Call for Papers Special Issue of the JOURNAL OF REAL TIME IMAGING Academic Press on "Real Time Motion Analysis" The performing motion analysis in real-time is becoming mandatory for many applications. For this reason, several researchers are studying, parallel architectures and special chips for real time motion analysis. On these basis many new opportunities for new applications are possible, and many others could be fully exploited -- infeasible systems with traditional techniques can now be implemented. Several examples can be observed in the fields of cinema, virtual reality, medical imaging, industrial inspection, etc. -- i.e., in most of the applicative topics of the journal. In most of these applications, the real time synthesis of actors animated by the estimated motions and deformations is needed. For this reason, the integration among motion analysis and synthesis techniques assume a high relevance on quality of results. Practitioners as well as researches needs to be informed to these new techniques and to their possible applications. The special issue will focus on, and not only on, the following topics: - Low-level motion estimation techniques. - Object tracking. - Dedicated hardware for motion estimation. - Non-rigid and articulated objects motion analysis and synthesis (e.g., cinema, animation). - Methods and architectures for robot and autonomous navigation. - Human head/facial motions/deformations analysis and synthesis (video-conference, video-phones, cinema, animation). - Hand gestures analysis and synthesis. Papers should present results which can be useful for technologists and practitioners. Basic researches on specific low-level techniques which ensure real-time performances, and experiences in developing specific applications are welcome. *Manuscript submission* Authors should send four copies of the paper to guest editor by October 1, 1995. The special issue will appear tentatively within the mid of 1996. Paolo Nesi Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica University of Florence Via S. Marta 3 50139, Firenze, ITALY Tel: +39-55-4796523 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it WWW Manuscript submission must satisfy the rules of the journal for what concerns paper's originality, copyright permission, manuscript preparation. [note: if you are willing to referee papers for this special issue, please send a note with research interest to Guest Editor.]