Publications by Paolo Prandoni

Increasing Loudness In Audio Signals: A Perceptually Motivated Approach To Preserve Audio Quality

We present a method to maintain the subjective perception of volume of audio signals and, at the same time, reduce their absolute peak value. We focus on achieving this without compromising the perceived audio quality. This is specially useful, for example ...

IEEE2022

Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Transfer Learning and Subject-specific Scaling

Paolo Prandoni, Natalia Nessler, Milos Cernak

In communication systems, it is crucial to estimate the perceived quality of audio and speech. The industrial standards for many years have been PESQ, 3QUEST, and POLQA, which are intrusive methods. This restricts the possibilities of using these metrics i ...

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC2021

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

VITRAIL : Acquisition, Modelling and Rendering of Stained Glass

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Niranjan Thanikachalam

Stained glass windows are designed to reveal their powerful artistry under diverse and time-varying lighting conditions; virtual relighting of stained glass, therefore represents an exceptional tool for the appreciation of this age old art form. However, a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Method, system and computer program for determining a reflectance distribution function of an object

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz

The invention refers to a method for analysing reflected light of an object. First a light angle distribution for a point of the object is determined. Then a plenoptic projector is controlled to illuminate the point of the object with the determined light ...

2014

Light Transport Matrix recovery for nearly planar objects

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Niranjan Thanikachalam

The light transport matrix has become a powerful tool for scene relighting, owing to the versatility of its representational power of various light transport phenomenon. We argue that scenes with an almost planar surface geometry, even with significant amo ...

SPIE2014

Light ﬁeld panorama by a plenoptic camera

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Zhou Xue

Consumer-grade plenoptic camera Lytro draws a lot of interest from both academic and industrial world. However its low resolution in both spatial and angular domain prevents it from being used for ﬁne and detailed light ﬁeld acquisition. This paper propose ...

SPIE2013

Sensorcam: An Energy-Efficient Smart Wireless Camera for Environmental Monitoring

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, Zichong Chen

Reducing energy cost is crucial for energy-constrained smart wireless cameras. Existing platforms impose two main challenges: First, most commercial smart phones have a closed platform, which makes it impossible to manage low-level circuits. Since the samp ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

From Lagrange to Shannon...and Back: Another Look at Sampling

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni

Classical digital signal processing (DSP) lore tells us the tale of a continuous-time primeval signal, of its brutal sampling, and of the magic sinc interpolation that, under the aegis of bandlimitedness, brings the original signal back to (continuous) lif ...

2009

Method and system for combining video with spatio-temporal alignment

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Serge Ayer

Given two video sequences (IS1, IS2), a composite video sequence can be generated which includes visual elements from each of the given sequences, suitably synchronized and represented in a chosen focal plane (figure 1). For example, given two video sequen ...

2006