Publications related to Generation loss

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

High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

Ayça Akkaya

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

Benchmarking JPEG XL image compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik

JPEG XL is a practical, royalty-free codec for scalable web distribution and efficient compression of high-quality photographs. It also includes previews, progressiveness, animation, transparency, high dynamic range, wide color gamut, and high bit depth. U ...

SPIE2020

On the relevance of quality score metadata in genomic sequence data for omics applications

Ana Angelica Hernandez Lopez

High-throughput sequencing of DNA molecules has revolutionized biomedical research by enabling the quantitative analysis of the genome to study its function, structure and dynamics. It is driving sequencing-based experiments in life sciences as evidenced b ...

EPFL2019

Towards an Algebraic Network Information Theory: Distributed Lossy Computation of Linear Functions

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Adriano Pastore, Chen Feng

Consider the important special case of the K-user distributed source coding problem where the decoder only wishes to recover one or more linear combinations of the sources. The work of Körner and Marton demonstrated that, in some cases, the optimal rate re ...

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

Cross-Packet Coding for Delay-Constrained Streaming Applications

Dario Floreano, Giuseppe Cocco

Delay-constrained streaming from a moving platform is of paramount importance for applications such as the remote control of drones, where a low-delay video stream is required in order to provide visual feedback to the pilot while providing high quality vi ...

2019

Online Efficient Bio-Medical Video Transcoding on MPSoCs Through Content-Aware Workload Allocation

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Ali Pahlevan

Bio-medical image processing in the field of telemedicine, and in particular the definition of systems that allow medical diagnostics in a collaborative and distributed way is experiencing an undeniable growth. Due to the high quality of bio-medical videos ...

IEEE and ACM Press2018

Approximate Cloaking via Transformation Optics for Electromagnetic Waves

Xuan Loc Tran

Cloaking via transformation optics was introduced by Pendry, Schurig, and Smith for the Maxwell system and Leonhardt in the geometric optics setting. They used a singular change of variables which blows up a point into a cloaked region. The same transforma ...

EPFL2018

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

Machine Learning-Based Quality-Aware Power and Thermal Management of Multistream HEVC Encoding on Multicore Servers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar

The emergence of video streaming applications, together with the users’ demand for high-resolution contents, has led to the development of new video coding standards, such as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). HEVC provides high efficiency at the cost of ...

2018

Caching of Bivariate Gaussians with Non-Uniform Preference Probabilities

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Guillaume Jean Op 't Veld

Caching is technique that alleviates networks during peak hours by transmitting partial information before a request for any is made. We study this method in a lossy source coding setting with Gaussian databases. A good caching strategy minimizes the data ...

2017

A Gaussian Source Coding Perspective on Caching and Total Correlation

Guillaume Jean Op 't Veld

Communication technology has advanced up to a point where children are getting unfamiliar with themost iconic symbol in IT: the loading icon. We no longer wait for something to come on TV, nor for a download to complete. All the content we desire is availa ...

EPFL2017

Improved temporal resolution for functional studies with reduced number of segments with three-dimensional echo planar imaging

Rolf Gruetter, Tobias Kober, Wietske Van der Zwaag, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mayur Narsude

PURPOSE: To introduce a new k-space traversal strategy for segmented three-dimensional echo planar imaging (3D EPI) that encodes two partitions per radiofrequency excitation, effectively reducing the number excitations used to acquire a 3D EPI dataset by h ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

High Temporal Resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7 Tesla

Mayur Narsude

Speed has always been a critical consideration in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), promising dramatic gains in imaging speed, a reduction in motion and susceptibility artifacts, and ultimately increased throughput for clinical studies. This thesis present ...

EPFL2014

Adaptive sensing using deterministic partial Hadamard matrices

Emre Telatar, Emmanuel Abbé, Saeid Haghighatshoar

This paper investigates the construction of determin- istic measurement matrices preserving the entropy of a random vector with a given probability distribution. In particular, it is shown that for a random vector with i.i.d. discrete components, this is a ...

Ieee2012

Efficient Video Coding based on Audio-Visual Focus of Attention

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee

This paper proposes an efficient video coding method using audio-visual focus of attention, which is based on the observation that sound-emitting regions in an audio-visual sequence draw viewers' attention. First, an audio-visual source localization algori ...

Elsevier2011

Approximation for Problems in Multi-User Information Theory

Soheil Mohajerzefreh

The main goal in network information theory is to identify fundamental limits of communication over networks, and design solutions which perform close to such limits. After several decades of effort, many important problems still do not have a characteriza ...

EPFL2010

Impact of video transcoding artifacts on the subjective quality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Mauro Lattuada, Frédéric Dufaux, Lutz Goldmann

Video transcoding is an important step to enable interoperability between different networks, terminals, applications, and services for video communication. This paper studies the influence of typical video transcoding artifacts due to frame rate reduction ...

2010

A Low-Noise CMOS Imaging Pixel Circuit with In-Pixel Voltage Amplification

Peter Seitz, Christian Lotto

A pixel circuit for CMOS active sensor imaging applications is presented. An in-pixel open-loop voltage amplifier achieves efficient bandwidth limitation using low capacitance values, and it allows excellent reduction of downstream readout circuit noise, t ...

2009