Search Results for author: Wassim Hamidouche

Found 47 papers, 15 papers with code

Harnessing the Power of Large Vision Language Models for Synthetic Image Detection

no code implementations3 Apr 2024 Mamadou Keita, Wassim Hamidouche, Hassen Bougueffa, Abdenour Hadid, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

This study contributes to the advancement of synthetic image detection by exploiting the capabilities of visual language models such as BLIP-2 and ViTGPT2.

Image Captioning Synthetic Image Detection

Bi-LORA: A Vision-Language Approach for Synthetic Image Detection

no code implementations2 Apr 2024 Mamadou Keita, Wassim Hamidouche, Hessen Bougueffa Eutamene, Abdenour Hadid, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

Advancements in deep image synthesis techniques, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs), have ushered in an era of generating highly realistic images.

Binary Classification Image Captioning +2

Generative AI for Immersive Communication: The Next Frontier in Internet-of-Senses Through 6G

no code implementations2 Apr 2024 Nassim Sehad, Lina Bariah, Wassim Hamidouche, Hamed Hellaoui, Riku Jäntti, Mérouane Debbah

Over the past two decades, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been a transformative concept, and as we approach 2030, a new paradigm known as the Internet of Senses (IoS) is emerging.

ODVista: An Omnidirectional Video Dataset for super-resolution and Quality Enhancement Tasks

1 code implementation1 Mar 2024 Ahmed Telili, Ibrahim Farhat, Wassim Hamidouche, Hadi Amirpour

Omnidirectional or 360-degree video is being increasingly deployed, largely due to the latest advancements in immersive virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) technology.

Super-Resolution

NERV++: An Enhanced Implicit Neural Video Representation

no code implementations28 Feb 2024 Ahmed Ghorbel, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin

Neural fields, also known as implicit neural representations (INRs), have shown a remarkable capability of representing, generating, and manipulating various data types, allowing for continuous data reconstruction at a low memory footprint.

Video Compression

UAV Immersive Video Streaming: A Comprehensive Survey, Benchmarking, and Open Challenges

no code implementations31 Oct 2023 Mohit K. Sharma, Chen-Feng Liu, Ibrahim Farhat, Nassim Sehad, Wassim Hamidouche, Merouane Debbah

However, achieving this immersive experience necessitates encoding omnidirectional videos in high resolution, leading to increased bitrates.

Benchmarking

Bitrate Ladder Prediction Methods for Adaptive Video Streaming: A Review and Benchmark

no code implementations23 Oct 2023 Ahmed Telili, Wassim Hamidouche, Hadi Amirpour, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Luce Morin, Christian Timmerer

A key component of HAS is the bitrate ladder, which provides the encoding parameters (e. g., bitrate-resolution pairs) to encode the source video.

Video Quality Assessment and Coding Complexity of the Versatile Video Coding Standard

no code implementations19 Oct 2023 Thomas Amestoy, Naty Sidaty, Wassim Hamidouche, Pierrick Philippe, Daniel Menard

The results consistently demonstrate that VVC outperforms HEVC, achieving bit-rate savings of up to 40% on the subjective quality scale, particularly at realistic bit-rates and quality levels.

SSIM Video Compression +1

Efficient Predictive Coding of Intra Prediction Modes

no code implementations9 Oct 2023 Kevin Reuzé, Wassim Hamidouche, Pierrick Philippe, Olivier Déforges

The high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard and the joint exploration model (JEM) codec incorporate 35 and 67 intra prediction modes (IPMs) respectively, which are essential for efficient compression of Intra coded blocks.

Clustering

ConvNeXt-ChARM: ConvNeXt-based Transform for Efficient Neural Image Compression

no code implementations12 Jul 2023 Ahmed Ghorbel, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin

Over the last few years, neural image compression has gained wide attention from research and industry, yielding promising end-to-end deep neural codecs outperforming their conventional counterparts in rate-distortion performance.

Computational Efficiency Image Compression

AICT: An Adaptive Image Compression Transformer

no code implementations12 Jul 2023 Ahmed Ghorbel, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin

Motivated by the efficiency investigation of the Tranformer-based transform coding framework, namely SwinT-ChARM, we propose to enhance the latter, as first, with a more straightforward yet effective Tranformer-based channel-wise auto-regressive prior model, resulting in an absolute image compression transformer (ICT).

Image Compression Long-range modeling

Joint Hierarchical Priors and Adaptive Spatial Resolution for Efficient Neural Image Compression

no code implementations5 Jul 2023 Ahmed Ghorbel, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin

Recently, the performance of neural image compression (NIC) has steadily improved thanks to the last line of study, reaching or outperforming state-of-the-art conventional codecs.

Computational Efficiency Image Compression

Evaluation of Pre-Trained CNN Models for Geographic Fake Image Detection

no code implementations1 Oct 2022 Sid Ahmed Fezza, Mohammed Yasser Ouis, Bachir Kaddar, Wassim Hamidouche, Abdenour Hadid

Thanks to the remarkable advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is becoming increasingly easy to generate/manipulate images.

Face Swapping Fake Image Detection

2BiVQA: Double Bi-LSTM based Video Quality Assessment of UGC Videos

1 code implementation31 Aug 2022 Ahmed Telili, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Wassim Hamidouche, Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah

Recently, with the growing popularity of mobile devices as well as video sharing platforms (e. g., YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch), User-Generated Content (UGC) videos have become increasingly common and now account for a large portion of multimedia traffic on the internet.

Ranked #9 on Video Quality Assessment on LIVE-VQC (using extra training data)

Video Quality Assessment Visual Question Answering (VQA)

Ensemble Learning for Efficient VVC Bitrate Ladder Prediction

no code implementations21 Jul 2022 Fatemeh Nasiri, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin, Nicolas Dholland, Jean-Yves Aubié

When compared to static bitrate ladder, the proposed method can offer about 13% bitrate reduction in terms of BD-BR with a negligible additional computational overhead.

Ensemble Learning

Performance Analysis of Optimized Versatile Video Coding Software Decoders on Embedded Platforms

no code implementations30 Jun 2022 Anup Saha, Wassim Hamidouche, Miguel Chavarrías, Guillaume Gautier, Fernando Pescador, Ibrahim Farhat

Hence, in July 2020 the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was released providing up to 50% bit-rate saving for the same video quality compared to its predecessor High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).

Deep-based Film Grain Removal and Synthesis

1 code implementation15 Jun 2022 Zoubida Ameur, Wassim Hamidouche, Edouard François, Miloš Radosavljević, Daniel Menard, Claire-Hélène Demarty

In the context of video coding, the random nature of film grain makes it both difficult to preserve and very expensive to compress.

Federated Adversarial Training with Transformers

no code implementations5 Jun 2022 Ahmed Aldahdooh, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Déforges

Adversarial training (AT) is found to be the most promising approach against evasion attacks and it is widely studied for convolutional neural network (CNN).

Federated Learning

OpenVVC: a Lightweight Software Decoder for the Versatile Video Coding Standard

1 code implementation24 May 2022 Thomas Amestoy, Pierre-loup Cabarat, Guillaume Gautier, Wassim Hamidouche, Daniel Menard

The new generation video coding standard, called Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has been developed by the Joint Video Experts Team, and offers coding capability beyond the previous generation High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.

CAESR: Conditional Autoencoder and Super-Resolution for Learned Spatial Scalability

no code implementations1 Feb 2022 Charles Bonnineau, Wassim Hamidouche, Jean-François Travers, Naty Sidaty, Jean-Yves Aubié, Olivier Deforges

Our framework considers a low-resolution signal encoded with VVC intra-mode as a base-layer (BL), and a deep conditional autoencoder with hyperprior (AE-HP) as an enhancement-layer (EL) model.

Super-Resolution

Prediction-Aware Quality Enhancement of VVC Using CNN

no code implementations8 Dec 2021 Fatemeh Nasiri, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin, Nicolas Dhollande, Gildas Cocherel

The upcoming video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has shown great improvement compared to its predecessor, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), in terms of bitrate saving.

Perceptual Quality Assessment of HEVC and VVC Standards for 8K Video

no code implementations14 Sep 2021 Charles Bonnineau, Wassim Hamidouche, Jerome Fournier, Naty Sidaty, Jean-Francois Travers, Olivier Deforges

With the growing data consumption of emerging video applications and users requirement for higher resolutions, up to 8K, a huge effort has been made in video compression technologies.

4k 8k +3

Lightweight Hardware Transform Design for the Versatile Video Coding 4K ASIC Decoders

no code implementations24 Jul 2021 Ibrahim Farhat, Wassim Hamidouche, Adrien Grill, Daniel Ménard, Olivier Déforges

The proposed module has been integrated in an ASIC UHD decoder targeting energy-aware decoding of VVC videos on consumer devices.

4k

Detect and Defense Against Adversarial Examples in Deep Learning using Natural Scene Statistics and Adaptive Denoising

1 code implementation12 Jul 2021 Anouar Kherchouche, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Wassim Hamidouche

Despite the enormous performance of deepneural networks (DNNs), recent studies have shown theirvulnerability to adversarial examples (AEs), i. e., care-fully perturbed inputs designed to fool the targetedDNN.

Denoising

Reveal of Vision Transformers Robustness against Adversarial Attacks

no code implementations7 Jun 2021 Ahmed Aldahdooh, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Deforges

For instance, we found that 1) Vanilla ViTs or hybrid-ViTs are more robust than CNNs under Lp-based attacks and under adaptive attacks.

Image Classification

SHD360: A Benchmark Dataset for Salient Human Detection in 360° Videos

1 code implementation24 May 2021 Yi Zhang, Lu Zhang, Kang Wang, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Deforges

Salient human detection (SHD) in dynamic 360{\deg} immersive videos is of great importance for various applications such as robotics, inter-human and human-object interaction in augmented reality.

Human Detection Human-Object Interaction Detection +3

A CNN-based Prediction-Aware Quality Enhancement Framework for VVC

no code implementations12 May 2021 Fatemeh Nasiri, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin, Nicolas Dhollande, Gildas Cocherel

This paper presents a framework for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based quality enhancement task, by taking advantage of coding information in the compressed video signal.

Quantization

Model Selection CNN-based VVC QualityEnhancement

no code implementations7 May 2021 Fatemeh Nasiri, Wassim Hamidouche, Luce Morin, Nicolas Dhollande, Gildas Cocherel

Moreover, an optional Model Selection (MS) strategy is adopted to pick the best trained model among available ones at the encoder side and signal it to the decoder side.

Model Selection Quantization

CMA-Net: A Cascaded Mutual Attention Network for Light Field Salient Object Detection

1 code implementation3 May 2021 Yi Zhang, Lu Zhang, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Deforges

In the past few years, numerous deep learning methods have been proposed to address the task of segmenting salient objects from RGB images.

object-detection Object Detection +1

Adversarial Example Detection for DNN Models: A Review and Experimental Comparison

1 code implementation1 May 2021 Ahmed Aldahdooh, Wassim Hamidouche, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Olivier Deforges

In this paper, we focus on image classification task and attempt to provide a survey for detection methods of test-time evasion attacks on neural network classifiers.

Autonomous Vehicles Image Classification

Learning Synergistic Attention for Light Field Salient Object Detection

1 code implementation28 Apr 2021 Yi Zhang, Geng Chen, Qian Chen, Yujia Sun, Yong Xia, Olivier Deforges, Wassim Hamidouche, Lu Zhang

We propose a novel Synergistic Attention Network (SA-Net) to address the light field salient object detection by establishing a synergistic effect between multi-modal features with advanced attention mechanisms.

Object object-detection +2

Multitask Learning for VVC Quality Enhancement and Super-Resolution

no code implementations16 Apr 2021 Charles Bonnineau, Wassim Hamidouche, Jean-Francois Travers, Naty Sidaty, Olivier Deforges

The proposed solution enables a good performance in both mitigating coding artifacts and super-resolution with fewer network parameters compared to traditional specialized architectures.

Super-Resolution

Machine Learning based Efficient QT-MTT Partitioning Scheme for VVC Intra Encoders

1 code implementation9 Mar 2021 Alexandre Tissier, Wassim Hamidouche, Souhaiel Belhadj Dit Mdalsi, Jarno Vanne, Franck Galpin, Daniel Menard

This new approach leads to five possible splits at each block depth and thereby improves the coding efficiency of VVC over that of the preceding High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, which only supports Quad-Tree (QT) partitioning with a single split per block depth.

Revisiting Model's Uncertainty and Confidences for Adversarial Example Detection

1 code implementation9 Mar 2021 Ahmed Aldahdooh, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Déforges

Moreover, the state-of-the-art detection techniques have been designed for specific attacks or broken by others, need knowledge about the attacks, are not consistent, increase model parameters overhead, are time-consuming, or have latency in inference time.

Multi-Task Learning

Quality-driven Variable Frame-Rate for Green Video Coding in Broadcast Applications

no code implementations29 Dec 2020 Glenn Herrou, Charles Bonnineau, Wassim Hamidouche, Patrick Dumenil, Jerome Fournier, Luce Morin

In this paper, we propose a Variable Frame Rate (VFR) solution to determine the minimum (critical) frame-rate that preserves the perceived video quality of HFR video.

ModeNet: Mode Selection Network For Learned Video Coding

no code implementations6 Jul 2020 Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche, Lu Zhang, Olivier Déforges

In this paper, a mode selection network (ModeNet) is proposed to enhance deep learning-based video compression.

Image Compression Video Compression

Binary Probability Model for Learning Based Image Compression

no code implementations21 Feb 2020 Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche, Lu Zhang, Olivier Deforges

In this paper, we propose to enhance learned image compression systems with a richer probability model for the latent variables.

Image Compression

A Fixation-based 360° Benchmark Dataset for Salient Object Detection

2 code implementations22 Jan 2020 Yi Zhang, Lu Zhang, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Deforges

Experimental results show a limitation of the current methods when used for SOD in panoramic images, which indicates the proposed dataset is challenging.

object-detection RGB Salient Object Detection +1

Perceptual Evaluation of Adversarial Attacks for CNN-based Image Classification

1 code implementation1 Jun 2019 Sid Ahmed Fezza, Yassine Bakhti, Wassim Hamidouche, Olivier Déforges

However, all the works proposed in the literature for generating adversarial examples have used the $L_{p}$ norms ($L_{0}$, $L_{2}$ and $L_{\infty}$) as distance metrics to quantify the similarity between the original image and the adversarial example.

Classification General Classification +1

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