BITS, BOTS & BEATS - Creative with Generative AI
A STEM Workshop on Generative AI for teenagers
Prof. Peter Lambert
Team Lead
Peter Lambert is a full-time Associate Professor at the IDLab of Ghent University – imec (Belgium) since 2013, where he currently leads the IDLab-MEDIA research team. He received his Master’s degree in science (mathematics) and in applied informatics from Ghent University in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and he obtained the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2007 at the same university. In 2009 he became a Technology Developer at Ghent University, which he combined with a part-time Assistant Professorship at the IDLab since 2010. His research interests are multimedia signal processing, data compression, computer graphics, visual communication, and AR/VR/MR/XR.
He is (co-)author of 220+ publications (incl. 50+ SCI-listed journal publications and 145+ peer-reviewed conference publications of which 8 received a paper award) and is co-inventor of 1 published and 1 granted (EP2664157B1) patent applications (full biography available on UGent’s publication repository or Google Scholar). He also regularly serves as reviewer for several scientific journals (e.g., IEEE TCSVT, ACM TMM, Elsevier SPIC) and international conferences (e.g., IEEE ICIP, EUSIPCO, PCS, QoMEX). He is promotor of 14 finished PhDs (2 interdisciplinary) and 6 on-going PhDs, and was involved in 6 other finished PhDs
He is lecturer for four 6-ECTS credit courses at Ghent University: Multimedia (BSc Informatics), Multimedia Techniques (BSc Computer Science), Design of Multimedia Applications (MSc Computer Science), and Computer Graphics (MSc Informatics). He also supervised 75+ Master theses.
Authored posts
J. Imaging - Fusion - Image Forgery Localization and Detection
Our paper titled Harmonizing Image Forgery Detection & Localization - Fusion of Complementary Approaches was accepted at Journal of Imaging.
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COM-PRESS - Image Manipulation Analysis Dashboard for Fact-checkers
We present the alpha version of COM-PRESS - An Image Manipulation Analysis Dashboard for Fact-checkers. This was also accepted as extended paper at MISDOOM 2023.
IEEE ICCE 24 - Blind Image Watermarking Robust Against Geometric Transformations
Our paper titled "Blind Deep-Learning-Based Image Watermarking Robust Against Geometric Transformations" was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2024.
IEEE VCIP 23 - P-Frame Injection
Our paper "P-Frame Injection for Efficient Packet-Loss Repair in Low-Latency Video Streaming with HESP" is submitted at the IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2023.
IEEE ISM 23 - Temporal Layer Injection
Our paper "Temporal Layer Injection for Fast Bitrate Ladder Creation in Live Video Streaming" was accepted at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2023.
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OpenDIBR - Open Real-Time Depth-Image-Based renderer of light field videos for VR
OpenDIBR is an openly-available wide-base ligth field renderer geared towards real-time display of multi-camera images/videos, even in Virtual Reality.
VENTOUX - Video Enrichment to Optimize User Experience of Cycling Race Broadcasts
Video enrichment of cycling races
FWO project on Fake Video Detection accepted
Compression History Discovery through Video Range Decoding for Fake Video Detection
IEEE ICCE - 360DIV - 360° Video Plus Depth for Fully Immersive VR Experiences
Our paper titled "360° Video Plus Depth for Fully Immersive VR Experiences" was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2023.
IEEE ICCE - Head Movement Modeling for Immersive Visualization in VR
Head Movement Modeling for Immersive Visualization in VR accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2023.
IEEE ICCE - Comprint - Image Forgery Localization and Detection
Our paper titled Training Data Improvement for Image Forgery Detection using Comprint accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2023.
COM-PRESS - Combating desinformation
Combating disinformation by equipping journalists with new image manipulation insights and detection methods
PCS 22 - Mixed-Resolution HESP
Our paper "Mixed-Resolution HESP for More Efficient Fast Channel Switching and Packet-Loss Repair" was accepted at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) 2022.
WSDF ARES - Fast and Blind Watermark Detection
Our paper titled "Fast and Blind Detection of Rate-Distortion-Preserving Video Watermarks" was accepted for presentation at the Int. Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF) 2022, held in conjunction with the Int. Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) 2022.
EUVIP - Watermarking for Large-Scale Video Distribution
Our paper titled "Watermarking for Large-Scale Video Distribution through Out-of-the-Loop Frame Replacement" was accepted at the European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) 2022.
MMForWild ICPR - Comprint - Image Forgery Localization and Detection
Our paper titled Comprint - Image Forgery Detection and Localization using Compression Fingerprints was accepted at the Workshop on MultiMedia Forensics in the WILD (MMForWILD) 2022, held in conjunction with the Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2022.
ACM MMSys 2022 Best Open Dataset and Software Paper for SILVR
We're happy and honored to announce that our immersive plenoptic dataset paper "SILVR - A Synthetic Immersive Large-Volume Plenoptic Dataset" has been rewarded with the ACM MMSys 2022 Best Open Dataset and Software Paper.
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SILVR - A Synthetic Immersive Large-Volume Plenoptic Dataset
SILVR, a dataset of light field images for six-degrees-of-freedom navigation in large fully-immersive volumes. The SILVR dataset is short for Synthetic Immersive Large-Volume Ray dataset.
IJGIS 2022 - Indoor route guidance, a usability study in VR
We are happy to announce that our interdisciplinary paper titled "Linking the cognitive load induced by route instruction types and building configuration during indoor route guidance, a usability study in VR" was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
ITU-T Rec. P.919 - Subjective evaluation of visual quality and simulator sickness of short 360 videos
ITU-T Rec. P.919 - Subjective evaluation of visual quality and simulator sickness of short 360 videos
Hannes Mareen wins ThesisThread competition
Congratulations to Hannes Mareen, Postdoc Researcher at IDLab-MEDIA who won the first ThesisThread competition
Funding granted for imec.icon 5G BROADCAST
Efficient software-defined adaptive video streaming leveraging 5G terrestrial broadcasting in combination with existing (mobile) over-the-top streaming
2021 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Award for SMoE Light Field Technology
We’re happy and honored to announce that our light field technology paper “Steered Mixture-of-Experts for Light Field Images and Video - Representation and Coding” has been rewarded with the 2021 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Award
MDPI Electronics - Fast Watermark Detection using Perceptual Hashes
Our paper titled "Fast Fallback Watermark Detection using Perceptual Hashes" was accepted for publication to the special issue "Recent Developments and Applications of Image Watermarking" of MDPI Electronics
Why is this A.I.? - Urgent.fm radiospecial
Featured on Urgent.fm radiospecial 'Why is this A.I.?', regarding deepfakes and deepfake detection
ICICT 2021 - Implementation-Free Forensic Watermarking
Paper presented at ICICT 2021 - Implementation-Free Forensic Watermarking
MDPI Electronics - Keyframe Insertion Enabling Low-Latency Random Access and Packet Loss Repair
Paper accepted in MDPI Electronics - Keyframe Insertion - Enabling Low-Latency Random Access and Packet Loss Repair
PLENOPTIMA - Plenoptic Imaging
PLENOPTIMA - Plenoptic Imaging - a cross-disciplinary approach to plenoptic imaging, including new optical materials and sensing principles, signal processing methods, new computing architectures, and vision science modelling.
Funding granted for imec.icon LIVE-G
The objective of this project is to investigate low-delay end-to-end contribution and distribution for live-event broadcasting over mobile 5G networks
Interdisciplinary Research Project on computer vision and intelligent mowing patterns
Funding granted for Interdisciplinary Research Project on computer vision and intelligent mowing patterns to automate biodiversity management in grasslands
Interdisciplinary Research Project on improving musical group experiences in VR
Funding granted for Interdisciplinary Research Project on improving musical group experiences in VR, using a biofeedback control system
MTAP - Random Access Prediction Structures for Light Field Video Coding with MV-HEVC
Paper accepted in MTAP - Random Access Prediction Structures for Light Field Video Coding with MV-HEVC
Telenet's .comdom app - safe sexting in a world of AI?
Telenet's .comdom app - safe sexting in a world of AI?
IEEE TMM - Representing and Coding Light Field Images and Video
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Representing and Coding Light Field Images and Video
Funding granted for imec.icon RHETORiC
The RHETORiC project will therefore design interface elements and machine learning approaches to create semi-automated tools for news editors and media audiences to identify and counter polarization and contribute constuctively to online debates.
IEEE ICCE-Berlin - Light Field Image Compression Using Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
Paper Accepted at IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2019 -s Light Field Image Compression Using Versatile Video Coding (VVC)
SPIE Optics & Photonics 2019 - Overview of MV-HEVC prediction structures for light field video
Paper presented at SPIE optics & photonics 2019 - Overview of MV-HEVC prediction structures for light field video
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing - Pixel-level parallel rendering for images and light fields
Article accepted for publication in the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing - Pixel-level parallel rendering for images and light fields
IEEE TIFS - Fast Encoding of Watermarked Videos
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) - Fast Encoding of Watermarked Videos
IWDW 2018 - Traitor Tracing After Visible Watermark Removal
Paper accepted at IWDW 2018 - Traitor Tracing After Visible Watermark Removal
Best Poster Award at IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P) 2018
Best Poster Award at IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P) 2018
ICCE Berlin 2018 - Digital video stabilization in the compressed domain
Paper accepted at ICCE Berlin 2018 - Digital video stabilization in the compressed domain
SPIE optics + photonics 2018 - Light field video coding
Paper accepted at SPIE optics + photonics 2018 - Light field video coding
Funding granted for imec.icon ILLUMINATE
ILLUMINATE - Interactive streaming and representation for totally immersive virtual reality applications
IEEE TCE - Video Watermarking
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Video Watermarking
EUSIPCO 2018 - Compression of 360° images
Paper accepted at EUSIPCO 2018 - Compression of 360° images
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Art and Science Interaction Lab at De Krook
Research infrastructure aimed on bringing, testing and measuring next-gen audiovisual, creative and interactive experiences
PCS 2018 - Modeling and Real-Time Rendering of Light Field Video
Two papers accepted for PCS 2018! Modeling and Real-Time Rendering of Light Field Video
AQUa - an adaptive framework for compression of sequencing quality scores with random access functionality
AQUa - an adaptive framework for compression of sequencing quality scores with random access functionality
ICCE 2018 - Video watermarking
Paper accepted at ICCE 2018 - Video watermarking
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Low-Delay Live Streaming
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Low-Delay Live Streaming
AFRESh - an adaptive framework for compression of reads and assembled sequences
AFRESh - an adaptive framework for compression of reads and assembled sequences with random access functionality
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Simultaneous encoding of HDR and LDR
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Simultaneous encoding of HDR and LDR
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation - Transcoding of Spatially Misaligned Videos
Paper accepted in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation - Transcoding of Spatially Misaligned Videos
Funding granted for imec.icon HELP Video!
Funding granted for imec.icon project HELP Video! (HW platforms for Embedded, Efficient, Low-latency, and Portable Video Processing)
Electronics Letters - Dynamic Encoder Profile Optimisation
Paper accepted in Electronics Letters - Dynamic Encoder Profile Optimisation
Computer Graphics Forum - 3D mesh compression
Paper accepted at Computer Graphics Forum - 3D mesh compression
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SELVIE - Scalable, Efficient, and Low-delay Video Interaction during Events
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Efficient bit rate transcoding
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Efficient bit rate transcoding
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Arbitrary downsizing of pre-encoded HEVC video
Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics - Arbitrary downsizing of pre-encoded HEVC video
Funding granted for imec.icon PRO-FLOW!
Funding granted for imec.icon project PRO-FLOW – Enabling Internet Video Streaming and Collaboration with Sub-Second Latency
Top 10% paper award at IEEE MMSP
Top 10% paper award at IEEE 17th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Funding granted for imec.icon HD²R!
Funding granted for imec.icon project HD²R – Creating Images with Higher Dynamic Range and Richer Colors for Cinemas and Living Rooms
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LISSA - Innovative second screen services for live events
Top 10% Paper at IEEE ICIP 2014
Top 10% Paper at IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2014
Best Poster at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014
Best Poster Extended Abstract Award at 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting - Fast Channel Switching
Paper in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting - Fast Channel Switching