3D Image and Video Processing
Call for Papers
3D image and 3D video processing techniques have received increasing interest in the last years due to the availability of high-end capturing, processing, and rendering devices. Costs for digital cameras have dropped significantly and they allow the capturing of high-resolution images and videos, and thus even multi-view acquisition becomes interesting in commercial applications. At the same time, processing power and storage have reached the level that allows the real-time processing and analysis of 3D image information. The synthesized 3D information can be interactively visualized on high-end graphics boards that become available even on small mobile devices. 3D displays can additionally help to increase the immersiveness of a 3D framework. All these developments move the interest in 3D image and video processing methods from a more academic point of view to commercially attractive systems and enable many new applications such as 3DTV, augmented reality, intelligent human-machine interfaces, interactive 3D video environments, and much more.
Although the technical requirements are more and more fulfilled for a commercial success, there is still a need of sophisticated algorithms to handle 3D image information. The amount of data is extremely high, requiring efficient techniques for coding, transmission, and processing. Similarly, the estimation of 3D geometry and other meta data from multiple views, the augmentation of real and synthetic scene content, and the estimation of 3D object or face/body motion have been addressed mainly for restricted scenarios but often lack robustness in a general environment. This leaves many interesting research areas in order to enhance and optimize 3D imaging and to enable fully new applications. Therefore, this special issue targets at bringing together leading experts in the field of 3D image and video processing to discuss and investigate this interesting topic.
Specifically, this special issue will gather high-quality, original contributions on all aspects of the analysis, interaction, streaming, and synthesis of 3D image and video data. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- 3D image and video analysis and synthesis
- Face analysis and animation
- 3D reconstruction
- Object recognition and tracking
- 3D video/communications
- Streaming of 3D data
- Augmented/mixed reality
- Image-based rendering
- Free viewpoint video
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | March 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | June 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | September 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors:
- Peter Eisert, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Marc Pollefeys, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Institute for Computational Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Stefano Tubaro, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy