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Reuben A. Farrugia is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta and has been working in the fields of image processing and pattern recognition since 2004 with specific focus on image/video compression, image restoration, light fields and biometrics. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Malta and published more than 70 international peer-reviewed publications and has been involved in technical and organizational committees of several national and international conferences. From September 2015 till August 2016 he spent his sabbatical at INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (France) where he joined the SCIROCCO team to work on face super-resolution and light field image processing. In particular, he served as a General Chair on the IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) in 2014 and as Technical Programme Co-Chair on the IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) the same year. He has also been contributing as a reviewer of several journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is currently area editor of the Elsevier Journal on Signal Processing: Image Communications. On September 2013 he was appointed as National Contact Point on the European Association of Biometrics (EAB) and elevated to IEEE Senior Membership on September 2017. He has also been involved in three COST Actions: Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age (IC1106), De-Identification for Privacy Protection in Multimedia Content (IC1206) and European Network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and Services (IC1003).

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Employment (3)

University of Malta: Msida, Choose State/Province, MT

2019-03-07 to present | Associate Professor (Communications and Computer Engineering)
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University of Malta: Msida, Malta Majjistral, MT

2014-09-23 to 2019-03-07 | Senior Lecturer (Communications and Computer Engineering)
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University of Malta: Msida, Malta Majjistral, MT

2009-09-23 to 2014-09-23 | Lecturer (Communications and Computer Engineering)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Malta: Msida, Malta Majjistral, MT

2004-09-01 to 2009-09-23 | PhD (Communications and Computer Engineering)
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University of Malta: Msida, MT

2000-10-01 to 2004-07-01 | B. Eng (Hons) (Communications and Computer Engineering)
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Professional activities (1)

IEEE: New York, NY, US

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Funding (9)

BIOBLU (BIOremediation for coastal debris in BLUE Flag beach and in a Maritime Protected Area)

2021-01 to 2023-12 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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WAter Resource Management platform using Earth Observation (WARM-EO)

2020-10 to 2022-06 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Birgu, MT)
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Coastal SAGE

2020-09 to 2022-06 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Birgu, MT)
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ViideO Light field Acquisition and REstoration

2020-04 to 2022-04 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Birgu, MT)
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R&I_2018_021V

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SAtellite TraIning and NETworking (SATINET)

2019-09 to 2020-09 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Kalkara, MT)
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Automated Segmentation of Microtomography Imaging (ASEMI)

2019-05 to 2020-05 | Grant
ATTRACT project funded by the EC under Grant Agreement 777222 (NA, EU, KG)
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Face Image Restoration using Deep-Learning (Deep-FIR)

2018-07 to 2021-07 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Birgu, MT)
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R&I-2017-002T

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SATellite data Fusion and Imaging Resolution Enhancement for coastal areas

2018-07 to 2020-07 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Kalkara, MT)
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Face Image Restoration using Deep-Learning (Deep-FIR)

2017-02 to 2018-01 | Grant
Malta Council for Science and Technology (Birgu, MT)
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R&I-2017-002V

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Multitemporal and Multispectral Data Fusion for Super-Resolution of Sentinel-2 Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Tomasz Tarasiewicz; Jakub Nalepa; Reuben A. Farrugia; Gianluca Valentino; Mang Chen; Johann A. Briffa; Michal Kawulok
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Optically Enhanced Super-Resolution of Sea Surface Temperature Using Deep Learning

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: David T. Lloyd; Aaron Abela; Reuben A. Farrugia; Anthony Galea; Gianluca Valentino
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The Best of Both Worlds: A Framework for Combining Degradation Prediction with High Performance Super-Resolution Networks

Sensors
2022-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew Aquilina; Keith George Ciantar; Christian Galea; Kenneth P. Camilleri; Reuben A. Farrugia; John Abela
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Improving Super-Resolution Performance Using Meta-Attention Layers

IEEE Signal Processing Letters
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthew Aquilina; Christian Galea; John Abela; Kenneth P. Camilleri; Reuben A. Farrugia
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A simple framework to leverage state-of-the-art single-image super-resolution methods to restore light fields

Signal Processing: Image Communication
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073192458

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09235965

Contributors: Farrugia, R.A.; Guillemot, C.
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Efficient destriping of remote sensing images using an oriented super-Gaussian filter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85093941749

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1996756X 0277786X

Contributors: Lloyd, D.T.; Bouali, M.; Abela, A.; Farrugia, R.; Valentino, G.
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Light Field Super-Resolution Using a Low-Rank Prior and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85082995618

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19393539 01628828

Contributors: Farrugia, R.A.; Guillemot, C.
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Private body part detection using deep learning

ICPRAM 2020 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85082993189

Contributors: Tabone, A.; Bonnici, A.; Cristina, S.; Farrugia, R.; Camilleri, K.
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A Survey of Super-Resolution in Iris Biometrics with Evaluation of Dictionary-Learning

IEEE Access
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85059007584

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21693536

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Bigun, J.; Fierrez, J.; Gonzalez-Sosa, E.
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Face2Text: Collecting an annotated image description corpus for the generation of rich face descriptions

LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85059901396

Contributors: Gatt, A.; Tanti, M.; Muscat, A.; Paggio, P.; Farrugia, R.A.; Borg, C.; Camilleri, K.P.; Rosner, M.; Van Der Plas, L.
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Super-resolution for selfie biometrics: Introduction and application to face and iris

Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
2019 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85073171533

Part of ISBN:

21916594 21916586

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Fierrez, J.; Bigun, J.
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Learning-based local-patch resolution reconstruction of iris smart-phone images

IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, IJCB 2017
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85046260527

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Bigun, J.
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Matching Software-Generated Sketches to Face Photographs With a Very Deep CNN, Morphed Faces, and Transfer Learning

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
2018-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Christian Galea; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Exploring deep learning image super-resolution for iris recognition

25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85041479673

Contributors: Ribeiro, E.; Uhl, A.; Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.
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Forensic Face Photo-Sketch Recognition Using a Deep Learning-Based Architecture

IEEE Signal Processing Letters
2017 | Journal article
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Improving Very Low-Resolution Iris Identification via Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Local Patches

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85034572701

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16175468

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Bigun, J.
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Iris Super-Resolution Using Iterative Neighbor Embedding

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85030244663

Part of ISBN:

21607516 21607508

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Bigun, J.
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Light Field Compression With Homography-Based Low-Rank Approximation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
2017 | Journal article
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Model and Dictionary Guided Face Inpainting in the Wild

Computer Vision – ACCV 2016 Workshops
2017 | Other
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Christine Guillemot
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Using thumbnail affinity for fragmentation point detection of JPEG files

17th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies, EUROCON 2017 - Conference Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85029393542

Contributors: Birmingham, B.; Farrugia, R.A.; Vella, M.
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Super Resolution of Light Field Images using Linear Subspace Projection of Patch-Volumes

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
2017-10 | Journal article
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Face Hallucination Using Linear Models of Coupled Sparse Support

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Christine Guillemot
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Homography-based low rank approximation of light fields for compression

2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2017-03 | Conference paper
Contributors: Xiaoran Jiang; Mikael Le Pendu; Reuben A. Farrugia; Sheila S. Hemami; Christine Guillemot
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Runtime verification for stream processing applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2016 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84994026535

Part of ISBN:

16113349 03029743

Contributors: Colombo, C.; Pace, G.J.; Camilleri, L.; Dimech, C.; Farrugia, R.; Grech, J.P.; Magro, A.; Sammut, A.C.; Adami, K.Z.
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Very low-resolution iris recognition via Eigen-patch super-resolution and matcher fusion

2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems, BTAS 2016
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85011263943

Contributors: Alonso-Fernandez, F.; Farrugia, R.A.; Bigun, J.
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A Large-Scale Software-Generated Face Composite Sketch Database

2016 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG)
2016-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Christian Galea; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Robust face hallucination using quantization-adaptive dictionaries

2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2016-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Christine Guillemot
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Face photo-sketch recognition using local and global texture descriptors

2016 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2016-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Christian Galea; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Fusion of Intra- and Inter-modality Algorithms for Face-Sketch Recognition

Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns
2015 | Other
Contributors: Christian Galea; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Reconstruction of smartphone images for low resolution iris recognition

2015 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
2015-11 | Conference paper
Contributors: Fernando Alonso-Fernandez; Reuben A. Farrugia; Josef Bigun
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A no-reference video quality metric using a Natural Video Statistical Model

IEEE EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON)
2015-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Christian Galea; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Eigen-patch iris super-resolution for iris recognition improvement

2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2015-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Fernando Alonso-Fernandez; Reuben A. Farrugia; Josef Bigun
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Correlation noise-based unequal error protected rate-adaptive codes for distributed video coding

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84892577467

Part of ISBN:

10518215

Contributors: Micallef, J.J.; Farrugia, R.A.; Debono, C.J.
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Depth coding using depth discontinuity prediction and in-loop boundary reconstruction filtering

2014 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference
2014 | Conference paper
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Maverick Hili
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Reducing 3D video coding complexity through more efficient disparity estimation

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
2014 | Journal article
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Reversible De-Identification for lossless image compression using Reversible Watermarking

2014 37th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)
2014-05 | Conference paper
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Improving decoding speed for parallel Distributed Video Coding architectures

European Signal Processing Conference
2013 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84901328213

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22195491

Contributors: Micallef, J.J.; Farrugia, R.A.; Debono, C.J.
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Multimedia Networking and Coding

2013 | Book
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Carl J Debono
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Adaptive rounding operator for efficient Wyner-Ziv video coding

2013 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2013-11 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jeffrey J. Micallef; Reuben A. Farrugia; Carl J. Debono
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Modified distribution of correlation noise for improved Wyner-Ziv video coding performance

2013 IEEE 15th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
2013-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jeffrey J. Micallef; Reuben A. Farrugia; Carl J. Debono
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Exploiting color-depth image correlation to improve depth map compression

Eurocon 2013
2013-07 | Conference paper
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Isabel Gambin
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Objective video quality metrics for HDTV services: A survey

Eurocon 2013
2013-07 | Conference paper
Contributors: Reuben A. Farrugia; Chris Galea; Saviour Zammit; Adrian Muscat
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Selective reconstruction of low motion regions in distributed video coding

Eurocon 2013
2013-07 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jeffrey J. Micallef; Reuben A. Farrugia; Carl J. Debono
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Low complexity disparity estimation for immersive 3D video transmission

2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
2013-06 | Conference paper
Contributors: Brian W. Micallef; Carl J. Debono; Reuben A. Farrugia
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Efficient depth image compression using accurate depth discontinuity detection and prediction

8th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems, SITIS 2012r
2012 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84874062543

Contributors: Farrugia, R.A.
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Efficient multiview depth representation based on image segmentation

2012 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2012, Proceedings
2012 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84864057461

Contributors: De Raffaele, C.; Camilleri, K.P.; Debono, C.J.; Farrugia, R.A.
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Fast inter-mode decision in multi-view video plus depth coding

2012 Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2012, Proceedings
2012 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84864060905

Contributors: Micallef, B.W.; Debono, C.J.; Farrugia, R.A.
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Improved depth maps coding efficiency of 3D videos

European Signal Processing Conference
2012 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84869850473

Part of ISBN:

22195491

Contributors: Micallef, B.W.; Debono, C.J.; Farrugia, R.A.
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Preface

Multimedia Networking and Coding
2012 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84898220838

Contributors: Farrugia, R.A.; Debono, C.J.
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Reducing correlation noise in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding

European Signal Processing Conference
2012 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84869832340

Part of ISBN:

22195491

Contributors: Micallef, J.J.; Farrugia, R.A.; Debono, C.J.
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