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CALL FOR PAPERS
Multimedia Tools and Applications (http://www.springer.com/journal/11042)
Special issue on "Computer Vision Technology for Multimedia Applications"

The pdf version of this CFP is available at http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_11042-20110909.pdf

Computer vision technology plays a key role in diverse multimedia applications, including surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart space, and

so on. These has led to a massive research effort devoted to research challenges in the development of computer vision algorithms for managing,

processing, analyzing, and interpreting the multimedia data collected. The aim of this special issue is to consolidate the recent research achievements

that address the broad challenges in computer vision technologies with a specific focus in multimedia applications. Both original research papers and

review articles would be of great interest.

*** Topics of interest (but are not limited to) ***
-) Image and video processing, registration, restoration, and enhancement
-) Image and video analysis, object detection, segmentation, and tracking
-) Biometrics, face and action recognition, event detection and recognition
-) Computer vision for human computer interaction
-) Computer vision for multimedia communications, error concealment, compression artifact suppression
-) Visualization, virtual reality, stereoscopic and 3D imaging
-) Multimedia content representation, management, and retrieval
-) Multimedia quality assessment
-) Multimedia applications in surveillance, social networking, ambient intelligence, etc.

*** Important dates ***
Submission of manuscripts: April 15, 2012
First revision notification: July 30, 2012
Submission of revised papers: August 30, 2012
Final Acceptance/Rejection notice: October 15, 2012
Publication of special issue: Second Quarter of 2013

*** Submission guidelines ***
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through http://mtap.editorialmanager.com.