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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

Snowfall deposition in mountainous terrain: a statistical downscaling scheme from high-resolution model data on simulated topographies

Michael Lehning

One of the primary causes of non-uniform snowfall deposition on the ground in mountainous regions is the preferential deposition of snow, which results from the interaction of near-surface winds with topography and snow particles. However, producing high-r ...

Frontiers Media Sa2024

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

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

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

Imagine the Unseen World: A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Visual World Models

Caglar Gulcehre

Systematic compositionality, or the ability to adapt to novel situations by creating a mental model of the world using reusable pieces of knowledge, remains a significant challenge in machine learning. While there has been considerable progress in the lang ...

2023

Multi-Source Fusion for Voxel-Based 7-DoF Grasping Pose Estimation

Zheng Dang, Fei Wang

In this work, we tackle the problem of 7-DoF grasping pose estimation(6-DoF with the opening width of parallel-jaw gripper) from point cloud data, which is a fundamental task in robotic manipulation. Most existing methods adopt 3D voxel CNNs as the backbon ...

IEEE2023

Evaluation of the impact of lossy compression on event camera-based computer vision tasks

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Bowen Huang

In the field of image acquisition, Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) present an innovative methodology, capturing only the variations in pixel brightness instead of absolute values and thereby revealing unique features. Given that the primary deployment of DVS ...

2023

Modeling Structured Data in Attention-based Models

Alireza Mohammadshahi

Natural language processing has experienced significant improvements with the development of Transformer-based models, which employ self-attention mechanism and pre-training strategies. However, these models still present several obstacles. A notable issue ...

EPFL2023

Communication-efficient distributed training of machine learning models

Thijs Vogels

In this thesis, we explore techniques for addressing the communication bottleneck in data-parallel distributed training of deep learning models. We investigate algorithms that either reduce the size of the messages that are exchanged between workers, or th ...

EPFL2023

The Sparsity of Cycle Spinning for Wavelet-Based Solutions of Linear Inverse Problems

Michaël Unser, Rahul Parhi

The usual explanation of the efficacy of wavelet-based methods hinges on the sparsity of many real-world objects in the wavelet domain. Yet, standard wavelet-shrinkage techniques for sparse reconstruction are not competitive in practice, one reason being t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Volume change response and fabric evolution of granular MX80 bentonite along different hydro-mechanical stress paths

Alessio Ferrari, Jose Antonio Bosch Llufriu, Patrycja Ewelina Baryla

Despite the increasing understanding of bentonite behaviour, there is still missing evidence on how different hydro-mechanical loadings, including sequences of hydration and compression, affect the fabric and the volume change behaviour of the material. It ...

Springer Nature2022

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

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

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

Gradient-Based Learning of Discrete Structured Measurement Operators for Signal Recovery

Jonathan Paul Sauder

Countless signal processing applications include the reconstruction of signals from few indirect linear measurements. The design of effective measurement operators is typically constrained by the underlying hardware and physics, posing a challenging and of ...

2022

OSLO: On-the-Sphere Learning for Omnidirectional Images and Its Application to 360-Degree Image Compression

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

State-of-the-art 2D image compression schemes rely on the power of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs offer promising perspectives for 2D image compression, extending such models to omnidirectional images is not straightforward. First, omn ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

JPEG XS-A New Standard for Visually Lossless Low-Latency Lightweight Image Coding

Touradj Ebrahimi

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) XS is a new International Standard from the JPEG Committee (formally known as ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) JTC1/SC29/WG1). It defines an interoperable, visually lossless low-latency lightweight ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

Exploration of Media Blockchain Technologies for JPEG Privacy and Security

Touradj Ebrahimi

The need for efficient, widespread and reliable security and user privacy technologies is important more so than ever before. This is in particular crucial for workflows involving image data. Images can be easily edited to give a false impression of realit ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Simultaneous 3D acquisition of H-1 MRF and Na-23 MRI

Tom Hilbert

Purpose To develop a 3D MR technique to simultaneously acquire proton multiparametric maps (T-1, T-2, and proton density) and sodium density weighted images over the whole brain. Methods We implemented a 3D stack-of-stars MR pulse sequence which consists o ...

WILEY2022