1 code implementation • 25 Apr 2024 • Marcos V. Conde, Zhijun Lei, Wen Li, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Radu Timofte, Kihwan Yoon, Ganzorig Gankhuyag, Jiangtao Lv, Long Sun, Jinshan Pan, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Zhiyuan Li, Hao Wei, Chenyang Ge, Dongyang Zhang, Tianle Liu, Huaian Chen, Yi Jin, Menghan Zhou, Yiqiang Yan, Si Gao, Biao Wu, Shaoli Liu, Chengjian Zheng, Diankai Zhang, Ning Wang, Xintao Qiu, Yuanbo Zhou, Kongxian Wu, Xinwei Dai, Hui Tang, Wei Deng, Qingquan Gao, Tong Tong, Jae-Hyeon Lee, Ui-Jin Choi, Min Yan, Xin Liu, Qian Wang, Xiaoqian Ye, Zhan Du, Tiansen Zhang, Long Peng, Jiaming Guo, Xin Di, Bohao Liao, Zhibo Du, Peize Xia, Renjing Pei, Yang Wang, Yang Cao, ZhengJun Zha, Bingnan Han, Hongyuan Yu, Zhuoyuan Wu, Cheng Wan, Yuqing Liu, Haodong Yu, Jizhe Li, Zhijuan Huang, Yuan Huang, Yajun Zou, Xianyu Guan, Qi Jia, Heng Zhang, Xuanwu Yin, Kunlong Zuo, Hyeon-Cheol Moon, Tae-hyun Jeong, Yoonmo Yang, Jae-Gon Kim, Jinwoo Jeong, Sunjei Kim
This paper introduces a novel benchmark as part of the AIS 2024 Real-Time Image Super-Resolution (RTSR) Challenge, which aims to upscale compressed images from 540p to 4K resolution (4x factor) in real-time on commercial GPUs.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2024 • Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Hassene Tmar, Alan C. Bovik
The deep learning revolution has strongly impacted low-level image processing tasks such as style/domain transfer, enhancement/restoration, and visual quality assessments.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2024 • Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Hassene Tmar, Alan C. Bovik
High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years due to their ability to represent a wider range of contrast and color than Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) videos.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2024 • Lena Eichermüller, Gaurang Chaudhari, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Zhijun Lei, Hassene Tmar, Christian Herglotz, André Kaup
We propose an encoding time and energy model for SVT-AV1 based on empirical relations between the encoding time and video parameters as well as encoder configurations.
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2023 • Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik
Recent years have seen steady growth in the popularity and availability of High Dynamic Range (HDR) content, particularly videos, streamed over the internet.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2023 • Krishna Srikar Durbha, Hassene Tmar, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik
Over the past few years, a variety of methods have been proposed to construct optimal bitrate ladders including using low-level features to predict cross-over bitrates, optimal resolutions for each bitrate, predicting visual quality, etc.
1 code implementation • 11 Jul 2023 • Lena Eichermüller, Gaurang Chaudhari, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Zhijun Lei, Hassene Tmar, André Kaup, Christian Herglotz
Current developments in video encoding technology lead to continuously improving compression performance but at the expense of increasingly higher computational demands.
no code implementations • 26 May 2023 • Avinab Saha, Yu-Chih Chen, Chase Davis, Bo Qiu, Xiaoming Wang, Rahul Gowda, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik
We present the outcomes of a recent large-scale subjective study of Mobile Cloud Gaming Video Quality Assessment (MCG-VQA) on a diverse set of gaming videos.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2023 • Yu-Chih Chen, Avinab Saha, Chase Davis, Bo Qiu, Xiaoming Wang, Rahul Gowda, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik
The mobile cloud gaming industry has been rapidly growing over the last decade.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2023 • Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan C. Bovik
The Visual Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) algorithm has recently emerged as a state-of-the-art approach to video quality prediction, that now pervades the streaming and social media industry.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2022 • Yifan Wang, Zhanxuan Mei, Ioannis Katsavounidis, C. -C. Jay Kuo
The fundamental idea of image coding is to remove correlations among pixels before quantization and entropy coding, e. g., the discrete cosine transform (DCT) and intra predictions, adopted by modern image coding standards.
1 code implementation • 16 Jan 2021 • Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Chengyang Wu, Alan C. Bovik, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Zafar Shahid
The Structural Similarity (SSIM) Index is a very widely used image/video quality model that continues to play an important role in the perceptual evaluation of compression algorithms, encoding recipes and numerous other image/video processing algorithms.