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Quality-Constrained Encoding Optimization for Omnidirectional Video Streaming

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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

Human Head Yaw Estimation based on Two 3-axis Accelerometers

Hervé Lissek, Gilles André Courtois, Vincent Pierre Olivier Grimaldi

The estimation of the orientation of an object, and a human head in particular, can be defined by the Euler angles: the yaw, pitch and roll. The robust and drift-free estimation of those angles is usually achieved with the data from several sensors such as ...

2022

Towards JPEG AIC part 3: visual quality assessment of high to visually lossless image coding

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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

Benchmarking of objective quality metrics for point cloud compression

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Point cloud is a promising imaging modality for the representation of 3D media. The vast volume of data associated with it requires efficient compression solutions, with lossy algorithms leading to larger bit-rate savings at the expense of visual impairmen ...

IEEE2021

Quality Evaluation Of Static Point Clouds Encoded Using MPEG Codecs

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This paper presents a quality evaluation study of point cloud codecs that have been recently standardised by the MPEG committee. In particular, a subjective experiment to assess their performance in terms of bitrate against visual quality is designed and r ...

IEEE2020

Subjective evaluation of a spatialization feature for hearing aids by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects

Xavier Gigandet, Hervé Lissek, Gilles André Courtois

Remote microphone systems significantly improve speech intelligibly performance offered by hearing aids. The voice of the speaker(s) is captured close to the mouth by a microphone, then wirelessly sent to the hearing aids. However, the sound is rendered in ...

AES2018

Experimental evaluation of speech enhancement methods in remote microphone systems for hearing aids

Hervé Lissek, Gilles André Courtois, Vincent Pierre Olivier Grimaldi, Ina Kodrasi

Enhancing speech intelligibility for hearing-impaired subjects in complex acoustic conditions is still a challenging topic of research. To mitigate the detrimental effects of background noise and reverberation, current hearing instruments incorporate vario ...

European Acoustics Association2018

Comparison of Compression Efficiency between HEVC/H.265, VP9 and AV1 based on Subjective Quality Assessments

Touradj Ebrahimi, Pinar Akyazi

The growing requirements for broadcasting and streaming of high quality video continue to trigger demands for codecs with higher compression efficiency. AV1 is the most recent open and royalty free video coding specification developed by Alliance for Open ...

2018

Effects of Binaural Spatialization in Wireless Microphone Systems for Hearing Aids on Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners

Xavier Gigandet, Hervé Lissek, Gilles André Courtois

Little is known about the perception of artificial spatial hearing by hearing-impaired subjects. The purpose of this study was to investigate how listeners with hearing disorders perceived the effect of a spatialization feature designed for wireless microp ...

2018

LPN in Cryptography : an Algorithmic Study

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The security of public-key cryptography relies on well-studied hard problems, problems for which we do not have efficient algorithms. Factorization and discrete logarithm are the two most known and used hard problems. Unfortunately, they can be easily solv ...

EPFL2017

Dynamic Range Limiting of HRTFs: Principle and Objective evaluation

Hervé Lissek, Lukas Rohr, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

This research addresses the challenge of incorporating dynamic range limiting of the magnitude response of HRTFs for hearing-impaired listeners who are using binaural hearing aids. In this application, a direct implementation of spatialization using the or ...

2016

Geometry-driven quantization for omnidirectional image coding

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone

In this paper we propose a method to adapt the quantization tables of typical block-based transform codecs when the input to the encoder is a panoramic image resulting from equirectangular projection of a spherical image. When the visual content is project ...

2016

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Rate-Distortion Evaluation for Two-Layer Coding Systems

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The Bjontegaard model is widely used to calculate the compression efficiency between different codecs. However, this model is not sufficient to investigate the impact on quality of the interaction of the base and enhancement layer bit rates when comparing ...

2015

ECMA-407: New Approaches to 3D Audio Content Data Rate Reduction with RVC-CAL

Marco Mattavelli, Claudio Paolo Alberti, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

Inverse problems have only been known in spatial audio for a very short time; their only solution, called "inverse coding" in literature, is essentially based on time-level modeling. Inverse problems, however, unlike parametric coding, require only an init ...

Audio Engineering Society (AES)2014

Implementation of a binaural localization algorithm in hearing aids: Specifications and achievable solutions

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

This article introduces the constraints and issues related to the implementation of a binaural localization algorithm on a pair of hearing aids. The algorithm should improve the rendering of the spatial information available in the audio signals, which are ...

2014

Perception and Reproduction of Auditory Spatial Impression

Andreas Walther

As audio reproduction systems evolve to incorporate many loudspeakers, the potential to evoke faithful auditory spatial impressions increases. Psychoacoustic principles of auditory spatial perception, and methods for production and reproduction of acoustic ...

EPFL2013

Perceptual Coding of High-Quality Digital Audio

Christof Faller, Karlheinz Brandenburg

This paper introduces high-quality audio coding using psychoacoustic models. This technology is now abundant, with gadgets named after a standard (mp3 players) and the ability to play high-quality audio from literally billions of devices. The usual paradig ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

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

Autoregressive Models of Amplitude Modulations in Audio Compression

Hynek Hermansky, Sriram Ganapathy, Petr Motlicek

We present a scalable medium bit-rate wide-band audio coding technique based on frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP). FDLP is an efficient method for representing the long-term amplitude modulations of speech/audio signals using autoregressive models. ...

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