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PUBLICATIONS (by subject)
 

  Vision Science


  • Theoretical Neuroscience

  • Subjective Image Quality Measures

  • Natural Image Statistics and Unsupervised Learning

  Image Processing


  • Perceptual Transform Coding

  • Perceptually Weighted SVM Coding

  • Perceptual Image Restoration

 Video Processing


  • Motion Estimation

  • Video Coding

  Color Science


  • Color Constancy

  • Simulating Dichromatic Perception

  • Color Representation Spaces

  Patents


  • Perceptually Weighted SVM Image Coding


Vision Science:
Human Vision Models and Unsupervised Learning 



V. Laparra, S. Jiménez, G. Camps and J. Malo
Nonlinearities and Adaptation of Color Vision from Sequential Principal Curves Analysis
Neural Computation (2012)

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V. Laparra, M. Gutmann, J. Malo and A. Hyvarinen
Complex-valued Independent Component Analysis of Natural Images
Lect. Not. Comp. Sci. (Proc. ICANN 2011), Vol. 6792, pp. 213-220, 2011

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V.Laparra, G. Camps & J. Malo
Iterative Gaussianization: from ICA to Random Rotations
IEEE Trans, Neur. Nets. (2011)

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J. Malo & V. Laparra
Psychophysically Tuned Divisive Normalization factorizes the PDF of Natural Images
Neural Computation (2010)

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V. Laparra and J. Malo
Masking-like Non-Linearities from Non-linear PCA
GRC Conference: Sensory Coding and The Natural Environment (july 2008)

 

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V. Laparra and J. Malo
Color and Luminance Discrimination by Non-Linear PCA
Computational Vision and Neuroscience symposium (April 2008)

 

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J. Malo and J. Gutiérrez
V1 non-linear properties emerge from local-to-global non-linear ICA 
Network: Computation in Neural Systems Vol. 17, 1, pp 85-102  (2006)

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J. Malo, J. Gutiérrez, J. Rovira
Perturbation Analysis of the Changes in V1 Receptive Fields due to Context
Presented at the Gordon Research Conference: Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment. Oxford, UK. (2004)

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J.Malo, A.Pons, A.Felipe, J.M.Artigas
Characterization of the human visual system threshold performance by a weighting fuction in a Gabor domain.
Journal of Modern Optics . Vol. 44, 1, pp 127-148 (1997)

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M.J. Buades, J.M. Artigas, A. Felipe, J. Malo
A statistical explanation of the effect of luminance on photopic visual acuity of speckled images.
Journal of Optics , Vol. 26, 4, pp 175-176 (1995) 

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J.Malo, A. Felipe, M.J. Luque, J.M. Artigas
On the intrinsic two-dimensionality of the CSF and its measurement.
Journal of Optics. Vol. 25, 3, pp 93-103 (1994)

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Vision Science:
Image Distortion Metrics


V. Laparra, J. Muñoz and J.Malo
Divisive Normalization Image Quality Metric Revisited
Journal of the Optical Society Am. A. 27(4): 852-864 (2010).

Also selected by OSA for the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics 5(8), 2010 

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A.B. Watson and J.Malo
Video Quality Measures based on the Standard Spatial Observer.
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Im. Proc. Vol. 3, pp. 41-44. (2002) 

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A. Pons, J.Malo, J.M.Artigas, P.Capilla
Image quality metric based on multidimensional contrast perception models.
Displays Journal. Vol. 20, pp. 93-110. (1999) 

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J.Malo, A.Pons, J.M.Artigas
Subjective image fidelity metric based on bit allocation of the human visual system in the DCT domain.
Image & Vision Computing . Vol. 15, pp. 535-548 (1997)

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Vision Science:
Optical Quality of the Human Eye  


A. Lorente, A.M. Pons, J.Malo, J.M.Artigas
Standard criterion for fluctuations of the Modulation Transfer Function in the human eye
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics. Vol. 17 3, pp 267-272 (1997) 

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Image Processing:
Transform Coding, Image Representation, Quantizer Design
and Perceptually weighted Support Vector Machines
 
  


L. Gómez-Chova, J. Muñoz, V. Laparra, J. Malo and G. Camps  
Chapter 9 in:Optical Remote Sensing – Advances in Signal Processing and Exploitation Techniques
Saurabh Prasad, Lori Bruce and Jocelyn Chanussot, Eds.
Springer-Verlag, 2010

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G. Camps, J. Gutiérrez, G. Gómez and J. Malo
On the Suitable Domain for SVM Training in Image Coding.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 9, pp 49-66 (2008) 

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J. Gutiérrez, G. Gomez and J.Malo  
Perceptual image representations in Suppot Vector Machine image coding .
Book chapter in: Kernel methods in bioengineering, communications and image processing. Publisher Idea Group Inc. Chapter XIII, pp 298-319 (2007) 

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J.Malo, I.Epifanio, R.Navarro and E. Simoncelli,
Non-linear Image Representation for Efficient Perceptual Coding.
IEEE Trans. Im. Proc. Vol. 15, 1, pp 68-80 (2006) 

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G. Gomez, G. Camps, J. Gutiérrez and J. Malo
Perceptual Adaptive Insensitivity for Support Vector Machine Image Coding.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Vol. 16, 6, pp 1574-1581 (2005)

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Y. Navarro, J. Rovira, J. Gutiérrez and J.Malo
Gain control for the chromatic channels in JPEG2000.
Proc. of the 10th Intl. Conf. AIC. Vol. 1, pp. 539-542. (2005) 

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J.Malo
Normalized Image Representation for Efficient Coding.
Proc. IEEE 37th Asilomar Conf. Signals Systems & Comp., Vol. 2, pp. 1408-1412 (2003) 

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I. Epifanio, J. Gutiérrez and J.Malo
Linear Transform for Simultaneous Diagonalization of Covariance and Perceptual Metric Matrix in Image Coding.
Pattern Recognition, Vol. 36, pp. 1799-1811 (2003)

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J.Malo
Almacenamiento y transmisión de imágenes en color
Tecnología del color (Artigas, Capilla y Pujol Eds.). Cap. 4, pp 117-164. 
Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de València (2002) 

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J.Malo, R.Navarro, I.Epifanio, F.Ferri, J.M.Artigas
Non-linear Invertible Representation for Joint Statistical and Perceptual Feature Decorrelation.
Lecture Notes on Computer Science , Vol. 1876, pp. 658-667 (2000) 

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, R.Navarro, R.Valerio
Perceptually and Statistically Decorrelated Features for Image Representation:
Application to Transform Coding.
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Patt. Rec. , Vol. 3, pp. 242-245 (2000) 

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, J.Albert, J.Soret, J.M.Artigas
The role of perceptual contrast non-linearities in image transform quantization.
Image & Vision Computing , Vol. 18, 3, pp. 233-246 (2000) 

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, J.Albert, J.Soret
Comparison of perceptually uniform quantization with average perceptual error minimization in image transform coding.
Electronics Letters , Vol. 35, 13, pp. 1067-1068 (1999) 

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J.Malo, A.Pons, J.M.Artigas
Bit allocation algorithm for codebook design in vector quantization fully based on HVS non-linearities for suprathreshold contrasts.
Electronics Letters , Vol. 31, 15, pp.1222-1224 (1995) 

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Image Processing:

Perceptual Image Restoration and Kernel Image Restoration 


V. Laparra, J. Gutiérrez, G. Camps and J. Malo
Image Denoising with Kernels based on Natural Image Relations
Accepted in J. Mach. Learn. Res. (2010)

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V. Laparra, J. Gutiérrez, G. Camps and J. Malo

Recovering wavelet relations using SVM for image denoising

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing  (Oct. 2008)

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J. Gutiérrez, F. Ferri and J. Malo 
Regularization operators for natural images based on non-linear perception models
IEEE Trans. Im. Proc. Vol. 15, 1, pp 189-200 (2006) 

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J. Gutiérrez, J. Malo and F. Ferri
Perceptual Regularization Functionals for Natural Image Restoration
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Im. Proc. 2003. CD Edition. ISBN 0-7803-7751-6 (2003) 

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Video Processing:
Motion Estimation  


J. Malo and M. Simón
Modelos Corticales de Percepción del Movimiento.
Conferencia Invitada en la Jornada de Presentación de Aletheia Nº5,

Rector Peset, Universitat de València, Feb. 2008

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J. Malo
La percepción del movimiento: parte de lo que pasa por tu cabeza en unos milisegundos.
Aletheia, CADE, Universitat de València, Nº 5, pp 11-17, Dec 2007

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J. Malo, J. Gutierrez, I. Epifanio
What motion information is perceptually relevant?.
Journal of Vision, 1(3), 309a, http://journalofvision.org/1/3/309, DOI 10.1167/1.3.309  (2001)

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J.Malo, J.Gutierrez, I.Epifanio and F.Ferri
Perceptually weighted optical flow for motion-based segmentation in MPEG-4 paradigm.
Electronics Letters , Vol.36, 20, pp.1693-94, (2000) 

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, J.Albert, J.M.Artigas
Splitting criterion for hierarchical motion estimation based on perceptual coding.
Electronics Letters , Vol. 34, 6, pp.541-543 (1998) 

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F.Ferri, J.Malo, J.Albert, J.Soret
Variable-size BMA for motion estimation using a perceptual-based splitting criterion.
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Pat. Recog. 98. Vol. I, pp. 286-288 (1998)




Video Processing:
Video Coding: Motion Estimation + Transform Coding  


J.Malo, J.Gutierrez, I.Epifanio, F.Ferri, J.M.Artigas
Perceptual feed-back in multigrid motion estimation using an improved DCT quantization.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing . Vol. 10, 10, pp. 1411-1427 (2001)

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, J.Gutierrez, I.Epifanio
Importance of quantizer design compared to optimal multigrid motion estimation in video coding.
Electronics Letters , Vol. 36, 9, pp. 807-809 (2000)

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J.Malo, F.Ferri, J.Albert, J.M.Artigas
Adaptive motion estimation and video vector quantization based on spatio-temporal non-linearities of human perception.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Springer Verlag. Vol.1310, pp.454-461 (1997)

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Color Science:
Color Constancy  


F.Martinez, M.J. Luque, J. Malo, A. Felipe, J.M. Artigas
Implementations of a novel algorithm for colour constancy
Vision Research . Vol. 37. 13, pp. 1829-1844 (1997)

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F. Martinez, V. Arnau, J. Malo, A. Felipe, J.M. Artigas
A new chromatic encoding for machine vision invariant to the change of illumination.
Journal of Optics. Vol.27, 4, pp. 171-181 (1996)

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Color Science:
Simulating Dichromatic Perception  


P. Capilla, M.A. Díez, M.J. Luque and J. Malo
Corresponding-pair procedure: a new approach to simulation of dichromatic color perception
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol. 21, 2, pp 173-186 (2004)

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Color Science:
Color Representation Spaces  


P. Capilla, M.J. Luque y J. Malo
Espacios lineales de representación del color
Fundamentos de Colorimetría (Artigas, Capilla y Pujol Eds.). Cap. 2, pp. 31-54. 
Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de València (2002)

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P. Capilla, J.Malo, M.J.Luque, J.M.Artigas
Colour representation spaces at different physiological levels: a comparative analysis
Journal of Optics. Vol. 29, pp.324-338 (1998)

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Color Science:
CRT Calibration  


J. Malo y M.J. Luque
Reproducción del color en monitores
Tecnología del color (Artigas, Capilla y Pujol Eds.). Cap. 5, pp. 165-180. 
Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de València (2002)

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  Patents:
 

 

J. Malo, J. Gutiérrez, G. Camps and Mª. J. Luque
Method, apparatus and software for color image compression based on non-linear perceptual representations and machine learning
(2008)

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