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Subjective performance evaluation of bitrate allocation strategies for MPEG and JPEG Pleno point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

The recent rise in interest in point clouds as an imaging modality has motivated standardization groups such as JPEG and MPEG to launch activities aiming at developing compression standards for point clouds. Lossy compression usually introduces visual arti ...

Springer2024

An Introduction to MPEG-G: The First Open ISO/IEC Standard for the Compression and Exchange of Genomic Sequencing Data

Marco Mattavelli

The development and progress of high-throughput sequencing technologies have transformed the sequencing of DNA from a scientific research challenge to practice. With the release of the latest generation of sequencing machines, the cost of sequencing a whol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Quality Evaluation Of Static Point Clouds Encoded Using MPEG Codecs

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

This paper presents a quality evaluation study of point cloud codecs that have been recently standardised by the MPEG committee. In particular, a subjective experiment to assess their performance in terms of bitrate against visual quality is designed and r ...

IEEE2020

JPEG Pleno: a standard framework for representing and signalling plenoptic modalities

Touradj Ebrahimi

In recent years, we have observed the advent of plenoptic modalities such as light fi elds, point clouds and holography in many devices and applications. Besides plenty of technical challenges brought by these new modalities, a particular challenge is aris ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Overview of the JPEG XS core coding system subjective evaluations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

The JPEG committee (Joint Photographic Experts Group, formally known as ISO/IEC SC29 WG1) is currently in the process of standardizing JPEG XS, a new interoperable solution for low-latency, lightweight and visually lossless compression of image and video. ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2018

Subjective and Objective Evaluation of HDR Video Coding Technologies

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart, Martin Rerabek

This paper reports the details and results of a subjective and objective quality evaluation assessing responses to an MPEG call for evidence (CfE) on high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut video coding. Five HDR video contents, compressed at four bi ...

Ieee2016

Temporal and Inter-view Consistent Error Concealment Technique for Multiview plus Depth Video Broadcasting

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Multiview plus depth (MVD) is an emerging video format with many applications, including 3-D television and free viewpoint television. During the broadcast of a compressed MVD video, transmission errors may cause the loss of whole frames, resulting in sign ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Overview and Evaluation of the JPEG XT HDR Image Compression Standard

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart

Standards play an important role in providing a common set of specifications and allowing inter-operability between devices and systems. Until recently, no standard for High Dynamic Range (HDR) image coding had been adopted by the market, and HDR imaging r ...

2019

Exploring MPEG HEVC decoder parallelism for the efficient porting onto many-core platforms

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Damien Jack De Saint Jorre

MPEG High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) is likely to emerge as the video coding standard for HD and Ultra-HD TV resolutions. The two elements that push HEVC beyond the previous standards are a higher compression efficiency of about a factor of two, and the ...

IEEE2014

A Methodology For Optimizing Buffer Sizes Of Dynamic Dataflow Fpgas Implementations

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

Minimizing buffer sizes of dynamic dataflow implementations without introducing deadlocks or reducing the design performance is in general an important and useful design objective. Indeed, buffer sizes that are too small causing a system to deadlock during ...

Ieee2014

Characterizing communication behavior of dataflow programs using trace analysis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet

This paper investigates the relationship between two ways of analyzing streaming systems: trace analysis for dataflow programs with firing, and network calculus for network flows. While the former focuses on the structure of the dataflow computation while ...

IEEE2014

High-level dataflow design of signal processing systems for reconfigurable and multicore heterogeneous platforms

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Ghislain Roquier, Richard Thavot

The potential computational power of today multicore processors has drastically improved compared to the single processor architecture. Since the trend of increasing the processor frequency is almost over, the competition for increased performance has move ...

Springer Heidelberg2014

Buffer optimization based on critical path analysis of a dataflow program design

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet

The trade-off between throughput and memory constraints is a common design problem in embedded systems, and especially for streaming applications, where the memory in question usually occurs in the form of buffers for streams of data. This paper presents a ...

IEEE2013

Partitioning And Optimization Of High Level Stream Applications For Multi Clock Domain Architectures

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Claudio Paolo Alberti

In this paper we propose a design methodology to partition dataflow applications on a multi clock domain architecture. This work shows how starting from a high level dataflow representation of a dynamic program it is possible to reduce the overall power co ...

Ieee2013

Dataflow Program Analysis and Refactoring Techniques for Design Space Exploration: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Decoder Implementation Case Study

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

This paper presents a methodology to perform design space exploration of complex signal processing systems implemented using the CAL dataflow language. In the course of space exploration, critical path in dataflow programs is first presented, and then anal ...

IEEE2013

Design Space Exploration of High Level Stream Programs on Parallel Architectures: A focus on the Buffer Size Minimization and Optimization Problem

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti

This paper presents a dataflow design methodology and an associated co-exploration environment, focusing on the optimization of buffer sizes. The approach is applicable to dynamic dataflow designs and its performance is presented and validated by experimen ...

2013

Synthesis and optimization of high-level stream programs

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet

In this paper we address the problem of translating high-level stream programs, such as those written in MPEG's RVC-CAL dataflow language, into implementations in programmable hardware. Our focus is on two aspects: sufficient language coverage to make synt ...

2013

Synthesis And Optimization Of High-Level Stream Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati

Ieee2013

Porting an MPEG-HEVC decoder to a low-power many-core platform

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Damien Jack De Saint Jorre

After several generations of video coding standards, MPEG High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) is likely to emerge as the video coding standards for HD and Ultra-HD TV. HEVC decoding is expected to be less computationally demanding and to provide a higher le ...

2013

Design space exploration strategies for FPGA implementation of signal processing systems using CAL dataflow program

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet, Richard Thavot, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

This paper presents some strategies for design space exploration of FPGA-based signal processing systems that are specified using the CAL dataflow language. The actor- oriented, high-level of abstraction provided by CAL allows flexible exploration and cons ...

2012