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

Internet Imaging II

On-site Proceedings. Abstracts for this conference are due by 9 June 2000. Manuscripts are due by 27 October 2000. Final Summary (200 words) due by 27 October 2000.

Conference Chairs: Giordano Beretta, Hewlett-Packard Company; Raimondo Schettini, National Research Council (CNR, Italy)

Conference Committee: Robert R. Buckley (Xerox Corporation), Shih Fu Chang (Columbia University), Lucy Cherkasova (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Alberto Del Bimbo (Università di Firenze, Italy), Ullas Gargi (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), Theo Gevers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jennifer Gille (Raytheon), Neil J. Gunther (Performance Dynamics Consulting), Roger-David Hersch (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Switzerland), Yasuyo G. Ichihara (Hosen Gakuen Junior College, Japan), Corinne Jörgensen (University at Buffalo), Lloyd McIntyre (Xerox Corporation), Marco Padula (National Research Council, Italy), Simon S.Y. Shim (San José State University), Maureen Stone (StoneSoup Consulting), Sabine Süsstrunk (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, Switzerland), Ingeborg Tastl (Sony U.S. Research Laboratories), Alain Trémeau (Université St. Etienne, France), Robert A. Ulichney (Compaq Computer Corporation), Yu Jin Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Images have been the main propellant for the Internet's popularization. Expectations for performance and quality of images are driving new technologies as the space of web-connected business and commercial imaging solutions grows and as the cost of Web access and high quality reproduction hardcopy devices drops. New applications are appearing to take advantage of these opportunities, and exposing new system requirements.

Internet imaging is different from other imaging applications because an internet is a network of networks. This entails complications like unpredicable latency, caching, firewalls, security, platform heterogeneity, standardization, and others. Furthermore, images can be still images, animations, or video sequences.

This conference is intended as a forum for discussing these technologies, applications, and challenges facing them. The participants will present the most recent developments in the appropriate representation, communication, and rendering of images using the Internet. Focus of the conference is on novel means of image capture, coding, computation and representation specific to the Internet, efficient transport of images over networks, display and rendering of image received over networks, and the requirements of applications which derive value from the use of these technologies. Unmet needs of desired applications are also relevant. Algorithms, protocols, software, hardware, communications systems, and applications are appropriate topics.

Papers are solicited in the following areas, and special attention is given to new applications and requirements created by opportunities on the Internet:

• image processing for Internet, reuse of softcopy and hardcopy images -- data compression and representation, coding for multiresolution or resolution-independent images
• imaging issues in content-based indexing, search and retrieval, indexing video
• virtual and augmented reality, telemedicine, data visualization, remote surveillance
• Internet video, multimedia presentation on the Internet -- multimedia integration, presentation, management, authoring, animation, SMIL, SVG, VRML, Interactive TV, multimedia presentation formats, presentation agents, and e-commerce multimedia applications
• systems issues -- color space architectures, distributed color management, computation for images on the Internet, automatic printing, displays for Internet appliances, e-commerce and e-services
• network image transport -- protocols, XML applications, Web crawling, caching, and security
• network computing -- distributed computing, performance analysis, fault tolerance & failure recovery, media synchronization, transaction managers, directory & agent services
• social and legal issues and technical solutions for the Internet including copyright, content rating, watermarking, authentication, non-repudiation, and notification
• interactive image creation for the Internet -- artistic impression, Web design, special issues for video, semiotics, advanced man-machine interfacing, visual languages, ergonometry
• publishing on the Internet -- graphic arts requirements, commerce systems, agents, image syndication, leasing, resolution and quality requirements, movie film digitatization and color restoration, palettization, file formats, capture systems
• classifying images -- cataloging, categorization, thesauri, iconography, ontologies, metadata, XML solutions, indexing video
• cultural heritage applications -- image permanence issues, scanning strategies, cataloging, presentation and publication strategies, DVD-ROM vs. Internet

A fast Internet connection will be available in the auditorium.

In deciding where to submit their papers, potential authors are advised to also consider such closely related EI 2001 conferences like Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases, Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, and Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts.

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