Workshop on High Fidelity Media Processing

18-Jan-97 0:02:00-GMT,19793;000000000000 Received: by jellyby.usc.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA26344; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:02:05 -0800 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:02:05 -0800 From: Yung-Kai Lai <yungkail@jellyby.usc.edu> Return-Path: <yungkail@jellyby.usc.edu> Apparently-To: xiawan@jellyby.usc.edu ANNOUNCEMENT Workshop on High Fidelity Media Processing Date: February 14, 1997 (Friday) Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Location: University of Southern California Davidson Conference Center 3425 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90089 Sponsor: Integrated Media Systems Center NSF Engineering Research Center University of Southern California Organizing Committee: Tomlinson Holman (tomholman@aol.com) C.-C. Jay Kuo (cckuo@sipi.usc.edu) Chris Kyriakakis (ckyriak@mizar.usc.edu) Ulrich Neumann (uneumann@usc.edu) Antonio Ortega (ortega@sipi.usc.edu) Detailed information: http://www.usc.edu/dept/imsc/hifimedia.html FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP High quality in media such as audio; still images; video; computer animation and graphics; mixed audio and video; and mixed video and computer graphics is becoming increasingly important for applications in entertainment, design, manufacturing, medicine and law. The quality measure issue is a very challenging problem particularly because it involves human perception issues. Human perception based quality measures, artifact modeling and removal have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Furthermore, several related issues arise in media processing, including lossless (or nearly-lossless) compression, audio and video editing, rendering, and pre- and post-processing. The goal of this workshop will be to facilitate the interaction among experts in the areas of audio, video, and computer graphics from both industry and university research environments. This interaction is expected to lead the way to novel ideas, algorithms, models, systems, software, hardware, and applications for high fidelity media processing. IMSC The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), within the USC School of Engineering, has been established as the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in the area of multimedia and creative technologies. IMSC's research thrusts focus on advances in human-machine interfaces, multimedia networks, and distributed databases, while at the same time addressing key application-specific integrated media implementations. The engineering areas and application-specific technologies represented within the research thrusts span a wide range, including computer-aided visualization and animation, multi-modal and head-mounted displays, smart cameras and smart microphones, augmented reality, high bandwidth multimedia networks for wireless communication, immersive audio, image and video compression, distributed databases, low power analog and digital VLSI chip design, software platforms for education, and augmented manufacturing. PROGRAM Note: Sessions will start at 9am with registration and continental breakfast at 8:30am. The exact schedule will be announced in the coming days. 1. "Introduction to Low Bitrate Audio Coding: Principles, Applications and Trends" Mark Davis, Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco, CA 2. "Spatial audio and entertainment: a consideration of perception, expectation and culture" Durand R. Begault, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 3. "Methodologies and Tools for MPEG Testing" Christian J. van den Branden Lambrecht Imaging Technology Department, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 4. "Human Vision Models in Image and Video Compression Systems" Heidi A. Peterson, David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ, 5. "A Visual Discrimination Model for Image Quality Metering Applications" Jeffrey Lubin, David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ, 6. "Perceptual Modeling of Image Quality" Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, 7. "Feature Rich Still Image Compression: CREW and JPEG 2000" Michael Gormish, Ricoh California Research Center, Menlo Park, CA 8. "Image Processing Issues for Photographic Printing" Ping Wah Wong, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 9. "Postprocessing Techniques for Compressed Image Enhancement" C.-C. Jay Kuo, Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 10. "Digital Visual Effects - Scopes, Needs and Beyond" Shankar Chatterjee and Robert Amen, Research & Development Group, Cinesite, Inc., Hollywood, CA. 11. "Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding Using Matching Pursuit" Avideh Zakhor, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA 12. "Biologically-Based Techniques of Image Acquisition and Processing for Visual Communication" Yohoshua Y. Zeevi, Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 13. "High Fidelity Sound Through Multichannel Audio" Tom Holman, School of Cinema/TV, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 14. "Towards High-Fidelity Computer Generated Video", Steve Molnar, HP Chapel Hill Graphics Lab., Chapel Hill, NC ABOUT THE SPEAKERS After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics and EE from MIT in 1980, Mark Davis worked at dbx, Inc., designing the Soundfield One loudspeaker system and the dbx/MTS TV noise reduction system. Since 1985 he has been at Dolby Laboratories, working on DSP audio, coding techniques, and related areas. He wrote the initial version of the AC-3 coder. Durand R. Begault is the author of "3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia" and "The Sonic CD-ROM for Desktop Audio Production" (Academic Press). A visiting researcher in the Flight and Human Factors Research Division of NASA Ames Research Center since 1988, he has published many articles on 3-D audio research and development, and holds two U.S. patents. His research interests include room acoustics, auralization, and aeronautic applications of advanced acoustic interfaces. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA from Mills College in 1981. Christian J. van den Branden Lambrecht (http://ltswww.epfl.ch/Staff/vdb.html) was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1968. He has been a student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1988 to 1993 and received the degree of electrical and computer engineer (M. Sc. Degree) in 1993. From August 1990 to May 1991, he has been a visiting student at the department of Electr