Introduction
Our workshop aims to gather publications which will advance the field of image and video compression using machine learning and computer vision. We want to encourage the development of novel encoder/decoder architectures, novel ways to control information flow between the encoder and the decoder, new perceptual losses, and new ways to learn quantized representations.
At the workshop we will also present the winners of our annual compression challenge. Like the workshop, the challenge is designed to encourage the development of new learned codecs. But it is also an opportunity to evaluate and compare end-to-end trained approaches against classical approaches and every submission is welcome.
Location
The workshop will be part of CVPR 2021 and will be entirely virtual. The conference will take place between June 19 and June 25 and the online workshop will be held on June 19.
Schedule
Invited speakers
João Ascenso
University of Lisbon
João Ascenso is a professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and is with the Multimedia Signal Processing Group of Instituto de Telecomunicações. João Ascenso is very active in the ISO/IEC MPEG and JPEG standardization activities and currently chairs the JPEG AI ad-hoc group that targets the evaluation and development of learning-based image compression. He has published more than 100 papers in international conference and journals and has more than 3400 citations over 35 papers (h-index of 26). He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and was an associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is an elected member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee. He acts as member of the Organizing Committees of well- known international conferences, such as IEEE ICME 2020, IEEE MMSP 2020, IEEE ISM 2020, among others. His current research interests include visual coding, quality assessment, light- fields, point clouds and holography processing, indexing and searching of multimedia content and visual sensor networks. (read more)
Kede Ma
City University of Hong Kong
Kede Ma is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He received the B.E. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012, the MASc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Waterloo, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a Research Associate with Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York University, from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Ma’s research interests span perceptual image processing, computational vision, computational photography, and multimedia forensics. In recent years, he primarily focused on image/video quality assessment, based on which better image/video processing algorithms that are much “healthier” for our visual systems can be created. (read more)
Rianne van den Berg
