Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VII
20-25 January 2002, San Jose, California, USA

Conference 4662
Conv. Ctr. Room J3
Monday-Thursday 21-24 January 2002
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #4662


Conference Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Program Committee: Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Mostafa Analoui, Indiana Univ.; Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.; Michael H. Brill, Sarnoff Corp.; John C. Dalton, Synthetik; Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America; Gunilla A. Derefeldt, FOA (Sweden); Huib de Ridder, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); Miguel P. Eckstein, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr.; Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co.; Jennifer Gille, Raytheon ITSS; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands); John J. McCann, McCann Imaging; Adar Pelah, Univ. of Cambridge (UK); Heidi A. Peterson, Sarnoff Corp.; Ann M. Rohaly, Tektronix, Inc.; Robert J. Safranek, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.; Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

Monday 21 January

SESSION 1

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon.10:30 am

Keynote Session I

10:30 am: Perceptual model for texture analysis and synthesis (Keynote Address), Eero P. Simoncelli, New York Univ. [4662-01]

11:10 am: Illumination frameworks in the brain (Keynote Address), Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers Univ. [4662-02]

11:50 am: fMRI and a new view of high-level vision (Keynote Address), Joy Hirsch, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. [4662-63]

Lunch Break 12:30 to 1:50 pm

SESSION 2

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 1:50 pm

Keynote Session II

1:50 pm: Using adaptation experiments to uncover higher level features in perception (Keynote Address), Michael A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/Reno [4662-03]

2:30 pm: Identifying perceptually significant features for image recognition (Keynote Address), Pawan Sinha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [4662-04]

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 3

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 3:30 pm

Eye Movements and Scene Analysis

3:30 pm: Looking in the real world (Invited Paper), J. B. Pelz, R. L. Canosa, E. Klappenberger, Rochester Institute of Technology [4662-05]

4:10 pm: Effects of image rotation on eye movement pattern, D. A. Chernyak, VISX Corp.; M. Azzariti, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [4662-06]

4:30 pm: How people look at pictures before, during, and after image capture: Buswell revisited, J. S. Babcock, M. Lipps, J. B. Pelz, Rochester Institute of Technology [4662-07]

4:50 pm: Shape perception in pictures: eye movements during local surface attitude probing, A. J. van Doorn, T. Boersema, H. de Ridder, K. Jorens, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands) [4662-08]

5:10 pm: Gaze-contingent real-time simulation of arbitrary visual fields, W. S. Geisler, Univ. of Texas/Austin [4662-09]

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Hilton Hotel: Almaden Ballroom · Monday 21 January · 7:30 to 10:30 pm

Guest Speaker:
Michael D'Zmura, Univ. of California/Irvine
Perspectives on Vision and Graphics

Dinner will start at 7:30 pm.

Tuesday 22 January

Plenary Speaker

Conv. Ctr. Room J2 Tues. 8:30 to 9:15 am

Electronic Imaging and the Space Shuttle

Stephen Robinson, Astronaut, NASA

SESSION 4

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Tues. 9:30 am

Quantitative Models of Human Vision for Coding and Quality I

9:30 am: A few practical applications that require some of the more advanced features of current visual models, S. J. Daly, X. Feng, J. M. Speigle, Sharp Labs. of America [4662-10]

9:50 am: Approaching a unified model of pattern detection and brightness perception, J. Yang, Eastman Kodak Co. [4662-11]

10:10 am: Functional roles of center-surround interactions in visual image processing, J. Xing, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [4662-12]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Additivity models for suprathreshold distortion in quantized wavelet-coded images, S. S. Hemami, D. M. Chandler, Cornell Univ. [4662-13]

11:20 am: Perceived overall contrast for natural images, E. A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co. [4662-14]

11:40 am: Image quality assessment by expert and non-expert viewers, I. E. Heynderickx, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands); S. Bech, Bang & Olufsen Ltd. (Denmark) [4662-15]

Lunch/Exhibition Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 5

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Tues. 1:30 pm

Quantitative Models of Human Vision for Coding and Quality II

1:30 pm: Extending the modefest image/threshold databased into the spatio-temporal domain, T. Carney, Neurometrics Institute; S. A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; B. Beutter, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; A. M. Norcia, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; C. C. Chen, Neurometrics Institute; C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [4662-16]

1:50 pm: Perceptually tuned rate scalable wavelet-based video compression, M. Wei, Univ. of North Texas [4662-17]

2:10 pm: Quality of video affected by packet loss distortion compared to the predictions of a spatio-temporal model, K. E. Brunnstroem, B. N. Schenkman, Acreo AB (Sweden) [4662-18]

2:30 pm: Toward a standard observer for spatio-chromatic detection, S. Wuerger, Keele Univ. (UK); A. B. Watson, A. J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr. [4662-19]

2:50 pm: Perceptual color image quality metric using adequate error pooling for coding scheme evaluation, P. Le Callet, D. Barba, Univ. de Nantes (France) [4662-20]

3:10 pm: Visual perception studies to improve the perceived sharpness of television images, W. E. Glenn, Florida Atlantic Univ. [4662-52]

Coffee Break 3:30 to 4:00 pm

SESSION 11

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Tues. 4:00 pm

Demonstrations and Posters

Chair: Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.

Demonstrations

Various demonstrations will be presented during the poster session.

Discussion Session 5:30 to 6:30 pm

Wednesday 23 January

Plenary Speaker

Conv. Ctr. Room J2 Wed. 8:30 to 9:15 am

Color Computations in the Brain

Semir Zeki, Wellcome Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, Univ. College London (UK)

SESSION 9

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Wed. 9:30 am

Retinex at 40

Chair: John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

9:30 am: Visual cortex and the Retinex algorithm, J. Cowan, Univ. of Chicago [4662-35]

9:50 am: Contribution of local and global cone-contrasts to color appearance: a Retinex-like model, A. C. Hurlbert, C. J. L. Wolf, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) [4662-36]

10:10 am: Experimental studies of instantaneous color constancy: dynamic color matching under rapid changes of illuminant, J. Barbur, City Univ. (UK) [4662-37]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Conditions for perceptual transparency, S. Westland, Univ. of Derby (UK); O. Da Pos, Univ. degli Studi di Padova (Italy); C. Ripamonti, Univ. of Derby (UK) [4662-38]

11:20 am: Demonstration of red/white projections and rod-cone color, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [4662-39]

11:40 am: Capturing a black cat in shade: the past and present of Retinex color appearance models, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [4662-40]

Lunch/Exhibition Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 10

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Wed. 1:30 pm

Retinex at 40

Chair: John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

1:30 pm: Improving the Retinex algorithm for rendering wide dynamic range photographs, R. Sobol, Hewlett-Packard Co. [4662-41]

1:50 pm: Modifications to Retinex to relax RESET nonlinearity and implement segmentation constraints, T. J. Cooper, Sony Electronics Inc. [4662-42]

2:10 pm: Tuning Retinex parameters, B. V. Funt, F. Ciurea, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada); J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [4662-43]

2:30 pm: Color correction between gray world and white patch, A. Rizzi, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy); C. Gatta, Univ. degli Studi di Brescia (Italy) [4662-44]

2:50 pm: Post-filtering for color appearance in synthetic images tone reproduction, D. Marini, A. Rizzi, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy); M. Rossi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) [4662-45]

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Simple spatial processing for color mappings, R. Eschbach, R. Bala, R. L. de Queiroz, Xerox Corp. [4662-46]

4:00 pm: Retinex processing for automatic image enhancement, Z. Rahman, College of William and Mary; D. J. Jobson, G. A. Woodell, NASA Langley Research Ctr. [4662-47]

4:20 pm: Perceived image quality basis for image enhancement techniques, R. Shaw, Hewlett-Packard Labs. [4662-48]

4:40 pm: Variational famework for Retinex, R. Kimmel, M. Elad, D. Shaked, R. Keshet, I. E. Sobel, Hewlett-Packard Labs. [4662-49]

5:00 pm: Analysis and generalization of Retinex by recasting the algorithm in wavelets, H. K. Rising III, Sony Electronics Inc. [4662-50]

5:20 pm: Retinex processing from the fMRI study on V4, Y. G. Ichihara, Hosen-Gakuen College (Japan); S. Nakadomari, Kanagawa Rehabilitation Hospital and Jikei Univ. School of Medicine (Japan); H. Takeuchi, Kanagawa Rehabilitation Hospital (Japan); S. Miyauchi, Communications Research Lab. (Japan); K. Kitahara, Jikei Univ. School of Medicine (Japan) [4662-51]

Discussion Session 5:40 to 6:40 pm

Thursday 24 January

Plenary Speaker

Conv. Ctr. Room J2 Thurs. 8:30 to 9:15 am

20,000 Bytes Under the Sea

Emory K. Kristof, Special Projects Photographer, National Geographic Society

SESSION 6

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 10:30 am

Perception, Visualization, and Graphics I

10:30 am: Using animation quality metric to improve efficiency of global illumination computation for dynamic environments, K. Myszkowski, T. Tawara, H. P. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany) [4662-24]

SESSION 7

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 10:50 am

Perception, Visualization, and Graphics II

10:50 am: Conveying 3D shape with texture: recent advances and experimental findings, V. Interrante, Univ. of Minnesota [4662-25]

11:10 am: Two-stage color palettization for error diffusion, N. Mitra, M. R. Gupta, Stanford Univ. [4662-26]

11:30 am: Graduated profiling: perceptual colormaps for uncalibrated computer displays, A. D. Kalvin, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [4662-27]

Lunch/Exihibition Break 11:50 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 8

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 1:30 pm

Image Analysis, Perception, and Digital Libraries

1:30 pm: Perceptual image analysis for graphical rendering and digital libraries (Invited Paper), J. C. Dalton, Synthetik [4662-28]

2:10 pm: Real-time high-performance attention focusing in outdoors color video streams, L. Itti, Univ. of Southern California [4662-29]

2:30 pm: Automatic identification of regions of interest with application to the quantification of DNA damage in cells, F. Stentiford, BTexact Technologies (UK); N. Morley, A. Curnow, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (UK) [4662-30]

2:50 pm: Using a computational model of human color vision to perform object segmentation in natural images, J. A. Black, Jr., K. Vaithianathan, S. Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ. [4662-31]

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Visual personalization for web services, L. A. Consularo, Univ. Estadual de Maringa (Brazil) [4662-32]

4:00 pm: ISEE: perceptual features for image library navigation, A. Mojsilovic, J. Gomes, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [4662-34]

Panel Discussion Thurs. 4:20 to 5:20 pm

MPEG-7, Media Description, and the Role of Human Vision Research

Panel Moderators: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Panel Members: Hawley K. Rising III, Sony Electronics Inc.; Ichel Rynderman, Avid Technology, Inc.; John R. Smith, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Corinne Jörgensen, SUNY/Buffalo; John C. Dalton, Synthetik



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