13 papers
A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss
MohammadAli Hamidi, Hadi Amirpour, Luigi Atzori +1
Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially in uncontrolled, real-world environments. Although several metho…
Thin-Client Interactive Gaussian Adaptive Streaming over HTTP/3
Emanuele Artioli, Philipp FöÃl, Daniele Lorenzi +4
Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled photorealistic rendering of complex scenes, yet widespread adoption on mobile and Extended Reality (XR) devices is…
EPS: Efficient Patch Sampling for Video Overfitting in Deep Super-Resolution Model Training
Yiying Wei, Hadi Amirpour, Jong Hwan Ko +1
Leveraging the overfitting property of deep neural networks (DNNs) is trending in video delivery systems to enhance video quality within bandwidth limits. Existing approaches trans…
DQ-Ladder: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Bitrate Ladder for Adaptive Video Streaming
Reza Farahani, Zoha Azimi, Vignesh V Menon +4
Adaptive streaming of segmented video over HTTP typically relies on a predefined set of bitrate-resolution pairs, known as a bitrate ladder. However, fixed ladders often overlook v…
ELLMPEG: An Edge-based Agentic LLM Video Processing Tool
Zoha Azimi, Reza Farahani, Radu Prodan +1
Large language models (LLMs), the foundation of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, are transforming many fields and applications, including multimedia, enabling more advanced cont…
End-to-End Learning-based Video Streaming Enhancement Pipeline: A Generative AI Approach
Emanuele Artioli, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer
The primary challenge of video streaming is to balance high video quality with smooth playback. Traditional codecs are well tuned for this trade-off, yet their inability to use con…