• Photorealistic style transfer for cinema shoots

  Zabaleta, Itziar; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  Color grading is the process of subtly mixing andadjusting the color and tonal balance of a movie to achievea specific visuallook. This manual editing task may requirea significant amount of ...
• Diet as a source of exposure to environmental contaminants for pregnant women and children from six european countries

  Papadopoulou, Eleni, 1985-; Haug, Line Småstuen; Sakhi, Amrit Kaur; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Brantsaeter, Anne Lise; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Fernández Barres, Silvia; Grazuleviciene, Regina; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Maitre, Léa; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; McEachan, Rosemary R.C.; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Slama, Rémy; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Wright, John; Vrijheid, Martine; Thomsen, Cathrine; Chatzi, Leda (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2019)

  Background: Pregnant women and children are especially vulnerable to exposures to food contaminants, and a balanced diet during these periods is critical for optimal nutritional status. Objectives: Our objective was to ...
• Correlates of walking for travel in seven european cities: The PASTA Project

  Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984-; Götschi, Thomas; De Nazelle, Audrey; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Ambros, Albert; Márquez, Sandra; Marquet, Oriol; Avila Palencia, Ione; Brand, Christian; Iacorossi, Francesco; Raser, Elisabeth; Gaupp-Berghausen, Mailin; Dons, Evi; Laeremans, Michelle; Kahlmeier, Sonja; Sánchez, Julian; Gerike, Regine; Anaya, Esther; Int Panis, Luc; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2019)

  Background: Although walking for travel can help in reaching the daily recommended levels of physical activity, we know relatively little about the correlates of walking for travel in the European context. Objective: Within ...
• Momentary mood response to natural outdoor environments in four European cities

  Kondo, Michelle C.; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Donaire González, David; Seto, Edmund; Valentín, Antònia; Hurst, Gemma; Carrasco Turigas, Glòria; Masterson, Daniel; Ambros, Albert; Ellis, Naomi; Swart, Wim; Davis, Nora; Maas, Jolanda; Jerrett, Michael; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Exposure to natural outdoor environments (NOE) has been shown in population-level studies to reduce anxiety and psychological distress. This study investigated how exposure to one's everyday natural outdoor environments ...
• Exploring mechanisms underlying the relationship between the natural outdoor environment and health and well-being - Results from the PHENOTYPE project

  Kruize, Hanneke; van Kamp, Irene; Berg, Magdalena van den; Kempen, Elise van; Wendel-Vos, Wanda; Ruijsbroek, Annemarie; Swart, Wim; Maas, Jolanda; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Smith, Graham; Ellis, Naomi; Hurst, Gemma; Masterson, Daniel; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Cirach, Marta; Gražulevičiene, Regina; Hazel, Peter van den; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Despite the large number of studies on beneficial effects of the natural outdoor environment (NOE) on health, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Objective: This study explored the relations ...
• A Vocoder based method for singing voice extraction

  Chandna, Pritish; Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  This paper presents a novel method for extracting the vocal track from a musical mixture. The musical mixture consists of a singing voice and a backing track which may comprise of various instruments. We use a convolutional ...
• Learned effects of structural components of newscasts on viewers’ information processing: The case of Stings

  Barreda Ángeles, Miguel; Pereda-Baños, Alexandre; Ferràndiz Bofill, Xavier; Costa, Albert, 1970- (De Gruyter, 2017)

  This article proposes that syntactic features of newscasts can act as learned motivational stimuli determining both viewers’ attention and memory for information. An experiment was conducted in which we manipulated the ...
• Changing the urban design of cities for health: The superblock model

  Mueller, Natalie, 1988-; Rojas Rueda, David, 1979-; Khreis, Haneen; Cirach, Marta; Andrés, David; Ballester, Joan; Bartoll, Xavier; Daher, Carolyn; Deluca, Anna; Echave, Cynthia; Milà, Carles; Márquez, Sandra; Palou, Joan; Pérez, Katherine; Tonne, Cathryn; Stevenson, Mark; Rueda, Salvador; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Car-dependent city planning has resulted in high levels of environmental pollution, sedentary lifestyles and increased vulnerability to the effects of climate change. The Barcelona Superblock model is an ...
• The early-life exposome: Description and patterns in six European countries

  Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Maitre, Léa; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; de Castro, Montserrat; Robinson, Oliver; Urquiza, José M.; Warembourg, Charline; Vrijheid, Martine; Basagaña Flores, Xavier (Elsevier, 2019)

  Characterization of the "exposome", the set of all environmental factors that one is exposed to from conception onwards, has been advocated to better understand the role of environmental factors on chronic diseases. Here, ...
• Short-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution reveals a compound-specific circulating miRNA profile indicating multiple disease risks

  Krauskopf, Julian; van Veldhoven, Karin; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc; Vermeulen, Roel; Carrasco Turigas, Glòria; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vineis, Paolo; Kok, Theo M. de; Kleinjans, Jos C. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is a complex mixture of compounds that contributes to the pathogenesis of many diseases including several types of cancer, pulmonary, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, and ...
• Determining the health benefits of green space: does gentrification matter?

  Cole, Helen; Garcia Lamarca, Melisa; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Connolly, James; Anguelovski, Isabelle (Elsevier, 2019)

  Urban green space is demonstrated to benefit human health. We evaluated whether neighborhood gentrification status matters when considering the health benefits of green space, and whether the benefits are received equitably ...
• Prenatal exposure to organochlorine compounds and lung function during childhood

  Abellan, Alicia; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; García Esteban, Raquel; Basterrechea, Mikel; Duarte Salles, Talita, 1985-; Ferrero, Amparo; García Aymerich, Judith; Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984-; Grimalt Obrador, Joan; Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José; Zabaleta, Carlos; Vrijheid, Martine; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel (Elsevier, 2019)

  Introduction: Prenatal exposure to organochlorine compounds (OCs) can increase the risk of reported respiratory symptoms in children. It remains unclear whether these compounds can also impact on lung function. We assessed ...
• First-trimester maternal concentrations of polyfluoroalkyl substances and fetal growth throughout pregnancy

  Costa, Olga; Iñiguez, Carmen; Manzano Salgado, Cyntia Beatriz, 1987-; Amiano, Pilar; Murcia, Mario; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Irizar, Amaia; Basterrechea, Mikel; Beneito, Andrea; Schettgen, Thomas; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-José (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Several studies have investigated the possible association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and birth anthropometry. However, none has assessed fetal size longitudinally. We studied ...
• ExpoApp: an integrated system to assess multiple personal environmental exposures

  Donaire González, David; Valentín, Antònia; van Nunen, Erik; Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987-; Rodriguez, Albert; Fernandez-Nieto, Mario; Naccarati, Alessio; Tarallo, Sonia; Tsai, Ming-Yi; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Vermeulen, Roel; Hoek, Gerard; Vineis, Paolo; Gulliver, John; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  To assess environmental exposures at the individual level, new assessment methods and tools are required. We developed an exposure assessment system (ExpoApp) for smartphones. ExpoApp integrates: (i) geo-location and ...
• Vision models for wide color gamut imaging in cinema

  Zamir, Syed Waqas; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Gamut mapping is the problem of transforming the colors of image or video content so as to fully exploit the color palette ofthe display device where the content will be shown, while preserving the artistic intent of the ...
• The Potential of light fields in media productions

  Trottnow, Jonas; Spielmann, Simon; Lange, Tobias; Chelli, Kelvin; Solony, Marek; Smrž , Pavel; Zemčík, Pavel; Aenchbacher, Weston; Grogan, Mairéad; Alain, Martin; Smolic, Aljosa; Canham, Trevor; Vu-Thanh, Olivier; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2019)

  One aspect of the EU funded project SAUCE is to explore the pos-sibilities and challenges of integrating light field capturing andprocessing into media productions. A special light field camera wasbuild by Saarland University ...
• Performance evaluation of objective quality metrics on HLG-based HDR image coding

  Sugito, Yasuko; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  We evaluate the performance of objective quality metrics for high dynamic range (HDR) image coding that uses the transfer function (TF) of the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) method. Previous evaluations of objective metrics ...
• On the duality between retinex and image dehazing

  Galdran, Adrian; Bria, Alessandro; Álvarez-Gila, Aitor; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired lossof visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog.Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability ofthe Human Visual System to robustly discount varying ...
• Associations of green space metrics with health and behavior outcomes at different buffer sizes and remote sensing sensor resolutions

  Su, Jason; Dadvand, Payam; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Bartoll, Xavier; Jerrett, Michael (Elsevier, 2019)

  Satellite data is increasingly used to characterize green space for health outcome studies. Literature suggests that green space within 500 m of home is often used to represent neighborhood suitable for walking, air pollution ...
• Ambient air pollution and overweight and obesity in school-aged children in Barcelona, Spain

  de Bont, Jeroen; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Barrera Gómez, Jose; Cirach, Marta; Rivas, Ioar; Valvi, Damaskini, 1983-; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Dadvand, Payam; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Ambient air pollution may increase the risk of overweight and obesity in children. However, available evidence is still scarce and has mainly focused on ambient air pollution exposure occurring at home without ...

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