These are some of my publications from another life / pre-Bitcoin (image processing / computer vision).
I keep them here only for archival/citation purposes. If you’re looking for my current work on Bitcoin, this page isn’t it. 🙂

PhD Thesis

  • A Unified Framework for Consistent 2D/3D Foreground Object Detection
    Author: J.-L. Landabaso
    PhD Thesis, Signal Theory and Communications Department – Image Processing Group,
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, February 2008.
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Journal articles

  • A Unified Framework for Consistent 2D/3D Foreground Object Detection
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1040–1051, 2008.
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs.
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  • Shape from Inconsistent Silhouette
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 210–224, 2008.
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, J. R. Casas.
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  • Segmentation and Tracking of Multiple Moving Objects for Intelligent Video Analysis
    BT Technology Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 140–150, July 2004.
    L.-Q. Xu, J.-L. Landabaso, B. Lei.
    Springer version / Article view / PDF

Patents

  • Object detection in images
    Inventors: Li-Qun Xu, José-Luis Landabaso
    WO2005048191 (2005) · EP1683105 · US7742650B2 (granted 2010)
    Assignee: British Telecommunications plc (BT)
    WO2005048191 · US7742650B2

  • Object tracking within video images
    Inventors: Li-Qun Xu, José-Luis Landabaso
    GB App. No. 0326374.6 (filed 12 Nov 2003) · US20070092110A1 (published 2007)
    Coverage: US, Great Britain, Korea, Canada
    Assignee: British Telecommunications plc (BT)
    US20070092110A1

  • Efficient scale-space extraction and description of interest points
    Inventors: José Carlos Pujol Alcolado, José Luis Landabaso Díaz, Óscar Divorra Escoda, David Marimón Sanjuán
    US8798377B2 (granted 2014; priority 2010) · US20130135301A1 (2013) · EP2534612B1 (2018)
    Applicant/Assignee: Telefónica, S.A.
    US8798377B2 · US20130135301A1 · EP2534612B1

  • Method for generating a model of a flat object from views of the object
    Inventors: David Marimón Sanjuán, José Luis Landabaso Díaz, Óscar Divorra Escoda, José Carlos Pujol Alcolado
    US9380293B2 (granted 2016; priority 2010)
    Assignee: Telefónica, S.A.
    US9380293B2

  • Method of video playback
    Inventors: José Carlos Pujol Alcolado, José Luis Landabaso Díaz, Nicolás Herrero Molina
    US20110200303A1 (published 2011)
    Applicant/Assignee: Telefónica, S.A.
    US20110200303A1

Book Chapters

  • Activity Classification
    K. Nickel, M. Pardàs, R. Stiefelhagen, C. Canton-Ferrer, J.-L. Landabaso, J. R. Casas.
    In Computers in the Human Interaction Loop, pp. 107–119. Springer, 2009.

  • Intelligent Spaces – The Application of Pervasive ICT (Chapter 15)
    L.-Q. Xu, J.-L. Landabaso, B. Lei.
    A. Steventon, S. Wright (eds.)
    Springer, 2005. ISBN 1-84628-002-8.
    Google Books

Conference Papers

  • In-loop feature tracking for structure and motion with out-of-core optimization
    N. Herrero, J.-L. Landabaso, G. Gallego, J.-C. Pujol-Alcolado.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010, pp. 2937–2940.
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  • Robust Key Frame Extraction for 3D Reconstruction from Video Streams
    M. T. Ahmed, M. N. Dailey, J.-L. Landabaso, N. Herrero.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2010, pp. 231–236.
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  • A global probabilistic framework for the foreground, background and shadow classification task
    J.-L. Landabaso, J.-C. Pujol-Alcolado, T. Montserrat, D. Marimón, J. Civit, Ó. Divorra Escoda.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2009, pp. 3189-3192.
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  • Shape from Inconsistent Silhouette for Free Viewpoint Video
    J. Landabaso, L. Lizcano, M. Pardàs.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), p. 213, 2008.
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  • A 3D videoconferencing system with 2D backwards compatibility
    J.-L. Landabaso, T. Mansi, C. Molina, K. Zangelin, P. Enfedaque, J. Cañadas, L. Lizcano.
    In Proceedings of IEEE 3DTV Conference, Kos Island, Greece, 2007. IEEE Computer Society.
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  • Reconstruction of 3D shapes considering inconsistent 2D silhouettes
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, J. R. Casas.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
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  • Cooperative background modelling using multiple cameras towards human detection in smart-rooms (invited paper)
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs.
    In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2006.
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  • UPC audio, video and multimodal person tracking systems in the CLEAR evaluation campaign
    A. Abad, C. Canton-Ferrer, C. Segura, J.-L. Landabaso, D. Macho, J. R. Casas, J. Hernando, M. Pardàs, C. Nadeu.
    In Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4122, pp. 93–104, Springer, 2006.
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  • Hierarchical representation of scenes using activity information
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, L.-Q. Xu.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, USA, March 2005. IEEE Computer Society.
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  • Foreground regions extraction and characterization towards real-time object tracking
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs.
    In Proceedings of Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2005.
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  • Shadow removal with blob-based morphological reconstruction for error correction
    L.-Q. Xu, J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs.
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, USA, March 2005. IEEE Computer Society.
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  • Robust tracking and object classification towards automated video surveillance
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, L.-Q. Xu.
    In International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3212, pp. 463–470, Springer, Porto, Portugal, October 2004.
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  • HMM recognition of expressions in unrestrained video intervals
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, A. Bonafonte.
    In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 197–200, Hong Kong, April 6–10, 2003.
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  • Emotion recognition based on MPEG-4 facial animation parameters
    M. Pardàs, A. Bonafonte, J.-L. Landabaso.
    In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 4, pp. 3624–3627, Orlando, USA, May 2002.
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  • Representación, acceso y descripción de vídeo para futuros servicios multimedia
    M. Pardàs, J. R. Casas, A. Gasull, F. Marquès, A. Oliveras, P. Salembier, E. Sayrol, C. Chang, D. Comas, C. Ferran, X. Giró, J.-L. Landabaso, M. León, J. R. Morros, J. Ruiz, J. Solé, V. Vilaplana.
    In Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica, Visió i Robòtica (AVR), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
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  • Shadow removal with morphological reconstruction
    J.-L. Landabaso, M. Pardàs, L.-Q. Xu.
    In Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica, Visió i Robòtica (AVR), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
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