List of Publications

[bibtex] Peer-reviewed Journal Papers:

1. "FASSD-Net: Fast and Accurate Real-Time Semantic Segmentation for Embedded Systems,"
   Leonel Rosas-Arias*, Gibran Benitez-Garcia*, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Keiji Yanai. (*both are co-first authors.)
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (early access), pp. 1-12, 2021.
   JCR Impact Factor = 6.492. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3127553
2. "Sign Language Recognition Based on Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolution-Transformer,"
   Natsuki Takayama, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Hiroki Takahashi.
   Journal of the JSPE, vol. 87, no. 12, pp. 1028-1035, 2021.
   JCR Impact Factor = 0.12. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.2493/jjspe.87.1028
3. "Efficient Face Recognition System for Operating in Unconstrained Environments,"
   AS Sanchez-Moreno, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Aldo Hernandez-Suarez, Karina Toscano-Medina, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Gibran Benitez-Garcia.
   Journal of Imaging, vol. 7, no. 9, p. 161, 2021.
   Scopus Citescore = 4.8. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.3390/jimaging7090161
4. "FASSD-Net Model for Person Semantic Segmentation,"
   LB Garcia-Ortiz, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Aldo Hernandez-Suarez, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Karina Toscano-Medina, Hector Perez-Meana, and Gibran Benitez-Garcia.
   Electronics, vol. 10, no. 12, p. 1393, 2021.
   JCR Impact Factor = 2.397. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.3390/electronics10121393
5. "Improving Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition with Semantic Segmentation,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Lidia Prudente-Tixteco, Luis Carlos Castro-Madrid, Rocio Toscano-Medina, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Luis Javier Garcia Villalba.
   Sensors, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 356, 2021.
   JCR Impact Factor = 3.031. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.3390/s21020356
6. "Continuous Finger Gesture Spotting and Recognition based on Similarities Between Start and End Frames,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, and Norimichi Ukita.
   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 296-307, 2022.
   JCR Impact Factor = 6.319. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3010306
7. "Finger Gesture Spotting from Long Sequences Based on Multi-Stream Recurrent Neural Networks,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, and Norimichi Ukita.
   Sensors, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 528, 2020.
   JCR Impact Factor = 3.031. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.3390/s20020528
8. "A Low Complexity Face Recognition Scheme Based on Down Sampled Local Binary Patterns,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Hector Perez-Meana, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Karina Toscano-Medina.
   International Arab Journal of Information Technology, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 338-347, 2019.
   JCR Impact Factor = 0.466.
   Online Version
9. "Multicultural Facial Expression Recognition Based on Differences of Western-Caucasian and East-Asian Facial Expressions of Emotions,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
   IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. 101, no. 5, pp. 1317-1324, 2018.
   JCR Impact Factor = 0.576. Manuscript
   DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2017MVP0025
10. "Facial Expression Recognition Based on Facial Region Segmentation and Modal Value Approach,"
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Hector Perez-Meana, Keita Takahashi, and Masahide Kaneko.
    IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. 97, no. 4, pp. 928-935, 2014.
    JCR Impact Factor = 0.576. Manuscript
    DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.928
11. "A Sub-block-based Eigenphases Algorithm with Optimum Sub-block Size,"
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Mariko Nakano-Miyatake, and Hector Perez-Meana.
    Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 37, pp. 415-426, 2013.
    JCR Impact Factor = 4.396. Manuscript
    DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2012.08.023
12. "Halftoning: Review and Analysis," (In Spanish)
    Fernando Pelcastre, Leticia Peregrina, Marcela García, Alejandro Ochoa, Ulises Juárez, Elizabeth Ríos, Gibran Benítez, and Mariko Nakano.
    Revista Ingenierías Universidad de Medellín, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 161-174, 2012. Manuscript
    ISSN: 1692-3324

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[bibtex] Peer-reviewed International Conferences & Workshops:

1. "Comparison of Real-time CNN-based Methods for Finger-level Hand Segmentation," (Best Paper Award)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Natsuki Takayama, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Hiroki Takahashi.
   2022 International Workshop on Advanced Imaging Technology, (IWAIT 2022),
   Hong Kong, China, Jan 4-6, 2022.
   DOI: 10.1117/12.2590813 Manuscript
2. "Masked Batch Normalization to Improve Tracking-Based Sign Language Recognition Using Graph Convolutional Networks,"
   Natsuki Takayama, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Hiroki Takahashi.
   16th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, (FG 2021),
   Jodhpur, India, Dec 15-18, 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/FG52635.2021.9667007 Manuscript
3. "Ketchup As You Like: Drawing Editor for Foods,"
   Shu Naritomi, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Keiji Yanai.
   The 21st IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, (AIVR '21),
   Taichung, Taiwan, Nov 15-17 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/AIVR52153.2021.00047 Manuscript
4. "Similarity Learning for CNN-Based ASL Alphabet Recognition," (Best Technical Paper Award)
   Atoany Fierro-Radilla, Karina Ruby Perez Daniel, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Ramona Fuentes Valdez.
   The 20th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, (SoMeT 2021),
   Cancun, Mexico, Sept 21-23, 2021.
   DOI: 10.3233/FAIA210060 Manuscript
5. "Ketchup GAN: A New Dataset for Realistic Synthesis of Letters on Food,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Keiji Yanai.
   2021 Joint Workshop on Multimedia Artworks Analysis and Attractiveness Computing in Multimedia, (MMArt-ACM '21),
   Taipei, Taiwan, August, 2021.
   DOI: 10.1145/3463946.3469241 Manuscript
6. "IPN Hand: A Video Dataset and Benchmark for Real-Time Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Keiji Yanai.
   25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2020),
   Milan, Italy, Jan 10-15, 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412317 Manuscript
7. "Fast and Accurate Real-Time Semantic Segmentation with Dilated Asymmetric Convolutions,"
   Leonel Rosas-Arias, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Keiji Yanai.
   25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2020),
   Milan, Italy, Jan 10-15, 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9413176 Manuscript
8. "Training of Multiple and Mixed Tasks with a Single Network Using Feature Modulation,"
   Mana Takeda, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Keiji Yanai.
   ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, (ICPRW 2020),
   Milan, Italy, Jan 10-15, 2021.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68790-8_55 Manuscript
9. "Style Image Retrieval for Improving Material Translation Using Neural Style Transfer,"
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Wataru Shimoda, and Keiji Yanai.
   2020 Joint Workshop on Multimedia Artworks Analysis and Attractiveness Computing in Multimedia, (MMArt-ACM '20),
   Dublin, Ireland, June 8, 2020.
   DOI: 10.1145/3379173.3393707 Manuscript
10. "Iconify: Converting Photographs into Icons,"
    Takuro Karamatsu, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Keiji Yanai, and Seiichi Uchida.
    2020 Joint Workshop on Multimedia Artworks Analysis and Attractiveness Computing in Multimedia, (MMArt-ACM '20),
    Dublin, Ireland, June 8, 2020.
    DOI: 10.1145/3379173.3393708 Manuscript
11. "Similar Finger Gesture Recognition using Triplet-loss Networks," (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, and Norimichi Ukita.
    16th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019),
    Tokyo, Japan, May 27-31, 2019. (oral acceptance rate = 18.5%)
    DOI: 10.23919/MVA.2019.8757973 Manuscript
12. "Analysis of Hand-crafted and Learned Feature Extraction Methods for Real-time Facial Expression Recognition," (Oral Presentation)
    Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Karina Toscano-Medina, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Hector Perez-Meana.
    7th IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF2019),
    Cancun, Mexico, May 2-3, 2019.
    DOI: 10.1109/IWBF.2019.8739178 Manuscript
13. "Analysis of In- and Out-group Differences between Western and East-Asian Facial Expression Recognition," (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
    15th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2017),
    pp. 372-375, Nagoya, Japan, May 8-12, 2017. (oral acceptance rate = 18.6%)
    DOI: 10.23919/MVA.2017.7986886 Manuscript
14. "Face Identification Based on Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE)" (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Jesus Olivares-Mercado, Gualberto Aguilar-Torres, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, and Hector Perez-Meana.
    International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV’11),
    pp. 363-369. Nevada, USA, July 18-21, 2011.
    Online Version

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   Domestic Conferences & Workshops:

1. "Analysis of Basic Facial Expressions from a Cross-cultural Database using Hybrid Features and Unsupervised Learning," (Oral Presentation)
   David Allan Jones, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Masahide Kaneko.
   Proceedings of the UEC International Mini-Conference for Exchange Students on Informatics & Engineering and Information Systems No.38,
   pp. 26-30. Tokyo, Japan, August 7-8, 2017
   
2. "Analysis of Basic Facial Expressions from a Cross-cultural Database using Hybrid Features and Unsupervised Learning," (Poster Presentation)
   David Allan Jones, Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Masahide Kaneko.
   Proceedings of the UEC International Mini-Conference for Exchange Students on Informatics & Engineering and Information Systems No.37,
   pp. 80-81. Tokyo, Japan, March 6-7, 2017.
   
3. "Appearance- and Geometric-based Methodical Feature Analysis of Facial Parts using PCA for Facial Expression Recognition," (Poster Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
   Vision Engineering Workshop 2016 (ViEW2016),
   pp. 122-127, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 8-9, 2016.
   
4. "Analysis of the Effect of Static Structure of Faces for Facial Expression Recognition," (Poster Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
   21st JFACE Annual Conference (Forum Kaogaku 2016),
   p. 81, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 19-20, 2016.
   
5. "Analysis of Differences between Western and East-Asian Faces Based on Facial Region Segmentation and PCA for Facial Expression Recognition," (Oral Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
   The Irago Conference 2016,
   pp. 020025.1-020025.10, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 1-2, 2016.
   
6. "Geometric-based Feature Analysis of Differences between Western and East-Asian Expressive Faces Based on Principal Component Scores," (Poster Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Masahide Kaneko.
   Human Interface Symposium 2016 (HIS2016),
   pp. 943-946, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 6-9, 2016.
   
7. "Java Application for Facial Expression Recognition," (Oral Presentation)
   Héctor Romero Valdés, Edher Herrera Guadarrama, Gibran Benítez García, and Gabriel Sánchez Pérez.
   11o Congreso Estudiantil de Proyectos y Prototipos de Ingeniería en Computación (CEPPIC 2011),
   Mexico City, Mexico, May 21-22, 2014. (In Spanish)
   
8. "Facial Expression Recognition under Partial Occlusion Based on Modal Value Approach," (Oral Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Hector Perez-Meana, Keita Takahashi, and Masahide Kaneko.
   Proceedings of the UEC International Mini-Conference for Exchange Students on Informatics & Engineering and Information Systems No.29,
   pp. 55-62. Tokyo, Japan, March 5-6, 2013.
   
9. "Facial Expression Recognition Under Partial Occlusion Based on Facial Region Segmentation," (Oral Presentation)
   Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Hector Perez-Meana, Keita Takahashi, and Masahide Kaneko.
   映像情報メディア学会技術報告,
   vol. 37, pp. 95-98. Yokohama, Japan, Feb. 15-16, 2013.
   
10. "Comparison of Facial Expression Recognition Rates Depending on Combination of Different Facial Regions," (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Hector Perez-Meana, Keita Takahashi, and Masahide Kaneko.
    2012年映像情報メディア学会冬季大会,
    p. 12-7, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 18-19, 2012.
    
11. "Facial Expression Recognition under Partial Occlusion using Sub-Block Eigenphases," (Poster Presentation)
    Gibran Benitez-Garcia, and Masahide Kaneko.
    UEC International Mini-Conference for Exchange Students on Electro-Communications and Information Science No.28,
    pp. 90-91. Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 9-10, 2012.
    
12. "Face Recognition Based on Eigenphases and Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization," (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benítez García, Jesús Olivares Mercado, and Héctor Pérez Meana.
    8o Congreso Estudiantil de Proyectos y Prototipos de Ingeniería en Computación (CEPPIC 2011),
    Mexico City, Mexico, June, 2011. (In Spanish)
    
13. "Face Identification Based on Histogram Equalization," (Oral Presentation)
    Gibran Benítez García, Jesús Olivares Mercado, Gualberto Aguilar Torres, Gabriel Sánchez Pérez, and Héctor Pérez Meana.
    21ª Reunión de Otoño, de Comunicaciones, Computación Electrónica y Exposición Industrial (ROC&C 2010), IEEE Sección México,
    Guerrero, Mexico, December, 2010. (In Spanish)