CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Digital Libraries IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Digital media and, in particular, images and video data, present many challenging problems in storage, access, and distribution. Large collec-tions of multimedia documents can be found in diverse application domains such as the entertainment industry, education, medical imaging, and geographic information systems. Proposals for the next generation video coding standards (MPEG4 and MPEG7) have emphasis not only on coding but representations that facilitate content-based access and manipulation of coded data. While the individual needs for each of these domains could be quite diverse, they signify the problems and issues facing collections of large heterogeneous documents which include text, images, video, and audio. The image processing community stands to make important contributions to this emerging and important research area. The IEEE Transaction on Image Processing will be publishing a special issue on Digital Libraries, focusing on Image Processing issues relevant to the creation, management, and utilization of large image and video data sets. Examples of topics of interest include but are not limited to: Algorithms and schemes for image content-based indexing, searching, and browsing. Image features for indexing and retrieval. Visual similarity metrics for image matching. Compressed domain image/video feature extraction and manipulation. Spatial and/or temporal segmentation to facilitate indexing and search. Representing spatial and spatio-temporal relationships of visual objects for search and indexing; optimizing queries that involve such relationships. Architectures and systems addressing specifically image processing issues for large image/video libraries. Digital watermarking and data hiding in image and video documents. Robust and scalable algorithms for multidimensional indexing. Performance evaluation issues in image/video databases. Prospective authors should follow the guidelines of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, except (a) submit six copies of the manuscript to Professor Manjunath at the address indicated, and (b) a one page summary describing the original contribution, clearly indicating the relevant image processing issues addressed in the research, should accompany each manuscript. Both regular papers and short papers will be consid-ered. The deadline for submission is DECEMBER 1, 1998. The special issue is tentatively scheduled for December 1999. GUEST EDITORS Prof. Thomas S. Huang Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 405 N. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 Tel: (217) 244-1638 Email: huang@ifp.uiuc.edu Prof. B. S. Manjunath University of California, Santa Barbara Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Tel: (805) 893-7112 Email: manj@ece.ucsb.edu Prof. A. Murat Tekalp Department of Electrical Engineering Hopeman 204 University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0126 Tel:(716) 275-3774 Email:tekalp@ee.rochester.edu Dr. HongJiang Zhang HP Research Laboratory 1501 Page Mill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel: (650) 857-748 Email:hjzhang@hplhjz.hpl.hp.com