Call for Papers
Special Issue on Advances
in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications
Guest Editors
Haohong
Wang
QUALCOMM Incorporated
King
N. Ngan
Shatin, New Territories,
Joern
Ostermann
Appelstr.
9A, 30167
Background:
Modern
multimedia communication applications such as mobile television, video
telephony, streaming and gaming over wired and wireless networks have had
different economic success and societal impact to-date. Such successes depend,
to a large extend, on their abilities to surpass technical challenges related
to visual content adaptation and delivery, which rely on solutions provided by
visual content analysis. On the other hand, current communications networks
consist of channels with various throughputs, quality of services (QoS) and
protocols, and heterogeneous terminals with wide range of capabilities,
accessibilities and user preferences. The rapidly increasing gap between the
richness of multimedia content and the variations of the channels and terminals
urges the development of techniques for universal multimedia content access,
which heavily relies on the visual analysis tools to understand the data from
all perspectives including network conditions, terminal capabilities, coding
and transmission efficiencies and user preferences. Therefore, to effectively
improve the usability, efficiency and robustness of multimedia communications
in general and visual content access, adaptation and delivery in particular,
visual analysis and processing methods must be able to provide automatic or
semi-automatic solutions for:
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High accuracy content segmentation and representation
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Adapting or transcoding data for various channels and terminals
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Scalability across the visual content
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Content-aware robust coding and transmissions
Scope:
The goal of this special issue
is to collate and disseminate recent and relevant contributions in the area of
visual content analysis including content representation, understanding,
access, adaptation, protection and transmission, with focus on their impact on
visual communication systems. Tutorial papers are solicited that cover the
topics including but not limited to:
* Channel-aware visual content
adaptation
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Visual content repurposing
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Visual content transcoding
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Visual content protection
* Terminal-aware visual content
adaptation
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Object segmentation and tracking
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Model-based and object-based representations
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Layered and scalable representations
* Visual content access and
delivery
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Resource-efficient content-aware adaptation and transmission policies
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Robust content-based coding and transmissions
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Content-adaptive cross-layer system design and optimization
* Applications
- Video
game repurposing for wireless transmission
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Video content indexing and retrieval for mobile appliances
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Visual analysis for mobile broadcasting
Important dates:
Manuscript
submission deadline: April 1, 2006
Notification
of acceptance: July
1, 2006
Camera-ready
papers: September
1, 2006
Publication
of special issue: January
1, 2007
Submission Procedure:
For
manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications
Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html
Manuscripts
should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
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