Welcome to CIC16

On behalf of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology and the Society for Information Display, we are delighted to welcome you to the 16th IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference. We hope first-time attendees and familiar faces find these six days of color imaging in
Portland technically stimulating and a rewarding opportunity to network with industrial and academic colleagues from around the world. We have a full week planned—including many new and special events—and we invite you to take advantage of all the opportunities this meeting provides. An overview can be found on page 2.

The week begins with a comprehensive set of short courses that spans two days (Monday and Tuesday) and features the ever-popular Hunt Course. Short course chairs Fumio Nakaya and Stephen Westland have assembled a range of informative classes taught by experts in their fields, including many new offerings and four classes now offered on Monday. Monday also sees the return of ICC DevCon’08, which offers an opportunity to learn about the use and implementation of v4 ICC profiles.

The technical program begins Wednesday morning and CIC papers continue through noon on Friday. This year’s technical program chairs—Karen Braun and Moshe Ben-Chorin—have created a cutting-edge program on topics including printing, HDR, gamuts, capture, vision, appearance, and displays. Each morning begins with a keynote and this year we are fortunate to have Andrew Stockman presenting on the new CIE cone fundamental based standard, Mary Czerwinski providing an overview of large display research, and Robert W. G. Hunt presenting an intriguingly titled talk: “The Push-Me Pull-You of Color.”

2008 marks an expansion of the ever-popular Interactive Session. Interactive program chairs Francisco Imai and Peter Morovic created not one, but two, interactive sessions with corresponding spotlight previews. Interactive sessions provide direct access to authors, their
results, and a rich environment for peer discussion. We hope that you enjoy the additional technical content and greater participation that the new schedule allows.

Please plan to join us on Friday afternoon and evening for The Hunt Symposium. Organized by Michael Kriss, the symposium will honor the varied and extensive contributions Robert W. G. Hunt has made to the field of color imaging. The symposium and Hunt reception are included in the registration fee; attendance at the banquet requires a separate ticket. The week concludes Saturday with “The Black and White Meeting,”an ISCC Special Topics co-hosted by IS&T and SID.

We look forward to seeing you at the ICC DevCon, Welcome, Conference, and Hunt receptions, as well as the special Thursday evening microbrew outing we’ve planned to enjoy the fine local Portland beer scene. Please take advantage of these gatherings to meet new people, give us feedback about the conference, and engage in detailed discussions of the day’s technical presentations.

Finally sincere thanks and appreciation to the entire conference committee, reviewers, session chairs, AV Chair Vien Cheung, and the dexterous and professional staff at IS&T. We hope you have a wonderful and productive time at the 16th Color Imaging Conference.

—James Larimer and Nathan Moroney,
General Chairs CIC16

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