CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing Special Issue on

“Smart Cameras for Real-Time Image and Video Processing”

Smart cameras and smart camera networks are becoming fundamental pieces for intelligent environments, from homes to buildings and cities, progressively inserting themselves into our lives. From smart surveillance systems composed of a multitude of smart camera nodes to small wearable cameras able to render a visual log of our daily activities, these devices interact with each other and with a wealth of other smart things, and of course the Internet. Thanks to the convergence of relevant technologies such as imaging sensors, embedded systems, video analytics and deep learning, this field is currently undergoing a rapid development. This technology opens the door to many application domains including video surveillance, autonomous driving, robots and drones, smart factory and industry 4.0, health monitoring and care, to name a few. Real-time image and video processing is a key requirement for most of these applications.

The goal of this special issue is to present and highlight the latest developments in the smart camera community with the focus being on the real-time aspects of image and video processing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Systems for real-time image and video processing

• Parallel processing hardware for real-time image and video processing

• HW/SW co-design for real-time embedded vision

• Reconfigurable architectures for real-time image and video processing

• Camera network architectures for real-time image and video processing

• Real-time embedded vision programming

• Real-time distributed video analytics

• Resource management and task allocation for real-time image and video processing

• Data aggregation and information fusion for real-time image and video processing

• Collaborative real-time object recognition and extraction

• Real-time visual landmark localization

• Deep learning on smart cameras for real-time image/video processing

• Transforming real-time embedded vision through deep learning

• Distributed learning algorithms in real-time visual sensor networks

• Real-time machine learning technology implementation on smart cameras

• Real-time image/video processing for smart environments (smart cities, smart home, smart health, smart factory)

• Real-time image/video processing for driver assistance and autonomous driving   

   

   

Important Dates:

• Paper submissions due: 30 Nov, 2019

• Initial decision notifications: 1 March, 2020

• Revised manuscripts due: 1 May, 2020

• Final decision notifications: 1 July, 2020

• Print publication: As per the journal policy 

Submission Guidelines:

• Authors from academia and industry working on the above research topics are invited to submit original manuscripts that have not been published and are not currently under review by other journals or conferences. All potential authors are requested to serve as reviewers in the peer-review process for manuscripts submitted to this special issue.

• Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors provided on the online submission page of the JRTIP at https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx. All the papers will be peer-reviewed according to the JRTIP reviewing procedure.

• Manuscripts are requested according to the Instructions for Authors provided on the online submission page of the JRTIP at https://www.editorialmanager.com/rtip/default.aspx. All submitted papers will be checked for matching the special issue theme and will be peer-reviewed according to the JRTIP reviewing procedures.

• Note: When submitting manuscripts to this special issue, at the step of “Choose Article Type”, please choose: “SI: Smart Cameras for Real-Time Image and Video Processing”.

• Special issues are reviewed on a “fast track” basis. Prior to sending full paper submissions, it is highly recommended to query the appropriateness of submissions by sending a 100-200 word abstract to the guest editors whose contact information are provided below.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Caifeng Shan

Philips Research, Netherlands

caifeng.shan@philips.com

Prof. Victor Manuel Brea
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

victor.brea@usc.es

Prof. Senem Velipasalar
Syracuse University, USA

svelipas@syr.edu