********************************************************************************** EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANTHROPOCENTRIC VIDEO ANALYSIS: TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS ********************************************************************************** Humans are a basic entity in most videos. Lately, there has been increased interest in devising automated video analysis algorithms that aim to extract, efficiently describe, and organize information regarding the state or state transition of individuals (identity, emotional state, activity, position and pose, etc), interactions between individuals (dialogue, gestures, engagement into collaborative or competitive activities like sports), physical characteristics of humans (anthropometric characteristics, 3D head/body models), and so forth. Such information can be utilized in a multitude of important applications that include, but are not limited to: * Human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing * Video characterization, classification, and semantic annotation * Video indexing and retrieval * Temporal video segmentation (shot and scene boundary detection) and summarization * Intelligent video surveillance, access control, and other security related applications High quality and original contributions on the following(nonexhaustive) list of topics related to anthropocentric video analysis and its applications are solicited: * Detection and tracking of humans or human body parts * Action recognition and human behavior analysis * Emotional state recognition * Anthropocentric video characterization, semantic annotation, indexing, retrieval, temporal segmentation and summarization * Efficient description schemes for anthropocentric video information * Dialogue detection, lip activity detection, visual speech recognition * Hand gesture recognition * 3D modeling of humans * Person verification and recognition Authors should follow the manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/ Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the EURASIP JIVP manuscript tracking system at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due February 1, 2007 Acceptance Notification June 1, 2007 Final Manuscript Due September 1, 2007 Publication Date 4th Quarter, 2007 GUEST EDITORS: Nikos Nikolaidis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; nikolaid@aiia.csd.auth.gr Maja Pantic, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK; m.pantic@imperial.ac.uk Ioannis Pitas, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; pitas@aiia.csd.auth.gr EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING website: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp