Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CHESTNUT.CS.BRANDEIS.EDU!marty From: marty@CHESTNUT.CS.BRANDEIS.EDU (Martin Cohn) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: DCC '91 -- Data Compression Conference Message-ID: <9103082210.AA20027@chestnut.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 9 Mar 91 02:23:15 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events , Martin Cohn Lines: 307 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)