Refereed Journal Papers

[1] M. T. Pourazad, C. Doutre, M. Azimi, and P. Nasiopoulos“HEVC: The New Gold Standard for Video Compression”, IEEE Consumer Electronic Magazine, July 2012. (download pdf)

Refereed Conference Proceedings

[1] M. Azimi, T. Bronner, R. Boitard, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “A Hybrid Approach for Efficient Color Gamut Mapping,” the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, January 2017. (download pdf)

[2] A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “Visual Saliency Aided High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Quality Metrics,” accepted in IEEE International Conference on Communications Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.

[3] M. Azimi, R. Boitard, B. Oztas, S. Ploumis, H. S. Tohidypour, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “Compression Efficiency of HDR/LDR Content,” Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece, May 2015. (download pdf)

[4] J. Kao, M. Azimi , X. Xiu., Y. Ye, Y. He, J. Dong, “Improved Transform Skip Mode for HEVC Screen Content Coding”, Fifth International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA'15), Orleans, France, November 2015.

[5] M. Azimi, A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Y. Dong., M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos , “Evaluating the Performance of Existing Full-Reference Quality Metrics on High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Content,” International Conference on Multimedia Signal Processing, Venice, Italy, November 2014. (download pdf)

[6] M. Azimi, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos,“ Rate-Distortion Optimization for High Dynamic Range Video Coding”, the 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2014), Athens, Greece, May 2014. (download pdf)

[7] A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos,“ Compression of High Dynamic Range Video Using the HEVC and H.264/AVC Standards” , invited paper to 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness Scope, Rhodes, Greece, August 2014. (download pdf)

[8] M. Azimi, S. Valizadeh, L. Coria and P. Nasiopoulos, “Subjective Study on Asymmetric Stereoscopic Video with Low-pass Filtered Slices”, the ICNC Conference, January 2012. (download pdf)

[9] S. Valizadeh, M. Azimi, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Bitrate Reduction in Asymmetric Stereoscopic Video with Low-pass Filtered Slices”, the IEEE Conference on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, pp. 172-173, January 2012. (download pdf)

Standards Contributions

[1] M. Azimi, R. Boitard, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “Evaluation of PQ versus tone-mapping for single layer HDR video compression,”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG# m37318 , Geneva, Switzerland, October 2015.

[2] R. Boitard, M. Azimi, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “Evaluation of Scalable versus Single Layer Compression on Consumer HDR Displays,”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG# m37319 , Geneva, Switzerland, October 2015.

[3] A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, M.T. Pourazad, P. Nasiopoulos, “Saliency-Aided HDR Quality Metrics,”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG# m37317 , Geneva, Switzerland, October 2015.

[5] A. Banitalebi-Dehkordi, M. Azimi, Y. Dong, M. T. Pourazad, and P. Nasiopoulos, “Quality Assessment of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video Content Using Existing Full-Reference Metrics”, ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG# m34661, Strasbourg, France, October 2014.

[5] M. Azimi, X. Xiu, Y. He, Y. Ye (InterDigital), “CE5: Investigation of palette-based coding with maximum palette predictor size being equal to 96 and 128”, ISO/IECJTC1/SC29/WG11, MPEG# m34817, Strasbourg, France, October 2014.

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