Dr. Francois Pitie
Ussher Assistant Professor, Electronic & Elect. Engineering
Biography
François Pitié is an Assistant Professor in Media Processing in the School of Engineering and an elected Fellow of the College (FTCD). His work sits at the intersection of signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning, with a focus on practical algorithms for visual media production, visual effects, and video streaming. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed academic publications, holds multiple licensed patents, and has developed technologies used by companies including Google, Disney, The Foundry, and Weta Digital. His research is centred on developing cutting-edge signal processing and artificial intelligence solutions for the creative industries, with a significant impact on visual media post-production. Extending this global impact, his lab's partnership with YouTube and Netflix within the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is advancing efficient video streaming technologies. In 2026, François received Trinity's University Excellence in Teaching Award and the Inspired Educator Award for his hands-on, mastery-based curriculum design in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Zouein, Julien and Vibhoothi and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Efficient Dense Matching for Enhanced Gaussian Splatting Using AV1 Motion Vectors, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2026, edited by IEEE , IEEE, 2026, pp1 - 6
Ganbaatar, Bat-Erdene and Pitié, François, Towards Consistent Automatic Colour Grading: A Scene-Aware Neural Network for Illuminant Estimation, CVMP '25: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, United Kingdom, 3-4 December 2025, edited by Hansung Kim, Claudio Guarnera, Peter Eisert, Peter Vangorp, Changjae Oh , 2025
Zouein, Julien and Javidnia, Hossein and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Leveraging AV1 Motion Vectors for Fast and Dense Feature Matching, 2025 IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR), IEEE, 2025, pp1 - 4
Vibhoothi and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, LiteVPNet: A Lightweight Network for Video Encoding Control in Quality-Critical Applications, 2025 IEEE Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2025 IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, edited by IEEE , IEEE, 2025, pp1 - 5
Bled, Clément and Pitié, François, Multi Task Denoiser Training for Solving Linear Inverse Problems, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, Dec 2025, edited by ACM SIGGRAPH , 2025
Bled, Clément and Pitié, François, Creating A Lightweight, Powerful Image Denoiser with a Classic Backbone, Inaugural School of Engineering Research Symposium (SERS), Inaugural School of Engineering Research Symposium (SERS), 2024
Bled, Clément and Pitié, François, Lightweight Video Denoising Using a Classic Bayesian Backbone, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE, 2024, pp1 - 6
Vibhoothi, Vibhoothi and Zouein, Julien and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Using Single-Pass Look-Ahead in Modern Codecs for Optimized Transcoding Deployment, Motion Imaging Journal, 133, 2024, pp40-49
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Demystifying the use of Compression in Virtual Production, SMPTE Media Technology Summit 2024, 2024
Vibhoothi and Zouein, Julien and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Unravelling the Power of Single-Pass Look-Ahead in Modern Codecs for Optimized Transcoding Deployment, 2024 NAB BEIT Conference, NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference, National Association of Broadcaster, 2024
Xu, Wei and Conran, Clare and Pitie, Francois, Method for embedding advertisement in video and computer device, 2023, -
Vibhoothi and Pitié, François and Katsenou, Angeliki and Su, Yeping and Adsumilli, Balu and Kokaram, Anil, Comparison of HDR quality metrics in Per-Clip Lagrangian multiplier optimisation with AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE, 2023, pp1655 - 1660
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, The disparity between optimal and practical Lagrangian multiplier estimation in video encoders, Frontiers in Signal Processing, 3, 2023, p1118128 - p1118128
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Filling the gaps in video transcoder deployment in the cloud, 2023 NAB BEIT Conference, SMPTE Media Technology Summit, National Association of Broadcaster, 2023
Vibhoothi and Katsenou, Angeliki and Pitié, François and Domijan, Katarina and Kokaram, Anil, Subjective assessment of the impact of a content adaptive optimiser for compressing 4K HDR content with AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, 2023, pp2610 - 2614
Vibhoothi, Vibhoothi and Katsenou, Angeliki and Squires, John and Pitie, Francois and Kokaram, Anil, Recommendations for verifying hdr subjective testing workflows, 2023 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2023
Vibhoothi and Katsenou, Angeliki and Squires, John and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Recommendations for Verifying HDR Subjective Testing Workflows, 2023 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2023 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), IEEE, 2023, pp197 - 200
Vibhoothi and Angeliki V. Katsenou and Francois Piti{\'e, Subjective Assessment of the Impact of a Content Adaptive Optimiser for Compressing 4K HDR Content With AV1, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023, p2610-2614
Bled, Clément and Pitié, François, Pushing the Limits of the Wiener Filter in Image Denoising, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, 2023, pp2590 - 2594
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Frame-Type Sensitive RDO Control for Content-Adaptive Encoding, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, 2022, pp1506 - 1510
Bled, Clément and Pitié, François, Assessing Advances in Real Noise Image Denoisers, Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Per Clip Lagrangian Multiplier Optimisation for HEVC, arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.08965, 2022, p136-1 - 136-7
Pitie, Francois and Katsenou, Angeliki and Ringis, Daniel Joseph and Su, Yeping and Birkbeck, Neil and Lin, Jessie and Adsumilli, Balu and Kokaram, Anil and others, Direct optimisation of $\lambda$ for HDR content adaptive transcoding in AV1, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLV, 12226, 2022, pp36--45
Wu, Hao and Jones, Gareth J. F. and Pitié, François, Knowing where and what to write in automated live video comments: A unified multi-task approach, Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021
Bacher, Ivana and Javidnia, Hossein and Dev, Soumyabrata and Agrahari, Rohit and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, An advert creation system for 3D product placements, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2021, pp517 - 521
Wu, Hao and Pitié, François and Jones, Gareth J. F., Cold start problem for automated live video comments, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence, 2021
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Near Optimal Per-Clip Lagrangian Multiplier Prediction in HEVC, 2021 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2021, p1 - 5
Pessoa, Rodrigo and Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François and Sugrue, Mark, CNN-Based Video Codec Classifier For Multimedia Forensics, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE, 2021, pp3033 - 3037
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Per-clip and per-bitrate adaptation of the Lagrangian multiplier in video coding, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIV, 2021, p118420O - p118420O
Wu, Hao and Pitié, François and Jones, Gareth J. F., Investigating Automated Mechanisms for Multi-Modal Prediction of User Online-Video Commenting Behaviour, 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, IEEE, 2021, pp1 - 6
Pitié, François, Advances in colour transfer, IET Computer Vision, 14, (6), 2020, p304 - 322
Forte, Marco and Price, B and Cohen, S and Xu, N and Pitié, François, Interactive Training and Architecture for Deep Object Selection, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo, London, IEEE, 2020, pp1 - 6
Marco Forte and Brian L. Price and Scott D. Cohen and Ning Xu and Franccois Piti'e, Getting to 99% Accuracy in Interactive Segmentation, ArXiv, abs/2003.07932, 2020
Bacher, Ivana and Javidnia, Hossein and Dev, Soumyabrata and Agrahari, Rohit and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, DeepReal - A Deep Learning Based 3D Advert Integration System, Proc. NEM Summit, 2020, p1 - 2
Ringis, Daniel J. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Per-clip adaptive lagrangian multiplier optimisation with low-resolution proxies, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLIII (SPIE), 11510, 2020, pp115100E - pp115100E
Kokaram, Anil and Hilton, Adrian and Thomas, Graham and Pitie, Francois and Hilton, Adrian Douglas Mark, Guest Editorial: Computer Vision for the Creative Industries, IET computer vision, 14, (6), 2020, p289 - 290, p289"290
Dev, Soumyabrata and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M and McCabe, K and Nautiyal, A and Conran, C and Tang, J and others, The CASE Dataset of Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation, 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 27-3, IEEE, 2019, pp1 - 4
Dev, Soumyabrata and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M and McCabe, K and Conran, ANC and Tang, J and Xu, W and others, The ALOS Dataset for Advert Localization in Outdoor Scenes, 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, 5-7, IEEE, 2019, pp1 - 3
Domijan, Katarina and Bloomfield, D. Shaun and Pitié, François, Solar Flare Forecasting from Magnetic Feature Properties Generated by the Solar Monitor Active Region Tracker, Solar Physics, 294, (1), 2019
Dev, Soumyabrata and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M and McCabe, K and Nautiyal, A and Conran, C and Tang, J and others, Localizing adverts in outdoor scenes, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo Workshops, IEEE, 2019, pp591 - 594
Dev, Soumyabrata and Javidnia, Hossein and Hossari, Murhaf and Nicholson, M and McCabe, K and Nautiyal, A and others, Identifying Candidate Spaces for Advert Implantation, IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT), IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology, IEEE, 2019, pp503 - 507
Hossari, Murhaf and Dev, Soumyabrata and Kitchin, M. and Nicholson, M. and Pitié, François, ADNet: A Deep Network for Detecting Adverts, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), 2018, pp129 - 132
Wu, Hao and Jones, Gareth J. F. and Pitié, François and Lawless, Seamus, A Two-stage Transfer Learning Approach for Storytelling Linking., NIST TRECVID Workshop, 2018, 2018
Ringis, Daniel Joseph and Singh, Davinder and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Using modern motion estimation algorithms in existing video codecs, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLI, 10752, SPIE, 2018
Buggy, Rhys and Forte, Marco and Pitié, François, Neural net architectures for image demosaicing, Applications of Digital Image Processing XLI, 10752, SPIE, 2018
Nautiyal, Atul and McCabe, Killian and Hossari, Murhaf and Dev, Soumyabrata and Nicholson, Matthew and Conran, Clare and McKibben, Declan and Tang, Jian and Xu, Wei and Pitié, François, An Advert Creation System for Next-Gen Publicity, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp663 - 667
Karaali, Ali and Jung, Claudio Rosito and Pitié, François, Temporal Consistency For Still Image Based Defocus Blur Estimation Methods, 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece, IEEE, 2018, pp1088 - 1092
Damien Kelly, Frank Boland, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, 'Automated video production system and method ', USPTO, US9305600 B2, 2016, Provost Fellows And Scholars Of The College Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity Of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin
Pitié, François, An alternative matting Laplacian, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, Arizona, IEEE, 2016, pp3623 - 3627
Pitié, François, Rank Reduced Alternative Matting Laplacian, Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2016) - CVMP 2016, London, United Kingdom, December 12-13, ACM Press, 2016, pp3623 - 3627
(ed.), IRISH MACHINE VISION & IMAGE PROCESSING Conference proceedings 2015, Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Society (ISBN 978-0-9934207-0-2), 2015, 1 - 139 p
Pitié, François and Kelly, Damien and Foucu, Thierry and Harte, Naomi and Kokaram, Anil, Assessment of Audio/Video synchronisation in streaming media., 2014 Sixth International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Singapore, IEEE, 2014, pp171 - 176
Baugh, Gary and Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François, Advanced video debanding, CVMP '14: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Visual Media Production, Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Visual Media Production, ACM, 2014
Rowley-Brooke, Róisín and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Nonrigid recto-verso registration using page outline structure and content preserving warps, M International Conference Proceeding Series, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing - HIP '13, ACM Press, 2013
Rowley-Brooke, Róisín and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, A non-parametric framework for document bleed-through removal, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 6619224, IEEE, 2013, pp2954 - 2960
Elgharib, Mohamed A and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Blotch and scratch removal in archived film using a semi-transparent corruption model and a ground-truth generation technique, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2013, (1), 2013
Rowley-Brooke, Róisín and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Degraded manuscript restoration: A case study, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), 2013
Raimbault, Félix and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, User-assisted sparse stereo-video segmentation, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '13, 6-7 Nov, ACM Press, 2013
Crawford, Andrew and Kokaram, Anil and Kelly, Francis and Denman, Hugh and Pitié, François, 'Dominant motion estimation for image sequence processing', USPTO, US8385418 B2, 2013, Google, Inc
Elgharib, Mohamed A. and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil and Saligrama, Venkatesh, User-assisted reflection detection and feature point tracking, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '13, 6-7 Nov, ACM Press, 2013
Rowley-Brooke, Róisín and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, A ground truth bleed-through document image database, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7489 LNCS, 2012, p185 - 196
Raimbault, Félix and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Stereo Video Completion for Rig and Artefact Removal, 2012 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 4
Pitié, François and Baugh, Gary and Helms, J., Depthartist: a stereoscopic 3d conversion tool for cg animation, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, United Kingdom, 2012, pp32 - 39
Ahmed, Mohamed Abdelaziz and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Motion Estimation for Regions of Reflections Through Layer Separation, 2011 Conference for Visual Media Production, London, IEEE, 2011
Advances in automated restoration of archived video in, Digital Imaging for Cultural Heritage Preservation: Analysis, Restoration, and Reconstruction of Ancient Artworks, CRC Press, 2011, pp273 - 304, [Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François and Corrigan, David and Vitulano, Domenico and Bruni, Vittoria and Crawford, Andrew]
Corrigan, David and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Restoring Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Temporally Consistent Disparity Maps, Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011
Corrigan, David and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Restoration of Image Burnout in 3D-Stereoscopic Media using Inter-View Gradient Interpolation, European Signal Processing Conference (Eusipco), Barcelona, Spain., IEEE, 2011, pp1889 - 1893
Ahmed, Mohamed Abdelaziz and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Reflection Detection in Image Sequences, CVPR 2011, IEEE, 2011, pp705 - 712
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Matting with a Depth Map, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, IEEE, 2010, pp21 - 24
Corrigan, David and Pitié, François and Morris, Valerie and Rankin, Andrew and Linnane, M. and Kearney, Gavin and Gorzel, Marcin and O'Dea, M. and Lee, C. and Kokaram, Anil, A video database for the development of stereo-3d post-production algorithms, 2010 Conference on Visual Media Production, London, IEEE, 2010, pp64 - 73
Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, 'Method for matching color in images', USPTO, US 7796812 B2, 2010, Google, Inc
D. Corrigan, F. Pitié, V. Morris, A. Rankin, M. Linnane, G. Kearney, M. Gorzel, M. O'Dea, C. Lee and A. Kokaram, A Video Database for the Development of Stereo-3D PostProduction Algorithms, European Conference on Visual Media Production, London, 2010
Pitié, François, Using One Graph-Cut to Fuse Multiple Candidate Maps in Depth Estimation., 6th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, UK, IEEE, 2009, pp205 - 212
Ring, D and Pitié, François, Feature-Assisted Sparse to Dense Motion Estimation using Geodesic Distances., IEEE Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 2-4, IEEE, 2009, pp7 - 12
Ahmed, MA and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Extraction of Non-Binary Blotch Mattes., Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on, Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, IEEE, 2009, pp2757 - 2760
Action Recognition in Multimedia Streams in, editor(s)Petros Maragos, Alexandros Potamianos, Patrick Gros , Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text, Springer, 2008, pp1 - 16, [Dahyot, Rozenn and Pitié, François and Lennon, D. and Harte, Naomi and Kokaram, Anil]
Enhancement of digital photographs using color transfer techniques in, editor(s)Rastislav Lukac , Digital Image Processing (Handbook), CRC Press, 2008, [Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil]
Kelly, Damien and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil and Boland, Frank, A Comparative Error Analysis of Audio-Visual Source Localization, European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), Marsaille, October 2008, 2008
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil and Dahyot, Rozenn, Automated Colour Grading using Colour Distribution Transfer, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 107, 2007, p123 - 137
Gigonzac, G and Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, Electronic slide matching and enhancement of a lecture video, Visual Media Production, Visual Media Production, London, 27-28 Nov. 2007, IEEE, 2007, pp1 - 7
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil, The linear Monge-Kantorovitch linear colour mapping for example-based colour transfer, Visual Media Production, Visual Media Production, London, UK, 27-28 Nov. 2007, IEEE, 2007, pp1 - 9
Francois Pitie, Statistical Signal Processing Techniques for Visual Post-Production, 2006
Pitié, François and Kent, B and Collis, B and Kokaram, Anil, Localised deflicker of moving images, 3rd European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2006, IEEE, 2006, pp134 - 143
F. Pitié, A. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, N-dimensional probability density function transfer and its aplication to colour transfer, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05), Beijing, China, 17-21 Oct., 2, 2005, pp1434 - 1439
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil and Dahyot, Rozenn, Towards automated colour grading, Visual Media Production, 2nd European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 200, IEEE, 2005, pp117 - 125
Kokaram, Anil and Pitié, François and Dahyot, Rozenn and Rea, Niall and Yeterian, Sebastien, Content Controlled Image Representation for Sports Streaming, Proc. of Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Riga, Latvia, June, (ISBN: 952-15-1364-0), 2005
Pitié, François and Berrani, SA and Kokaram, Anil and Dahyot, Rozenn, Off-line multiple object tracking using candidate selection and the viterbi algorithm, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, 11-14 Sept., 3, IEEE, 2005, ppIII - 109
Pitié, François and Dahyot, Rozenn and Kelly, Frank and Kokaram, Anil, A New Robust Technique for Stabilizing Brightness Fluctuations in Image Sequences,, Statistical Methods in Video Processing (ECCV Workshop), Prague, Czech Republic, 16 May, edited by Dorin Comaniciu, Kenichi Kanatani, Rudolf Mester and David Suter , LNCS 3247, Springer, 2004, pp153 - 164
A. Crawford, H. Denman, F. Kelly, F. Pitie and A. Kokaram , Gradient Based Dominant Motion Estimation with Integral Projections, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, 2004
F. Pitié, A. C. Kokaram and R. Dahyot, Oriented Particle Spray: A New Probabilistic, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing, Dublin, 2004
Pitié, F., Dahyot, R., Kelly, F., Kokaram, A., A new robust technique for stabilizing brightness fluctuations in image sequences, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3247, 2004, p153-164
Pitié, François and Kokaram, Anil and Dahyot, Rozenn, Oriented Particle Spray: A New Probabilistic Contour Tracing with Directional Information,, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing, Dublin, Sept, 2004
Andrew Crawford, Hugh Denman, Francis Kelly, Francois Pitié and Anil Kokaram, Gradient Based Dominant Motion Estimation with Integral Projections for Real Time Video Stabilisation,, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'04), Singapore, 24-27 Oct., 5, 2004, pp3371 - 3374
Kokaram, Anil and Dahyot, Rozenn and Pitié, François and Denman, H, Simultaneous Luminance and Position Stabilization for Film and Video,, Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, California USA, Jan, 5022, 2003
Pitié, François and Dahyot, Rozenn and Kokaram, Anil, Suppression du bruit de pompage dans les vidéos,, Actes du 19ème Colloque GRETSI sur le traitement du signal et des images, Paris, France., September 2003, 2003, pp1 - 4
François Pitié, Removing Flicker from Old Movies,, 2002
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Wu, Hao and Jones, Gareth J. F. and Pitié, François, Response to livebot: Generating live video comments based on visual and textual contexts, arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03022, 2020
Forte, Marco and Pitié, François, F, B, Alpha Matting, arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07711, 2020
Wilson F, Back Pain in Rowing, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine Annual Spring Meeting, University College Dublin, April, 2017, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
Steve Woods, John Scott, Philip Connaughton, Michelle Boulé, François Pitié, Matt Porter , 'iDuet', 2015, -
PixelPuffin, 'DepthArtist', 2012, -
Sophie Merry, Francois Pitie, Anil Kokaram, Trevor Whelan, Chris Timms, 'Clockhead', 2011, -
The Foundry, 'Deflicker2, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2008, -
The Foundry, 'MatchGrade, part of the Academy Award winning software suite Furnace', 2007, -
GreenParrotPictures, 'FilmFix', 2004, -
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Advanced Video Debanding
- Summary
- Improving the quality of online videos is a key challenge for video streaming companies. We considered in this project the issue of banding, which is a quantisation artefact that affects most videos and does not go away by simply increasing the allowed bandwidth. We built on our experience in developing tools for the movie-postproduction industry to produce a solution that targets the whole range of videos, from low-bandwidth to high quality movies.
- Funding Agency
- Date From
- 2013
- Date To
- 2013
- Title
- 3DScam
- Summary
- Producing stereoscopic 3D content for TV's and cinema turns out to be be a very expensive task. In the case of animated movies, a 3D stereo version can in theory be simply created by rendering the 3D object data from the two views for left and right eye. This however consumes a huge amount of rendering time, has a massive impact on the traditional production pipeline and thus result in an dramatically increased production cost. It was proposed in 3DSCAM to create a technology suite that allows digital artists to have full artistic control over the creation of a stereoscopic scene in its final version, while not requiring any change to the production pipeline. Technology issued from this project has been licensed to PixelPuffin (www.pixelpuffin.com).
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 2011
- Date To
- 2013
Recognition
Awards and Honours
University Excellence in Teaching Award (TCD)
Inspired Educator Award (TCD)
Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD)
Nominated for the Industry Engagement category at the 2020 Trinity Innovation Awards
'Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year' award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2018
ADAPT Industry Impact Award
Best Paper Award Runner Up at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo