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Calls for Papers:
Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications
Mobile Computational Photography
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
October-December 2013
Video Surveillance and Transportation Imaging Applications
Guest Editors:
Robert Loce
Xerox Corp.
800 Phillips Road
Webster, New York 14580
Tel: 585-422-7071
E-mail: robert.loce@xerox.com
Eli Saber
Rochester Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering Department
79 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York 14623
Tel: 585-727-3126
E-mail: esseee@rit.edu
Call for papers: With the advent of low-cost/high-performance video sensors, imaging platforms, and computational equipment, it has become increasingly possible to process video streams in real time on affordable cloud computational servers, desktop systems, and various handheld mobile devices. Major applications of these technologies include surveillance, transportation, remote sensing, social media, sports, and biomedical, to name a few. Only recently has the potential for these technologies begun to be realized in various commercial, government, and consumer-based applications. For instance, automated video understanding can enhance surveillance/monitoring systems beyond what is possible for human operators alone. These systems are being developed to maintain long-term surveillance on large numbers of video streams for various applications with minimal or no manual intervention. In addition, automated systems can coordinate multiple cameras and provide "synopsis" views of activities that can be used to predict/analyze potential events pre or post mortem. On the other hand, transportation systems-the life blood of our economic and social lives-are far from their ideal state. Vehicle accidents are the number-one cause of death in the US for ages 4 to 34 and are expected to surpass disease as a cause of death for all ages worldwide by 2020. By some estimates, half the fuel consumed in San Francisco is consumed while searching for a parking space. Vehicular congestion is a leading cause of lost productivity and the fuel efficiency considerations have traditionally received very limited attention in the design of present-day systems.
Over the past two decades, various video analytics algorithms have been proposed for autonomous understanding of events for a variety of surveillance and transportation type applications. While most of the earlier solutions started from raw data and followed with the interpretation at increasing levels of semantic complexity, more recent techniques attempt to bridge the gap between signal-level and semantic-level processing. Technological solutions to problems in these areas have the potential for very significant societal impacts on many fronts from airport/stadium/building/city security to patient/elderly care.
There is an emerging global effort to develop effective surveillance systems to monitor various facilities and smarter transportation networks to improve fuel efficiency and safety and to reduce emissions and congestions in various metropolitan areas throughout the world.
This special section of the Journal of Electronic Imaging is intended focus on the development and deployment of imaging and video technologies to enable novel solutions for problems in the surveillance, security, and transportation arenas. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:
- Surveillance: sampling and selection techniques, video segmentation and tracking algorithms, event detection algorithms, subspace methods for video analytics, cooperative and context-based tracking, fusion of multiple sensors and various modalities, Bayesian models for tracking and activity monitoring
- Imaging for motor vehicles and autonomous devices: driver alertness estimation, road condition sensing (water, ice, dry, potholes, etc.), road-hazard detection, object/animal/human detection, tailgating detection
- Efficiency: video-based parking spot detection for billing or navigation, traffic congestion detection, assisted driving/parking, transit time estimation
- Law enforcement: license plate and vehicle identification, speed detection from stationary or mobile platforms, seat-belt enforcement, expired registration detection, stop-sign enforcement
- Environmental: reduction of emissions, gasoline and chemical spill detection
- Infrastructure monitoring: vehicle conditions (overheated brakes, underinflated tires), snowplow and bus cameras, road and bridge inspection, traffic load measurements.
Applications of the above in:
- Transport (urban/highway pedestrian/motor/mixed traffic, pedestrian traffic)
- Physical security (high-density venues: concert halls, stadiums, airports, train stations, etc., and low-density venues: nuclear power plants, military installations, etc.)
- Environmental monitoring (animals, forest fires, avalanches, etc.)
- Smart spaces and ambient intelligence (interactive environments, etc.)
- Hospitals and elderly care.
Closed for submissions.
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January-March 2014
Mobile Computational Photography
Guest Editors:
Todor Georgiev
Qualcomm Inc.
355 East Trimble Road
San Jose, California 95131
Tel: 1-408-546-8007
E-mail: todorg@qti.qualcomm.com
Andrew Lumsdaine
Indiana University
215 Lindley Hall
150 S. Woodlawn
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
Tel: 1-812-855-6486
E-mail: lums@cs.indiana.edu
Call for papers: Mobile platforms are becoming increasingly important and capable; the computational abilities are growing by leaps and bounds. With the advent of small low-cost image sensors, it has now become possible to build ultracompact cameras embedded in mobile devices. The classic camera approach is challenged by the computational power now available to end-users (in the form of FPGAs, multicore CPUs and GPUs) and the morphing of photography into mobile computational photography.
Computational photography is already emerging as a stand-alone field. As today's mobile devices with embedded cameras are becoming ubiquitous, mobile computational photography is seamlessly carving its own place. The trend of using cameras in mobile devices is expected to continue to grow at an enormous rate, particularly given the unprecedented advances and investments in sensor arrays, multiple modality sensors, cloud computing servers, and smart mobile devices.
The special section of JEI is focused on advanced computational photography methods applicable to mobile applications. It is intended to provide a venue for world-class researchers and practitioners who develop and deploy imaging technologies to enable novel solutions for mobile photography. The special section will be coordinated with the Mobile Computational Photography Conference and accepted papers will be presented in a special JEI focal track.
High quality papers are invited on the following topics:
Cameras
- Optical designs for ultra slim cameras
- Sensor designs and data transfer for mobile computational photography
- Plenoptic cameras for mobile devices; integral / lightfield imaging
- Image capture with extended modalities: extended depth of field, dynamic range, low light, multispectral color, etc.
Displays
- Multi touch technologies and innovative gesture interfaces
- Novel displays for mobile devices, 3D displays
Computation
- Computational image enhancement (e.g., noise reduction, super resolution, image stabilization)
- Computational methods for extending depth of field, dynamic range, and others
- Novel applications made possible with camera arrays (e.g., refocusing, multi-view stereo, depth
Internet
- Leveraging the Cloud
- Mobile photography and social media (technology aspects)
Authors wishing to submit to the special section will need to prepare their manuscript according to the guidelines at http://spie.org/manuscriptprep, and follow a two-step submission process:
- Submit a full-length manuscript to JEI by 1 June 2013: http://jei.msubmit.net
- Submit a 500 word abstract through SPIE.org by 22 July 2013: http://spie.org/app/submissions/submit/overview.aspx?EventId=1039276
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January-March 2014
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
Guest Editors:
Nicolas S. Holliman
Durham University
School of Engineering & Computing Sciences
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
E-mail: n.s.holliman@durham.ac.uk
Takashi Kawai
Waseda University
Department of Intermedia Art and Science
4-1 Okubo 3 Chome
Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 169-8555 Japan
E-mail: tkawai@waseda.jp
Call for papers: This special section will focus on developments covering the entire stereoscopic 3D imaging pipeline from capture, processing, and display, to perception. The special section brings together papers from industry and academia to facilitate an exchange of current information on stereoscopic imaging topics. Accepted papers will be presented at the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference in 2014, and they will be published in a special JEI focal track.
Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics:
Applications of stereoscopic displays
- especially novel applications and user trials of existing applications. Application areas include: games, scientific visualization, medical imaging, television, entertainment, communications, training, computer-assisted design, molecular modeling, teleoperation, telepresence, industrial inspection, advertising, and stereoscopic visualization for 3D reconstruction and 3D printing
Advances in true 3D display technologies
- including autostereoscopic displays of all types: high-density multiview displays, volumetric displays, light-field displays, ‘patially-multiplexed displays (e.g. lenticular, barrier, integral imaging), temporally-multiplexed displays (e.g. active shutter, view-scanning, steered backlights), multiprojector displays, mobile 3D displays, 3D tablets, stereoscopic projection, and electro-holography
Stereoscopic systems design
- for teleoperation, telerobotics, telesurgery, virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile devices, game systems, consumer and professional broadcast, content delivery and interaction technologies
- system performance, crosstalk, brightness, and viewing freedom
Stereoscopic 3D digital cinema
- including production, presentation, and case studies
Stereoscopic imaging
- image processing and compression of stereoscopic imagery
- 3D image quality, image alignment, and depth range analysis
- stereoscopic and multiview computer graphics, including gaming
- stereoscopic image synthesis: 2D to 3D conversion, depth map generation, multiviewpoint generation
- software and hardware issues for computer display of stereoscopic images
- methods for recording, playback, transmission, and processing of stereoscopic video
3D image acquisition and generation techniques
- single- and multilens camera systems and light-field cameras
- motion parallax, volume projection, graphical construction, computer graphics, computational photography, and other stereoscopic image generation techniques
- generation of novel viewpoints, light-field rendering
- guidelines for stereoscopic content development
Human factors and user-interface issues
- task performance comparisons between stereoscopic and nonstereoscopic displays
- evaluation methodologies, e.g., depth-acuity measurement and task performance
- perceptual and cognitive guidelines
- orthostereo, hyperstereo, and the geometry of 3D perceptual space.
Authors wishing to submit to the special section will need to prepare their manuscript according to the guidelines at http://spie.org/manuscriptprep, and follow a two-step submission process:
- Submit a full-length manuscript to JEI by 1 June 2013: http://jei.msubmit.net
- Submit a 500 word abstract through SPIE.org by 22 July 2013: http://spie.org/app/submissions/submit/overview.aspx?EventId=1039276
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Published Special Sections:
Compressive Sensing for Imaging (April-June 2013)
Guest Editors: Fauzia Ahmad, Gonzalo R. Arce, Ram M. Narayanan, Dimitris A. Pados
Mobile Computational Photography (January-March 2013)
Guest Editors: Todor Georgiev, Andrew Lumsdaine, Sergio Goma
Quality Control by Artificial Vision (April-June 2012)
Guest Editors: Jean-Charles Pinoli, Karen Panetta, and Seiji Hata
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (January-March 2012)
Guest Editors: Neil Dodgson and Nick Holliman
Quality Control by Artificial Vision (September-December 2010)
Guest Editors: Edmund Y. Lam, Shaun S. Gleason, and Kurt S. Niel
Digital Photography (April-June 2010)
Guest Editors: Peter B. Catrysse and Sabine Süsstrunk
Image Quality (January-March 2010)
Guest Editors: Susan Farnand and Frans Gaykema
Quality Control by Artificial Vision (July-September 2008)
Guest Editors: Hamed Sari-Sarraf, David Fofi, and Nelson H. C. Yung
Biometrics: Advances in Security, Usability, and Interoperability (January-March 2008)
Guest Editors: Claus Vielhauer, Berrin Yanikoğlu, Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Richard M. Guest, and Stephen J. Elliott
Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents (October-December 2006)
Guest Editors: Jana Dittmann and Edward J. Delp
Color Imaging: Processing, Hard Copy, and Applications (October-December 2006)
Guest Editors: Reiner Eschbach and Gabriel Marcu
Quality Control by Artificial Vision (July-September 2004)
Guest Editors: Kenneth W. Tobin, Fabrice Meriaudeau, and Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Retinex at 40 (January-March 2004)
Guest Editors: John J. McCann
Imaging through Scattering Media (October-December 2003)
Guest Editors: David A. Boas, Charles A. Bouman, and Kevin J. Webb
Model-Based Medical Image Processing and Analysis (January-March 2003)
Guest Editors: James C. Gee; Mostafa Analoui
Internet Imaging (October-December 2002)
Guest Editors: Giordano Beretta and Raimondo Schettini
Storage, Processing, and Retrieval of Digital Media (October-December 2001)
Guest Editors: Minerva M. Yeung, Chung-Sheng Li, Rainer Lienhart,and Boon-Lock Yeo
Process Imaging for Automatic Control (July-September 2001)
Guest Editors: David M. Scott and Hugh McCann
Statistical Issues in Psychometric Assessment of Image Quality (April-June 2001)
Guest Editors: John C. Handley and John Bunge
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (January-March 2001)
Guest Editors: Bernice E. Rogowitz, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, and Jan P. Allebach
