CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME IMAGING Academic Press Special Issue on Special-Purpose Architectures for Real-Time Imaging Nowadays, a number of different problems are solved through image processing techniques (e.g. industrial inspection, robot guidance, unmanned vehicles,..., to cite only a few examples). The problem of processing images in real-time has been generally addressed and solved through the use of high-performance computer systems, developed ad-hoc to meet the specific requirements of the applications. Serial or parallel architectures have been enhanced through the addition of various bus systems, interprocessor communication networks, and other features explicitly designed to face the hard constraints imposed by real-time processing, such as I/O (data acquisition and output), data communications among processors (in multi-processor systems),... A number of different special-purpose architectures for image analysis have been proposed and developed, but seldom the presentation focuses on the discussion of both the hard real-time requirements (applications) and the hardware solutions which have been chosen (computer architectures). The TOPICS of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to: * Design of application-specific VLSI architectures; * Performance analysis and comparison among different architectural solutions; * Hardware mapping of parallel algorithms; * VLSI architectures for HDTV and image compression; * Hardware support for multimedia systems; * Vision-based real-time robot and vehicle navigation; * Massively parallel architectures for low-level vision; * Hardware neural solutions; * Experience on highly demanding vision applications. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit papers with a strong emphasis on the match between the application requirements and the chosen architectural solutions, detailing the ad-hoc hardware enhancements. Papers should describe systems which have been designed for a specific target application or which have proved to be particularly suited for a given task. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: * Authors should send 5 copies of their full paper (about 15 double-spaced pages) to Alberto Broggi (whose address is indicated below). * The closing date for submission is December 10th, 1995. * Publication is tentatively expected to take place in mid 1996. Accepted manuscripts will need to comply with all author guidelines of Journal of Real-Time Imaging, available upon request from the guest editors or from jrti@rtlab12.njit.edu. GUEST EDITORS: Alberto BROGGI Francesco GREGORETTI Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Dip. di Elettronica Viale delle Scienze Corso Duca degli Abruzzi University of Parma Polytechnic of Turin I-43100 Parma, Italy I-10129 Turin, Italy Phone: +39-521-905707 Phone: +39-11-5644081 Fax: +39-521-905723 Fax: +39-11-5644099 E-Mail: broggi@CE.UniPR.IT E-Mail: gregor@PoliTO.IT An up-to-date electronic version of this call for papers and related information can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the host CE.UniPR.IT in the directory /rti or via World Wide Web