François Pitié

Ussher Assistant Professor
in Media Signal Processing

Trinity College Dublin PixelPuffin

© 2020

Publications

List of Peer-Reviewed Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Advances in automated restoration of archived material. A. Kokaram, F. Pitié, D. Corrigan, D. Vitulano, V. Bruni, A. Crawford. Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Works. 2011.
  • Enhancement of digital photographs using color transfer techniques. F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot. Single-Sensor Imaging: Methods and Applications for Digital Cameras, 2008.
  • Action recognition in multimedia streams. R. Dahyot, F. Pitié, D. Lennon, N. Harte and A. Kokaram. Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text. 2008.

Articles in refereed publications

  • Rank Reduced Alternative Matting Laplacian Advanced video debanding. F. Pitié, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’16). 2016.
  • an Alternative Matting Laplacian. F. Pitié, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’16). 2016.
  • IRISH MACHINE VISION & IMAGE PROCESSING Conference proceedings. R Dahyot, G Lacey, K Dawson-Howe, F Pitié, D Moloney, Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society. (ISBN 978-0-9934207-0-2). 2015.
  • Assessment of Audio/Video synchronisation in streaming media. F. Pitié, D. Kelly, T. Foucu, N. Harte and A. Kokaram, in Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). 2014.
  • Advanced video debanding. G. Baugh, A. Kokaram, F. Pitié, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’14). 2014.
  • Blotch and scratch removal in archived film using a semi-transparent corruption model and a ground-truth generation technique. M. Elgharib, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. 2013.
  • User-assisted sparse stereo-video segmentation. F. Raimbault, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’13). 2013.
  • Nonrigid recto-verso registration using page outline structure and content preserving warps. R Rowley-Brooke, F. Pitié, A Kokaram, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing. 2013.
  • A Non-Parametric Framework for Document Bleed-Through Removal. R. Rowley-Brooke and F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013). 2013.
  • DepthArtist: a Stereoscopic 3D Conversion Tool for CG Animation. F. Pitié, G. Baugh and J. Helms, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’12). 2012.
  • A Ground Truth Bleed-Through Document Image Database. R. Rowley-Brooke and F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL’12). 2012.
  • Stereo Video Completion for Rig and Artefact Removal. F. Raimbault and F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS’12). 2012.
  • Restoration of Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media Using Inter-View Gradient Interpolation. D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, and A. kokaram, in 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011). 2011.
  • Restoring Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Temporally Consistent Disparity Maps. D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, and A. kokaram, in Irish Signals and Systems Conference Trinity College Dublin 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011). 2011.
  • Reflection Detection in Image Sequences. M. A. Ahmed, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011). 2011.
  • A Video Database for the Development of Stereo-3D PostProduction Algorithms. D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, V. Morris, A. Rankin, M. Linnane, G. Kearney, M. Gorzel, M. O’Dea, C. Lee and A. Kokaram, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP ‘10). 2010.
  • Matting with a Depth Map. F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. 2010.
  • Extraction of Non-Binary Blotch Mattes. M. Ahmed, F. Pitié and A. Kokoram, _ in IEEE Conference on image Processing (ICIP’09)_. 2009.
  • Using One Graph-Cut to Fuse Multiple Candidate Maps in Depth Estimation. F. Pitié, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP). 2009.
  • Feature-Assisted Sparse to Dense Motion Estimation using Geodesic Distances. D. Ring and F. Pitié, in IEEE Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP ‘09). 2009. (Best paper award)
  • A Comparative Error Analysis of Audio-Visual Source Localization. D. Kelly, F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and F. Boland, in Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2) in conjunction with ECCV 2008. 2008.
  • Automated colour grading using colour distribution transfer. F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot. Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, January 2007.
  • The Linear Monge-Kantorovitch Colour Mapping for Example-Based Colour Transfer. F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’07). 2007.
  • Electronic Slide Matching and Enhancement of a Lecture Video. G. Gigonzac, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’07). 2007.
  • Localised deflicker of Moving Images. F. Pitié, B. Kent, B. Collis and A. Kokaram, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’06). 2006.
  • Towards Automated Colour Grading. F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, in European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP’05). 2005.
  • N-Dimensional Probability Density Function Transfer and its Application to Colour Transfer. F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’05). 2005.
  • Content Controlled Image Representation for Sports Streaming. A. Kokaram, F. Pitié, R. Dahyot, N. Rea and S. Yeterian, in IEEE workshop on Content Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI’05). 2005.
  • Off-line Multiple Object Tracking using Candidate Selection and the Viterbi Algorithm. F. Pitié, S-A. Berrani, R. Dahyot and A. Kokaram, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’05). 2005.
  • Oriented Particle Spray: A New Probabilistic. F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, in Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP’04). 2004.
  • Gradient based dominant motion estimation with integral projections for real time video stabilisation. A. J. Crawford, H. Denman, F. Kelly, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’04). 2004.
  • A New Robust Technique for Stabilizing Brightness Fluctuations. F. Pitié, R. Dahyot, F. Kelly and A. Kokaram, in 2nd Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing. 2004.
  • Suppression du bruit de pompage des vidéos. F. Pitié, R. Dahyot and A. Kokaram, in Proceedings 19eme Colloque sur le Traitement du Signal. 2003.
  • Simultaneous Luminance and Position Stabilization for Film and Video. A. Kokaram, R. Dahyot, F. Pitié and H. Denman, in Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP). 2003.

Theses

  • Statistical Signal Processing Techniques for Visual Post-Production. F. Pitié, PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin. 2007.
  • Removing Flicker from old movies. F. Pitié, Master’s thesis, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. 2002.

Patents

  • Method for matching color in images. US patent application 7796812 filed on 17 October 2006. (F. Pitié, A. Kokaram) — acquired by Google.
  • Dominant Motion Estimation for Image Sequence Processing. United Kingdom patent application GB 0423578.4 filed on 22 October 2004. (A. Crawford, A. Kokaram, F. Kelly, H. Denman, F. Pitié) — acquired by Google.
  • Automated Video Production System and Method. US Patent App. 13/748,727, 2013. D. Kelly, F. Boland, F. Pitié and A. Kokaram

Also, see my profile on Google Scholar and Research Gate.