****************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Real-Time Image Processing Special Issue on Real-Time Color Image Processing www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554?detailsPage=societies ****************************************************************************** INTRODUCTION Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems. Recent advances in digital color imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an explosion in the use of color images in a variety of applications including medical imaging, content-based image retrieval, biometrics, watermarking, digital inpainting, remote sensing, visual quality inspection, among many others. As a result, automated processing and analysis of color images has become an active area of research, which is witnessed by the large number of publications during the past two decades. The multivariate nature of color image data presents new challenges for researchers and practitioners as the numerous methods developed for single channel images are often not directly applicable to multichannel images. In addition, common scalar image processing operations often become computationally intractable when performed in high dimensional spaces. As a result, development of computationally practical methods for color image processing has become an important research area. The goal of this special issue is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of Real-Time Color Image Processing. We are soliciting original contributions, which address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to high-performance color image processing including, but not limited to: - Coding and Compression - Sampling and Interpolation - Color Models - Fusion - Filtering and Enhancement - Morphology - Edge Detection and Segmentation - Feature Extraction - Indexing and Retrieval - Applications and Future Trends PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and may not be under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts should conform to the standard guidelines of the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554). Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their manuscript through the Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrtip). Papers should be marked as ``SI: Real-Time Color Image Processing" in the Article Type section. IMPORTANT DATES (Updated) - Submission of full-length papers: August 31, 2012 - Notification of initial editorial decisions: October 15, 2012 - Submission of revised papers: December 15, 2012 - Notification of final editorial decisions: March 15, 2013 GUEST EDITORS M. Emre Celebi Dept of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA ecelebi@lsus.edu Bogdan Smolka Dept of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl Gerald Schaefer Dept of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK gerald.schaefer@ieee.org