Charles Poynton -
Publications and Presentations
Here you will find summaries of my publications and
presentations.
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Books
Poynton, Charles, Digital
Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann,
2003). 736 pages.
Poynton, Charles, A Technical Introduction to Digital
Video. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996). 352 pages.
Book chapters
"Color in Digital Cinema," chapter 3 in
Understanding
Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook, edited by Charles
Swartz (Burlington, Mass.: Focal Press, 2004).
"The Current State of
High Definition Television," chapter 2 in The New TV: A Comprehensive
Survey of High Definition Television, edited by Lou CasaBianca (Westport,
Conn.: Meckler, 1994).
"High Definition Television
and Desktop Computing," chapter 18 in Multimedia Systems, edited
by John F. Koegel (New York: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, 1994). Also published
in Proceedings of International Technical Workshop on Multimedia Technologies
in the HDTV Age, IEEE CES Tokyo Chapter, July 20, 1993.
Published Interviews
"NASA TV," in Canadian
Electronics Engineer, May 1984.
Dale Cripps, "HDTV and
the Computer Industry," in HDTV Newsletter, June/July 1989,
p. 15-16.
Karen Frenkel, "HDTV
and the Computer Industry," in Communications of the ACM, November
1989, p. 1301-1312.
"Why you should care
about HDTV," EDN, December 14, 1989, p. S46-S48.
Lawrence Jerome, "HDTV:
Television with More Resolution than a Hi-Res Monitor," in Sun Observer,
January 1990, p. 20-21.
Barbara Robertson, "The
Tangled Web of HDTV," in Computer Graphics World, January 1990,
p. 52-62.
Mark Schubin, "Politics,
Numerology, and HDTV," in Videography, April 1990, p. 27-30.
"Benefits of HDTV Standards
for Workstations," UNIX World, April 1990, p. 105-106.
Jack Shandle, "HDTV: Looking
Good As a CAD/CAM Standard," in Electronics Magazine, June 1990,
p. 70-71.
"Still Holding for HDTV,"
in Computer Graphics World, June 1990, p. 126.
Profile: Charles Poynton,
in Millimeter Magazine, August 1991.
Piera Scuri, "Illuminazione
and Color Science (Lighting and Color Science)," in Flare Architectural
Lighting Magazine, No 6, April 1992, p. 14-25 [Italian and English].
Technical Publications
"HDTV for Computer Workstations,"
in Television: Merging Multiple Technologies, Proceedings of the
24th SMPTE Television Conference, January 26-27, 1990, p. 197-203.
"HDTV and the Computer
Industry," in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Colloquium on Advanced
Television Systems (TVHD/90/HDTV), Ottawa, Canada, June 25-29, 1990,
p. 2A.6.1-2A.6.10.
"A Tutorial on Magic Numbers
for High Definition Electronic Production," presented at the 132nd
SMPTE Technical Conference, October 13-17, 1990, Preprint No. 132-119.
High Definition Television
(HDTV) Technology. Charles Poynton, C.R. Caillouet, Charles A. Pantuso,
Glenn A. Reitmeier, Laurence J. Thorpe. ACM/SIGGRAPH '91 Course Notes for
Course C18, Las Vegas, Nevada, July, 1991.
"A Tutorial on Picture
and Sound Compression," in Proceedings of the 26th Annual SMPTE
Advanced Television and Electronic Imaging Conference, (February 7-8,
1992), SMPTE, 46-57.
"Overview of TIFF 5.0,"
in Image Processing and Interchange: Implementation and Systems,
Ronald B. Arps, William K. Pratt, Editors, Proc. SPIE 1659, 152-158 (1992).
"Technology for Accurate
Color," in Advanced Television and Electronic Imaging for Film and
Video (Proceedings of SMPTE Advanced Television and Electronic Imaging
Conference, Feb. 5-6, 1993, New York), SMPTE, 186-200.
Concepts of Color, Video
and Compression. Charles Poynton, Dave Farber, Adrian Ligtenberg and
Martin Lilley. ACM/SIGGRAPH 93 Course Notes for Course MM29, Los Angeles,
California, August 1, 1993.
"Gamma and Its Disguises,"
in SMPTE Journal, Vol. 102, No. 12 (December 1993), 1099-1108.
The Science of Digital Color. Charles Poynton. ACM/SIGGRAPH 94,
Course Notes for Course C26, Orlando, Florida, July 26, 1994.
"Wide Gamut Device-Independent
Colour Image Interchange," in Conference Papers of the International
Broadcasting Convention 1994, IEE Conference Publication No. 397, 218-222.
"A Guided Tour of Color Space," in New Foundations for Video
Technology (Proceedings of the SMPTE Advanced Television and Electronic
Imaging Conference, San Francisco, Feb. 1995), 167-180. (White Plains, New
York: SMPTE, 1995)
Pixels, Pictures, and Perception. Linda Young, Charles Poynton,
Mark Schubin, John Watkinson, Thor Olson. Seminar notes from NAB 95 (White
Plains, New York: SMPTE, 1995).
"Outlook for home use
video terminals," in Proceedings of International Broadcasting Symposium
'95, Broadcasting in the Multimedia Age, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 13-15, 1995,
285-290.
"Motion portrayal, eye
tracking, and emerging display technology," in Proceedings of the
30th SMPTE Advanced Motion Imaging Conference, Seattle, WA, Feb. 1-3,
1996, 192-202.
Digital Color. Charles Poynton, Michael Bourgoin, Jan De Clippeleer,
Thor Olson. ACM/SIGGRAPH 96, Course Notes for Course C28 (New Orleans, Louisiana,
August 5, 1996).
Digital Color. Charles Poynton, Michael Bourgoin, Jan De Clippeleer,
Maureen Stone. ACM/SIGGRAPH 97, Course Notes for Course C13 (Los Angeles,
California, August 4, 1997).
Scanning and Recording of Motion Picture Film. Charles Poynton,
George Joblove. ACM/SIGGRAPH 97, Course Notes for Course C27 (Los Angeles,
California, August 5, 1997).
Color Image Coding, Color Management Systems. Charles Poynton, Ed
Giorgianni, Michael Bourgoin. ACM/SIGGRAPH 98, Course Notes for Course C25/C26 (Orlando,
Florida, July 20, 1998).
Digital Video. Charles Poynton, Kevin Stec, Michael Isnardi.
ACM/SIGGRAPH 98, Course Notes for Course C43/C44 (Orlando,
Florida, July 21, 1998).
Technical Presentations
1983-03-11 |
SMPTE Toronto Chapter, Toronto,
Canada |
Microprocessor Applications
in Film and Video |
1984-01-28 |
SMPTE Television Conference, San
Francisco, CA |
A High Bandwidth Multiport
Framestore System |
1985-10-23 |
SMPTE Ottawa Chapter, Ottawa,
Canada |
Current Computer Graphics Techniques
used in Television |
1986-05-04 |
SMPTE Mini-Conference, Ottawa,
Canada |
HDTV: High Bandwidth Video
or Electronic Cinematography? |
1989-06-02 |
Meckler HDTV Conference, Washington,
DC |
HDTV and the Computer Industry |
1989-09-19 |
Society for Information Display,
Bay Area Chapter, Palo Alto, CA |
HDTV: Two Megapixels in the
Living Room? |
1989-11-15 |
U.C. Berkeley Computer Science
Seminar, Berkeley, CA |
Hardware Systems for Multimedia
Workstations |
1990-04-23 |
University of Michigan CITI, Ann
Arbor, MI |
Video in the Workstation |
1990-06-25 |
IEEE Computer Elements Workshop,
Vail, CO |
HDTV and the Computer Industry |
1990-06-27 |
TVHD/90/HDTV Colloquium, Ottawa,
Canada |
HDTV and the Computer Industry |
1990-11-14 |
ESPRIT'90, Brussels, Belgium |
IT and Consumer Electronics:
Workstations, Video and High Definition Television |
1991-02-13 |
Association for Color Developers,
Burlingame, CA |
Color Interchange Spaces |
1991-04-04 |
Aldus Developer's Association,
Seattle, WA |
Accurate Color for TIFF |
1991-05-27 |
École Nationale Supérieur
des Télecommunications, Workshop on Advanced Television Systems,
Paris, France |
Image Industry: Is there a
convergence of technologies? (Invited paper) |
1991-06-04 |
Seybold Digital World, Los Angeles,
CA |
Digital Video: The Technology |
1992-02-13 |
SPIE/IS&T, San Jose, CA |
Overview of TIFF 5.0 |
1992-02-25 |
Kodak Developer's Conference,
Burlingame, CA |
Color Interchange Spaces |
1992-03-26 |
Youngblood/IBEC DeskTop PrePress
Conference '92, Toronto, Canada |
RISC/UNIX Workstations in DeskTop
PrePress |
1992-04-14 |
MSTV Association, Las Vegas, NV |
Guest Speaker, MSTV Engineering
Breakfast |
1992-06-15 |
IEEE Computer Elements Workshop,
Vail, CO |
Color Technology |
1992-08-12 |
SVnet, San Jose, CA |
High Definition Television:
Ten Years Later, Still No Standards |
1992-09-09 |
SunExpo'92, Manchester, UK |
Paper, Color Management Technology
for Workstations |
1993-02-06 |
SMPTE Winter Television Conference,
New York, NY |
Paper: Accurate Color Technology |
1993-02-18 |
University of California at Santa
Cruz, CA |
Research Colloquium, Giving
Numbers to Colors |
1993-05-17 |
Workshop on Progressive and Interlaced
Scanning, Chatham, MA |
Paper, Current and Future Technologies
for Non-Broadcast Media |
1993-07-20 |
IEEE CES Tokyo Chapter, International
Technical Workshop, MultiMedia Technologies in the HDTV Age, Tokyo, Japan |
Invited paper, High Definition
Television and Desktop Computing |
1993-11-12 |
SMPTE Sacramento Chapter |
Gamma and its Disguises |
1993-11-30 |
SMPTE Fall Conference, Los Angeles,
CA |
Paper, Gamma and Its Disguises
Paper, Accurate Color Technology
Paper, Video Compression
for Workstations |
1993-12-04 |
Society for Information Display,
Bay Area Chapter, San Jose, CA |
Designing Information Displays
for Human Perception |
1994-02-05 |
SPIE/IS&T Imaging Science |
Color Coding for Image Compression |
1995-02-09 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA |
Paper, A Guided Tour through
Colour Space |
1995-11-15 |
International Broadcasting Symposium
'95, Broadcasting in the Multimedia Age, Tokyo, Japan |
Invited paper, Outlook for
home use video terminals |
1996-02-03 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, Seattle, WA |
Paper, Motion portrayal, eye
tracking, and emerging display technology |
1996-04-16 |
MSTV, Las Vegas, NV |
Guest Speaker, MSTV Engineering
Breakfast |
1997-02-07 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, New York, NY |
Paper, Digital HDTV: Why bits
are not just bits |
Courses, Seminars, Workshops
1984-06-15 |
Graphics Interface '84, Ottawa,
Canada |
Tutorial, Digital Video Processing
(Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1989-04-12 |
NCGA Insider's Briefing on HDTV,
Washington, DC |
Presentation, HDTV Technology
(Presenter) |
1989-11-07 |
EIA/TIA Workshop on Digital Advanced
Television, Washington, DC |
Presentation, HDTV Technology
(Presenter) |
1991-01-14 |
DARPA HRV Workshop, Dallas, TX |
Workshop, Video Compression
Technology |
1991-07-30 |
SIGGRAPH '91, Las Vegas, NV |
High Definition Television
(HDTV) Technology, Course C18 (Organizer, Presenter) |
1991-11-26 |
SIGGRAPH, Bay Area Chapter, Palo
Alto, CA |
Presentation, Why is Sky Blue
R=39, ... |
1992-02-08 |
SMPTE Winter Television Conference,
San Francisco, CA |
Tutorial, Image and Sound
Compression (Organizer, Presenter) |
1993-02-04 |
SMPTE Winter Television Conference,
Chicago, IL |
Tutorial, The Meaning of Resolution
in Film, Television and Computer Graphics (Presenter) |
1993-08-02 |
SIGGRAPH '93/ACM MultiMedia '93,
Anaheim, CA |
Course MM29, Concepts of Color,
Video and Compression (Organizer, Presenter) |
1993-08-03 |
SIGGRAPH '93/ACM MultiMedia '93,
Anaheim, CA |
Course MM45, Formal Standards
for Multimedia: Color and Video (Presenter) |
1994-02-03 |
SMPTE Winter Television Conference,
Chicago, IL |
Tutorial, Video Compression
Technology (Organizer, Presenter) |
1994-02-08 |
ACM SIGCHI, Bay Area Chapter |
Presentation, Digital Color |
1994-03-05 |
SMPTE New York Section, New York,
NY |
Tutorial, Pixels, Pictures
and Perception (Presenter) |
1994-05-14 |
SMPTE Hollywood Section, Los
Angeles, CA |
Seminar, Digital Compression
for Film and Video: Preserving Image Quality (Organizer, Presenter) |
1994-07-27 |
SIGGRAPH '94, Orlando, FL |
Course, The Science of Digital
Color (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1994-09-21 |
IBC '94, Amsterdam |
Workshop, The Use of General-Purpose
Workstations in Video Production (Organizer, Presenter) |
1995-01-10 |
SMPTE Toronto Section |
Local chapter meeting, Computing
and Communications Technology for Video Distribution (Organizer, Presenter) |
1995-02-09 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA |
All-day seminar, Computing
and Communications Technology for Video Distribution (Organizer, Presenter) |
1995-02-10, 11 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA |
Conference Co-chair |
1995-04-08 |
National Association of Broadcasters,
Las Vegas, NV |
Tutorial, Pixels, Pictures
and Perception (Presenter) |
1995-05-20 |
SMPTE Hollywood Section, Los
Angeles, CA |
Seminar, Understanding the
use of Color in Film, Video, and Computers (Organizer, Presenter) |
1995-09-09 |
SMPTE Technical Conference, New
Orleans, LA |
All-day seminar, Internet
Workshop (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1995-09-15 |
IBC '95, Amsterdam |
Workshop, ATM: Your Next Digital
Router? (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1996-02-01 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, Seattle, WA |
All-day seminar, A Technical
Introduction To Digital Video (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1996-04-10 |
UCLA Extension, Short Course
Program, Los Angeles, CA |
3-day course, Digital Video
Technology (Organizer/Presenter) |
1996-05-07 |
Sony Broadcast, Professional
Courses, Toronto, Canada |
All-day course, Introduction
To Digital Video (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1996-05-29, 30 |
SMPTE Montréal section,
Montréal, Québec |
Seminar, Digital
Pictures from conception to delivery (Presenter) |
1996-05-07 |
Sony Broadcast, Professional
Courses, Toronto, Canada |
All-day course, Introduction
To Digital Video (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1996-09-15 |
IBC '96, Amsterdam |
Session chair, Virtual reality |
1997-02-08 |
BayCHI (Bay Area local chapter
of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interface), Palo Alto, CA |
All-day seminar, Color and
Type in Information Design (Organizer/Presenter) |
1997-02-08 |
SMPTE Advanced Television and
Electronic Imaging Conference, New York, NY |
All-day seminar, A Technical
Introduction To Digital Video (Organizer/Solo Presenter) |
1997-03-24 |
ACM CHI 97, ACM Special Interest
Group on Computer Human Interface, Atlanta, GA |
All-day seminar, Color and
Type in Information Design (Organizer/Presenter) |
1997-04-02, 03, 04 |
UCLA Extension, Short Course
Program, Los Angeles, CA |
3-day course, Digital Video
Technology (Organizer/Presenter) |
1997-08-04 |
SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, CA |
All-day course, Digital Color
(Organizer, Presenter) |
1997-08-05 |
SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, CA |
All-day course, Scanning and
recording of motion picture film (Organizer, Presenter) |
1997-09-13 |
IBC '97, Amsterdam |
Session chair, New
systems concepts and implementation |
1997-09-20 |
BKSTS, London, England |
Full-day course, Digital Video
Technology (Organizer/Presenter) |
1997-12-03, 04, 05 |
UCLA Extension, Short Course
Program, Los Angeles, CA |
3-day course, Digital Video
Technology (Organizer/Presenter) |
1998-07-20 |
SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, FL |
Half-day course, Color Image Coding
(Organizer, Solo Presenter) |
1998-07-20 |
SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, FL |
Half-day course, Color
management: Technology & implementation
(Organizer) |
1998-07-21 |
SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, FL |
Half-day course,
Digital video: Algorithms & interfaces
(Organizer, Presenter) |
1998-07-21 |
SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, FL |
Half-day course, Digital video:
Motion JPEG, DVC, MPEG-2, and DVD
(Organizer, Presenter) |
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