Meeting Agenda

November 7th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Tim MacPherson

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:

Alex Clarke

Coffee hour this week:

Patrick Gilhuly

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteer?

3. Next meeting

Date:

Wednesday, November 14th, 2001

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

1:30 p.m.

Chair:

Stephen Mann

Technical presentation:

Vincent Ma

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

1. Michael McCool (November 21st)
2. Joanne McKinley (November 28th)
3. Kevin Moule (December 5th)

Tech Presenters:

1. Tim MacPherson (November 21st)
2. Stephen Mann (November 28th)
3. Michael McCool (December 5th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Bonny Liu

Title: General-Purpose Gamut-Mapping Algorithms: Evaluation of Contrast-Preserving Rescaling Functions for Color Gamut Mapping

Abstract: A series of experiments were performed to test a set of general purpose gamut mapping functions. Results of these rexperiments showed the vast improvements were obtained when linear lightness and chroma rescaling functions are replaced with contrast-preserving lightness and chroma rescaling functions.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• The making of up-to-date demos - Demo group
• UT visit - Kevin
  • November 24th Saturday
  • Volunteers?

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

• DATE: Saturday, November 3, 2001
• LOCATION: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• The purpose of this workshop is to bring students and researchers together from the local area to share research progress and ideas in human factors engineering. We intend this to be a very positive event that will be fun and constructive for everyone.
• Contact: Olivier St-Cyr (ostcyr@engmail.uwaterloo.ca)

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

 Thursday, 8 November 2001
   Memory Allocation and Fragmentation
   John Johansen, PLG - Programming Logic Group,
   University of Waterloo,
   2:30pm, DC3548
    

 Tuesday, 13 November 2001
   Fractal Dimensions and the Uncertainty Principle in Harmonic Analysis
   Kathryn Hare - Pure Mathematics,
   University of Waterloo,
   3:30pm, MC5158
    

 Tuesday, 13 November 2001
   Generalizing the Pohlig-Hellman Algorithm
   John Lawrence - Pure Mathematics,
   University of Waterloo,
   1:30pm, MC5045
    

 Friday, 9 November 2001
   Patterns in Three Dimensional Water Waves
   Walter Craig - Pure Mathematics,
   University of Waterloo,
   3:30pm, MC5158
    

 Friday, 9 November 2001
   Graphics Accelerators: State of the Art
   Michael McCool, Mauro Steigleder, CGL - Computer Graphics Lab,
   University of Waterloo,
   1:00pm, DC1304
    

 Friday, 9 November 2001
   The Mathematics of JPEG
   Heinz Bauschke, Combinatorics and Optimization,
   University of Waterloo,
   3:30pm, MC5136
    

 Thursday, 8 November 2001
   Measuring the Predictive Capability of Computational Models: Technical and Management Issues
   Rob Easterling, Statistics and Actuarial Science,
   University of Waterloo,
   3:30pm, MC5158
    

 Wednesday, 7 November 2001
   Uniform distribution, large periods and cryptographic applications
   John Friedlander, 
   University of Toronto,
   3:30pm, MC5158
    

11. Lab Cleanup