Publications related to Opus (audio format)

High-Throughput and Flexible Belief Propagation List Decoder for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Chuan Zhang

Due to its high parallelism, belief propagation (BP)decoding is amenable to high-throughput applications and thusrepresents a promising solution for the ultra-high peak datarate required by future communication systems. To bridge theperformance gap compare ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

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

Quality-Constrained Encoding Optimization for Omnidirectional Video Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Chaofan He

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

Systems and methods for digital information decoding and data storage in hybrid macromolecules

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

Systems and methods for data storage and readout using hybrid nucleic acid- polymeric molecules are herein disclosed. A molecular data storage medium is presented comprising a header and a footer, each comprising or consisting of at least one unit of a fir ...

2022

Latent Space Slicing for Enhanced Entropy Modeling in Learning-Based Point Cloud Geometry Compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

The growing adoption of point clouds as an imaging modality has stimulated the search for efficient solutions for compression. Learning-based algorithms have been reporting increasingly better performance and are drawing the attention from the research com ...

IEEE2022

An Accuracy-Driven Compression Methodology to Derive Efficient Codebook-Based CNNs

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Miguel Peon Quiros, Flavio Ponzina

Codebook-based optimizations are a class of algorithmic-level transformations able to effectively reduce the computing and memory requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This approach tightly limits the number of unique weights in each layer, ...

2022

A Sequence Repetition Node-Based Successive Cancellation List Decoder for 5G Polar Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Andreas Toftegaard Kristensen, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Chuan Zhang

Due to the low-latency and high-reliability require-ments of 5G, low-complexity node-based successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding has received considerable attention for use in 5G communications systems. By identifying special constituent codes in the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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

Learnable filter-banks for CNN-based audio applications

Nicolas Aspert, Benjamin Ricaud, Helena Peic Tukuljac, Laurent Colbois

We investigate the design of a convolutional layer where kernels are parameterized functions. This layer aims at being the input layer of convolutional neural networks for audio applications or applications involving time-series. The kernels are defined as ...

2022

Benchmarking of objective quality metrics for point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Evangelos Alexiou

Point cloud is a promising imaging modality for the representation of 3D media. The vast volume of data associated with it requires efficient compression solutions, with lossy algorithms leading to larger bit-rate savings at the expense of visual impairmen ...

IEEE2021

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

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

A Stochastic Conditioning Scheme for Diverse Human Motion Prediction

Mathieu Salzmann, Fatemehsadat Saleh

Human motion prediction, the task of predicting future 3D human poses given a sequence of observed ones, has been mostly treated as a deterministic problem. However, human motion is a stochastic process: Given an observed sequence of poses, multiple future ...

IEEE2020

Comprehensive assessment of image compression algorithms

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Michela Testolina

JPEG image coding standard has been a dominant format in a wide range of applications in soon three decades since it has been released as an international standard. The landscape of applications and services based on pictures has evolved since the original ...

SPIE2020

Learning-Based Image Compression using Convolutional Autoencoder and Wavelet Decomposition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

In this paper, a learning-based image compression method that employs wavelet decomposition as a preprocessing step is presented. The proposed convolutional autoencoder is trained end-to-end to yield a target bitrate smaller than 0.15 bits per pixel across ...

2019

Retroactive Packet Sampling for Traffic Receipts

Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Adrian Perrig, Christos Pappas

Is it possible to design a packet-sampling algorithm that prevents the network node that performs the sampling from treating the sampled packets preferentially? We study this problem in the context of designing a "network transparency" system. In this syst ...

ACM2019

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

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Multi-Viewpoint Omnidirectional Videos

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone, Xavier Corbillon

Full immersion inside a Virtual Reality (VR) scene requires six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) applications where the user is allowed to perform translational and rotational movements within the virtual space. The implementation of 6DoF applications is however ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Evaluation of ICtCp color space and an Adaptive Reshaper for HDR and WCG

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

New emerging technologies in the field of multimedia, such as high dynamic range and wide color gamut, challenge the performance of existing image and video data processing algorithms, especially in terms of visual data compression and its faithful represe ...

2018

Comparison of Compression Efficiency between HEVC/H.265, VP9 and AV1 based on Subjective Quality Assessments

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

The growing requirements for broadcasting and streaming of high quality video continue to trigger demands for codecs with higher compression efficiency. AV1 is the most recent open and royalty free video coding specification developed by Alliance for Open ...

2018