IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
                                Call for Papers
  
                        Very Low Bit-rate Video Coding
  
Technology advances and application demands lead to the inevitable merging
of telecommunications and computing areas. Future user requirements are
anticipated to be dominated by video-driven applications, with demands for
a very high degree of flexibility and extensibility. Applications will include
real-time, high quality interactivity using natural and/or synthetic video data
over limited bandwidth communication lines and access of limited capacity
storage media, providing ability to achieve scalability with fine
granularity in spatial and temporal resolution and complexity. Such demands
will require robust and efficient very low bit-rate video coding approaches,
able to support resilient transmission/accessing of very high quality video
pictures.
  
Current video processing technologies and international standards will not
be able to cope with such requirements because of well known limitations,
e.g., block and mosquito artifacts. The development and evolution of
alternative video coding techniques and video processing systems is
necessary. The nature of the required research poses a number of challenges in
algorithm development and specification and development of coding tools which
will allow a very high degree of application-specific functionality, evolution
of processing (especially highly parallel) architectures to efficiently support
the required operations, etc.
  
The IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is developing an
issue with the broad theme of very low bit-rate video coding. This
issue will include, but is not limited to, papers on the following topics:
  
    Very low bit-rate video coding techniques for video transmission and
    storage
        content-based
        model-based
        vector quantisation
        wavelets
        fractals

    Scalability issues in very low bit-rate coding

    Very low bit-rate coding of hybrid (video and synthetic) data

    Very low bit-rate video coding for multimedia (e.g. stereoscopic
    images and 3D views)

    Robustness of very low bit-rate video coding in error-prone environments

    Processing architectures for very low bit-rate video coding.
  
Prospective authors of original work should submit six (6) copies of their
manuscripts to one the Guest Editors listed below, according to the
following schedule:
  
   six (6) copies of the full manuscript              September 1, 1996
   notification of decisions                          December 1, 1996
   final version of the manuscript                    Feburary 1, 1997
   publication date                                   Fourth quarter 1997
  
  
                                 Guest Editors
  
  Dr. Kazumasa Enami                     Dr. Argyros (Argy) Krikelis
  Science and Technical Research Labs    Aspex Microsystems Ltd.
  Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)   Brunel University
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                                                Argy.Krikelis@brunel.ac.uk
  
                              Prof. Todd R. Reed
                 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
                           University of California
                               Davis, CA 95616
                                    USA
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