Neurocomputing Special Issue on Intelligent Processing Techniques for Semantic-based Image and Video Retrieval Summary and Scope Rapid advances in technology for capturing, processing, distributing, storing, and presenting visual data has resulted in a proliferation of image and video data in human lives. The multimedia research community has widely recognized the importance of searching images or videos from a large-scale corpus or Internet. Intelligent processing techniques are the most useful tools to achieve this objective and the recent years have witnessed very significant contributions of intelligent algorithms in multimedia search. Intelligent information processing, such as machine learning techniques, knowledge discovery and data mining, computer vision and cognitive computation, natural language processing, and intelligent human-machine interface, have great influence on extracting the semantic information for image and video data. These techniques light a way to make the semantic- based image/video retrieval true. At least, they provide us a reasonable direction to touch the semantic retrieval. The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following: Novel learning methods in multimedia retrieval systems Intelligently interactive mechanism for image and video search Image/video content annotation and semantic targeting Large-scale image/video indexing techniques Visual learning and cognitive multimedia computing Similarity Learning for image/video matching Internet multimedia tagging, analysis and organization Web image/video recommendation and collaborative filtering Social media mining, user and community modeling Natural language processing for image/video search Submission Details All the papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts in this area following the Neurocompting reviewing procedures. All the accepted papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Neurocompting. Please select the “Intelligent Processing Tech. for SBIVR” as the Article Type when submitting the paper. Schedule Paper submission due: September 15, 2011 First-round acceptance notification: November 15, 2011 Revision Due: January 1, 2012 Final decision: February 15, 2012 Publication date: Fall 2012 (Tentative) Guest Editors Jinhui Tang School of Computer Science and Technology Nanjing University of Science and Technology tangjh1981@acm.org Wei Bian Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems University of Technology, Sydney brian.weibian@gmail.com Nenghai Yu School of Information Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China ynh@ustc.edu.cn Yu-Jin Zhang Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University zhang-yj@tsinghua.edu.cn