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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Papers
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<b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Image Quality and System Performance XV
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Keywords:
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Image Quality, System Performance, Human Visual Perception, Image Processing, Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Overview
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We live in a visual world. The perceived quality of images is of crucial importance in industrial, medical, and entertainment application environments. Developments in camera sensors,
image processing, 3D imaging, display technology, and digital printing are enabling new or enhanced possibilities for creating and conveying visual content that informs or entertains. Wireless networks and mobile devices expand the ways to share imagery and
autonomous vehicles bring image processing into new aspects of society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The power of imaging rests directly on the visual quality of the images and the performance of the systems that produce them. As the images are generally intended to be viewed by humans,
a deep understanding of human visual perception is key to the effective assessment of image quality.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This conference brings together engineers and scientists from industry and academia who strive to understand what makes a high-quality image, and how to specify the requirements and assess
the performance of modern imaging systems. It focuses on objective and subjective methods for evaluating the perceptual quality of images, and includes applications throughout the imaging chain from image capture, through processing, to output, printed or
displayed, video or still, 2D or 3D, virtual, mixed or augmented reality, LDR or HDR.
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Topics
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Image quality
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Image quality attributes, characterization, and metrics
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Perceptual image quality understanding
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Test image databases with perceptual reference data
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Image preference, saliency, scene dependency
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Image quality survey design (print, web-based, mobile)
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Machine learning visual quality methods (e.g., CNN)
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• No-reference and multi-modal (audio and video) metrics
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Quality of experience for immersive media technologies (VR, AR, 360° video)
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Task-oriented image quality evaluation (e.g., medical, imaging, automotive vision, remote sensing)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">System performance
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Imaging system simulation and modeling
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Camera ISP tuning and quality trade-offs
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Autonomous vehicle vision system performance
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Image noise analysis and color error propagation
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Gamut size, color rendering, ICC profile evaluation
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Methods for competitive bench marking, quality assurance
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Multi-media and cross-media system evaluations
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Standards for image quality and system performance
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Standards for image and video quality
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Mobile, automotive, and video imaging performance
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Measurement of print and display microstructure (edges, color, resolution, distortion, etc.)
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Awards <o:p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Best Paper Award
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• Best Student Paper Award
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special Topic Session
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Panel on Image Quality and System Performance
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Proposed Joint Sessions
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• <b>Mobile and Digital Camera Image Quality Evaluation
</b>with the Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging Conference <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• <b>Automotive Image Quality
</b>with the Autonomous Vehicles and Machines Conference <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• <b>Image Capture
</b>with the Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging Conference <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">• <b>Imaging and Astronomy
</b>with the Color Imaging: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications Conference
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ways to Submit
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please read the instructions carefully.
<i>Note: This conference DOES NOT accept submissions designated for presentation-only.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1. <b>Presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings</b>. This is the most common option, and if accepted may be assigned either an oral or interactive (poster)
presentation. Submit a 500-word structured abstract with optional figures using the
<b>symposium template </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Final Manuscript Deadline
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The final manuscript is due 20 November 2017 for onsite proceedings.
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Critical Dates and Author Information
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Refer to <a href="http://bit.ly/ForEI2018Authors">
<span style="color:#0563C1">http://bit.ly/ForEI2018Authors</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Associate Professor<br>
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<b>Faculty of Engineering and IT, School of Electrical and Data Engineering</b><br>
University of Technology Sydney<br>
T. +61 (02) 9514 7605<br>
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia <br>
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