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For Immediate Release
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11th Color
Imaging Conference: Did the Renaissance Masters Use Display
Technology to Create Their Hyper-realistic Paintings?
September 10,
2003 — In addition to its traditional high-quality technical
program, the 11th annual Color Imaging Conference
(CIC11) – to be held November 4-7 at the SunBurst Resort,
Scottsdale, Arizona – will include a challenging evening talk
by David G. Stork, Did the great masters "cheat"
using optics? The mysterious rise in naturalism in Renaissance
painting. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Society
for Information Display (SID) and the Society for Imaging
Science and Technology (IS&T).
Stork, Chief
Scientist at Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Associate
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
Stanford University, takes on the controversial theory advanced
in 2001 by artist David Hockney and University of Arizona
Professor of Optical Sciences Charles M. Falco that the dramatic
improvement in the realism of many paintings in the Renaissance
was accomplished with optical aids, particularly concave mirrors
with long focal lengths. Stork has systematically countered the
theory. Stork will deliver the latest word in
Scottsdale.
CIC11 will begin
with a day of two- and four-hour tutorials on Tuesday, November
4. But a day earlier, the eminent Robert W. G. Hunt – formerly
Assistant Director of Research, Kodak Research Laboratories in
Harrow, England, and winner of SID’s Johann Gutenberg Prize
last year – 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.
Among the other
12 tutorials to be held on November 4 are:
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Color in
Electronic Displays (Gabriel Marcu, Apple Computer)
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Objective
Measurement of Perceived Image Quality (Edul N. Dalal,
Xerox Corp.)
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Multispectral
Imaging (Roy S. Berns, RIT)
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Spatial Color
– Vision, Devices and Imaging (Lindsay MacDonald,
Univ. of Derby)
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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:
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The
Importance of Being Not Too Earnest (Robert W.G. Hunt,
Color Consultant)
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Image
Reproduction: An Oxymoron (Reiner Eschbach, Xerox Corp.)
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Computational
Mechanisms of Human Color Constancy (David Brainard,
Univ. of Pennsylvania)
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.
