Irene
Viola
QoE AND MULTIMEDIA
RESEARCHER
About me
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.
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
Publications
Projects
August 2019 - December 2020
My role in the project is to develop Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics and evaluation methods to qualitatively assess social VR experiences.
May 2017 - Present
Leader of Task Force 7: Immersive Media Experiences (IMEx)
March 2016 - March 2019
LIVE: Light field Image and Video coding and Evaluation
(Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research)
My focus on this project was on immersive methodologies for subjective quality assessment of light field contents, particularly under coding artifacts, and on novel compression solutions for transmission and storage of light field images.