EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

  Special Issue on

  Knowledge-Assisted Media Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Applications

  Call for Papers

  It is broadly acknowledged that the development of enabling technologies for
  new forms of interactive multimedia services requires a targeted confluence
  of knowledge, semantics, and low-level media processing. The convergence of
  these areas is key to many applications including interactive TV, networked
  medical imaging, vision-based surveillance and multimedia visualization,
  navigation, search, and retrieval. The latter is a crucial application since
  the exponential growth of audiovisual data, along with the critical lack of
  tools to record the data in a well-structured form, is rendering useless vast
  portions of available content. To overcome this problem, there is need for
  technology that is able to produce accurate levels of abstraction in order
  to annotate and retrieve content using queries that are natural to humans.
  Such technology will help narrow the gap between low-level features or content
  descriptors that can be computed automatically, and the richness and subjectivity
  of semantics in user queries and high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media.

  This special issue focuses on truly integrative research targeting of what can be disparate
  disciplines including image processing, knowledge engineering, information retrieval,
  semantic, analysis, and artificial intelligence. High-quality and novel contributions
  addressing theoretical and practical aspects are solicited.
  Specifically, the following topics are of interest:

  o Semantics-based multimedia analysis
  o Context-based multimedia mining
  o Intelligent exploitation of user relevance feedback
  o Knowledge acquisition from multimedia contents
  o Semantics based interaction with multimedia
  o Integration of multimedia processing and Semantic Web technologies to enable automatic
    content sharing, processing, and interpretation
  o Content, user, and network aware media engineering
  o Multimodal techniques, high-dimensionality reduction, and low level feature fusion

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

  Manuscript Due:                September 1, 2006
  Acceptance Notification:       January 15, 2007
  Final Manuscript Due:          April 1, 2007
  Publication Date:              3rd Quarter, 2007

  Guest Editors:

  Ebroul Izquierdo, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary,
  University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom;
  ebroul.izquierdo@elec.qmul.ac.uk

  Hyoung Joong Kim, Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering,
  Kangwon National University, 192 1 Hyoja2 Dong, Kangwon Do 200 701, Korea;
  khj@kangwon.ac.kr

  Thomas Sikora, Communication Systems Group, Technical University Berlin,
  Einstein Ufer 17, 10587 Berlin, Germany; sikora@nue.tu-berlin.de


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