29 January - 2 February, 2017 • Burlingame, California USA

EI 2017 Joint Sessions


Monday January 30, 2017

Surface Appearance Modeling and Reproduction

Session Chair: Francisco Imai, Canon U.S.A. Inc. (United States)
3:30 – 4:50 PM
Regency Ballroom C

This session is jointly sponsored by: Material Appearance 2017 and Color Imaging XXII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications.

3:30MAAP-288
Modeling and reproducing effect paints, Gary Meyer and Avery Musbach, Univ of Minnesota (United States)

3:50MAAP-289
How to design a recto-verso print displaying different images in various everyday-life lighting conditions, Nicolas Dalloz1,2, Serge Mazauric1,3, Mathieu Hebert1, and Thierry Fournel1; 1Univ Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, 2Institut d'Optique Graduate School, and 3CPE Lyon (France)

4:10MAAP-290
Appearance decomposition and reconstruction of textured fluorescent objects, Shoji Tominaga, Keiji Kato, Keita Hirai, and Takahiko Horiuchi, Chiba University (Japan)

4:30MAAP-291
Assessing the proper color of translucent materials by an extended two-flux model from measurements based on an integrating sphere, Lionel Simonot1, Mathieu Hebert2, Serge Mazauric2,3, and Roger Hersch4; 1Université de Poitiers (France), 2Université Jean Monnet de Saint Etienne (France), 3CPE Lyon, Domaine Scientifique de la Doua (France), and 4École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)



Tuesday January 31, 2017

KEYNOTE: Mobile Device Camera IQ

Session Chairs: Susan Farnand, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Jackson Roland, Apple Inc. (United States)
8:50 – 9:20 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Quality and System Performance XIV and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

IQSP-249 Towards the development of the IEEE P1858 CPIQ standard – A validation study, Elaine Jin1, Jonathan Phillips1, Susan Farnand2, Margaret Belska3, Vinh Tran3, Ed Chang1, Yixuan Wang3, and Benjamin Tseng4; 1Google Inc. (United States), 2Rochester Institute of Technology (United States), 3NVIDIA (United States), and 4Apkudo (Australia)

Elaine W. Jin holds a PhD in optical engineering from Zhejiang University in China, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Chicago. She has worked in the imaging industry for 15+ years including employment at Polaroid Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, Micron Technologies, Aptina Imaging, Marvell Semiconductors, and Intel Corporation. She currently is a staff image scientist at Google, working on developing cutting-edge consumer hardware products. Her primary research interests include imaging systems design and analysis, color imaging, and psychophysics. She has published 22 journal and conference papers, and authored 14 US patents / patent applications. She joined the CPIQ initiative (Camera Phone Image Quality) in 2006, and since then has made major contributions in the development of the softcopy quality ruler method, and the CPIQ metrics for visual noise, texture blur, spatial frequency responses, chroma level, and color uniformity. She currently leads the Color/Tone Subgroup of the IEEE CPIQ Standard Working Group.

Human Vision and Stereoscopic Imaging

Session Chairs: Nicolas Holliman, University of Newcastle (United Kingdom), and Thrasyvoulos Pappas, Northwestern University (United States)
8:50 – 10:10 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom D

This session is jointly sponsored by: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVIII and Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2017.

8:50HVEI-378
Depth-compressed expression for providing natural, visual experiences with integral 3D displays, Yasuhito Sawahata and Toshiya Morita, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Japan)

9:10HVEI-379
Blind quality prediction of stereoscopic 3D images, Jiheng Wang1, Qingbo Wu2, Abdul Rehman1, Shiqi Wang1, and Zhou Wang1; 1University of Waterloo (Canada) and 2University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China)

9:30SD&A-380
Pseudo-haptic by stereoscopic images and effects on muscular activity, Takashi Kawai1, Fumiya Ohta1, Sanghyun Kim1, and Hiroyuki Morikawa1,2; 1Waseda University and 2Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan)

9:50SD&A-381
The effects of proximity cues on visual comfort when viewing stereoscopic contents (JIST-first), Yaohua Xie1, Danli Wang2, and Heng Qiao3; 1Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 3Central University of Finance and Economics (China)



Surface Appearance Assessment and Digital Methods I

Session Chair: Greg Ward, Dolby Laboratories (United States)
9:10 – 10:10 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom C

This session is jointly sponsored by: Material Appearance 2017 and 3D Image Processing, Measurement (3DIPM), and Applications 2017.

9:10MAAP-282
Graininess appearance of goniochromatic samples in lighting cabinets, Paola Iacomussi, Michela Radis, and Giuseppe Rossi, INRIM (Italy)

9:30MAAP-283
Measurement and evaluation method of orange peel, Takuroh Sone and Shuhei Watanabe, Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Japan)

9:50MAAP-284
Enhanced RTI for gloss reproduction, Peter Fornaro, Andrea Bianco, and Lukas Rosenthaler, Universitiy of Basel (Switzerland)



Mobile Device Camera IQ

Session Chairs: Susan Farnand, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Jackson Roland, Apple Inc. (United States)
9:20 – 10:20 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Quality and System Performance XIV and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

9:20IQSP-250
A methodology for perceptual image quality assessment of smartphone cameras – Color quality, Susan Farnand1, Young Jang2, Lark Kwon Choi2, and Chuck Han2; 1Rochester Institute of Technology, and 2Qualcomm Inc. (United States)

9:40IQSP-251
Assessing the ability of simulated laboratory scenes to predict the image quality performance of HDR captures (and rendering) of exterior scenes using mobile phone cameras, Amelia Spooner1, Ashley Solter1, Fernando Voltolini de Azambuja1, Nitin Sampat1, Stephen Viggiano1, Brian Rodricks2, and Cheng Lu3; 1Rochester Institute of Technology, 2SensorSpace, LLC, and 3Intel Corporation (United States)

10:00DPMI-252
Cell phone rankings!, Dietmar Wueller, Image Engineering GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)



Surface Appearance Assessment and Digital Methods II

Session Chair: Mathieu Hebert, Université Jean Monnet de Saint Etienne (France)
10:50 – 11:50 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom C

This session is jointly sponsored by: Material Appearance 2017 and 3D Image Processing, Measurement (3DIPM), and Applications 2017.

10:50MAAP-285
Consistent tool-independent virtual material appearance, Dar'ya Guarnera1, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera1, Cornelia Denk2, and Mashhuda Glencross1,3; 1Loughborough University (United Kingdom), 2BMW Research (Germany), and 3Switch That Limited (United Kingdom)

11:10MAAP-286
Interactive object surface retexturing using perceptual quality indexes, Keita Hirai, Wataru Suzuki, Yoshimitsu Yamada, and Takahiko Horiuchi, Chiba University (Japan)



MTF

Session Chairs: Peter Burns, Burns Digital Imaging, and Feng Li, GoPro Inc. (United States)
10:50 AM – 12:30 PM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Quality and System Performance XIV and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

10:50IQSP-253
Characterization of entire imaging plane spatial frequency response, Victor Lenchenkov, Orit Skorka, Stan Micinski, and Radu Ispasoiu, ON Semiconductor (United States)

11:10IQSP-254
Reverse-projection method for measuring camera MTF, Stan Birchfield, Microsoft Corporation (United States)

11:30IQSP-255
Texture MTF from images of natural scenes, Riccardo Branca1, Sophie Triantaphillidou1, and Peter Burns2; 1University of Westminster (United Kingdom) and 2Burns Digital Imaging (United States)

11:50DPMI-256
Camera phone texture preservation measurements with modulation transfer function: An alternative approach for noise estimation of random texture chart images, Nitin Suresh1,2, Joshua Pfefer1, and Quanzeng Wang1; 1U.S. Food and Drug Administration and 2University of Maryland (United States)

12:10IQSP-257
The effects of misregistration on the dead leaves cross-correlation texture blur analysis, Ranga Burada1, Robert Sumner1, and Noah Kram2; 1Imatest, LLC and 2Rochester Institute of Technology (United States)



Image Interpolation, Restoration, and Denoising

Session Chairs: Karen Egiazarian, Tampere University of Technology (Finland), and Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII and Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems XV.

3:30DPMI-083
BM3D-HVS: Content-adaptive denoising for improved visual quality (Invited), Karen Egiazarian1,2, Aram Danielyan2, Nikolay Ponomarenko1,2, Alessandro Foi1,2, Oleg Ieremeiev3, and Vladimir Lukin3; 1Tampere University of Technology (Finland), 2Noiseless Imaging Oy (Finland), and 3National Aerospace University (Ukraine)

3:50IPAS-084
Refining raw pixel values using a value error model to drive texture synthesis, Henry Dietz, University of Kentucky (United States)

4:10IPAS-085
Color interpolation based on colorization for RGB-white color filter array, Paul Oh1, Sukho Lee2, and Moon Gi Kang1; 1Yonsei University and 2Dongseo University (Republic of Korea)

4:30IPAS-086
Video frame synthesizing method for HDR video capturing system with four image sensors, Takayuki Yamashita1,2 and Yoshihiro Fujita1; 1Ehime University and 2NHK (Japan)

4:50DPMI-088
Robust defect pixel detection and correction for Bayer Imaging Systems, Noha El-Yamany, Intel Corporation (Finland)



Wednesday February 1, 2017

KEYNOTE: Bayer Pattern and Image Quality

Session Chairs: Kevin Matherson, Microsoft Corporation (United States), and Dietmar Wueller, Image Engineering GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
8:50 – 9:30 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

Conference Chair Opening Remarks

IMSE-077 Bayer pattern and image quality, Jörg Kunze, Basler AG (Germany)

Jörg Kunze has received his PhD in physics from the University of Hamburg (2004). He joined Basler in 1998, where he started as an electronics developer and where he currently is the team leader of New Technology. Kunze serves as an expert for image sensors, camera hardware, noise, color fidelity, 3D- and computational imaging and develops new algorithms for color image signal processing. The majority of the Basler patents name him as inventor.


Input Signal Quality & Characterization

Session Chairs: Kevin Matherson, Microsoft Corporation (United States), and Dietmar Wueller, Image Engineering GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
9:30 – 10:10 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

9:30IMSE-078
Accurate joint geometric camera calibration of visible and far-infrared cameras, Takashi Shibata1,2, Masayuki Tanaka1, and Masatoshi Okutomi1; 1Tokyo Institute of Technology and 2NEC Corporation (Japan)

9:50DPMI-079
Interferometric measurement of sensor MTF and crosstalk, Todor Georgiev, Jennifer Gille, Amber Sun, Lyubomir Baev, and Tharun Battula, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (United States)



KEYNOTE: Silicon Retina Technology

Session Chairs: Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus Inc., and Ralf Widenhorn, Portland State University (United States)
10:50 – 11:30 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

DPMI-080 Silicon retina technology (Invited), Tobi Delbruck, Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI) (Switzerland)

Tobi Delbruck (IEEE M'99-SM'06-F'13) received a PhD from Caltech (1993). He is currently a professor of physics and electrical engineering at ETH Zurich in the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he has been since 1998. His group, which he coordinates together with Shih-Chii Liu, focuses on neuromorphic event-based sensors and sensory processing. He has co-organized the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering summer workshop and the live demonstration sessions at ISCAS and NIPS. Delbruck is past Chair of the IEEE CAS Sensory Systems Technical Committee. He worked on electronic imaging at Arithmos, Synaptics, National Semiconductor, and Foveon and has founded 3 spin-off companies, including inilabs.com, a non-for-profit organization that has distributed hundreds of R&D prototype neuromorphic sensors to more than a hundred organizations around the world. He has been awarded 9 IEEE awards.


Emerging Imaging Sensor & Hardware

Session Chairs: Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus Inc., and Ralf Widenhorn, Portland State University (United States)
11:30 – 11:50 AM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

11:30DPMI-081
TIK: A time domain continuous imaging testbed using conventional still images and video, Henry Dietz, John Fike, Paul Eberhart, Katie Long, Clark Demaree, and Jong Wu, University of Kentucky (United States)



KEYNOTE: CMOS image sensor pixel design and optimization

Session Chairs: Thomas Vogelsang, Rambus Inc., and Ralf Widenhorn, Portland State University (United States)
11:50 AM – 12:40 PM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom A

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Digital Photography and Mobile Imaging XIII.

IMSE-082 CMOS image sensor pixel design and optimization, Boyd Fowler, OmniVision Technologies (United States)

Boyd Fowler's research interests include CMOS image sensors, low noise image sensors, noise analysis, data compression, and machine learning and vision. He received his MSEE (1990) and PhD (1995) from Stanford University. After finishing his PhD he stayed at Stanford University as a research associate in the Electrical Engineering Information Systems Laboratory until 1998. In 1998, Fowler founded Pixel Devices International in Sunnyvale California. Between 2005 and 2013, Fowler was CTO and VP of Technology at Fairchild Imaging. He is currently at OmniVision Technologies leading the marketing department. Fowler has authored numerous technical papers, book chapters and patents.

Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 Awards



Visualization Facilities

Session Chairs: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States), and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
3:30 – 5:40 PM
Grand Peninsula Ballroom D

This session is jointly sponsored by: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVIII and The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2017.

3:30SD&A-105
Designing a cloud-based 3D visualization engine for smart cities, Nicolas Holliman, Stephen Dowsland, Mark Turner, Richard Cloete, and Tom Picton, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)

3:50SD&A-106
Interactive computer graphics, stereo and VR practice at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago, Maxine Brown1, Jason Leigh2, Tom DeFanti3, and Daniel Sandin1; 1The University of Illinois at Chicago, 2University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and 3University of California, San Diego (United States)

4:10ERVR-107
Designing at the Advanced Visualization Lab at Indiana University, Margaret Dolinsky1, Eric Wernert2, Michael Boyles2, and Chris Eller2; 1School of Art and Design, Indiana University and 2Advanced Visualization Lab, Indiana University (United States)

4:30ERVR-108
Exploring Calit2, Jürgen Schulze and Gregory Dawe, University of California, San Diego (United States)

4:50SD&A-109
3D-Stereoscopic immersive analytics projects at Monash University and University of Konstanz, Björn Sommer1,3, David G. Barnes1,4, Sarah Boyd1, Thomas Chandler1, Maxime Cordeil1, Karsten Klein1,3, Toan Nguyen4, Hieu Nim1,5, Kingsley Stephens1, Dany Vohl2, Elliott Wilson1, Jon McCormack1, Kim Marriott1, and Falk Schreiber1,3; 1Monash University (Australia), 2Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), 3University of Konstanz (Germany), 4Monash Immersive Visualization Platform at Monash University (Australia), and 5Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute of Monash University (Australia)

5:10SD&A-110
Image distortions in large-scale immersive display systems – Cylinder and wedge displays, Andrew Woods1, Joshua Hollick1, Jesse Helliwell1, and Paul Bourke2; 1Curtin University and 2University of Western Australia (Australia)

5:30
SD&A Closing Remarks, Nicolas Holliman, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)



Thursday February 2, 2017

KEYNOTE: Automotive Imaging

Session Chairs: Arnaud Darmont, APHESA SPRL (Belgium); Ralf Widenhorn, Portland State University (United States); and Buyue Zhang, Intel (United States)
11:50 AM – 12:30 PM
Harbour A,B

This session is jointly sponsored by: Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2017 and Autonomous Vehicles and Machines 2017.

IMSE-196 Automotive imaging, Patrick Denny, VALEO (Ireland)

Patrick Denny is a Senior Research Engineer and a Valeo Senior Expert and has worked for the last 15 years at Valeo Vision Systems, Ireland. He received his PhD in physics (2000) from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he is also Adjunct Professor of Automotive Electronics. Denny has in excess of 20 years experience in scientific and technological development internationally, designing, innovating and developing automotive imaging technologies for BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Daimler, VW and other OEMs. His research interests include several aspects of automotive vision system image quality, sensor components, algorithmic design, systems, machine learning and data analytics.


Interactive Workshop: How can COLOR imaging provide US with powerful INSIGHTS?

Moderator: Fritz Lebowsky, STMicroelectronics (France)
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Regency Ballroom C

This session is jointly sponsored by: Color Imaging XXII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications and Material Appearance 2017.

We would very much like to have you participate in a special session in which we encourage asking questions and exchange ideas that frequently trouble us during research and development projects. The presence of experts in COLOR imaging and perhaps Electronic Imaging at large will provide a unique opportunity of efficiently and lively sharing simple/stupefying ideas enabling fascinating engineering concepts which may also stimulate your own future research and development projects!

COLOR-062 Interactive Workshop: How can color imaging provide us with powerful insights?, Fritz Lebowsky, STMicroelectronics (France)




Important Dates
Demonstration Applications Dec 15, 2016
Manuscripts Due (check the conference page)
· Pre conference proceedings Nov 28, 2016 
· Post conference proceedings Jan 11, 2017
Registration Opens
Oct 20,2016
Hotel Reservation Deadline
Jan 6, 2017 
Early Registration Ends
Jan 9, 2017
Conference Starts Jan 29, 2017