Zhou Wang, PhD, PEng, FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE Canada Research Chair, Professor Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Office: E5-5113 Phone: (519)888-4567 ext. 35301 Fax: (519)746-3077 Email: zhou.wang@uwaterloo.ca Mailing Address: Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Waterloo 200 University Ave. W. Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

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Research Interests

Multimedia quality-of-experience

Image/video/multimedia signal processing, coding, communication and quality assessment

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Computational vision

3D, AR, VR and immersive multimedia signal processing

Biomedical signal and image processing

Online Demos and Downloads

Group Maximum differentiation (gMAD) competition for model comparison

Blind end-to-end video quality assessment

Deep bilinear pooling for blind image quality assessment

QoE database for adaptive streaming

Unified blind quality assessment for natural, graphic and screen content images

Waterloo Exploration Database for image quality assessment

QoE for adaptive streaming: exploring the space of adaptations

Waterloo IVC 3D video quality database

Waterloo IVC 3D depth quality database

Waterloo IVC 3D image quality database

QoE index for streaming video

Interpolated image quality assessment

SSIMplus index for video quality-of-experience assessment

SSIM image quality index

Information content weighted SSIM index (IW-SSIM)

Universal image quality index

Image sharpness assessment based on local phase coherence

TMQI: tone mapped image quality index

Video denoising Based on Spatiotemporal GSM

No-reference JPEG image quality index

Reduced-reference image quality assessment

Quality-aware images

Maximum differentiation (MAD) competition

Foveated scalable image coding

Human vision foveation model

Improved JPEG2000 ROI coding