Paper submission due : March 30,  2008
Acceptance/rejection notification, : May 15,  2008
 

 Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Computing

Guest Editor(s)  Dr. Ibrahiem El Emary   and  Aboul-Ella Hassanien

To be published in "Telecommunication Systems journal" published by Springer Verlag, Germany

Editor-in-Chief:

Professor Bezalel Gavish

Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

  Issue  Objectives & Mission: 

The past years have witnessed a large number of interesting applications of various Computational intelligence techniques, such as fuzzy logic, rough sets, neural networks, and evolutionary computation, to multimedia computing.  With the advances in production, communication and storage techniques, the amount of digital multimedia content is experiencing a huge increase in recent years. This special issue  will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal with the multimedia computing using computational intelligence techniques as an emerging research area.  The objective of this  special issue is to report some most recent developments and contributions in this direction.

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:-

§  Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Computing

·        Image, speech and video storage and compression

·        Image, speech and video browsing and searching

·        Multimedia recommender systems

·        Multimedia summarization

·        Multimedia applications in education, health care, bio-imaging and digital libraries

·        Multimedia in E-social networks

·        Multimedia annotation and sharing

·        Natural interfaces and human computer interaction

·        Automated video surveillance

·        Biometrics (face, hand, gesture)

·        Improving multimedia user experience

·        Multimedia enhancement and editing

·        Mobile video applications

·        Multimedia personalization

·        Multimedia categorization

·        Document processing

·        Handwriting recognition

·        Object detection and recognition (including faces)

·        Video activity analysis (body, gait and gesture)

·        Video object tracking

·        Speech recognition

·        Microphone arrays

·        Image, audio and video segmentation

·        Intelligent agents for multimedia

·        Multimedia feature extraction and matching

·        Extracting syntax and semantics from multimedia

·        Scalable video and rate adaptation

·        Shape analysis and recognition

·        Structure from motion

·        Stereo imaging

·        Image registration

§  Computational Intelligence in  Multimedia Communications

• Real-time protocols,

• End-to-end streaming media,

• resource allocation,

• multicast protocols,

• Mobile multimedia communications

• Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments,

• Extraction and usage of semantic information

• Performance evaluation of multimedia services,

• Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments,

• P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks,

• multimedia-on demand servers,

• multimedia composition,

• multimedia services,

• multimedia data Compression techniques,

• Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services, 

• Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia, 

• Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures,    

• Mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality

• Next generation multimedia communications

• Audio signal processing for next-generation multimedia communication

   

§  Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Applications

• Education,

• Electronic Commerce,

• Mobile Commerce,

• Internet Banking,

• Business,

• Medicine,

• Engineering,  

• Entertainment,

• Databases,

• Distributed collaboration,

• Video conferencing,

• 3D virtual environments,

• Distributed virtual reality,

• multimedia authoring,

• Environmental Systems Military Systems,

• Games

• Ambient Intelligence: A Multimedia Perspective

• Biometrics

• Digital Watermarking

• Security

•  etc. 

Submission Guideline

Please e−mail   an electronic copy of the manuscript in either pdf or word doc format to one of the Guest editors.

Abo@cba.edu.kw  or doctor_ebrahim@yahoo.com
 

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers on a double-blind review basis. Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep production time short and ensure satisfactory appearance of the finished book. Please prepare the manuscript using the author guidelines and format given in the following link: Author Guidelines  ( journal link)  

Important dates

Special issue Guest  Editors