Sean Adkins
Vice President
Advanced Technologies
Imax Corporation

 

Mr. Adkins is the Vice President, Advanced Technologies with Imax Corporation where he heads the research and development activities of the company and its subsidiaries. Mr. Adkins has 6 U.S. patents issued or applied for in the area of entertainment technology. Mr. Adkins has been designing and developing technology for the entertainment industry for over 22 years. Mr. Adkins is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In 1988 he co-founded the Canadian Centre for Image and Sound Research, a non-profit Society that performed research in new technologies for the arts.
 

The talk topic is:

Digital Imaging and Image Processing
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
 


Abstract

 
The 15/70 film format used by Imax Corporation is capable of extremely high quality. In our work with digital imaging and image processing we seek to maintain a similarly high level of performance. This presentation will consider the strengths and weaknesses of current digital imaging systems for both acquisition and display. Human factors and technical factors are both important, and examples will be given of each. A position will be offered that suggests that digital techniques should not stop at being merely equal in performance to existing methods, instead these techniques should continue to develop until they are truly better.
 
 

Last update: September 12, 2000