Guidelines for Article Submission 3D Imaging and Analysis Journal Introduction 3D imaging techniques have been developed over three decades. The recent technological development of optics and electronics makes the 3D data acquisition easier than ever before using various techniques such as 3D laser scanning, stereo imaging, structured light projection, Moire fringe methods, shape from X, Photogrammetry, CT, MRI, 3D ultrasound, cryoelectron microscopy, electron tomography, X-ray microscopy, etc. The analysis of 3D data finds wide applications in numerous areas such as machine vision, pattern recognition, medical imaging, virtual reality, computer graphics, computer aided geometric design, reverse engineering, bioinformatics, etc. In the past, even though the research results, the state of the art products, the expert opinions, and news in the field have been published and disseminated, they are often scattered throughout various journals, conference proceedings, magazines, websites, etc. This journal intends to provide a unified media for exchanging ideas and information on 3D Imaging and Analysis in a broad spectrum so that references can be extremely easy for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to obtain. Once the paper, reports, news and views have been accepted, they will be published promptly within 4 months. Editorial board Editor-in-chief Dr Yonghuai Liu Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK Tel: +44 1970 621688 Fax: +44 1970 628536 Email: yyl@aber.ac.uk Editorial board member list Dr Adrien Bartoli LASMEA - UMR 6602 - CNRS/UBP 24, avenue des Landais 63177 Aubière cedex France Email: Adrien.Bartoli@gmail.com Prof. Cornelia Fermüller Computer Vision Laboratory, Center for Automation Research, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. Email: fer@cfar.umd.edu Prof. Luca Lucchese School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University 3005 Kelley Enginering Center Corvallis, OR 97331-5501 Email: luca@eecs.orst.edu Prof. Timothy S. Newman Department of Computer Science University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 Email: tnewman@cs.uah.edu Dr Nick Pears Department of Computer Science University of York York, YO10 5DD, UK Email: nep@cs.york.ac.uk Dr Erik Reinhard Department of Computer Science University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1UB, UK Email: reinhard@cs.bris.ac.uk Prof. Robert Sablatnig Vienna University of Technology Institute of Computer Aided Automation Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group Favoritenstrasse 9/183-2 A-1040 Vienna Austria E-mail: sab@prip.tuwien.ac.at Prof. Ioannis Stamos Department of Computer Science Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York New York, NY 10021, USA Email: istamos@hunter.cuny.edu Prof. Ruigang Yang Department of Computer Science University of Kentucky Lexington KY 40506-0195, USA Email: ryang@cs.uky.edu Prof. Hongbin Zha Centre for Information Science Peking University Beijing 100871, P.R. China Email: zha@cis.pku.edu.cn Dr Reyer Zwiggelaar Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK Email: rrz@aber.ac.uk Areas of interest This journal is interested in essentially any 3D data capturing, visualization, storing, transmission, 3D information representation, extraction, visualization, interpretation, application, 3D data manipulation techniques, etc. The following are, but not limited to, the areas of interest: · 3D imaging geometry · 3D structure from X (stereo, motion, focus/defocus, silhouette, etc) · 3D imaging system and its analysis · 3D-3D data registration techniques · 2D-3D data registration techniques · 3D pose estimation · Sensor calibration methods · Multi-resolution 3-D representations · 3D image (including sequence) analysis and processing · Rigid motion analysis from 3D images and data · Non-rigid motion analysis from 3D images and data · 3D model reconstruction and interpretation · 3D shape comparison, matching and recognition · 3D shape representation, rendering, and protocols · 3D image transmission and protocols · Graphics processing units for 3D data visualization and interpretation · The application of 3D imaging systems or components in the following areas: o Machine vision o Pattern Recognition o Medical image analysis o Computer graphics o Computer games o Film post production o Robotics o Virtual/Augmented/Mixed reality o Data visualisation o Reverse engineering o Computer aided geometric design o Psychology o 3D perception and interpretation o Cultural Heritage/Archaeological Documentation and Preservation Types of Contributions The journal will publish all kinds of high quality research results, latest software and hardware product information, news, and expert opinions about 3D Imaging and Analysis. Specifically, the following are, but not limited to, the contribution types solicited: · Research papers emphasize solid work in the sense of both theories and experiments. It must be self contained and easy to follow. The paper must provide enough details so that the proposed technique can easily be replicated. · Application papers emphasize the systematic application of 3D imaging and analysis in practical application areas listed above. The paper must provide enough details so that the reader can easily follow and re-implement the relative techniques in their respective areas. It must clearly demonstrate a successful application of 3D imaging and analysis in certain areas. The end users do benefit from the application of the relative techniques. If necessary, comments from the end users should be cited or summarised. · Review papers classify or categorize the existing work and point out possible future research and application directions. Thus, the reviewers must have a deep insight into the relative techniques being reviewed and have particular arguments in the sense of discipline development. · Expert views. Experts may express and argue their opinions about the development trend of the discipline and sub-disciplines, comment on the existing papers, techniques, and software and hardware products. The opinions should be informative. · Product introduction provides a convincing discussion of its advantages and disadvantages compared with the existing products probably available in the market or on the internet and states clearly what algorithms or theories have already put into practice and what problems will be tackled in the future. For product advertisement, the specifications, intended customers and applications, price, availability, etc. should be clearly stated. · News and event announcements. Summary of main events and findings. For the events, place, time, intended audience, registration fees, local information, etc. should be clearly stated. For the main findings, results, material and component specification, data and their specification, experimental and manufacturing procedures, time taken, etc. should be clearly stated. Papers must be written in English, use plain English whenever possible, and be easy for readers of different disciplines to follow. Paper format You are strongly recommended to adopt either LaTeX or Microsoft Word to produce your papers. For the relative style files, templates and sample papers please refer to the journal website. In general, the research, application, and review papers should not exceed 35 A4 pages in double space and one column at the stage of review. The papers will have a limit of 12 pages in the final publication. The paper about the expert views and product introduction should not exceed 20 pages in double space and one column and 6 pages in the final production. The papers about the news should not exceed 6 pages in double space and one column and 2 pages in the final production. Any over-limit page will be charged at a rate of $100.00/per page, which may change over time. Submission checklist It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal's Editor for review. Please consult this Guideline for further details of any item. Ensure that the article to be submitted is original and previously unpublished: Only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered for publication. Authors should refrain from submitting any work that is being reviewed simultaneously or pending publication in other forums. Papers previously published in conference proceedings, digests, preprints, or records are eligible for consideration provided that the papers have undergone substantial revision, and that the author states this in the covering letter. If any portion of your submission has previously appeared in or will appear in a conference proceeding, you should notify this at the time of submitting, make sure that the submission references the conference publication. Please provide a brief description of the differences between the submitted manuscript and the preliminary version(s). Ensure that the following items are present: One Author designated as corresponding Author: · E-mail address · Full postal address · Telephone and fax numbers Ensure that all necessary components are not missing: · Keywords · All figures, labels and their captions · All tables (including title, description, footnotes) Further considerations · Manuscript has been "spellchecked" · References are in the correct format for this journal · Journal papers: Author names. Paper title. Full journal title, volume number, issue number, pp. starting page number - ending page number, publication year. · Conference papers: Author names. Paper title. Proceedings of Conference name, publisher name, volume number, pp. starting page number - ending page number, year. · Technical reports: Author names. Paper title. Report number, institute name, country, month year. · Website: Author names. Paper (Subject, Database, etc) title. WWW address. · All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa · Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web) · Colour figures are clearly marked as being intended for colour reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced in colour on the Web (free of charge) and black-and-white in print · If only colour on the web is required, black and white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes Please note that if your work does not satisfy the basic requirement of the journal, then it will be returned for correction without review. For any further information please contact Dr Yonghuai Liu at diawww@aber.ac.uk Submission of Articles · All papers must be in .pdf or .doc format and submitted online through the journal website. In rare cases, the paper may be submitted as an attachment of an email to Dr Yonghuai Liu at diawww@aber.ac.uk. · On the other hand, you also have to sign and send the copyright oath form about the paper submitted. The copyright oath form can be downloaded from the journal website or requested from Dr Yonghuai Liu through diawww@aber.ac.uk. The submitted paper must be accompanied with the copyright oath form. Otherwise, it will be returned without review. If you have any queries, please contact Dr Yonghuai Liu: diawww@aber.ac.uk