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The Chapter begins with a discussion of the constraints and needs of video coding systems. The lack in flexibility of traditional monolithic codec specifications, not suitable to model commonalities among codecs and foster reusability among…
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of film grain handling in open-source implementations of the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. We focus on two key components: the Film Grain Analysis (FGA) module implemented in VVenC and the…
Recent video codecs such as VVC and AV1 apply a Non-rectangular (NR) partitioning to combine prediction signals using a smooth blending around the boundary, followed by a rectangular transform on the whole block. The NR signal…
With the increasing efforts of bringing high-quality virtual reality technologies into the market, efficient 360-degree video compression gains in importance. As such, the state-of-the-art H.266/VVC video coding standard integrates…
While previous CNN-based models have exhibited promising results for salient object detection (SOD), their ability to explore global long-range dependencies is restricted. Our previous work, the Visual Saliency Transformer (VST), addressed…
Scalable lossless video coding is an important aspect for many professional applications. Wavelet-based video coding decomposes an input sequence into a lowpass and a highpass subband by filtering along the temporal axis. The lowpass…
End-to-end learning-based video compression has made steady progress over the last several years. However, unlike learning-based image coding, which has already surpassed its handcrafted counterparts, learning-based video coding still has…
The need for a high-performance transceiver with high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) has driven the communication system to utilize the latest technique identified as oversampling systems. It was the most economical modulator and decimation in…
We introduce a novel cost aggregation network, dubbed Volumetric Aggregation with Transformers (VAT), to tackle the few-shot segmentation task by using both convolutions and transformers to efficiently handle high dimensional correlation…
Video has become the predominant medium for information dissemination, driving the need for efficient video codecs. Recent advancements in learned video compression have shown promising results, surpassing traditional codecs in terms of…
This paper discusses an extension technology for the previously proposed Flexible Line-Commutated Converter (Flex LCC) [1]. The proposed extension involves modifying the arm internal-electromotive-force control, redesigning the main-circuit…
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as a vital approach for realizing energy efficient, high speed optical interconnects in the data center and supercomputers. As of today, VCSEL is the most suitable for mass…
The growing needs for high-quality video applications have resulted in a lot of studies and developments in video signal coding. This chapter presents some advanced techniques in enhancing the rate-distortion performance of the block-based…
Over the past two decades, traditional block-based video coding has made remarkable progress and spawned a series of well-known standards such as MPEG-4, H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC. On the other hand, deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown…
Video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) encodes videos into a low-dimensional latent space, becoming a key component of most Latent Video Diffusion Models (LVDMs) to reduce model training costs. However, as the resolution and duration of…
Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful architecture in the realm of modern computer vision. However, its application in certain imaging fields, such as microscopy and satellite imaging, presents unique challenges. In these…
The exponential growth of video traffic has placed increasing demands on bandwidth and storage infrastructure, particularly for content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge devices. While traditional video codecs like H.264 and HEVC achieve…