Publications related to Quality of life

Understanding and Enhancing Digital Wellbeing Dimensions: Empirical Studies on Smartphone Usage Patterns and Recommendations of Micro-Informative Content

Digital technology has become an integral part of our lives, offering various benefits from communication and entertainment to education and productivity. However, its pervasive use has also raised concerns about its potential negative impact on users' wel ...

EPFL2024

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

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

Time Series Analysis of Urban Liveability

Devis Tuia, Diego Marcos Gonzalez, Alex Hubertus Levering

In this paper we explore deep learning models to monitor longitudinal liveability changes in Dutch cities at the neighbourhood level. Our liveability reference data is defined by a country-wise yearly survey based on a set of indicators combined into a liv ...

IEEE2023

A Comparison of Residual-based Methods on Fault Detection

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

An important initial step in fault detection for complex industrial systems is gaining an understanding of their health condition. Subsequently, continuous monitoring of this health condition becomes crucial to observe its evolution, track changes over tim ...

PHM Society2023

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...

IEEE2022

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

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Alberto Piatti

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Assessing Computational Thinking: Development and Validation of the Algorithmic Thinking Test for Adults

Olivier Lévêque, Cécile Hardebolle, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Marc Lafuente Martinez

This study describes the development and validation process of a computational thinking (CT) test for adults. The team designed a set of items and explored a subset of those through two qualitative pilots. Then, in order to provide validity evidence based ...

2022

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

SciLens News Platform: A System for Real-Time Evaluation of News Articles

Karl Aberer, Angeliki Romanou, Panagiotis Smeros, Carlos Castillo

We demonstrate the SciLens News Platform, a novel system for evaluating the quality of news articles. The SciLens News Platform automatically collects contextual information about news articles in real-time and provides quality indicators about their valid ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

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

Stability of spatial patterns in water chemistry across temperate ecoregions

Camille Roland Marie Minaudo

Human activity has polluted freshwater ecosystems across the planet, harming biodiversity, human health, and the economy. Improving water quality depends on identifying pollutant sources in river networks, but pollutant concentrations fluctuate in time. Co ...

2019

A Viewport-driven Multi-metric Fusion Approach for 360-Degree Video Quality Assessment

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

We propose a new viewport-based multi-metric fusion (MMF) approach for visual quality assessment of 360-degree (omnidirectional) videos. Our method is based on computing multiple spatio-temporal objective quality metrics (features) on viewports extracted f ...

IEEE2020

Exploiting user interactivity in quality assessment of point cloud imaging

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds are a new modality for representation of plenoptic content and a popular alternative to create immersive media. Despite recent progress in capture, display, storage, delivery and processing, the problem of a reliable approach to subjectively a ...

2019

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

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

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

Towards subjective quality assessment of point cloud imaging in augmented reality

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Evangelos Alexiou

Recently, there has been an increased interest in capture, processing and rendering of visual content in form of point clouds. Among other challenges, subjective and objective quality evaluation of point clouds are still open problems. Most proposed subjec ...

2017

On the performance of metrics to predict quality in point cloud representations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds are a promising alternative for immersive representation of visual contents. Recently, an increased interest has been observed in the acquisition, processing and rendering of this modality. Although subjective and objective evaluations are cri ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017