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Subject: IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, 3/30-4/1, 1993
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                        *** ANNOUNCEMENT ***

                     Data Compression Conference
                               DCC '93

             (Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TCCC
                  in Cooperation with NASA/CESDIS)

                           Snowbird, Utah
                      March 30 - April 1, 1993

GENERAL CHAIR: J. Storer, Brandeis U.
PROGRAM CHAIR: M. Cohn, Brandeis U.
PUBLICITY CHAIR: R. Miller, NASA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: A. Apostolico (Purdue U. / U. Padova), R. Arps (IBM),
R. Baker (PictureTel Inc.), A. Blumer (Tufts U.), A. Bookstein (U. Chicago),
M. Cohn (Brandeis U.), T. Cover (Stanford U.), R. Gray (Stanford U.),
D. Hirschberg (UC Irvine), A. Jacquin (AT&T Labs), G. Langdon (UC Santa Cruz),
A. Lempel (Technion), T. Lookabough (Com. Labs), B. Lucier (Purdue U.),
V. Miller (IBM), J. Reif (Duke U.), J. Storer (Brandeis U.), J. Tilton (NASA),
J. Vitter (Brown U.), G. Wallace (DEC), V. Wei (Bellcore),
I. Witten (U. Waikato), J. Ziv (Technion)


THEME: An international forum for presentations selected by the program
committee that cover  a wide range of curent  data compression research,
including  lossless and lossy compression algorithms, quantization,
transform, wavelet, and fractal techniques, coding theory, parallel
algorithms and hardware, applications to specific types of data including
text, graphics, sound, images, video, and scientific data.

SCHEDULE:
                 Monday Evening: Wine and Cheese Reception and Registration
                 Tuesday Morning and Afternoon: Technical Sessions
                 Wednesday Morning: Technical Sessions
                 Wednesday Afternoon: Poster Session and Reception
                 Thursday Morning and Afternoon: Technical Sessions
                 Friday: NASA Workshop

ADVANCE REGISTRATION:  Registration includes receptions,  coffee breaks, and
proceedings.  For registrations received before 2/15, the fee is $295 for
IEEE or affiliate members, $370 for non-members, and $150 for students;
there is an additional $100 late fee for all registrations after 2/15.
For additional information, call Myrna Fox at 617-736-2700
([e-mail]).

HOTEL: Space is limited; rooms may NOT be available after 2/15.
Rooms are $42 per person for a double room and $83 for a single room.
To make reservations, call the Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT 84092,
800-453-3000 or 801-742-2222.

AIR TRANSPORTATION: Salt Lake City Utah is serviced by most major airlines.
Special fares may be available from Delta Airlines (call 800-241-6760 and
request fares for the IEEE Data Compression Conference).

GROUND TRANSPORTATION: From the Salt Lake City Airport baggage area, the
hotel may be reached by public bus, taxi, or by limousine services,
including: Canyon Transportation ($15, 800-255-1841), Super Express ($14,
800-321-5554), Alta Airport Transportation ($15, 801-561-9805), and Lewis
Brothers ($18, 800-826-5844).

NASA SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE DATA COMPRESSION WORKSHOP:  Will be held the
day following the conference and will explore opportunities for data
compression to enhance the collection and analysis of space and earth data.
Contact James Tilton at 301-286-9510 ([e-mail]) for
further information.


_______________________________________________________________________
                        DCC REGISTRATION FORM


NAME:

AFFILIATION:

ADDRESS:



PHONE:

EMAIL:

IEEE MEMBER (yes/no):

ATTENDING NASA WORKSHOP (yes/no):


AMOUNT ENCLOSED:

MAIL TO: DCC Regisatration
         Computer Science Dept.
         Brandeis University
         Waltham, MA 02254

(Payment is non-refundable and must be by check in U.S. dollars payable
to DCC; charge cards or purchase orders can not be accepted.)
_______________________________________________________________________




                      ***** ADVANCE PROGRAM *****

             **********  REGISTRATION / RECEPTION **********

                      Monday, March 29, 1993
                        7:00pm - 10:00pm
                     In the Golden Cliff Room



        ********** DCC'93 - Tuesday, March 30, 1993 **********

7:45am: Welcome
Session 1: 8:00 - 10:05

8:00
Combining Image Classification and Image Compression
Using Vector Quantization
K. L. Oehler and R. M. Gray

8:25
An Improved Sequential Search Multistage Vector Quantizer
D. Miller, K. Rose

8:50
Globally Optimal Bit Allocation
X. Wu

9:15
On-Line Adaptive Vector Quantization with Variable Size Codebook Entries
C. Constantinescu, J. A. Storer

9:40
Joint Codebook Design for Summation Product-Code Vector Quantizers
W. Chang, A. Gersho, S. Soong

Break: 10:05 - 10:30
Session 2: 10:30 - 12:35

10:30
Codes with Monotonic Codeword Lengths
J. Abrahams

10:55
Filtering Random Noise via Data Compression
B. K. Natarajan

11:20
Can Random Fluctuation Be Exploited in Data Compression
A. Bookstein, I. Rao, M. Patil

11:45
Divergence and the Contruction of Variable-to-Variable-Length Lossless Codes
by Source-Word Extensions
G. Freeman

12:10
Universality and Rates of Convergence in Lossy Source Coding
T. Linder, G. Lugose, K. Zeger

Lunch Break, 12:35 - 4:00
Session 3: 4:00 - 5:40

4:00
Design and Analysis of Fast Text Compression Based on
Quasi-Arithmetic Coding
P. Howard, J. Vitter

4:25
An Empirical Evaluation of Coding Techniques for Multi-Symbol Alphabets
A. Moffat, N. Sharman, I. Witten, T. Bell

4:50
Minimizing Error and VLSI Complexity
in the Multiplication-Free Approximation of Arithmetic Coding
G. Feygin, P. Gulak, P. Chow

5:15
Multialphabet Arithmetic Coding at 16 MBytes/sec
H. Printz, P. Stubley

Break: 5:40 - 6:05
Session 4: 6:05 - 7:20

6:05
Ziv-Lempel Encoding with Multi-Bit Flags
P. Fenwick

6:30
On Approximate String Matching
I. Sadeh

6:55
Coding Theory and Regularization
J. Connor




        ********** DCC'93 - Wednesday, March 31, 1993 **********

Session 5: 8:00 - 10:05

8:00
Optimal Piecewise-Linear Compression of Images
V. Bhaskaran, B. K. Natarajan, K. Konstantinides

8:25
Visually Optimal DCT Quantization Matrices for Individual Images
A. Watson

8:50
Optimum DCT Quantization
D. Monro, B. Sherlock

9:15
Full-Frame Compression of Tomographic Images Using the Discrete
Fourier Transform
J. Villasenor

9:40
A High Performance Adaptive Image Compression System
Using a Generative Neural Network: Dynamic Neural Network II
A. Rios, M. Kabuka

Break: 10:05 - 10:30
Session 6: 10:30 - 12:35

10:30
An Embedded Hierarchical Image Coder
using Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients
J. Shapiro

10:55
Wavelet Transform-Vector Quantization Compression
of Supercomputer Ocean Model Simulation Output
J. Bradley, C. Brislawn

11:20
Efficient Compression of Wavelet Coefficients
for Smooth and Fractal-like Data
K. Culik II, S. Dube, P. Rajcani

11:45
Fractal Based Image Compression with Affine Transformations
H. Raittinen, K. Kaski

12:10
Generalized Fractal Transforms: Complexity Issues
D. Monro, F. Dudbridge

Lunch Break, 12:35 - 4:00




                 ***** Poster Session and Reception *****
                              4:00pm - 7:00pm
                         In the Golden Cliff Room

                 (An abstract of each poster presentation
                 appears in the conference proceedings.)





      ********** DCC'93 - Thursday, April 1, 1993 **********


Session 7: 8:00 - 10:05

8:00
Segmentation-Based Progressive Image Coding
X. Wu, Y. Fang

8:25
Classified Variable Rate Residual Vector Quantization
Applied to Image Subband Coding
C. Barnes, E. Holder

8:50
Adaptive Channel Optimization of Vector Quantized Data
A. Hung, T. Meng

9:15
Design and Peformance of Tree-Structured Vector Quantizers
J. Lin, J. Storer

9:40
A Mean-Removed Variation of Weighted Universal Vector Quantization
for Image Coding
B. Andrews, P. Chou, M. Effros, R. Gray

Break: 10:05 - 10:30
Session 8: 10:30 - 12:35

10:30
Application of AVL Trees to the Adaptive Compression of Numerical Data
H. Yokoo

10:55
Tree Compacting Transformations
G. Promhouse, M. Bauer

11:20
Sort Order Preserving Data Compression for Extended Alphabets
A. Zandi, B. Iyer, G. Langdon

11:45
Compression of DNA Sequences
S. Grumbach, F. Tahi

12:10
Fast and Efficient Lossless Image Compression
P. Howard, J. Vitter

Lunch Break, 12:35 - 4:00
Session 9: 4:00 - 5:40

4:00
Robust, Variable Bit-rate Coding Using Entropy-Based Codebooks
J. Fowler, S. Ahalt

4:25
Low Bit Rate Coding of Earth Science Images
F. Kossentini, W. Chung, M. Smith

4:50
Algorithms for Fast Vector Quantizaton
S. Arya, D. Mount

5:15
Multispectral Image Compression Algorithms
T. Markas, J. Reif

Break: 5:40 - 6:05
Session 10: 6:05 - 7:20

6:05
Real-time Focal-Plane Image Compression
R. Tawel

6:30
A Low Power Analog CMOS Vector Quantizer
G. Tuttle, S. Fallahi, A. Abidi

6:55
An MPEG Encoder Implementation on the Princeton Engine Video Supercomputer
H. Taylor, D. Chin, A. Jessup





       ********** NASA Workshop, Friday, April 2 **********


     The NASA Workshop seeks to explore opportunities for data
compression to enhance the collection and analysis of space and
Earth science data.  Of particular interest is data compression
research that is integrated into, or has the potential to be
integrated into, a particular space or Earth science data
information system.  Preference was given to data compression
research that takes into account the scientist's data
requirements, and the constraints imposed by the data collection,
transmission, distribution and archival system.

      PAPERS SCHEDULED FOR PRESENTATION AT THE NASA WORKSHOP:

Applications of Wavelet-Based Compression to Multidimensional Earth Science DatJ
. N. Bradley and C. M. Brislawn, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Compression through Decomposition into Browse and Residual Images
        D. A. Novik, Universal Systems and Technology, Inc.;
        J. C. Tilton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; and
        M. Manohar, Universities Space Research Association

Data Compression for the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument
        L. J. C. Woolliscroft, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom;
        W. M. Farrell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; and
        D. A. Gurnett, D. L. Kirchner, and W. S. Kurth, The University of Iowa

Data Compression Opportunities in EOSDIS
        B. Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Digital Mammography, Cancer Screening:  Factors Important for Image Compression
        M. Jaffe, L. P. Clarke, K. Doi, J. Blaine, F. Shtern, G. S. Brown,
        National Institute of Health;
        and D. Winfield and M. Kallergi, University of South Florida

Fast Image Decompression for Telebrowsing of Images
        S.-G. Miaou and J. T. Tou, University of Florida

Proposed Data Compression Schemes for the Galileo S-Band Contingency Mission
        K.-M. Cheung and K. Tong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A Study of Video Frame Rate on the Perception of Compressed Dynamic Imagery
        R. F. Haines and S. L. Chuang, NASA Ames Research Center

A Survey of Quality Measures for Gray Scale Image Compression
        A. Eskicioglu and P. Fisher, University of North Texas

Systems Aspects of COBE Science Data Compression
        I. Freedman, E. Boggess, and E. Seiler, Hughes STX

Wavelet Encoding and Variable Resolution Progression Transmission
        R. P. Blanford, TRW Systems Integration Group

NOTE:  Register for the NASA Workshop through DCC '93 by checking the NASA
Workshop box on the DCC '93 registration form.  The Workshop will be free of
any additional charge to all full DCC '93 registrants. To obtain a DCC '93
registration form, contact DCC '93 Registration, Computer Science Dept.,
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254.  A one day Workshop registration fee
is available.  Contact DCC '93 Registration for information.



            ********* Useful Local Information *************

FOOD: The guest services directory in every Cliff Lodge hotel room lists
places to eat at the Snowbird Complex; the Shallow Shaft Restaurant (1/2
mile up the Canyon road) is also recommended. A popular place for breakfast
is the buffet (all you can eat) in the Aerie Restaurant on the tenth floor
or the Atrium on Level B. For dinner, the Mexican Keyhole on Level A has
reasonably priced Mexican food and the Aerie Lounge (different from the
Aerie Restaurant) has a great view and serves a wide variety of appetizers,
pizza, sushi, etc. More expensive dining is provided by the Aerie
Restaraunt on the tenth floor and the Wildflower Restaurant at the Iron
Blossam Lodge (a five minute walk to the other side of the Snowbird Center).
There is a grocery store in the Snowbird Center. Room service is also
available.

SKIING: The hotel is located at the Snowbird Ski Area. The Alta Ski Area is
about 1/2 mile up the canyon road; lift tickets are cheaper than Snowbird
and the skiing is great. Take the elevator to the second floor, walk as far
as possible to the side of the building that is farthest from the Snowbird
Center, go outside and up the stairs to a bus stop; the bus leaves every 15
minutes and costs $1.00. The bus stops at both the main Alta parking lot
and further up the road at the Albion beginner area. Beginners should return
by bus; there are a number of ways for expert skiers to ski back.

BEGINNER SKIERS: If you just want to play around, the little chairlift
outside the Cliff Lodge is free and you can rent skis at the Snowbird
Center. The best beginner area is the Albion beginner area at Alta; they
offer extensive lessons and sell discounted tickets just for that part of
Alta (801-742-2600).

DAY CARE: Snowbird offers in-room day care at an hourly rate (book in
advance) and a day care center for children 3 and up. The Albion area at
Alta has a day care center for infants and children of all ages
(801-742-3042).

X-COUNTRY SKIING:
Inquire at the Albion area at Alta; back-country tours can be arranged as
well as skiing in patrolled areas.

HELICOPTER SKIING: There is an office to book trips in the Cliff Lodge.
Things to do Besides Skiing:

SWIMMING AND JACUZZI: There is an outdoor pool and jacuzzi on the roof of
the Cliff Lodge and an outdoor pool and indoor jacuzzi on the ground level;
towels and lockers are available at both locations but children are allowed
only on the ground level, and drinks are served only on the roof.

CLIFF SPA: Exercise equipment, massages, aerobics, etc.

TRAM RIDES: Single ride tickets are available for non-skiers to enjoy the
spectacular view.

SHOPPING: Your hotel room guest services directory lists all shops in the
Snowbird Complex.

SALT LAKE CITY: Can be reached by public bus from the Snowbird Center. A
tour of the central Temple Complex is recommended.

NIGHT-TIME ENTERTAINMENT: Aerie Lounge, Wildflower Lounge, Tram Bar, Comedy
Circuit, etc.

MOVIES: In addition to the pay movies in your room, VCR's and video tapes
are available at the Concierge Desk.



   ***** WHAT TO DO IF THE CLIFF LODGE AT SNOWBIRD IS FULL *****

     - Ask about rooms in other buildings at the Snowbird
       Complex (Iron Blossam, The Lodge, etc.).

     - Call back several days in a row; they almost always
       have space opening up due to cancellations.

     - Call some of the hotels at Alta (The Alta Lodge,
       The Rustler, the Peruvian Lodge, or the GoldMiner Lodge);
       Alta is just 1/2 mile up the Canyon road and
       reachable via shuttle bus).

     - Book at a Salt Lake City hotel that is on the bus route
       up to Snowbird.

     - Rent a car and book anywhere in Salt Lake City; it is
       only a 20 to 30 minute ride from the city up to Snowbird.

     - For those on a tight budget, there are a limited number
       of "dorm rooms" at the conference hotel that are just
       regular rooms with 4 single beds in them.
       The room can be rented for the conference rate or
       an individual can rent a bed in one of these rooms
       for 1/4 the conference rate.