Raster Imaging & Digital Typography RIDT'98

March 30 - April 1, St-Malo, France,
within the Week on Electronic Publishing and Typography (WEPT'98)

Objectives and Topics
Attendees
Conference Site
Program
Program Committee
Abstracts of presented papers
Proceedings
Facilities
Conference poster (1973 KB)
Sponsors

Objectives and Topics

RIDT'98 is the successor of the previous conferences RIDT'89 (Lausanne), RIDT'91 (Boston), and RIDT'94 (Darmstadt). The aim of RIDT'98 is to bring together scientists and designers/artists and to create the conditions for a fruitful exchange of views. The conference presents advanced basic and applied research results in the field of digital typography, artistic imaging and related issues. The conference program includes presentations from all over the world, both from academy and from industry. The conference covers the following subjects:

Tools and methods for the analysis & synthesis of typographic characters
Synthesis of non-latin fonts (Perso-arabic, Indian, Korean)
Typography and design for the World Wide Web
Artistic 2D-imaging & halftoning techniques
Typography and human perception issues
Font and character recognition
New design concepts

The tutorials focus on colour reproduction and character design.

Attendees

Scientists and students interested in typography, design, and artistic imaging
Document, font and graphic designers
Colour reproduction and graphic imaging professionals

Conference Site

Le Palais du Grand Large, St Malo, France. These following photographs have been taken and digitized by Prof. Do-Hoon Lee.

Program

Monday 30 of March 1998, afternoon - Salle Maupertuis, 2nd floor

14.30 - 15.30: Registration, Demonstrations, Posters
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee-break
16.00 - 16.15: RIDT'98 Opening Session

Paper session : Artistic Imaging. Chairman: Victor Ostromoukhov

16.15 - 16.45: An Interface for the Interactive design of Artistic Screens; Nicolas Rudaz, Roger D. Hersch, Victor Ostromoukhov, EPFL, Switzerland
16.45 - 17.15: Image Mosaics; Adam Finkelstein and Marisa Range, Princeton University, USA
17.15 - 17.45: Font Decoration by Automatic Mesh Fitting; Cameron Browne, Canon Information Systems Research, Australia
Color Illustrations
18.00 - 18.30: RIDT'98 Cocktail

Tuesday 31st of March 1998, morning - Espace Lamennais, 3rd floor

Paper session: Tools & Methods in Typography. Chairman: John Hobby

09.00 - 09.30: A Window-Based Method For Automatic Typographic Parameter Extraction; J. Herz, Changyuan Hu, J. Gonczarowski, R D. Hersch, Open Univ. Israel and EPFL, Switzerland
09.30 - 10.00: Unified Table Approach for Typographic Rendering.; ByungHoon Kang, University of Maryland, USA
10.00 - 10.30: Producing the Skeleton of a Character; Jakob Gonczarowski, Typographics Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee-break (3rd floor)

Paper session: Advanced Tools for Typography. Chairman: Roger D. Hersch

11.00 - 11.30: Visual TrueType: A Graphical Method for Authoring Font Intelligence; Beat Stamm, Microsoft Typography, Redmond, USA
11.30 - 12.00: Feature-Based Design of Fonts Using Constraints; Ariel Shamir and Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
12.00 - 12.30: An Object-Oriented Model for the Hierarchical Composition of Letterforms in Computer-Aided Typeface Design; Uwe Schneider, Fraunhofer Institut fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung, (IGD), Darmstadt, Germany

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch (Rotonde Surcouf, 2nd floor)

Tuesday 31st of March 1998, afternoon - Espace Lamennais, 3rd floor

Paper session: Typography & Tools for Non-Latin Type. Chairman: Jakob Gonczarowski

14.00 - 14.30: The Design and Use of a Multiple-Alphabet Font with Omega; Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice, Atelier Fluxus Virus, Lille, France and Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
14.30 - 15.00: Support for Authentic Arabic, Thomas Milo, Decotype, NL
15.00 - 15.30: The Formulation of Parameters for Type Design based on Calligraphic Studies; S. K.Mohanty, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break (3rd floor)

Paper session: Typographic Creation. Chairman: Peter Karow

16.00 - 16.30: Metafont in the Rockies : the Colorado typemaking project; Richard Southall, Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire, UK
16.30 - 17.00: Designing and Using Scalable Type for Display as Graphic Elements on Digital Devices; V. Connare, Microsoft Typography, Redmond, USA

Invited Tutorial Talk

17.00 - 17.45: Mathematical Tools for Computer Generated Ornamental Patterns; V. Ostromoukhov, EPFL, Switzerland

18.00 - 19.30: Walk through St-Malo
20.00: RIDT'98 Dinner (Rotonde Surcouf, 2nd floor)

Wednesday 1st of April 1998, morning - Auditorium Chateaubriand, ground floor

Paper sessions: Imaging, Recognition & Models. Chairman: John Hobby

09.00 - 09.30: Fundamentals of 3D Halftoning; Qun Lou, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
09.30 - 10.00: Using Typography in Document Image Analysis; Frédéric Bapst and Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
10.00 - 10.30: A Beta-Velocity Model for Simulating Handwritten Korean Scripts; Do-Hoon Lee and Hwan-Gue Cho, Miryang National Univ & Pusan National Univ., Korea
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee-break (1st floor)

Common RIDT'98 & EP Sessions I

Opening session (with RIDT): Legibility and Typography. Chairman: Rolf Ingold

11.00 - 11.20: Keynote talk: The Web Accessibility Intiative; Daniel Dardailler, WAI Project Manager, W3C Consortium,
11.20 - 12.00: Keynote talk: Two Decades of Typographic Research at URW: a Retrospective; Peter Karow, Hamburg, Germany
12.00 - 12.30: Legibility of Condensed Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Fonts; R.A. Morris, R.D. Hersch and A. Coimbra, University of Massachussets, Boston, USA and EPFL, Switzerland
12.30 - 13.00: Exploring the Effect of Layout on Reading from Screen; Mary C. Dyson and Gary J. Kipping, University of Reading, UK

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch (Rotonde Jacques Cartier, 1st floor)

Wednesday 1st of April 1998, afternoon - Auditorium Chateaubriand, ground floor

Common RIDT'98 & EP Sessions II

Paper session: Fonts and design. Chairman: Robert Morris

14.45 - 15.15: Internationalized Text Manipulation Covering Perso-Arabic Enhanced for Mongolian Related Scripts; Tomoko I. Kataoka, Yutaka Kataoka, Kazutomo Uezono and Hiroyoshi Ohara, Waseda University (Japan)
15.15 - 15.45: Une Bibliothèque Informatique pour la Notation Musicale Baroque; Nabil Bouzaiene, Loïc Le Gall and Emmanuel Saint-James, University of Paris and Ecole Supérieure Estienne, France

15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break (1st floor)

RIDT'98 Closing session - Salle Bouvet, 1st floor

16.15 - 16.45: Round table : Past, Present and Future of RIDT; C. Bigelow, R. Southall, R.D. Hersch, J. Andre,; J. Gonczarowski, A. Finkelstein, R. Morris

Tutorial RIDT1 Modern Colorimetry - Salle Bouvet 1, 1st floor

Date:: Thursday, 2nd of April, 1998 from 14h45 to 15h45 and from 16h15 to 18h00 (total 3 hours)
Author:: János Schanda
Topics:: Visual science fundamentals of additive colour matching
The CIE system of colorimetry
The colorimetric observers
Colorimetric illuminants, light sources and simulators (their evaluation)
Colorimetric measuring geometry and colorimetric practices
Colour measuring instruments and their characterisation (tristimulus and spectrophotometric measuring techniques)
Advanced colorimetry
Colour appearance models, the CIECAM77s model
Hard-copy - soft-copy comparison, colour management
Author Biography:: Dr. János Schanda is professor at the University Veszprém and Head of the Department of Image Processing and Neurocomputing. His main interest is in colorimetry of visual display units (VDUs), colour rendering and colour appearance. He was for more then 10 years the Technical Director of the CIE (International Commission on Illumination). He published many papers on colorimetry, the metrology of LEDs and VDUs. He is the author of the chapter of colorimetry in the recently published book on Applied Photometry published by the Optical Society of America. He is at present chairman of several fundamental technical committees of the CIE, such as the committees re-writing the basic publications on colorimetry and colour rendering and is raporteur for improved colorimetry.
Price:: 160 Sfr

Program Committee

Workshop Chairman:	Roger D. Hersch, EPFL, Switzerland
Workshop Vice-chairman:	Jakob Gonczarowski, Typographics Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel
Tutorial Chairman:	Martin Dürst, Univ. of Zürich, Switzerland
Local Organisation Chairman:	Jacques André, INRIA, Rennes, France

Jacques André, INRIA-Rennes, France
Charles Bigelow, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Dardailler, Consortium WWW, Inria/Sophia-Antipolis, France
Luc Devroye, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Martin Dürst, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
Jakob Gonczarowski, Typographics Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel
André Gürtler, School of Design, SfG-AGS, Basel, Switzerland
Roger D. Hersch, EPFL, Lausanne, Switerland
Bill Hill, Microsoft Inc, Seattle, USA
John Hobby, Bell Laboratories, USA
Peter Karow, Hamburg, Germany
Victor Klassen, Xerox Webster Research Center, USA
Hideko Kunii, Ricoh Company Inc., Japan
Robert Morris, Univ. of Massachussetts, Boston, USA
Yoshio Ohno, Keio University, Japan
Victor Ostromoukhov, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Theo Pavlidis, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Richard Rubinstein, Cognitive Construction Co., USA
David Salesin, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA
Juergen Schönhut, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Peter Stucki, Univ. of Zurich, Switerland

Proceedings

The RIDT'98 Proceedings have been published by Springer-Verlag in their LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series) together with the proceedings of EP'98 conference to be held in St Malo during the same Week on Electronic Documents and Typography (29 March--3 April, 1998).

These proceedings are referenced as follows:
Roger D. Hersch, Jacques André, and Heather Brown (eds.),
Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging and Digital Typography,
Proceedings of the EP'98 and RIDT'98 Conferences, St Malo: March 30 -April 3, 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, number 1375, Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, 1998.

Here are available:

The author index (Postscript)
The table of contents (Postscript)
The cover designed by Nicolas Rudaz at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Acrobat PDF file, 1802 KB).