Color in Image and Video Processing
Call for Papers
The perception of color has become of increasing importance in application areas such as digital imaging, multimedia, visual communications, computer vision, and consumer electronic industry. Color is considered since the last decade as a key element for a number of image and video processing systems. In particular, color plays a central role in digital photography, consumer electronic devices such as digital cameras, display applications, and printing applications, where color management algorithms are considered as the foundation to transport documents from one system to another. Color also plays a major important role in pattern recognition and multimedia systems, where color-based features and color segmentation have proven pertinent in detecting and classifying objects in biomedical applications and general purpose imagery. In particular, the fusion of color and edge-based features has improved the performance of image segmentation and object recognition. Color is of essential importance in compression-and transmission-based applications of visual content. There are many TV and cinematographic applications where accurate color communication is critical for specialists such as golden eyes and professionals. The motivation of this special issue is to fill the existing gap between academic institutions and research laboratories which deal with the manipulation of digital color images through the utilization of advanced signal processing techniques and practitioners, and research laboratories which deal with the perception of colors through computer vision and human vision.
This special issue will gather high-quality, original contributions on all aspects of the application of color in pattern recognition, computer vision, compression, indexing, multimedia content access, watermarking, and security.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the theory and applications of color in:
- Computational color vision models
- Color constancy and color transfer
- Digital photography
- Postproduction in cinema
- Digital color camera image processing
- Color reproduction (printing, scanning, displays)
- High dynamic range color imaging and rendering
- Color image understanding and analysis
- Color data compression and encoding
- Color image/video indexing and retrieval
- Color image filtering and enhancement
- Digital color image content protection
- Color image/video quality assessment
- Spatiotemporal color modeling
- Multispectral imaging and analysis
- Applications and future trends
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 | August 1, 2007 |
| First Round of Reviews | November 1, 2007 |
| Publication Date | February 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors:
- Alain Tremeau, Laboratoire LIGIV EA 3070, Université Jean Monnet, 42000 Saint - Étienne, France
- Konstantinos Plataniotis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G4
- Shoji Tominaga, Department of Information and Image Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan