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2018 HVEI Keynote Speakers

Keynote Session I: Human Vision Approaches to Image Quality for Images, Video and Stereo Applications
Hyatt Regency, Burlingame Monday 29 January 10:50 am

• The field of view, the field of resolution, and the field of contrast sensitivity
  Andrew Watson, Apple, Inc. (United States)
  

• Perceptual display: Apparent enhancement of scene detail and depth
  Karol Myszkowski, MPI Informatik (Germany)

Keynote Session II: Human Behavior in Real-World Environments
Hyatt Regency, Burlingame Monday 29 January 3:20 pm

• Lighting perceptual intelligence
  Sylvia Pont, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)

• Applying insights from visual perception and cognition to the development of more effective virtual reality experiences
  Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota (United States)

Keynote Session III: Visual Representation in Art, Imaging and Visualization with Tim Jenison of Tim's Vermeer Fame
Hyatt Regency, Burlingame Thursday 1 February 2:00 pm

• Capturing reality
  Tim Jenison, NewTek, Inc. (United States)

Past HVEI Keynote Speakers

• Vision at a glance
  Ruth Rosenholtz, MIT (United States)
  

• Movies and meaning: From low-level features to mind reading
  Sergio Benini, University of Brescia (Italy)
  

• Towards a rudimentary neural model of multisensory integration in human neocortex
  John Foxe, University of Rochester Medical Center (United States)
  Sophie Molholm, University of Rochester Medical Center (United States)
  

• Up Periscope! Designing a new perceptual metric for imaging system performance
  Andrew Watson, NASA Ames Research Center (United States)

• Optimizing for visual cognition in high performance scientific computing
  Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire (United States)

• Lessons learned from the colorization and 3D conversion of feature films and how they can be applied to the emerging mediums of virtual and augmented reality: a creative, consumer and neuroscience perspective
  Barry Sandrew, Augmented Vision Works (United States)

• Few hundred image quality metrics later: the emerging science of quality of experience (QoE) in Electronic Imaging
  Patrick Le Callet, Institute de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernetique de Natnes (France)

• Cognitive psychology meets art: studying creativity, language, and emotion through live musical improvisation in film and theatre
  Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, La Petite Noiseuse Productions (US), Maryland Institute College of Art (US), Johns Hopkins Univ. (US)

• Next gen perception and cognition: augmenting perception and enhancing cognition through mobile technologies
  Sergio R. Goma, Qualcomm Inc. (US)

• Perceiving, measuring, and modeling 3D material appearance
  Christopher W. Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (US)

• Seven challenges for image quality research
  Damon M. Chandler, Oklahoma State Univ. (US)

• Images shared in social media: a window into human sentiment and emotion
  Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia Univ. (US)

• The science of social interactions on the web
  Ed H. Chi, Google (US)

• Predicting visual memorability
  Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

• World, environment, umwelt, and innerworld: a biological perspective on visual awareness
  Jan J. Koenderink, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)

• Does evolution favor true perceptions?
  Donald D. Hoffman, Univ. of California, Irvine (US)

• The general solution to HDR rendering
  John J. McCann, McCann Imaging (United States)

• Measuring material perception
  Laurence T. Maloney, New York Univ. (United States)

• Computational photography and the Stanford Frankencamera
  Marc S. Levoy, Stanford Univ. (United States)

• Visualization grand challenges
  Georges G. Grinstein, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell (United States)

• How 3D immersive visualization is changing medical diagnostics
  Anton Koning, Erasmus MC (Netherlands)

• Vision as user interface
  Jan J. Koenderink, Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)

• On the relationship between selective visual attention and visual consciousness
  Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology (United States)

• Music in film and animation: experimental semiotics applied to visual sound and musical structures
  Roger A. Kendall, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)

• Photographing the range of light: works by Ansel Adams and John Sexton
  John Sexton, John Sexton Photography (United States)

• Preferences for individual colors: WAVEs of color, culture, music, and emotion
  Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States)

• Towards a true spherical camera
  Guru Krishnan, Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University (United States)

• Behavioral and neural correlates of visual preference decision
  Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology (United States)

• Perceptual experiments on the Web
  Ken Nakayama, Harvard Univ. (United States)

• Image Statistics and Surface Perception
  Edward H. Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• The Perception of Simulated Materials
  Holly E. Rushmeier, Yale Univ.

• Single-photon Imaging Inspired by Human Vision
  Hooman Mohseni, Northwestern Univ.

• The Appearance of Images
  Karen K. De Valois, Univ. of California/Berkeley

• Natural Systems Analysis (Keynote Talk)
  Wilson S. Geisler, The Univ. of Texas at Austin

• New Vistas in Image and Video Quality
  A. C. Bovik, K. Seshadrinathan, and S. Sumohana, The Univ. of Texas/Austin

• Painterly Rendered Portraits from Photographs Using a Knowledge-based Approach
  S. DiPaola, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada)

• Nonlinear Encoding in Multilayer LNL Systems Optimized for the Representation of Natural Images
  C. Zetzsche, Univ. Bremen (Germany); U. Nuding, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (Germany)

• Computational Neuroimaging: Maps and Tracks in the Human Brain
  Brian Wandell, Stanford University

• Learning Where to Look
  Mary Hayhoe, University of Rochester

• Eye-Robot: A Standard Observer for Vision Technology
  Andrew B. Watson, NASA Ames Research Ctr.

• Celestial Illusions and Ancient Astronomers: Aristarchus and Eratosthenes
  Thomas V. Papathomas, Rutgers Univ.

• Perception and Action in Virtual Environments
  Heinrich H. Buelthoff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

• Human Face Perception: Symmetry, Depth, and Form
  Christopher Tyler, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

• Constancy Myth, the Vocabulary of Color Perception, and the ATD04 Model
  S. Lee Guth, Indiana University School of Optometry

• Noticing things: The science of visual salience
  Tom Troscianko, Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom)

• Signal processing for lip reading
  Harry Levitt, City Univ. of New York

• Learning to see: seeing to learn
  D. M. Russell, IBM Almaden Research Ctr.

• Color naming for image color composition
  Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.

• The channel for reading
  D. G. Pelli, New York Univ.

• Perceptual model for texture analysis and synthesis
  Eero P. Simoncelli, New York Univ.

• Illumination frameworks in the brain
  Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers Univ.

• Using adaptation experiments to uncover higher level features in perception
  Michael A. Webster, Univ. of Nevada/Reno

• Identifying perceptually significant features for image recognition
  Pawan Sinha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• On seeing stuff: the perception of materials by humans and machines
  Edward H. Adelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Computer graphics and vision
  Patrick Hanrahan, Stanford Univ.

• Using virtual reality to study perception: understanding the moon illusion
  James H. Kaufman, IBM Almaden Research Ctr. Lloyd Kaufman, New York Univ.

• Unconventional imaging: new methods for capturing high-dynamic range and wide field of view
  Shree K. Nayar, Columbia Univ.

• Building HAL: computers sensing, recognizing, and responding to human emotion
  Rosalind W. Picard, MIT Media Lab.

• Surprising perspectives
  Jan J. Koenderink, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)

• Nonlinear neurons and higher-order statistics: new approaches to human perception and electronic image representations
  C. Zetzsche, G. Krieger, Univ. München (Germany)

• Auditory-visual interaction: from fundamental research in cognitive psychology to (possible) applications
  A. Kohlrausch, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interface and Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands); S. van de Par, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interface (Netherlands)

• Diagnostic medical imaging: current practices and future directions
  A. B. Poirson, R. Taylor, AccuImage Diagnostics Corp.; B. A. Wandell, Stanford Univ.

• Computational expressionism or why random() is falling into disuse in computer art
  Walter R. Bender, MIT Media Lab.

• Building bridges between human vision and electronic imaging: a ten-year retrospective
  Bernice E. Rogowitz, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.; Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.

• Viewer response to time-varying video quality and implications for coding
  D. E. Pearson, Univ. of Essex (UK); Huib de Ridder, IPO Ctr. for Research on User-System Interaction (Netherlands)

• Human vision and image rendering: is the story over, or is it just beginning?
  Jan P. Allebach, Purdue Univ.

• Vision-based image compression
  Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)

• Color imaging systems and color theory: past, present, and future
  John J. McCann, McCann Imaging

• Future image processing: making a picture fit the mind's eye
  Lawrence W. Stark, Univ. of California/Berkeley