“The best thing about Standards is that there are so many of them”.

As part of our course, Camera and Scanner Imaging Performance, at the Electronic Imaging Symposium on 2 Feb. 2014, Don will present Standards Rodeo, to bring some kind of order* to current imaging standards.

Course Info.  here
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*I almost wrote, corral the current ISO activities, but I am cutting back on disastrous puns.

For those of us involved with (2D, 3D) color image capture for, e.g., medical and dental applications, this article from IEEE Spectrum about ‘creepy’ prosthetics might give pause. Too realistic?

Prosthetic Hands Trigger Uncanny Valley Sense of Creepiness

After I read the article, it seemed that the accompanying picture, probably captured under florescent lighting, was less than flattering. I changed the color balance to give a somewhat more realistic rendering. Is the version on the right more or less ‘creepy’. Is this result consistent with the concluding sentence of the article? 

… and speaking of image metadata, the IPTC (Internal. Press Telecommunications Council) studied the preservation of information, including copyrights, by various social media services. Flying colours: Google. Worst offenders: Facebook and Twitter.

Here are the results: http://www.embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-test-results.php

Client: Serveur! Qu’est-ce que cette mouche fait dans ma soupe alphabet?
Serveur: Elle apprend à lire, Monsieur.

(This is a test post … or is it?)