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Samuel Fernández Menduiña

PhD Student at University of Southern California. MSc Signal Processing, Imperial College London.

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    2026

  1. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Amir Ziashahabi, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, and Salman Avestimehr, Spend Bits Where Queries Look: KV Cache Vector Quantization with Attention-Preserving Transforms, arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04074, 2026.

    @article{fernandez2026spend,
      title={Spend Bits Where Queries Look: KV Cache Vector Quantization with Attention-Preserving Transforms},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Ziashahabi, Amir and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Avestimehr, Salman},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04074},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  2. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Image Coding for Machines via Feature-Preserving Rate-Distortion Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026.

    @article{fernandez2026image,
      title={Image Coding for Machines via Feature-Preserving Rate-Distortion Optimization},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      journal={IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
      publisher={IEEE},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  3. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, L2G-Net: Local to Global Spectral Graph Neural Networks via Cauchy Factorizations, Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
    Spotlight

    @inproceedings{fernandez2026l2g,
      title={L2G-Net: Local to Global Spectral Graph Neural Networks via Cauchy Factorizations},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  4. Darukeesan Pakiyarajah, Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, and Debargha Mukherjee, FaSST: Fast Sparsifying Secondary Transform, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2026.
    Best Industry Paper Award

    @inproceedings{pakiyarajah2026fasst,
      title={FaSST: Fast Sparsifying Secondary Transform},
      author={Pakiyarajah, Darukeesan and Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Mukherjee, Debargha},
      booktitle={2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      organization={IEEE},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  5. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Hyomin Choi, Fabien Racapé, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Wrapper-Aware Rate-Distortion Optimization in Feature Coding for Machines, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 12492-12496, 2026.

    @inproceedings{fernandez2026wrapper,
      title={Wrapper-Aware Rate-Distortion Optimization in Feature Coding for Machines},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Choi, Hyomin and Racap{\'e}, Fabien and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      booktitle={ICASSP 2026-2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      pages={12492--12496},
      organization={IEEE},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  6. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Rate-Distortion Optimization for Full-Reference Image Quality Metrics via Stochastic Hessian Estimates, arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.30077, 2026.

    @article{fernandez2026rate,
      title={Rate-Distortion Optimization for Full-Reference Image Quality Metrics via Stochastic Hessian Estimates},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.30077},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  7. Xin Xiong, Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Neil Birkbeck, and Balu Adsumilli, Rate-Distortion Optimization for Ensembles of Non-Reference Metrics, arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15779, 2026.

    @article{xiong2026rate,
      title={Rate-Distortion Optimization for Ensembles of Non-Reference Metrics},
      author={Xiong, Xin and Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Birkbeck, Neil and Adsumilli, Balu},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15779},
      year={2026}
    }
        
  8. 2025

  9. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Tsung-Wei Huang, Thuong Nguyen Canh, Guan-Ming Su, and Peng Yin, INT-DTT+: Low-Complexity Data-Dependent Transforms for Video Coding, 2025 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), pp. 1-5, 2025.
    Best Paper Award (3rd position)

    @inproceedings{fernandez2025int,
      title={INT-DTT+: Low-Complexity Data-Dependent Transforms for Video Coding},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Huang, Tsung-Wei and Nguyen Canh, Thuong and Su, Guan-Ming and Yin, Peng},
      booktitle={2025 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)},
      pages={1--5},
      organization={IEEE},
      year={2025}
    }
        
  10. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Xin Xiong, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Neil Birkbeck, and Balu Adsumilli, Rate-Distortion Optimization with Non-Reference Metrics for UGC Compression, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2372-2377, 2025.

    @inproceedings{fernandez2025rate,
      title={Rate-Distortion Optimization with Non-Reference Metrics for UGC Compression},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Xiong, Xin and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Birkbeck, Neil and Adsumilli, Balu},
      booktitle={2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      pages={2372--2377},
      organization={IEEE},
      year={2025}
    }
        
  11. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Fast DCT+: A Family of Fast Transforms Based on Rank-One Updates of the Path Graph, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5, 2025.

    @inproceedings{menduina2025fast,
      title={Fast DCT+: A Family of Fast Transforms Based on Rank-One Updates of the Path Graph},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      booktitle={ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      pages={1--5},
      organization={IEEE},
      year={2025}
    }
        
  12. Xin Xiong, Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Neil Birkbeck, and Balu Adsumilli, Avoiding Quality Saturation in UGC Compression Using Denoised References, arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16876, 2025.

    @article{xiong2025avoiding,
      title={Avoiding Quality Saturation in UGC Compression Using Denoised References},
      author={Xiong, Xin and Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio and Birkbeck, Neil and Adsumilli, Balu},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16876},
      year={2025}
    }
        
  13. 2024

  14. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Joshua Rapp, Hassan Mansour, Marcus Greiff, and Kieran Parsons, Tracking Beyond the Unambiguous Range with Modulo Single-Photon Lidar, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6-10, 2024.

    @inproceedings{fernandez2024tracking,
      title={Tracking Beyond the Unambiguous Range with Modulo Single-Photon Lidar},
      author={Fernandez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan and Greiff, Marcus and Parsons, Kieran},
      booktitle={ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      pages={6--10},
      year={2024},
      organization={IEEE}
    }
        
  15. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Feature-Preserving Rate-Distortion Optimization in Image Coding for Machines, 2024 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pp. 1-6, 2024.
    Best Paper Award

    @inproceedings{fernandez2024feature,
      title={Feature-Preserving Rate-Distortion Optimization in Image Coding for Machines},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      booktitle={2024 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)},
      pages={1--6},
      year={2024},
      organization={IEEE}
    }
        
  16. 2023

  17. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Fernando Pérez-González, and Miguel Masciopinto, Source camera attribution via PRNU emphasis: Towards a generalized multiplicative model, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 114, 116944, 2023.

      @article{fernandez2023source,
        title={Source camera attribution via PRNU emphasis: Towards a generalized multiplicative model},
        author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando and Masciopinto, Miguel},
        journal={Signal Processing: Image Communication},
        volume={114},
        pages={116944},
        year={2023},
        publisher={Elsevier}
      }
          
  18. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Eduardo Pavez, and Antonio Ortega, Image Coding Via Perceptually Inspired Graph Learning, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2495-2499, 2023.

    @inproceedings{fernandez2023image,
      title={Image Coding Via Perceptually Inspired Graph Learning},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Pavez, Eduardo and Ortega, Antonio},
      booktitle={2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      pages={2495--2499},
      year={2023},
      organization={IEEE}
    }
        
  19. 2022

  20. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Felix Krahmer, Geert Leus, and Ayush Bhandari, Computational array signal processing via modulo non-linearities, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 2168-2179, 2022.

    @article{fernandez2022computational,
      title={Computational array signal processing via modulo non-linearities},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Krahmer, Felix and Leus, Geert and Bhandari, Ayush},
      journal={IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing},
      volume={70},
      pages={2168--2179},
      year={2022},
      publisher={IEEE}
    }
        
  21. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Fernando Pérez-González, and Miguel Masciopinto, PRNU Emphasis: a Generalization of the Multiplicative Model, arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12357, 2022.

    @article{fernandez2022prnu,
      title={PRNU Emphasis: a Generalization of the Multiplicative Model},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando and Masciopinto, Miguel},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12357},
      year={2022}
    }
        
  22. 2021

  23. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña and Fernando Pérez-González, On the information leakage quantification of camera fingerprint estimates, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, vol. 2021, no. 1, pp. 6, 2021.

    @article{fernandez2021information,
      title={On the information leakage quantification of camera fingerprint estimates},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando},
      journal={EURASIP Journal on Information Security},
      volume={2021},
      number={1},
      pages={6},
      year={2021},
      publisher={Springer International Publishing Cham}
    }
        
  24. 2020

  25. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña and Fernando Pérez-González, On the Information Leakage of Camera Fingerprint Estimates, arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11162, 2020.

    @article{fernandez2020information,
      title={On the Information Leakage of Camera Fingerprint Estimates},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.11162},
      year={2020}
    }
        
  26. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña and Fernando Pérez-González, Temporal Localization of Non-Static Digital Videos Using the Electrical Network Frequency, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 27, pp. 745-749, 2020.

    @article{fernandez2020temporal,
      title={Temporal Localization of Non-Static Digital Videos Using the Electrical Network Frequency},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando},
      journal={IEEE Signal Processing Letters},
      year={2020},
      publisher={IEEE}
    }
        
  27. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Felix Krahmer, Geert Leus, and Ayush Bhandari, DoA estimation via unlimited sensing, 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1866-1870, 2020.

    @inproceedings{fernandez2020doa,
      title={DoA estimation via unlimited sensing},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Krahmer, Felix and Leus, Geert and Bhandari, Ayush},
      booktitle={2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
      pages={1866--1870},
      year={2020},
      organization={IEEE}
    }
        
  28. Fernando Pérez-González and Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, PRNU-leaks: facts and remedies, 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 720-724, 2020.

    @inproceedings{perez2020prnu,
      title={PRNU-leaks: facts and remedies},
      author={P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando and Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel},
      booktitle={2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
      pages={720--724},
      year={2020},
      organization={IEEE}
    }
        
  29. Patents

  30. Joshua Rapp, Samuel Fernández-Menduiña, Hassan Mansour, Marcus Greiff, Petros Boufounos, and Kieran Parsons, Systems and Methods for Tracking Objects beyond the Unambiguous Range, US Patent App. 18/602,560, 2025.

    @misc{rapp2025systems,
      title={Systems and Methods for Tracking Objects beyond the Unambiguous Range},
      author={Rapp, Joshua and Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and Mansour, Hassan and Greiff, Marcus and Boufounos, Petros and Parsons, Kieran},
      note={US Patent App. 18/602,560},
      year={2025}
    }
        
  31. Datasets

  32. Samuel Fernández-Menduiña and Fernando Pérez-González, ENF Moving Video Database, 2020.

    @misc{fernandez2020enf,
      title={ENF Moving Video Database},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez-Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel and P{\'e}rez-Gonz{\'a}lez, Fernando},
      year={2020},
      publisher={Zenodo},
      doi={10.5281/zenodo.3549379}
    }
        
  33. Theses

  34. Samuel Fernández Menduiña, Extracción de la frecuencia de la red eléctrica en vídeos digitales con propósitos forenses, BSc Thesis, Universidade de Vigo, 2019.

    @phdthesis{fernandez2019extraccion,
      title={Extracci{\'o}n de la frecuencia de la red el{\'e}ctrica en v{\'\i}deos digitales con prop{\'o}sitos forenses},
      author={Fern{\'a}ndez Mendui{\~n}a, Samuel},
      year={2019},
      school={Universidade de Vigo}
    }