Picture Quality Publications
2017
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Ramanathan Subramanian, Jonas Arnfred, Stefan Winkler.
Probabilistic approach to people-centric photo selection and sequencing.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 2609-2624, Nov. 2017.
Additional download: Matlab implementation of algorithms described in the paper.
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Stefan Winkler, Chang Wen Chen, Alexander Raake, Peter Schelkens, Lea Skorin-Kapov.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Measuring Quality of Experience for Advanced Media Technologies and Services.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 1, Feb. 2017.
2016
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Bihan Wen, Ye Zhu, Ramanathan Subramanian, Tian-Tsong Ng, Xuanjing Shen, Stefan Winkler.
COVERAGE - A novel database for copy-move forgery detection.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, AZ, Sept. 25-28, 2016.
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Robert C. Streijl, Stefan Winkler, David S. Hands.
Mean Opinion Score (MOS) revisited: Methods and applications, limitations and alternatives.
Multimedia Systems Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 213-227, Feb. 2016.
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Stefan Winkler.
A center-surround framework for spatial image processing.
Proc. IS&T Human Vision & Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 14-18, 2016.
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Yuming Fang, Weisi Lin, Stefan Winkler.
Review of Existing Objective QoE Methodologies.
C. W. Chen, P. Chatzimisios, T. Dagiuklas, L. Atzori (eds.), Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE): Current Status and Future Requirements, ch. 3, Wiley, Jan. 2016.
2015
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Gaowen Liu, Yan Yan, Elisa Ricci, Yi Yang, Yahong Han, Stefan Winkler, Nicu Sebe.
Inferring painting style with multi-task dictionary learning.
Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015.
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Ting Ma, Yee Hui Lee, Stefan Winkler, Maode Ma.
QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links.
International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 259–275, May/June 2015.
2014
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Ramanathan Subramanian, Jonas Arnfred, Stefan Winkler.
Modeling image appeal based on crowd preferences for automated person-centric collage creation.
Proc. 2nd International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Orlando, FL, Nov. 7, 2014.
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Stefan Winkler.
Does inter-subject variability depend on test material?
Proc. 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Singapore, Sept. 18-20, 2014.
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Florian M. Savoy, Vassilios Vonikakis, Stefan Winkler, Sabine Süsstrunk.
Recovering badly exposed objects from digital photos using internet images.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Digital Photography, vol. 9023, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
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Albrecht Lindner, Stefan Winkler.
What impacts skin color in digital photos?
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Color Imaging, vol. 9015, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
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Stefan Winkler.
Efficient measurement of stereoscopic 3D video content issues.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Image Quality and System Performance, vol. 9016, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
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Stefan Winkler, Florian M. Savoy, Ramanathan Subramanian.
X-Eye: A reference format for eye tracking data to facilitate analyses across databases.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Human Vision & Electronic Imaging, vol. 9014, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2-6, 2014.
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Amornched Jinda-apiraksa, Stefan Winkler.
PhotoCluster: A multi-clustering technique for near-duplicate detection in personal photo collections.
Proc. 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Lisbon, Portugal, Jan. 5-8, 2014.
2013
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Stefan Winkler, Dongbo Min.
Stereo/multiview picture quality: Overview and recent advances.
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1358-1373, Nov. 2013.
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Ramanathan Subramanian, Stefan Winkler.
How do users make a people-centric slideshow?
Proc. 2nd International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 22, 2013.
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Syed Omer Gilani, Ramanathan Subramanian, Huang Hua, Stefan Winkler, Shih-Cheng Yen.
Impact of image appeal on visual attention during photo triaging.
Proc. 20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 15-18, 2013.
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Amornched Jinda-Apiraksa, Vassilios Vonikakis, Stefan Winkler.
California-ND: An annotated dataset for near-duplicate detection in personal photo collections.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
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Honghai Yu, Stefan Winkler.
Image complexity and spatial information.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
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Stefan Winkler, Ramanathan Subramanian.
Overview of eye tracking datasets.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Klagenfurt, Austria, July 3-5, 2013.
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Stefan Winkler.
Assessing the quality of user-generated content.
ZTE Communications, Special Issue on QoE Modeling and Applications for
Multimedia Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 37-40, March 2013.
2012
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Stefan Winkler.
Emotion-based sequence of family photos. (2nd prize)
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, HP Challenge: Understanding the Emotional Impact of Images and Videos, Nara, Japan, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012.
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Vassilios Vonikakis, Stefan Winkler.
System for creating slideshows based on people and their emotions. (demo)
Proc. ACM Multimedia Conference, Nara, Japan, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012.
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Stefan Winkler.
Analysis of public image and video databases for quality assessment.
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on New Subjective and Objective Methodologies for Audio and Visual Signal Processing, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 616-625, Oct. 2012.
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Stefan Winkler.
Characteristics of Human Vision.
R. Lukac (ed.), Perceptual Digital Imaging: Methods and Applications, chap. 1, CRC Press, Oct. 2012.
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Seon Joo Kim, Hongwei Ng, Stefan Winkler, Peng Song, Chi-Wing Fu.
Brush-and-Drag: A multi-touch interface for photo triaging. (full paper & demo)
Proc. ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI), San Francisco, Sept. 21-24, 2012.
2011
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Stefan Winkler, Dongbo Min.
Stereoscopic image quality compendium.
Proc. 8th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, Dec. 13-16, 2011.
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Fatih Porikli et al.
Multimedia quality assessment.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 164-177, Nov. 2011.
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Stefan Winkler.
Image quality in the era of personal and social media.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA), Kyoto, Oct. 4-5, 2011 (invited keynote).
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Yee Hui Lee, Stefan Winkler.
Effects of rain attenuation on satellite video transmission.
Proc. IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2011-Spring, Budapest, May 15-18, 2011.
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Stefan Winkler, Jeremy Bennington.
Quality assurance for 3D television.
Proc. NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 9-14, 2011.
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Stefan Winkler, Pierre Costa (editors).
Recommended Quality of Experience Metrics for IP Video.
Video Services Forum (VSF) QoE Metrics Activity Group Report, Jan. 2011.
2010
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Stefan Winkler.
3DTV quality issues and measurement guidelines.
Proc. SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 20-22, 2010.
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Stefan Winkler, Frederic Dufaux, Dominique Barba, Vittorio Baroncini (guest editors).
Special Issue on Image and Video Quality Assessment.
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 25, no. 8, August 2010.
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Robert C. Streijl, Stefan Winkler, David S. Hands.
Perceptual quality measurement - Towards a more efficient process for validating objective models.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 136-140, July 2010.
2009
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Mu Mu et al.
An interview with video quality experts.
ACM SIGMM Records, Dec. 2009.
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Stefan Winkler.
Video quality measurement standards - current status and trends.
Proc. 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Macau, Dec. 7-10, 2009.
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Stefan Winkler.
Standardizing quality measurement for video services.
IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) E-Letter, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 21-22, Oct. 2009.
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Stefan Winkler.
On the properties of subjective ratings in video quality experiments.
Proc. International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), San Diego, CA, July 29–31, 2009.
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Stefan Winkler.
Delivering high quality video over IP – Why your digital video service must be monitored.
IEC Annual Review of Communications, vol. 61, Jan. 2009.
2008
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Stefan Winkler, Praveen Mohandas.
The evolution of video quality measurement: From PSNR to hybrid metrics.
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 660-668, Sept. 2008 (invited paper).
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Stefan Winkler.
The human vision system and video QoE.
Communications, Engineering and Design Magazine, July 2008.
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Stefan Winkler.
Top 10 practical considerations for your video monitoring initiative.
IP Communications, June 2008.
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Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Perceptual Semantics.
S. M. Rahman (ed.), Multimedia Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, chap. 7.5, pp. 1441-1455, Information Science Reference, June 2008.
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Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Stefan Winkler, Shih-Cheng Yen.
Motion saliency outweighs other low-level features while watching videos.
Proc. IS&T/SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 6806, San Jose, CA, Jan. 27–31, 2008.
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Stefan Winkler.
Quality of Experience (QoE) - An important measure of success for IP-based video services.
Proc. SCTE Emerging Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 14-16, 2008.
2007
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Stefan Winkler.
Video quality and beyond.
Proc. European Signal Processing Conference, Poznan, Poland, Sept. 3-7, 2007 (invited paper).
2006
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Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Perceived audiovisual quality of low-bitrate multimedia content.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 973-980, Oct. 2006.
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Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Perceptual Semantics.
G. Ghinea, S. Y. Chen (eds.), Digital Multimedia Perception and Design, ch. 1, pp. 1-20, Idea Group, May 2006.
2005
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Stefan Winkler.
Video Quality Metrics - A Review.
H. R. Wu, K. R. Rao (eds.), Digital Video Image Quality & Perceptual Coding, CRC Press, Nov. 2005.
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Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Maximizing audiovisual quality at low bitrates.
Proc. Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 23-25, 2005 (invited paper).
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Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Audiovisual quality evaluation of low-bitrate video.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 5666, pp. 139-148, San Jose, CA, Jan. 16-20, 2005.
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Stefan Winkler.
Digital Video Quality - Vision Models and Metrics.
John Wiley & Sons, Jan. 2005.
2004
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Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Segmentation-driven perceptual quality metrics.
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 3543-3546, Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004.
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Farzad Ebrahimi, Matthieu Chamik, Stefan Winkler.
JPEG vs. JPEG2000: An objective comparison of image encoding quality.
Proc. SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, vol. 5558, pp. 300-308, Denver, CO, August 2-6, 2004.
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Anna Yamaguchi, Stefan Winkler, Riaz Esmailzadeh, Masao Nakagawa.
Perceptual quality of service control for wireless video streaming.
IEICE Technical Report, vol. 104, no. 20, pp. 133-137, April 2004.
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Pina Marziliano, Frédéric Dufaux, Stefan Winkler, Touradj Ebrahimi.
Perceptual blur and ringing metrics: Application to JPEG2000.
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 163-172, Feb. 2004.
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Sabine Süsstrunk, Stefan Winkler.
Color image quality on the Internet.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Internet Imaging, vol. 5304, pp. 118-131, San Jose, CA, Jan. 18-22, 2004 (invited paper).
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Stefan Winkler, Sabine Süsstrunk.
Visibility of noise in natural images.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 5292, pp. 121-129, San Jose, CA, Jan. 18-22, 2004.
2003
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Stefan Winkler, Elisa Drelie Gelasca, Touradj Ebrahimi.
Toward perceptual metrics for video watermark evaluation.
Proc. SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, vol. 5203, pp. 371-378, San Diego, CA, August 5-8, 2003.
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Stefan Winkler, Frédéric Dufaux.
Video quality evaluation for mobile applications.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Visual Communication and Image Processing, vol. 5150, pp. 593-603, Lugano, Switzerland, July 8-11, 2003.
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Stefan Winkler, Ruth Campos.
Video quality evaluation for Internet streaming applications.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 5007, pp. 104-115, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 20-24, 2003.
2002
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Pina Marziliano, Frédéric Dufaux, Stefan Winkler, Touradj Ebrahimi.
A no-reference perceptual blur metric.
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pp. 57-60, Rochester, NY, Sept. 22-25, 2002.
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Stefan Winkler, Elisa Drelie Gelasca, Touradj Ebrahimi.
Perceptual quality assessment for video watermarking.
Proc. International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC), pp. 90-94, Las Vegas, NV, April 8-10, 2002.
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Zhenghua Yu, Hong Ren Wu, Stefan Winkler, Tao Chen.
Vision-model-based impairment metric to evaluate blocking artifacts in digital video.
Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 154-169, Jan. 2002 (invited paper).
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Martin Kutter, Stefan Winkler.
A vision-based masking model for spread-spectrum image watermarking.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 16-25, Jan. 2002.
2001
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Stefan Winkler, Christian J. van den Branden Lambrecht, Murat Kunt.
Vision and Video: Models and Applications.
C. J. van den Branden Lambrecht (ed.), Vision Models and Applications to Image and Video Processing, chap. 10, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
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Stefan Winkler, Animesh Sharma, David McNally.
Perceptual video quality and blockiness metrics for multimedia streaming applications.
Proc. 4th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, pp. 553-556, Aalborg, Denmark, Sept. 9-12, 2001 (invited paper).
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Anand R. Prasad, Riaz Esmailzadeh, Stefan Winkler, Takeki Ihara, Bijan Rohani, Benoit Pinguet, Manuel Capel.
Perceptual quality measurement and control: Definition, application and performance.
Proc. 4th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, pp. 547-552, Aalborg, Denmark, Sept. 9-12, 2001 (invited paper).
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Henry R. Wu, Zhenghua Yu, Stefan Winkler, Tao Chen.
Impairment metrics for MC/DPCM/DCT encoded digital video.
Proc. Picture Coding Symposium, pp. 29-32, Seoul, Korea, April 25-27, 2001.
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Stefan Winkler.
Visual fidelity and perceived quality: Towards comprehensive metrics.
Proc. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 4299, pp. 114-125, San Jose, CA, Jan. 21-26, 2001.
2000 and earlier
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Stefan Winkler.
Vision Models and Quality Metrics for Image Processing Applications.
Ph.D. Thesis #2313, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000.
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Pierre Vandergheynst, Martin Kutter, Stefan Winkler.
Wavelet-based contrast computation and application to digital image watermarking.
Proc. SPIE Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing, vol. 4119, pp. 82-92, San Diego, CA, July 30-August 4, 2000 (invited paper).
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Ann Marie Rohaly et al.
Video Quality Experts Group: Current results and future directions.
Proc. SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, vol. 4067, pp. 742-753, Perth, Australia, June 21-23, 2000.
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Stefan Winkler.
Quality metric design: A closer look.
Proc. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 3959, pp. 37-44, San Jose, CA, Jan. 22-28, 2000.
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Stefan Winkler, Pierre Vandergheynst.
Computing isotropic local contrast from oriented pyramid decompositions.
Proc. 6th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 4, pp. 420-424, Kobe, Japan, Oct. 25-28, 1999.
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Stefan Winkler.
Issues in vision modeling for perceptual video quality assessment.
Signal Processing, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 231-252, Oct. 1999.
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Stefan Winkler.
Visual quality assessment using a contrast gain control model.
Proc. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 527-532, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 13-15, 1999.
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Stefan Winkler, Martin Kutter.
Vers un tatouage à étalement de spectre optimal utilisant le système visuel humain.
Proc. CORESA Workshop, pp. 25-33, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 14-15, 1999 (invited paper).
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Stefan Winkler.
A perceptual distortion metric for digital color video.
Proc. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 3644, pp. 175-184, San Jose, CA, Jan. 23-29, 1999.
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Stefan Winkler.
A perceptual distortion metric for digital color images.
Proc. 5th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pp. 399-403, Chicago, IL, Oct. 4-7, 1998.