Publications related to Adaptive Frame Interpolation for Wyner-Ziv Coding

Automated Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis

Human motion analysis and synthesis is integral to many computer vision applications, from autonomous driving to sports analysis. In this thesis, we address several problems in this domain. First we consider active viewpoint selection for pose estimation w ...

EPFL2023

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

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Michela Testolina

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

Lagrangian analysis of bio-inspired vortex ring formation

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Mrudhula Baskaran

Pulsatile jet propulsion is a highly energy-efficient swimming mode used by various species of aquatic animals that continues to inspire engineers of underwater vehicles. Here, we present a bio-inspired jet propulsor that combines the flexible hull of a je ...

2022

Pedestrian Stop and Go Forecasting with Hybrid Feature Fusion

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Taylor Ferdinand Mordan, Dongxu Guo

Forecasting pedestrians' future motions is essential for autonomous driving systems to safely navigate in urban areas. However, existing prediction algorithms often overly rely on past observed trajectories and tend to fail around abrupt dynamic changes, s ...

2022

A Stochastic Conditioning Scheme for Diverse Human Motion Prediction

Mathieu Salzmann, Fatemehsadat Saleh

Human motion prediction, the task of predicting future 3D human poses given a sequence of observed ones, has been mostly treated as a deterministic problem. However, human motion is a stochastic process: Given an observed sequence of poses, multiple future ...

IEEE2020

Light field compression using translation-assisted view estimation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Light field technology has recently been gaining traction in the research community. Several acquisition technologies have been demonstrated to properly capture light field information, and portable devices have been commercialized to the general public. H ...

IEEE2019

Overview of the JPEG XS core coding system subjective evaluations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Benoît Macq, Irene Viola, Jakub Pospisil

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

A Machine Learning-Based Strategy for Efficient Resource Management of Video Encoding on Heterogeneous MPSoCs

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar

The design of new streaming systems is becoming a major area of research to deploy services targeted in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era. In this context, the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard provides high efficiency and scalability of qual ...

2018

Graph-based compression of dynamic 3D point cloud sequences

Pascal Frossard, Ntorina Thanou

This paper addresses the problem of compression of 3D point cloud sequences that are characterized by moving 3D positions and color attributes. As temporally successive point cloud frames are similar, motion estimation is key to effective compression of th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Encoder-Driven Inpainting Strategy in Multiview Video Compression

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey, Yu Gao

In free viewpoint video systems, where a user has the freedom to select a virtual view from which an observation image of the 3D scene is rendered, the scene is commonly represented by texture and depth images from multiple nearby viewpoints. In such repre ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Motion Vector Estimation of Textureless Objects Exploiting Reaction-Diffusion Cellular Automata

Alexandre Schmid, Kazuyoshi Ishimura

Conventional motion estimation algorithms extract motion vectors from image sequences based on the image's local-brightness differences in consecutive images. Therefore, motion vectors are extracted along the moving edges formed by moving objects over thei ...

Old City Publishing Inc2016

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

Spatial properties of non-retinotopic reference frames in human vision

Michael Herzog

Many visual attributes of a target stimulus are computed according to dynamic, non-retinotopic reference frames. For example, the motion trajectory of a reflector on a bicycle wheel is perceived as orbital, even though it is in fact cycloidal in retinal, a ...

Elsevier2015

Parameterized SVM for Personalized Drug Concentration Prediction

Giovanni De Micheli, Wenqi You Dubout, Alena Simalatsar

This paper proposes a parameterized Support Vector Machine (ParaSVM) approach for modeling the Drug Concentration to Time (DCT) curves. It combines the merits of Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm that considers various patient features and an analytic ...

2013

Fast encoding techniques for Multiview Video Coding

Pascal Frossard

Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is a technique that permits efficient compression of multiview video. MVC uses variable block size motion and disparity estimation for block matching. This requires an exhaustive search process that involves all possible macro- ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Correlation Estimation from Compressed Images

Pascal Frossard, Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai

This paper addresses the problem of correlation estimation in sets of compressed images. We consider a framework where images are represented under the form of linear measurements due to low complexity sensing or security requirements. We assume that the i ...

Elsevier2013

Distributed Compressed Representation of Correlated Image Sets

Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai

Vision sensor networks and video cameras find widespread usage in several applications that rely on effective representation of scenes or analysis of 3D information. These systems usually acquire multiple images of the same 3D scene from different viewpoin ...

EPFL2012

Audio-Visual Fusion : New Methods and Applications

Anna Llagostera Casanovas

The perception that we have about the world is influenced by elements of diverse nature. Indeed humans tend to integrate information coming from different sensory modalities to better understand their environment. Following this observation, scientists hav ...

EPFL2011

Motion Estimation from Compressed Linear Measurements

Pascal Frossard, Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai

This paper presents a novel algorithm for computing the relative motion between images from compressed linear measurements. We propose a geometry based correlation model that describes the relative motion between images by translational motion of visual f ...

2010

Efficient Frame Interpolation for Wyner-Ziv Video Coding

Thomas Maugey

In the framework of Wyner-Ziv Coding of Video, the coding efficiency depends on the quality of the side information (SI) at the decoder, where the side information is constructed from the key frames available at the decoder. In this paper, we propose a nov ...

2009