Preliminary Program

EI 2018 Conferences

18 technical conference programs and 24 joint sessions promote synergies within various topic areas

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 2018  (Rogowitz, Pappas, and de Ridder)

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.

Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2018  (Darmont, Peizerat, and Widenhorn)
Mobile Devices and Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications 2018  (Akopian and Creutzburg)
Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2018  (He, Li, and McElvain)

Image Reproduction and Material Appearance

Topics include the effects of extra-spectral attributes; applications of color hard and soft copy: 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 XXIII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications  (Eschbach, Marcu, and Rizzi)
Material Appearance 2018  (Imai, Herbert, 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 2018  (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 XVI  (Bouman and Stevenson)
Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems XVI  (Egiazarian, Agaian, and Gotchev)
Image Quality and System Performance XV  (Jin and Perry)
Visual Information Processing and Communication IX  (Zhu, Reibman, and Delp)

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 Image Processing, Measurement (3DIPM), and Applications 2018  (Puech and Sitnik)
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX  (Woods, Holliman, Favalora, Kawai, and Sommer)
The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018  (Dolinsky and McDowall)

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 2018  (Zhang, Moore, and Denny)
Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision 2018  (Ngan, Niel, and Rӧning)
Surveillance Joint Session: Applications and Algorithms  (Vantaram)

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 2018  (Allebach, Fan, and Lin)
Visualization and Data Analysis 2018  (Chiang, Kao, Wischgoll, and Zhang)