EI'97 Color Imaging Conference

IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology

Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hard Copy and Graphic Arts

Conference Chairs: Giordano Beretta, Hewlett-Packard Company; Reiner Eschbach, Xerox Corporation

Conference Committee: Jan Bares, Xerox Corporation; Jae Ho Kim, Pusan National University (Korea); Helmut Kipphan, Heidelberger Druckmachinen AG (Germany); Shin Ohno, Sony Corporation (Japan); Ivan Rezanka, Xerox Corporation; Mike Rodriguez, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.; David L. Spooner, rhoMetric Associates.

Color imaging has been evolving rapidly. Production of electronic originals calling for a color hard copy output has been growing due to steadily decreasing cost of color capable personal computers and software. This in turn has promoted development of technologies necessary for affordable color printers. In commercial printing applications, advances in both digital image processing and printing now enable short run color printing ready to challenge high quality offset. Image transfers between a variety of platforms from initial capture or creation to storage, display, and printing require technology that will preserve image appearance.

This conference provides an opportunity for presenting as well as getting acquainted with the most recent developments in the related technologies and applications. Focus of the conference is on both the device-independent color imaging as well as the printing of images requiring gray-scale and/or full color. It covers hardware, software, media, and systems. Special attention is given to applications and requirements created by new disciplines. Areas of interest include:

• Color Reproduction Across Devices - Color appearance models, chromatic adaptation, perception of self luminous and object colors, computational color science
• Device Modeling and Characterization - Scanners, displays, systems, color models, lookup table methods, color conversion algorithms, gamut mapping, color correction, hardware implementations, device limitations, device characterization, methodology, color measurement instrumentation
• Image Processing for Hard Copy Output - Web publishing, CD-ROM publishing, halftoning, data compression
• Color Image Encoding and Standards - Interchange languages, file formats, image quantization and artifacts, visual tolerance, color encoding, ICC profiles
• Systems and Architectures - Device independent color implementation in commercial systems, color management, color matching device drivers, system performance
• Technology Applications - Raster imaging and digital image setting, short run printing, pre-press, color proofing, office and home devices
• Novel Hard Copy and Imaging Concepts - Laser hard copy technology, xeroprinting, dry silver and pictrography, micro-encapsulation approaches
• Printing Technologies - Electrophotography and related technologies (gray-scale, color, high resolution, hardware, new applications), ink jet (color and gray-scale, hot melt solid ink), thermal printing (wax transfer, dye diffusion)
• Print Quality - Image registration, process control, color calibration and measurements on hard copy systems, hard copy media and supplies
• Applications of Color Hard Copy - Medical imaging, cartography, fine arts, use of color in hard copy documents, printing from the web
• R&D Status and Outlook: Academia and Industry

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