Publications related to JPEG 2000

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

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

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

Neural Distributed Image Compression with Cross-Attention Feature Alignment

Ali Garjani

We consider the problem of compressing an information source when a correlated one is available as side information only at the decoder side, which is a special case of the distributed source coding problem in information theory. In particular, we consider ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

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

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

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

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

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

Learnable Wavelet Packet Transform for Data-Adapted Spectrograms

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Capturing high-frequency data concerning the condition of complex systems, e.g. by acoustic monitoring, has become increasingly prevalent. Such high-frequency signals typically contain time dependencies ranging over different time scales and different type ...

2022

Graph Neural Networks With Lifting-Based Adaptive Graph Wavelets

Pascal Frossard, Chenglin Li, Mingxing Xu

Spectral-based graph neural networks (SGNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in graph representation learning. However, existing SGNNs are limited in implementing graph filters with rigid transforms and cannot adapt to signals residing on graphs ...

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

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

On Block Prediction For Learning-Based Point Cloud Compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds are among popular visual representations for immersive media. However, the vast amount of information generated during their acquisition requires effective compression for practical applications. Although relevant activities from standardizati ...

IEEE2021

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

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

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

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

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

High dynamic range image sharing with privacy protection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evgeniy Upenik, Pol Fernandez Marti

Sharing pictures has become a very popular practice among consumers. Most recent cameras, displays, and smartphones can capture and display images in high dynamic range and wide colour gamut, contributing to an increase of this type of content. It is a wel ...

SPIE2020