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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

Efficient Temporally-Aware DeepFake Detection using H.264 Motion Vectors

Peter Arpad Grönquist, Sabine Süsstrunk, Yufan Ren

Video DeepFakes are fake media created with Deep Learning (DL) that manipulate a person’s expression or identity. Most current DeepFake detection methods analyze each frame independently, ignoring inconsistencies and unnatural movements between frames. Som ...

2024

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

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

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

On the assessment of high-quality images: advances on the JPEG AIC-3 activity

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Evgeniy Upenik

Recent advances in image compression have made it both possible and desirable for image quality to approach the visually lossless range. However, the most commonly used subjective visual quality assessment protocols, e.g. those reported in ITU-T Rec. BT.50 ...

2023

The JPEG AI Standard: Providing Efficient Human and Machine Visual Data Consumption

Touradj Ebrahimi

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) AI learning-based image coding system is an ongoing joint standardization effort between International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and International Te ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

SoDaCam: Software-defined Cameras via Single-Photon Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Andrei Ardelean

Reinterpretable cameras are defined by their post-processing capabilities that exceed traditional imaging. We present "SoDaCam" that provides reinterpretable cameras at the granularity of photons, from photon-cubes acquired by single-photon devices. Photon ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

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

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

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

Landmarking for Navigational Streaming of Stored High-Dimensional Media

Pascal Frossard, Yuan Yuan

Modern media data such as 360 degrees videos and light field (LF) images are typically captured in much higher dimensions than the observers' visual displays. To efficiently browse high-dimensional media, a navigational streaming model is considered: a cli ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Virtual metrology applied to milling process

Paul Arthur Adrien Pierre Dreyfus

Production quality and process efficiency are the two main drivers that lead any industrial strategy. To ensure product quality, a duality historically existed between two approaches, namely batch sampling and systematic sampling. In batch sampling, the ba ...

EPFL2022

List Ordered Statistics Decoders for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Yifei Shen, Leyu Zhang

The de-facto standard decoding algorithm for polar codes, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, is a breadth-first search algorithm. By keeping a list of candidate codewords, SCL decoding improves the performance as the list size L increases. Howeve ...

IEEE2022

Dalton: Learned Partitioning for Distributed Data Streams

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Mytilinis, Eleni Zapridou

To sustain the input rate of high-throughput streams, modern stream processing systems rely on parallel execution. However, skewed data yield imbalanced load assignments and create stragglers that hinder scalability. Deciding on a static partitioning for a ...

2022

Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations

Dolaana Khovalyg, Giorgia Chinazzo, Mandana Sarey Khanie, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero

The perception, physiology, behavior, and performance of building occupants are influenced by multi-domain exposures: the simultaneous presence of multiple environmental stimuli, i.e., visual, thermal, acoustic, and air quality. Despite being extensive, th ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Learning-based Image Coding: Early Solutions Reviewing and Subjective Quality Evaluation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

Nowadays, image and video are the data types that consume most of the resources of modern communication channels, both in fixed and wireless networks. Thus, it is vital to compress visual data as much as possible, while maintaining some target quality leve ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

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

Perceptual Quality of Point Clouds with application to Compression

Evangelos Alexiou

Modern information technologies and human-centric communication systems employ advanced content representations for richer portrayals of the real world. The newly adopted imaging modalities offer additional information cues and permit the depiction of real ...

EPFL2021