Video Quality Publications

2011

Stefan Winkler, Dongbo Min.
Stereoscopic image quality compendium.
Proc. 8th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, Dec. 13-16, 2011.
Fatih Porikli et al.
Multimedia quality assessment.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 164-177, Nov. 2011.
Stefan Winkler.
Image quality in the era of personal and social media.
Proc. 5th International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA), Kyoto, Oct. 4-5, 2011 (invited keynote).
Yee Hui Lee, Stefan Winkler.
Effects of rain attenuation on satellite video transmission.
Proc. IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2011-Spring, Budapest, May 15-18, 2011.
Stefan Winkler, Jeremy Bennington.
Quality assurance for 3D television.
Proc. NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 9-14, 2011.
Stefan Winkler, Pierre Costa (editors).
Recommended Quality of Experience Metrics for IP Video.
Video Services Forum (VSF) QoE Metrics Activity Group Report, Jan. 2011.

2010

Stefan Winkler.
3DTV quality issues and measurement guidelines.
Proc. SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 20-22, 2010.
Stefan Winkler, Frederic Dufaux, Dominique Barba, Vittorio Baroncini (guest editors).
Special Issue on Image and Video Quality Assessment.
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 25, no. 8, August 2010.
Robert C. Streijl, Stefan Winkler, David S. Hands.
Perceptual quality measurement - Towards a more efficient process for validating objective models.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 136-140, July 2010.

2009

Mu Mu et al.
An interview with video quality experts.
ACM SIGMM Records, Dec. 2009.
Stefan Winkler.
Video quality measurement standards - current status and trends. Proc. 7th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Macau, Dec. 7-10, 2009.
Stefan Winkler.
Standardizing quality measurement for video services. IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) E-Letter, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 21-22, Oct. 2009.
Stefan Winkler.
On the properties of subjective ratings in video quality experiments. Proc. International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), San Diego, CA, July 29–31, 2009.
Stefan Winkler.
Delivering high quality video over IP – Why your digital video service must be monitored.
IEC Annual Review of Communications, vol. 61, Jan. 2009.

2008

Stefan Winkler, Praveen Mohandas.
The evolution of video quality measurement: From PSNR to hybrid metrics.
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 660-668, Sept. 2008 (invited paper).
Stefan Winkler.
The human vision system and video QoE.
Communications, Engineering and Design Magazine, July 2008.
Stefan Winkler.
Top 10 practical considerations for your video monitoring initiative.
IP Communications, June 2008.
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.
Stefan Winkler.
Quality of Experience (QoE) - An important measure of success for IP-based video services.
Proc. SCTE Emerging Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 14-16, 2008.

2007

Stefan Winkler.
Video quality and beyond.
Proc. European Signal Processing Conference, Poznan, Poland, Sept. 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, Oct. 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, Nov. 2005.
Stefan Winkler, Christof Faller.
Maximizing audiovisual quality at low bitrates.
Proc. Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 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, Jan. 16-20, 2005.
Stefan Winkler.
Digital Video Quality - Vision Models and Metrics.
John Wiley & Sons, Jan. 2005.

2004

Andrea Cavallaro, Stefan Winkler.
Segmentation-driven perceptual quality metrics.
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 3543-3546, Singapore, Oct. 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, Feb. 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, Jan. 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, Jan. 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, Jan. 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, Sept. 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, Jan. 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, Jan. 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, Sept. 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, Sept. 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, Jan. 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 et al.
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, Jan. 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, Oct. 25-28, 1999.
Stefan Winkler.
Issues in vision modeling for perceptual video quality assessment.
Signal Processing, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 231-252, Oct. 1999.
Stefan Winkler.
Visual quality assessment using a contrast gain control model.
Proc. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 527-532, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 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, Jan. 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, Oct. 4-7, 1998.