Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference Sponsored by SPIE and IS&T
Bernice Rogowitz and Thrasyvoulos Pappas, Chairs
San Jose Convention Center, January 18-21, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Keynote Session
Session Chairs: Bernice Rogowitz and Thrasos Pappas
Monday, January 18, 2010
10:30 Georges Grinstein, Keynote U Mass, Lowell
Visualization Grand Challenges
11:15 Roger Kendall, Keynote, UCLA
Music in film and animation: Experimental semiotics applied to visual sound and musical structures
12:00 Lunch
Artificial Retina
Session Chair: Mel Sahyun
1:40 J.-M. Seo, Seoul
Electrico-retinal simulation for prosthetic vision
2:00 D. Shire, Cornell
Engineering development of the Boston visual prosthesis
2:20 T. Fujikado, Osaka
The acute clinical trial of artificial retina by suprachoroidal-transretinal stimulation
2:40 R. Iezzi, Mayo Clinic
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3:00 Coffee
Advanced Brain Imaging, Perception and Cognition
Session Chairs: Lora Likova and Stan Klein
Monday, January 18, 2010
3:30 Stanley Klein, Thom Carney, David Kim, UC Berkeley
Isolating early vision sources of EEG and MEG by using fMRI and MRI.
3:50 Lora T Likova, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Noninvasive “reading” of the neural signal from BOLD fMRI.
4:10 Srikantan Nagarajan, UCSF
Application of machine learning algorithms to human functional brain imaging.
4:30 Adam Gazzaley, UCSF
Top-down modulation: The crossroads of perception, attention and memory.
4:50 Ayelet N. Landau, William Prinzmetal, Lynn C. Robertson, and Michael A. Silver
Neural circuits mediating voluntary and involuntary attention: A functional MRI coherency study.
5:10 Cliff Saron, Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis Training attention: Longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation.
5:30-6:30 Interactive Discussion: Keynote Talks, Artificial Retina, Perception and Brain Imaging
7:30 Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet
Monday Evening, January 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 20, 2010
Session: Advances in Image Quality
Session Chair: Eli Peli
Tuesday Morning, January 19, 2010
9:30 Sabine Susstrunk 7527-21 invited Toward a comprehensive color image quality metric
10:00 Russell Woods Statistical analysis of subjective preferences for video enhancement
10:20 David Rouse Tradeoffs in subjective testing methods for image and video quality assessment
10:40 Coffee
11:10 Kil Joong Kim Calibration of the visual difference predictor for estimating visibility of JPEG2K compression artifacts in medical CT images
11:30 Kalpana Seshadrinathan A Subjective Study to Evaluate Video Quality Assessment Algorithms
11:50 David Hands Subjective assessment of HDTV content: comparison of quality across HDTV formats
12:10 Lunch
Session: New Directions in Image Quality
Session Chair: Bernice Rogowitz
Tuesday afternoon, January 19, 2010
1:40 James A. Ferwerda RIT The medium and the message: a re-visionist view of image quality
2:00 Junli Wang Quantifying the relationship between visual salience and visual importance
2:20 Sachin Deshpande Synchronization mismatch: Vernier acuity and perception evaluation for large ultrahigh resolution tiled displays
2:40 Nicholas Tran A perceptual similarity measure based on smoothing filters and the normalized compression distance
3:00 Coffee
Session: Visual, Auditory and Tactile Texture Perception
Session Chair: Thrasyvoulos Pappas
Tuesday afternoon, January 19, 2010
3:30 Rene Van Egmund Subband analysis and synthesis of real world textures for objective and subjective determination of roughness
3:50 Pantelis Vassilakis Psychoacoustical and cognitive aspects of auditory roughness
4:10 Martin Wijntjes Haptics for bank note design
4:30 Darling Tangible display systems: the development of tangible interfaces for computer-based studies of surface appearance
4:50 Lightening Session- Poster preview (30 minutes)
Chair: Bernice Rogowitz
2-slides/2 minutes for each poster 9 posters
5:30 POSTER Session
Tuesday afternoon, January 19, 2010
Jimmy Wang Learning exponential transformation models of natural images
Hantao Liu No-reference image quality assessment based on localized gradient statistics: application to JPEG and JPEG2000
Andrew Kuntz Automated videography for residential communications
Huang Min Evaluation of subjective and objective color difference on color image
Anush Moorthy Efficient motion weighted spatio-temporal video SSIM index
Kjell Brunnström The impact of transmission errors on progressive 720 lines HDTV coded with H.264
Xuanqin Mou Divisive normalization in channelized Hotelling observer
Umesh Rajashekar Full-reference color image quality assessment using adaptive signal representations
Chang-Lin Huang Face image illumination normalization for face recognition
Dan Luo PCA-based method for recognizing multiple persons' hand gestures from the video sequence acquired by a moving camera
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Session: Art and Science Render the High-Dynamic-Range World Session Chair: John McCann
Wednesday January 20, 2010
9:30 AM John Sexton, Photographer, Keynote
Photographing the range of light: Works by Ansel Adams and John Sexton
10:10 AM John McCann, McCann Imaging
The Ansel Adams Zone System: Chemical HDR capture and range Compression
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10:30 Jodi Throckmorton, San Jose Museum
Tour of "Ansel Adams:Early Works", travel to the San Jose Museum of Art
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Carinna Parramen, UWE, E104-33 invited
The drama of illumination: Artists' approaches to the creation of HDR in painting and prints
2:00 Christopher Tyler
Darkness and depth in early Renaissance painting
2:20 Rafal Mantiuk
The luminance of pure black: exploring the effect of surround
2:40 A. Rizzi U. Milano
Object size, spatial frequency content, and retinal contrast
3:00 Coffee
3:30 Brian Funt
The effect of exposure on MaxRGB color constancy
3:50 Jonathan Philips
Eye tracking apparent gloss: a case study on the impact of dynamic range on rendered surface appearance
4:10 Dawid Tajak
Visual maladaptation in the contrast domain
4:30- 6:00 Interactive Discussion: Image Quality, New Directions in Image Quality, Multi-modal Texture, High Dynamic Range
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Session: Perceptual and Cognitive Experiments in Virtual Environments
Session Chair: Bernice Rogowitz
Thursday, January 21, 2010
9:00 Tetsuri Inoue Effect of foreground images on self-motion induced by immersive display
9:20 Frank Meijer Synthetic environments as visualization method for product design
9:40 Phil Jepson Visualization and sonification of human locomotion data for rehabilitative biofeedback
10:00 Coffee
Session: Cognition, Attention, and Eye-Movements in Image Analysis
Session Chair: Thrasos Pappas
Thursday, January 21, 2010
10:30 Aurélie Lemaitre Interest of perceptive vision for document structure analysis
10:50 Sheikh Faisal Rashid Visual recognition of permuted words
11:10 Amir Teymourian Perception enhancement of moving objects by luminance matching algorithm based on human vision system
11:30 Feng Li Effects of stimulus size and velocity on steady-state smooth pursuit induced by realistic images
11:50 Lunch
Session: Art, Aesthetics and Perception
Session Chair: Christopher Tyler and Hawley Rising
Thursday, January 21, 2010
1:40 PM Stephen E. Palmer, Keynote
Preferences for individual colors: WAVEs of color, culture, music, and emotion
2:20 AM Karen Schloss, UC Berkeley
Aesthetics of color combinations
2:40 Daniel Graham, Dartmouth
Preference and similarity in art
3:00 Coffee
3:20 Adam Gazzaley, UC San Francisco
Top-down and bottom-up influences in nature photography
3:40 Leigh Markopoulos, California College for the Arts
Perceiving the invisible.
4:00 Hawley K. Rising III, Independent consultant
Rendering nothingness: Reality and aesthetics in Haboku landscape for understanding cognition and computer interfaces
4:20 Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
How did Leonardo perceive himself? Metric iconography of da Vinci's self portraits
4:40 David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations
What computer vision reveals about human perception of art
5:00 – 6:00 Interactive Discussion: Virtual Environments, Attention and Eyemovements, Art, Aesthetics and Perception