Conference 4299
Conv. Ctr. Room J3
Monday-Thursday 22-25 January 2001
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4299

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI

Monday 22 January

SESSION 1

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 8:50 am

Keynote Session: Human and Computer Vision in Electronic Imaging

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

8:50 am: On seeing stuff: the perception of materials by humans and machines (Keynote Address), Edward H. Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [4299-19] - Add Paper

9:30 am: Computer graphics and vision (Keynote Address), Patrick Hanrahan, Stanford Univ. [4299-77] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:10 to 10:30 am

10:30 am: Using virtual reality to study perception: understanding the moon illusion (Keynote Address), James H. Kaufman, IBM Almaden Research Ctr.; Lloyd Kaufman, New York Univ. [4299-02] - Add Paper

SESSION 2

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon.11:10 am

Modeling Spatial Vision

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

11:10 am: End-stopped, hypercomplex, and dot-responsive cells: basic models of detectors selective to intrinsically two-dimensional signals, C. Zetzsche, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany); G. Krieger, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany) [4299-03] - Add Paper

11:30 am: Problems with the spatial frequency filter model, S. A. Klein, Univ. of California/Berkeley; T. Carney, Neurometrics Institute and Univ. of California/Berkeley; D. Levi, Univ. of Houston [4299-04] - Add Paper

11:50 am: Adaptation to blur, J. MacDonald, M. A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/ Reno [4299-05] - Add Paper

Lunch Break 12:10 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 3

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 1:30 pm

Video Quality and Compression

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

1:30 pm: Measurement of visual impairment scales for digital video, A. B. Watson, L. Kreslake, NASA Ames Research Ctr. [4299-06] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Variations in the detectability and annoyance value of MPEG-2 artifacts with respect to its size, location, and duration, M. S. Moore, J. M. Foley, S. K. Mitra, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara [4299-07] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Subjective quality evaluation of low bitrate video, M. Masry, S. S. Hemami, Cornell Univ.; A. M. Rohaly, W. M. Osberger, Tektronix, Inc. [4299-08] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Visual fidelity and perceived quality: toward comprehensive metrics, S. Winkler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) [4299-09] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Diagnostically lossless video compression for angiogram data using a wavelet-based texture modeling approach, D. Gibson, G. Tsibidis, M. Spann, S. I. Woolley, Univ. of Birmingham (UK) [4299-10] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm

SESSION 4

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 3:30 pm

Perceptual Image Compression

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

3:30 pm: Perceptual wavelet scheme for image compression, S. Y. Zhu, K. N. Plataniotis, A. N. Venetsanopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) [4299-11] - Add Paper

3:50 pm: Robust perceptual coding of overcomplete frame expansions, J. Pinilla-Dutoit, S. I. Woolley, Univ. of Birmingham (UK) [4299-12] - Add Paper

4:10 pm: Perceptual coders and perceptual metrics, J. Chen, T. N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ. [4299-13] - Add Paper

4:30 pm: Metric to evaluate the texture visibility of halftone patterns, M. S. Wang, K. J. Parker, Univ. of Rochester [4299-14] - Add Paper

SESSION 5

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Mon. 4:50 pm

Color Image Metrics and Models

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

4:50 pm: Image evaluation using a color visual difference predictor (CVDP), M. Lian, Eastman Kodak Co. [4299-15] - Add Paper

5:10 pm: Masking in color images, A. J. Ahumada, Jr., NASA Ames Research Ctr.; W. K. Krebs, Naval Postgraduate School [4299-16] - Add Paper

5:30 pm: Computational color vision modeling for color appearance calculations, I. R. Moorhead, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (UK) [4299-17] - Add Paper

5:50 pm: Calculating the performance of a new "human vision" color constancy algorithm, H. Spitzer, S. Semo, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel) [4299-18] - Add Paper

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Hilton Hotel: Almaden Ballroom · Monday 22 January · 7 to 10 pm

Guest Speaker: John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

Great, but Forgotten Ideas in Color Theory

Dinner will start at 7 pm.

Tuesday 23 January

Plenary Speaker

Convention Center Room J2 * Tuesday * 8:30 to 9:15 am

Wireless Salutes Multimedia

Yrjö Neuvo, Nokia Mobile Phones

SESSION 6

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Tues. 9:30 am

Vision and Rendering of Material Properties I

Chair: Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)

9:30 am: Unconventional imaging: new methods for capturing high-dynamic range and wide field of view (Keynote Address), Shree K. Nayar, Columbia Univ. [4299-01] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Analysis of planar light fields from homogeneous convex curved surfaces under distant illumination, R. Ramamoorthi, P. Hanrahan, Stanford Univ. [4299-28] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

11:00 am: Comparison of recognition methods for 3D textured surfaces, K. J. Dana, O. Cula, Rutgers Univ. [4299-21] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Effects of surface microstructure on macroscopic image shading, D. Tadin, R. F. Haglund, Jr., J. S. Lappin, R. Peters, Vanderbilt Univ. [4299-22] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Estimating surface reflectance properties from images under unknown illumination, R. O. Dror, E. H. Adelson, A. S. Willsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [4299-23] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break Noon to 1:30 pm

SESSION 7

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Tues. 1:30 pm

Vision and Rendering of Material Properties II

Chair: Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)

1:30 pm: Understanding the color of human skin, E. Angelopoulou, Stevens Institute of Technology and Univ. of Pennsylvania [4299-24] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Correlation map analysis between appearance of Japanese facial images and amount of melanin and hemoglobin components in the skin, N. Tsumura, K. Uetsuki, Y. Miyake, Chiba Univ. (Japan) [4299-25] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Vision and the weather, S. K. Nayar, S. Narasimhan, Columbia Univ. [4299-26] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Bi-directional reflectance distribution factor and gloss scales, G. Obein, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France); T. R. Leroux, Electronics for Displays and Imaging Devices (France); F. Vienot, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France) [4299-20] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Psychophysically based model of surface gloss perception, J. A. Ferwerda, F. Pellacini, D. P. Greenberg, Cornell Univ. [4299-30] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Perception of lightness of glossy surfaces, E. Mingolla, Boston Univ.; J. T. Todd, Ohio State Univ.; J. Norman, Western Kentucky Univ. [4299-29] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Shading in the case of translucent objects, J. J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands); A. J. van Doorn, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands) [4299-32] - Add Paper

Discussion Session 4:30 to 5:30 pm

Posters -Tuesday

Posters will be placed on display after 10:00 am in the Civic Auditorium, Parkside Hall across from the Convention Center. A poster reception, with authors present at their posters, will be held Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served.

• Cognitive search model and a new query paradigm, Z. Xu, InfoLibria, Inc. [4299-63] - Add Paper
• Universal scheme for content-based video representation and indexing, G. Qi, C. C. Ko, L. C. De Silva, National Univ. of Singapore [4299-64] - Add Paper
• Effects of window size and letter spacing on reading rate, F. L. Florer, Marymount Manhattan College; A. S. Cox, Pelham High School [4299-67] - Add Paper
• Visual comfort of binocular and 3D displays, F. L. Kooi, M. Lucassen, TNO Human Factors Research Institute (Netherlands) [4299-70] - Add Paper
• Quality evaluation of extra high quality images based on key assessment word, M. Kameda, H. Hayashi, S. Akamatsu, M. M. Miyahara, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) [4299-71] - Add Paper
• A painting in space, A. W. Brody, C. Hartman, Univ. of Alaska/ Fairbanks [4299-72] - Add Paper
• Hierarchical network model for the analyses of human spatio-temporal information processing, K. Schill, V. Baier, F. Röhrbein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany); W. Brauer, Technische Univ. München (Germany) [4299-74] - Add Paper
• Luminance binocular disparity for 3D surface simulation, D. Paillé, A. Monot, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France); A. Kemeny, Renault (France) [4299-75] - Add Paper

Wednesday 24 January

Plenary Speaker

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

Digital Cinema: More Than a Century After Lumiere

Larry J. Hornbeck, Texas Instruments Inc.

SESSION 8

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Wed. 9:30 am

Shape Perception

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

9:30 am: Pictorial space correspondence in photographs of an object in different poses, A. J. van Doorn, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands); J. J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands) [4299-33] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Effect of texture orientation on the perception of 3D surface shape, V. Interrante, Univ. of Minnesota [4299-76] - Add Paper

10:10 am: Are image quality metrics adequate to evaluate the quality of geometric objects? H. E. Rushmeier, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [4299-35] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00 am

SESSION 9

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Wed.11:00 am

Visual Attention: Eye Movements and Region of Interest

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

11:00 am: Image recovery using selective attention, G. Dudek, S. Polifroni, F. P. Ferrie, McGill Univ. (Canada) [4299-36] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Top-down guided eye movements, D. A. Chernyak, L. W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley [4299-37] - Add Paper

11:40 am: Automatic identification of regions of interest in complex video sequences, W. M. Osberger, A. M. Rohaly, Tektronix, Inc. [4299-38] - Add Paper

Noon: Using human observers' eye movements in automatic image classifiers, A. Jaimes, Columbia Univ.; J. B. Pelz, J. S. Babcock, Rochester Institute of Technology; S. Chang, Columbia Univ. [4299-39] - Add Paper

Lunch/Exhibit Break 12:20 to 1:50 pm

SESSION 10

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Wed. 1:50 pm

Spatial Interactions and Human Vision

Chair: Michael H. Brill, Sarnoff Corp.

1:50 pm: Indispensibility of the frameworks concept in lightness, A. Gilchrist, Rutgers Univ. [4299-40] - Add Paper

2:20 pm: Benary's cross: belongedness or low-spatial frequency sampling, J. J. McCann, McCann Imaging [4299-41] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Environmental challenges to color constancy, L. Arend, Sarnoff Corp. [4299-42] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

3:40 pm: Lightness computation by a neural filling-in mechanism, M. E. Rudd, Univ. of Washington [4299-44] - Add Paper

4:00 pm: Simultaneous blur contrast, J. Taylor, M. A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/Reno [4299-45] - Add Paper

Panel Discussion

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 4:20 to 6:00 pm

How Much Vision is Early Vision?

Panel Moderators: Michael H. Brill, Sarnoff Corp.; Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Panel Members: E. H. Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence Arend, Sarnoff Corp; Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers Univ.; John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

Thursday 25 January

Plenary Speaker

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

The HAL 9000 Computer and the Vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey

David G. Stork, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc. and Stanford Univ.

SESSION 11

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 9:30 am

Visual and Sensory Motor Interactions

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

9:30 am: Transformation of visual direction requires the cognitive visual system, B. Bridgeman, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz [4299-46] - Add Paper

9:50 am: Using enhanced motion parallax and binocular disparity information in the control of manual manipulation task within telepresence, S. J. Watt, P. B. Hibbard, M. F. Bradshaw, I. R. L. Davies, N. S. Stringer, Univ. of Surrey (UK); A. Willis, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Farnborough (UK) [4299-47] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 10:10 to 10:40 am

SESSION 12

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs.10:40 am

Perceptual Calibration for Internet Color

Chair: Alan D. Kalvin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.

10:40 am: Using the human eye to characterize displays, J. Gille, Raytheon ITSS [4299-49] - Add Paper

11:00 am: Display gamma is an important factor in Web image viewing, X. Zhang, Agilent Technologies [4299-50] - Add Paper

11:20 am: Fast method for evaluating perceptually uniform colomaps on uncalibrated displays, A. D. Kalvin, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [4299-51] - Add Paper

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

SESSION 13

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 1:30 pm

Digital Libraries

Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

1:30 pm: Psychophysical approach to modeling image semantics, A. Mojsilovic, B. E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. [4299-52] - Add Paper

1:50 pm: Edge classification of color images based on psychophysical judgments, C. Charrier, Univ. Laval (Canada); H. Cherifi, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) [4299-53] - Add Paper

2:10 pm: Shape and spatial color information extraction for image retrieval, P. Androutsos, D. Ferrari, A. Ly, A. Persaud, D. Androutsos, K. N. Plataniotis, A. N. Venetsanopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) [4299-54] - Add Paper

2:30 pm: Performance-scalable computational approach to main subject detection in photographs, J. Luo, S. P. Etz, A. Singhal, R. T. Gray, Eastman Kodak Co. [4299-55] - Add Paper

2:50 pm: Image query based on color harmony, A. Vasile, W. R. Bender, MIT Media Lab. [4299-56] - Add Paper

Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:40 pm

SESSION 14

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 3:40 pm

Emotions and Electronic Imaging

Chair: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co.

3:40 pm: Building HAL: computers sensing, recognizing, and responding to human emotion (Keynote Address), Rosalind W. Picard, MIT Media Lab. [4299-57] - Add Paper

4:20 pm: Affective imaging for future generation interactive imaging systems, E. A. Fedorovskaya, G. Prabhu, C. Horwitz, T. Matraszek, Eastman Kodak Co.; P. Parks, Menninger Clinic; S. Endrikhovski, Eastman Kodak Co. [4299-58] - Add Paper

SESSION 15

Conv. Ctr. Room J3 Thurs. 4:40 pm

New Trends in Human Vision and Electronic Imaging

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

4:40 pm: Challenges in digital imaging for artificial human vision, J. Boyle, A. J. Maeder, W. W. Boles, Queensland Univ. of Technology (Australia) [4299-59] - Add Paper

5:00 pm: Subjective analysis of an HMM-based visual speech synthesizer, J. J. Williams, A. K. Katsaggelos, D. C. Garstecki, Northwestern Univ. [4299-60] - Add Paper

5:20 pm: Cognitive processes in scientific visualization, M. O. Lanzagorta, G. Trafton, R. Rosenberg, Naval Research Lab. [4299-61] - Add Paper

5:40 pm: Concepts of space in 20th century art, C. W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute [4299-62] - Add Paper

Discussion Session 6:00 to 7:00 pm