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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

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

Large-Scale Crowdsourcing Subjective Quality Evaluation of Learning-Based Image Coding

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Learning-based image codecs produce different compression artifacts, when compared to the blocking and blurring degradation introduced by conventional image codecs, such as JPEG, JPEG~2000 and HEIC. In this paper, a crowdsourcing based subjective quality e ...

IEEE2021

Adaptive extreme video completion

Sabine Süsstrunk, Radhakrishna Achanta, Majed El Helou, Ruofan Zhou

A computer-implemented video completion method is proposed for reconstructing a sparsely sampled video comprising sparsely sampled video frames comprising sparse sets of picture element intensity values. The method comprises: distributing the sparse sets o ...

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Real-time DCT Learning-based Reconstruction of Neural Signals

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Wearable and implantable body sensor network systems are one of the key technologies for continuous monitoring of patient’s vital health status such as temperature and blood pressure, and brain activity. Such devices are critical for early detection of eme ...

IEEE2018

Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging System with Interconnected Network of Cameras

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic, Hossein Afshari, Kerem Seyid

The Panoptic camera is an omnidirectional multi-aperture visual system which is realized by mounting multiple imaging sensors on a hemispherical frame. In this chapter, we will present a novel distributed and parallel implementation of the real-time omnidi ...

Springer-Verlag2015

Quality Evaluation of HEVC and VP9 Video Compression in Real-Time Applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Philippe Hanhart, Martin Rerabek

Video consumption over Internet has increased significantly over the recent years and occupies the majority of the overall data traffic. To decrease the load on the Internet infrastructure and reduce bandwidth taken by video, higher efficiency video codecs ...

2015

A Real-time Multi-aperture Omnidirectional Visual Sensor Based on Interconnected Network of Smart Cameras

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic, Hossein Afshari, Abdulkadir Akin, Kerem Seyid, Ömer Cogal

Centralized and multi-level implementations of the Panoptic omnidirectional multiaperture visual system were previously presented by the authors, relying on transmission of all camera outputs to a single central processing node for omnidirectional image an ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

A real-time multi-aperture omnidirectional visual sensor with interconnected network of smart cameras

Hossein Afshari

A novel omnidirectional visual sensor called the Panoptic camera is introduced. The Panoptic camera is an omnidirectional multi-aperture visual system which is realized by mounting multiple camera sensors on a hemispherical frame. The introduced visual sen ...

EPFL2013

Growth Codes: Intermediate Performance Analysis and Application to Video

Pascal Frossard, Nikolaos Thomos, Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu

Growth codes are a subclass of Rateless codes that have found interesting applications in data dissemination problems. Compared to other Rateless and conventional channel codes, Growth codes show improved intermediate performance which is particularly usef ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Visual and Force Feedback Time-Delays Change Telepresence: Quantitative Evidence from Crossmodal Congruecy Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Michiel van Elk

In the field of surgical robotics, it is difficult to find objective assessment techniques for evaluating telepresence. In this study we try to merge the concepts from cognitive neuroscience more specifically from the field of tool incorporation (embodimen ...

Ieee2013

Enhanced Omnidirectional Image Reconstruction Algorithm and its Real-Time Hardware

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Hossein Afshari, Abdulkadir Akin

Omnidirectional stereoscopy and depth estimation are complex problems of image processing to which the Panoptic camera offers a novel solution. The Panoptic camera is a biologically-inspired vision sensor made of multiple cameras. It is a polydioptric syst ...

2012

A Spherical Multi-camera System with Real-time Omnidirectional Video Acquisition Capability

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic, Hossein Afshari

A multi-camera system inspired from the visual system of flying insects is introduced which is referred to as the Panoptic camera. In the Panoptic system each camera is mounted over a hemispherical geometry and has its own vision of surrounding and distinc ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Distributed Compressed Representation of Correlated Image Sets

Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai

Vision sensor networks and video cameras find widespread usage in several applications that rely on effective representation of scenes or analysis of 3D information. These systems usually acquire multiple images of the same 3D scene from different viewpoin ...

EPFL2012

Image-Based Mobile Service: Automatic Text Extraction and Translation

Jérôme Berclaz

We present a new mobile service for the translation of text from images taken by consumer-grade cell-phone cameras. Such capability represents a new paradigm for users where a simple image provides the basis for a service. The ubiquity and ease of use of c ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2010

Controlling spectral response of photodetector for an image sensor

Edoardo Charbon, Cristiano Niclass

A method for controlling the spectral response of light sensitive semiconductor elements in an array (8) using an electric control signal (Vop) applied to said semiconductor elements. The light sensitive semiconductor elements could be a single photon aval ...

2010

Estimating Cohesion in Small Groups Using Audio-Visual Nonverbal Behavior

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Cohesiveness in teams is an essential part of ensuring the smooth running of task-oriented groups. Research in social psychology and management has shown that good cohesion in groups can be correlated with team effectiveness or productivity, so automatical ...

2010

Estimating Dominance in Multi-Party Meetings Using Speaker Diarization

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Yan Huang

With the increase in cheap commercially available sensors, recording meetings is becoming an increasingly practical option. With this trend comes the need to summarize the recorded data in semantically meaningful ways. Here, we investigate the task of auto ...

2011