[Imageworld] CFP: EURASIP Journal on IVP, Special Issue on Video Analysis for Novel TV Services

[sidahmed.berrani at orange-ftgroup.com]

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Special Issue on Video Analysis for Novel TV Services

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/ntvs.html


Call for Papers
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The significant increase in the amount of digital video content (TV
channels, in particular) and thediversification of broadcast
possibilities and storage devices have recently given rise to the
emergence ofmany new services and novel TV program-consumption schemes.
These new services are basically aimed atmaking TV content available to
users without any constraint on location and/or time. The idea is also
to present TV programs in different ways in order to increase their
audience, automatically creating summaries, building novel browsing
models, and allowing users to perform semantic queries. Examples of such
services are TVoD, interactive TV, Network PVR, catch-up TV, start-over,
and many others.

In order to build on these services, highly time-consuming preprocessing
steps of TV content are required. TV content is generally available as
continuous streams of audio-visual frames. Useful TV programs and
interprograms (like commercials, trailers) are concatenated and
broadcasted without any precise and reliable flags that identify the
boundaries of useful segments and times of interest. Therefore, in order
to be useful, TV streams have to be macrosegmented and segments must be
classified and mined. Programs need to be described, structured,
summarized, classified following their genre and theme, indexed, stored,
and retrieved. Events of interest also need to be detected in programs.
Events may concern, for instance, goals and important actions in soccer
footage, and also each time a specific person appears on screen.

On the other hand, making use of TV program content raises important IPR
issues. Efficient techniques for copyidentification and also
watermarking are, therefore, required in order to trace the content.

The objective of this special issue is twofold. First, it aims at
highlighting the need for powerful and automatic audio and video
content-based techniques in building novel TV services. The second
objective is to present the recent advances in the field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*	TV stream structuring
*	Content-based audio/video analysis of TV content
*	TV program classification
*	Event detection in TV streams
*	Search engines for TV streams
*	Program summarization
*	Thematic and semantic clustering of TV programs
*	Human machine interfaces for browsing and retrieving TV content
*	Metadata extraction and mining from TV content
*	Duplicate video detection
*	Video and audio fingerprinting/watermarking

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's
Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/guidelines.html. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through
the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

	Manuscript Due:			June 1, 2010	
	First Round of Reviews:		September 1, 2010	
	Publication Date:			December 1, 2010	


Lead Guest Editor
Sid-Ahmed Berrani, Orange Labs, France Telecom, Rennes, France

Guest Editors
Patrick Gros, INRIA, The French National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control, Rennes, France
Shin'ichi Satoh, The National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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