University of PAVIA Department of COMPUTER and SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Computer Vision Laboratory	Hewlett Packard Philantropy Programs

Communicating Images
New Challanges for the Visual Channel

Being digital is the new common denominator of information.
Processing digital contents leads toward an augmented reality
where images gain their central role like in every-day life.

Summary

Milestones

Background

Activity description

• Master in "Media Science and Technology"
• PACCO: a software environment for image processing and manipulation.

Appendix: Last year proposal

Participants:	Prof. Virginio Cantoni cantoni@ipvvis.unipv.it Prof. Massimo Savini savio@ipvvis.unipv.it Doct. Eng. Luca Lombardi luca@ipvvis.unipv.it Doct. Alberto Biancardi alberto@ipvvis.unipv.it Eng. Massimiliano Pini maxi@ipvvis.unipv.it

The European Universities, joined by this project:

• Cheltenham College, Department of Information Technology (L. MacDonald)
• Delft University of Technology, Pattern Recognition Group (E. Young)
• EPFL Lousanne, Signal Processing Laboratory (M. Kunt)
• Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Department of Computer Science (H. Niemann)
• Linköping University, Image Processing Laboratory (G. Granlund)
• Paris-VI University, LEAM (P. Garda)
• Pavia University, Computer Vision Laboratory (V. Cantoni)
• Technion Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering (Y. Y. Zeevi)

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