Publications related to Predicting 3D Quality based on Content Analysis

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JPEG AIC-3 Dataset: Towards Defining the High Quality to Nearly Visually Lossless Quality Range

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

Visual data play a crucial role in modern society, and the rate at which images and videos are acquired, stored, and exchanged every day is rapidly increasing. Image compression is the key technology that enables storing and sharing of visual content in an ...

2023

Quality-Constrained Encoding Optimization for Omnidirectional Video Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Omnidirectional video streaming is usually implemented based on the representations of tiles, where the tiles are obtained by splitting the video frame into several rectangular areas and each tile is converted into multiple representations with different r ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Towards a multiscale point cloud structural similarity metric

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

Point clouds are effective data structures for the rep- resentation of three-dimensional media and hence adopted in a wide range of practical applications. In many cases, the portrayed data is expected to be visualized by humans. After acquisition, point c ...

IEEE2023

On the Performance of Subjective Visual Quality Assessment Protocols for Nearly Visually Lossless Image Compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

The past decades have witnessed rapid growth in imaging as a major form of communication between individuals. Due to recent advances in capture, storage, delivery and display technologies, consumers demand improved perceptual quality while requiring reduce ...

2023

AI-based telepresence for broadcast applications

Rayan Daod Nathoo, Changsheng Gao, Laurent Deillon, Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo, Touradj Ebrahimi

In this paper, we introduce a new solution and underlying architecture that allows remote participants to interact with hosts in a broadcast scenario. To achieve this, background extraction is first applied to video received from remote participants to ext ...

SPIE2022

Feature-based no-reference video quality assessment using Extra Trees

Arash Amini, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

With the emergence of social networks and improvements in the internet speed, the video data has become an ever-increasing portion of the global internet traffic. Besides the content, the quality of a video sequence is an important issue at the user end wh ...

WILEY2022

Unsupervised Visual Entity Abstraction towards 2D and 3D Compositional Models

Beril Besbinar

Object-centric learning has gained significant attention over the last years as it can serve as a powerful tool to analyze complex scenes as a composition of simpler entities. Well-established tasks in computer vision, such as object detection or instance ...

EPFL2022

Towards JPEG AIC part 3: visual quality assessment of high to visually lossless image coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Evgeniy Upenik

Due to the increasing number of pictures captured and stored every day by and on digital devices, lossy image compression has become inevitable to limit the needed storage requirement. As a consequence, these compression methods might introduce some visual ...

SPIE2022

Performance Evaluation of Objective Image Quality Metrics on Conventional and Learning-Based Compression Artifacts

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Evgeniy Upenik, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira

Lossy image compression is a popular, simple and effective solution to reduce the amount of data representing digital pictures. In most lossy compression methods, the reduced volume of data in bits is achieved at the expense of introducing visual artifacts ...

IEEE2021

Cyber-Physical LPG Debutanizer Distillation Columns: Machine-Learning-Based Soft Sensors for Product Quality Monitoring

Jinzhi Lu

Refineries execute a series of interlinked processes, where the product of one unit serves as the input to another process. Potential failures within these processes affect the quality of the end products, operational efficiency, and revenue of the entire ...

2021

A data-driven perspective on the colours of metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Luc Patiny, Mehrdad Asgari, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Christopher Patrick Ireland

Colour is at the core of chemistry and has been fascinating humans since ancient times. It is also a key descriptor of optoelectronic properties of materials and is often used to assess the success of a synthesis. However, predicting the colour of a materi ...

2021

Towards a Point Cloud Structural Similarity Metric

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point cloud is a 3D image representation that has recently emerged as a viable approach for advanced content modality in modern communication systems. In view of its wide adoption, quality evaluation metrics are essential. In this paper, we propose and ass ...

IEEE2020

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

Subjective and Viewport-based Objective Quality Assessment of 360-degree Videos

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Visual distortions in processed 360-degree visual content and consumed through head-mounted displays (HMDs) are perceived very differently when compared to traditional 2D content. To better understand how compression-related artifacts affect the overall pe ...

2020

Image Compression and Quality Assessment using Convolutional Neural Networks

Pinar Akyazi

The rapid development of digital imaging and video has placed visual contents in the heart of our lives. Digital multimedia span a vast number of areas from business to leisure, including but not limited to education, medicine, accessibility, training, adv ...

EPFL2020

A solution method for predictive simulations in a stochastic environment

Anne Daniëlle Koelewijn

Predictive gait simulations currently do not account for environmental or internal noise. We describe a method to solve predictive simulations of human movements in a stochastic environment using a collocation method. The optimization is performed over mul ...

2020

Multi-Objective Management of Multiprocessor Systems: From Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

Arman Iranfar

In my thesis, I reveal several already-existing and emerging challenges in multi-objective management of multiprocessor systems, and address them through novel solutions, from heuristics to RL, depending on the complexity of the problem. Conventional multi ...

EPFL2020

Context-based Quality of Experience in Immersive Multimedia

Anne-Flore Nicole Marie Perrin

Since 1895, when the Lumière brothers came out with the projected cinematograph, motion pictures and more generally multimedia contents have considerably improved and are still experiencing a very dynamic development. Advances involved improving various mo ...

EPFL2019

Rendering-dependent compression and quality evaluation for light field contents

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field representation promises to overcome the limitations of stereoscopic representation by allowing for a more seamless transition between multiple points of views, thus giving a more faithful representation of 3D scenes. However, in order to take f ...

2019

A Viewport-driven Multi-metric Fusion Approach for 360-Degree Video Quality Assessment

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

We propose a new viewport-based multi-metric fusion (MMF) approach for visual quality assessment of 360-degree (omnidirectional) videos. Our method is based on computing multiple spatio-temporal objective quality metrics (features) on viewports extracted f ...

IEEE2020