Advanced tools and framework for historical film restoration

S. Croci, T. Aydin, N. Stefanoski, M. Gross, A. Smolic

J. Electronic Imaging 2017

Robust Calibration of Broadcast Cameras based on Ellipse and Line Contours

S. Croci, N. Stefanoski, A. Smolic

ICIP 2016

Real-time Temporally Coherent Local HDR Tone Mapping

S. Croci, T. Aydin, N. Stefanoski, M. Gross, A. Smolic

ICIP 2016

Luminance Independent Chromaticity Preprocessing for HDR Video Coding

S. Mahmalat, N. Stefanoski, D. Luginbuehl, T. O. Aydin, A. Smolic

ICIP 2016

Art-Directable Continuous Dynamic Range Video

A. Chapiro, T. Aydın, N. Stefanoski, S. Croci, A. Smolic, M. Gross

Computers & Graphics 2015

Chromatic Calibration of an HDR Display using 3D Octree Forests

Jing Liu, Nikolce Stefanoski, Tunc Aydin, Anselm Grundhöfer, Aljoscha Smolic

ICIP 2015

Key-frame Based Spatiotemporal Scribble Propagation

Pelin Dogan, Tunc Aydin, Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

WICED 2015

Temporally Coherent Local Tone Mapping of HDR Video

T. Aydin, N. Stefanoski, S. Croci, M. Gross, A. Smolic

SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

Automatic View Synthesis by Image-Domain-Warping

N. Stefanoski, O. Wang, M. Lang, P. Greisen, S. Heinzle, A. Smolic

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Issue 99, May 2013.

Image Domain Warping for Stereoscopic 3D Applications

O. Wang, M. Lang, N. Stefanoski, A. Hornung, O. Sorkine, A. Smolic, M. Gross

A book chapter in "Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering", F. Dufaux, B. Pesquet-Popescu, M. Cagnazzo Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-118-35511-4, May 2013.

Depth Estimation and Depth Enhancement by Diffusion of Depth Features

N. Stefanoski, C. Bal, M. Lang, O. Wang, A. Smolic

ICIP 2013

Image Quality vs Rate Optimized Coding of Warps for View Synthesis in 3D Video Applications

N. Stefanoski, M. Lang, A.Smolic

ICIP 2012

Disparity-aware Stereo 3D Production Tools

A.Smolic, S. Poulakos, S. Heinzle, P. Greisen, M. Lang, A. Hornung, M. Farre, N. Stefanoski, O. Wang, L. Schnyder, R. Monroy, M. Gross

CVMP 2011

Extending SVC by Content-adaptive Spatial Scalability

Yongzhe Wang, Nikolce Stefanoski, Manuel Lang, Alexander Hornung, Aljoscha Smolic, Markus Gross

ICIP 2011

Automatic Content Creation for Multiview Autostereoscopic Displays Using Image Domain Warping

Miquel Farre, Oliver Wang, Manuel Lang, Nikolce Stefanoski, Alexander Hornung, Aljosa Smolic

Hot3D Workshop 2011

Scalable Predictive Coding of Animated 3D Meshes

Nikolce Stefanoski

Dissertation, published in "Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Reihe 10, Informatik, Kommunikation, Nr. 813"

Content-Adaptive Spatial Scalability for Scalable Video Coding

Yongzhe Wang, Nikolce Stefanoski, Xiangzhong Fang, and Aljoscha Smolic

PCS 2010

Non-linear Warping and Warp Coding for Content-adaptive Prediction in Advanced Video Coding Applications

Aljoscha Smolic, Yongzhe Wang, Nikolce Stefanoski, Manuel Lang, Alexander Hornung, Markus H. Gross

ICIP 2010

SPC: Fast and Efficient Scalable Predictive Coding of Animated Meshes

Nikolce Stefanoski, Jörn Ostermann

Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 29, Nr. 1, pp. 101-116, 2010

Spatially and Temporally Scalable Compression of Animated 3D Meshes with MPEG-4/FAMC

Nikolce Stefanoski, Jörn Ostermann

ICIP 2008

Frame-Based Compression of Animated Meshes in MPEG-4

K. Mamou, N. Stefanoski, T. Zaharia, J. Ostermann, F. Prêteux

ICME 2008

Compression of 3D Meshes - Applications, Approaches, Standards

Nikolce Stefanoski, Libor Vasa, Jörn Ostermann

3DTV-CON 2008

A Survey on Coding of Static and Dynamic 3D Meshes

A. Smolic, R. Sondershaus, N. Stefanoski, L. Vasa, K. Mueller, J. Ostermann, T. Wiegand

A book chapter in "Three-Dimensional Television: Capture, Transmission, Display", Haldun M. Ozaktas, and Levent Onural, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, December 2007.

Coding Algorithms for 3DTV - A Survey

A. Smolic, K. Mueller, N. Stefanoski, J. Ostermann, A. Gotchev, G.B. Akar, G. Triantafyllidis, A. Koz

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 17, Nr. 11, pp. 1606 - 1621, November 2007

Layered Predictive Coding of Time-Consistent Dynamic 3D Meshes Using a Non-Linear Predictor

Nikolce Stefanoski, Patrick Klie, Xiaoliang Liu, Jörn Ostermann

ICIP 2007

Scalable Linear Predictive Coding of Time-Consistent 3D Mesh Sequences

Nikolce Stefanoski, Xiaoliang Liu, Patrick Klie, Jörn Ostermann

3DTV-CON 2007

A Framework for Scene-Flow Driven Creation of Time Consistent Dynamic 3D Objects Using Mesh Parametrizations

Patrick Klie, Eugen Okon, Nikolce Stefanoski, Jörn Ostermann

3DTV-CON 2007

Connectivity-Guided Predictive Compression of Dynamic 3D Meshes

Nikolce Stefanoski, Joern Ostermann

ICIP 2006

Adaptation of a Generic Face Model to a 3D Scan

Axel Weissenfeld, Nikolce Stefanoski, Shen Qiuqiong, Joern Ostermann

ICOB 2005

Mixed Poisson approximation of node depth distributions in random binary search trees

Rudolf Grübel, Nikolce Stefanoski

Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 15, Nr. 1, pp. 279-297, 2005

Perceptual Color Transformations for Wide Color Gamut Video Coding

D. Luginbuhl, T. Aydin, A. Smolic, N. Stefanoski

US20160323556B2, 2019, Granted

Methods for Creating and Distributing Art-directable Continuous Dynamic Range Video

A. Smolic, A. Chapiro, S. Croci, T. Aydin, N. Stefanoski, M. Gross

US10349127B2, 2019, Granted

Saliency-weighted Video Quality Assessment

T. Aydin, N. Stefanoski, A. Smolic, M. Arana

US9922411B2, 2018, Granted

Interactive Broadcast

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

US9986278B2, 2018, Granted

Chromatic Calibration of an HDR Display using 3D Octree Forests

N. Stefanoski, T. Aydin, J. Liu, A. Grundhofer, A. Smolic

US9997134B2, 2018, Granted

High Dynamic Range Tone Mapping

A. Smolic, T. Aydin, S. Croci, N. Stefanoski

US9979895B2, 2018, Granted

Temporally coherent local tone mapping of high dynamic range video

T. Aydin, S. Croci, A. Smolic, N. Stefanoski, M. Gross

US9378543B2, 2016, Granted

Synthesizing Views Based on Image Domain Warping

N. Stefanoski, A. Smolic, M. Lang, M. Farré, A. Hornung, P. C. E. Fricke, O. Wang

US9445072B2, 2016, Granted

Method and System for Providing and Displaying Optional Overlays

A. Smolic, N. Stefanoski, O. Wang

US 20150135212 A1, 2016, Application

Signaling Warp Maps using a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Extension for 3D Video Coding

A. Smolic, N. Stefanoski

US9571812B2, 2014, Granted

Content adaptive and art directable scalable video coding

N. Stefanoski, A. Smolic, Y. Wang, M. Lang, A. Hornung, M. Gross

US8514932B2, 2013, Granted

Scalable compression of time-consistent 3D mesh sequences

N. Stefanoski, J. Ostermann, P. Klie

US8502815B2, 2013, Granted

Skalierbare komprimierung zeitkonsistenter 3D-Netzwerksequenzen

N. Stefanoski, J. Ostermann, P. Klie

EP2147557B1, 2012, Granted

Proposal for luminance independent chromaticity preprocessing for HEVC

S. Mahmalat, N. Stefanoski, T. Aydın, D. Luginbühl, A. Smolic

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M37017, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2015

Chromatic Calibration of an HDR Display using 3D Octree Forests

N. Stefanoski, J. Liu, T. Aydin, A. Grundhöfer, A. Smolic

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M37016, Geneva, Switzerland, , October 2015

Report on out-of-BT.709 colors in current HDR / WCG video coding anchors

S. Mahmalat, N. Stefanoski, T. Aydin, A. Smolic

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M37015, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2015

Proposal for an SEI message on selectable overlays

N. Stefanoski, O. Wang, A. Smolic (DRZ), T. Szypulski (ESPN)

JCT-3V/JCT-VC, Doc. JCT3V-H0021/JCTVC-Q0045, Valencia, Spain, March, 2014

Proposal for supporting optional overlays with help of auxiliary pictures

N. Stefanoski, O. Wang, A. Smolic (DRZ), T. Szypulski (ESPN)

JCT-3V/JCT-VC, Doc. JCT3V-G0105/JCTVC-P0092, San Jose, USA, January, 2014

Proposal for Supporting Optional Overlays with MV-HEVC

N. Stefanoski, O. Wang, A. Smolic (DRZ), T. Szypulski (ESPN)

JCT-3V/JCT-VC, Doc. JCT3V-F0057/JCTVC-O0358, Geneva, Switzerland, October, 2013

Revision of the Alternative Depth Info SEI message

N. Stefanoski, A. Smolic, T. Senoh, M. Tanimoto

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-E0034, Vienna, Austria, July 2013

Summary Report on Alternative 3D Formats

Masayuki Tanimoto, Takanori Senoh, Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-E0008, Vienna, Austria, July 2013

Draft Text for Signaling Warp Maps as an Alternative 3D Format in 3D-HEVC

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-D0103, Incheon, South Korea, April 2013

JCT-3V AHG Report: Alternative 3D Formats

Masayuki Tanimoto, Takanori Senoh, Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-D0008, Incheon, South Korea, April 2013

Multiview video + warp coding with a MVC+D-like MV-HEVC-based coding system

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-C0033, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2013

Subjective testing results on comparing warp-based with depth-based synthesis from coded data at same bit-rate

Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-C0240, January 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

JCT-3V AHG Report: Alternative 3D Formats

Masayuki Tanimoto, Takanori Senoh, Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-C0008, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2013

New warp data for IDW-based view synthesis experiments

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-B0074, Shanghai, China, October 2012

Proposal to compare synthesis quality of IDWR with VSRS-1D-Fast in a subjective test

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-B0077, Shanghai, China, October 2012

Subjective testing results on comparing synthesis quality of IDWR and VSRS 1D Fast

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-B0225, Shanghai, China, October 2012

AHG8 Report on Alternative 3D Format

Masayuki Tanimoto, Takanori Senoh, Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-B0008, Shanghai, China, October 2012

Test data and view synthesis software for warp coding and IDW-based view synthesis experiments

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-A0003, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2012

Results on coding of warps using HEVC

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-A0004, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2012

BoG Report: Preparation of Text on an Exploration Experiment on Warp Coding and Synthesis

Nikolce Stefanoski

JCT-3V, Doc. JCT3V-A0175, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2012

Coding of Warps for IDW-based View Synthesis in 3DV Applications

Nikolce Stefanoski, Aljoscha Smolic

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M23558, San Jose, USA, January 2012

Description of 3D Video Coding Technology Proposal by Disney Research Zurich and Fraunhofer HHI

Nikolce Stefanoski, Pedro Espinosa, Oliver Wang, Manuel Lang, Aljoscha Smolic, Sebastian Bosse, Miquel Farre, Karsten Müller, Heiko Schwarz, Martin Winken, Thomas Wiegand

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M22668, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2011

Requirements and Demonstration of Content-adaptive SVC

Aljoscha Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M22666, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2011

Image Domain Warping as Alternative to DIBR for Advanced 3DV Applications

Aljoscha Smolic, Miquel Angel Farre, Oliver Wang, Nikolce Stefanoski, Alexander Hornung, Manuel Lang

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M19995, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2011

FAMC decoder software description

K. Mamou, Kirchhoffer H., Stefanoski N., Marpe D., Müller K., Ostermann J., Zaharia T., Prêteux F.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14934, Shenzhen, China, October 2007

FAMC decoder conformance

Mamou K., Kirchhoffer H., Stefanoski N., Marpe D., Müller K., Ostermann J., Zaharia T., Prêteux F.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14936, Shenzhen, China, October 2007

FAMC's layer-based scalable extension

Mamou K., Stefanoski N., Zaharia T., Ostermann J., Prêteux F.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14652, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2007

FAMC: bitstream description for the layer-based scalable extension

Mamou K., Stefanoski N., Zaharia T., Ostermann J., Prêteux F.

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14653, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2007

FAMC with progressive transmission and scalable rendering functionalities

Mamou K., Stefanoski N., Zaharia T., Ostermann J., Prêteux F.

SO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14654, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2007

Scalable Compression of Dynamic 3D Meshes

Nikolce Stefanoski, Jörn Ostermann

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Doc. M14363, San Jose, USA, April 2007

Adapt: Entirely software-based virtual advertising technology

R. Dragon, L. Gysin, N. Stefanoski, A. Martinovic, U. Müller, P. A. Entschev, M. Paul

German Innovation Award 2018, Special