Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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Special Issue Call for Papers
Resource-aware adaptive video streaming

Modern multimedia applications such as mobile television, movie on 
demand, IPTV, multiview video, distributed video conferencing, streaming 
and gaming over wired and wireless networks have stimulated research for 
new technologies in the area of multimedia architectures, processing, 
and networking. Current communications networks exhibit a wide range of 
capabilities, including various architectures, throughputs, quality of 
service and protocols; interconnection of different networks provides 
several advantages, but also poses major technical challenges. On the 
other hand, users employ heterogeneous terminals with a wide range of 
computational and display capabilities, energy resources, features, 
accessibilities, and user preferences. The variety of possible scenarios 
has escalated the need for efficient and effective techniques for 
streaming and adapting compressed videos in such heterogeneous 
environments. Considerable amounts of research activities in industry 
and academia have been devoted to developing the enabling technologies 
that are needed to make this vision reality.
The goal of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of 
state-of-the-art research in the field of video streaming, emphasizing 
the two key aspects of adaptation and resource-awareness. In particular, 
papers are solicited mainly, although not exclusively, in the following 
areas:

Bandwidth and Resource Adaptive Video Streaming
- Optimization of energy resources for video streaming
- Platform awareness for low-power and embedded devices
- Dynamic video content adaptation
- Cross-layer optimization for video streaming
- Cooperative video streaming
- Peer-to-peer video streaming

Resource Adaptive Encoding/Decoding Algorithms
- Scalable video coding (quality, spatial, temporal and computation 
scalability)
- Reconfigurable video coding
- Distributed video coding

Adaptation to Network Errors and Losses
- Error resilience and concealment for video coding and communication
- Source, channel and network coding for error-resilient video streaming

Applications and Systems
- IPTV: Video broadcasting and multicasting
- Multi-view and interactive video
- Video-anywhere.


Guest editors:

Enrico Magli
Dept. of Electronics - Politecnico di Torino, Italy
enrico.magli@polito.it

Chia-Wen Lin
Dept. Electrical Engineering - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
cwlin@ee.nthu.edu.tw

Deepak Turaga
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
turaga@us.ibm.com	

Pascal Frossard
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
pascal.frossard@epfl.ch

Important dates:

First call for papers	April 2007
Manuscript due		November 1, 2007
Acceptance notification	March 1, 2008
Final manuscript due	April 15, 2008
Publication date	July 2008