Publications related to Transparency (data compression)

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

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

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, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

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

FEM of stress partition during compression of WC-10 wt.% Co with realistic 3D morphology

Daniele Mari, Lucas Eric Jacques Degeneve

A Finite Element Model is developed to represent the mechanical behavior of WC-10 wt.% Co in compression tests. In this research, realistic three-dimensional model is obtained by slicing a sample by Focused Ion Beam and reconstituting it, resulting in two ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Spectral Measurement and Classification in the Era of Big Data

Marilyne Andersen, Forrest Simon Webler

The measurement and classification of light is essential across many scientific disciplines. Devices used to measure light range from the highly precise scanning spectroradiometers to the more practical compact multichannel filter-array type imaging sensor ...

2021

Secrecy by Design With Applications to Privacy and Compression

Yanina Yurina Shkel

Secrecy by design is examined as an approach to information-theoretic secrecy. The main idea behind this approach is to design an information processing system from the ground up to be perfectly secure with respect to an explicit secrecy constraint. The pr ...

2021

High-Throughput Lossy-to-Lossless 3D Image Compression

Gilles Fourestey, Félix Schmidt

The rapid increase in medical and biomedical image acquisition rates has opened up new avenues for image analysis, but has also introduced formidable challenges. This is evident, for example, in selective plane illumination microscopy where acquisition rat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

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

Large-Scale Crowdsourcing Subjective Quality Evaluation of Learning-Based Image Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

Learning-based image codecs produce different compression artifacts, when compared to the blocking and blurring degradation introduced by conventional image codecs, such as JPEG, JPEG~2000 and HEIC. In this paper, a crowdsourcing based subjective quality e ...

IEEE2021

Dataset of the paper: "Experimental investigations on the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced wood-wood connections"

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Jean-François Bocquet

Experimental data related to the paper: "Experimental investigations on the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced wood-wood connections". It presents shear and compression test results for the load-carrying capacity of digitally produced traditional ...

2020

Multi-scale sequential network for semantic text segmentation and localization

Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Michael Villamizar

We present a novel method for semantic text document analysis which in addition to localizing text it labels the text in user-defined semantic categories. More precisely, it consists of a fully-convolutional and sequential network that we apply to the part ...

2020

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

A comprehensive study of the rate-distortion performance in MPEG point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou, Irene Viola

Recent trends in multimedia technologies indicate the need for richer imaging modalities to increase user engagement with the content. Among other alternatives, point clouds denote a viable solution that offers an immersive content representation, as witne ...

2019

Dissipative dispersion-managed solitons in fiber-optic systems with lumped amplification

Anton Lukashchuk

We numerically and experimentally studied the shape of the dissipative dispersion-managed solitons (DM-solitons) stably propagating over the lossy DM fiber-optic systems with lumped amplification. We found that, contrary to the lossless case, the chirp-fre ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

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

Overview of the JPEG XS core coding system subjective evaluations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Irene Viola, Jakub Pospisil, Benoît Macq

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

Lossy compression of quality scores in differential gene expression: A first assessment and impact analysis

Ana Angelica Hernandez Lopez

High-throughput sequencing of RNA molecules has enabled the quantitative analysis of gene expression at the expense of storage space and processing power. To alleviate these prob- lems, lossy compression methods of the quality scores associated to RNA sequ ...

2018

Quality assessment of an HDR dual-layer backward-compatible codec compared to uncompromised SDR and HDR solutions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Anne-Flore Nicole Marie Perrin

Broadcasting high dynamic range (HDR) video has been demonstrated as largely preferred when compared to standard dynamic range (SDR), mainly due to its capability of representing more details in dark and bright regions. Additionally, progress over the last ...

2018

A graph learning approach for light field image compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pascal Frossard, Irene Viola, Hermina Petric Maretic

In recent years, light field imaging has attracted the attention of the academic and industrial communities thanks to its enhanced rendering capabilities that allow to visualise contents in a more immersive and interactive way. However, those enhanced capa ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2018

Comparison and evaluation of light field image coding approaches

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field imaging, supported among others by the introduction of commercially available cameras e.g. Lytro or Raytrix, are changing the ways in which visual content is captured and processed. Efficient storage and delivery systems ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017