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Conference Overview
We live in a visual world. The perceived quality of images is of crucial importance in industrial, medical, and entertainment application environments. Developments in camera sensors, image processing, 3D imaging, display technology, and digital printing are enabling new or enhanced possibilities for creating and conveying visual content that informs or entertains. Wireless networks and mobile devices expand the ways to share imagery and autonomous vehicles bring image processing into new aspects of society.
The power of imaging rests directly on the visual quality of the images and the performance of the systems that produce them. As the images are generally intended to be viewed by humans, a deep understanding of human visual perception is key to the effective assessment of image quality.
This conference brings together engineers and scientists from industry and academia who strive to understand what makes a high-quality image, and how to specify the requirements and assess the performance of modern imaging systems. It focuses on objective and subjective methods for evaluating the perceptual quality of images, and includes applications throughout the imaging chain from image capture, through processing, to output, printed or displayed, video or still, 2D or 3D, virtual, mixed or augmented reality, LDR or HDR.
2021 Conference Topics
Image quality
- Image quality attributes, characterization, and metrics
- Perceptual image quality understanding
- Test image databases with perceptual reference data
- Image preference, saliency, scene dependency
- Image quality survey design (print, web-based, mobile)
- Machine learning visual quality methods (e.g., CNN)
- No-reference and multi-modal (audio and video) metrics
- Quality of experience for immersive media technologies (VR, AR, 360° video)
- Task-oriented image quality evaluation (e.g., medical, imaging, automotive vision, remote sensing)
System performance
- Imaging system simulation and modeling
- Camera ISP tuning and quality trade-offs
- Autonomous vehicle vision system performance
- Image noise analysis and color error propagation
- Gamut size, color rendering, ICC profile evaluation
- Methods for competitive bench marking, quality assurance
- Multi-media and cross-media system evaluations
Standards for image quality and system performance
- Standards for image and video quality
- Mobile, automotive, and video imaging performance
- Measurement of print and display microstructure (edges, color, resolution, distortion, etc.)
2021 Special Sessions
For Image Quality and System Performance XVIII, submissions are particularly encouraged for the planned mobile image quality and immersive applications sessions.
Industry Perspectives on Mobile Image Quality
Session Organizing Chair:
Elaine Jin, Intuitive Surgical (United States)
The IQSP Industry Perspectives on Mobile Image Quality special session aims to provide a snapshot of the image quality practices and challenges in the mobile imaging industry today. The invited speakers are image quality experts from the world’s leading mobile device manufacturers. The topics will include mobile phone image quality trends, video and still image quality issues, and mobile ecosystem considerations.
Quality of Immersive Applications
Session Organizing Chair:
Mylène C.Q. Farias, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
The advancement of imaging technologies in the last decade has allowed more faithful representations of the physical world and, therefore, has enabled the creation of better immersive experiences in Virtual/Augmented/Mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) applications. More specifically, these technology advancements have driven the production of plenoptic devices that are able to capture and display volumetric visual data that describe the geometry (shape, size, position in 3D-space) and attributes (e.g., color, opacity, reflectance) of a 3D scene and objects. Depending on the capturing device, the content can be holograms, light fields, or point clouds (PC) imaging formats. Naturally, several technological challenges have emerged for each one of imaging formats and the corresponding application. Among these challenges is understanding and measuring the quality of experience (QoE) of these new applications and services. This special session tackles the problems of quality of immersive applications, focusing on efficient processing, visual attention, and quality assessment methodologies for light fields, 360° content, point clouds, and/or volumetric video.
Awards
Best Paper Award*
*Note that competitors for the award must submit their final full proceedings paper for consideration after abstract acceptance.
Past winners
| 2020 |
Best Paper
Oliver van Zwanenberg, Sophie Triantaphillidou, Robin Jenkin, and Alexandra Psarrou (University of Westminster) for their work on "Camera system performance derived from natural scenes."
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| 2019 |
Best Paper
Uwe Artmann (Image Engineering GmbH & Co. KG) for his work titled, "Quantify aliasing – A new approach to make resolution measurement more robust." |
| 2019 |
Best Student Paper
Helard Becerra (University of Brasilia) for his work titled "Analyzing the influence of cross-modal IP-based degradations on the perceived audio-visual quality." |
| 2018 |
Best Paper
Clement Viard (DxOMark Image Labs) for his work on "Quantitative measurement of contrast, texture, color, and noise for digital photography of high dynamic range scenes." |
| 2018 |
Best Student Paper
Edward Fry (University of Westminster) for his work on "Bridging the gap between imaging performance and image quality measures." |
| 2017 |
Best Paper
Seyed Ali Amirshahi, Marius Pedersen, and Stella X. Yuq (University of California, Berkeley and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for their work titled, "Image quality assessment by comparing CNN features between images." |
| 2017 |
Best Student Paper
Pedro Garcia Freitas and Welington Akamine (University of Brasilia) for their work titled, "Blind image quality assessment using multiscale local binary patterns." |
| 2016 |
Best Paper
Iana Iatsun, Chaker Larabi, Christine Fernandez Maloigne (Université de Poitiers) for their work on "Using binocular and monocular properties for the construction of a quality assessment metric for stereoscopic images." |
| 2016 |
Best Student Paper
Praveen Cyriac (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) for his work on "Optimized tone curve for in-camera image processing." |
2021 Committee
Conference Chairs
Mylène C.Q. Farias, University of Brasilia (Brazil)
Mohamed-Chaker Larabi, University of Poitiers (France)
Program Committee
Nicolas Bonnier, Apple Inc. (United States)
Alan Bovik, University of Texas at Austin (United States)
Peter Burns, Burns Digital Imaging (United States)
Anustup Choudhury, Dolby Laboratories (United States)
Brian Cooper, Lexmark International, Inc. (United States)
Luke Cui, Amazon (United States)
Susan Farnand, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States)
Frans Gaykema, Canon Production Printing Netherlands (Netherlands)
Jukka Häkkinen, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Dirk Hertel, E Ink Corporation (United States)
Robin Jenkin, NVIDIA Corporation (United States)
Elaine Jin, Intuitive Surgical (United States)
Göte Nyman, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Stuart Perry, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
Jonathan Phillips, Google Inc. (United States)
Sophie Triantaphillidou, University of Westminster (United Kingdom)