Akiko Yoshida

Mailing Address:
Computer Graphics Group
MPI Informatik
Campus E1.4
DE-66123 Saarbrücken
Germany (map)

E-mail: yoshida [at] mpii.de
Phone: +49 (0)681 9325 414 (direct) / 400 (group assistants)
Fax: +49 (0)681 9325 499
Office: Room 214 at E1.4 on the campus of Universität des Saarlandes

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Interests and Supervisors

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging
Human Visual Perception and Psychophysics
Supervisors: Dr.-Ing. habil. Karol Myszkowski

MPII HDR Website

High Dynamic Range Image and Video Processing

Publications

Evaluation and Enhancement of HDR Image Appearance on Displays of Varying Dynamic Range
Akiko Yoshida.
Ph.D. thesis. 2008. [PDF]
Brightness of the Glare Illusion
Akiko Yoshida, Matthias Ihrke, Rafał Mantiuk, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Proc. of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2008. [PDF]
Perception-Based Contrast Enhancement Model for Complex Images in High Dynamic Range
Akiko Yoshida, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Proc. of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIII, IS&T/SPIE's 20th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, USA, 2008. [PDF]
Perceptual Uniformity of Contrast Scaling in Complex Images
Akiko Yoshida, Grzegorz Krawczyk, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Proc. of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), pp. 137, Tübingen, Germany, 2007. [PDF]
Testing Tone Mapping Operators with Human-Perceived Reality
Akiko Yoshida, Volker Blanz, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Journal of Electronic Imaging, 16(1), pp. 013004-1 - 013004-14, IS&T (Springfield, VA, USA) and SPIE (Bellingham, WA, USA), 2007. [PDF (1.5M)]
Analysis of Reproducing Real-World Appearance on Displays of Varying Dynamic Range
Akiko Yoshida, Rafał Mantiuk, Karol Myszkowski, and Hans-Peter Seidel.
Proc. of EUROGRAPHICS 2006 (Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 25), pp. 415-426, Vienna, Austria, 2006. [project page][PDF]
Perceptual Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators with Real-World Scenes
Akiko Yoshida, Volker Blanz, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel.
Proc. of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, IS&T/SPIE's 17th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging, pp. 192 -- 203, San Jose, CA, USA, 2005. [PDF]
Perceptual Evaluation of Tone Mapping Operators
Akiko Yoshida.
Master thesis, Supervised by Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Seidel, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2004.
Augmenting Spoken Telecommunication via Spatial Audio Transformation
William L. Martens and Akiko Yoshida.
Journal of the 3D-Forum Society of Japan, 14(4), pp. 169-175, 2000.
Psychoacoustically-Based Control of Auditory Range: Display of Virtual Sound Sources in the Listener's Personal Space
William L. Martens and Akiko Yoshida.
Proc. of International Conference on Information Society in the 21st Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS2000), pp 288-294, 2000.
Augmenting Spoken Telecommunication via Spatial Audio Transformation
William L. Martens and Akiko Yoshida.
Third International Conference on Human and Computer (HC2000), Japan, pp. 190-196, 2000.
Whisper Function: An Audio Transformation for Conveying a Confided Speech Message in a Multi-User Virtual Environment
Akiko Yoshida and William L. Martens.
IEICE Tohoku Branch Conference, Japan, 2000.
Whisper Function: An Audio Transformation for Conveying a Confided Speech Message in a Multi-User Virtual Environment
Akiko Yoshida.
Bachelor thesis, Supervised by William L. Martens, Jens Herder, and Michael Cohen, University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, 2000.

Personal and Private Info.

Nationality: Japan
Scuba diving: qualified by NAUI
Social action: Parenting a Tanzanian girl through Plan Japan [English: Plan International a.k.a. "Foster Parents Plan" (Wikipedia)]