EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING

SPECIAL ISSUE ON  IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Digital imaging and 3D modeling are nowadays extensively employed to
capture, conserve, describe and render cultural artifacts such as
buildings and monuments, archaeological sites, artworks (paintings,
sculptures, etc.), manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic,
historical or archaeological interest. Computer vision, graphics,
image and signal processing are essential instruments for virtual and
physical restoration, analysis, documentation, classification and
recognition of the artifact content. The ultimate goal is to
facilitate the access and study of our cultural heritage by the public
and scholars alike, and to ensure its preservation for the future.

Processing and analysis of visual cultural heritage data does not
merely exploit and apply standard techniques, already developed for
other applications, but often entails original and challenging
research specific to this domain.

The creation of structured digital libraries, delivering to the users
content that fits their specific needs, without redundancy, and on
their preferred devices, requires the development of accurate and fast
feature extraction, and semantically powerful indexing and retrieval
tools, capable of dealing with different standards and formats.

Advances in digitization and networking, by facilitating uncontrolled
distribution and copying of important documents, create a need for
protection against improper usage and preservation of integrity and
authenticity.

The often low quality and high complexity of the content requires high
resolution, multispectral and multisensory 2D and 3D digital
acquisition, to enrich documentation and representation, recover
hidden or masked information, and facilitate analysis and restoration
of cultural artifacts.

This Special Issue aims to address these and other challenging issues,
and will highlight new approaches to the exciting field of cultural
heritage imaging. High quality, original contributions on the
following (non-exhaustive) list of topics are solicited:

* High resolution 2D and 3D digital representations, correction of
degradations and quality evaluation;

* Multispectral, multisensory, multiresolution, multiframe, and high
dynamic range imaging; data registration, integration and mosaicing;

* Signal, image processing and 3D modelling to assist physical
restoration;

* Extraction, recognition, classification and enhancement of features,
structures and content;

* Digital restoration of damaged artworks (films, photographs,
paintings, frescos, manuscripts, etc);

* Storage, handling, transmission, processing and visualization of
large data sets;

* Visualization of archaeological sites: temporal evolution,
uncertainty in the model, GIS layers;

* Large scale multimedia databases of artworks; archival, indexing and
retrieval;

* Automatic artist/creator or artistic style recognition, detection of
forgery/fakes and dating of artwork;

* Copyright protection and IPR management;

* Virtual and augmented reality; user-centered visual applications for
museums, digital art repositories and edutainment.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

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Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video
Processing manuscript format described at:

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/.

Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscripts through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at:

http://mts.hindawi.com/

IMPORTANT DATES

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Manuscript Due: February 1, 2009

First Round of Reviews: May 1, 2009

Publication Date:       August 1, 2009

GUEST EDITORS

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Anna Tonazzini

anna.tonazzini@isti.cnr.it

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR, Pisa, Italy

Luc Van Gool

vangool@vision.ee.ethz.ch

Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and

ESAT/PSI/Visics, Katholieke Un. Leuven, Belgium

Nikos Nikolaidis

nikolaid@aiia.csd.auth.gr

Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Vincent Charvillat

vincent.charvillat@enseeiht.fr

ENSEEIHT et Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT CNRS 5505