Francesca De Simone

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Objective quality metrics for video scalability

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Adrien Georges Jean Besson

Scalable video coding is emerging as an efficient alternative to simulcast encoding to distribute the same video content si- multaneously to many users having different terminals and network conditions. In order to select the best combination of video scal ...

2013

Evaluation of Visual privacy Filters Impact on Video Surveillance Intelligibility

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Since privacy issues are becoming important with growth of the video surveillance, many tools are proposed for protection of personal privacy in the video. However, little is understood regarding the effectiveness of such tools and their effect on the unde ...

2012

Quality Assessment of Asymmetric Stereo Pair Formed From Decoded and Synthesized Views

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Philippe Hanhart

When a stereo pair is formed from a decoded view and a synthesized view, it is unclear how the overall quality of the stereo pair should be assessed through objective quality metrics. In this paper, this problem is addressed considering a 3D video represen ...

2012

Subjective Study of Privacy Filters in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone

Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. Therefore, to address privacy issues, many tools have been proposed for protection of perso ...

Ieee2012

Quality assessment of multidimensional video scalability

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee

Scalability is a powerful concept for adaptive video content delivery to many end users having heterogeneous and dynamic characteristics of networks and devices. In order to maximize users' quality of experience by selecting appropriate combinations of mul ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Selected Contributions on Multimedia Quality Evaluation

Francesca De Simone

Multimedia signals, such as digital images and video sequences, are captured, processed and finally presented to human observers who directly or indirectly judge their quality. During the data acquisition, as well as the many steps of the processing chain, ...

EPFL2012

Subjective quality evaluation via paired comparison: application to scalable video coding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee

Scalable video coding is a powerful solution for content delivery in many interactive multimedia services due to its adaptability to varying terminal and network constraints. In order to successfully exploit such adaptability, it is necessary to understand ...

2011

Subjective quality evaluation of foveated video coding using audio-visual focus of attention

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee

This paper presents a foveated coding method using audio-visual focus of attention and its evaluation through extensive subjective experiments on both standard definition and high definition sequences. Regarding a sound-emitting region as the location draw ...

2011

Efficient Video Coding based on Audio-Visual Focus of Attention

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee

This paper proposes an efficient video coding method using audio-visual focus of attention, which is based on the observation that sound-emitting regions in an audio-visual sequence draw viewers' attention. First, an audio-visual source localization algori ...

Elsevier2011

Towards High Efficiency Video Coding: Subjective Evaluation of Potential Coding Technologies

Touradj Ebrahimi, Francesca De Simone, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

This paper describes the details and the results of the subjective quality evaluation performed at EPFL, as a contribution to the effort of the joint collaborative team on video coding (JCT-VC) for the definition of the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) ...

Elsevier2011

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