CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE OF PATTERN RECOGNITION ON IMAGE DATABASE: CLASSIFICATION & RETRIEVAL Papers are solicited for a special issue of PATTERN RECOGNITION which will address the subject of Image Database: Classification and Retrieval. The Guest Editors for the special issue will be Dr. John C. M. Lee of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Prof. Anil Jain of Michigan State University. The growth in the volume, complexity, and interrelationships of video information has created an urgent need for more intelligent video manipulation tools. However, tools for organizing, querying, and retrieving information in image database still need to be developed. This special issue will comprise papers which are concerned with novel and significant tools and tech- niques relevant to content-based image classification and retrieval. Manuscripts that report flexible classification and retrieval based on image content in a domain-independent fashion are of primary interest. Manuscripts will not be accepted if they have been previously published, or if they describe algorithms that have not been carefully evaluated on large database. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: o Automatic identification and classification of scenes according to their content (e.g., indoor, outdoor, action, car racing, sports). o Automatic break detection or video partitioning. o Automatic full-video search for objects of interest, such as "find all frames which contain frogs". o Image feature representations for efficient object detection and classification. o Quantitative measures of aspects of perception, such as texture, shape, and color, that have been evaluated on large sets of data. o Image processing and pattern recognition methods used in image database, such as "seg- mentation of optical flow to detect camera movement". o Computational measures of perceptual similarity for matching image features, especially texture, shape and color. o Scene retrieval methods for video database by using spatio-temporal logic. o Methods for real-time object extraction from and tracking in a moving video image. o Creating image database with functions such as efficient querying, indexing, retrieval and browsing. All papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines of the Pattern Recognition journal, and the submitted papers must follow the instructions for the style of manuscript printed on the inside of the back cover of the Pattern Recognition journal. Please submit 4 copies of your paper to: Dr. John C. M. Lee Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: Deadline for submission of manuscripts: September 1, 1995 First set of reviews to authors: December 1, 1996 Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: February 1, 1996 Publication of the special issue: September 1996 For further information, please contact Dr. John C. M. Lee (cmlee@cs.ust.hk) Prof. Anil Jain (jain@cps.msu.edu)