EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

  Special Issue on

  Advanced Video Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond


  Call for Papers

The recently developed video coding standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC significantly
outperforms previous standards in terms of coding efficiency at reasonable
implementation complexity and costs in VLSI realization. Real-time H.264
coders will be available very soon. Many applications, such as surveillance
systems with multiple video channel recording, multiple channel video services
for mobile devices, will benefit from the H.264 coder due to its excellent
coding efficiency. The new video coding technology introduces new opportunities
for video services and applications. However, advanced video coding is only one
aspect for successful video services and applications. To enable successful new
applications, additional technologies to cope with time-varying channel behaviors
and diverse usage characteristics are needed. For serving multiple videos, some
extended designs such as joint rate-distortion optimization and scheduling of
multiple parallel video sessions are also required to achieve fair and robust
video storage and delivery. For video surveillance systems, intelligent video
content analysis and scalabilities in video quality, resolution, and display
area, coupled with wireless transmission, can offer new features for the
application. Finally, computational complexity reduction and low-power
design of video codecs as well as content protection of video streams
are particularly important for mobile
devices.

The goal of this special issue is to discuss state-of-the-art techniques to enable
various video services and applications on H.264/AVC technologies and their new
developments.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

   o Video over DVB-H
   o Error resilience of video over mobile networks
   o Video delivery in multiuser environments
   o Rate-distortion optimization for multiple video sources
   o Multipath delivery of video streams
   o Optimization of video codecs for quality improvement and power reduction
   o Security and content protection of video streams
   o Transcoding techniques
   o Scalable video
   o Other advanced video coding technologies
   o Video quality measures

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

  Manuscript Due            August 1, 2005
  Acceptance Notification   November 1, 2005
  Final Manuscript Due      March 1, 2006
  Publication Date          3rd Quarter, 2006

GUEST EDITORS:

Jar-Ferr Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan;
jfyang@ee.ncku.edu.tw

Hsueh-Ming Hang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300,
Taiwan; hmhang@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Eckehard Steinbach, Munich University of Technology, Munich,
Germany; Eckehard.Steinbach@tum.de

Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,
USA; sun@ee.washington.edu