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Davies Medal Winner to Give Tutorial on Digital Still Camera Systems at
Eighth Color Imaging Conference
September 15, 2000 --
Digital Still Camera Systems is one of the cutting-edge color- and display-related topics to be covered at the
annual Color Imaging Conference (CIC), which will be held this year from November 7 to 10 at The SunBurst Resort, Scottsdale,
Arizona. CIC, the premier conference on color science and engineering, regularly attracts the world's leading practitioners of the art. It is
jointly sponsored by the Society for Information Display (SID) and the Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T).
Digital still cameras have become a major imaging category. In the first half of this year, Japan's digital still camera shipments exceeded that
of film cameras for the first time in history, according to the Japan Camera Industry Association. In one of CIC's two-hour tutorials to be
held on November 7th, Michael Kriss will share his detailed knowledge of digital still camera systems. Kriss, Manager of the Color and
Imaging Group at Sharp Laboratories of America, and formerly a scientist and manager at the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories,
received the Davies Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in 1999 for his work in conventional and digital imaging.
Kriss will cover the digital still camera imaging chain, image sensors, color filter arrays, interpolation algorithms, image quality, image
artifacts due to sampling, image compression, system speed, and color reproduction. Impressively, Kriss says that when registrants have
completed this tutorial, they will fully understand the digital still imaging chain, fully understand the image quality trade-offs in digital still
camera systems, be able to use simplified software to evaluate potential digital still imaging systems, and will be able to embark on a career
designing these systems.
Among the other Tuesday tutorials are Color in Electronic Displays
(Louis Silverstein, VCD Sciences), Color Hardcopy (Gary
Starkweather, Microsoft), and Understanding PDF and PostScript (James C. King, Adobe Systems).
Three days of invited and contributed presentations follow the tutorials.
Among the other technical papers are:
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Color Imaging Tools: Using Photoshop (How-To Workshop)
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Shopping on the Web Without Seeing Red (R.W.G. Hun - Keynote)
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Status of TFT-LCD Color and Metrology (Steven L. Wright and others)
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A Novel Digital Color Printer Based on Silicon Microdisplay (K.C. Lee and others, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology)
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Comparison of Camera Quality Indexes (Po-Chieh Hung, Konica Corp.)
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An Assessment Standard for the Evaluation of Display Measurement Capabilities (John Libert and others,
NIST)
The color imaging conference has become the chosen event where people from around the world congregate to discuss issues in color
science and engineering - typically over 300 people from Europe, Asia, and North America - and the conference is organized with many
opportunities for conversation and informal communication. Immediately following CIC8, the CIE Color Experts meeting will be held on
Saturday, November 11. For registration and hotel information, contact the Society for Imaging Science & Technology, 7003 Kilworth
Lane, Springfield, Virginia, U.S.A. 22151. Tel: (703) 642-9090;
Fax:
(703) 642-9094; email:
info@imaging.org. A detailed conference
program can be found on the IS&T website http://www.imaging.org.
The Society for Information Display is an international society devoted to the advancement of display technology, manufacturing, and applications, with headquarters at 31
East Julian Street, San Jose, Calif. 95112. URL: www.sid.org.
The Society for Imaging Science & Technology is an international society devoted to the advancement of image science, image systems, and applications, with
headquarters at 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, Virginia 22151. URL:
www.imaging.org.
Calendar editors, please note: The Eighth Color Imaging Conference will take place November 7-10, 2000, at The SunBurst Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona. For
registration and hotel information, contact the Society for Imaging Science & Technology, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, Virginia, U.S.A. 22151.
Tel:
(703) 642-9090; Fax: (703) 642-9094; email: info@imaging.org;
URL:
http://www.imaging.org.
