vision as sequences of active objects and context for alzheimer disease research.  11-14. 2013
  • A generative model for concurrent image retrieval and ROI segmentationn.  90-95. 2012
  • Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Mid Level Features in a Region Segmentation Algorithm for Video Sequences 2008
  • UC3M High Level Feature Extraction at TRECVID 2008 2008

• theses 

  • Generative models for image segmentation and representation