CALL FOR PAPERS EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Special Issue on DEPENDABLE SEMANTIC INFERENCE Guest Editors: Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore Edward Chang, Google Inc./ UC Santa Barbara Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine The goal of this Special Issue is to inspire and gather new, refreshing ideas in the field of content-based multimedia information indexing, search and retrieval that would make the solutions in the field mature enough to get adopted in practical systems and realistic application scenarios. In particular, the Special Issue focuses on high-quality and original contributions that reach beyond conventional ideas and approaches and make substantial steps towards dependable, practically deployable semantic inference theories and algorithms. For more information about the scope and objectives of this Special Issue please check the full text of the Call for Papers at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/dsi.html DATES: Manuscript due: 1 November 2008 First round of reviews: 1 February 2009 Publication: 1 May 2009 _______________________________________________________________