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For Immediate Release
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11th Color
Imaging Conference Opens with Special Two-Day
Tutorial on
Basic Color Science and Imaging by Robert Hunt
August 5, 2003
— The 11th annual Color Imaging Conference (CIC11), to be held
November 4-7 at the SunBurst Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, will
begin with a day of two- and four-hour tutorials on Tuesday,
November 4, a structure that has become traditional for CIC’s
opening day. But a day earlier, the eminent Robert W. G. Hunt,
will begin a comprehensive 12-hour, 2-day course that will cover
the principles of color perception, measurement, and
reproduction as applied to photography, television, printing,
desk-top publishing, and electronic imaging. Each day of this
special Hunt Tutorial will comprise six one-hour lectures with
discussion.
Hunt, formerly
Assistant Director of Research, Kodak Research Laboratories in
Harrow, England, is an independent color consultant and visiting
Professor of Colour Science at the University of Derby. He has
published two books: The Reproduction of Colour, now in its
fifth edition, and Measuring Colour, now in its third edition.
He knows the needs and interests of CIC registrants, since he
has himself attended all ten previous Color Imaging Conferences
and is a regular contributor of keynote papers. Hunt is widely
regarded as an usually lucid, insightful, and entertaining
speaker. Last year, he won SID’s Johann Gutenberg Prize.
The organizers
consider the Hunt Tutorial a significant addition to the CIC,
which has established itself as the premier international
conference on Color Science, Color Engineering, and their
applications. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Society
for Information Display (SID) and the Society for Imaging
Science and Technology (IS&T).
Among the other 12 tutorials to
be held on November 4 are:
- Color in Electronic Displays
(Gabriel Marcu, Apple Computer)
- Objective Measurement of
Perceived Image Quality (Edul N. Dalal, Xerox Corp.)
- Multispectral Imaging (Roy S.
Berns, RIT)
- Spatial Color – Vision,
Devices and Imaging (Lindsay MacDonald, Univ. of Derby)
- Digital Photography (Michael
Kriss, Sharp Laboratories of America)
A three-day,
single-track technical conference of invited and contributed
papers will follow the tutorials. Three keynote addresses have
been confirmed:
- The Importance of Being Not
Too Earnest (Robert W.G. Hunt, Color Consultant)
- Image Reproduction: An
Oxymoron (Reiner Eschbach, Xerox Corp.)
- Computational Mechanisms of
Human Color Constancy (David Brainard, Univ. of
Pennsylvania)
There will also
be an evening talk by David G. Stork, Did the great masters
"cheat" using optics? The mysterious rise in
naturalism in Renaissance painting, as well as an interactive
paper session.
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. The International Color
Consortium (ICC) and CIE standards committees generally hold
meetings in conjunction with the CIC.
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 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. Website www.imaging.org.
Calendar
editors, please note: The Eleventh Color Imaging Conference
will take place November 4-7, 2003, 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.
