Journal of Electronic Imaging: Special Section on Image Processing for Cultural Heritage Call for Papers

Journal of Electronic Imaging:  Special Section on Image Processing for Cultural Heritage

Due to technological developments, images have become very common
data, present and accessible through many different media (TV, camera,
smartphone, tablet, and so on). Consequently, it is more and more
common for the scientific community to use images to characterize
materials or objects under study at different scales. Heritage is one
of the emerging domains that exploit these data. The introduction of
the methods developed in the image-processing domain offers new
possibilities to the interdisciplinary cultural heritage world.

This Special Section on Image Processing for Cultural Heritage aims to
present studies that exploit images as principal data to solve
heritage problems. Topics of this special section may include:

    Heritage preservation (restoration, enhancement, denoising,
    quality assessment)

    Reconstruction and visualization of cultural heritage (data
    acquisition, 3D representation, virtual representation, serious
    games)

    Image analysis (pattern recognition, classification,
    retrieval,segmentation, quantification)

    Building stones, decorated caves, stained glass windows, statues
    (wood, stone, metal, ceramic), paintings, textiles, ancient texts,
    seals, etc.

Digitizing Europe's cultural heritage is an active part of the
European Union agenda, and the EU has funded several projects on the
topic in the last few years (see complete list here:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/digital-culture). Research
groups from Europe participating in these projects are invited to
submit papers. We also welcome research groups from various countries
to submit work on topics of image processing related to heritage, and
specialists in cultural heritage should present their image-processing
problems.  For information on paper submission, prospective authors
should visit:

https://spie.org/publications/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/jei-pages/jei-editorial-schedule#Cultural_Heritage
http://spie.org/publications/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/jei-pages/jei-editorial-schedule#Perceptual_Analysis
Important dates:

    Original submissions due: 1 June 2016
    First round of review completed, and decision sent to author: 15 July 2016
    Revised manuscripts due: 1 September 2016
    Re-reviews due (if necessary): 1 October 2016
    Final accepted manuscripts ready for production: 1 January 2017
    Guest editorial and cover art due: 1 February 2017

Guest Editors:

Aladine Chetouani
University of Orléans
PRISME
Orléans, France
E-mail: aladine.chetouani@univ-orleans.fr 

Robert Erdmann
University of Amsterdam
Johannes Vermeerplein 1
1071 DV Amsterdam, Netherlands
E-mail: robert.g.erdmann@gmail.com 

David Picard
ENSEA
ETIS UMR 8051
6 avenue du Ponceau
95014 Cergy-Pontoise, France
E-mail: picard@ensea.fr 

Filippo Stanco
University of Catania
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
viale A. Doria, 6
95125 Catania, Italy
E-mail: fstanco@dmi.unict.it