Irene Viola
QoE AND MULTIMEDIA
RESEARCHER
I am a tenure track researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. My interests lay in multimedia compression, transmission, and quality evaluation. My research is currently focused on Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics and methodologies for immersive multimedia systems (i.e., volumetric video for XR applications).
A recorded talk about my research, given for the 75th anniversary of CWI, is available here.
News
[21/04/2023] Our paper "Evaluation of point cloud features for no-reference visual quality assessment" was accepted in QoMEX 2023!
[31/03/2023] The second edition of our workshop "Interactive eXtended Reality (IXR'23)" will be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2023 in Ottawa, Canada! [link]
[22/03/2023] Our paper "VR2Gather: A collaborative social VR system for adaptive multi-party real-time communication" was accepted in IEEE Multimedia Magazine. [link]
Work Experience
October 2020 - Today
Tenure-track researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS)
August 2019 - September 2020
Postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS)
May 2019 - July 2019
Postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG)
June 2018 - August 2018
Visiting researcher at Nagoya University
Hosted by Prof. Toshiaki Fujii
September 2015 - April 2019
Doctoral candidate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG)
Education
September 2015 - April 2019
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Thesis: Compression and visual quality assessment for light field contents
Advisor: Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi
September 2013 - October 2015
Polytechnic University of Turin/EPFL
MSc in Computer Engineering
Thesis: A dataset for image super-resolution
Advisors: Prof. Martin Vetterli, Prof. Enrico Magli
September 2010 - July 2013
Polytechnic University of Turin
BSc in Cinema and Media Engineering
Projects
October 2022 - present
TransMIXR (Horizon Europe)
The mission of TransMIXR is to introduce leading-edge technologies and experiences built around public values: to inform & entertain, to connect & inspire, to educate and empower. Its ambition is to strengthen the democratic mission and competitiveness of the European Cultural and Creative Sector with intelligent AI and XR technologies that are user-centric, transparent, trustworthy, inclusive, and accountable.
October 2022 - present
VOX (Horizon Europe)
VOX is an ambitious project whose goal will be to facilitate and exploit the convergence of two important technologies, natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Vision systems drive both AR and VR, while language understanding adds a natural way for humans to interact with the backends of XR systems, or create multi-modal XR experiences combining vision and sound.
September 2021 - present
NWO WISE
The project focuses on on designing and integrating novel algorithms to improve compression and transmission efficiency of immersive media contents through Quality of Experience (QoE) optimization.