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Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
Special Issue on Real-Time Color Image Processing

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INTRODUCTION

Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene
understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems. Recent advances in
digital color imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an explosion
in the use of color images in a variety of applications including medical
imaging, content-based image retrieval, biometrics, watermarking, digital
inpainting, remote sensing, visual quality inspection, among many others. As a
result, automated processing and analysis of color images has become an active
area of research, which is witnessed by the large number of publications during
the past two decades. The multivariate nature of color image data presents new
challenges for researchers and practitioners as the numerous methods developed
for single channel images are often not directly applicable to multichannel
images. In addition, common scalar image processing operations often become
computationally intractable when performed in high dimensional spaces. As a
result, development of computationally practical methods for color image
processing has become an important research area.

The goal of this special issue is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in the area of Real-Time Color Image Processing. We are
soliciting original contributions, which address a wide range of theoretical
and practical issues related to high-performance color image processing
including, but not limited to:

- Coding and Compression
- Sampling and Interpolation
- Color Models
- Fusion
- Filtering and Enhancement
- Morphology
- Edge Detection and Segmentation
- Feature Extraction
- Indexing and Retrieval
- Applications and Future Trends

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and may not be under consideration
elsewhere. Manuscripts should conform to the standard guidelines of the
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
(http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554). Prospective
authors should submit an electronic copy of their manuscript through the
Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrtip). Papers should be
marked as ``SI: Real-Time Color Image Processing" in the Article Type section.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission of full-length papers: June 15, 2012
- Notification of initial editorial decisions: July 31, 2012
- Submission of revised papers: October 1, 2012
- Notification of final editorial decisions: January 1, 2013

GUEST EDITORS

M. Emre Celebi
Dept of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
ecelebi@lsus.edu

Bogdan Smolka
Dept of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl

Gerald Schaefer
Dept of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
gerald.schaefer@ieee.org