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Prof. Al Bovik's VIF Picture Quality Measurement Tool Built as Core of Netflix's Video Quality System

Oct. 10, 2017
Texas ECE Professor Al Bovik’s neuroscience-based Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) picture quality measurement tool has been built into the core of Netflix’s quality system which controls the quality of every video streamed by Netflix to all customers world-wide. VIF is a full reference image quality assessment index that is based on natural scene statistics, and on a model of the type of image information that is extracted by the human visual system. It was developed by Prof.
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WNCG Student Spotlights 2016

April 28, 2016
It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. Here's where WNCG students and alumni are headed this summer for internships and employment: Internships: Andrew Thornburg - AT&T, Austin, TX Anum Ali - Intel, Santa Clara, CA Avradeep Bhowmik - Verizon, Palo Alto, CA Deepti Ghadiyaram - Google Research, Mountain View, CA Derya Malak - Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Ghadi Sebaali - NXP, Austin, TX Jaeseong Lee - Spirent, Frederick, MD