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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 ...

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OSLO: On-the-Sphere Learning for Omnidirectional Images and Its Application to 360-Degree Image Compression

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

State-of-the-art 2D image compression schemes rely on the power of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs offer promising perspectives for 2D image compression, extending such models to omnidirectional images is not straightforward. First, omn ...

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

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

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

Data-Aware Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Aleksei Triastcyn

In this thesis, we focus on the problem of achieving practical privacy guarantees in machine learning (ML), where the classic differential privacy (DP) fails to maintain a good trade-off between user privacy and data utility. Differential privacy guarantee ...

EPFL2020

Towards Real-World Super-Resolution using Deep Neural Networks

Ruofan Zhou

Image super-resolution reconstructs a higher-resolution image from the observed low-resolution image. In recent years, machine learning models have been widely employed and deep learning networks have achieved state-of-the-art super-resolution performance. ...

EPFL2020

Enhanced MR Image Classification Using Hybrid Statistical and Wavelets Features

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Classification of brain tumor is one of the most vital tasks within medical image processing. Classification of images greatly depends on the features extracted from the image, and thus, feature extraction plays a great role in the correct classification o ...

2019

A Performance Evaluation of Local Features for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction

Pascal Fua, Bin Fan, Bin Fan, Xiao Wang, Zheng Wang

This paper performs a comprehensive and comparative evaluation of the state of the art local features for the task of image based 3D reconstruction. The evaluated local features cover the recently developed ones by using powerful machine learning technique ...

2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world 's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

Implications of Position in Cryptography

Handan Kilinç Alper

In our daily lives, people or devices frequently need to learn their location for many reasons as some services depend on the absolute location or the proximity. The outcomes of positioning systems can have critical effects e.g., on military, emergency. Th ...

EPFL2018

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical and Genomic Data: From Theory to Practice

Jean Louis Raisaro

The impressive technological advances in genomic analysis and the significant drop in the cost of genome sequencing are paving the way to a variety of revolutionary applications in modern healthcare. In particular, the increasing understanding of the human ...

EPFL2018

Formal Analysis of Distance Bounding with Secure Hardware

Serge Vaudenay, Handan Kilinç Alper

A distance bounding (DB) protocol is a two-party authentication protocol between a prover and a verifier which is based on the distance between the prover and the verifier. It aims to defeat threats by malicious provers who try to convince that they are cl ...

2018

Privacy-Friendly Photo Sharing and Relevant Applications Beyond

Lin Yuan

Popularization of online photo sharing brings people great convenience, but has also raised concerns for privacy. Researchers proposed various approaches to enable image privacy, most of which focus on encrypting or distorting image visual content. In this ...

EPFL2017

Image Privacy Protection with Secure JPEG Transmorphing

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Thanks to advancements in smart mobile devices and social media platforms, sharing photos and experiences has significantly bridged our lives, allowing us to stay connected despite distance and other barriers. However, concern on privacy has also been rais ...

Inst Engineering Technology-Iet2017

Comparison and evaluation of light field image coding approaches

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field imaging, supported among others by the introduction of commercially available cameras e.g. Lytro or Raytrix, are changing the ways in which visual content is captured and processed. Efficient storage and delivery systems ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Evaluation and Prediction of Evoked Emotions Induced by Image Manipulations

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

Various image editing tools make our pictures more attractive, and at the same time, evoke different emotional responses. With powerful and easy-to-use imaging applications, capturing, editing and then sharing pictures have become daily life for many. This ...

2017

UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Patricia Egger, David Jules Froelicher, Christian Vincent Mouchet, Zhicong Huang, Jean Louis Raisaro, Bryan Alexander Ford, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa

Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverag ...

De Gruyter2017

A Guided Tour of Selected Image Processing and Analysis Methods for Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy

Michaël Unser

Microscopy imaging, including fluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy, has taken a prominent role in life science research and medicine due to its ability to investigate the 3D interior of live cells and organisms. A long-term research in bio-imagi ...

IEEE2016

JPEG XT: A Compression Standard for HDR and WCG Images [Standards in a Nutshell]

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart

High bit depth data acquisition and manipulation have been largely studied at the academic level over the last 15 years and are rapidly attracting interest at the industrial level. An example of the increasing interest for high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016