Publications related to Content format

Measurement in the Age of Information

Information is the resolution of uncertainty and manifests itself as patterns. Although complex, most observable phenomena are not random and instead are associated with deterministic, chaotic systems. The underlying patterns and symmetries expressed from ...

2022

Dimension-free Information Concentration via Exp-Concavity

Volkan Cevher, Ya-Ping Hsieh

Information concentration of probability measures have important implications in learning theory. Recently, it is discovered that the information content of a log-concave distribution concentrates around their differential entropy, albeit with an unpleasan ...

2018

Concepts of Information Content and Likelihood in Parameter Calibration for Hydrological Simulation Models

There remains a great deal of uncertainty about uncertainty estimation in hydrological modeling. Given that hydrology is still a subject limited by the available measurement techniques, it does not appear that the issue of epistemic error in hydrological d ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2015

Optimal Selection of Adaptive Streaming Representations

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni

Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several encoded versions for each video sequence. Each version (or representation) has a different resolution and bit rate, aimed at a s ...

Association for Computing Machinery2015

The data processing inequality and environmental model prediction

Steven Vincent Weijs

Prediction in environmental systems, such as hydrological streamflow prediction, is a challenging task. Although on a small scale, many of the physical processes are well described, accurate predictions of macroscopical (e.g. catchment scale) behavior with ...

2014

Optimal Set of Video Representations in Adaptive Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni

Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several streams for each video. Each stream has a different resolution and bit rate, aimed at a specific set of users, e.g., TV, mobile ...

2014

Data compression to define information content of hydrological time series

Marc Parlange, Steven Vincent Weijs, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

When inferring models from hydrological data or calibrating hydrological models, we are interested in the information content of those data to quantify how much can potentially be learned from them. In this work we take a perspective from (algorithmic) inf ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2013

HydroZIP: How Hydrological Knowledge can Be Used to Improve Compression of Hydrological Data

Marc Parlange, Steven Vincent Weijs, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

From algorithmic information theory, which connects the information content of a data set to the shortest computer program that can produce it, it is known that there are strong analogies between compression, knowledge, inference and prediction. The more w ...

MDPI AG2013

Hydrological model calibration using a short period of observations

To make successful predictions in ungauged basins (PUB) exploring how to facilitate the identification of catchment characteristics from readily available information is as important as improving the theoretical representation of different hydrological pro ...

2012

Adaptation based scalable video delivery and management : system and architecture design

Beilu Shao

With the latest development of multimedia computing technologies, many different services have been provided and many different devices have been deployed. A diversity of media content formats have emerged in various applications. Multimedia delivery has b ...

EPFL2009

The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Sara Mitri

Reliable information is a crucial factor influencing decision-making, and thus fitness in all animals. A common source of information comes from inadvertent cues produced by the behavior of conspecifics. Here we use a system of experimental evolution with ...

National Academy of Sciences2009

Analysis of Multimodal Sequences Using Geometric Video Representations

Pierre Vandergheynst, Gianluca Monaci, Oscar Divorra Escoda

This paper presents a novel method to correlate audio and visual data generated by the same physical phenomenon, based on sparse geometric representation of video sequences. The video signal is modeled as a sum of geometric primitives evolving through time ...

2006