Artificial intelligence in the creative industries: a review

N Anantrasirichai, D Bull - Artificial intelligence review, 2022 - Springer
This paper reviews the current state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and
applications in the context of the creative industries. A brief background of AI, and …

BVI-DVC: A training database for deep video compression

D Ma, F Zhang, DR Bull - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning methods are increasingly being applied in the optimisation of video
compression algorithms and can achieve significantly enhanced coding gains, compared to …

MFRNet: a new CNN architecture for post-processing and in-loop filtering

D Ma, F Zhang, DR Bull - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, MFRNet,
for post-processing (PP) and in-loop filtering (ILF) in the context of video compression. This …

Video compression with CNN-based postprocessing

F Zhang, D Ma, C Feng, DR Bull - IEEE MultiMedia, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, video compression techniques have been significantly challenged by the
rapidly increased demands associated with high quality and immersive video content …

Rankdvqa: Deep vqa based on ranking-inspired hybrid training

C Feng, D Danier, F Zhang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown significant potential for improving
video quality assessment (VQA), achieving higher correlation with subjective opinions …

Survey on Visual Signal Coding and Processing with Generative Models: Technologies, Standards and Optimization

Z Chen, H Sun, L Zhang, F Zhang - IEEE Journal on Emerging …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a survey of the latest developments in visual signal coding and
processing with generative models. Specifically, our focus is on presenting the advancement …

ViSTRA2: Video coding using spatial resolution and effective bit depth adaptation

F Zhang, M Afonso, DR Bull - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a new video compression framework (ViSTRA2) which exploits adaptation of
spatial resolution and effective bit depth, down-sampling these parameters at the encoder …

Accelerating learnt video codecs with gradient decay and layer-wise distillation

T Peng, G Gao, H Sun, F Zhang… - 2024 Picture Coding …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, end-to-end learnt video codecs have demonstrated their potential to
compete with conventional coding algorithms in term of compression efficiency. However …

[HTML][HTML] CVEGAN: a perceptually-inspired gan for compressed video enhancement

D Ma, F Zhang, DR Bull - Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a new Generative Adversarial Network for Compressed Video frame quality
Enhancement (CVEGAN). The CVEGAN generator benefits from the use of a novel Mul 2 …

GAN-based effective bit depth adaptation for perceptual video compression

D Ma, F Zhang, DR Bull - 2020 IEEE International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resolution and effective bit depth (EBD) adaptation have been recently utilised in video
compression to improve coding efficiency. This type of approach dynamically reduces …