no code implementations • 8 Apr 2024 • Vibhoothi Vibhoothi, Julien Zouein, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
Modern video encoders have evolved into sophisticated pieces of software in which various coding tools interact with each other.
1 code implementation • 26 Jun 2023 • Vibhoothi, Angeliki Katsenou, François Pitié, Katarina Domijan, Anil Kokaram
Since 2015 video dimensionality has expanded to higher spatial and temporal resolutions and a wider colour gamut.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2023 • Vibhoothi, Daniel Joseph Ringis, Xin Shu, François Pitié, Zsolt Lorincz, Philippe Brodeur, Anil Kokaram
Cloud-based deployment of content production and broadcast workflows has continued to disrupt the industry after the pandemic.
1 code implementation • 28 Mar 2023 • Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Angeliki Katsenou, Yeping Su, Balu Adsumilli, Anil Kokaram
The complexity of modern codecs along with the increased need of delivering high-quality videos at low bitrates has reinforced the idea of a per-clip tailoring of parameters for optimised rate-distortion performance.
1 code implementation • 27 Mar 2023 • Clément Bled, François Pitié
As modern image denoiser networks have grown in size, their reported performance in popular real noise benchmarks such as DND and SIDD have now long outperformed classic non-deep learning denoisers such as Wiener and Wavelet-based methods.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2022 • Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Angeliki Katsenou, Daniel Joseph Ringis, Yeping Su, Neil Birkbeck, Jessie Lin, Balu Adsumilli, Anil Kokaram
Since the adoption of VP9 by Netflix in 2016, royalty-free coding standards continued to gain prominence through the activities of the AOMedia consortium.
1 code implementation • 23 Jun 2022 • Vibhoothi, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
Video transcoding is an increasingly important application in the streaming media industry.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Daniel J. Ringis, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
This work focuses on reducing the computational cost of repeated video encodes by using a lower resolution clip as a proxy.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Daniel J Ringis, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
Direct optimisation methods are deployed to maximise BD-Rate improvement for a particular clip.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Daniel J Ringis, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
The majority of internet traffic is video content.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Daniel J. Ringis, François Pitié, Anil Kokaram
In our recent work we have presented per-clip optimization for the Lagrangian multiplier in Rate controlled compression, which yielded BD-Rate improvements of approximately 2\% across a corpus of videos using HEVC.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2020 • Ivan Bacher, Hossein Javidnia, Soumyabrata Dev, Rahul Agrahari, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Peng Song, David Corrigan, François Pitié
Over the past decade, the evolution of video-sharing platforms has attracted a significant amount of investments on contextual advertising.
3 code implementations • 17 Mar 2020 • Marco Forte, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Ning Xu, François Pitié
We propose a novel interactive architecture and a novel training scheme that are both tailored to better exploit the user workflow.
2 code implementations • 17 Mar 2020 • Marco Forte, François Pitié
Cutting out an object and estimating its opacity mask, known as image matting, is a key task in many image editing applications.
Ranked #8 on Image Matting on Composition-1K
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2020 • Hossein Javidnia, François Pitié
The current state of the art alpha matting methods mainly rely on the trimap as the secondary and only guidance to estimate alpha.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2019 • Soumyabrata Dev, Hossein Javidnia, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié
Virtual advertising is an important and promising feature in the area of online advertising.
no code implementations • 6 May 2019 • Soumyabrata Dev, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié
Such techniques involve replacing an existing advertisement in a video frame, with a new advertisement.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Soumyabrata Dev, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié
The rapid increase in the number of online videos provides the marketing and advertising agents ample opportunities to reach out to their audience.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2019 • Soumyabrata Dev, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié
With the advent of faster internet services and growth of multimedia content, we observe a massive growth in the number of online videos.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2018 • Murhaf Hossari, Soumyabrata Dev, Matthew Nicholson, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié
Online video advertising gives content providers the ability to deliver compelling content, reach a growing audience, and generate additional revenue from online media.
no code implementations • 16 May 2016 • François Pitié
Cutting out and object and estimate its transparency mask is a key task in many applications.