Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for our upcoming volume entitled Advances in Low-Level Color Image Processing to be published by Springer late 2013.

Below is a short description of the volume:

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 ones.

The goal of this volume is to summarize the state-of-the-art in the early stages of the color image processing pipeline. Topics of interest include:

- Color Image Coding and Compression
- Color Image Quantization and Halftoning
- Color Image Filtering and Enhancement
- Color Morphology
- Color Edge Detection
- Color Image Segmentation
- Digital Camera Image Processing
- Multispectral Image Processing
- Applications and Future Trends

Important Dates
Submission of abstracts October 1, 2012
Notification of initial editorial decisions October 15, 2012
Submission of full-length chapters January 15, 2013
Notification of final editorial decisions March 1, 2013
Submission of revised chapters April 1, 2013

All submissions should be done via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcip2013
Original artwork and a signed copyright release form will be required for all accepted chapters. For author instructions, please see:
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0

Feel free to contact us via email regarding your chapter ideas.

Sincerely,

M. Emre Celebi (‘ecelebi@lsus.edu’) and Bogdan Smolka (‘bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl’)
Editors