[visionlist] JOSA A Feature Announcement

[Andrew Watson]

JOSA A Feature Announcement

Image Quality

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2007

The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) announces a 
call for papers to be published in a special feature issue on image 
quality. The digital age and the increasing importance of images in 
human activities ranging from entertainment and security to remote 
sensing and medical decisions have created a critical need for new 
approaches evaluating image quality. Images are interpreted primarily 
by humans although use by machines or joint machine/human observers 
are also common. For this reason an understanding of information 
theoretic approaches and human vision and decision making is central 
to our conception of image quality. A review of the increasing body 
of literature on image quality shows a multiplicity of meanings and 
metrics. The techniques include:

	*	Reference-based image quality metrics such as the 
classic root mean square error/peak signal to noise ratio and more 
contemporary perceptual difference (just noticeable difference/image 
discrimination) and structural similarity measures
	*	Task-based metrics evaluated with optimal observers 
and/or human model observers using Fourier as well as spatial domain 
approaches

The goal of this special issue is to bring together work by 
investigators from different disciplines with an emphasis on 
theoretical and experimental developments that might advance the 
understanding of image quality by introducing new approaches or by 
elucidating the interplay among the different state of the art 
metrics.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for 
submission to JOSA A; see the Information for Contributors in any 
printed issue or the OSA Style Guide 
(<http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm>http://josaa.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm).

Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission 
system, located in the JOSA A website 
(<http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm>http://josaa.osa.org/journal/josaa/author.cfm). 
Please specify that the manuscript is intended for the Image Quality 
feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).


Feature Editors

Matthew Kupinski
College of Optical Sciences
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
E-mail: <mailto:mkupinski at optics.arizona.edu>mkupinski at optics.arizona.edu

Andrew Watson
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffet Field, California
E-mail: <mailto:andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov>andrew.b.watson at nasa.gov

Jeffrey Siewerdsen
Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
E-mail: <mailto:jsiewerd at uhnres.utoronto.ca>jsiewerd at uhnres.utoronto.ca

Kyle Myers
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
E-mail: <mailto:kyle.myers at fda.hhs.gov>kyle.myers at fda.hhs.gov

Miguel Eckstein
Department of Psychology
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
E-mail: <mailto:eckstein at psych.ucsb.edu>eckstein at psych.ucsb.edu
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