COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS FOR NETWORK-CENTRIC COMPUTING Publication date August 1998. Paper submission date August 1, 1997. Large amounts of data are literally at our fingertips. These data are heterogeneous in nature and distributed. That is, the data consist of text, image, audio, video, graphics, and raw data. Much of these data reside in networks of distributed computers and servers. As the last two decades have been marked by tremendous developments in database and network technology, we believe that the next two decades will bring us equally pathbreaking developments in digital library technology. Traditional databases are rather structured and provide limited means of retrieving data through parametric searches. Digital libraries, on the other hand, are heterogeneous, distributed networked databases along with intelligent means for finding/interpreting the data and perhaps utilizing distributed computing. Digital libraries are an important enabling technology for the next trend in computing -- Network-Centric Computing (NCC). Many NCC applications are multimedia, involving visual data that make huge demands on compute power, storage, and bandwidth. These are becoming cheaper and more readily available, yet the rate at which the amount of data is increasing is growing faster. Therefore intelligent data processing and management remain important research issues where the field of computer vision and pattern recognition can make many contributions. We solicit papers on the following topics: o visual data mining o image/video search (content/structure) o content-based/query-based compression o CAD compression o viewing 3-D, telepresence o image/video security, authentication and copyright o automatic categorization of image/video types (e.g., internet search, intelligent search agent); visual sieve o video visualization o automatic generation of visual summary (for transmission over a low-bandwidth network; fast browsing of queried results) o integration/fusion of other media, e.g., speech, audio, text, etc. o intelligent user interfaces Send four copies of your manuscript (marked "NCC Special Issue") by August 1, 1997 to: Computer Vision and Image Understanding Editorial Office 525 B Street, Suite 1900 San Diego, CA 92101-4495 GUEST EDITORS Ruud M. Bolle and Boon-Lock Yeo bolle@watson.ibm.com yeo@watson.ibm.com IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center PO Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 More information can be found at web site: http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~yeo/cviu.html