5 papers
Oracle-Guided Soft Shielding for Safe Move Prediction in Chess
Prajit T Rajendran, Fabio Arnez, Huascar Espinoza +2
In high stakes environments, agents relying purely on imitation learning or reinforcement learning often struggle to avoid safety-critical errors during exploration. Existing reinf…
Content-Driven Frame-Level Bit Prediction for Rate Control in Versatile Video Coding
Amritha Premkumar, Prajit T Rajendran, Vignesh V Menon +1
Rate control allocates bits efficiently across frames to meet a target bitrate while maintaining quality. Conventional two-pass rate control (2pRC) in Versatile Video Coding (VVC)…
ICME 2025 Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement Grand Challenge
Yixu Chen, Bowen Chen, Hai Wei +16
This paper reports IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo (ICME) 2025 Grand Challenge on Generalizable HDR and SDR Video Quality Measurement. With the rapid developmen…
Learning Quality from Complexity and Structure: A Feature-Fused XGBoost Model for Video Quality Assessment
Amritha Premkumar, Prajit T Rajendran, Vignesh V Menon
This paper presents a novel approach for reduced-reference video quality assessment (VQA), developed as part of the recent VQA Grand Challenge. Our method leverages low-level compl…
Energy-Quality-aware Variable Framerate Pareto-Front for Adaptive Video Streaming
Prajit T Rajendran, Samira Afzal, Vignesh V Menon +1
Optimizing framerate for a given bitrate-spatial resolution pair in adaptive video streaming is essential to maintain perceptual quality while considering decoding complexity. Low…