marty@CHESTNUT.CS.BRANDEIS.EDU (Martin Cohn) (03/09/91)
DCC '91
Data Compression Conference
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TCC
in Cooperation with NASA/CESDIS
Snowbird, Utah
April 8 - 11, 1991
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
A. Blumer, Tufts U.
R. Capocelli, U. Rome
J. Cleary, U. Calgary
P. Elias, MIT
I. Daubechies, Bell Labs
R. Gray, Stanford U.
D. Hirschberg, UC Irvine
A. Lempel, Technion
V. Miller, IBM
J. Reif, Duke U.
D. Sheinwald, IBM
J. Storer, Brandeis U.
J. Tilton, NASA
J. Vitter, Brown U.
A. Wyner, Bell Labs
J. Ziv, Technion
The 44 scheduled technical talks of DCC'91 will provide an international
forum for current data compression research, covering a wide range of topics
including lossless compression, image compression and quantization, fractal,
transform, and wavelet techniques, source coding theory, fast algorithms,
compression standards, hardware, and applications. In addition, the 50
scheduled presentations of the conference poster session will provide
attendees a unique opportunity to exchange ideas.
SCHEDULE:
Sunday Evening, 7-10pm: Wine and Cheese Registration Reception
Monday, 8am-12:40pm, 4:00pm-6:55pm: Technical Sessions
Monday Evening, 8:00-10:30pm: Reception and Banquet
Tuesday, 8am-12:35pm: Technical Sessions
Tuesday Afternoon, 4-7pm: Poster Session and Reception
Wednesday, 8am-12:35pm, 4pm-6:55pm: Technical Sessions
Thursday: NASA and Navy Workshops
ADVANCE REGISTRATION:
Registration includes receptions, banquet, coffee breaks, and proceedings.
For registrations received before 3/1/91, the fee is $295.00 for IEEE or
affiliate members or $370.00 for non-members; there is an additional $100
late fee for registrations received after 3/1/91.
Please include address, email, and phone and mail your registration to:
Myrna Fox
DCC '91
Computer Science Dept.
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254
(617) 736-2700
HOTEL:
Space is limited; rooms MAY NOT be available after 3/1/91.
Room rates are $42 per person for a double room and $84 for a single room.
Call the Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT 84092, 800-453-3000 or 801-742-2222.
AIR TRANSPORTATION:
A 40 percent discount on coach fare from points in the U.S. to the Salt Lake
City Airport is available from American (800-433-1790, star no. S05418H),
Delta (800-221-1212x7707, file no. J24066), and United (800-521-4041, account
no. 450VF).
GROUND TRANSPORTATION:
>From the Salt Lake City Airport baggage claim area, the hotel may be reached
by public bus ($8.00) or more conveniently by limousine with Canyon
Transportation ($14.00); call 800-255-1841 or 801-255-1841 to make limousine
reservations.
DCC'91 - Monday, April 8, 1991
8:00am: Welcome
Session 1: 8:05 - 10:10
8:05
Analysis of Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression
P. Howard and J. S. Vitter (Brown U.)
8:30
Probabilistic and Q-Coder Algorithms for Binary Source Adaptation
G. Langdon (UC Santa Cruz)
8:55
Models for Compression in Full-Text Retrieval Systems
I. H. Witten (U. Calgary), T. C. Bell and C. G. Nevill (U. Canterbury)
9:20
Piecewise Arithmetic Coding
J. Teuhola and T. Raita (U. Turku)
9:45
High Efficiency, Multiplication Free Approximation of Arithmetic Coding
D. Chevion, E. D. Karnin, and E. Walach (IBM Haifa Research Group)
Break: 10:10 - 10:35
Session 2: 10:35 - 12:40
10:35
An Image Database for Low Bandwidth Communication Links
M. Malak and J. Baker (Computer Science Co.)
11:00
The Complexity of Optimal Tree Pruning for Source Coding
E. Lin, J. A. Storer, and M. Cohn (Brandeis U.)
11:25
Image Coding by Adaptive Tree-Structured Segmentation
X. Wu and C. Yao (U. Western Ontario)
11:50
Prediction Trees and Lossless Image Compression
N. D. Memon, S. S. Magliveras, and K. Sayood (U. Nebraska at Lincoln)
12:15
Image Compression Methods with Distortion Controlled Capabilities
T. Markas and J. Reif (Duke U.)
Lunch: 12:40 - 4:00
Session 3: 4:00 - 6:55
4:00
Entropy-Constrained Trellis Coded Quantization
T. R. Fischer (Washington State U.) and M. Wang (U. Wisconsin)
4:25
Combining Vector Quantization and Histogram Equalization
P. C. Cosman, Eve A. Riskin, and Robert M. Gray (Stanford U.)
4:50
Concentric-Shell Partition Vector Quantization with Application to Image Coding
H. Nguyen and J. W. Mark (U. Waterloo)
5:15
Design and Performance Residual Quantizers
R. L. Frost, C. F. Barnes, and F. Xu (Brigham Young U.)
5:40
An Iteratively Interpolative Vector Quantization Algorithm for Image Data
Compression
K. Xue and J. M. Crissey (Wright State U.)
6:05
A New Transform Domain Vector Quantization Technique for Image Data Compression
in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode Network
P. P. Polit and N. M. Nasrabadi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
6:30
Restricted Boundary Vector Quantization
R. Lindsay (Unisys Co.)
Reception and Banquet:8:00pm - 10:30pm
DCC'91 - Tuesday, April 9, 1991
Session 4: 8:00 - 9:40
8:00
W-Orbit Finite Automata for Data Compression Using Fractal Techniques
Y. Liu and H. Ma (Savannah State College)
8:25
Data Compression Using Wavelets: Error, Smoothness, and Quantization
R. A. Devore and B. J. Lucier (Purdue U.)
8:50
A 64 Kb/s Video Codec using the 2-D Wavelet Transform
A. S. Lewis and G. Knowles (Imperial College)
9:15
A Practical Approach to Fractal-Based Image Compression
A. P. Pentland and B. Horowitz (MIT)
Break: 9:40 - 10:05
Session 5: 10:05 - 12:35
10:05
Fixed Data Base Version of the Lempel-Ziv Data Compression Algorithm
A. D. Wyner (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and J. Ziv (Technion)
10:30
Asymptotic Convergence of Dual-Tree Entropy Codes
G. H. Freeman (U. Waterloo)
10:55
On Compression with Two-Way Head Machines
D. Sheinwald (IBM Israel Scientific Center), A. Lempel and J. Ziv (Technion)
11:20
Asymptotics of Predictive Stochastic Complexity
L. Gerencser (U. Quebec)
11:45
On the Optimal Asymptotic Performance of Universal Ordering
and Discrimination of Individual Sequences
M. Weinberger, J. Ziv, and A. Lempel (Technion)
12:10
A Typical Behaviour of Some Data Compression Schemes
W. Szpankowski (Purdue U.)
Lunch: 12:35 - 4:00
Poster Session and Reception:4:00 - 7:00
DCC'91 - Wednesday, April 10, 1991
Session 6: 8:00 - 10:05
8:00
New Methods for Lossless Image Compression Using Arithmetic Coding
P. Howard and J. S. Vitter (Brown U.)
8:25
Inducting Codes from Examples
W. H. Leung and S. Skiena (SUNY at Stony Brook)
8:50
The Cascading of the LZW Compression Algorithm with Arithmetic Coding
Y. Perl, Venkat Maram, and Nageshwar Kadakuntla (New Jersey Inst. Technology)
9:15
Complexity Aspects of Map Compression
H. Bodlaender, T. F. Gonzales, and T. Kloks (UC Santa Barbara)
9:40
A Matching Lower Bound on the Path Length of Binary Trees
A. De Santis (U. Salerno) and G. Persiano (Harvard U.)
Break: 10:05 - 10:30
Session 7: 10:30 - 12:35
10:30
Compression of Natural Images Using Thread-like Visual Primitives
J. Robinson (U. Waterloo)
10:55
Streamlining Context Models for Data Compression
D. A. Lelewer and D. S. Hirschberg (UC Irvine)
11:20
Semantic Data Compression
G. Promhouse (U. Western Ontario)
11:45
Improving LZW
R. N. Horspool (U. Victoria)
12:10
A Neural Network Based VLSI Vector Quantizer for Real-Time Image Compression
W. Fang, B. Sheu, and O. T. C. Chen (U. Southern California)
Lunch: 12:35 - 4:00
Session 8: 4:00 - 6:55
4:00
Multibit Decoding/Encoding of Binary Codes Using Memory Based Architectures
A. Mukherjee, H. Bheda, M. A. Bassiouni, and T. Acharia (U. Central Florida)
4:25
An Extremely Fast Ziv-Lempel Data Compression Algorithm
R. N. Williams (U. Australia)
4:50
Practical Evaluation of Data Compression Algorithm
D. W. Jones (U. Iowa)
5:15
Two-Level Context Based Compression of Binary Images
A. Moffat (U. Melbourne)
5:40
A Better Tree-Structured Vector Quantizer
X. Wu and K. Zhang (U. Western Ontario)
6:05
Flexible Compression for Bitmap Sets
A. Bookstein (U. Chicago) and S. T. Klein (Bar Ilan U.)
6:30
Compression Experiments with AVHRR Data
J. C. Tilton, D. Han, M. Manohar (NASA)