[WM]: [CFP]: Special Issue on Multimodal A/V Content Abstraction: International Journal of Image and Video Processing

[Stephane Marchand-Maillet <marchand@cui.unige.ch>]

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                      International Journal of
                    Image and Video Processing
          http://www.hindawi.com/OSI.aspx?journal=IJIVP

                          Special Issue on
             Multimodal Audiovisual Content Abstraction
         http://www.hindawi.com/journals/IJIVP/si/MCA.html

The accurate management of large volumes of digital multimodal  audiovisual content calls for a proper mapping of this content
onto=   representation spaces with a high-level degree of interpretation. Thi= s  operation referred to as content abstraction
may be supervised,  unsupervised, automatic, or semiautomatic. Content abstraction here i= s  considered in the large sense and
includes (semi-)automatic annotatio= n,  content (e.g., keyframe) selection, or summarization. Typical problem= s  are fusion of
heterogeneous streams, learning (structured) semantics=   from low-level features, interrelating document content parts, and  extracting salient multimodal content. Tools used in this context ari= se  from signal processing, machine learning, data
mining, and knowledg= e  engineering.

Specifically, this special issue will gather high-quality original=   contributions on all aspects of audiovisual content
abstraction. Topi= cs  of interest include (but are not limited to):

     * “Key” feature extraction/characterization (frames, transit= ions,  shots, story, etc.)
     * Summarization of video content
     * Similarity measures for video content
     * Video content processing for indexing
     * Multistream processing/fusion
     * Interactive video content characterization
     * Mosaicing for content representation

Authors should follow the IJIVP manuscript format described at  http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijivp/. Prospective authors
should=   submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the=   IJIVP manuscript tracking system at
http://www.hindawi.com/mts/,  according to the following timetable:

     Manuscript Due     October 1, 2006
     Acceptance Notification     February 1, 2007
     Final Manuscript Due     April 1, 2007
     Publication Date     2nd Quarter, 2007

Guest Editors:

Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group, Computer Vision and Multime= dia  Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University
of Geneva,=  
CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Bernard Mérialdo, Department of Multimedia Communications, Institut=   Eurécom, 06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Marcel Worring, Intelligent Sensory Information Systems, Computer=   Science Institute, Faculty of Science, University of
Amsterdam, 1098 = SJ  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Milind R. Naphade, Pervasive Media Management Group, IBM T.J. Watson=   Research Center, White Plain, NY 10604, USA


-- 
Dr. Stephane Marchand-Maillet (MER)     Head of the Viper group
marchand@cui.unige.ch                    http://viper.unige.ch/
Computer Vision and Multimedia Lab, CUI,   University of Geneva
24 Rue du General-Dufour - 1211 Geneva 4 - Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)22 379 7631 / +41 (0)22 379 7660
Fax: +41 (0)22 379 7780
http://www.mrml.net/                http://www.benchathlon.net/ 






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