Publications related to Analysis of SSIM performance for Digital Cinema applications

Weak correlations between visual abilities in healthy older adults, despite long-term performance stability

Using batteries of visual tests, most studies have found that there are only weak correlations between the performance levels of the tests. Factor analysis has confirmed these results. This means that a participant excelling in one test may rank low in ano ...

2024

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

Touradj Ebrahimi, Vlad Hosu, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Michela Testolina

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

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

Serial dependence in visual perception: A review

Ayberk Ozkirli, Gizay Ceylan, David Pascucci

How does the visual system represent continuity in the constantly changing visual input? A recent proposal is that vision is serially dependent: Stimuli seen a moment ago influence what we perceive in the present. In line with this, recent frameworks sugge ...

2023

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

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

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

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

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

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

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

Compression and visual quality assessment for light field contents

Irene Viola

Since its invention in the 19th century, photography has allowed to create durable images of the world around us by capturing the intensity of light that flows through a scene, first analogically by using light-sensitive material, and then, with the advent ...

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 comprehensive framework for visual quality assessment of light field tensor displays

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

In recent years, light field technology has attracted the interest of academia and industry, thanks to the possibility of rendering 3D scenes in a more realistic and immersive way. In particular, light field displays have been consistently investigated for ...

Society for Imaging Science and Technology2019

Perceptual Quality Study On Deep Learning Based Image Compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

Recently deep learning based image compression has made rapid advances with promising results based on objective quality metrics. However, a rigorous subjective quality evaluation on such compression schemes have rarely been reported. This paper aims at pe ...

IEEE2019

An in-depth analysis of single-image subjective quality assessment of light field contents

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

Quality assessment of light field images poses new questions and challenges, due to the enriched nature of the content and the possibilities it offers at the rendering step. Image-based rendering is conventionally used to showcase the increased capabilitie ...

2019

Running Large-Scale Simulations on the Neurorobotics Platform to Understand Vision - The Case of Visual Crowding

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Alban Bornet, Egidio Falotico, Alessandro Ambrosano

Traditionally, human vision research has focused on specific paradigms and proposed models to explain very specific properties of visual perception. However, the complexity and scope of modern psychophysical paradigms undermine the success of this approach ...

2019

VALID: Visual quality Assessment for Light field Images Dataset

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

In the last years, light field imaging has experienced a surge of popularity among the scientific community for its capability of rendering the 3D world in a more immersive way. In particular, several compression algorithms have been proposed to efficientl ...

2018

Comparison of Interactive Subjective Methodologies for Light Field Quality Evaluation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field acquisition and rendering technologies have attracted a lot of interest from the scientific community. Due to their large amount of data, efficient compression of light field content is of paramount importance for storage ...

2018

Benchmarking of Objective Quality Metrics for Colorless Point Clouds

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Recent advances in depth sensing and display technologies, along with the significant growth of interest for augmented and virtual reality applications, lay the foundation for the rapid evolution of applications that provide immersive experiences. In such ...

IEEE2018

Impact of Visualisation Strategy for Subjective Quality Assessment of Point Clouds

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds have recently emerged as a promising and practical solution to code 3D visual information for immersive applications. Among other challenges, objective and subjective quality assessments are still open problems for this type of visual data rep ...

2018

Perception of visual illusions is intact in schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Maya Roinishvili, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

There seems to be no common factor for visual perception because performance levels in many visual tasks correlate only weakly with each other. Similar results were found with visual illusions. However, one may expect common visual factors for individuals ...

2018