Conference 5292
Conv. Ctr. Room A4
Monday-Wednesday 19-21 January 2004
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #5292

Monday 19 January

SESSION 1

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Mon. 9:30 to 11:40 am

Keynote Session

9:30 am: Human face perception: symmetry, depth, and form, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [5292-44]

Coffee Break 10:20 to 10:50 am

10:50 am: Constancy myth, the vocabulary of color perception, and the ATD04 model, S. L. Guth, Indiana Univ. [5292-02]

Lunch Break 11:40 am to 1:30 pm

Opening Remarks

SESSION 2

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Mon. 1:40 to 2:40 pm

Special Session: Spatial/Color Vision in Honor of Russell Devalois

1:40 pm: Vision channels, contrast sensitivity, and functional vision, A. P. Ginsburg, Vision Sciences Research Corp. [5292-45]

2:00 pm: Structure of human foveal processing: absence of low spatial frequency channels, L. L. Kontsevich, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [5292-46]

2:20 pm: Training directionally selective motion pathways can significantly improve reading efficiency, T. Lawton, Perception Dynamics Institute [5292-47]

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 3

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Mon. 3:30 to 5:10 pm

Color

3:30 pm: Bio-inspired image enhancement for natural color images, L. Meylan, S. E. Süsstrunk, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) [5292-04]

3:50 pm: Human visual system inspired tone mapping algorithm for HDR images, A. Rizzi, C. Gatta, B. Piacentini, M. Fierro, D. Marini, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy) [5292-05]

4:10 pm: Generating stimuli of arbitrary spectral power distributions for vision and imaging research, I. Farup, Gjøvik Univ. College (Norway); J. H. Wold, Gjøvik Univ. College (Norway) and Univ. of Oslo (Norway); T. Seim, Univ. of Oslo (Norway); J. Y. Hardeberg, Gjøvik Univ. College (Norway) [5292-06]

4:30 pm: Content adaptation for visual impairment in MPEG-21, S. Yang, Y. M. Ro, T. C. Thang, Information and Communications Univ. (South Korea) [5292-07]

4:50 pm: Perception of color and space in virtual reality: a comparison between a real room and virtual reality models, M. Billger, I. Heldal, B. Stahre, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); K. Renström, AB Fagerhult (Sweden) [5292-08]

Tuesday 20 January

SESSION 4

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Tues. 9:30 am to 12:00 pm

Image Quality Metrics

9:30 am: Optimal stimulus synthesis for efficient evaluation of perceptual image quality metrics, Z. Wang, E. Simoncelli, New York Univ. [5292-09]

9:50 am: Perceptual contributions of blocky, blurry, and fuzzy impairments to overall annoyance, M. Q. Farias, M. S. Moore, J. M. Foley, S. K. Mitra, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara [5292-10]

10:10 am: Visibility of noise in natural images, S. Winkler, S. Süsstrunk, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) [5292-11]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Decontouring: prevention and removal of false contour artifacts, S. J. Daly, X. Feng, Sharp Labs. of America [5292-12]

11:20 am: Implementation of a visual difference metric using commodity graphics hardware, J. E. Windsheimer, G. W. Meyer, Univ. of Minnesota [5292-13]

11:40 am: Quality metrics for measuring end-to-end distortion in packet-switched video communication systems, Y. Eisenberg, F. Zhai, T. N. Pappas, R. Berry, A. K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern Univ. [5292-48]

Lunch/Exhibition Break 11:40 am to 2:00 pm

SESSION 5

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Tues. 2:00 to 3:40 pm

Spatio-Temporal Perception and Video Analysis

2:00 pm: Analysis and synthesis of motion patterns using the projective plane, C. Mota, M. Dorr, I. Stuke, E. Barth, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany) [5292-14]

2:40 pm: Sporadic frame dropping impact on quality perception, R. R. Pastrana-Vidal, France Telecom R&D (France) and Univ. de Bourgogne (France); J. Gicquel, C. Colomes, France Telecom R&D (France); H. Cherifi, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) [5292-15]

3:00 pm: Temporal masking effect on dropped frames at video scene cuts, R. Pastrana-Vidal, France Telecom R&D (France) and Univ. de Bourgogne (France); J. Gicquel, C. Colomes, France Telecom R&D (France); H. Cherifi, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) [5292-16]

3:20 pm: Detection of inconsistent regions in video streams, R. S. Gaborski, V. Vaingankar, A. Tentler, Rochester Institute of Technology [5292-17]

Posters -Tuesday

Posters will be placed on display after 12:00 pm in the San Jose Marriott: San Jose Ballroom. A poster session, with authors present at their posters, will be held Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

• Natural image enhancement algorithm based on human visual system, K. Huang, Z. Wu, Q. Wang, Southeast Univ. (China) [5292-33]
• Perceived effect of digital zoom on visual acuity, R. Venkatachalam, G. J. Strong, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada); R. I. Hornsey, York Univ. (Canada) [5292-34]
• Robust class-based face re-rendering for delighting and relighting, Y. Huang, Q. Liu, H. Lu, Institute of Automation (China) [5292-35]
• Perceptual classification boundaries between two-dimensional shapes, G. J. Power, Air Force Research Lab. [5292-36]
• Vision-based navigation in a dynamic environment for virtual human, Y. Liu, J. Sun, Tianjin Univ. (China) [5292-37]
• Global semantic classification of scenes using ridgelet transform, S. Foucher, V. Gouaillier, Computer Research Institute of Montreal (Canada) [5292-38]
• Can the high-level content of natural images be indexed using local analysis?, J. A. Black, Jr., M. Phielipp, G. Nielson, S. Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ. [5292-39]
• Pedestrian detection in outdoor video, C. Ran, Wuhan Univ. of Science and Technology (China) [5292-40]
• Understanding of hand motion in sentence level using HMM, B. Lee, Cheonan National Technical College (South Korea); Y. Han, Seoul Christian Univ. (South Korea); H. Chung, Kyungbok College (South Korea); H. Hahn, Soongsil Univ. (South Korea) [5292-41]
• Implementation of visual lossless image coding in JPEG2000, Q. Wang, Y. MO, Shanghai Univ. (China) [5292-42]
• Pupillary responses and eye movements associated with dynamic visual acuity, E. Suaste, N. Garcia, D. A. Rodriguez, A. Zuñiga, Cinvestav-IPN (Mexico) [5292-43]

Wednesday 21 January

SESSION 6

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Wed. 9:30 am to 12:00 pm

Image Quality for Next-Generation Display Devices

9:30 am: Hyperacuity on high-resolution and very-high-resolution displays, J. Larimer, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; J. Gille, Raytheon ITSS; M. Powers, Gemstone Foundation; H. Liu, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [5292-18]

9:50 am: Display characterization by eye: contrast ratio and discrimination throughout the grayscale, J. Gille, Raytheon ITSS; L. Arend, J. Larimer, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [5292-19]

10:10 am: Evaluation of optimal sharpness enhancement for different image content and different display technologies, F. Oberti, I. Heynderickx, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) [5292-20]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Analytical approach to the optimal linear matrix with comprehensive error metric, S. Quan, Sony Electronics Inc. [5292-21]

11:20 am: High-resolution displays and reading performance, M. K. Powers, Gemstone Foundation; J. O. Larimer, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; J. Gille, Raytheon ITSS [5292-22]

11:40 am: Color appearance in peripheral vision, M. Ayama, M. Sakurai, Utsunomiya Univ. (Japan); O. Carlander, G. Derefeldt, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden) [5292-23]

Lunch/Exhibition Break 12:00 to 2:00 pm

SESSION 7

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Wed. 2:00 to 3:00 pm

ROI, Visual Attention

2:00 pm: Automatic attention-based prioritization of unconstrained video for compression, L. Itti, Univ. of Southern California [5292-24]

2:20 pm: From low-level perception to high-perception level: a coherent approach for visual attention modeling, O. Le Meur, Thomson-CSF (France) and IRCCyN (France); D. Thoreau, E. Francois, Thomson-CSF (France); D. Barba, P. Le Callet, Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes (France) [5292-25]

2:40 pm: Point of gaze analysis reveals visual search strategies, U. Rajashekar, L. K. Cormack, A. C. Bovik, Univ. of Texas/Austin [5292-26]

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 8

Conv. Ctr. Room A4 Wed. 3:30 to 5:30 pm

Image Features, Perception, Analysis, and Indexing

3:30 pm: Perception of 3D shape from homogeneous and non-homogeneous surface textures, A. Li, Q. Zaidi, State College of Optometry/SUNY [5292-27]

3:50 pm: Softness perceptive texture method, Y. Kobayashi, Waseda Univ. (Japan) and ATR (Japan) [5292-28]

4:10 pm: Biologically inspired feature based categorization of objects, T. N. Mundhenk, L. Itti, V. Navalpakkam, T. Drew, S. Vasudevan, Univ. of Southern California [5292-29]

4:30 pm: Quantitative subjective analysis of color tone perception and description by native speakers of Japanese, N. L. Bianchi-Berthouze, W. L. Martens, Univ. of Aizu (Japan) [5292-30]

4:50 pm: Importance of human color categorization for content-based image retrieval, E. L. van den Broek, Katholieke Univ. Nijmegen (Netherlands); M. J. Puts, Univ. of Chicago; M. A. Hendriks, L. G. Vuurpijl, Katholieke Univ. Nijmegen (Netherlands) [5292-31]

5:10 pm: Indexing natural images for retrieval based on Kansei factors, J. A. Black, Jr., K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, S. Panchanathan, P. Kuchi, Arizona State Univ. [5292-32]

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