CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Special Issue on Analysis and Understanding for Video Adaptation
The past
decade has seen a variety of developments in the area of multimedia
representation and communications and thus multimedia access. In
particular, we
are beginning to see delivery of all types of data for all types of
users in
all types of conditions. In a diverse and heterogeneous world, the
delivery
path for multimedia content to a multimedia terminal is not
straightforward.
Access networks are diverse in nature and vary in performance; also,
the
characteristics of end user devices vary increasingly, in terms of
storage and
processing capabilities and display qualities. The
notion of Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) calls for the provision
of different presentations of the same content/information, with more
or less
complexity, suiting the different usage environments (i.e., the
context) in
which the content will be consumed. This means content adaptation is
proposed
as the solution to bridge content authors and content consumers in the
context
of more and more diverse multimedia chains.
Technologies that will allow Universal Multimedia Access systems to be constructed are starting to appear, notably content adaptation tools. These adaptation tools have to consider individual data types, e.g., video or music, as well as structured content, e.g., portals, or MPEG-21 Digital Items; thus, adaptation extends from individual multimedia objects to multiple, structured elements. Content adaptation may also assume many forms depending on the dimension or criteria used for the adaptation; transcoding, transmoding (cross-modality transcoding) and summarization are among the most relevant content adaptation solutions. For efficient content adaptation, this means to provide the user the most powerful multimedia experience under the conditions at hand, content analysis and understanding play a major role since the more the adaptation engine knows about the content the better it can adapt this content. This includes low-level analysis for transcoding or content description but also semantic mapping and understanding e.g. for the purpose of content summarization. The objective of this “Special Issue on Analysis and Understanding for Video Adaptation” is to provide an overview of analysis and understanding technology, as well as on applications and trials, where content adaptation is the principal target. In this context, papers are solicited on, but not restricted to, the following topics:
• Multimedia content analysis and understanding tools for content adaptation
Submission Procedure:
To submit
a paper to this special issue, authors should follow the
instructions in the Information for Authors on the back cover of a
recent issue
of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Prospective authors should send manuscripts in pdf format
through email
to one of the guest editors (electronic submission only) by no later
than
Guest Editors:
-- Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Ph.D., Professor Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Phone: + 351 21 8418460 Fax: + 351 21 8418472 E-mail: Fernando.Pereira@lx.it.pt WWW: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/