Image and Video Quality and Compression

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 4011

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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Interests: image restoration and editing; GAN Priors; image inpainting and completion; face related tasks

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School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Interests: scene understanding; multi-modal learning; low-shot learning; human–computer interaction

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled “Image and Video Quality and Compression” aims to explore the latest advancements and challenges in the field of visual media processing. This Special Issue will serve as a platform for researchers, experts, and practitioners to present their innovative research findings and methodologies in the domain of image and video quality assessment, compression algorithms, and perceptual optimization techniques.

This Special Issue will attend to a wide variety of topics, including objective and subjective quality assessment, advanced compression algorithms, adaptive streaming, low-latency video coding, and emerging technologies, such as 4K, 8K, and virtual reality. The primary focus of this Special Issue will be on developing efficient compression techniques that preserve a high visual quality while reducing file sizes and ensuring optimal playback experiences across various platforms and devices.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original work, including research papers, reviews, and case studies, to contribute to the advancement of image and video quality and compression. By collecting state-of-the-art research, this Special Issue will provide valuable insights and foster collaborations among experts in the field, facilitating the development of enhanced visual media applications and technologies.

Dr. Xiaoming Li
Dr. Henghui Ding
Guest Editors

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A Method for Generating Geometric Image Sequences for Non-Isomorphic 3D-Mesh Sequence Compression
by Yuan Gao, Zhiqiang Wang and Jin Wen
Electronics 2023, 12(16), 3473; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12163473 - 16 Aug 2023
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As virtual reality and 3D-modeling technology continue to advance, the amount of digital geometric media data is growing at an explosive rate. For example, 3D meshes, an important type of digital geometric media, can precisely record geometric information on a model’s surface. However, [...] Read more.
As virtual reality and 3D-modeling technology continue to advance, the amount of digital geometric media data is growing at an explosive rate. For example, 3D meshes, an important type of digital geometric media, can precisely record geometric information on a model’s surface. However, as the complexity and precision of 3D meshes increase, it becomes more challenging to store and transmit them. The traditional method of compressing non-isomorphic 3D-mesh sequences through frame-by-frame compression is inefficient and destroys the inter-frame correlations of the sequences. To tackle these issues, this study investigates the generation of time-dependent geometric image sequences for compressing non-isomorphic 3D-mesh sequences. Two methods are proposed for generating such sequences: one through image registration and the other through parametrization-geometry cooperative registration. Based on the experimental compression results of the video-coding algorithms, it was observed that the proposed geometric image-sequence-generation method offers superior objective and subjective qualities, as compared to the traditional method. Full article
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A Fast Gradient Iterative Affine Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Edge Detection for Versatile Video Coding
by Jingping Hong, Zhihong Dong, Xue Zhang, Nannan Song and Peng Cao
Electronics 2023, 12(16), 3414; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12163414 - 11 Aug 2023
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In the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, affine motion models have been applied to enhance the resolution of complex motion patterns. However, due to the high computational complexity involved in affine motion estimation, real-time video processing applications face significant challenges. This paper focuses [...] Read more.
In the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, affine motion models have been applied to enhance the resolution of complex motion patterns. However, due to the high computational complexity involved in affine motion estimation, real-time video processing applications face significant challenges. This paper focuses on optimizing affine motion estimation algorithms in the VVC environment and proposes a fast gradient iterative algorithm based on edge detection for efficient computation. Firstly, we establish judging conditions during the construction of affine motion candidate lists to streamline the redundant judging process. Secondly, we employ the Canny edge detection method for gradient assessment in the affine motion estimation process, thereby enhancing the iteration speed of affine motion vectors. The experimentalresults show that the encoding time of the affine motion estimation algorithm is about 15–35% lower than the overall encoding time of the anchor algorithm encoder, the average encoding time of the affine motion estimation part of the inter-frame prediction part is reduced by 24.79%, and the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is only reduced by 0.04. Full article
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Review of Matrix Rank Constraint Model for Impulse Interference Image Inpainting
by Shuli Ma, Zhifei Li, Feihuang Chu, Shengliang Fang, Weichao Yang and Li Li
Electronics 2024, 13(3), 470; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13030470 - 23 Jan 2024
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Camera failure or loss of storage components in imaging equipment may result in the loss of important image information or random pulse noise interference. The low-rank prior is one of the most important priors in image optimization processing. This paper reviews and compares [...] Read more.
Camera failure or loss of storage components in imaging equipment may result in the loss of important image information or random pulse noise interference. The low-rank prior is one of the most important priors in image optimization processing. This paper reviews and compares some low-rank constraint models for image matrices. Firstly, an overview of image-inpainting models based on nuclear norm, truncated nuclear norm, weighted nuclear norm, and matrix-factorization-based F norm is presented, and corresponding optimization iterative algorithms are provided. Then, we use different image matrix low-order constraint models to recover satellite images from three types of pulse interference and provide our experimental visual and numerical results. Finally, it can be concluded that the method based on the weighted nuclear norm can achieve the best image restoration effect. The F norm method based on matrix factorization has the shortest computational time and can be used for large-scale low-rank matrix calculations. Compared with nuclear norm-based methods, weighted nuclear norm-based methods and truncated nuclear norm-based methods can significantly improve repair performance. Full article
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