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Rafał Mantiuk

I moved to Bangor University.

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My new address:
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
201-2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1X7

Email: mantiuk [at] cs [dot] ubc.ca
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Phone: +1 604 827 3983

Research Interests

High Dynamic Range Imaging
Human Visual Perception
Image and Video Compression

Publications

--- 2008 ---

Rafał Mantiuk, Scott Daly, Louis Kerofsky. Display Adaptive Tone Mapping. To appear in: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH'08) 27 (3) (project page)
Tunç O. Aydin, Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Dynamic Range Independent Image Quality Assessment. To appear in: ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH'08) 27 (3) (project page)
Piotr Didyk, Rafał Mantiuk, Matthias Hein and Hans-Peter Seidel. Enhancement of Bright Video Features for HDR Displays. To appear in: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of EGSR'08) 2008.
Akiko Yoshida, Matthias Ihrke, Rafał Mantiuk, Hans-Peter Seidel. Brightness of Glare Illusion. To appear in: Proc. of Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV08). 2008.
Rafał Mantiuk and Hans-Peter Seidel. Modeling a Generic Tone-Mapping Operator. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS'08), 27 (2), 2008, pp. 699-708. (project page)
Tunç O. Aydın, Rafał Mantiuk and Hans-Peter Seidel. Extending quality metrics to full luminance range images. In: Proc. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, vol. 6806
Kil Joong Kim, Bohyoung Kim, Kyoung Ho Lee, Tae Jung Kim, Rafał Mantiuk, Heung-Sik Kang, Young Hoon Kim. Regional Difference in Compression Artifacts in Low-Dose Chest CT Images: Effects of Mathematical and Perceptual Factors. In: American Journal of Roentgenology, 191:W30-W37, 2008.
Bohyoung Kim, Kyoung Ho Lee, Kil Joong Kim, Rafał Mantiuk, Hye-ri Kim, and Young Hoon Kim. Artifacts in Slab Average Intensity Projection Images Reformatted from JPEG2000 Compressed Thin-section Abdomen CT Datasets. In: American Journal of Roentgenology, 190:W342-W350, 2008.
Bohyoung Kim, Kyoung Ho Lee, Kil Joong Kim, Rafał Mantiuk, Vasundhara Bajpai, Tae Jung Kim, Young Hoon Kim, Chang Jin Yoon, and Seokyung Hahn. Prediction of Perceptible Artifacts in JPEG2000 Compressed Abdomen CT Images using a Perceptual Image Quality Metric. Academic Radiology, in press.
Kim Bohyoung, Kyoung Ho Lee, Kim Joong Kil, Rafał Mantiuk, Hahn Seokyung, Jung Kim Tae and Kim Young Hoon. Prediction of Perceptible Artifacts in JPEG2000 Compressed Chest CT Images using Mathematical and Perceptual Quality Metrics. American Journal of Roentgenology, will appear in Feb. 2008, Vol. 190, Issue 2

--- 2007 ---

Grzegorz Krawczyk, Rafał Mantiuk, Dorota Zdrojewska and Hans-Peter Seidel. Brightness Adjustment for HDR and Tone Mapped Images. In: Proc. of 15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2007, pp. 373--381.
Rafał Mantiuk, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Seidel. High Dynamic Range Image and Video Compression - Fidelity Matching Human Visual Performance. In: Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2007, pp. 9--12.
Rafał Mantiuk, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Radosław Mantiuk and Hans-Peter Seidel. High Dynamic Range Imaging Pipeline: Perception-motivated Representation of Visual Content. In: Proc of SPIE - Volume 6492. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII. 649212. (bib)

--- 2006 ---

Akiko Yoshida, Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel. Analysis of Reproducing Real-World Appearance on Displays of Varying Dynamic Range. In: Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics'06) 25 (3), pp. 415-426, 2006. (project page)
Rafał Mantiuk, Alexander Efremov, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Backward Compatible High Dynamic Range MPEG Video Compression. In: Proc. of SIGGRAPH '06 (Special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics), 25 (3), pp. 713-723, 2006 (project page)
Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Lossy compression of high dynamic range images and video. In: Proc of SPIE - Volume 6057. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XI. 60570V. (bib)
Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. A Perceptual Framework for Contrast Processing of High Dynamic Range Images (revised and extended version). In: ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 3 (3), pp. 286-308 (project page)

--- 2005 ---

Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. A Perceptual Framework for Contrast Processing of High Dynamic Range Images. In: Proc. of Second Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2005. pp. 87-94 (bib) (project page)
Rafał Mantiuk, Scott Daly, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Predicting Visible Differences in High Dynamic Range Images - Model and its Calibration. In: Proc. of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, IS&T/SPIE's 17th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2005. pp. 204-214 (bib)

--- 2004 ---

Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Visible Difference Predicator for High Dynamic Range Images. In: Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004. pp. 2763-2769 (bib)
Rafał Mantiuk, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel. Perception-motivated High Dynamic Range Video Encoding . In: Proc. of SIGGRAPH '04 (Special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics), 2004. (bib) (project page)

--- 2002-2003 ---

Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, Sumanta Pattanaik. Attention Guided MPEG Compression for Computer Animations. In: Proceedings of the 19th Spring Conference on Computer graphics 2003. pp. 239-244 (bib)
Rafał Mantiuk, Sumanta Pattanaik, Karol Myszkowski. Cube-Map Data Structure For Interactive Global Illumination Computation in Dynamic Diffuse Environments . In: Conference Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics 2002. pp. 530-538 (bib)

Projects

High Dynamic Range Image and Video Compression
Commonly used image and video formats encode visual information using 8-bit per color channel. Such representation, although suitable for typical LCD or CRT monitors, is unsufficient for next generation of high-dynamic range displays. To overcome the limitations of the existing image encoding formats, we extended existing formats to efficiently encode all visual information that the human eye can see: luminance levels from star light to sun light and complete color gamut. [details...]
Visible Difference Metric for High Dynamic Range Images Visual difference metrics can predict whether differences between two images are visible to the human observer or not. Such metrics are used for testing either visibility of information (whether we can see important visual information) or visibility of noise (to make sure we do not see any distortions in images, e.g. due to lossy compression). We introduce a High Dynamic Range Visible Difference Predictor, which can work within the complete range of luminance the human eye can see and therefore, unlike the other visible difference metrics, can be used for the full range of lighting conditions that can be met in real-word situations. [details...]
Contrast Domain High Dynamic Range Image Processing
Since the human eye is the most sensitive for either spatial or temporal changes, we propose a framework for image operations on spatial contrast, rather than on an absolute pixel values. Such approach gives better control over the visibility of the changes introduced by image processing operations. The proposed framework is especially suitable for a detail-preserving compression of contrast in HDR images. [details...] (updated March 2006)
pfstools for Processing HDR Images and Video
pfstools package is a set of command line programs for reading, writing, manipulating and viewing high-dynamic range (HDR) images and video frames. pfstools is an Open Source project licensed under the GPL. Most of the HDR software developed in our group is based on this package. [details...]

Education

September 2003 - December 2006
Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Thesis: High-Fidelity Imaging - The Computational Models of the Human Visual System in High Dynamic Range Video Video Compression, Visible Difference Prediction and Image Processing
Advisor: Karol Myszkowski
September 1997 - November 2002:
M.Sc. in Computer Science, Szczecin University of Technology, Poland