Abhinau Kumar

Guy trying to do things.

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Firstly, FUNQUE outperforms the prediction performance of VMAF by almost 10% (0.8 -> 0.87). That itself is nice, but the crazy thing is that we get this improvement using less than 1/8th of the compute! Check it out if you're interested and I'll be happy to discuss! 3/3

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

New preprint out at https://t.co/VesPar5Cdi! The streaming industry standard for quality assessment is VMAF, which "fuses" the outputs of smaller/simpler quality models. While VMAF predicts quality well, it's expensive to calculate all these heterogeneous quality models. 1/3

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

I say "heterogeneous" to mean that each quality model/feature is computed separately, in part because they each use somewhat different transforms/computations. We solve this problem by developing FUNQUE (pronounced "funky"), which "unifies" quality models before fusion. 2/3

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@tanyarajhans7 Thanks for sharing! It's always nice to see people make coding accessible to others :) Small suggestion - because we only care about the size of the stack, we can maintain a counter denoting the size and add/sub 1 for every "imaginary" push/pop. This lets us solve in O(1) space!

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@__asvin__ Sounds like you're playing blitz chess against Instagram xD

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@__asvin__ You should try fitting some distributions to these histograms. They seem to have pretty regular shapes, and your sample size isn't small

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@__asvin__ @IMDb Data science 💯

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Mini 🧵3/3
If you don't have a compatible phone, please consider spreading the word. I'm looking to collect videos over the next 1-2 weeks and the success of this project relies on submissions like yours. Please feel free to reply to this tweet or DM me if you have any questions!

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Mini 🧵1/3
Hey everyone! As part of my PhD, I am conducting research on HDR videos, and I need your help in creating a database of videos! The goal is to use this database in the future to develop models that understand how people perceive processed HDR videos.

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Mini 🧵2/3
If you have an iPhone 12/13 or Samsung S10/S10+, please consider submitting any number of videos. Even one makes a difference! The attached link is a detailed call for videos. Please check it out for more info. Thanks in advance!
https://t.co/0NXq1XvDJg

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

This is not a unique sentiment but man, the press conferences after the last couple of World Chess Championship games have left a sour taste in the mouth. Making two one-move blunders in a row sucks enough! Nepo deserves better..

[Texas ECE @utexasece]

Congratulations to Alan Bovik of @utexasece who has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2022 Edison Medal from @IEEEorg. https://t.co/Vnyu88diTl #WhatStartsHere #TexasEngineering #EdisonMedal

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@Spotify #stop

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@__asvin__ @chesscom 😭😭😭

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Played a "brilliant move" in a correspondence game on @chesscom, was completely winning and about to promote a pawn, and I lost because I hung mate in 1 on move 32 :(

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@ChaitB_ I'm going to add to the "pros" column xD

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Pro tip: When you forget how your hair should be cut, don't just guess. The last time I had my hair this short was probably in class 7 lol

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

@vishwak_s Way to go, Vishwak! Good luck!

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

How to get through this crisis:

[Matt Largey (real) @mattlargey]

BREAKING: ERCOT is now asking people to conserve electricity through Friday, saying there are a significant number of power plants offline and expecting possible record use for June.

[Abhinau Kumar @abhinaukumar]

Seems like the ERCOT power grid has a temperature tolerance as slim as I do in showers. Context: we were surprised to the point of collapse that the winter was cold and now we're surprised that the summer is hot.

[Matt Largey (real) @mattlargey]

BREAKING: ERCOT is now asking people to conserve electricity through Friday, saying there are a significant number of power plants offline and expecting possible record use for June.