• Keng-Shih Lu, Antonio Ortega, Debargha Mukherjee, Yue Chen, “Perceptually inspired weighted MSE optimization using irregularity-aware graph Fourier transform,” Session SS-06: Novel Coding Tools for the Next Generation Video Coding Format, Tuesday, 27 October, 13:30 – 15:55
• Eduardo Pavez, Benjamin Girault, Antonio Ortega, Philip A. Chou, “Region Adaptive Graph Fourier Transform for 3D Point Clouds,” Session 3D-04: Point Cloud Processing and Compression, Wednesday, 28 October, 14:00 – 14:55
• Eduardo Peixoto , Edil Medeiros , Evaristo Ramalho, “Silhouette 4D: An Inter-Frame Lossless Geometry Coder of Dynamic Voxelized Point Clouds,” Session   3D-04: Point Cloud Processing and Compression, Wednesday, 28 October, 14:00 – 14:55.
• Sarath Shekkizhar, Antonio Ortega, “Efficient Graph Construction for Image Representation,” Session ARS-10: Graph Signal Processing for Image and Video Analysis, Tuesday, 27 October, 15:00 – 15:25
• Kaili Wang, Liqian Ma, José Oramas, Luc Van Gool, Tinne Tuytelaars, “Unpaired Image-to-Image Shape Translation Across Fashion Data,” Session SMR-02: Image & Video Representation, Tuesday, 27 October, 11:00 – 11:25.
• Songyang Zhang, Shuguang Cui, Zhi Ding, “Hypergraph-Based Image Processing,” Session SMR-02: Image & Video Representation, Tuesday, 27 October, 11:00 – 11:25.

• Paper # 2198, Silhouette 4D: An Inter-frame Lossless Geometry Coder of Dynamic Voxelized Point Clouds, Eduardo Peixoto , Edil Medeiros , Evaristo Ramalho, University of Brasília

• Paper # 2549, Efficient Graph Construction for Image Representation, Sarath Shekkizhar (student), Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California

• Paper # 2756, Region Adaptive Graph Fourier Transform for 3D Point Clouds,  Eduardo Pavez, Benjamin Girault, Antonio Ortega, Philip A. Chou, University of Southern California and Google

1st place (Certificate + $1500)

• ENHANCED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM QUARTER SAMPLING MEASUREMENTS USING AN ADAPTED VERY DEEP SUPER RESOLUTION NETWORK
  Authors: Simon Grosche; Kristian Fischer; Fabian Brand; Jürgen Seiler; André Kaup

2nd place (Certificate + $1000) :

• LOSSLESS COMPRESSION FOR VOLUMETRIC MEDICAL IMAGES USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH LOCAL SAMPLING
  Authors: O. H. Nagoor; J. Whittle; J. Deng; B. Mora; M. W. Jones

3rd place (Certificate + $500):

• ACED: ACCURATE AND EDGE-CONSISTENT MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION
  Authors: Kunal Swami; Prasanna Vishnu Bondada; Pankaj Kumar Bajpai
  

Monday 26 Oct 2020

• A STUDY OF PREDICTION METHODS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING
  Authors: Ionut Schiopu, Adrian Munteanu
  

Tuesday 27 Oct 2020

• TOWARDS VISUAL SALIENCY COMPUTATION ON 3D GRAPHICAL CONTENTS FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION
  Authors: Mona Abid, Matthieu Perreira Da Silva, Patrick Le Callet
  

Wednesday 28 Oct 2020

• CONTRASTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN NEURAL NETWORKS
  Authors: Mohit Prabhushankar, Mohit Prabhushankar, Gukyeong Kwon, Dogancan Temel, Ghassan AlRegib

Finalists

• Multi-layer Perceptron, Supervisor: Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  Students: Md Awsafur Rahman, Bishmoy Paul, Tasnim Nishat Islam, Tanvir Mahmud, Md. Jahin Alam, Muhammad Zubair Hasan, Maisoon Rahman, Md Shariar Azad, Najibul Haque Sarker, Tanvir Anjum, Barproda Halder
• Zodiac, Supervisor: Mohammad Ariful Haque, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  Students: Himaddri Roy, Shafin Bin Hamid, Munshi Sanowar Raihan, Prasun Datta, Ashiqur Rasul
• BUET Synapticans, Supervisor: Taufiq Hasan, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  Students: Uday Kamal, Partho Ghosh, Nayeeb Rashid, Ahsan Habib Akash, Md. Abrar Istiak, Swapnil Saha, Mir Sayeed Mohammad

The Winner: 

• 1st Team (Certificate and $5000):  BUET Synapticans, Supervisor: Taufiq Hasan, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• 2nd Team (Certificate and $2500):  Multi-layer Perceptron, Supervisor: Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• 3rd Team(Certificate and $1500):  Zodiac, Supervisor: Mohammad Ariful Haque, University: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Finalists

• COVID-19 Test Strip Reader, Nanyang Technological University, Supervisor: Weisi Lin, Tutor (Graduate student): Jingwen Hou
  Students: Annan Wang, Xinyu Wang, Rui Li
• Machine Learning Screening of COVID-19 Patients Based on X-ray Images for unbalanced classes, Qatar University, Supervisor: Ridha Hamila
  Students: Ilyes Mrad, Hatem Jebari, Amine Ghattasi
• Visual Analytic System For Pandemic Management During COVID-19, Nanyang Technological University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Supervisor: Alex Kot
  Students: Shan Lin, Fu Long Tan, Chen Hongyu, Kuan Yang Tang, Yingtian Tang, Nemath Ahmed

The Winners: Certificate plus $5000 (1st place), $2500 (2nd place), and $1500 (3rd place)

• 1st Place: Visual Analytic System For Pandemic Management During COVID-19, Nanyang Technological University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Supervisor: Alex Kot
  Students: Shan Lin, Fu Long Tan, Chen Hongyu, Kuan Yang Tang, Yingtian Tang, Nemath Ahmed
• 2nd Place: Machine Learning Screening of COVID-19 Patients Based on X-ray Images for unbalanced classes, Qatar University, Supervisor: Ridha Hamila
  Students: Ilyes Mrad, Hatem Jebari, Amine Ghattasi
• 3rd Place: COVID-19 Test Strip Reader, Nanyang Technological University, Supervisor: Weisi Lin, Tutor: Graduate student Jingwen Hou, Students: Annan Wang, Xinyu Wang, Rui Li

Challenge 1: Image Popularity Prediction

1st Place Team Calvities (Certificate plus $1500)

• Kai Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
• Xin Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
• Penghui Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
• Peiye Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Zhendong Mao, University of Science and Technology of China
• Bo Wu, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
• Yongdong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

2nd place: Team-imlk, Doshisha University (Certificate plus $1000)

• Hitoshi Yamazaki
• Marie Katsurai

3rd place: IIITG, IIIT Guwahati (Certificate plus $500)

• Amartya Dutta
• Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya

Challenge 2: Micro-expression Recognition

1st Place Team HfutNLPer, Hefei University of Technology (Certificate plus $1500)

• Lei Chen
• Shixin Zheng
• Xiao Sun
• Chunxiao Fan
• Meng Wang

2nd place: Team C(3,2), National Ilan University (Certificate plus $1000)

• Li-Xian Chen
• Chow Kwan Yin
• Tung Yu Wen

3rd place: Team Ylian ML’s hope, National Ilan University (Certificate plus $500)

• Kao Wei Chen
• Chong Kai Xuan
• Huang Shi Zong

Challenge 3: Real-time Distortion Classification in Laparoscopic Videos

1st place: Team Deep Heros, Multimedia University, Malaysia (Certificate plus $1500)

• Nouar AlDahoul
• Mhd Adel Momou

2nd place: Team LION, National Institute of Telecommunications and ICT, Oran, Algeria (Certificate plus $1000)

• Dounia Hammou
• Sid Ahmed Fezza

3rd place: Team INSA-INTTIC (Certificate plus $500)

• Zoubida Ameur, Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, France
• Sid Ahmed Fezza, National Institute of Telecommunications and ICT, Oran, Algeria
• Wassim Hamidouche, Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, France
• Olivier Deforges, Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, France

Finalists

• Transfer Learning For Videos: From Action Recognition to Sign Language Recognition, Noha Sarhan
• Complexity Reduction and Control Techniques for Power-Constraint Video Coding, Farhad Pakdaman 
• Reading Beyond Faces, Muzammil Behzad 
• Robust Artificial Intelligence Methods For 3d MRI Resolution Enhancement and Noise Removal, Karl Thurnhofer

The Winner: (Certificate plus $1000)

• “Reading Beyond Faces,” Muzammil Behzad , University of Oulu, Finland