Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Special Issue: Visual Understanding and Applications with RGB-D Cameras
Paper deadline: July 15th 2012
Publication: June, 2013
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-visual-communication-and-image-representation/call-for-papers/visual-understanding-and-applications-with-rgb-d-cameras/ 

The prevalence of affordable RGB-D cameras, such as Microsoft's Kinect
and ASUS’s Xtion Pro Live Sensors, is driving a revolution of
the landscape of computer vision and vision related research. The
pixel-level depth and visual (RGB) information provided by a RGB-D
camera not only enables robust vision applications but also opens up
new research problems and opportunities across a wide range of areas
including 3D perception, robotics, human machine interactions, and
intelligent surveillance. Since the first release of Microsoft Kinect
sensors in November 2010, we have witnessed a rapid growth of research
in visual understanding and applications with RBG-D cameras.

The aim of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art
approaches and technical solutions in the area of visual understanding
and applications using RGB-D cameras. The issue will provide a
convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate
their latest research results.

Scope

This special issue covers all aspects of visual understanding and
applications using RGB-D cameras. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

    Sensor technology, calibration and data pre-processing
    Shape analysis, matching and spatial inference
    Depth fusion, 3D reconstruction and modelling
    Object description, detection, tracking and recognition
    Human detection, tracking and activity understanding
    Gesture recognition and biometrics
    Human-machine interactions
    Scene understanding and segmentation
    Navigation, localization, SLAM and semantic mapping
    Augmented reality
    Annotation and retrieval of RGB-D data
    Perception for mobile manipulation in robotics
    Semantics for long-term operation in dynamic environments
    Empirical studies and benchmark datasets
    Industrial applications

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 “VUA2012� 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: July 15th 2012
First round review decision: October 1st, 2012
Second round review decision: January 15th, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: March 10th, 2013
Expected Publication Date: June, 2013

Guest Editors:

Michael Beetz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Daniel Cremers, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Juergen Gall, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Wanqing Li, ICT Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia
Zicheng Liu, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Dejan Pangercic, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Juergen Sturm, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Yu-Wing Tai, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea