Conference Papers and Conference Presentations

These are submitted, accepted, and published conference papers by the Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory related to digital still cameras: quality assessment, acquisition, compression and surveillance. For each published paper, the link will take you to an electronic version of the paper and the presentation.

Image Quality Assessment

  1. D. Kundu and D. Ghadiyaram, A. C. Bovik, and B. L. Evans, "No-reference Image Quality Assessment for High Dynamic Range Images", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 6-8, 2016, 6 pages, Pacific Grove, CA USA, submitted

  2. D. Kundu and B. L. Evans, "Visual Attention guided Quality Assessment of Tone-Mapped images using Scene Statistics", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 25-28, 2016.

  3. D. Kundu and B. L. Evans, "No-reference Synthetic Image Quality Assessment using Scene Statistics", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 8-11, 2015, 5 pages, Pacific Grove, CA USA.

  4. D. Kundu and B. L. Evans, "Full-Reference Visual Quality Assessment for Synthetic Images: A Subjective Study", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 27-30, 2015, 5 pages, Quebec City, Canada. Won Top 10% Paper Award.

  5. D. Kundu and B. L. Evans, "Spatial Domain Synthetic Scene Statistics", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2-5, 2014, pp. 948-954, Pacific Grove, CA USA.

Smart Phone Video Acquisition

  1. C. Jia, Z. Sinno and B. L. Evans, "Real-Time 3D Rotation Smoothing for Video Stabilization", Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2-5, 2014, pp. 673-677, Pacific Grove, California USA.

  2. C. Jia and B. L. Evans, "Online Calibration and Synchronization of Cellphone Camera and Gyroscope", Proc. IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Proc., Dec. 3-5, 2013, pp. 731-734, Austin, Texas USA.

  3. C. Jia and B. L. Evans, "3D Rotational Video Stabilization Using Manifold Optimization", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., May 26-31, 2013, Vancouver, Canada, 5 pages.

  4. C. Jia and B. L. Evans, "Probabilistic 3-D Motion Estimation for Rolling Shutter Video Rectification from Visual and Inertial Measurements", Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Sep. 17-20, 2012, Banff, Canada, 6 pages. Won Top 10% Paper Award.

Image Acquisition

  1. C. Jia and B. L. Evans, "Patch-based Image Deconvolution Via Joint Modeling Of Sparse Priors", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 11-14, 2011, Brussels, Belgium, 4 pages.

  2. T. R. Coffman, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, "Halftoning-Inspired Methods for Foveation in Variable-Acuity Superpixel Imager (VASI) Cameras", IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005, 5 pages.

  3. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Unsupervised Merger Detection and Mitigation in Still Images Using Frequency and Color Content Analysis", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., May 17-21, 2004, Montreal, Canada, 4 pages.

  4. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Unsupervised Automation of Photographic Composition Rules in Digital Still Cameras", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Sensors, Color, Cameras, and Systems for Digital Photography, Jan. 18-22, 2004, vol. 5301, pp. 364-373, San Jose, CA USA.

  5. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "A Novel Gradient Induced Main Subject Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Still Cameras", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 9-12, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 1640-1644, Pacific Grove, CA USA.

Image Compression

  1. Z. Wang, S. Banerjee, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, "Generalized Bitplane-by-Bitplane Shift Method for JPEG2000 ROI Coding", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 22-25, 2002, vol. III, pp. 81-84, Rochester, NY USA.

  2. S. Banerjee and B. L. Evans, "Tuning JPEG2000 Image Compression for Graphics Regions", Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Apr. 7-9, 2002, pp. 67-71, Santa Fe, NM USA.

  3. Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, and B. L. Evans, "Blind Measurement of Blocking Artifacts in Images", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 10-13, 2000, vol. III, pp. 981-984, Vancouver, Canada.

Video Compression

  1. D. Arifler and B. L. Evans, "Modeling the Self-Similar Behavior of Packetized MPEG-4 Video Using Wavelet-Based Methods", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 22-25, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 848-851, Rochester, NY USA.

  2. H. R. Sheikh, S. Liu, B. L. Evans and A. C. Bovik, "Real-Time Foveation Techniques for H.263 Video Encoding in Software", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., May 7-11, 2001, vol. 3, pp. 1781-1784, Salt Lake City, UT USA.

  3. S. Banerjee, H. R. Sheikh, L. K. John, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, "VLIW DSP vs. Superscalar Implementation of a Baseline H.263 Video Encoder", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 1665-1669, Pacific Grove, CA USA.

Surveillance

  1. K. Sato, B. L. Evans, and J. K. Aggarwal, "Designing an Embedded Video Processing Camera using a 16-bit Microprocessor for Surveillance System", Proc. IEEE Workshop on Digital and Computational Video, Nov. 14-15, 2002, pp. 151-158, Clearwater Beach, FL USA.

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