***************************************** 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 *************************************************