MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
Special issue on
REPRESENTATION AND RETRIEVAL OF VISUAL MEDIA IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
With rapid advances in communication and multimedia computing technologies,
accessing mass amounts of multimedia data is becoming a reality on the
Information Superhighway and in digital libraries. However, interacting
with multimedia data, images and video in particular, is not merely a matter
of connecting everyone with data banks and delivering data via networks to
everyone's home and office. It is definitely not enough simply to store and
display images and video as in commercial video-on-demand services. What we
need are new technologies for parsing and representing the content of visual
data to facilitate organization, storage, query and retrieval of mass collec
-tions of image and video data in a user-friendly way. Such a need poses
many research challenges to scientists and engineers across all multimedia
computing disciplines.
Unpublished, original research papers and reports with the emaphsis on imple
-mented prototypes, tools and applications, are solicited for a special
issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications. The papers in this special issue
will address significant new techniques for image and video content parsing
and representation, and their applications in content-based retrieval and
browsing of large collections of visual data. Topics of this special issue
papers include, but are not limited to:
* Effective feature-based pattern analysis and content representation
for visual data classification, browsing, retrieval, filtering and
compression.
* Perceptual similarity measures based on object color, texture and
shape; effective and efficient indexing schemes based on these
features; and their evaluations based on large collections of data.
* Automatic parsing and classification of video data; spatio-temporal
features for video representation and retrieval, especially for
supporting "event-based" retrieval.
* Automatic/semiautomatic annotation of images and video based on
visual features, to support text based retrieval of visual media.
* Automatic/semiautomatic abstraction of video content in both visual
media (e.g. key frames) and non-visual media (e.g. text).
* Image and video analysis, classification, and retrieval based on
compressed data.
* Fusion of information derived from other media, especially sound/
speech/music and close captions, for video content parsing.
* Integration of content based retrieval with traditional database
technologies in applications.
* Data modeling of visual media in multimedia databases and informa-
tion systems.
* Visual tools and interfaces for query formation, visual feedback,
presentation of retrieval results, and content-based browsing of
visual media.
* Application systems which embody state-of-the-art techniques in
visual media archival and retrieval.
All manuscript are subject to review. To be considered for the Special Issue
of Multimedia Tools and Applications, prospective authors should submit six
copies of their complete manuscript, and specify this issue, by November 30,
1995 to: Ms. Judith A. Kemp, Multimedia Tools and Applications Editoral
Office, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park,
Norwell MA 02061, Tel(617) 871-630, Fax: (617) 878-0449, E-mail: jkkluwer@
world.std.com. The guest eidtors are:
Dr. HongJiang Zhang
Institute of System Science, National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511, SINGAPORE
Tel: +65-772-6725 Fax: +65-774-4998 E-mail: zhj@iss.nus.sg
Dr. Philippe Aigrain
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Universite Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex, FRANCE
Tel: +33 61 55 63 05 Fax: +33 61 55 62 58 E-mail: aigrain@irit.fr
Dr. Dragutin Petkovic
Manager, Advanced Algorithms, Architectures and Applications
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120-6099
Tel: (408) 927-1778 Fax: (408) 927-3030 E-mail: petkovic@almaden.ibm.com
Deadline of submission: November 30, 1995
Notification: March 1, 1996
Final manuscripts due : May 1, 1996
Publication: August, 1996