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Publication Metadata only Flexible luma-chroma bit allocation in learned image compression for high-fidelity sharper images(IEEE, 2022) N/A; Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Ulaş, Ökkeş Uğur; Tekalp, Ahmet Murat; Master student; Faculty Member; Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; College of Engineering; N/A; 26207High-fidelity learned image/video compression solutions are typically optimized with respect to l1 or l2 loss in RGB 444 format and evaluated by RGB PSNR. It is well-known that optimization of a fidelity criterion results in blurry images, which is typically alleviated by adding a content-based and/or adversarial loss terms. However, such conditional generative models result in loss of fidelity. In this paper, we propose a simple solution to obtain sharper images without losing fidelity based on learned flexible-rate coding using gained variational auto-encoder (gained-VAE) in the luma-chroma (YCrCb 444) domain. This allows us to implement image-adaptive luma-chroma bit allocation during inference, i.e., to increase Y PSNR at the expense of slightly lower chroma PSNR to obtain sharper images without introducing color artifacts based on the observation that Y PSNR correlates with image sharpness better than RGB PSNR. We note that the proposed inference-time image-adaptive luma-chroma bit allocation strategy can be incorporated into any VAE-based image compression model. Experimental results show that sharper images with better VMAF and Y PSNR can be obtained by optimizing models for YCrCb MSE with the proposed image-adaptive luma-chroma bit/quality allocation compared to stateof-the-art models optimizing RGB MSE at the same bpp.Publication Metadata only Simulating human single motor units using self-organizing agents(IEEE, 2012) Gürcan, Önder; Bernon, Carole; Mano, Jean-Pierre; Glize, Pierre; Dikenelli, Oğuz; Türker, Kemal Sıtkı; Faculty Member; School of Medicine; 6741Understanding functional synaptic connectivity of human central nervous system is one of the holy grails of the neuroscience. Due to the complexity of nervous system, it is common to reduce the problem to smaller networks such as motor unit pathways. In this sense, we designed and developed a simulation model that learns acting in the same way of human single motor units by using findings on human subjects. The developed model is based on self-organizing agents whose nominal and cooperative behaviors are based on the current knowledge on biological neural networks. The results show that the simulation model generates similar functionality with the observed data.