Technical Conference 3644
Convention Center: Room J2
Monday-Thursday 25-28 January 1999
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3644



Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV

Conference Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

Program Committee: Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.; Michael H. Brill, Sarnoff Corp.; John C. Dalton, Synthetik; Gunilla A. Derefeldt, FOA (Sweden); Huib de Ridder, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands); Jennifer L. Gille, Western Aerospace; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Eugenio Martinez-Uriegas, SRI International; Adar Pelah, Univ. of Cambridge (UK); Heidi A. Peterson, David Sarnoff Research Ctr.; Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue Univ.; Christine I. Podilchuk, Robert J. Safranek, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.; Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Monday 25 January

SESSION 1

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Mon. 9:10 am

Keynote Session: Emerging Directions in Human Vision and Electronic Imaging

Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

9:10 am: Nonlinear neurons and higher-order statistics: new approaches to human perception and electronic image representations (Invited Paper), C. Zetzsche, G. Krieger, Univ. München (Germany) [3644-01] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Auditory-visual interaction: from fundamental research in cognitive psychology to (possible) applications (Invited Paper), A. Kohlrausch, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interface and Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands); S. van de Par, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interface (Netherlands) [3644-02] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 10:50 am

10:50 am: Diagnostic medical imaging: current practices and future directions (Invited Paper), A. B. Poirson, R. Taylor, AccuImage Diagnostics Corp.; B. A. Wandell, Stanford Univ. [3644-65] - Add Paper

11:30 am: Computational expressionism or why random() is falling into disuse in computer art (Invited Paper), W. R. Bender, MIT Media Lab. [3644-04] - Add Paper

Lunch Break 12:10 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 2

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Mon. 1:30 pm

Visual System Modeling

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

1:30 pm: Contrast sensitivity under natural states of adaptation, M. A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/Reno [3644-05] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) and image discrimination, E. Peli, Harvard Medical School/Tufts Univ. School of Medicine [3644-06] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Three-mechanism divisive inhibition model for chromoluminance pattern masking, C. C. Chen, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; J. M. Foley, D. H. Brainard, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara [3644-07] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Nonlinear features in vernier acuity, E. Barth, A. J. Ahumada, Jr., B. L. Beard, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [3644-08] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Spatial contrast and scatter: opposing partners in sensations, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [3644-09] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 3

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Mon. 3:30 pm

Perceptual Models for Sampling, Quantization, and Compression

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

3:30 pm: Visual difference metric for realistic image synthesis, M. R. Bolin, G. W. Meyer, Univ. of Oregon [3644-10] - Add Paper

3:50 pm: Interactions of chromatic components among perceptual quantization of the achromatic component, P. Le Callet, A. Saadane, D. Barba, Univ. de Nantes (France) [3644-11] - Add Paper

4:10 pm: Compression of color images with wavelets under consideration of the HVS, M. Nadenau, J. Reichel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) [3644-13] - Add Paper

4:30 pm: Applications of perceptual coding to the MPEG-2 video compression standard, R. J. Safranek, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. [3644-14] - Add Paper

4:50 pm: Effects of dynamic quantization noise on video quality, T. Carney, Neurometrics Institute and Univ. of California/Berkeley; Y. C. Chang, S. A. Klein, D. G. Messerschmitt, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3644-15] - Add Paper

5:10 pm: Visual eccentricity models in face-based video compression, S. J. Daly, K. E. Matthews, J. Ribas-Corbera, Sharp Labs. of America [3644-16] - Add Paper

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Hyatt St. Claire Ballroom · Monday 25 January · 7 to 10 pm

A Stroll Through Vision, Perception, Art, and Philosophy

Guest Speaker: Christopher Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Please check at EI registration desk by noon Monday, for availability of tickets.

Tuesday 26 January

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

Digital Watermarking: The Emergence of a New Communication Channel

Bruce Davis, Digimarc Corp.

SESSION 4

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Tues. 9:30 am

Video Image Quality

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

9:30 am: Design and performance of a digital video quality metric, A. B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; J. Hu, J. F. McGowan, Raytheon Corp.; J. B. Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [3644-17] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Quality metric for digital color video, S. Winkler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) [3644-18] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Video quality evaluation using ST-CIELAB, X. Tong, D. J. Heeger, Stanford Univ.; C. J. van den Branden Lambrecht, Hewlett-Packard Labs. [3644-19] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Visibility thresholds for compression-induced image blocking: measurements and models, J. M. Libert, C. Fenimore, National Institute of Standards and Technology [3644-20] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Effect of concealment techniques on perceived video quality, R. O. Hinds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; T. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. [3644-21] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Modeling the perceived quality of extended-duration video, A. M. Rohaly, J. Lu, M. K. Ravel, N. R. Franzen, Tektronix, Inc. [3644-22] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 5

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Tues. 1:30 pm

Still Image Quality

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

1:30 pm: Sampling locations and visual difference predictors, R. Klassen, S. C. Morgana, Xerox Webster Research Ctr. [3644-23] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Psychovisual quality metric based on multiscale image texture analysis, T. Eude, A. Mayache, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) [3644-24] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Blockiness in JPEG-coded images, L. Meesters, J. B. Martens, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands) [3644-25] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Role of image dissimilarity in image quality models, J. B. Martens, L. Meesters, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands) [3644-26] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Discriminability measures for predicting readability, L. Scharff, Stephen F. Austin State Univ.; A. J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; A. Hill, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. [3644-27] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Vision experiments on the Web, Y. Lavin, Hewlett Packard Co.; A. Silverstein, X. Zhang, Hewlett-Packard Co. [3644-63] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Effect of gamma on printed pages, J. Dijk, I. T. Young, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); J. Walraven, TNO Human Factors Research Institute (Netherlands) [3644-28] - Add Paper

4:20 pm: Effect of stereoscopic filming parameters and exposure duration on quality and naturalness judgements, W. A. Ijsselsteijn, H. de Ridder, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands) [3644-29] - Add Paper

Panel Discussion Tues. 4:40 to 6:30 pm

Visual Models for Image Quality and Compression: What's next?

Panel Moderators: Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America

Panel Members: Jeffrey Lubin, Sarnoff Corp.; Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Robert Safranek, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.; Ann Marie Rohaly, Tektronix, Inc.

Wednesday 27 January

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

Document Standards and Next-Generation Publishing Solutions

George Cacioppo, Adobe Systems Inc.

SESSION 6

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Wed. 9:50 am

Perception and Performance in Real and Virtual Environments

Chair: Theodore T. Blackmon, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

9:50 am: Contributions of visual and vestibular systems to perception of direction, S. Yano, NHK Science and Technical Research Labs. (Japan) [3644-31] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Perception and motor activity: reality is always virtual, B. Bridgeman, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz [3644-32] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Dynamic vergence telepresence system for incorporating active gaze control, J. P. Brooker, A. Plooy, P. M. Sharkey, J. P. Wann, Univ. of Reading (UK) [3644-33] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Photorealistic virtual reality mapping system for Chernobyl accident site assessment, T. T. Blackmon, L. Ngyuen, C. F. Neveu, D. Rasmussen, E. Zbinden, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; M. Maimone, L. H. Matthies, Jet Propulsion Lab.; S. Thayer, V. Broz, J. Teza, J. Osborn, M. Hebert, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; G. Thomas, J. Steele, Univ. of Iowa [3644-34] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break 11:40 am to 1:30 pm

SESSION 7

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Wed. 1:30 pm

Art and Aesthetics in Electronic Imaging

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

1:30 pm: Retrieving the unretrievable in electronic imaging systems: emotions, themes, and stories (art, aesthetics, and emotion in electronic imaging systems)(Invited Paper), C. Jorgensen, SUNY/Buffalo [3644-36] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Gestural3D drawing, B. Brody, C. Hartman, Univ. of Alaska/ Fairbanks [3644-37] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Design for aesthetics: interactions of design variables and aesthetic properties, B. Pham, Univ. of Ballarat (Australia) [3644-38] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 2:50 to 3:20 pm

SESSION 8

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Wed. 3:20 pm

Color Image Compression for Printing and Displays

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

3:20 pm: Method for color gamut compression based on subjective evaluation, M. Takahashi, T. Sato, M. Saito, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Japan) [3644-40] - Add Paper

3:40 pm: CIELab-driven adaptive quantization scheme for DCT-based compression of CMYK images, P. De Neve, K. N. Denecker, I. Lemahieu, Univ. of Ghent (Belgium) [3644-12] - Add Paper

Electronic Imaging Technical Group Meeting with a Special Panel Discussion:

What Aspects of Electronic Imaging Limit the Digital Publishing Revolution?

Hilton Hotel: Almaden Room II · Wednesday 27 January · 4 to 6 pm

This year's Electronic Imaging Technical Group meeting will be co-located with the electronic imaging panel discussion on digital publishing. Following the panel discussion, general technical group business will be discussed.

Panel Moderator: A. John Michaelis, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

Panel Members: V. Ralph Algazi, Univ. of California/Davis; Jennifer L. Gille, Western Aerospace; Phil Green, London College of Printing; James C. King, Adobe Systems, Inc.; Helmut Kipphan, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Germany); Bernice Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Gary Starkweather, Microsoft

Posters -Wednesday

Poster reception, with authors, will be held Wednesday evening 5:30 to 7:00 pm in the Street Level Concourse. Light refreshments will be served.

Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

  • Creating a web-based image database for benchmarking image retrieval systems: a progress report, C. Jorgensen, R. K. Srihari, D. K. Walters, A. Zhang, SUNY/Buffalo [3644-53] - Add Paper
  • Development of an image/threshold database for designing and testing human vision models, T. Carney, Neurometrics Institute and Univ. of California/Berkeley; S. A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; A. Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Co. [3644-54] - Add Paper
  • Clustering algorithms to obtain regions-of-interest (ROIs), C. M. Privitera, N. Krishnan, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3644-55] - Add Paper
  • Model-based visual detection and verification system, Y. F. Ho, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3644-56] - Add Paper
  • Camera calibration for color research, K. Barnard, B. V. Funt, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada) [3644-57] - Add Paper
  • New perceptual approach for color matrix calculation, Y. H. Kim, K. S. Kim, B. D. Nam, Samsung Aerospace Industries, Ltd. (Korea) [3644-58] - Add Paper
  • Pupillary responses evoked by chromatic stimulus in objective perimetry, J. Tapia, E. Suaste-Gomez, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (Mexico) [3644-61] - Add Paper
  • Human cells texture analysis with quincunx spline wavelet transform, F. Nicolier, O. Laligant, F. Truchetet, S. Kohler, A. C. Legrand, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) [3644-62] - Add Paper

Thursday 28 January

Plenary Speakers Thurs. 8:30 to 9:15 am

Image Restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Keith T. Knox, Xerox Corp.; Robert H. Johnston, Roger L. Easton, Jr., Rochester Institute of Technology

SESSION 9

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Thurs. 9:30 am

Image Analysis

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

9:30 am: Embedding watermark targets in natural images: local image properties, A. Pelah, J. S. Lauritzen, D. J. Tolhurst, Univ. of Cambridge (UK) [3644-41] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Spatio-temporal discrimination model predicting IR target detection, K. Brunnstrom, R. Eriksson, Institute of Optical Research (Sweden); A. J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr. [3644-42] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Creating a biologically plausible model of recognition which generalizes multidimensional scaling, H. K. Rising III, MediaSoft/Sony Corp. [3644-43] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Bootstrapping color constancy, B. V. Funt, V. C. Cardei, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada) [3644-44] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Probablistic multichannel flow analysis based on a multipurpose visual representation of image sequences, O. Nestares, SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas, S.A. and Instituto de Optica (Spain); R. B. Navarro, Instituto de Optica (Spain) [3644-60] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Extraction of perceptually based texture features using wavelet decomposition, A. Mojsilovic, J. Kovacevic, D. A. Kall, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. [3644-46] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 10

Conv Ctr: Room J2 Thurs. 1:30 pm

Visual Attention and Search

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

1:30 pm: General-purpose localization of textured image regions, R. Rosenholtz, Xerox Palo Alto Research Ctr. [3644-47] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Fuzzy model for scene decomposition based on preattentive visual features, R. A. Brown, B. Pham, A. J. Maeder, Univ. of Ballarat (Australia) [3644-48] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Comparison of feature combination strategies for saliency-based visual attention systems, L. Itti, C. Koch, California Institute of Technology [3644-49] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Active visual computing model based on data and knowledge driven selective attention mechanism, F. Long, Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China); D. D. Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. (Hong Kong); N. Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China) [3644-50] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Sequential memory binding in human cortex for the scanpath vision process, L. W. Stark, C. M. Privitera, A. Chan, H. Yang, M. Azzariti, C. Krischer, A. Weinberger, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3644-51] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Methodology for dynamic scanpath analysis, T. T. Blackmon, D. A. Chernyak, M. Azzariti, Y. F. Ho, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3644-52] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Knowledge-based scene analysis with saccadic eye movements, K. Schill, E. Umkehrer, S. Beinlich, G. Krieger, C. Zetzsche, Univ. Muenchen Germany) [3644-64] - Add Paper

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

Moderators: Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.


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