CALL FOR PAPERS
 
SPECIAL ISSUE ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING FOR
EMERGING INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
 
SEPTEMBER 1998
 
The access to digital image and video information is becoming an
integral part of many Multimedia applications today. Within this
context the efficient and functional coding of images and video as
well as the sophisticated pre- and postprocessing of the images are
increasingly important.  Examples are the segmentation of 2D or 3D
images and video for content-based coding and representation in the
context of the MPEG-4 or JPEG 2000 standards as well as the
conversion between various scanning formats for display. The
multi-functional coding of the visual information is a desirable
feature to not only provide an efficient representation of the
information itself - but also to enable additional Multimedia
functionalities, such as bitstream scaleability, object-based
access and representation, bitstream editing, and related. Further,
as more and more digital visual information exists on various servers
over the world, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify and
access the information. There is a demand for powerful search
strategies which can be used to identify images and video based
on ėvisual cluesî in addition to pure textural descriptions. In this
context the most recent MPEG standardization activity, MPEG-7,
envisions the standardization of a "Multimedia Content Description
Interface" which will address the description, identification, and
access of audio-visual information. Last not least the design of
sophisticated interfaces to allow the user to interact appropriately
with the Multimedia content provides an increasing challenge.
 
The objective of the Special Issue is to provide an overview on
recent technological trends, key enabling technologies and standards
for emerging Multimedia image and video services and applications
in the context, but not restricted to, the emerging ITU-T H.263/L,
ISO JPEG 2000, ISO MPEG-4 and ISO MPEG-7 activities.
 
Areas of interest are targeted for both real-time and non real-time
image and video applications and include, but are not limited to:
 
* Supervised and unsupervised image and video segmentation
* Identification and tracking of objects and regions in scenes
* Efficient coding of 2D and 3D image and video content
* Multi-functional coding of images and video
* 2D and 3D image and video pre- and post-processing
* Feature-based image/video query Multimedia image and video content
  manipulation
* Representation of 2D and 3D visual information in Multimedia applications
* Human factors in interactive Multimedia applications
 
Guest Editors:
 
Prof. King N. Ngan
Dep. Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Western Australia
Nedlands WA 6907, Australia
Tel: +61-8-9380-1245, Fax: +61-8-9380-1065
Email: king@ee.uwa.edu.au
 
Dr. Thomas Sikora
Image Processing Department
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) Berlin GmbH
Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49-30-31002-622, Fax: +49-30-392-7200
Email: sikora@hhi.de
 
Prof. Ming-Ting Sun
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195, U.S.A.
Tel: +1-206-616-8690, Fax: +1-206-543-3842
Email: sun@ee.washington.edu
 
All manuscripts should be submitted before 15 October 1997, to one of
the guest editors listed above.  All manuscripts should conform to the
standard formats as indicated in the latest ėInformation for Authors
printed in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO
TECHNOLOGY.
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