Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV (Conference 7527)

Conference Program Track: Imaging, Visualization, and Perception
Available in print as Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 7527
Dates: Monday-Thursday 18 - 21 January 2010

Cosponsored by Aptina Imaging

Conference Chairs
Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Program Committee
Albert J. Ahumada, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Erhardt Barth, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany); Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.; Michael H. Brill, Datacolor; John C. Dalton, Synthetik Software; Scott J. Daly, Sharp Labs of America, Inc.; Huib de Ridder, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands); Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Eastman Kodak Co.; Jennifer Gille, Qualcomm Inc.; Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell Univ.; Laurent Itti, Univ. of Southern California; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Patrick Le Callet, Univ. de Nantes (France); John J. McCann, McCann Imaging; Jeffrey B. Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Ct.; Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany); Adar Pelah, The Univ. of York (United Kingdom); Eliezer Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Hawley K. Rising, III, Consultant; Sabine E. Süsstrunk, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Christopher W. Tyler, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

Monday 18 January

Session 1: Keynote Session 1

Date: Monday 18 January
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Chairs: Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Music in film and animation: experimental semiotics applied to visual sound and musical structures
(Keynote Presentation)
Paper 7527-2
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Author(s): Lunch Break 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Session 2: Artificial Retina

Date: Monday 18 January
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Chair: Melville R. V. Sahyun, Consultant

Electrical retinal stimulation for the prosthetic vision: Seoul artificial retina project
Paper 7527-3
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Author(s):

In vivo operation of the Boston 15-channel wireless subretinal visual prosthesis
Paper 7527-4
Time: 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Author(s):

The acute clinical trial of artificial retina by suprachoroidal-transretinal stimulation
Paper 7527-5
Time: 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Author(s): Coffee Break 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 3: Advanced Brain Imaging, Perception, and Cognition

Date: Monday 18 January
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Session Chairs: Lora T. Likova, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Stanley A. Klein, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Probing the time order error using EEG/MEG source isolation
Paper 7527-7
Time: 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Author(s):

Cortical networks for drawing in the sighted and the blind: an fMRI study
Paper 7527-8
Time: 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Author(s):

Application of machine learning algorithms to human functional brain imaging
Paper 7527-9
Time: 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Author(s):

Top-down modulation: the crossroads of perception, attention, and memory
Paper 7527-10
Time: 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Author(s):

Neural circuits mediating voluntary and involuntary attention: a functional MRI coherency study
Paper 7527-11
Time: 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM
Author(s):


Training attention: longitudinal changes in cortical activity associated with intensive meditation

Paper 7527-12
Time: 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM
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Discussion Session Date: Monday 18 January
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Interactive discussion on the Keynote Presentations, Artificial Retina, Perception, and Brain Imaging papers.

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Banquet

Date: Monday 18 January
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM Tuesday 19 January Plenary Session I Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Room: Marriott Ballroom View full details. Automatic 3D Modeling and Analysis of Large Scale Urban Environments
Paper EI10SE-100
Time: 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Author(s):

Session 4: Advances in Image Quality

Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session Chair: Eliezer Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute

Toward a comprehensive color image quality metric (Invited
Paper)
Paper 7527-13
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Author(s):

Statistical analysis of subjective preferences for video enhancement
Paper 7527-14
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Author(s): Coffee Break 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

Tradeoffs in subjective testing methods for image and video quality assessment
Paper 7527-15
Time: 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Author(s):

Calibration of the visual difference predictor for estimating visibility of JPEG2K compression artifacts in medical CT images
Paper 7527-16
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Author(s):

A subjective study to evaluate video quality assessment algorithms
Paper 7527-17
Time: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Author(s):

Subjective assessment of HDTV content: comparison of quality across HDTV formats
Paper 7527-18
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Author(s): Lunch/Exhibition Break 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM

Session 5: New Directions in Image Quality

Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM Session Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting

The medium and the message: a revisionist view of image quality
Paper 7527-19
Time: 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Author(s):

Quantifying the relationship between visual salience and visual importance
Paper 7527-20
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Author(s):

Synchronization mismatch: Vernier acuity and perception evaluation for large ultrahigh resolution tiled displays
Paper 7527-21
Time: 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Author(s):

A perceptual similarity measure based on smoothing filters and the normalized compression distance
Paper 7527-22
Time: 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Author(s): Coffee Break 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 6: Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Perception

Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Session Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Subband analysis and synthesis of real-world textures for objective and subjective determination of roughness
Paper 7527-23
Time: 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Author(s):

Psychoacoustic and cognitive aspects of auditory roughness: definitions, models, and applications.
Paper 7527-24
Time: 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Author(s):

Audio-visual interactions in product sound design
Paper 7527-62
Time: 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Author(s):

Tangible display systems: direct interfaces for computer-based studies of surface appearance
Paper 7527-26
Time: 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Author(s):

Lightning Session: Interactive
Paper Preview Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 4:50 PM - 5:20 PM Session Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting Each author has 2 minutes to present 2 slides previewing their presentation for the Interactive
Paper Session. Interactive
Paper and Symposium Demonstration Session Date: Tuesday 19 January
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Room: Exhibit Hall 1 Demonstrations...5:30 to 8:00 pm A symposium-wide demonstration session will be open to attendees 5:30 to 8:00 pm Tuesday evening in Exhibit Hall 1. Demonstrators will provide interactive, hands-on demonstrations of hardware, software, and research products related to the topics covered by the Electronic Imaging conferences. Interactive
Papers...5:30 to 7:00 pm
Papers will be placed on display after 9:00 am in Exhibit Hall 1. An interactive paper session, with authors present at their papers, will be held Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 pm. No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Localized Gradient Statistics: Application to JPEG and JPEG2000
Paper 7527-52
Author(s):

Automated videography for residential communications
Paper 7527-53
Author(s):

Evaluation of subjective and objective color difference on color image
Paper 7527-54
Author(s):

Efficient motion weighted spatio-temporal video SSIM index
Paper 7527-55
Author(s):

The impact of transmission errors on progressive 720 lines HDTV coded with H.264
Paper 7527-56
Author(s):

Divisive normalization in channelized Hotelling observer
Paper 7527-57
Author(s):

Perceptual quality assessment of color images using adaptive signal representation
Paper 7527-58
Author(s):

Face image illumination normalization for face recognition
Paper 7527-59
Author(s):

Study of Recognizing Multiple Persons' Complicated Hand Gestures from the Video Sequence Acquired by a Moving Camera
Paper 7527-60
Author(s): Wednesday 20 January Award Announcements and Plenary Session II Date: Wednesday 20 January
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Room: Marriott Ballroom View full details. Hey! What Is That In Your Pocket? The Mobile Device Future
Paper EI10SE-200
Time: 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Author(s):

Session 7: Art and Science Render the High-Dynamic-Range World I

Date: Wednesday 20 January
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:50 AM Session Chair: John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

Photographing the range of light: works by Ansel Adams and John Sexton (Keynote Presentation)
Paper 7527-27
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Author(s):

The Ansel Adams Zone System: HDR Capture & Range Compression by Chemical Means
Paper 7527-28
Time: 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Author(s):

Ansel Adams: early works (Invited
Paper)
Paper 7527-61
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Author(s):

Tour of Ansel Adams: Early Works Date: Wednesday 20 January
Time: 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Jodi Throckmorton, San Jose Musuem of Art Lunch/Exhibition Break 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Session 8: Art and Science Render the High-Dynamic-Range World II

Date: Wednesday 20 January
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Session Chair: John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

The drama of illumination: artists' approaches to the creation of high dynamic range in paintings and prints (Invited
Paper)
Paper 7527-29
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Author(s):

Darkness and depth in early Renaissance painting
Paper 7527-30
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Author(s):

The luminance of pure black: exploring the effect of surround in the context of electronic displays
Paper 7527-31
Time: 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Author(s):

Object size, spatial frequency content, and retinal contrast
Paper 7527-32
Time: 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Author(s): Coffee Break 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The effect of exposure on MaxRGB color constancy
Paper 7527-33
Time: 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Author(s):

Gloss discrimination and eye movements: where do people look?
Paper 7527-34
Time: 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Author(s):

Visual maladaptation in contrast domain
Paper 7527-35
Time: 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Author(s):

Discussion Session Date: Wednesday 20 January
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Interactive discussion on Image Quality, New Directions in Image Quality, Multimodal Texture, and High Dynamic Range. Thursday 21 January

Session 9: Perceptual and Cognitive Experiments in Virtual Environments

Date: Thursday 21 January
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Session Chair: Bernice E. Rogowitz, Visual Perspectives Consulting

Effect of foreground images on self-motion induced by immersive display
Paper 7527-36
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Author(s):

Synthetic environments as visualization method for product design
Paper 7527-37
Time: 9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
Author(s):

Visualization and sonification of human locomotion data for rehabilitative biofeedback
Paper 7527-38
Time: 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Author(s): Coffee Break 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Session 10: Cognition, Attention, and Eye Movements in Image Analysis

Date: Thursday 21 January
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM Session Chair: Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Northwestern Univ.

Interest of perceptive vision for document structure analysis
Paper 7527-39
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Author(s):

Visual recognition of permuted words
Paper 7527-40
Time: 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Author(s):

Perception enhancement of moving objects by luminance matching algorithm based on human vision system
Paper 7527-41
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Author(s):

Effects of Stimulus Size and Velocity on Steady-State Smooth Pursuit Induced by Realistic Images
Paper 7527-42
Time: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Author(s): Lunch Break 11:50 AM - 1:30 PM

Session 11: Art, Aesthetics, and Perception

Date: Thursday 21 January
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:40 PM Session Chairs: Christopher W. Tyler, The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute; Hawley K. Rising, III, Consultant

Preferences for individual colors: WAVEs of color, culture, music, and emotion (Keynote Presentation)
Paper 7527-43
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Author(s):

Aesthetics of color combinations
Paper 7527-44
Time: 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Author(s):

Preference for Art: Similarity, Statistics, and Selling Price
Paper 7527-45
Time: 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Author(s): Coffee Break 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM

The death of the object: perceiving non-physical art
Paper 7527-47
Time: 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Author(s):

Rendering nothingness: reality and aesthetics in Haboku landscape for understanding cognition and computer interfaces
Paper 7527-48
Time: 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Author(s):

How did Leonardo perceive himself? Metric iconography of Leonardo's self-portraits
Paper 7527-49
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Author(s):

What computer vision reveals about human perception of art
Paper 7527-50
Time: 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
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Discussion Session Date: Thursday 21 January
Time: 4:40 PM - 5:40 PM Interactive discussion on Virtual Environments, Attention and Eye Movements, Art, Aesthetics, and Perception.