[Imageworld] CVIU Special Issue: Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments

[D R Magee]

[Submission deadline is 30th September]

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CVIU Special Issue: Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments
Call for papers
http://vision.fe.uni-lj.si/cvbase06/journal.html

Video-based analysis of sport events is an important tool in analysis of 
individual players and sport teams, but usually requires many hours of manual 
work. Computer vision based methods can provide help in automating many of 
those tasks, for example tracking, annotation, indexing and automatic 
generation of semantic descriptions.

On the other hand, sport provides plenty of opportunities for engineers to test 
the new and promising general purpose motion analysis methods on real data in 
the sport environments, which have some distinctive advantages over other 
testbeds: well documented rules, constraints and requirements.

We solicit papers for a special issue of Computer Vision and Image 
Understanding (CVIU) relating to Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport 
Environments. This is in association with the ECCV workshop on Computer Vision 
Based Analysis in Sport Environments. However, we welcome submission from 
researchers who did not participate in this workshop.

Potential Topics include:

tracking of athletes/players
ball tracking
motion data processing and analysis
individual activity detection, recognition and analysis
team (multi-agent) activity detection, recognition and analysis

Sports Data

A number of datasets were prepared for the ECCV CVBASE workshop. These are
still available from the CVBASE website:

http://vision.fe.uni-lj.si/cvbase06/downloads.html

Important dates:

Deadline for submission: 30th September 2006
Review Decision expected: 1st February 2007
Final paper submission: 1st April 2007
Journal publication expected: 3rd Quarter 2007

Guest Editors:

Derek R. Magee (University of Leeds, UK) Janez Pers (University of Ljubljana, 
Slovenia)

Submission instructions:

The CVIU submission system has been set up for the special issue. It is just 
like submitting to CVIU normally, but one has to select "Special Issue: 
Analysis in Sport Environ" when asked to select Article Type. The webpage is:
http://www.ees.elsevier.com/cviu/

You have to register (if you aren't already registered with elsevier/CVIU), 
then log in as an author.

The guide for authors is at:
http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=622809&dc=GFA