Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X
16–20 January 2005, San Jose, California, USA

Conference 5666
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III
Monday-Thursday 17-20 January 2005
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #5666

Conference Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.; Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America

Program Committee: Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.; Michael H. Brill, Datacolor; John C. Dalton, Synthetik Software; Huib de Ridder, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); Gunilla A. Derefeldt, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden); Miguel P. Eckstein, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara; Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co.; Jennifer Gille, Raytheon Co.; Laurent Itti, Univ. of Southern California; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands); John J. McCann, McCann Imaging; Jeffrey B. Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany); Adar Pelah, Univ. of York (United Kingdom); Hawley K. Rising III, Sony Electronics; Robert J. Safranek, Benevue, Inc.; Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

Monday 17 January

SESSION 1

Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III Mon. 10:30 am to 12:10 pm

Keynote Session

Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.; Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America

10:30 am: Eye-Robot: a standard observer for vision technology (Keynote Presentation), A. B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [5666-01]

11:20 am: Celestial illusions and ancient astronomers: Aristarchus and Eratosthenes (Keynote Presentation), T. V. Papathomas, Rutgers Univ. [5666-02]

Lunch Break 12:10 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 2

Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III Mon. 1:30 to 3:10 pm

Perspectives in Vision Science

Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.

1:30 pm: Do humans discount the illuminant?, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [5666-03]

1:50 pm: Self-organizing cortical color maps, R. Rao, G. Cecchi, C. Peck, J. Kozloski, IBM Corp. [5666-04]

2:10 pm: A study of human recognition rates for foveola-sized image patches selected from initial and final fixations on calibrated natural images, I. van der Linde, Anglia Polytechnic Univ. (United Kingdom) and Univ. of Texas/Austin; U. Rajashekar, L. K. Cormack, A. C. Bovik, Univ. of Texas/Austin [5666-05]

2:30 pm: Human face recognition, R. Lamprecht, Fachshochschule Pinkafeld (Austria) [5666-06]

2:50 pm: Toward a multilevel cognitive probabilistic representation of space, A. Tapus, S. Vasudevan, R. Siegwart, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) [5666-07]

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

SESSION 3

Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III Mon. 3:40 to 5:30 pm

Memorial Session in Honor of Bela Julesz

Chair: Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

3:40 pm: Top-down processes in perceiving false depth and motion for faces and scenes, T. V. Papathomas, Rutgers Univ. [5666-08]

4:10 pm: Local cross-corelation model of stereo correspondence, M. S. Banks, S. Gepshtein, H. F. Rose, Univ. of California/Berkeley [5666-09]

4:40 pm: The riches of the cyclopean paradigm, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [5666-10]

5:10 pm: Binocular matching and the smoothness constraint, C. M. Schor, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [5666-45] 







Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet     7:30 to 10:30 pm



The annual Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet will be held Monday evening, 17 January, 7:30 to 10:30 pm. The banquet will take place in a local restaurant or wine cellar, and will include an exciting invited speaker. Information will be posted on the message board near the registration desk.








Tuesday 18 January









Plenary Speaker      Tues. 8:30 to 9:15 am



Marriott Hotel: San Jose Ballroom




20 Cameras on Mars: The Mars Exploration Rover Imaging System



Justin Maki, Jet Propulsion Lab.




See Special Events for more details









SESSION 4


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Tues. 9:30 am to 12:00 pm


Perceptual Image Compression and Quality



Chair: Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America




9:30 am: Sharpening image motion based on spatio-temporal characteristics of human vision, T. Takeuchi, NTT Communication Science Labs. (Japan); K. K. De Valois, Univ. of California/Berkeley     [5666-11]




9:50 am: Spatial quantization via local texture masking, M. D. Gaubatz, D. M. Chandler, S. S. Hemami, Cornell Univ.     [5666-12]




10:10 am: Perceptual analysis of video impairments that combine blocky, blurry, noisy, and ringing synthetic artifacts, M. Q. Farias, J. M. Foley, S. K. Mitra, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara     [5666-18]




Coffee Break      10:30 to 11:00 am




11:00 am: Delicate visual artifacts of advanced digital video processing algorithms, M. M. Nicolas, F. Lebowsky, ST Microelectronics (France)     [5666-14]




11:20 am: Analysis of psychological factors for quality assessment of interactive multimodal service, K. Yamagishi, T. Hayashi, NTT Corp. (Japan)     [5666-15]




11:40 am: Audiovisual quality evaluation of low-bitrate video, S. Winkler, Genista Corp. (Switzerland); C. Faller, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Agere Systems Inc.     [5666-16]




Lunch/Exhibition Break      12:00 to 1:40 pm



SESSION 5


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Tues. 1:40 to 3:00 pm


Reference-Free Image Quality



Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.




1:40 pm: Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model, Z. Wang, E. P. Simoncelli, New York Univ.     [5666-20]




2:00 pm: Reference-free objective quality metrics for MPEG coded video, H. Cheng, J. Lubin, Sarnoff Corp.     [5666-21]




2:20 pm: No-reference video quality estimation based on human visual system for 2.5/3-G devices, F. Massidda, D. D. Giusto, C. Perra, Univ. degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy) and Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy)     [5666-22]




2:40 pm: No-reference perceptual metric for frame dropping impairments, R. R. Pastrana-Vidal, J. Gicquel, C. Colomes, France Telecom R&D (France); C. Hocine, Univ. de Bourgogne (France)     [5666-23]




Coffee Break      3:00 to 3:30 pm



SESSION 6


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Tues. 3:30 to 4:30 pm


Image Quality of System Tonescale



Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.




3:30 pm: Predicting gamut mapping quality using color image difference formulae, E. Bando, J. Y. Hardeberg, D. R. Connah, I. Farup, Gjøvik Univ. College (Norway)     [5666-17]




3:50 pm: Perceptual evaluation of tone mapping operators with real-world scenes, A. Yoshida, V. Blanz, K. Myszkowski, H. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)     [5666-13]




4:10 pm: Predicting visible differences in high dynamic range images: model and its validation, R. Mantiuk, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany); S. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America; K. Myszkowski, H. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)     [5666-19]










Panel Discussion     4:50 to 6:00 pm


Perceptual Image Quality: What's Next?







Posters-Tuesday



Posters will be placed on display after 9:00 am in Conv. Ctr. Room Exhibit Hall 1. A poster session, with authors present at their posters, will be held Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 pm.




Wednesday 19 January









Plenary Speaker     Wed. 8:30 to 9:15 am



Marriott Hotel: San Jose Ballroom




The Future of Computer Graphics: Realism or Abstraction?



Pat Hanrahan, Stanford Univ.




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SESSION 7


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Wed. 9:30 to 10:30 am


Perceptually Based Techniques for Digital Libraries



Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.




9:30 am: Mimicking human texture classification, E. M. van Rikxoort, E. L. van den Broek, T. E. Schouten, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen (Netherlands)     [5666-24]




9:50 am: Experimental determination of visual color and texture statistics for image segmentation, J. Chen, Unilever Research; T. N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.     [5666-25]




10:10 am: Cognitive-based approach for querying personal digital libraries, A. Malizia, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)     [5666-26]




Coffee Break      10:30 to 11:00 am



SESSION 8


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Wed. 11:00 am to 12:20 pm


Perceptual Image Analysis



Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.




11:00 am: Pictorial relief for equiluminant images, H. de Ridder, A. J. Koenderink-van Doorn, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)     [5666-47]




11:20 am: Transient-based image segmentation: top-down surround suppression in human V1, L. T. Likova, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute     [5666-65]




11:40 am: A human visual model-based approach of the visual attention and performance evaluation, O. Le Meur, Thomson Multimedia R&D (France); D. Barba, P. Le Callet, Ecole Polytechnique de l' Univ. de Nantes (France); D. Thoreau, Thomson Multimedia R&D (France)     [5666-30]




12:00 pm: Man-machine interaction systems and emotion analysis, T. Balomenos, S. Ioannou, A. I. Drosopoulos, A. Raouzaiou, K. Karpouzis, S. D. Kollias, National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece)     [5666-31]




Lunch/Exhibition Break      12:20 to 2:00 pm



SESSION 9


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Wed. 2:00 to 3:00 pm


Perceptual Image Representation and Display



Chair: Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America




2:00 pm: The utility of Perspecta 3D volumetric display for completion of tasks, T. R. Tyler, Univ. of Tennessee/Chattanooga and Plant Engineering Consultants     [5666-27]




2:20 pm: Stylized rendering for multiresolution image representation, M. Grundland, C. Gibbs, N. A. Dodgson, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)     [5666-32]




2:40 pm: Vision, healing brush, and fiber bundles, T. G. Georgiev, Adobe Systems Inc.     [5666-33]




Coffee Break      3:00 to 3:30 pm



SESSION 10


Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Wed. 3:30 to 5:30 pm


Portraying Visual Reality: The Limits of Perception and Representation in Art



Chair: Michael H. Brill, Datacolor




3:30 pm: A horopter for two-point perspective, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute     [5666-35]




3:50 pm: Where should you sit to watch a movie?, M. S. Banks, H. F. Rose, D. Vishwanathan, A. R. Girshick, Univ. of California/Berkeley     [5666-34]




4:10 pm: Quantitative analysis of qualitative images (Invited Paper), D. Hockney, C. M. Falco, Optical Sciences Ctr./Univ. of Arizona     [5666-36]




4:50 pm: Asymmetry in Lotto carpets and implications for Hockney's optical projection theory (Invited Paper), D. G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations, Inc.     [5666-37]



Discussion Session     5:30 to 6:30 pm


Thursday 20 January


Invited Program on VALVE: Vision, Action, and Locomotion in Virtual (and Real) Environments



Organizers: Adar Pelah, Univ. of York (United Kingdom); Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)



SESSION 11: Special Session: VALVE I



Chair: Adar Pelah, Univ. of York (United Kingdom)



Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Thurs. 9:00 to 10:20 am



9:00 am: Perception and action in virtual environments (Keynote Presentation), H. H. Buelthoff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany)      [5666-48]




9:40 am: Perceiving and acting in real and virtual environments, J. M. Loomis, A. C. Beall, J. Kelly, K. Macuga, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara      [5666-49]




10:00 am: Pilot behavior and course deviations during precision flight, J. B. Mulligan, X. L. C. Brolly, NASA Ames Research Ctr.      [5666-50]




Coffee Break     10:20 to 10:50 am



SESSION 12: Special Session: VALVE II



Chair: Jack M. Loomis, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara



Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Thurs. 10:50 am to 12:10 pm



10:50 am: Intercepting moving targets, E. Brenner, J. Smeets, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)      [5666-51]




11:10 am: Separating the edge-based detection of object motion from the detection of objectless motion energy: implications for visually guided locomotion, H. Hock, Florida Atlantic Univ.      [5666-52]




11:30 am: Achieving near-correct focus cues in a 3D display using multiple image planes, S. J. Watt, Univ. of Wales (United Kingdom); K. Akeley, Microsoft Research Asia; A. R. Girshick, M. S. Banks, Univ. of California/Berkeley      [5666-53]




11:50 am: Visual illusions: pointing the finger at the Judd illusion, A. Dunn, Nottingham Trent Univ. (United Kingdom); P. Thompson, Univ. of York (United Kingdom)      [5666-54]




Lunch Break     12:10 to 1:30 pm








SESSION 13: Special Session: VALVE III



Chair: Markus Lappe, Univ. Münster (Germany)



Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Thurs. 1:30 to 3:20 pm



1:30 pm: Heading and the control of locomotion in a natural environment, B. J. Rogers, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)      [5666-55]




2:00 pm: Spatial awareness in immersive virtual reality environments revealed in open loop walking, K. Turano, S. Chaudhury, Johns Hopkins Univ.      [5666-56]




2:20 pm: Walking simulator for evaluation of ophthalmic devices, J. Barabas, MIT Media Lab.; R. L. Woods, E. Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute      [5666-57]




2:40 pm: Visual and nonvisual signals of locomotion, A. Pelah, Univ. of York (United Kingdom); A. Thurrell, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)      [5666-58]




3:00 pm: Mixed visual reference frames: perceiving head-centric or spatio-topic visual quantities in a retino-centric frame, A. V. van den Berg, R. van Ee, A. Noest, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)      [5666-59]




Coffee Break     3:20 to 3:50 pm



SESSION 14: Special Session: VALVE IV



Chair: Kathleen Turano, Johns Hopkins Univ.



Marriott Hotel: Ballroom III     Thurs. 3:50 to 5:30 pm



3:50 pm: The use of visual and nonvisual cues in updating the perceived position of the world during translation, L. Harris, York Univ. (Canada); R. T. Dyde, Consultant (Canada); M. R. M. Jenkin, York Univ. (Canada)      [5666-60]




4:10 pm: Perception of object movement during locomotion, S. K. Rushton, P. Warren, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom)      [5666-61]




4:30 pm: Investigations on the interactions between vision and locomotion using a treadmill virtual environment, W. Thompson, S. Creem-Regehr, B. Mohler, P. Willemsen, Univ. of Utah      [5666-62]




4:50 pm: Virtual odometry from visual flow, M. Lappe, H. Frenz, T. Buehrmann, Univ. M¸nster (Germany); M. Kolesnik, Fraunhofer-Institut-fuer Medienkommunication (Germany)      [5666-63]




5:10 pm: The perception of linear self-motion, F. H. Durgin, Swarthmore College; L. Fox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; E. Schaffer, Swarthmore College      [5666-64]













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