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Subjective image-quality measurement plays a critical role in the development of image- processing applications. The purpose of a visual-quality metric is to approximate the results of subjective assessment. In this regard, more and more metrics are under development, but little research has considered their limitations. This paper addresses that deficiency: we show how image preprocessing before compression can artificially increase the quality scores provided by the popular metrics DISTS, LPIPS, HaarPSI, and VIF as well as how these scores are inconsistent with subjective-quality scores.

Most video platforms provide video streaming services with different qualities, and the resolution of the videos usually adjusts the quality of the services. So high-resolution videos need to be downsampled for compression. In order to solve the problem of video coding at different resolutions, we propose a rate-guided arbitrary rescaling network (RARN) for video resizing before encoding.

Video quality assessment (VQA) for user generated content (UGC) videos plays important role in video compression and processing. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based quality assessment for UGC is the research focus with inspiring model accuracy increment in the past three years. However, regularly temporal-sampling with temporal feature loss, as well as fixed token selection strategy video transformer (ViT) with insufficient representational capacity of tokens, jointly degrade the accuracy of conventional ViT based quality assessment.

By exploiting the potential of deep learning, video compressive sensing (CS) has achieved tremendous improvement recently. Due to the video CS is mainly served for the fixed scene in real life. In this paper, we propose a novel video compressive sensing with a low-complexity region-of-interest (ROI) detection method (VCSL). The ROI is located by calculating the difference between the reference frame and the following frames in our framework, which is compact without introducing any additional neural networks and parameters.

Data collection and sharing have a tremendous impact on technology, business and society. Correspondingly, it brings in significant privacy and communication concerns. To this end, we present a hierarchical privacy-preserving and communication-efficient compression scheme via compressed sensing (CS) to address these two issues. In the encoding stage, the

This paper addresses the problem of defect segmentation in semiconductor manufacturing. The input of our segmentation is a scanning-electron-microscopy (SEM) image of the candidate defect region. We train a U-net shape network to segment defects using a dataset of clean background images. The samples of the training phase are produced automatically such that no manual labeling is required. To enrich the dataset of clean background samples, we apply defect implant augmentation. To that end, we apply a copy-and-paste of a random image patch in the clean specimen.

When providing the boundary conditions for hydrological flood models and estimating the associated risk, interpolating precipitation at very high temporal resolutions (e.g. 5 minutes) is essential not to miss the cause of flooding in local regions. In this paper, we study optical flow-based interpolation of globally available weather radar images from satellites.