2020 IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI 2020)

EI 2020 Conferences

17 technical conference programs and their joint sessions promote synergies within various topic areas. Frontiers in Imaging workshops introduce new topics to the EI community.

Human Perception and Cognition for Emerging Technologies

Topics include human visual, auditory and tactile perception, and cognition related to electronic imaging algorithms, methods, and applications; texture and material perception; image understanding; and task-based visualization. Special topics this year include: high-level adaptation, psychophysiological measures of image quality, cross-sensory perception, and visual aesthetics, art and emotion in electronic media.

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2020  (Chandler, McCourt, and Mulligan)

Real-time Image and Video

Topics include machine vision applications for industrial research and development; tracking and scene analysis for intelligent vehicles; automated video understanding; long-term surveillance with minimal intervention; semantic complexity; video analytics algorithms; 3D vision: modeling, representation, perception, processing, and recognition; and predictive 3D vision.

Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2020  (Jenkin, Denny, and van Beek)
Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision 2020  (Ngan, Niel, and Rӧning)

Image Capture Systems

Topics include in traditional and non-traditional digital cameras and their image processing pipelines; plenoptic devices; sensors for low-light imaging; very high dynamic range sensors and cameras; hyperspectral sensors and cameras; wearable multimedia systems; mobile games; multimedia data mining; and HCI design and techniques. NOTE that the Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2019 (PMII) and the Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2019 (IMSE) conferences have merged into the Imaging Sensors and Systems 2020 (ISS) conference.

Imaging Sensors and Systems 2020  (McElvain, Peizerat, Sampat. and Widenhorn)

Image Reproduction and Material Appearance

Topics include the effects of extra-spectral attributes; applications of color hard and soft copy; computer image analysis of art, cultural heritage and conservation applications, medical imaging, cartography, fine arts, new communications media, knowledge delivery; measurement of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDF), Bidirectional Texture Functions (BTF), and Bidirectional Surface Scattering Reflectance Distribution Function (BSSRDF); and quality evaluation of 2.5D and 3D soft- and hard-copy reproductions.

Color Imaging XXV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications  (Eschbach, Marcu, and Rizzi)
Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Art III (Hendriks and Stork)
Material Appearance 2020  (Herbert, Simonot, and Tastl)

Document Processing and Media Security

Topics include autonomous technology security and privacy, media forensics and authentication, biometrics and user identification, digital watermarking, steganography and data hiding, and physical object identification and interaction.

Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2020  (Alattar, Memon, and Sharma)

Image and Video Processing, Quality, and Systems

Topics include electrical resistance and impedance imaging; diffusion optical imaging; imagery-based surveillance and tracking; the readability of electronic paper and mobile displays; image preference measurement and modeling; medical and forensic imaging; genetic and evolutionary computing; steganography and data hiding, microarray imaging; electronic cinema; multimedia content retrieval; and image and video compression, communications, segmentation and recognition, restoration and enhancement.

Computational Imaging XVIII  (Bouman, Buzzard, and Stevenson)
Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems XVIII  (Agaian, Egiazarian, and Gotchev)
Image Quality and System Performance XVII  (Bonnier and Farias)

Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3D, and Stereoscopic Systems

Topics include virtual reality UI and UX; virtual and augmented reality in education, learning, gaming, art; 3D shape indexing and retrieval; scene analysis: from 2D views to 3D reconstruction and interpretation; stereoscopic image synthesis: 2D to 3D conversion, depth map generation, multi-viewpoint generation; computational reality: automated game play monitoring, real-time feedback via visual analysis; the geometry of 3D perceptual space; and 3D measurement data processing and recognition.

3D Measurement and Data Processing 2020  (Puech and Sitnik)
The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2020 (Dolinsky and McDowall)
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXXI  (Favalora, Holliman, Kawai, and Woods)

Web and Mobile Imaging and Visualization

Topics include image, video, and multimedia analytics: object tracking, face recognition, human detection and tracking; social networks: use of images and videos in social networks; video segmentation and tracking algorithms; Bayesian models for tracking and activity monitoring; social media; and multivariate time series visualization.

Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World 2020  (Allebach, Fan, and Lin)
Mobile Devices and Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications 2020  (Akopian and Creutzburg)
Visualization and Data Analysis 2020  (Chiang, Kao, Wischgoll, and Zhang)

Frontiers in Imaging

Introducing Food and Agriculture for EI 2020. Guaranteeing food security, understanding the impact of climate change in agriculture, quantifying the impact of extreme weather events on food production and automating the process of food quality control are a few topics where modern imaging technologies can provide much needed solutions. Follow the link to read about the keynote speakers for this exciting topic. Join the discussion for solutions in this critical area. 

Food and Agricultural Imaging Systems 2020  (Jaber, Tsagkatakis, and Yousefhussien)