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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
REAL-TIME IMAGING JOURNAL
 
Special Issue on 
VIDEO PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN REAL-TIME VIDEO-BASED SURVEILLANCE
SYSTEMS
 
GUEST EDITORS: 
GianLuca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova, Italy
 
 
The problem of remote surveillance of outdoor environments has received
growing attention in the last years, specially in the context of transport
applications, such as monitoring of railway stations and airports,
dangerous environments or road traffic flows. First generation video-based
surveillance systems are grounded on analog signal and image processing,
and propose scenes to a human operator on a large set of monitors placed in
a remote control room. New generation surveillance systems mainly rely on
hybrid analog-digital, or completely digital video communications and
processing methods and take advantage of the greater flexibility offered by
video processing algorithms capable to focus human operator's  attention on
a subset of interesting situations.
Research work on real-time image processing techniques for robust image
transmission, color-image processing, event-based attention focusing,
model-based sequence understanding in surveillance applications is expected
to provide more and more interesting results, thanks to the availability of
highest computational power at acceptable costs.
 
TOPICS
Areas of interest are targeted to advanced digital video processing and
communications techniques for video-based surveillance systems (but not
limited to):
 
        Real-time analysis and segmentation of 2D image sequences
        Video processing for communications
        Identification and tracking of multiple objects in complex scenes
        Human behavior understanding and people counting methods
        Road traffic analysis
        Multisensor data-fusion techniques
        Intelligent man-machine interfaces
        Performance evaluation of image processing algorithms for video-based
surveillance
        Multimedia communications for video-based surveillance systems
        Applications
 
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
One original manuscript and three complete copies should be sent to one of
the Guest Editors. The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply
that the material is original and has not been submitted in equivalent form
for publication elsewhere.  Manuscripts are accepted for review on the
understanding that all persons listed as authors have given their approval
for the submission. All manuscripts should conform to the standard formats
as indicated in the latest Information for Authors appeared in the
REAL-TIME IMAGING Journal (http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/ri/)
Prospective authors are invited to send an email to foresti@dimi.uniud.it
indicating their interest in submitting a paper and the topic addressed.
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
July 1, 1999:           Paper submission deadline
January1, 2000:         Notification (first review)
March 1, 2000:          Revised manuscript due
June 1, 2000:           Notification of final evaluation
 
For further information, please contact :
 
Dr. Gian Luca Foresti
Department of  Computer Science (DIMI)
University of Udine, Via Delle Scienze, 206, 
33100 Udine, ITALY
Tel. +39 0432 558406           Fax  +39 0432 558499
e-mail foresti@dimi.uniud.it
 
 
Dr. Carlo S. Regazzoni
Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE)
University of Genoa, Via All' Opera Pia, 11A, 
16145 Genoa, ITALY
Tel. +39 010 3532792           Fax  +39 010 3532134
e-mail carlo@dibe.unige.it
 
Special Issue WWW page:
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~iciap99/rti.html
 
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