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

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

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); Qian Lin, Hewlett-Packard Company; Gabriel Marcu, Apple Computer, Inc.; David Q. McDowell, Eastman Kodak Company; Shin Ohno, Sony Corporation (Japan); Ivan Rezanka, Xerox Corporation; Werner Sobotka, FH St. Poelten (Austria); David L. Spooner, rhoMetric Associates; Chris Tuijn, Agfa-Gevaert NV (Belgium).

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, software, and the ever increasing usage of the Internet as a source of color images and documents. 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 is a particular challenge in emerging media such as publishing on the World Wide Web.

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:

• Image Processing for Hard Copy Output - Halftoning, data compression and artifacts, visual tolerance, quantization, scaling
• Internet Printing - Hard copy from HTML, printer management and protocols, print work flow, style sheets, font issues, color fidelity, graphic design issues
• Color Reproduction Across Devices - Color appearance models, chromatic adaptation, perception of self luminous and object colors, computational color science
• Device Modeling and Characterization - Scanners, digital cameras, displays, systems, color models, lookup table methods, color conversion algorithms, gamut mapping, color correction, hardware implementations, device limitations, device characterization, methodology, color metrology
• Color Image Encoding and Standards - Interchange languages, file formats, 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, professional and consumer devices
• 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, new communications media, knowledge delivery

The conference committee might suggest to the authors submission to one of the other EI '98 conferences, such as the Conference on Very High Resolution and Quality Imaging III and Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II.

Submission of Abstracts