Call for Papers IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks Special Issue on Intelligent Multimedia Processing --------------------------------------- Human communication is intrinsically multi-modal. With the advances of technology, modern communication systems will also become more and more multi-modal. Hence, multimedia technologies represent new ground for research interactions among a variety of media such as speech, audio, image, video, text and graphics. Future multimedia technologies will need to handle information with an increasing level of intelligence, i.e., automatic recognition and interpretation of multi-modal signals. This is particularly emphasised in MPEG-7 which focuses on the 'multimedia content description interface'. The description shall be associated with the content itself to facilitate fast and effective searching for all the media. Specifically, the MPEG-7 research domain will cover techniques for content-based indexing and retrieval: pattern recognition, face detection/recognition, and fusion of multi-modality. Intelligent multimedia processing shares three fundamental goals with biological systems: a) Universal data processing engine for multi-modal signals; b) Multi-modality; and c) Unsupervised clustering and/or supervised learning by examples. Because of these features, neural networks are attractive candidates for intelligent multimedia processing and recent activity in the area is a proof of this fact. The main attribute of neural computing is its adaptive learning capability, which enables interpretations of possible variations of a same object or pattern, e.g., with respect to scale, orientation, and perspective. Moreover, they are able to accurately approximate unknown systems based on sparse sets of noisy data. Certain neural models also effectively incorporate statistical signal processing and optimisation techniques. In addition, spatial/temporal neural structures and hierarchical models are promising for multi-rate, multi-resolution multimedia processing. As a result, many successful applications of neural networks in intelligent multimedia processing, sometimes combined with fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing, have been reported. The possible topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: * Neural networks (including BSS and ICA) and other computational intelligence models, learning paradigms, and architectures for multimedia processing. * Intelligent multimedia processing architectures. * Multimedia/multichannel data fusion. * Multi-modal representation and information retrieval: Applications in hyperlinking of multimedia objects, query and search of multimedia information including intelligent web agents, 3D object representation and motion tracking, image sequence generation and animation. * Human-computer interaction and communications: face recognition, lip-reading analysis, facial expression and emotion categorisation, interactive human-machine vision, speech recognition, speaker recognition, gesture analysis and recognition, auditory/visual scene analysis, and multi-modal interaction. * Multimedia data analysis and visualisation: texture, colour, content, etc. * Intelligent network control of audio/video streams in multimedia networking applications. Original, previously-unpublished research articles as well as state-of-the-art tutorial papers will be considered. Authors should follow the IEEE TNN manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, which can be found on the inside back cover of any issue of TNN. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the website: http://eivind.imm.dtu.dk/tnn. The following schedule will apply: Manuscript submission: Jan 15, 2001 Acceptance notification: June 15, 2001 Final manuscripts due: July 31, 2001 Publication: November 2001 Guest Editors: Tulay Adali, Ling Guan, Dept of CSEE School of Electrical & Information Eng. Univ of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Sydney Baltimore, MD 21250 Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia Jan Larsen Shigeru Katagiri Dept of Mathematical Modelling ATR Technical University of Denmark 2-2 Hikaridai 2800 Lyngby Seika-cho, Soraku-gun Denmark Kyoto 619-02 Japan Jose Principe Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611