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EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing

  Special Issue on

  Analysis/Synthesis Methods for Wired and Wireless
  Multimedia On-Demand Applications

Multimedia on-demand applications offer diverse services and
content, and promise to be a lasting success in professional
and consumer markets. The impact, however, of wired and
especially wireless versions of these applications has so far
been limited due to lack of bandwidth, problematic quality of
service, high cost of media production and transmission, and
the constrained resources of user devices. Compact data
representation, replacement, and reconstruction at desired
quality levels by analysis/synthesis methods can address these
limitations by providing solutions for improving compression
efficiency, increasing content quality, and adapting the
content for various platforms.

In the context of typical multimedia on-demand scenarios
(encode content once, transmit and decode many times),
analysis/synthesis methods involve several or all of the
following components: content analysis, relevancy analysis,
partial content removal and/or replacement, reconstruction
of the replaced content by synthesis, augmentation of the
content by synthesis (e.g., video background analysis,
replacement, and synthesis; audio and video advertisements
analysis, replacement, and synthesis; synthesis of
personalized footage).

This special issue will focus on such analysis/synthesis
methods for multimedia on-demand services. Original
contributions are invited on the following:

o Methods for mono/multimedia analysis and mono/multimedia
  synthesis (e.g., audio analysis; joint audio-video analysis;
  image synthesis; joint animation and text synthesis;
  audio analysis for image synthesis; and video analysis for
  text and audio synthesis)

o Low level, intermediate level, and high level analysis
  methods (e.g., low level: texture, shape, color, and motion
  feature extraction; intermediate level: pitch, linear
  predictor coefficients extraction; high level: semantic
  analysis, relevancy analysis)

o Procedural, nonprocedural, and hybrid synthesis methods
  (e.g., procedural: specialized emulators for classes of
  texture, shape, and sound; nonprocedural: statistical
  sampling synthesis methods)

o Fixed/variable (ontogenetic) architectures for analysis and
  synthesis methods (e.g., growing structures,
  shrinking structures)

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 o Augmentation for multimedia on-demand
 o Compression for multimedia on-demand
 o Low-complexity spatial and temporal scalability
 o Error concealment for multimedia on-demand
 o Audio-in-video and video-in-video data hiding
 o Latency reduction in multicast on-demand systems
 o Efficient use of available quality-of-service guarantees

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format
described at the journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript
tracking system at http://www.mstracking.com/asp/, according
to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            July 1, 2004
  Acceptance Notification   November 1, 2004
  Final Manuscript Due      February 1, 2005
  Publication Date          3rd Quarter, 2005

GUEST EDITORS:

Adriana Dumitras, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California,
CA 95014, USA; adrianad@ieee.org

Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10115, USA;
eleft@ee.columbia.edu

Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu 34450,
Istanbul, Turkey; rcivanlar@ku.edu.tr

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