Challenge Sessions
Challenge Session I: Mon 14:00 - 16:00
Grand Challenge on Light Field Image Coding (1 hr 30 min)
Session Chair: Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL)
Program:
- Presentations of contributions:
- Interpreting plenoptic Images as multiview sequences for improved compression
Waqas Ahmad, Roger Olsson, Marten Sjostrom
- Light field image coding via linear approximation prior
Shengyang Zhao, Zhibo Chen
- Lossy compression of lenslet images from plenoptic cameras combining sparse predictive coding and JPEG 2000
Ioan Tabus, Petri Helin, Pekka Astola
- Optimized inter-view prediction based light field image compression with adaptive reconstruction
Chuanmin Jia1, Yekang Yang, Xinfeng Zhangy, Xiang Zhang, Shiqi Wangx,
Shanshe Wang, Siwei Ma
- Recent developments in Steered Mixture-of-Experts for Light Field coding, Ruben Verhack, Thomas Sikora, Lieven Lange, Rolf Jongebloed, Glenn Van Wallendael, Peter Lambert
- Analysis of contributions and results:
- Evaluation Methodologies in ICIP 2017 Grand Channel on Light Field Coding and Results
Irene Viola, Saeed Mahmoodpour, Peter Schelkens, Touradj Ebrahimi
Challenge Session II: Mon 16:30 - 18:30
Grand Challenge on Video Compression Technology (2 hours)
Session Chairs: Dave Bull (University of Bristol) and Patrick Le Callet (University of Nantes)
Program:
- Overview of the Challenge and Objective Results,
Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University)
- Subjective Assessment Procedure and Results,
Angeliki Katsenou (University of Bristol) and Jésus Gutiérrez (University of Nantes)
- Presentations (tentative):
- Jing Cui (Peking University)
- Li Song (Institute of Image Communication, Network Engineering Shanghai)
- Uday Thakur (RWTH Aachen University)
- Longtao Leng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, UESTC)
- Fan (Aaron) Zhang (University of Bristol)
- Announcement and Laudation of the Winner,
Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen University)
- Presentation of the Prize, Ioannis Katsavounidis (Netflix)
Challenge Session III: Wed 10:30 - 11:30
Grand Challenge on Image Restoration for Video Coding Efficiency Improvement (45 min)
Session Chair: Zoe Liu (Google, Inc.)
Program:
- Overview of Challenge and Objectives
Zoe Liu (Google, Inc.)
- Presentations:
- CNN Based Post-Processing To Improve HEVC
Chen Li, Li Song, Rong Xie, and Wenjun Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Combined Constrained Low-pass filter and Daala Deringing for AV1,
Steinar Midtskogen (Cisco)
- In-loop Frame Super-resolution for the Emerging AV1 video codec,
Debargha Mukherjee (Google, Inc.)
Challenge Session IV: Wed 11:30 - 12:30
Grand Challenge on Content-based Video Relevance Prediction (45 min)
Session Chair: Hanning Zhou (Hulu)
Program:
- A study on content-based video recommendation,
Yan Li
- Content-based Video Recommendation with Multimodal Relevance Prediction,
Mengyi Liu
