Special Issues

Call for Papers

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Special issue on:

"Semantic Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services"

The demand for efficient methods for extracting knowledge from multimedia content has led to a growing research community and a number of European, national and industrial projects in this area. Technologies for retrieving semantic information from multimedia content potential enable new applications and services for both commercial and personal end users. The aim of this special issue is to provide an overview of current research in the area of semantic analysis for multimedia applications including both theory and application oriented papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia content analysis and understanding
Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
Analysis and understanding tools for personalization and content adaptation
Analysis and social content applications
Content summarization and personalization strategies
Semantic mapping and ontologies
Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
Multimedia analysis for advanced applications

Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 1 October 2007
Submission of final accepted papers: 14 March 2008
Publication of special issue: May 2008

Submissions:
All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by Signal Processing: Image Communication (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505651/authorinstructions). Submissions should be sent by email to Yiannis Kompatsiaris (ikom@iti.gr) no later than October 1, 2007.

Guest editors:
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Noel O'Connor, Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Ireland
Milind R. Naphade, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

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Organised by:


Informatics and Telematics Institute, Multimedia Knowledge Group	Image and Video Processing Lab, NTUA