Gang Hua, IBM Research T. J Watson Center, USA
Yun Fu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Cameras are becoming ubiquitous due to the proliferation of smart mobile devices. Most of these cameras are embedded in networked mobile computing devices with ever increasing computational power, providing infrastructure to develop smart environments that support a wide range of new functionality. Emerging applications of computer vision and pattern recognition have great potential for innovation in these areas. The focus of this special issue is on exploring the new opportunities and challenges of computer vision technologies in mobile and smart environments. This special issue provides another opportunity for researchers to identify critical problems and propose effective novel solutions in this emerging area.
Computer vision is essential for providing rich interactive experiences to users in mobile and smart environments. In particular, visual recognition, 3D modeling, tracking, human computer interaction, interactive vision and visualization, and multimodal integration are some of the key technologies for progress in the area. Submissions in all areas of computer vision and pattern recognition in mobile and smart environment are welcome. Key areas include, but are not limited to:
Mobile mixed reality
Mobile and internet vision
Mobile video games
Mobile perceptual interfaces
Mobile computational photography
Mobile visual information retrieval
Mobile visual computing for social networks
Mobile and smart environment applications for the visually impaired
Soft-biometrics in mobile devices and smart environment
Emotion, gesture, expression analysis in mobile platform
Audio-visual personal identification in mobile devices
Mobile multiple-view analysis and 3D models
Mobile interactive image/video parsing/annotation/analysis
Multimodality/multimodal computer vision system in mobile platform
Mobile cloud visual computing
Other mobile related visual computing applications
Submissions
due:
09/30/2010 extended to 10/15/2010
First review results: 12/15/2010
Revision due: 01/30/2011
Second review results: 03/15/2011
Final manuscript due: 04/30/2011
Planned publication date: 08/2011 (subject to change according to review process and journal publication schedule)
Papers should be well aligned with the theme of the special issue and must be submitted online through the IJCV manuscript submission site at http://www.editorialmanager.com/visi, with a note/tag designating the manuscript for this special issue. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts in the field. Priority will be given to work with high novelty, high potential impact, and high relevance to this special issue.
Any questions, please email the guest editors. Primary contacts: ganghua@gmail.com .