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Blind consumer video quality assessment with spatial-temporal perception and fusion
Blind quality assessment for user-generated content (UGC) or consumer videos is challenging in computer vision. Two open issues are yet to be addressed: how to effectively extract high-dimensional spatial-temp...
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Two-stream network with viewport selection for blind omnidirectional video quality assessment
In omnidirectional images or videos, the viewer receives an interactive and immersive experience from the viewport by changing the viewing angle. Due to the wide application of omnidirectional videos, the visu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Weighted Mean Deviation Similarity Index for Objective Omnidirectional Video Quality Assessment
Objective quality assessment for omnidirectional videos is essential for the watching experience and optimization processes of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. Currently, the most used objective video quali...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Residual Optimization for Stereoscopic Image Color Correction
The color correction algorithm is designed to eliminate color discrepancies between image pairs. Compared with the conventional algorithm, color correction for 3D stereoscopic images not only needs to achieve ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Color Correction for Stereoscopic Images Based on Gradient Preservation
Color correction can eliminate the color difference between similar images in image stitching and 3D video reconstruction. The result images generated by the local color correction algorithms usually show stru...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks
Big data brings more challenges to image quality assessment (IQA). First of all, reference images are not always available, so full-reference IQA (FR-IQA) and reduced-reference IQA (RR-IQA) can be problematic ...
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Meta-metric for saliency detection evaluation metrics based on application preference
Existing saliency detection evaluation metrics often produce inconsistent evaluation results. Because of the widespread application of image saliency detection, we propose a meta-metric to evaluate the perform...
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Machine learning-based framework for saliency detection in distorted images
Visual saliency detection is useful in carrying out image compression, image segmentation, image retrieval, and other image processing applications. Majority of existing saliency detection algorithms are prese...
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Open AccessRevealing inhibition difference between PFI-2 enantiomers against SETD7 by molecular dynamics simulations, binding free energy calculations and unbinding pathway analysis
SETD7 is associated with multiple diseases related signaling pathways. (R)-PFI-2 is the first SETD7 inhibitor with nanomolar inhibitory potency. The activity of (R)-PFI-2 is about 500 times over that of (S)-PF...
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Evaluation of visual saliency analysis algorithms in noisy images
Most existing visual saliency analysis algorithms assume that the input image is clean and does not have any disturbances. However, this situation is not always the case. In this paper, we provide an extensive...
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Erratum to: Geometry-shader-based real-time voxelization and applications
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XGRouter: high-quality global router in X-architecture with particle swarm optimization
This paper presents a high-quality very large scale integration (VLSI) global router in X-architecture, called XGRouter, that heavily relies on integer linear programming (ILP) techniques, partition strategy a...
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A PSO-based timing-driven Octilinear Steiner tree algorithm for VLSI routing considering bend reduction
Constructing a timing-driven Steiner tree is very important in VLSI performance-driven routing stage. Meanwhile, non-Manhattan architecture is supported by several manufacturing technologies and now well appre...
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Geometry-shader-based real-time voxelization and applications
This work proposes a new voxelization algorithm based on newly available GPU functionalities and designs several real-time applications to render complex lighting effects with the voxelization result. The voxe...
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Oscillation analysis for salient object detection
Salient object detection from an image is important for many multimedia applications. Existing methods provide good solutions to saliency detection; however, their results often emphasize the high-contrast edg...
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Interpolation-tuned salient region detection
Image salient region detection is very useful in many multimedia applications, such as image retrieval, adaptive content delivery, and adaptive compression. Most existing methods are based on center-surround d...
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Image resizing via non-homogeneous war**
Image resizing aims to adapt images to displays with different sizes and aspect ratios. In this paper, we provide a new image resizing approach for efficiently determining the non-homogeneous warp that better ...
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Animation rendering with Population Monte Carlo image-plane sampler
Except for the first frame, a population Monte Carlo image plane (PMC-IP) sampler renders with a start-up kernel function learned from previous results by using motion analysis techniques in the vision communi...
