Special Issue on

Emerging Techniques for High Performance Video Coding

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI)

 

Video coding is one of the important technological advancements that
have made a great difference to our lives. In the past decade, the
development of efficient coding techniques contributes to the easy
access and spread of videos while more video applications, such as
wireless or internet video, HDTV and UHDTV, continue the quest for
higher coding efficiency. Many techniques have been developed and
evolved through several generations of video coding standards, e.g.,
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.261, H.263 and H.264. However, “What is
next” has become the most frequently asked question among scholars
of the field. Recently, two standard bodies, ITU-T SG 16 Question 6
(the ITU-T Visual Coding Experts Group – a.k.a. VCEG) and ISO/IEC
JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (Moving Picture Experts Group – a.k.a. MPEG),
have come to an agreement to form a Joint Collaboration Team on Video
Coding (JCT-VC) and to jointly develop the next-generation video
coding technology standard beyond the capabilities of the current AVC
standard (ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 Advanced video
coding). It has been seven years since the finalization of the H.264;
the slow start of this new video coding standard activity also
reflects the difficulty of video coding advancement. The development
of the next-generation video coding standard provides challenges and
opportunities. This special issue aims to bring together leading
researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their
newest research results on the future directions of this evolving
field, especially, those proposals responding to the Call for
Proposals on Video Compression Technology of JCT-VC.

 

Scope

The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to
video coding. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:

·         Inter-frame prediction techniques

·         Intra-frame prediction algorithms

·         New transforms

·         Adaptive coding techniques

·         Advanced entropy coding methods

·         Advanced encoding techniques

·         Parallel video coding techniques

·      Non-traditional video coding techniques

·     Joint encoder-decoder optimization based on the context information

 

Information for Authors

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for
Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of
Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. When
submitting via this page, please select
“HighPerformanceVideoCoding” as the Article Type. Prospective
authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not
appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All
submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing
procedures.

 

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline:              August 1, 2010

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:      November 1, 2010

Final Manuscript Due to JVCI:                   December 1, 2010

Expected Publication Date:                         Spring 2011

 

Guest Editors

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (touradj.ebrahimi@epfl.ch)

Wen Gao, Peking University, China (wgao@pku.edu.cn)

Shawmin Lei, MediaTek, Taiwan (shawmin.lei@mediatek.com)

Joern Osterman, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (ostermann@tnt.uni-hannover.de)

Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (sun@ee.washington.edu)
Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan (yeh@mail.ee.nsysu.edu.tw)