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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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Prof. Andrea Alù is a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists 

June 1, 2016
Prof. Andrea Alù, Associate Professor at Texas ECE is one of the finalists for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. He along with 31 national finalists will be competing for three spots as the 2016 National Laureates. Prof. Alù has been nominated under the Physical Sciences and Engineering category of the award. The other two disciplines include Life Sciences and Chemistry.