The enormous possibilities and widespread connectivity offered by the Internet and the World Wide Web has spawned multiple ways of exchanging and communicating color images. The Internet is an evolving communication system, where uses, technologies, and applications are continuously introduced by a plethora of players. Its functionality, reliability, scaling properties, and performance limits are largely unknown—albeit they span wide gamuts from optic fiber to wireless connections and from game consoles to palmtop devices, etc. To be successful in Internet imaging, users and developers must design systems in a top-down approach. The goal of this tutorial is to sort out the available standard methods so that attendees will become familiar with the different possibilities for Internet imaging; the trade-offs, issues and dependencies of each; how and when each is used; and their system implications. To this end, we systematically present the standard methods for color encoding, image compression, file formatting, protocols, and applications.
BENEFITS/LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course will enable you to:
INTENDED AUDIENCE
This tutorial is intended for those who use or plan to use the Internet for exchanging images; work with images transmitted or received via the Internet; integrate Internet-sourced images in their workflows and systems; or simply want to know what all the fuss is about and how it will affect them.
INSTRUCTORS
Giordano Beretta is with the Internet Printing & Imaging Systems Project at HP. He did his graduate work in computational geometry at ETH, before joining Xerox PARC in 1984. At Xerox he has worked on color reproduction and printing, implemented color and imaging standards, and invented color design tools. After working in strategic planning and intellectual property management, and becoming the Technical Advisor for Color at Canon, he joined HP, where he is currently working on custom publishing solutions for small and medium businesses. He was cochair of the 2000 & 2004 Electronic Imaging Symposia, 2000-2002 EI Internet Imaging Conferences, 1997-1999 EI Color Imaging Conferences, and an HP Alternate on the US MPEG committee. He is a fellow of the IS&T and SPIE.
Rob Buckley is a Research Fellow with the Xerox Architecture Center in Webster, NY. He did his graduate work on gamut compression and color image coding at MIT, before joining Xerox PARC in 1981. At Xerox he has worked on color reproduction and printing, developed color and imaging standards, and managed a color imaging research group. He coauthored the TIFF-FX file format standard for Internet Fax and is the Xerox Principal on the US JPEG 2000 committee. He edited the IS&T Recent Progress volume on "Color Management and Communication," co-chaired the 2nd Color Imaging Conference and is on the Program Committee of the EI Internet Imaging Conference. He is a Member of the ISCC Board of Directors.