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Dr. Francois Pitie

Ussher Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH
      
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Dr. Francois Pitie

Ussher Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

 pitief@tcd.ie

 3531896 2254


François Pitié is an Ussher Assistant Professor in Media Signal Processing, Trinity College Dublin. Ussher professors are part of Trinity's strategy to recruit excellent academics in areas where Trinity has proven strengths. He has made several key contributions in the field of Video Processing and Computer Vision and published over 60 publications, with a combined total of 1100+ citations. He has attracted over 1.5M euros in research funding and is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. He has participated in the writing of 8 successful research proposals and was PI of two EI commercialisation fund projects and the TCD research lead for a 3 year FP7 EU project. He has supervised 4 postdoc, 4 Ph.D. students and 13 M.Sc. students. In 2018, François Pitié received the 'Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year' award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2018. He is a reviewer in first tier conferences and journals such as Siggraph and IEEE Transactions in Image Processing, co-chair of IMVIP 2015 and CVMP 2017, organised a number of workshops. Dr François Pitié is holder of 3 patents and developed algorithms and software that are used by companies such as Google, Disney, The Foundry and Weta Digital, and by post-production artists all over the world. He is also the founder and director of PixelPuffin, a TCD Campus company for commercialising media post- production technology.
  Computer Vision and Image Processing   Signal, Video & Audio Processing   VIDEO PROCESSING
Project Title
 Advanced Video Debanding
From
2013
To
2013
Summary
Improving the quality of online videos is a key challenge for video streaming companies. We considered in this project the issue of banding, which is a quantisation artefact that affects most videos and does not go away by simply increasing the allowed bandwidth. We built on our experience in developing tools for the movie-postproduction industry to produce a solution that targets the whole range of videos, from low-bandwidth to high quality movies.
Funding Agency
Google
Programme
Google Research Award
Person Months
12
Project Title
 3DScam
From
2011
To
2013
Summary
Producing stereoscopic 3D content for TV's and cinema turns out to be be a very expensive task. In the case of animated movies, a 3D stereo version can in theory be simply created by rendering the 3D object data from the two views for left and right eye. This however consumes a huge amount of rendering time, has a massive impact on the traditional production pipeline and thus result in an dramatically increased production cost. It was proposed in 3DSCAM to create a technology suite that allows digital artists to have full artistic control over the creation of a stereoscopic scene in its final version, while not requiring any change to the production pipeline. Technology issued from this project has been licensed to PixelPuffin (www.pixelpuffin.com).
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland
Programme
Commercialisation Fund
Person Months
24

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Bled, Clement and Pitie, Francois, Creating A Lightweight, Powerful Image Denoiser with a Classic Backbone, Inaugural School of Engineering Research Symposium (SERS), 2024, pp11 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Vibhoothi, Vibhoothi and Zouein, Julien and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Unravelling the Power of Single-Pass Look-Ahead in Modern Codecs for Optimized Transcoding Deployment, 2024 NAB BEIT Conference, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
Katsenou, Angeliki and Squires, John and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil and others, Recommendations for Verifying HDR Subjective Testing Workflows, 2023 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), IEEE, 2023, pp197--200 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
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, PUBLISHED
  

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Wilson F, Back Pain in Rowing, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine Annual Spring Meeting, University College Dublin, April, 2017, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Steve Woods, John Scott, Philip Connaughton, Michelle Boulé, François Pitié, Matt Porter , 'iDuet', 2015, -, Film production, PUBLISHED
PixelPuffin, 'DepthArtist', 2012, -, Software, PUBLISHED
Sophie Merry, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, Trevor Whelan, Chris Timms, 'Clockhead', 2011, -, Film production, PUBLISHED
The Foundry, 'Deflicker2, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2008, -, Software, PUBLISHED
The Foundry, 'MatchGrade, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2007, -, Software, PUBLISHED
GreenParrotPictures, 'FilmFix', 2004, -, Software, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
ADAPT Industry Impact Award 2019
'Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year' award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2018 2018