Conference 3959
Monday-Thursday 24-27 January 2000
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3959

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging V

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.; 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); Jennifer L. Gille, Raytheon ITSS; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Eugenio Martinez-Uriegas, SRI International; John J. McCann, McCann Imaging; Adar Pelah, Univ. of Cambridge (UK); Heidi A. Peterson, Sarnoff Corp.; Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue Univ.; Christine I. Podilchuk, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.; 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 24 January

Keynote Address Mon. 9:30 to 10:10 am

9:30 am: Surprising perspectives, Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands) [3959-01] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:10 to 10:30 am

SESSION 1

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Mon.10:30 am

Image Quality

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

10:30 am: Perceived lightness difference with regard to spatial frequency and amplitude modulation, M. Wang, K. J. Parker, Univ. of Rochester; K. E. Spaulding, Q. Yu, R. L. Miller, Eastman Kodak Co. [3959-02] - Add Paper

10:50 am: Resolution and bit depth: how much is enough? R. V. Klassen, K. Janamanchi, Xerox Corp. [3959-03] - Add Paper

11:10 am: Quality metric design: a closer look, S. Winkler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) [3959-04] - Add Paper

11:30 am: Influence of processing method, bit-rate, and scene content on perceived and predicted image quality, L. Meesters, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands) [3959-05] - Add Paper

11:50 am: Univariant assessment of the visual quality of images, M. Jung, D. Leger, ONERA Ctr. de Toulouse (France) [3959-06] - Add Paper

Lunch Break 12:10 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 2

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Mon. 1:30 pm

Higher Level Processes in Image Quality

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

1:30 pm: Percentage scaling: a new method for evaluating multiple impaired images, H. de Ridder, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); M. C. Willemsen, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands) [3959-07] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Information-processing approach to image quality, T. J. W. M. Janssen, F. J. J. Blommaert, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands) [3959-08] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Comparison of video compression evaluation metrics for military applications, J. Leachtenauer, J/M Leachtenauer Associates Inc. [3959-09] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Detectability and annoyance value of MPEG-2 artifacts inserted in uncompressed video sequences, M. S. Moore, J. M. Foley, S. K. Mitra, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara [3959-10] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Evaluation of image appeal in consumer photography, A. E. Savakis, S. Etz, Eastman Kodak Co. [3959-11] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 3

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Mon. 3:30 pm

Image Quality Standards

Chair: Ann M. Rohaly, Tektronix, Inc.

3:30 pm: Overview of standardization activities related to digital television, D. Fibush, Tektronix Inc. [3959-12] - Add Paper

3:50 pm: Video quality experts group: the quest for valid objective methods, P. J. Corriveau, Communications Research Ctr. (Canada); A. A. Webster, U.S. Dept. of Commerce [3959-13] - Add Paper

4:10 pm: Modelfest: first year results and plans for year two, T. Carney, Neurometrics Institute; C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; A. B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; W. Makous, Univ. of Rochester; B. Beutter, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; C. C. Chen, A. M. Norcia, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [3959-14] - Add Paper

4:30 pm: Modelfest: imaging the underlying channel structure, C. C. Chen, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [3959-15] - Add Paper

4:50 pm: IEEE task force on finding a standard unit of measure for video quality assessment, J. M. Libert, National Institute of Standards and Technology [3959-16] - Add Paper

Discussion Session 5:10 to 6:00 pm

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Hilton Hotel: Almaden Room I · Monday 24 January · 7 to 10 pm

Guest Speaker: Lawrence W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley

A History of Cybernetics: Personal Reminiscences

Dinner will start at 7 pm.

Tuesday 25 January

Plenary Speaker

Tuesday · 8:30 to 9:15 am

Evolution of Digital Photography

Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology

SESSION 4

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Tues. 9:30 am

Perceptually Based Image Coding Algorithms

Chair: Heidi A. Peterson, Sarnoff Corp.

9:30 am: Perceptually adapted MPEG video encoding, P. Bordes, P. Guillotel, Thomson Multimedia (France) [3959-17] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Detection of distortion in small moving images compared to the predictions of spatio-temporal model, K. Brunnström, B. N. Schenkman, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden); A. J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr. [3959-18] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Comparative study of focused JPEG compression, FJPEG, C. M. Privitera, L. W. Stark, Y. F. Ho, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3959-19] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Image compression related contrast masking measurements, M. J. Nadenau, J. Reichel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) [3959-20] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Wavelet coefficient quantization to produce equivalent visual distortions in complex stimuli, S. S. Hemami, M. G. Ramos, Cornell Univ. [3959-21] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Masking effects in the quality assessment of coded images, N. Bekkat, A. Saadane, D. Barba, Univ. de Nantes (France) [3959-22] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 5

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Tues. 1:30 pm

Advances in Perceptual Modeling

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

1:30 pm:Intensity JND comes from Poisson internal (neural noise) (Invited Paper), J. Allen, AT&T Labs. [3959-23] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Measurements of internal noise in achromatic and chromatic channels: human versus model experiments, Y. E. Shelepin, Pavlov Institute of Physiology (Russia); N. Krasilnikov, O. I. Krasilnikova, St. Petersburg State Univ. of Aerospace Instrumentation (Russia) [3959-24] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Sensitivity to auditory-visual asynchrony and to jitter in auditory-visual timing, S. van de Par, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands); A. Kohlrausch, IPO. Ctr for Research on User-System Interaction and Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) [3959-25] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Calculating the lightness of areas in a single plane, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [3959-26] - Add Paper

3:10 pm: How do we recognize images? L. W. Stark, H. Yang, M. Azzariti, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3959-27] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:30 to 4:00 pm

SESSION 6

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Tues. 4:00 pm

Perception in Medical Imaging Technologies

Chair: Miguel P. Eckstein, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr.

4:00 pm: Lessons from image perception studies for the design of medical imaging systems (Invited Paper), D. L. Wilson, K. N. Jabri, R. M. Manjeshwar, Y. Srinivas, K. A. Salem, Case Western Reserve Univ. [3959-28] - Add Paper

4:40 pm: Medical image perception: evaluating the role of experience, E. A. Krupinski, Univ. of Arizona [3959-29] - Add Paper

5:00 pm: Visual recognition of complex medical lesions by 2D shape, A. Chodorowski, T. Gustavsson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); U. Mattsson, Karlstad Central Hospital (Sweden) [3959-30] - Add Paper

Discussion Session 5:20 to 6:45 pm

Wednesday 26 January

Plenary Speaker

Wednesday · 8:30 to 9:15 am

The Co-evolution of Humans and Computers

A. John Michaelis, R.R. Donnelly & Sons Co.

SESSION 7

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Wed. 9:30 am

Perceiving and Using Color

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

9:30 am: Color group selection for computer interfaces, P. Lyons, Massey Univ (New Zealand); G. Moretti, Massey Univ. (New Zealand); M. Wilson, Harvest Electronics USA Inc. [3959-31] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Linguistic color processing for human-like vision systems, M. Fathi-Torbaghan, L. Hildebrand, Univ. Dortmund (Germany) [3959-32] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Building perceptual color maps for visualizing interval data, B. E. Rogowitz, A. D. Kalvin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; A. Pelah, Univ. of Cambridge (UK); A. Cohen, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [3959-33] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Vision-based strategy to improve the color misregistration of image capturing devices, X. Feng, S. J. Daly, Sharp Labs. of America [3959-34] - Add Paper

11:20 am: New approach to quantization and processing of color images, A. Mojsilovic, E. Soljanin, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. [3959-35] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Computing color categories, S. N. Yendrikhovskij, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands) [3959-36] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 1:50 pm

SESSION 8

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Wed. 1:50 pm

Perceptual Issues in Visualization and Graphics

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

1:50 pm: Visualization technique for improved situation awareness, J. D. Walrath, R. P. Winkler, P. J. Emmerman, Army Research Lab.; C. M. Hoffmann, Y. J. Kim, Purdue Univ. [3959-37] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Perceptual issues in substituting texture for geometry, H. E. Rushmeier, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [3959-39] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Shape similarity and simplification, P. Forte, Kingston Univ. (UK) [3959-40] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Effects of sterographic viewing on shape understanding, R. A. Browse, J. C. Rodger, L. Y. Drewell, Queen's Univ. (Canada) [3959-41] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

SESSION 9

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Wed. 3:40 pm

Image Analysis and Perception

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

3:40 pm: Inversion processes in the human visual system, H. K. Rising III, Sony Electronics, Inc. [3959-42] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Color constant texture segmentation, T. Gevers, J. van de Weijer, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands) [3959-43] - Add Paper

4:20 pm: Applying perceptually based metrics to textural image retrieval methods, J. S. Payne, Buckinghamshire Chilterns Univ. College (UK); L. Hepplewhite, T. J. Stonham, Brunel Univ. (UK) [3959-44] - Add Paper

4:40 pm: Ground truth for training and evaluation of automatic "main subject" detection, S. Etz, J. Luo, Eastman Kodak Co. [3959-45] - Add Paper

5:00 pm: Moving to continuous facial expression space using the MPEG-4 facial definition parameter (FDP) set, K. Karpouzis, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. D. Kollias, National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece) [3959-46] - Add Paper

5:20 pm: Spatial summation of face information, C. Chen, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [3959-47] - Add Paper

Posters -Wednesday

Posters will be placed on display at 10:00 am Wednesday, 26 January in the Arcade area (just West of the main entrance) on the street level of the Convention Center. A poster reception, with authors present at their papers, will be held Wednesday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 pm in that area. Light refreshments will be served.

Coding and Image Quality

• Fractal coding of wavelet image based on human vision's contrast masking effect, H. Wei, L. Shen, Beijing Polytechnic Univ. (China) [3959-55] - Add Paper
• Frequency and spatial pooling of visual differences for still image quality assessment: a study, P. Le Callet, A. Saadane, D. Barba, Univ. de Nantes (France) [3959-56] - Add Paper
• Mosquito noise in MPEG compressed video: test patterns and metrics, C. P. Fenimore, J. M. Libert, National Institute of Standards and Technology [3959-72] - Add Paper

Halftoning

• Metric for texture characterization, C. Cuciurean-Zapan, N. Ramesh, Xerox Corp. [3959-58] - Add Paper
• Practical examination of halftoning with green noise masks, B. E. Cooper, Lexmark International, Inc.; D. L. Lau, Univ. of Delaware [3959-59] - Add Paper
• Adaptive hierarchical filtering technique for high-quality magazine image reproduction, J. S. Shu, A. K. Bhattacharjya, T. N. Lin, Epson Research and Development, Inc.; T. Shiozaki, Seiko Epson Corp. (Japan) [3959-60] - Add Paper

Image Analysis

• Clustering algorithms to obtain regions-of interest: a comparative study, C. M. Privitera, N. Krishnan, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3959-61] - Add Paper
• Scanpath-based model for visual tracking of telerobots, Y. F. Ho, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [3959-62] - Add Paper
• Human eye retina modeling for image edge detection, S. M. El-Hefnawy, A. M. Nasr, Mansoura Univ. (Egypt) [3959-63] - Add Paper
• Robust active contour: growing snakes, F. A. Velasco, Univ. Michoacana de S.N.H. (Mexico); J. L. Marroqúin Zaleta, Ctr. de Investigaciónes en Matematicas, A.C. (Mexico) [3959-64] - Add Paper
• Near-Gabor filter banks for feature extraction and curvature estimation, S. J. Purves, S. S. Dlay, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) [3959-66] - Add Paper
• Segmentation of stereo terrain images, D. A. George, C. M. Privitera, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley; T. T. Blackmon, E. Zbinden, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [3959-73] - Add Paper

Perception

• Response of the human pupil to geometrically changed light stimuli, W. Kesseler, B. Hill, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany) [3959-67] - Add Paper
• Color deducto: playing games to learn about color, J. Orwant, W. Bender, MIT Media Lab. [3959-79] - Add Paper
• Changes in shape perception by varying the setting, A. J. van Doorn, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands) [3959-80] - Add Paper

Other

• Image radius-vector scanning, Y. I. Kovrigin, Tomsk State Univ. of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (Russia) [3959-70] - Add Paper
• Pupillary responses by chromatic stimulus, E. Suaste-Gomez, M. A. Rodríguez Guzmán, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (Mexico); C. Druzgalski, California State Univ./Long Beach [3959-71] - Add Paper

Thursday 27 January

Plenary Speaker

Convention Center Room J2 · Thursday · 8:30 to 9:15 am

Multispectral Imaging: Fundamental and Applications

Yoichi Miyake, Chiba Univ. (Japan)

SESSION 10

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Thurs. 9:30 am

Perceptually Controlled Devices and Robots

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

9:30 am: Usability evaluation of remote controller for digital television receivers, K. Komine, N. Hiruma, T. Ishihara, E. Makino, T. Tsuda, T. Ito, H. Isono, NHK Science and Technical Research Labs. (Japan) [3959-48] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Automatic control of a robot camera for broadcasting and subjective evaluation and analysis of reproduced images, D. Kato, A. Ishikawa, T. Tsuda, H. Fukushima, S. Shimoda, NHK Science and Technical Research Labs. (Japan); T. Higuchi, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics (Japan) [3959-49] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Landmark-based robot navigation enhanced with color interest operators, H. Jagannathan, Univ. of Madras (India) [3959-50] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

SESSION 11

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Thurs.11:00 am

Technological Impacts on Art

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

11:00 am: Perspective as a geometric tool that launched the Renaissance, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [3959-79] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Crossing boundaries: imaging innovations in art and science, A. Ione, Berkeley, CA [3959-75] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Reverspectives: see how they turn, T. V. Papathomas, Rutgers Univ. [3959-74] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 2:00 pm

SESSION 12

Conv Ctr: Room J3 Thurs. 2:00 pm

Presence and Perception in Natural Environments

Chairs: Huib de Ridder, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands)

2:00 pm: Presence: concept, determinants, and measurement, W. A. IJsselsteijn, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands); H. de Ridder, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands) [3959-51] - Add Paper

2:20 pm: Focus group exploration of presence through advance broadcast services, J. Freeman, Univ. of London (UK); S. E. Avons, Univ. of Essex (UK) [3959-76] - Add Paper

2:40 pm: Broadcasting presence: immersive television!, D. Harrison, N. Lodge, Independent Television Commission (UK) [3959-77] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:20 pm

3:20 pm: Visual conspicuity of objects in complex scenes, T. Boersema, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); H. J. Zwaga, Utrecht Univ. (Netherlands) [3959-52] - Add Paper

3:40 pm: Learning theoretic analogue of the fundamental theorem of theory space curves in perceptual geometry, A. Assadi, H. Eghbalnia, J. Carew, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison [3959-54] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Portable eyetracking: a study of natural eye movements, J. B. Pelz, J. S. Babcock, D. Kucharczyk, D. Konno, Rochester Institute of Technology [3959-53] - Add Paper

Discussion Session 4:20 to 6:00 pm

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