Should I use GIF or JPEG for my web images? Will our company logo be the right color on all monitors? What will adding this great video clip do to our server performance?
The Symposium on Electronic Imaging, January 23-28 in San Jose will provide the answers. Short courses on imaging issues on the Internet will cover a range of topics including image/video compression formats, methods for estimating image/video transfer performance, the impact of image-intensive web sites on servers and color management over the Internet. "A few years ago, the symposium committee recognized Internet Imaging as an emerging area and wanted to put together a conference on it. Finding experts on the Internet Imaging was extremely difficult. The topic was too new. Electronic Imaging 2000 will have a full day of short courses on Internet Imaging on Tuesday followed by two and a half days of papers and posters Wednesday through Friday. The presenters are from all over the world," said Rich Ellson of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, a member of the EI Symposium Organizing Committee.
The Symposium on Electronic Imaging is cosponsored by the IS&T--the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, and SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Since its inception in 1989, Electronic Imaging has been based in the Bay Area. After starting out in Santa Clara, the two societies moved the conference to the San Jose Convention Center in 1991 where it has continued to both grow in size and evolve in subject matter. This year a total of 962 papers will be presented in 24 conferences, and the organizers expect 1500 technical attendees. "Understanding the emerging interests of Silicon Valley imaging professionals has helped make this symposium a very rapid means of communicating important new ideas, training people in new imaging disciplines, and building a community for moving technologies further" says EI 2000 Symposium Chair Giordano Beretta of Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto.
The enormous possibilities and widespread connectivity offered by the Internet and the Web has spawned multiple ways of exchanging and communicating color images. These different methods have been enabled by the flexibility of the Internet and the relative ease and speed with which solutions can be deployed. As a result, users and developers interested in Internet imaging are presented with a plethora of choices for protocols, file formats, compression methods and color representations. This symposium will help attendees to sort out the technologies and become familiar with the different possibilities for Internet imaging.
Other areas covered by the conference and of interest to the Internet imaging community are color imaging, mulitmedia communication, image security and watermarking, and multimedia storage and retrieval.
Electronic Imaging 2000 will be held a the San Jose Convention Center from January 23-28, 2000. Complete course and instructor descriptions as well as registration information can be found on-line at http://www.spie.org/info/ei/courses
Do not miss EI 2000
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