EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

  Special Issue on

  Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission

  Call for Papers

Increasing heterogeneity of networks and diversity of user
capabilities have determined and sustained a strong interest in
robust coding of visual content and flexible adaptation of the bitstreams
to network and user conditions. As a result, several methods for robust
coding and transmission have been proposed that include multiple description
coding, motion-compensated subband video coding, joint source-channel coding,
integrated compression and error control, and adaptation/transcoding
solutions. These typically increase transmission robustness and network- and
user-awareness by using scalability, error resilience, and adaptivity at
little or sometimes no extra cost in coding efficiency. However, the
performance of these methods is affected by the diversity of, and complex
interactions within, the visual content. Analysis methods can improve the
performance of robust methods for coding and transmission by providing solutions
to account for vastly different characteristics of the synthetic and natural,
still and moving, 2D, 3D, and 4D pictures, complex interactions between natural
and synthetic data, and security requirements related to the visual content,
to achieve optimal or near-optimal robust solutions.

Visual analysis methods provide low-level and high-level descriptions of
the content in terms of their spatial and temporal characteristics.
They have been shown to improve compression efficiency when applied to
frame-type decisions, coding parameters selections, mode decisions, rate control,
and background modelling. The application of visual analysis methods within robust
coding and transmission frameworks such as those mentioned earlier yields
content-aware error resilient solutions, improves prioritization of the visual
content for coding and transmission, and enables the application of content
security methods to the visual content.

This special issue will focus on such seamless integration of visual analysis
methods in, or joint design with, robust compression and transmission solutions.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    o Multiple description coding methods
    o Motion-compensated subband coding methods
    o Joint source-channel design methods
    o Robust motion compensation methods
    o Transcoding methods with error control
    o Error resilience and error concealment methods
    o Extraction methods for robust data representations
    o Prioritization methods for coding and transmission
    o Data hiding methods for error detection and resync
    o Content protection methods for robust transmission
    o Complexity scalability and adaptation methods

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format
described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript
tracking system at journal's web site, according
to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            March 1, 2005
  Acceptance Notification   July 1, 2005
  Final Manuscript Due      October 1, 2005
  Publication Date          1st Quarter, 2006

GUEST EDITORS:

Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications, Paris 75634, France; pesquet@tsi.enst.fr

Adriana Dumitras, Apple Computer, Inc.,
Cupertino, CA 95014, USA; adrianad@ieee.org

Benoît Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain,
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; macq@tele.ucl.ac.be