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CALL FOR PAPERS

Elsevier Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication
Special Issue on  BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED APPROACHES FOR
VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS

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Overview:
Recent developments in technologies that make large scale use of image  
and video data, such as the internet, multimedia systems, digital TV,  
digital cinema, and mobile/wireless devices have increased the need  
for efficient processing, storage and transmission of visual  
information. It is now widely acknowledged that such technologies
could benefit further by incorporating ongoing research on the  
biologically inspired computational models and especially the Human  
Visual System (HVS) modeling.  Indeed, in many applications, the human  
observer plays a prominent role in the decision tasks such as  
diagnosis, recognition and evaluation based on visual assessment of
images. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in  
biologically inspired image and video processing and analysis  
approaches.

Scope:
The objective of this Special Issue is to publish high-quality  
articles on a broad array of applied and theoretical subjects on  
biologically inspired approaches for Visual Information Processing and  
analysis. This special issue will cover the recent advances in HVS  
inspired techniques for image and video processing with applications to
multimedia, visual pattern recognition, surveillance, visual  
information coding and security and other related subjects. This call  
for papers invites also articles covering all aspects related to  
biologically inspired vision architectures and their hardware  
implementation for real-time image and video processing.

Topics of particular interest to this special issue include, but are  
not limited to:
3D Video Coding and Analysis 					Video Segmentation and Analysis
Image and Video Quality Assessment 				Visual Tracking
Image and Video Enhancement 					Image databases and indexing
Perceptual Hashing Video 						Surveillance and Biometrics
Multi-View Coding 								Perceptual Digital Watermarking
Perceptual Image & Video Retrieval 				Perceptual Coding
Multimedia Communication 						Multi-View Processing


Submission format
Prospective contributors are invited to submit manuscripts in PDF  
format only. Papers should be sent electronically using online  
manuscript submission at http://ees.elsevier.com/image. Authors should  
indicate that their submission is intended for this special issue on  
Biologically Inspired Approaches for Visual Information Processing and  
Analysis in the remarks field.  A copy must be sent to [log in to unmask]

Timeline:
31 December 2011: Deadline for submission
1 April 2012: first acceptance/rejection notifications*
1 May 2012: Revised manuscript and response addressing reviewer comments
15 May 2012: Final acceptance/rejection decisions
1 June 2012: Camera ready and publication material
1 July 2012: Publication of the special issue
* Earlier submissions will receive early notifications, which leaves  
more time for revision of the manuscript.




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