Welcome!
It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 2001 IEEE
Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors at the Cal-Neva
Resort on Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA. The
purpose of the workshop is to discuss recent research results, provide in-depth
discussion of common technical issues, and stimulate thinking about new
research directions and activities.
I would like to thank Dr. Jaroslav (Jerry) Hynecek, program
committee chairman and his committee for putting together an excellent, high
quality technical program. This year we
have 56 papers for presentation. Of
these, 25 are from North America, 15˝ from Asia
and 15˝ from Europe (where the ˝ represents a collaboration).
And for those that track these things, 40 papers concern CMOS
image sensors, 12 CCDs, and 4 some special topic. All papers will be orally presented. Some will be presented in longer time slots,
some in shorter, and those best presented in poster format will be given 5 min
for an oral presentation. In addition to
the contributed papers, there will be our traditional lively discussion session
and a reprise presentation on the paper that has been selected for the Walter Kosonocky Award.
As in years past, this workshop
was limited in attendance to 120 persons, based on desire of the organizing
committee to keep the workshop small and more personal, as well as the
practical limitations of the Cal-Neva Resort facilities. The workshop, also in keeping with tradition,
was filled to capacity by mid April. On
behalf of the organizing committee, we apologize to the dozens of additional
persons who desired to attend but were unable to due to the rapid filling of
the meeting. We hope to see you next
time!
It is amazing that it has been
15 years since the first workshop in this series that was held in 1986 in
Harriman New York. This is now the 8th workshop of
the series and the interest in a specialty workshop on image sensors is
stronger now than ever before. I would
like to thank my fellow organizing committee members, Albert
Theuwissen and Nobukazu Teranishi,
for their continued guidance in the planning and organization of the workshops,
and I would also like to thank Sayed Eid, Angela McNamee and Sandor Barna for their time and energy to make this workshop a
success. Thanks also to Photobit Corporation, and Photobit Technology Corporation for their support
of this year’s efforts.
Best wishes for a
great and memorable meeting!
Eric R. Fossum
General Chairman