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Digital Cinematography Presentation Announced for CIC9
October 12, 2001 - The organizers of The Ninth Annual Color Imaging Conference (CIC9) - being held this year in Scottsdale, Arizona at The SunBurst Resort Hotel from November 6 to 9 - announced today that Sony's Rob Hummel will provide a special evening presentation,
Color in Digital Cinematography. The quality of digital cinema now rivals, and in some ways exceeds, that of traditional film. Economic and infrastructural issues are the main impediments to a broad roll-out of digital cinema, but it is generally accepted in the film industry that digital cinema is coming. The creative people in the film industry know they face a challenge, though. Directors and cinematographers have a century of experience in using film as a creative medium. The sensitivity, grain, and color rendition of film stocks are used as creative tools, and directors will sometimes change their film stock scene by scene. But as directors and cinematographers turn to digital cinematography they will have to master a new creative vocabulary, and one part of that vocabulary is color. It is this intersection of cutting-edge technology and artistic expression that makes the presentation so exciting, said Paul Hubel of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, who is CIC9's Technical Program Co-chair.
"The annual Color Imaging Conference attracts most of the leading research scientists and engineers working in the international color imaging community," said Hubel. "This year we have an exciting program with 10 tutorial courses, 70 technical papers, and keynote presentations made by Professor Hirohisa Yaguchi, Dr. Robert W.G. Hunt and Dr. Greg Ward. In addition to the exciting evening presentation by Rob Hummel, we are pleased to have papers on Image Content Analysis and Spectral Image Analysis, as well as the annual threads of top research papers on Color Science, Image Capture, Display, and Printing. The talks this year should again raise the bar of technical quality and scientific content."
CIC is the world's premier international technical conference for people working in the areas of color science and color engineering, and those who apply these disciplines to color products and color
imaging technologies such as digital photography, image processing, color display design, data visualization, and image processing. The conference is sponsored by the Society for Information Display (SID) and the Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T).
The event kicks off on November 6 with a day of 12 tutorials and how-to workshops, including
Color in Electronic Displays (Gabriel Marcu, Apple Computer),
Spatial Color - Vision, Devices and Imaging (Lindsay MacDonald, Univ. of Derby),
Digital Still Camera Systems (Michael A. Kriss, Sharp Laboratories of America),
Color Management: The Basics (James C. King, Adobe Systems),
Web Color Management (Michael Kieran, E-Color), and Mechanisms and Microstructures of Color Imaging Systems (John J. McCann and Mary A. McCann, McCann Imaging).
Beginning Wednesday, November 7, there are three days of invited and contributed presentations organized in a single track to encourage broad participation and discussion. Each of these three days begins with an hour-long keynote address. Among the 30 technical papers are
What is the Chrominance of "Gray"? (Raja Balasubramanian, Xerox),
Color Imaging with JPEG 2000 (Robert Buckley, Xerox), Color Balancing Experimental Projection Displays (Maureen Stone, StoneSoup Consulting),
DLP Cinema™ Technology: Color Management and Signal Processing (Brad Walker and Greg Pettitt, Texas Instruments), and
Accurate Prediction of Colours on Liquid Crystal Displays (Youngshin Kwak and Lindsay MacDonald, Univ. of Derby).
The color imaging conference has become the leading event where color issues and applications are discussed by people from around the world - typically over 300 people from Europe, Asia, and North America - and the conference is organized with many opportunities for conversation and informal communication.
For registration and hotel information, contact the Society for Imaging Science & Technology, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, Virginia, U.S.A. 22151. Phone 703/642-9090; fax 703/642-9094; e-mail
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 610 South 2nd Street, San Jose, Calif. 95112. Website
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.
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Calendar editors, please note: The Ninth Color Imaging Conference will take place November 6 -9, 2001, 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. Phone 703/642-9090; fax 703/642-9094; e-mail
info@imaging.org; website
http://www.imaging.org.
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