PoLin Lai

PoLin Lai
polinlai AT usc DOT edu

PoLin Lai
polinlai AT usc DOT edu

Papers / Patents / Standard Contributions

Collaboration with THOMSON Corporate Research

Publications:

P. Lai, A. Ortega, P. Pandit, P. Yin, C. Gomila, "Adaptive Reference Filtering for Bidirectional Disparity Compensation with Focus Mismatches", accepted, to appear in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008 [pdf] This is a draft version as accepted after review, the final version will be updated June 08.]

P. Lai, A. Ortega, P. Pandit, P. Yin, and C. Gomila, "Focus Mismatches in Multiview Systems and Efficient Adaptive Reference Filtering for Multiview Video Coding," in Proc. SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2008 [pdf] [Presentation] Analysis of focus mismatch based on camera setting and scene depth, complexity reduction techniques for ARF.

J. H. Kim, P. Lai, J. Lopez, A. Ortega, Y. Su, P. Yin, and C. Gomila, "New Coding Tools for Illumination and Focus Mismatch Compensation in Multiview Video Coding," in IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT), Special Issue on Multiview Video Coding, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 1519-1535, Nov 2007 [pdf] Present ARF method: modeling the focus mismatch / discuss design choices / encoder complexity analysis, further propose coding scheme to combine with illumination compensation.

P. Lai, Y. Su, P. Yin, C. Gomila, and A. Ortega, "Adaptive Filtering for Video Coding with Focus Change", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, Hawaii, Apr. 2007, pp. I.661~I.664 [pdf] [Presentation] ARF method for monoscopic video temporal prediction (without disparity information).

(Invited paper) P. Lai, Y. Su, P. Yin, C. Gomila and A. Ortega, "Adaptive Reference Filtering for Cross-view Prediction in Multi-view Video Coding," in Proc. SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) - Special Session: Next Generation Video Coding Techniques, Jan. 2007 [pdf] [Presentation] Introduce the basic idea and algorithm of depth-dependent ARF, for cross-view MVC.

P. Lai and A. Ortega, "Predictive Fast Motion/Disparity Search for Multiview Video Coding," in Proc. SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2006 [pdf]

Patents

Thomson Licensing, P. Lai, Y. Su, P. Yin, C. Gomila, "Methods and Apparatus for Adaptive Reference Filtering" Pub. No. WO/2008/010929, 01/24/2008 (60/807,645 07/18/2006 US) [Info on the Web]

JVT/MPEG Contributions

P. Lai, P. Purvin, P. Ying, D. Tian, and C. Gomila, "CE2: Adaptive Reference Filtering for MVC," JVT Document Y041, Oct. 2007; JVT Document Z020, Jan. 2008

P. Lai, A. Ortega, P. Purvin, P. Ying, and C. Gomila, "Decoder complexity analysis for Adaptive Reference Filtering for MVC," JVT Document X060, Jun. 2007 [pdf] [Presentation] Detailed complexity analysis of ARF on the decoder side.

P. Lai, A. Ortega, P. Purvin, P. Ying, and C. Gomila, "Adaptive reference filtering for MVC," JVT Document W065, Apr. 2007

P. Lai, J.H. Kim, A. Ortega, Y. Su, P. Purvin, and C. Gomila, "New rate-distortion metrics for MVC considering cross-view dependency," MPEG Document m13318, Apr. 2006

Y. Su, P. Yin, C. Gomila (Thomson), J.H. Kim, P. Lai, and A. Ortega (USC), "Thomson's response to MVC Call for Proposal," MPEG Document M12969/2, Jan. 2006