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2013 HVEI Theme and Invited Talks

In honor of our 25th anniversary, in addition to the special invited papers, we will be presenting invited "theme" talks that trace important trends at the interface between human vision and electronic imaging, at HVEI and in the broader scientific community, now and into the future.

Session 1: Lightness and Color
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Monday 4 February 2:00 pm

• 2:00 pm: Lightness perception in imaging and art (Invited)
  Alan L. Gilchrist, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey (United States)

• 2:50 pm: Spatial imaging in color and HDR: Prometheus unchained (Theme)
  John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

Session 2: Vision and the Evolution of Technology
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Monday 4 February 3:40 pm

• 3:40 pm: Presenting visual stimuli: past and present (Invited)
  Gerald Westheimer, Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States)

• 4:10 pm: Emerging technologies: 25 years (Theme)
  Hawley K. Rising III, Consultant (United States)

• 4:40 pm: What brain imaging technology can tell us about perception and consciousness (Theme)
  Lora T. Likova, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (United States)

• 5:10 pm: Perceptual approaches to finding features in data (Theme)
  Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting (United States)

Session 3: Early Vision Image Quality I
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Tuesday 5 February 9:30 am

• 9:30 am: Is image quality a function of contrast perception? The side-by-side developments at HVEI (Theme)
  Andrew M. Haun, Eli Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute (United States)

• 10:00 am: Visible contrast energy metrics for detection and discrimination (Theme)
  Albert J. Ahumada, NASA Ames Research Ctr. (United States)

Session 4: Early Vision Image Quality II
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Tuesday 5 February 11:00 am

• 11:00 am: Visual image quality: coding (Theme)
  Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell Univ. (United States)

Session 5: Higher-Level Issues in Image Quality I
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Tuesday 5 February 2:00 pm

• 2:00 pm: From image quality to atmosphere experience: how evolutions in technology impact experience assessment (Theme)
  Ingrid Heynderickx, Philips Research Nederland B.V. (Netherlands) and Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Huib de Ridder, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)

Session 6: Higher-Level Issues in Image Quality II
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Tuesday 5 February 4:00 pm

• 4:00 pm: Subjective matters: from image quality to image psychology (Theme)
  Elena A. Fedorovskaya, RadixNova (United States); Huib de Ridder, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)

Session 7: Perception and Natural Environments: Image Statistics, Texture, and Features I
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Wednesday 6 February 9:30 am

• 9:30 am: The rough side of texture: texture analysis through
  the lens of HVEI (Theme)
  Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ. (United States)

• 10:00 am: Adapting environments to observers (Invited)
  Michael A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada, Reno (United States)

Session 8: Perception and Natural Environments: Image Statistics, Texture, and Features II
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Wednesday 6 February 11:00 am

• 11:00 am: Efficient image representations and features (Theme)
  Erhardt Barth, Univ. zu Luebeck (Germany); Michael Dorr, Harvard Medical School (United States) Eleonora Vig, Harvard Univ. (United States)

Session 10: Attention and Saliency: From Perception to Applications
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Thursday 7 February 8:30 am

• 8:30 am: The evolution of attention research: exploring the interplay of bottom-up and top-down processes (Theme)
  Laurent Itti, The Univ. of Southern California (United States)

Session 11: Eye Movements and Visual Tasks in Complex Environments
SF Hyatt Regency Hotel Regency Ballroom B Thursday 7 February 10:00 am

• 10:00 am: Binocular eye movements in health and disease (Theme)
  Christopher W. Tyler, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (United States)