Submission deadline is 30th September

CVIU Special Issue: Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments
Call for papers
http://vision.fe.uni-lj.si/cvbase06/journal.html

Video-based analysis of sport events is an important tool in analysis of
individual players and sport teams, but usually requires many hours of
manual work. Computer vision based methods can provide help in
automating many of those tasks, for example tracking, annotation,
indexing and automatic generation of semantic descriptions.

On the other hand, sport provides plenty of opportunities for engineers
to test the new and promising general purpose motion analysis methods on
real data in the sport environments, which have some distinctive
advantages over other testbeds: well documented rules, constraints and
requirements.

We solicit papers for a special issue of Computer Vision and Image
Understanding (CVIU) relating to Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport
Environments. This is in association with the ECCV workshop on Computer
Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments. However, we welcome
submission from researchers who did not participate in this workshop.

Potential Topics include: tracking of athletes/players, ball tracking, motion
data processing and analysis, individual activity detection, recognition
and analysis, team (multi-agent) activity detection, recognition and
analysis.

SPORTS DATA

A number of datasets were prepared for the ECCV CVBASE workshop. These are
still available from the CVBASE website:
http://vision.fe.uni-lj.si/cvbase06/downloads.html

Important dates:
Deadline for submission: 30th September 2006
Review Decision expected: 1st February 2007
Final paper submission: 1st April 2007
Journal publication expected: 3rd Quarter 2007

GUEST EDITORS:
Derek R. Magee (University of Leeds, UK)
Janez Pers (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
The CVIU submission system has been set up for the special issue. It
is just like submitting to CVIU normally, but one has to select
"Special Issue: Analysis in Sport Environ" when asked to select
Article Type. The webpage is: http://www.ees.elsevier.com/cviu/

You have to register (if you aren't already registered with
elsevier/CVIU), then log in as an author.
The guide for authors is at:
http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622809&dc=GFA