Information preserving imaging for heterogeneous networked displays.

Kavita Bala, James Ferwerda, and Bruce Walter

Networked display systems facilitate collaboration between remote participants. However, display and network limitations can lead to information loss that can jeopardize the shared context essential for effective collaboration.  Our goal is to preserve the fidelity of visual information transmission in heterogeneous, networked display systems.  We are developing information-preserving imaging algorithms that explicitly model the performance characteristics of displays, networks, and human observers. We use novel image representations to compensate for potential information loss.  The goal of our work is to enable reliable, interactive, visual communication among collaborators and improve the effectiveness of remote communication in critical tasks.