CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Multi-View Imaging and 3DTV Multi-view imaging (MVI) has attracted increasing attention recently, thanks to the rapidly dropping cost of digital cameras. This opens a wide variety of new research topics and applications, such as virtual view synthesis, high performance imaging, image/ video segmentation, object tracking/recognition, environment surveillance, remote education, industry inspection, 3DTV, gaming, etc. While some of these tasks can be handled with single view image/video, the availability of multiple views of the scene significantly broadens the field of application, while enhancing performance and user experience. 3DTV is one of the most important applications of MVI and focuses more intensively on creating a 3D depth impression of the observed scene. Recent developments in 3D displays (where glasses are no longer needed) and advanced 3D rendering that supports head motion parallax viewing have created a huge opportunity for 3DTV to enter the large user mass markets in the near future. There are, however, numerous challenges in MVI and 3DTV. To name a few, the amount of data involved in MVI and 3DTV is usually huge, requiring careful treatment of the capturing, storage and streaming process. Many applications call for a simple yet accurate camera calibration algorithm that can tell where the cameras are. Associating the same objects in different views remains a challenging problem, in particular when the cameras are far apart (e.g., surveillance). Depth reconstruction is still a very difficult task for generating convincing rendering for 3D displays. The advantages of MVI in applications such as tracking/recognition, segmentation, inspection are yet to be investigated and exploited. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together leading experts from various disciplines to explore the full potential of MVI and 3DTV. In particular, this special issue is dedicated to both techniques and applications related with MVI and 3DTV, in the hope of providing a comprehensive overview of the recent development and research in this increasingly popular field. Suggested Topics: The special issue will cover various topics related to MVI and 3DTV. These topics include, but are not limited to: + Multi-view capturing, camera arrays + Multi-view camera calibration + Multi-view sampling and coding + Multi-view data analysis/processing such as depth reconstruction, texture analysis, lighting analysis, etc. + Multi-view data streaming over the Internet + Interactive virtual view rendering + Display technologies for 3DTV + MVI and 3DTV systems and applications Submission Procedure: Prospective authors should submit white papers to the web submission system at http://www.ee.columbia.edu/spm/ according to the following timetable. White papers, limited to 6 single-column double-spaced pages, should summarize the motivation, the significance of the topic, a brief history, and an outline of the content. White paper due: December 15, 2006 Invitation notification: January 15, 2007 Manuscript due: April 15, 2007 Acceptance notification: June 15, 2007 Final manuscript due: July 15, 2007 Publication date: November, 2007 Guest Editors: Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University (tsuhan@cmu.edu) Akira Kubota, Tokyo Institute of Technology (kubota@ip.titech.ac.jp) Marcus Magnor, TU Braunschweig (m.magnor@tu-bs.de) Aljoscha Smolic, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (smolic@hhi.de) Masayuki Tanimoto, Nagoya University (tanimoto@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp) ----------------------------