Dr. Francois Pitie
Ussher Assistant Professor, Electronic & Elect. Engineering

Bled, Clement and Pitie, Francois, Pushing the Limits of the Wiener Filter in Image Denoising, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, pp2590--2594 Conference Paper, 2023

Xu, Wei and Conran, Clare and Pitie, Francois, Method for embedding advertisement in video and computer device, 2023, - Miscellaneous, 2023

Katsenou, Angeliki and Pitie, Francois and Domijan, Katarina and Kokaram, Anil and others, Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, pp2610--2614 Conference Paper, 2023

Pitie, Francois and Katsenou, Angeliki and Su, Yeping and Adsumilli, Balu and Kokaram, Anil and others, Comparison of HDR quality metrics in Per-Clip Lagrangian multiplier optimisation with AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023, pp1655--1660 Conference Paper, 2023

Vibhoothi, Vibhoothi and Katsenou, Angeliki and Squires, John and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Recommendations for verifying hdr subjective testing workflows, 2023 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

Ringis, Daniel Joseph and Shu, Xin and Pitie, Francois and Lorincz, Zsolt and Brodeur, Philippe and Kokaram, Anil and others, Filling the gaps in video transcoder deployment in the cloud, 2023 NAB BEIT Conference, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

Vibhoothi and Angeliki V. Katsenou and Francois Piti{\'e, Subjective Assessment of the Impact of a Content Adaptive Optimiser for Compressing 4K HDR Content With AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, p2610-2614 Journal Article, 2023

Ringis, Daniel Joseph and Vibhoothi and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, The disparity between optimal and practical Lagrangian multiplier estimation in video encoders, Frontiers in Signal Processing, 3, 2023, p1205104 Journal Article, 2023

Bled, Clement and Pitie, Francois, Assessing Advances in Real Noise Image Denoisers, Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2022, pp1--9 Conference Paper, 2022

Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil and others, Frame-Type Sensitive RDO Control for Content-Adaptive Encoding, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022, pp1506--1510 Conference Paper, 2022

Pitie, Francois and Katsenou, Angeliki and Ringis, Daniel Joseph and Su, Yeping and Birkbeck, Neil and Lin, Jessie and Adsumilli, Balu and Kokaram, Anil and others, Direct optimisation of $\lambda$ for HDR content adaptive transcoding in AV1, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV, 12226, 2022, pp36--45 Conference Paper, 2022

Ringis, Daniel J and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Per Clip Lagrangian Multiplier Optimisation for HEVC, arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.08965, 2022 Journal Article, 2022

Pessoa, Rodrigo and Kokaram, Anil and Pitie, Francois and Sugrue, Mark, CNN-Based Video Codec Classifier For Multimedia Forensics, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021, pp3033--3037 Conference Paper, 2021

Wu, Hao and Pitie, Francois and Jones, Gareth, Cold start problem for automated live video comments, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence, 2021, pp54--62 Conference Paper, 2021

Wu, Hao and Pitie, Francois and Jones, Gareth JF, Investigating Automated Mechanisms for Multi-Modal Prediction of User Online-Video Commenting Behaviour, 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2021, pp1--6 Conference Paper, 2021

Daniel J Ringis and Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram, Near Optimal Per-Clip Lagrangian Multiplier Prediction in HEVC, 2021 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2021 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Wu, Hao and Jones, Gareth James Francis and Pitie, Francois, Knowing where and what to write in automated live video comments: A unified multi-task approach, Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021, pp619--627 Conference Paper, 2021

Bacher, Ivan and Javidnia, Hossein and Dev, Soumyabrata and Agrahari, Rahul and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, Matthew and Conran, Clare and Tang, Jian and Song, Peng and Corrigan, David and others, An advert creation system for 3D product placements, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Applied Data Science Track: European Conference, ECML PKDD, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021 URL

Daniel Joseph Ringis and Francois Pitie and Anil C. Kokaram, Per-clip and per-bitrate adaptation of the Lagrangian multiplier in video coding, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIV, 2021 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Marco Forte, Brian Pricey, Scott Coheny, Ning Xuy, François Pitié, Interactive Training and Architecture for Deep Object Selection, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, London, 2020 Conference Paper, 2020

Marco Forte and Brian L. Price and Scott D. Cohen and Ning Xu and Franccois Piti'e, Getting to 99% Accuracy in Interactive Segmentation, ArXiv, abs/2003.07932, 2020 Journal Article, 2020

Kokaram, Anil and Hilton, Adrian and Thomas, Graham and Pitie, Francois and Hilton, Adrian Douglas Mark, Guest Editorial: Computer Vision for the Creative Industries, IET computer vision, 14, (6), 2020, p289--290 Journal Article, 2020

Forte, Marco and Pitie, Francois, F, B, Alpha Matting, arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07711, 2020 Journal Article, 2020

Wu, Hao and Jones, Gareth JF and Pitie, Francois, Response to livebot: Generating live video comments based on visual and textual contexts, arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03022, 2020 Journal Article, 2020

Bacher, Ivan and Javidnia, Hossein and Dev, Soumyabrata and Agrahari, Rahul and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, Matthew and Conran, Clare and Corrigan, David and Pitie, Francois, DeepReal - A Deep Learning Based 3D Advert Integration System, Proc. NEM Summit, 2020 Journal Article, 2020 URL

Ringis, Daniel J and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Per-clip adaptive lagrangian multiplier optimisation with low-resolution proxies, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII, 11510, 2020, pp40--51 Conference Paper, 2020

Pitie, Francois, Advances in colour transfer, IET Computer Vision, 14, (6), 2020, p304--322 Journal Article, 2020

S. Dev, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. N. Clare Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitie, The ALOS Dataset for Advert Localization in Outdoor Scenes , 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) , 5-7, , ( ), 2019, pp1 - 3 Conference Paper, 2019 DOI

S. Dev, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. Nautiyal, C. Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitié, The CASE Dataset of Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation , 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA) , 27-3, , ( ), 2019, pp1 - 4 Conference Paper, 2019 DOI

S. Dev, H. Javidnia, M. Hossari, M. Nicholson, K. McCabe, A. Nautiyal, C. Conran, J. Tang, W. Xu, F. Pitié, Identifying Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation , IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT) , , ( ), 2019, pp503 - 507 Conference Paper, 2019 DOI

Domijan Katarina, Bloomfield D. Shau, Pitié François, Solar Flare Forecasting from Magnetic Feature Properties Generated by the Solar Monitor Active Region Tracker, Solar Physics, 294, (1), 2019, p6- Journal Article, 2019 URL DOI

Dev, Soumyabrata and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, Matthew and McCabe, Killian and Nautiyal, Atul and Conran, Clare and Tang, Jian and Xu, Wei and Pitie, Francois, Localizing adverts in outdoor scenes, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2019, pp591--594 Conference Paper, 2019

Atul Nautiyal, Killian McCabe, Murhaf Hossari, Soumyabrata Dev, Matthew Nicholson, Clare Conran, Declan McKibben, Jian Tang, Xu Wei, François Pitié, An Advert Creation System for Next-Gen Publicity, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Wu Hao, Jones Gareth J. F, Pitié François, Lawless Séamus, A Two-stage Transfer Learning Approach for Storytelling Linking., 2018 TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation, TRECVID 2018, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 13-15, 2018, 2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018 URL

Ringis, D.J., Singh, D., Pitie, F., Kokaram, A., Using modern motion estimation algorithms in existing video codecs, 10752, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Soumyabrata Dev, Matthew Nicholson, Murhaf Hossari, Killian McCabe, Atul Nautiyal, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Wei Xu, François Pitié, ADNet: A Deep Network for Detecting Adverts, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Buggy, R., Forte, M., Pitié, F., Neural net architectures for image demosaicing, 10752, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

François Pitié, An alternative matting Laplacian, Image Processing (ICIP), 2016 IEEE International Conference on, Phoenix, Arizona, IEEE, 2016, pp3623 - 3627 Conference Paper, 2016 DOI URL

Damien Kelly, Frank Boland, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, 'Automated video production system and method ', USPTO, US9305600 B2, 2016, Provost Fellows And Scholars Of The College Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity Of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin Patent, 2016 URL

François Pitié, Rank Reduced Alternative Matting Laplacian, CVMP 2016 Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2016), London, United Kingdom, December 12-13, ACM, 2016 Conference Paper, 2016 DOI

(ed.), IRISH MACHINE VISION & IMAGE PROCESSING Conference proceedings 2015, Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society (ISBN 978-0-9934207-0-2), 2015, 1 - 139 p Proceedings of a Conference, 2015 Handle Other TARA - Full Text

Francois Pitie and Damien Kelly and Thierry Foucu and Naomi Harte and Anil C. Kokaram , Assessment of Audio/Video synchronisation in streaming media., International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, Singapore, 2014, pp171 - 176 Conference Paper, 2014

Gary Baugh, Anil Kokaram, François Pitié, Advanced video debanding, CVMP '14: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Visual Media Production, CVMP '14: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Visual Media Production, ACM, 2014, ppa7- Conference Paper, 2014 TARA - Full Text

Elgharib, Mohamed A Pitié, François Kokaram, Anil , Blotch and scratch removal in archived film using a semi-transparent corruption model and a ground-truth generation technique , EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing , 2013 , (1 ), 2013, p1 - 20 Journal Article, 2013 TARA - Full Text

Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. , Nonrigid recto-verso registration using page outline structure and content preserving warps, M International Conference Proceeding Series, M International Conference , 2013, pp8-13 Conference Paper, 2013 DOI

Raimbault, F., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. , User-assisted sparse stereo-video segmentation, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM International Conference, 6-7 Nov, 2013, ppa3- Conference Paper, 2013 TARA - Full Text DOI

Crawford, Andrew and Kokaram, Anil and Kelly, Francis and Denman, Hugh and Pitié, François, 'Dominant motion estimation for image sequence processing', USPTO, US8385418 B2, 2013, Google, Inc Patent, 2013 URL

Elgharib, M.A., Pitite, F., Kokaram, A., Saligrama, V. , User-assisted reflection detection and feature point tracking, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM International Conference, 6-7 Nov, 2013, ppa13- Conference Paper, 2013 TARA - Full Text DOI

Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitie, F., Kokaram, A. , A non-parametric framework for document bleed-through removal, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 6619224, 2013, pp2954-2960 Conference Paper, 2013 DOI

Róisín Rowley-Brooke, François Pitié, and Anil Kokaram, Degraded manuscript restoration: A case study, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 2013 Conference Paper, 2013

F. Raimbault, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, Stereo Video Completion for Rig and Artefact Removal, Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 2012 Conference Paper, 2012

Rowley-Brooke, R., Pitié, F., Kokaram, A. , A ground truth bleed-through document image database, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7489 LNCS, 2012, p185-196 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

Pitié, François and Baugh, Gary and Helms, John, Depthartist: a stereoscopic 3d conversion tool for cg animation, 9th European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, United Kingdom, ACM, 2012, pp32 - 39 Conference Paper, 2012 DOI

M. Ahmed, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram, Motion Estimation for Regions of Reflections Through Layer Separation, IEEE European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, 2011 Conference Paper, 2011

M. Ahmed, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram, Reflection Detection in Image Sequences, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011 Conference Paper, 2011

D. Corrigan, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, Restoring Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Temporally Consistent Disparity Maps, Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011 Conference Paper, 2011

Advances in automated restoration of archived video in, Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks, CRC Press, 2011, pp299 - 322, [Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François and Corrigan, David and Vitulano, Domenico and Bruni, Vittoria and Crawford, Andrew] Book Chapter, 2011 URL

D. Corrigan, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram. , Restoration of Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Inter-View Gradient Interpolation, European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain., Eurasip, 2011 Conference Paper, 2011

Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, 'Method for matching color in images', USPTO, US 7796812 B2, 2010, Google, Inc Patent, 2010 URL

D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, V. Morris, A. Rankin, M. Linnane, G. Kearney, M. Gorzel, M. O'Dea, C. Lee and A. Kokaram, A Video Database for the Development of Stereo-3D PostProduction Algorithms, European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, 2010 Conference Paper, 2010

D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, V. Morris, A. Rankin, M. Linnane, G. Kearney, M. Gorzel, M. O'Dea, C. Lee, and A. Kokaram., A video database for the development of stereo-3d post-production algorithms, European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, 2010 Conference Paper, 2010

F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, Matting with a Depth Map, International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, 2010 Conference Paper, 2010

D. Ring and F. Pitie, Feature-Assisted Sparse to Dense Motion Estimation using Geodesic Distances., IEEE Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP '09, Dublin, Ireland, September 2-4, IEEE, 2009, pp7-12 Conference Paper, 2009 DOI TARA - Full Text

Ahmed, Mohamed A.; Pitie, Francois; Kokaram, Anil C., Extraction of Non-Binary Blotch Mattes. , Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on , IEEE Conference on image Processing (ICIP'09). , Cairo, Egypt, IEEE, 2009, pp2757 - 2760 Conference Paper, 2009 TARA - Full Text DOI

F. Pitie , Using One Graph-Cut to Fuse Multiple Candidate Maps in Depth Estimation., IEEE European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, UK, 2009, pp1-8 Conference Paper, 2009 URL TARA - Full Text

Enhancement of digital photographs using color transfer techniques in, editor(s)Rastislav Lukac , Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras, CRC Press, 2008, pp295 - 321, [Francois Pitié, Rozenn Dahyot and Anil Kokaram] Book Chapter, 2008 URL

Action Recognition in Multimedia Streams in, editor(s)Petros Maragos, Alexandros Potamianos, Patrick Gros , Multimodal Processing and Interaction, Springer Verlag. , 2008, pp127 - 142, [Daire Lennon, Naomi Harte, and Anil Kokaram, Rozenn Dahyot, Francois Pitie] Book Chapter, 2008

D. Kelly, F. Pitie,A.Kokaram, F. Boland,, A Comparative Error Analysis of Audio-Visual Source Localization, International Workshop on Multi Camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion, ECCV 2008, Marsaille, October 2008, 2008 Conference Paper, 2008 TARA - Full Text

Gigonzac, G. Pitie, F. Kokaram, A. , Electronic slide matching and enhancement of a lecture video, Visual Media Production, IETCVMP. 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2007., London, 27-28 Nov. 2007 , 2007, 1 - 7 Conference Paper, 2007 URL TARA - Full Text

F. Pitie, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, Automated Colour Grading using Colour Distribution Transfer , Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 107, 2007, p123 - 137 Journal Article, 2007

Pitie, F. Kokaram, A. , The linear Monge-Kantorovitch linear colour mapping for example-based colour transfer, Visual Media Production, 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, UK , 27-28 Nov. 2007, 2007, pp1 - 9 Conference Paper, 2007 TARA - Full Text URL

Francois Pitie, Statistical Signal Processing Techniques for Visual Post-Production, 2006 Thesis, 2006

F. Pitie; B. Kent; B. Collis; A. C. Kokaram;, Localised deflicker of moving images, 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2006, 2006, pp134 - 143 Conference Paper, 2006 URL TARA - Full Text

F. Pitié, S-A. Berrani, R. Dahyot and A. Kokaram, Off-line multiple object tracking using candidate selection and the viterbi algorithm , IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'05), Genoa, Italy, 11-14 Sept., 3, 2005, pp109 - 112 Conference Paper, 2005 TARA - Full Text URL URL DOI

F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, N-dimensional probability density function transfer and its aplication to colour transfer, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05), Beijing, China, 17-21 Oct., 2, 2005, pp1434 - 1439 Conference Paper, 2005 URL DOI TARA - Full Text URL

Pitie, F. Kokaram, A.C. Dahyot, R., Towards automated colour grading, Visual Media Production, The 2nd IEE European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2005. , 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 200, 2005, pp9 - 16 Conference Paper, 2005 URL

A. Kokaram, F. Pitié, R. Dahyot, N. Rea and S. Yeterian, Content Controlled Image Representation for Sports Streaming, IEEE workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'05), Riga, Latvia, June, (ISBN: 952-15-1364-0), Suvisoft, 2005 Conference Paper, 2005 TARA - Full Text URL

A. Crawford, H. Denman, F. Kelly, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram , Gradient Based Dominant Motion Estimation with Integral Projections, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, 2004 Conference Paper, 2004

F. Pitié, A. C. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, Oriented Particle Spray: A New Probabilistic, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing, Dublin, 2004 Conference Paper, 2004

Pitié, F., Dahyot, R., Kelly, F., Kokaram, A., A new robust technique for stabilizing brightness fluctuations in image sequences, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3247, 2004, p153-164 Journal Article, 2004

F. Pitié, R. Dahyot, F. Kelly and A. Kokaram, A New Robust Technique for Stabilizing Brightness Fluctuations in Image Sequences, , 2nd Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing In conjunction with ECCV, Prague, Czech Republic, 16 May, edited by Dorin Comaniciu, Kenichi Kanatani, Rudolf Mester and David Suter , LNCS 3247, Springer Verlag, 2004, pp153 - 164 Conference Paper, 2004 URL

F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, Oriented Particle Spray: A New Probabilistic Contour Tracing with Directional Information,, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP), , Dublin, Sept , 2004, pp159 - 165 Conference Paper, 2004

Andrew Crawford, Hugh Denman, Francis Kelly, Francois Pitié and Anil Kokaram, Gradient Based Dominant Motion Estimation with Integral Projections for Real Time Video Stabilisation,, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'04), Singapore, 24-27 Oct., 5, 2004, pp3371 - 3374 Conference Paper, 2004 URL TARA - Full Text DOI URL

F. Pitié, R. Dahyot and A. Kokaram, Suppression du bruit de pompage dans les vidéos,, GRETSI conference on signal and image processing, Paris, France., September 2003, 2003 Conference Paper, 2003

Anil C. Kokaram, Rozenn Dahyot, Francois Pitié, Hugh Denman, Simultaneous Luminance and Position Stabilization for Film and Video, , Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, California USA, Jan , 5022, 2003, pp688 - 699 Conference Paper, 2003 URL

François Pitié, Removing Flicker from Old Movies,, 2002 Thesis, 2002 URL