EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems

  Special Issue on

  Embedded Systems for Portable and Mobile Video Platforms

  Call for Papers

 Video coding systems have been assuming an increasingly important role
 in application areas other than the traditional video broadcast and
 storage scenarios. Several new applications have emerged focusing on
 personal communications (such as video-conferencing), wireless multimedia,
 remote video-surveillance, and emergency systems. As a result, a number
 of new video compression standards have emerged addressing the requirements
 of these kinds of applications in terms of image quality and bandwidth. For
 example, the ISO/MPEG and ITU standardization bodies have recently jointly
 established the new AVC/H.264 video coding standard.

 In such a wide range of applications scenarios, there is the need to adapt
 the video processing in general, and in particular video coding/decoding,
 to the restrictions imposed by both the applications themselves and the
 terminal devices. This problem is even more important for portable and
 battery-supplied devices, in which low-power considerations are important
 limiting constraints. Examples of such application requirements are currently
 found in 3G mobile phones, CMOS cameras and tele-assistance technologies for
 elderly/disabled people.

 Therefore, the development of new power-efficient encoding algorithms
 and architectures suitable for mobile and battery-supplied devices is
 fundamental to enabling the widespread deployment of multimedia applications
 on portable and mobile video platforms. This special issue is focused on the
 design and development of embedded systems for portable and mobile video
 platforms. Topics of interest cover all aspects of this type of embedded
 system, including, not only algorithms, architectures, and specific SoC
 design methods, but also more technological aspects related to wireless-channels,
 power-efficient optimizations and implementations, such as encoding strategies,
 data flow optimizations, special coprocessors, arithmetic units, and electronic
 circuits.

 Papers suitable for publication in this special issue must describe
 high-quality, original, unpublished research. Prospective authors are
 invited to submit manuscripts on topics including but not limited to:

  o power-efficient algorithms and architectures for motion estimation,
    discrete transforms (e.g., SA-DCT, WT), integer transforms, and entropy
    coding
  o architectural paradigms for portable multimedia systems
  o low-power techniques and circuits, memory, and data flow optimizations
    for video coding
  o adaptive algorithms and generic configurable architectures for exploiting
    intrinsic characteristics of image sequences and video devices
  o aspects specifically important for portable and mobile video platforms,
    such as video transcoding, video processing in the compressed domain,
    and error resilience (e.g., MDC)
  o ultra-low-power embedded systems for video processing and coding
  o heterogeneous architectures, multithreading, MPSoC, NoC implementations
  o design space exploration tools, performance evaluation tools, coding
    efficiency and complexity analysis tools for video coding in embedded
    systems

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

Manuscript Due            June 1, 2006
Acceptance Notification   October 1, 2006
Final Manuscript Due      January 1, 2007
Publication Date          2nd Quarter, 2007

Guest Editors:

Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID, IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 1000-029 Lisboa,
Portugal; las@inesc-id.pt

Noel O'Connor, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University,
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; noel.oconnor@eeng.dcu.ie

Marco Mattavelli, Signal Processing Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; marco.mattavelli@epfl.ch

Antonio Nunez, IUMA, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; nunez@iuma.ulpgc.es

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