Video Quality Publications

2008

Stefan Winkler, Praveen Mohandas.
The evolution of video quality measurement: From PSNR to hybrid metrics.
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2008 (invited paper, to appear).
Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Perceptual Semantics.
S. M. Rahman (ed.), Multimedia Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, ch. 7.5, pp. 1441-1455, Information Science Reference, June 2008.
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.

2007

Stefan Winkler.
Video quality and beyond.
Proc. European Signal Processing Conference, Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007 (invited paper).

2006

Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Perceived audiovisual quality of low-bitrate multimedia content.
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 973-980, October 2006.
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

Stefan Winkler.
Video Quality Metrics - A Review.
H. R. Wu, K. R. Rao (eds.), Digital Video Image Quality & Perceptual Coding, CRC Press, November 2005.
Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Maximizing audiovisual quality at low bitrates.
Proc. Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Scottsdale, AZ, January 23-25, 2005 (invited paper).
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, January 16-20, 2005.
Stefan Winkler.
Digital Video Quality - Vision Models and Metrics.
John Wiley & Sons, January 2005.

2004

Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Segmentation-driven perceptual quality metrics.
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 3543-3546, Singapore, October 24-27, 2004.
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.
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.
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, February 2004.
Sabine Süsstrunk, Stefan Winkler.
Color image quality on the Internet.
Proc. SPIE/IS&T Internet Imaging, vol. 5304, pp. 118-131, San Jose, CA, January 18-22, 2004 (invited paper).
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, January 18-22, 2004.

2003

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.
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.
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, January 20-24, 2003.

2002

Pina Marziliano, Frédéric Dufaux, Stefan Winkler, Touradj Ebrahimi.
A no-reference perceptual blur metric.
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 57-60, Rochester, NY, September 22-25, 2002.
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.
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, January 2002 (invited paper).
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, January 2002.

2001

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.
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, September 9-12, 2001 (invited paper).
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, September 9-12, 2001 (invited paper).
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.
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, January 21-26, 2001.

2000 and earlier

Stefan Winkler.
Vision Models and Quality Metrics for Image Processing Applications.
Ph.D. Thesis #2313, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000.
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).
Ann Marie Rohaly, Philip Corriveau, John Libert, Arthur Webster, Vittorio Baroncini, John Beerends, Jean-Louis Blin, Laura Contin, Takahiro Hamada, David Harrison, Andries Hekstra, Jeffrey Lubin, Yukihiro Nishida, Ricardo Nishihara, John Pearson, Antonio Franca Pessoa, Neil Pickford, Alexander Schertz, Massimo Visca, Andrew Watson, Stefan Winkler.
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.
Stefan Winkler.
Quality metric design: A closer look.
Proc. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, vol. 3959, pp. 37-44, San Jose, CA, January 22-28, 2000.
Stefan Winkler, Pierre Vandergheynst.
Computing isotropic local contrast from oriented pyramid decompositions.
Proc. 6th International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 4, pp. 420-424, Kobe, Japan, October 25-28, 1999.
Stefan Winkler.
Issues in vision modeling for perceptual video quality assessment.
Signal Processing, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 231-252, October 1999.
Stefan Winkler.
Visual quality assessment using a contrast gain control model.
Proc. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 527-532, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 13-15, 1999.
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).
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, January 23-29, 1999.
Stefan Winkler.
A perceptual distortion metric for digital color images.
Proc. 5th International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 399-403, Chicago, IL, October 4-7, 1998.