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Video shared over the internet is commonly referred to as user generated content (UGC). UGC video may have low quality due to various factors including previous compression. UGC video is uploaded by users, and then it is re-encoded to be…
Video-sharing platforms must re-encode large volumes of noisy user-generated content (UGC) to meet streaming demands. However, conventional codecs, which aim to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the compressed and input videos,…
Service providers must encode a large volume of noisy videos to meet the demand for user-generated content (UGC) in online video-sharing platforms. However, low-quality UGC challenges conventional codecs based on rate-distortion…
In recent years, user generated content (UGC) has become the dominant force in internet traffic. However, UGC videos exhibit a higher degree of variability and diverse characteristics compared to traditional encoding test videos. This…
Non-professional video, commonly known as User Generated Content (UGC) has become very popular in today's video sharing applications. However, traditional metrics used in compression and quality assessment, like BD-Rate and PSNR, are…
Unlike video coding for professional content, the delivery pipeline of User Generated Content (UGC) involves transcoding where unpristine reference content needs to be compressed repeatedly. In this work, we observe that existing…
Recent years have witnessed an ever-expandingvolume of user-generated content (UGC) videos available on the Internet. Nevertheless, progress on perceptual quality assessmentof UGC videos still remains quite limited. There are many…
Recently, we have observed an exponential increase of user-generated content (UGC) videos. The distinguished characteristic of UGC videos originates from the video production and delivery chain, as they are usually acquired and processed by…
Over the past decade, the online video industry has greatly expanded the volume of visual data that is streamed and shared over the Internet. Moreover, because of the increasing ease of video capture, many millions of consumers create and…
This paper presents a novel method to determine rate-distortion optimized transform coefficients for efficient compression of videos generated from point clouds. The method exploits a generalized frequency selective extrapolation approach…
As being one of the main representation formats of 3D real world and well-suited for virtual reality and augmented reality applications, point clouds have gained a lot of popularity. In order to reduce the huge amount of data, a…
Blind or no-reference video quality assessment of user-generated content (UGC) has become a trending, challenging, heretofore unsolved problem. Accurate and efficient video quality predictors suitable for this content are thus in great…
In lossy image compression, the objective is to achieve minimal signal distortion while compressing images to a specified bit rate. The increasing demand for visual analysis applications, particularly in classification tasks, has emphasized…
Recent progress in generative compression technology has significantly improved the perceptual quality of compressed data. However, these advancements primarily focus on producing high-frequency details, often overlooking the ability of…
To provide users with more realistic visual experiences, videos are developing in the trends of Ultra High Definition (UHD), High Frame Rate (HFR), High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gammut (WCG) and high clarity. However, the data amount…
Video coding is a video compression technique that compresses the original video sequence to produce a smaller archive file or reduce the transmission bandwidth under constraints on the visual quality loss. Rate control (RC) plays a…
Despite a short history, neural image codecs have been shown to surpass classical image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, most of them suffer from significantly longer decoding times, which hinders the practical…
User-generated content (UGC) live videos are often bothered by various distortions during capture procedures and thus exhibit diverse visual qualities. Such source videos are further compressed and transcoded by media server providers…
With the increasing number of images and videos consumed by computer vision algorithms, compression methods are evolving to consider both perceptual quality and performance in downstream tasks. Traditional codecs can tackle this problem by…
This paper presents a method for generating coded video bit streams requiring less decoding energy than conventionally coded bit streams. To this end, we propose extending the standard rate-distortion optimization approach to also consider…