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Fifth International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics http://www.vpqm.org

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Scottsdale Plaza Resort Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A. January 13-15, 2010 General Co-Chairs: JORGE E. CAVIEDES, Intel Corp., Chandler, AZ and SANJIT K. MITRA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Technical Program Chair: MARCO CARLI, University of Rome ‘TRE’, Italy Technical Program : MARCO CARLI, University of Rome ‘TRE’, Italy (Chair) ; Giulia Boato, University of Trento, Italy; Alan C. Bovik, University of Texas, Austin, TX; David Claveau, Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ; Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland; Karen Eguiazarian, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Mark Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Mylene Farias, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil; Hidenobu Harasaki, NEC Corp., Japan; Ingrid Heynderickx, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands; Sheila Hemami, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nikil S. Jayant, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA; Lina Karam, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Patrick Le Callet, Ecole Polytechnique, Nantes, France; Baoxin Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Weisi Lin, NTU, Singapore; Alessandro Neri, University of Rome ‘TRE’, Italy; Takao Nishitani, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; Fernando Pereira, Inst. Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal; Majid Rabbani, Kodak, NY; Susanto Rahardja, I2R, Singapore; Amy Reibman, AT&T Labs, Ibrahim Sezan, SharpLabs, WA, NJ; Stephen Wolf, NTIA/ITS, Boulder, CO; Henry Wu, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Badge pickup for pre-registered participants and on-site registration 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Conference Desk @ Conference Foyer

Reception – Ballroom D Welcome speech: 6:30 to 9:00 pm

Bradley D. Daniels Vice President, Digital Home Group Director, System-on-Chip Engineering INTEL CORPORATION

Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Morning -- Ballroom D 7:00-8:00am

Breakfast – Conference Foyer

Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL) [7]

8:00-8:25am

Invited paper Margaret Pinson, NTIA/ITS Stephen Wolf, NTIA/ITS Neha Tripathi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chin Koh, Nevion USA

An Improved No-Reference Sharpness Metric Based on the Probability of Blur Detection [27]

8:25-8:50am

Invited paper Niranjan Narvekar, Arizona State University Lina Karam, Arizona State University

Evaluating the Task Dependence of Eye Movements for Compressed Videos [25]

8:50-9:15am

Invited paper Anush Moorthy, University of Texas at Austin Wilson Geisler, University of Texas at Austin Alan Bovik, University of Texas at Austin

How Digital Forensics May Help Assessing the Perceptual Impact of Image Formation and Manipulation [56]

9:15-9:40am

Invited paper Giulia Boato, University of Trento Francesco G. B. De Natale, University of Trento P. Zontone, University of Trento

Towards a Content-Based Parametric Video Quality Model for IPTV [3]

9:4010:00 am

Marie-Neige Garcia, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Robert Schleicher, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Alexander Raake, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories 10:00-10:30am -- Coffee break -- Conference Foyer

Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Morning -- Ballroom D (cont) User-Centered Quality of Experience: Is Mobile 3D Video Good Enough In The Actual Context of Use? [55] 10:3010:50am

Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Tech

Fast Calibrating Full Reference Universal Quality Meter [58]

10:5011:10am

Licia Capodiferro, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Elio D. Di Claudio, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Giovanni Jacovitti, University of Rome "la Sapienza"

On the Limits of Perceptually Optimized JPEG [60]

11:1011:30am

Francesca De Simone, EPFL Lutz Goldmann, EPFL Denis Filimonov, EPFL Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL

Impact of acquisition distortions on the quality of stereoscopic images [61]

11:3011:50am

Lutz Goldmann, EPFL Francesca De Simone, EPFL Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL

No-reference perceptual quality metric for H.264/AVC encoded video [10] 11:5012:10pm

Tomás Brandão, Instituto de Telecomunicações Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações 12:10-1:40pm -- Lunch – Café / North Pool

Thursday, January 14, 2010 – Afternoon -- Ballroom D A Study of relation between blur and depth in stereoscopic images [31]

1:40- 2:00pm

2:00- 2:20pm

Mahesh Subedar, Intel Corp., Arizona State University Lina Karam, Arizona State University Perceptual Quality Assessment for Stereoscopic Images Based on 2D Image Quality Metrics and Disparity Analysis [9] Junyong You, Q2S-NTNU Liyuan Xing, Q2S-NTNU Andrew Perkis, Q2S-NTNU Xu Wang, Ningbo University A Statistical Approach to Culture Colors Distribution in Video Sensors [54]

2:20- 2:40pm

Angela D'Angelo, Eurecom Jean-luc Dugelay, Eurecom Impact of Disparate Video Quality in Stereo Channels on 3D Perception [26]

2:40- 3:00pm

Xiaolong Zhang, Arizona State University Baoxin Li, Arizona State University 3:00-3:30pm -- Coffee

break -- Conference Foyer

Lightning Session -- Ballroom D 3:30- 4:10pm

Poster presenters: 1 ppt foil, 1min, plus 1min questions each

Poster Session --- Ballroom E 4:10- 6:00pm

Video Clarity Demo & Dinner -- Las Palmas 6:00-8:00pm

Friday, January 15, 2010 – Morning -- Ballroom D 7:00-8:00am

Breakfast – Conference Foyer The Perceptibility of Video Artifacts: A Perspective from Color Science [65]

8:00-8:25am

8:25-8:50am

8:50-9:15am

9:15- 9:40am

9:40-10:00am

Invited paper Mark Fairchild, RIT Visual quality assessment for motion vector watermarking in the MPEG-4 AVC domain [2] Invited paper Marwen Hasnaoui, Institut TELECOM Mihai Mitrea, Institut TELECOM Maher Belhaj, Institut TELECOM Francoise Preteux, Institut TELECOM Video Quality Evaluation for a Digital Television Broadcasting Scenario [41] Invited paper Tiago Bonfim, University of Brasilia (UnB) Marcelo Carvalho, University of Brasilia (UnB) Mylene Farias, University of Brasilia (UnB) Saturation.vs.Intensity Distributions of Quality Color Images [18] Invited paper Alfredo Restrepo, Universidad de los Andes Rate-Distortion-Complexity Optimization of an H.264/AVC Encoder for Real-Time Videoconferencing on a Mobile Device [51] Rahul Vanam, Cornell University Jaehon Chon, Cornell University Francis Ciaramello, Cornell University Sheila Hemami, Cornell University Eve Riskin, Cornell University Richard Ladner, Cornell University 10:00-10:30am -- Coffee

break -- Conference Foyer

Friday, January 15, 2010 – Morning-- Ballroom D

3D Special Session Chair: I. Heinderickx New Requirements of Subjective Video Quality Assessment Methodologies for 3DTV [14]

10:30 – 10:50 am

Invited paper Wei Chen, IRCCyYN/IVC Jerome Fournier, France Telecom R&D Marcus Barkowsky, IRCCYN/IVC Patrick Le Callet, IRCCyN/IVC How to display 3D content realistically [30]

10:50 – 11:10 am

11:10 – 11:30 am

Invited paper Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Philips Research Patrick Vandewalle, Philips Research 3D TV at home: Status, challenges and solutions for delivering a high quality experience [33] Invited paper Bernard Coll, Motorola - Applied Research & Technology Center Kenneth Dean, Motorola - Applied Research & Technology Center Faisal Ishtiaq , Motorola - Applied Research & Technology Center Kevin O'Connell , Motorola - Applied Research & Technology Center Bernard Coll, Motorola New, Lively, and Exciting or Just Artificial, Straining, and Distracting - a Sensory Profiling Approach to Understand Mobile 3D Audiovisual Quality [36] Invited paper

11:30 – Dominik Strohmeier, Ilmenau University of Technology 11:50 Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology am Kristina Kunze, Ilmenau University of Technology Visual Discomfort Associated with 3D Displays [44]

11:50 – 12:10 pm

Invited paper Marc Lambooij, Eindhoven University of Techno Marten Fortuin, Eindhoven University of Technology Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Eindhoven University of Technology Ingrid Heynderickx, Philips Research Laboratories 12:10 – 1:40 pm -- Lunch Café / North Pool

Friday January 15 – Afternoon -- Ballroom D 3D Video Enhancement Based on Human Visual System Characteristics [37]

1:402:05pm

2:052:25pm

Invited paper Alessandro Neri, University "Roma Tre" Patrizio Campisi, University "Roma Tre" Emanuele Maiorana, University "Roma Tre" Federica Battisti, University "Roma Tre" Visual Attention Modeled with Luminance Only: from Eye-Tracking Data to Computational Models [4] Hantao Liu, Delft University of Technology Ingrid Heynderickx, Philips Research Laboratories Vulnerability Assessment of Image and Video Quality Estimators [59]

2:252:45pm

William Cheswick, AT&T Labs David Kormann, AT&T Labs Amy Reibman, AT&T Labs Improving Objective Video Quality Assessment with Content Analysis [43]

2:453:05pm

Jari Korhonen, Q2S-NTNU Junyong You, Q2S-NTNU 3:05-3:35pm Coffee break -- Conference Foyer Predictive Lagrange Multiplier Selection for Perceptual Rate-Distortion Optimization [45]

3:353:55pm

3:554:15pm

Po-Yen Su, National Taiwan University, Yi-Hsin Huang, National Taiwan University Tao-Sheng Ou, National Taiwan University Homer Chen, National Taiwan University Quality of Experience in Internet Television [34] Mathias Lervold, Accenture Liyuan Xing, Q2S-NTNU Andrew Perkis, Q2S-NTNU Slider or glove? Proposing an alternative quality rating methodology [16]

4:154:35pm

Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna Werner Robitza, University of Vienna Matej Nezveda, University of Vienna Martijn Sack, University of Vienna Patrik Hummelbrunner, University of Vienna Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna

4:355:00pm

Closing remarks -- Adjourn

Poster Session -- Ballroom E Paper ID 6 Weighted

Paper Title

MSE Based Metrics for Characterization of Visual Quality of Image Denoising Methods

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Objective Image Quality Assessment with Singular Value Decomposition Improving the prediction accuracy of PSNR by simple temporal pooling Subjective Quality Assessment for Wireless Image Communication: The Wireless Imaging Quality Database Visual Quality Management in Consumer Video R&D

Authors Nikolay Ponomarenko, National Aerospace University Sergey Krivenko, National Aerospace University Karen Egiazarian, Tampere University of Technology Jaakko Astola, Tampere University of Technology Vladimir Lukin, National Aerospace University Manish Narwaria, NTU Weisi Lin, NTU Christian Keimel, Technische Universität München Klaus Diepold, Technische Universität München Ulrich Engelke, BTH Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, BTH Tubagus Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Intel Corp. Jorge Caviedes, Intel Corp. Audrey Younkin, Intel Corp. Philip Corriveau, Intel Corp. Fai Yeung, Intel Corp. James Painter, Stanford University

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Hardware Accelerated Motion Estimation for Non-rigid Motion Field

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Mohamed Hassan, American University of Sharjah Skip Length and Inter-Starvation Taha Landolsi, American University of Sharjah Distance as a Combined Metric to Husam Mukhtar, American University of Sharjah Assess the Quality of Transmitted Video Tamer Shanableh, American University of Sharjah

28

Wireless Ultrasound Video Transmission for Stroke Risk Assessment: Quality Metrics and System Design

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Andreas Panayides, University of Cyprus Marios Pattichis, The University of New Mexico Costas Pattichis, The University of Cyprus C. P. Loizou, Intercollege, Limassol, Cyprus M. Pantziaris, Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics Analysis of Freely Available Subjective Marcus Barkowsky, University of Nantes Margaret Pinson, National Telecommunications and Dataset for HDTV Including Coding Information Administration (NTIA) and Transmission Distortions Romuald Pépion, University of Nantes Patrick Le Callet, IRCCyN IVC TEAM, POLYTECH NANTES Toward a Comprehensive Assessment Audrey Younkin, Intel Corp. Glen Anderson, Intel Corp. of User Experience with 3D Rina Doherty, Intel Corp. Philip Corriveau, Intel Corp. Adaptive Deringing and Mosquito Noise Salim Chebbo, NXP Philippe Durieux, NXP Reducer Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Telecom ParisTech Stereo Video Artifacts Introduced by a Michela Cancellaro, University of Roma Tre Veronica Palma, University of Roma Tre Distributed Coding Approach Alessandro Neri, University of Roma Tre Marco Cagnazzo, Télécom ParisTech Perceptual Impact of Transform Coefficients Quantization for Adaptive Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Telecom ParisTech

Lifting Schemes

52

Framework for the Design of Resolution Teahyung Lee, Intel Corp Scalable No-Reference Quality Metrics Kalpana Seshandrinathan, Intel Corp

53

A No Reference Objective Sharpness Metric for Color Images Structure Oriented Image Quality Assessment Based on Multiple Statistics

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A Novel Free Reference Image Quality Metric Using Neural Network Approach

63

A New Color Image Quality Index

Jorge Caviedes, Intel Corp Aldo Maalouf, University of Poitiers Chaker Larabi, University of Poitiers

Licia Capodiferro, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Elio D. Di Claudio, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Giovanni Jacovitti, University of Rome "la Sapienza" Federica Mangiatordi, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Aladine Chetouani, L2TI Azeddine Beghdadi, L2TI Shaohua Chen, L2TI Ghilès Mostafaoui, L2TI Shaohua Chen, L2TI Azeddine Beghdadi, L2TI Aladine Chetouani, L2TI