EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Knowledge-Assisted Media Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Applications Call for Papers It is broadly acknowledged that the development of enabling technologies for new forms of interactive multimedia services requires a targeted confluence of knowledge, semantics, and low-level media processing. The convergence of these areas is key to many applications including interactive TV, networked medical imaging, vision-based surveillance and multimedia visualization, navigation, search, and retrieval. The latter is a crucial application since the exponential growth of audiovisual data, along with the critical lack of tools to record the data in a well-structured form, is rendering useless vast portions of available content. To overcome this problem, there is need for technology that is able to produce accurate levels of abstraction in order to annotate and retrieve content using queries that are natural to humans. Such technology will help narrow the gap between low-level features or content descriptors that can be computed automatically, and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. This special issue focuses on truly integrative research targeting of what can be disparate disciplines including image processing, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, semantic, analysis, and artificial intelligence. High-quality and novel contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects are solicited. Specifically, the following topics are of interest: o Semantics-based multimedia analysis o Context-based multimedia mining o Intelligent exploitation of user relevance feedback o Knowledge acquisition from multimedia contents o Semantics based interaction with multimedia o Integration of multimedia processing and Semantic Web technologies to enable automatic content sharing, processing, and interpretation o Content, user, and network aware media engineering o Multimodal techniques, high-dimensionality reduction, and low level feature fusion Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript tracking system at http://www.hindawi.com/mts according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: September 1, 2006 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2007 Publication Date: 3rd Quarter, 2007 Guest Editors: Ebroul Izquierdo, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom; ebroul.izquierdo@elec.qmul.ac.uk Hyoung Joong Kim, Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Kangwon National University, 192 1 Hyoja2 Dong, Kangwon Do 200 701, Korea; khj@kangwon.ac.kr Thomas Sikora, Communication Systems Group, Technical University Berlin, Einstein Ufer 17, 10587 Berlin, Germany; sikora@nue.tu-berlin.de <<< Please visit http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/ for more information about the journal. Download an e-sample copy of the journal at the journal's web site. EURASIP JASP publishes as many issues as required based on the flow of high-quality manuscripts and current scheduled special issues. To submit a proposal of a special issue, please contact the journal's editor-in-chief. In order not to receive any future "EURASIP JASP" C4P-alert messages, please simply click on the following link: http://alert.hindawi.com/remove.asp?j=asp-c4p&e=price@usc.edu >>>