Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XII

28 January –1 February 2007, San Jose, California, USA

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

Program Committee: Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Erhardt Barth, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany); Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.; Michael H. Brill, Datacolor; John C. Dalton, Synthetik Software; Huib de Ridder, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Gunilla A. M. Derefeldt, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden); Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co.; Jennifer Gille, Qualcomm Inc.; Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell Univ.; 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, The Univ. of York (United Kingdom); Hawley K. Rising III, Sony Electronics Inc.; Sabine E. Süsstrunk, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Institute; Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

Monday 29 January

SESSION 1

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Mon. 9:50 to 11:20 am

Keynote Session

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

9:50 am: New vistas in image and video quality (Invited Paper), A. C. Bovik, K. Seshadrinathan, S. Sumohana, The Univ. of Texas/Austin [6492-68]

10:20 am: Painterly rendered portraits from photographs using a knowledge-based approach (Invited Paper), S. DiPaola, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada) [6492-01]

10:50 am: Nonlinear encoding in multilayer LNL systems optimized for the representation of natural images (Invited Paper), C. Zetzsche, Univ. Bremen (Germany); U. Nuding, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany) [6492-02]

Lunch Break 11:20 am to 1:30 pm

SESSION 2

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Mon. 1:30 to 5:30 pm

Perception of Natural Images

Chair: Erhardt Barth, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany)

1:30 pm: Optimal sensor design for estimating local velocity in natural environments (Invited Paper), T. Tversky, W. Geisler, The Univ. of Texas/ Austin [6492-03]

2:00 pm: Bilinear models of natural images (Invited Paper), B. A. Olshausen, Univ. of California/Berkeley [6492-04]

2:30 pm: Locally adaptive image representation (Invited Paper), E. P. Simoncelli, New York Univ. [6492-05]

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:30 pm

3:30 pm: Spatiotemporal power spectra of motion parallax: the case of cluttered 3D scenes, D. Rivait, M. S. Langer, McGill Univ. (Canada) [6492-06]

3:50 pm: Feature category systems for 2nd order local image structure induced by natural image statistics and otherwise, L. D. Griffin, M. Lillholm, Univ. College London (United Kingdom) [6492-07]

4:10 pm: The independent components of natural images are perceptually dependent, M. Bethge, T. Wiecki, F. A. Wichmann, Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik (Germany) [6492-08]

4:30 pm: Learning optimal features for visual pattern recognition, K. Labusch, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany); U. Siewert, PLANET intelligent systems GmbH (Germany); T. Martinetz, E. Barth, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany) [6492-09]

4:50 pm: Unsupervised learning of a steerable basis for invariant image representations, M. Bethge, S. Gerwinn, Max Planck Institut für biologische Kybernetik (Germany) [6492-10]

5:10 pm: Analysis of segment statistics for semantic classification of natural images, D. Depalov, T. N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ. [6492-11]

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Monday 7:30 to 10:00 pm

Adaptation and Synthesis in the Perception of Reality

Michael A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/Reno

Tuesday 30 January

Awards and Plenary Presentation

Marriott Ballroom 1-6 8:15 to 9:10 am

Development and Plasticity in Visual Cortex

Brian A. Wandell, Stanford Univ.

See Plenary Speakers for more details

SESSION 3

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Tues. 9:30 am to 12:00 pm

Perceptual Image Quality and Compression

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

9:30 am: The role of spatially adapted versus non-spatially adapted structural distortion in supra-threshold compression, M. D. Gaubatz, S. Kwan, S. S. Hemami, Cornell Univ. [6492-12]

9:50 am: Image compression using sparse color sampling combined with nonlinear image processing, S. Brooks, Dalhousie Univ. (Canada); I. Saunders, N. A. Dodgson, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [6492-13]

10:10 am: Compression of image clusters using Karhunen Loeve transforms, M. Kramm, Technische Univ. München (Germany) [6492-14]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Visual ergonomic aspects of computer displays: glossy screens and angular dependence, K. E. Brunnström, B. Andren, Z. Konstantinides, L. Nordström, Acreo AB (Sweden) [6492-15]

11:20 am: The blur effect: perception and estimation with a new no-reference perceptual blur metric, F. Crete, STMicroelectronics (France) and Lab. des Images et des Signaux (France); M. Nicolas, STMicroelectronics (France); T. Dolmiere, P. Ladret, Lab. des Images et des Signaux (France) [6492-16]

11:40 am: Perceptual quality evaluation of geometric distortions in images, A. D'Angelo, G. Menegaz, M. Barni, Univ. degli Studi di Siena (Italy) [6492-17]

Lunch/Exhibition Break 12:00 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 4

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Tues. 1:40 to 3:00 pm

Perceptual Video Quality

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

1:40 pm: Color preference, color naturalness, and annoyance of compressed and color-scaled digital videos, C. C. Koh, J. M. Foley, S. K. Mitra, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara [6492-18]

2:00 pm: Relation between DSIS and DSCQS for temporal and spatial video artifacts in a wireless home environment, N. Van den Ende, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) and Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands); L. Meesters, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands); R. Haakma, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) [6492-19]

2:20 pm: Can you see me now? An objective metric for predicting intelligibility of compressed American Sign Language video, F. Ciaramello, S. S. Hemami, Cornell Univ. [6492-21]

2:40 pm: Price-dependent quality: examining the effects of price on multimedia quality requirements, D. S. Hands, R. Jacobs, K. Cheng, British Telecommunications plc (United Kingdom); C. Partridge, Univ. of Essex (United Kingdom) [6492-22]

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 5

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Tues. 3:30 to 4:30 pm

Visual Optics

Chair: Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.

3:30 pm: Correcting spurious resolution in defocused images, J. W. Yellott, J. I. Yellott, Univ. of California/Irvine [6492-23]

3:50 pm: Do focus measures apply to retinal images?, Y. Tian, C. F. Wildsoet, Univ. of California/Berkeley [6492-24]

4:10 pm: SAR 2DAS algorithm for modeling human vision, J. Burki, C. F. Barnes, Georgia Institute of Technology [6492-25]

Panel Discussion: Image Quality 4:30 to 5:30 pm

Panel Moderators: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.; Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell Univ.

Panel Members: Albert J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Luke C. Cui, Lexmark International, Inc.; Yoichi Miyake, Chiba Univ. (Japan); Rene Rasmussen, Xerox Corp.; Eero Simoncelli, New York Univ.; Sabine E. Süsstrunk, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

Posters and Demonstrations-Tuesday

Demonstrations 5:30 to 8:30 pm

A symposium-wide demonstration session will be open to attendees 5:30 to 8:30 pm Tuesday evening in Exhibit Hall 1. Demonstrators will provide interactive, hands-on demonstrations of a wide-range of products related to Electronic Imaging.

Posters 5:30 to 7:00 pm

Posters will be placed on display after 10:00 am in Exhibit Hall 1. A poster session, with authors present at their posters, will be held Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 pm.

Contrast sensitivity measurements for quantifying defectivity and grading of image sensors, V. Sukumar, Micron Technology, Inc. [6492-55]
Making flat art for both eyes, S. Mason, Yavapai College [6492-56]
A novel Bayer-like WRGB color filter array for CMOS image sensors, H. Honda, Y. Iida, G. Itoh, Y. Egawa, Toshiba Corp. (Japan) [6492-57]
Improving video captioning for deaf and hearing-impaired people based on eye movement and attention overload, C. Chapdelaine, M. Beaulieu, L. Gagnon, CRIM (Canada) [6492-59]
Comparison of methods for the simplification of mesh models using quality indices and an observer study, S. Silva, B. Sousa Santos, C. M. Ferreira, J. Madeira, Univ. de Aveiro (Portugal) [6492-60]
Influence of motion on contrast perception: supra-threshold spatio-velocity measurements, S. Tourancheau, P. Le Callet, D. Barba, Univ. de Nantes (France) [6492-61]
Third- and first-party ground truth collection for auto key frame extraction from consumer video clips, K. Costello, J. Luo, Eastman Kodak Co. [6492-63]
Quantifying the use of structure in cognitive tasks, D. M. Rouse, S. S. Hemami, Cornell Univ. [6492-64]
Quality metric for H.264/AVC scalable video coding with full scalability, C. Kim, D. Suh, T. Bae, Y. Ro, Information and Communications Univ. (South Korea) [6492-65]
Temporal relation between bottom-up versus top-down strategies for gaze prediction, S. Krishna, P. Kuchi, V. Balasubramanian, J. A. Black, Jr., N. Chatapuram-Krishnan, S. Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ. [6492-66]
Eigen local color histograms for object recognition and orientation estimation, D. Muselet, Univ. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France); B. V. Funt, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada); L. Macaire, Univ. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France) [6492-67]

Wednesday 31 January

Plenary Session

Marriott Ballroom 1-6 8:00 to 9:20 am

8:00 am: More than a Poplar Plank: The Shape and Subtle Colors of the Masterpiece 'Mona Lisa' by Leonardo, Francois Blais, John Taylor, Luc Cournoyer, Michel Picard, Louis Borgeat, Guy Godin, J.-Angelo Beraldin, Marc Rioux, National Research Council Canada; Christian Lahanier, Bruno Mottin, C.re de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France

8:40 am: Space Exploration, Imaging Technology, and the Development of a Virtual Presence in Space, Eric M. DeJong, Principal Investigator, Solar System Visualization (SSV) Project

See Plenary Speakers for more details

SESSION 6

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Wed. 9:30 am to 12:00 pm

Characterizing Color in Imaging Systems

9:30 am: Aperture and object mode appearances in images, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [6492-26]

9:50 am: Visibility improvement based on gray matching experiment between dark and ambient condition in mobile display, I. Kim, H. Ok, D. Park, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology (South Korea) [6492-27]

10:10 am: Multispectral color constancy: real image tests, M. Mosny, B. V. Funt, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada) [6492-28]

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Color balancing based upon gamut and temporal correlations, S. Kim, H. Lee, B. Kang, S. Lee, D. Park, C. Kim, SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology (South Korea) [6492-29]

11:20 am: Visibility of hue, saturation, and luminance nonuniformities in LEDs, P. J. H. Seuntiens, I. Vogels, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) [6492-30]

11:40 am: Paper whiteness and its effect on the reproduction of colors, O. Norberg, Mid Sweden Univ. (Sweden) [6492-31]

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

SESSION 7

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Wed. 2:00 to 3:00 pm

Cognitive Graphics

Chair: John E. Tumblin, Northwestern Univ.

2:00 pm: Higher-order image representations for hyperresolution image synthesis and capture, B. Watson, North Carolina State Univ. [6492-33]

2:20 pm: Semantic photosynthesis, M. A. Johnson, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [6492-34]

2:40 pm: Revealing pentimenti: the hidden history in a painting, A. Gooch, Univ. of Victoria (Canada) [6492-35]

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 8

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Wed. 3:30 to 5:10 pm

Perceptual Issues in High-Dynamic Range Imaging

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

3:30 pm: Self-calibrating wide color gamut high-dynamic-range display, H. Seetzen, Brightside Technologies, Inc. (Canada) [6492-36]

3:50 pm: Tone mapping for high-dynamic range displays, L. Meylan, S. E. Süsstrunk, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); S. J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America, Inc. [6492-38]

4:10 pm: Tracking gaze positions during evaluating high-dynamic range images, J. Liu, W. Cheng, National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan) [6492-39]

4:30 pm: High-dynamic range imaging pipeline: perception-motivated representation of visual content, R. Mantiuk, G. Krawczyk, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany); R. Mantiuk, Szczecin Univ. of Technology (Poland); H. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany) [6492-40]

4:50 pm: Veiling glare: the dynamic range limit of HDR images, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging; A. Rizzi, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy) [6492-41]

Discussion Session 5:10 to 6:10 pm

Thursday 1 February

SESSION 9

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Thurs. 9:00 to 11:30 am

Eye Movements and Visual Attention

9:00 am: Hidden Markov model-based face recognition using selective attention, A. A. Salah, Bogaziçi Univ. (Turkey); M. Bicego, Univ. degli Studi di Sassari (Italy); L. Akarun, Bogaziçi Univ. (Turkey); E. Grosso, M. Tistarelli, Univ. degli Studi di Sassari (Italy) [6492-42]

9:20 am: The role of eye movement signals in dorsal and ventral processing, J. A. Black, Jr., N. Chatapuram-Krishnan, S. Panchanathan, Arizona State Univ. [6492-43]

9:40 am: Variable resolution images and their effects on eye movements during free viewing, M. Nystrom, Lunds Univ. [6492-44]

Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:30 am

10:30 am: Hierarchy visual attention map, K. Yang, P. K. Das, C. C. Guest, Univ. of California/San Diego [6492-45]

10:50 am: Attention trees and semantic paths, C. Giusti, G. G. Pieroni, Univ. degli Studi di Udine (Italy); L. Pieroni, Univ. degli Studi di Roma/La Sapienza (Italy) [6492-46]

11:10 am: Motion integration in visual attention models for predicting simple dynamic scenes, A. Bur, H. Hügli, Univ. de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) [6492-47]

Lunch Break 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

SESSION 10

Conv. Ctr. Room A3 Thurs. 1:30 to 4:20 pm

Higher Level Vision and Cognition

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

1:30 pm: Motion of specularities on low-relief surfaces: frequency domain analysis, Y. Farasat, M. S. Langer, McGill Univ. (Canada) [6492-48]

1:50 pm: Fully automatic perceptual modeling of near-regular textures, G. Menegaz, A. Franceschetti, A. Mecocci, Univ. degli Studi di Siena (Italy) [6492-49]

2:10 pm: Machine perception using the five human defined forms plus infrared, P. J. DeRego, Honeywell, Inc. [6492-50]

2:30 pm: The normalized compression distance and image distinguishability, N. Tran, Santa Clara Univ. [6492-51]

2:50 pm: Cortical network and dynamics of figure-ground organization, L. T. Likova, C. W. Tyler, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [6492-52]

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Comparing realness between real objects and images at various resolutions, K. Masaoka, M. Emoto, M. Sugawara, Y. Nojiri, NHK Science & Technical Research Labs. (Japan) [6492-53]

4:00 pm: Navigation based on a sensorimotor representation: a virtual reality study, C. Zetzsche, K. Schill, G. Christopher, Univ. Bremen (Germany) [6492-54]