CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF REAL TIME IMAGING Academic Press Special Issue on REAL-TIME DETECTION OF DEFECTS Guest Editors: Paolo Nesi Emanuele Trucco Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica Dept of Computing and Electrical Eng. University of Florence Heriot-Watt University, Via S. Marta 3 Riccarton, 50139 Firenze, ITALY Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK Tel: +39-55-4796523 Tel: +44 131 451.3437 Fax: +39-55-4796363 Fax: +44 131 451.3431 email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it email: mtc@cee.hw.ac.uk TOPIC Quality control is a crucial issue for any production process, and many of the traditional methods for defect detection in manufacturing are rapidly changing. Real-time defect detection of shape, colours and textures is becoming mandatory for many products (from tiles to cars, from food to airplane components) made of a variety of materials (fabric, marble, leather, plastic and so on) to meet increasingly demanding quality standards. For this reason, several researchers have been studying parallel architectures, special chips and algorithms for real-time defect detection. Thanks to such new technologies, many new applications have already become possible, and others, unfeasible until today because of the limitations of inspection methods, are being developed and implemented. AIM The aim of this special issue is to inform practitioners as well as researchers timely of innovative defect detection techniques and their possible applications. SCOPE The special issue is focussed on real-time techniques and architectures, both software and hardware, for - recognition and classification of defects; - detection of defects in texture and pattern; - detection of shape defects; - detection of defects in colour; - defect modeling: fractals, statistic, etc.; - automatic acquisition of models suitable for defect detection; - validation techniques for defect detectors. Papers should present innovative results which can be useful for technologists and practitioners alike. Basic research on specific low-level techniques ensuring real-time performances, as well as experiences reporting the development of specific applications are welcome. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted by *October 31, 1997* to Emanuele Trucco, JRTI Special Issue Co-Editor. Submission guidelines and general information regarding the Special can be found on-line at http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~mtc/special/call.html ftp: osiris.cee.hw.ac.uk (anonymous login, then cd pub/rtispecial) Submissions must satisfy the rules of the journal(included in the WWW and ftp sites)for what concerns originality and copyright permission. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors by February 1998. Any questions, please contact one of the Editors by email, FAX or phone.