An Overview of Digital Cinema

Professor Michael Marcellin

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Arizona, Tucson

Date: Friday, May 25, 2007
Place: Buchanan 1930
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm


Abstract:

A consortium of Hollywood studios, known as Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), has selected JPEG2000 for future distribution of motion pictures. This selection was based in part on the fact that JPEG2000 is an open international standard that can support both 2K and 4K resolution projectors from a single codestream. The talk will give an overview of digital cinema, including discussions on image quality, color space selection, security, business issues, and JPEG2000 profiles.

MICHAEL W. MARCELLIN was born in Bishop, California, on July 1, 1959. He graduated summa cum laude (highest honors) with the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University in 1983, where he was named the most outstanding student in the College of Engineering. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1985 and 1987, respectively.

Since 1988, Dr. Marcellin has been with the University of Arizona, where he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Optical Sciences. His research interests include digital communication and data storage systems, data compression, and signal processing. He has authored or coauthored more than one hundred fifty papers in these areas.

Host: Prof. Jerry Gibson, Electrical and Computer Engineering