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Selected Recent Publications

Visual Quality Evalaution
-A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Narwaria, “Image Quality Assessment Based on Gradient Similarity”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, Vol. 21(4), pp. 1500 - 1512, 2012 (download(Source Codes)
-M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. McLoughlin, S. Emmanue and L. T. Chia, “Fourier Transform Based Scalable Image Quality Measure”,  IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, in press, 2012. (Source Codes)
-Q. Xu, Y. Yao, T. Jiang, Q. Huang, W. Lin, B. Yan, “HodgeRank on Random Graphs for Subjective Video Quality Assessment”, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, accepted
-M. Narwaria, and W. Lin, "SVD-Based Quality Metric for Image and Video Using Machine Learning”, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B, Vol. 42(2), pp. 347 - 364, 2012 (download) (Source Codes)
-M. Narwaria and W. Lin, “Low-Complexity VQA Using Temporal Quality Variations”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia , accepted, 2012.
-G. Zhai , X. Wu, X. Yang, W. Lin, W. Zhang, “A Psychovisual Quality Metric in Free Energy Principle”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 21(1), pp. 41 – 52, 2012, (download)
-W. Lin, C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Perceptual Visual Quality Metrics: A Survey”, J. of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol 22(4), pp. 297-312, May 2011 (download)
-M. Narwaria, W. Lin, E. Cetin, “Scalable Image Quality Assessment with 2D Mel-cepstrum and Machine Learning Approach”, Pattern Recognition, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 299-313, 2011,( download)
-A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, C. Deng, and F. Zhang, “Just Noticeable Difference for Images with Decomposition Model for Separating Edge and Textured Regions”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 20(11), pp. 1648-1652, 2010 (download) (Source Codes)
-M. Narwaria, and W. Lin, "Objective Image Quality Assessment Based on Support Vector Regression", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol.21(3), pp.515-519, March 2010 (download)
-S. Wu, W Lin,and S. Xie,  Z. Lu, E. Ong, S. Yao, “Blind Blur Assessment for Vision-based Applications”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol 20(4), pp 231-241, 2009, (download)
-X. Zhang, W. Lin and P. Xue, “Just-Noticeable Difference Estimation With Pixels in Images”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol 19(1), pp 30-41, 2008, (download)
- G. Zhai, W. Zhang, X. Yang, W. Lin, Y. Xu, “No-reference Noticeable Blockiness Estimation in Images”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol.23 (6), pp. 417-432, July 2008, (download)
- W. Lin, Gauging Image and Video Quality in Industrial Applications, in Advances of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Systems, eds. Y. Liu, et al, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008, (download)
-F. Pan, X. Lin, S. Rahardja, E. Ong and W. Lin, “Using edge direction information for measuring blocking artifacts of images”, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Vol 18 (4), pp. 297 – 308, December 2007, (download)
-Y. Jia, W. Lin and A. A. Kassim, “Estimating Just-Noticeable Distortion for Video”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.16(7), pp. 820- 829, July, 2006, (download(Source Codes)
-W. Lin, Computational Models for Just-noticeable Difference, Chapter 9 in Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding, eds. H. R. Wu and K. R. Rao, CRC Press, 2006, (download)
-W. Lin, L. Dong and P. Xue, “Visual Distortion Gauge Based on Discrimination of Noticeable Contrast Changes”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.15(7), pp. 900- 909, July, 2005, (download)
-X. Zhang, W. Lin and P. Xue, “Improved Estimation for Just-noticeable Visual Distortion”, Signal Processing, Vol. 85(4), pp.795-808, April 2005, (download(Source Codes)
-E. Ong, X. Yang, W. Lin, Z. Lu, S. Yao, X. Lin, S. Rahardja and C. Boon, “Perceptual Quality and Objective Quality Measurements of Compressed Videos”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol.17(4), pp.717-737, August 2006, (download)
- W. Lin, Y. Gai and A. A. Kassim, “A Study on Perceptual Impact of Edge Sharpness in Images”, IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing, vol. 153(2), pp. 215-223, April 2006, (download)
-Z. Lu, W. Lin, X. Yang, E. Ong and S. Yao, “Modeling Visual Attention's Modulatory Aftereffects on Visual Sensitivity and Quality Evaluation”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol.14(11), pp.1928 – 1942, Nov. 2005, (download)
-E. Ong, W. Lin, Z. Lu, S. Yao and M. Etoh, “Visual Distortion Assessment with Emphasis on Spatially Transitional Regions”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 14(4), PP.559 – 566, April 2004, (download)
-F. Pan, X. Lin. S. Rahardja. W. Lin, E. Ong, S. Yao, Z. Lu and X. Yang, “A locally-adaptive algorithm for measuring blocking artifacts in images and videos”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol 19(6), pp. 499-506, 2004, (download)
Speech Quality Evalaution
-M. Narwaria, W. Lin, I. McLoughlin, S. Emmanue and L. T. Chia, “Nonintrusive Quality Assessment of Noise Suppressed Speech with Mel-Filtered Energies and Support Vector Regression”, IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 20(4), pp. 1217 - 1232, 2012 (download)
Perception-driven Visual Signal Processing
-Y. Fang, Z. Chen, W. Lin, and C-W Lin, ‘Saliency Detection in the compressed domain for adaptive image retargeting‘, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, accepted, (Codes)
-Y. Fang, W. Lin, B-S Lee, C. T. Lau, Z. Chen, C-W Lin, “Bottom-up Saliency Detection Model Based on Human Visual Sensitivity and Amplitude Spectrum”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 14(1), pp. 187 - 198, 2012, (download(Source Codes)
-F. Zhang, W. Liu, W. Lin, K. N. Ngan, “Spread Spectrum Image Watermarking Based on Perceptual Quality Metric”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, VOL. 20, NO. 11, pp. 3207 – 3218, Nov 2011, (download)
- X. Yang, W. Lin, Z. Lu, E. Ong and S. Yao, “Motion-compensated Residue Pre-processing in Video Coding Based on Just-noticeable-distortion Profile”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.15(6), pp.742-750, June, 2005, (download(Source Codes)
- X. Yang, W. Lin, Z. Lu, X. Lin, S. Rahardja, E. Ong and S. Yao, “Rate Control for videophone using perceptual sensitivity cues”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol 15(4), pp.496-507, April, 2005, (download)
- X. Yang, W. Lin, Z. Lu, E. Ong and S. Yao, “Just Noticeable Distortion Model and Its Applications in Video Coding”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 20(7), pp. 662-680, August 2005, (download)
Image/Video Coding & Postprocessing
-Z. Gu, W. Lin, B-S Lee, C. T. Lau, M-T Sun, “Mode Dependent Templates and Scan Order for H.264/AVC Based Intra Lossless Coding”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, accepted
-Z. Gu, W. Lin, B.-S. Lee, C. T. Lau, “Low Complexity Video Coding Based on Two-dimensional Singular Value Decomposition (2D-SVD)”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 21(2), pp. 674 - 687, 2012 (download)
-C. Deng, W. Lin, B-S  Lee, C. T.  Lau, “Robust Image Coding Based upon Compressive Sensing”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 14(2), pp. 278 - 290, 2012 (download)
-C. Deng, W. Lin, and J. Cai, “Content-based Image Compression for Arbitrary-resolution Display Devices”, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, accepted.
-Y. Gao, X. Xiu, J. Liang, W. Lin, “Fast Synthesized and Predicted Just Noticeable Distortion Maps for Perceptual Multiview Video Coding”, Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, accepted
-A. Liu, W. Lin, M. Paul, F. Zhang, C. Deng, “Optimal Compression Plane for Efficient Video Coding”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 20(10), pp.2788-2799, 2011, (download)
-M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee, “Explore and Model Better I-frames for Video Coding”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,Vol. 21(9), pp. 1242 – 1254, 2011, (download)
-M. Paul, W. Lin, C. T. Lau, and B. –S. Lee, “Direct Inter-Mode Selection for H.264 Video Coding using Phase Correlation,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 20(2), pp. 461-473, Feb. 2011, (download)
-C. Deng, W. Lin, B-S  Lee, C. T.  Lau, M-T  Sun, "Performance Analysis, Parameter Selection and Extensions to H.264/AVC FRExt for Super-High Definition Video Coding”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol.22(8), pp. 749-759, 2011, (download)
-G. Zhai, X. Yang, W. Lin and W. Zhang, “Bayesian Error Concealment with DCT Pyramid for Images”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol 20(9), pp. 1224-1232, Sept  2010, (download)
-G. Zhai, W. Zhang, X. Yang, W. Lin and Y. Xu, “Unified Deblocking for DCT Compressed ”, J. of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 17(4), 2009, (download)
-G. Zhai, W. Lin,  J. Cai , X. Yang  and W. Zhang, “Effective Quadtree based Block-shift Filtering for Deblocking and DeringingJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol.20(8), pp.595-607, Nov 2009, (download)
-P. Li, W. Lin, X.Yang, “Analysis of H.264/AVC and an Associated Rate Control Scheme”, J. of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 17(4), 2009, (download)
-G. Zhai, W. Zhang, X. K. Yang, W. Lin, and Y. Xu, “Efficient deblocking with coefficient regularization, shape adaptive filtering and quantization constraint”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10(8), pp. 735-745, 2008, (download)
-G. Zhai, W. Zhang, X. Yang, W. Lin and Y. Xu, “Efficient Image Deblocking Based on Postfiltering in Shifted Windows”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Vol. 18 (1), pp.122 – 126, Jan. 2008, (download)
-C Wang, P. Xue, W. Lin, “Layered Image Resizing in Compression Domain”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol.23 (1) , pp. 58-69, January 2008, (download)
-G. Zhai, J. Cai , W. Lin,  X. Yang,  and W. Zhang, “Three Dimensional Scalable Video Adaptation via User-end Perceptual Quality AssessmentIEEE Trans. Broadcasting, Vol. 54(3), pp. 1316-1324, 2008, (download)
-W. Lin and L. Dong, “Adaptive Down-sampling to Improve Image Compression at Low Bit Rates”, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol.15(9), pp. 2513-2521, Sept. 2006, (download(Source Codes)
-C. Wang, P. Xue, W. Lin, W. Zhang and S. Yu, “Fast Edge-Preserved Postprocessing for Compressed Images”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.16(9), pp.1142-1147, Sept. 2006, (download)
-P. Li, W. Lin, S. Rahardja, X. Lin, X.K. Yang and Z.G. Li, “Geometrically Determining the Leaky Bucket Parameters for Video Streaming over Constant Bit-Rate Channels”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 20(2), pp.193-204, February 2005, (download)
Image Processing, Retrieval and Understanding
-L. Zhang, L. Wang, W. Lin, “Conjunctive Patches Subspace Learning with Side Information for Collaborative Image Retrieval”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, accepted
-L. Zhang, L. Wang, W. Lin, “Generalized Biased Discriminant Analysis for Content-Based Image Retrieval”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C, Vol. 42(1), pp. 282 - 290, 2012, (download)
-L. Zhang, L. Wang, W. Lin, “Semi-Supervised Biased Maximum Margin Analysis for Support Vector Machine Relevance Feedback in Content-Based Image Retrieval”, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, in press, 2012, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6094214
-M. Liu, HS Seah, C. Zhu, W. Lin, F. Tian, “Reducing Location Map In Prediction-Based Difference Expansion For Reversible Image Data Embedding Signal Processing”, Signal Processing, Vol. 92, Issue 3, pp. 819-828, March 2012
-M. Shen, C. Wang, P. Xue and W. Lin, “Performance of Reconstruction-based Super-resolution with Regularization”, Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation, Vol.21(7), pp.640-650, Oct. 2010(download)
-S. Wu, W Lin,and S. Xie, “Skin Heat Transfer Model of Facial Thermograms and Its Application in Face Recognition”, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 41(8), pp. 2718-2729, 2008, (download)
-E. Ong, W. Lin, “Video Object Segmentation”, in Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology (ICT) , Ideal Group Inc.,  A. Cartelli and M. Palma (eds.), 2008,(download)
-H. Gao, J. Tham, P. Xue and W. Lin, “Complexity Analysis of Morphological Area Openings and Closings with Set Union”, IET Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 231-238, August 2008, (download)
-C. Wang, P. Xue, W. Lin, “Improved Super-resolution Reconstruction from Video”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.16(11), pp.1411-1422, Nov. 2006, (download)
-E. Ong, W. Lin, B. Tye and M. Etoh, Video Object Segmentation for Content-based Applications, in Advances in Image and Video Segmentation, Chapter VII, ed. Y.J. Zhang, Idea Group, Inc., 2006
-H. Gao, W. Lin, P. Xue and W.C. Siu, “Marker-Based Image Segmentation Relying on Disjoint Set Union”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 21(2), pp. 100-112, 2006, (download)
Patents
-W. Lin, B. Tye and E.P. Ong, “Dynamic Load-balancing between Two Processing Means for Real-time Video Encoding”, US patent 6,748,019 B1 (2004); Singapore patent 9902417-6 (1999).
-Z. Lu, W. Lin, S. Yao and E. Ong, “Method for generating a quality oriented significance map for assessing the quality of an image or video”, US Patent number 7,590,287 B2 (2009), PCT Patent number WO2004/043054 A2 (2004). 
-Z. Lu, W. Lin, Z. Li, K. P. Lim, X. Lin, S. Rahardja, E. Ong and S. Yao, “Method for encoding a picture, computer program product and encoder”, US Patent Application No. 11/910,929, 2007.
-E. Ong, W. Lin, Z. Lu, S. Yao and X. Yang, “Image and Video Quality Measurements”, Singapore Patent Application No. 200307620-5 (2003); PCT Patent number WO 2005/060272 A1 (2005).
-E Ong, X Yang, W Lin, Z LU, S Yao, “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO QUALITY MEASUREMENTS”, European Patent 1,692,876, 2006; also WO2005055618 (A1) and US2007257988 (A1).
-Z. Gu, W. Lin, B.-S. Lee and C. T. Lau, “Mode Dependent Templates for H.264/AVC Lossless Intra Coding”, US Provisional Patent Application, 61/553,372, October 2011.

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