Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

EPFL-Inria: Associate Team involved in the International Lab: Graph-based Omnidirectional video Processing (GOP)

• Participant: Thomas Maugey

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher): Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) - LTS4 - Pascal Frossard

• period: 2017-2019

Due to new camera types, the format of the video data has become more complex than simple 2D images or videos as it was the case a few years ago. In particular, the omnidirectional cameras provide pixels on a whole sphere around a center point and enable a vision in 360°. In addition to the fact that the data size explodes with such cameras, the inherent structure of the acquired signal fundamentally differs from the 2D images, which makes the traditional video codec obsolete. In parallel of that, an important effort of research has been led recently, especially at EPFL, to develop new processing tools for signals lying on irregular structures (graphs). It enables in particular to build efficient coding tools for new types of signals. During this project, we study how graphs can be built for defining a suitable structure on one or several 360 videos and then used for compression.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

We have international collaborations with:

• Reuben Farrugia, Prof. at the University of Malta, with whom we continue collaborating on light field super-resolution.The collaboration started during the sabbatical year (Sept. 2015-Aug. 2016) he spent within the team.

• Ehsan Miandji and Prof. Jonas Unger from Linkoping Univ. with whom we collaborate on compressive sampling of light fields.

• Mikael Le Pendu and Prof. Aljosa Smolic from Trinity College Dublin on HDR light field recovery from multiple exposures.

• Pascal Frossard, Prof. at EPFL, in the context of the Comin Lab/Intercom project and in the context of the EPFL-Inria associated team.