Publications related to Distributed coding of Highly correlated image sequences with motion-compensated temporal wavelets

Efficient Temporally-Aware DeepFake Detection using H.264 Motion Vectors

Sabine Süsstrunk, Alessio Verardo, Yufan Ren, Peter Arpad Grönquist, Qingyi He

Video DeepFakes are fake media created with Deep Learning (DL) that manipulate a person’s expression or identity. Most current DeepFake detection methods analyze each frame independently, ignoring inconsistencies and unnatural movements between frames. Som ...

2024

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

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

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

A Generalized Adjusted Min-Sum Decoder for 5G LDPC Codes: Algorithm and Implementation

Andreas Peter Burg, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming, Yifei Shen, Yuqing Ren, Hassan Harb

5G New Radio (NR) has stringent demands on both performance and complexity for the design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding algorithms and corresponding VLSI implementations. Furthermore, decoders must fully support the wide range of all 5G NR bl ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Subjective performance evaluation of bitrate allocation strategies for MPEG and JPEG Pleno point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto, Michela Testolina

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

Fast and Future: Towards Efficient Forecasting in Video Semantic Segmentation

Evann Pierre Guy Courdier

Deep learning has revolutionized the field of computer vision, a success largely attributable to the growing size of models, datasets, and computational power. Simultaneously, a critical pain point arises as several computer vision applications are deploye ...

EPFL2024

On Speed and Advantage : Results in Information Velocity and Monitoring Problems

Reka Inovan

Information theory has allowed us to determine the fundamental limit of various communication and algorithmic problems, e.g., the channel coding problem, the compression problem, and the hypothesis testing problem. In this work, we revisit the assumptions ...

EPFL2024

SoDaCam: Software-defined Cameras via Single-Photon Imaging

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Mohit Gupta

Reinterpretable cameras are defined by their post-processing capabilities that exceed traditional imaging. We present "SoDaCam" that provides reinterpretable cameras at the granularity of photons, from photon-cubes acquired by single-photon devices. Photon ...

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 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

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

Time vs. Truth: Age-Distortion Tradeoffs and Strategies for Distributed Inference

Yunus Inan

In 1948, Claude Shannon laid the foundations of information theory, which grew out of a study to find the ultimate limits of source compression, and of reliable communication. Since then, information theory has proved itself not only as a quest to find the ...

EPFL2023

Dual-frequency spectral radar retrieval of snowfall microphysics: a physics-driven deep-learning approach

Alexis Berne, Gionata Ghiggi, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

The use of meteorological radars to study snowfall microphysical properties and processes is well established, in particular via a few distinct techniques: the use of radar polarimetry, of multi-frequency radar measurements, and of the radar Doppler spectr ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2023

AI-based telepresence for broadcast applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Rayan Daod Nathoo, Laurent Deillon, Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo

In this paper, we introduce a new solution and underlying architecture that allows remote participants to interact with hosts in a broadcast scenario. To achieve this, background extraction is first applied to video received from remote participants to ext ...

SPIE2022

Feature-based no-reference video quality assessment using Extra Trees

Arash Amini, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza

With the emergence of social networks and improvements in the internet speed, the video data has become an ever-increasing portion of the global internet traffic. Besides the content, the quality of a video sequence is an important issue at the user end wh ...

WILEY2022

A Functional Perspective on Information Measures

Amedeo Roberto Esposito

Since the birth of Information Theory, researchers have defined and exploited various information measures, as well as endowed them with operational meanings. Some were born as a "solution to a problem", like Shannon's Entropy and Mutual Information. Other ...

EPFL2022

Asynchrony Increases Efficiency: Time Encoding of Videos and Low-Rank Signals

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling, because (1) the out ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Timing is Everything

Karen Adam

In this thesis, timing is everything. In the first part, we mean this literally, as we tackle systems that encode information using timing alone. In the second part, we adopt the standard, metaphoric interpretation of this saying and show the importance of ...

EPFL2022

List Ordered Statistics Decoders for Polar Codes

Andreas Peter Burg, Chuan Zhang, Yifei Shen

The de-facto standard decoding algorithm for polar codes, successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, is a breadth-first search algorithm. By keeping a list of candidate codewords, SCL decoding improves the performance as the list size L increases. Howeve ...

IEEE2022

On the Efficiency of Polar-Like Decoding for Symmetric Codes

Rüdiger Urbanke, Kirill Ivanov

The recently introduced polar codes constitute a breakthrough in coding theory due to their capacity-achieving property. This goes hand in hand with a quasilinear construction, encoding, and successive cancellation list decoding procedures based on the Plo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Ultra-High-Throughput EMS NB-LDPC Decoder with Full-Parallel Node Processing

Hassan Harb

This paper presents an ultra-high-throughput decoder architecture for NB-LDPC codes based on the Hybrid Extended Min-Sum algorithm. We introduce a new processing block that updates a check node and its associated variable nodes in a fully pipelined way, th ...

SPRINGER2022