Publications

Theses

PhD Thesis

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D. Ruefenacht, ‘‘Novel Motion Anchoring Strategies for Wavelet-based Highly Scalable Video Compression,’’ UNSW Sydney, Australia, 2017.
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Master Thesis

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D. Ruefenacht, ‘‘Stereoscopic High Dynamic Range Video,’’ EPFL, Switzerland, 2011.
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Journal Articles

2016

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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, ‘‘Occlusion-Aware Temporal Frame Interpolation in a Highly Scalable Video Setting,’’ APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (ATSIP), 2016.
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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “A Novel Motion Field Anchoring Paradigm for Highly Scalable Wavelet-based Video Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
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2014

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D. Ruefenacht, C. Fredembach, and S. Suesstrunk, “Automatic and Accurate Shadow Detection using Near-Infrared Information,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2014.
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Conference and Workshop Papers

2017

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D. Ruefenacht and D. Taubman, “Leveraging Decoded HEVC Motion for Fast, High Quality Optical Flow Estimation,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Luton, UK, 2017.
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D. Ruefenacht and D. Taubman, “HEVC-EPIC: Edge-preserving Interpolation of Coded HEVC Motion with Applications to Framerate Upsampling,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Hong Kong, 2017.
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2016

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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “Higher-Order Motion Models for Temporal Frame Interpolation with Applications to Video Coding,” Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Nuremberg, Germany, 2016.
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D. Ruefenacht and D. Taubman, “Temporally Consistent High Frame-Rate Upsampling with Motion Sparsification,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Montreal, Canada, 2016.
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2015

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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “Motion Blur Modelling for Hierarchically Anchored Motion with Discontinuities,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Xiamen, China, 2015.
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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “Bidirectional, Occlusion-Aware Temporal Frame Interpolation in a Highly Scalable Video Setting,” Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Cairns, Australia, 2015.
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R. Xu, A. Naman, R. Mathew, D. Ruefenacht, and D. Taubman, “Motion Estimation with Accurate Boundaries,” Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Cairns, Australia, 2015.

2014

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Top 10% Award
D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “Bidirectional Hierarchical Anchoring of Motion Fields for Scalable Video Coding,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2014.
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D. Ruefenacht, R. Mathew, and D. Taubman, “Hierarchical Anchoring of Motion Fields for Fully Scalable Video Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France, 2014.
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D. Ruefenacht, M. Brown, J. Beutel, and S. Suesstrunk, “Temporally Consistent Snow Cover Estimation from Noisy , Irregularly Sampled Measurements,” International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp. 275–283, 2014.
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2013

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D. Ruefenacht, G. Trumpy, R. Gschwind, and S. Suesstrunk, “Automatic Detection of Dust and Scratches in Silver Halide Film using Polarized Dark-Field Illumination,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Melbourne, Australia, 2013.
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