>>> EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission Call for Papers Increasing heterogeneity of networks and diversity of user capabilities have determined and sustained a strong interest in robust coding of visual content and flexible adaptation of the bitstreams to network and user conditions. As a result, several methods for robust coding and transmission have been proposed that include multiple description coding, motion-compensated subband video coding, joint source-channel coding, integrated compression and error control, and adaptation/transcoding solutions. These typically increase transmission robustness and network- and user-awareness by using scalability, error resilience, and adaptivity at little or sometimes no extra cost in coding efficiency. However, the performance of these methods is affected by the diversity of, and complex interactions within, the visual content. Analysis methods can improve the performance of robust methods for coding and transmission by providing solutions to account for vastly different characteristics of the synthetic and natural, still and moving, 2D, 3D, and 4D pictures, complex interactions between natural and synthetic data, and security requirements related to the visual content, to achieve optimal or near-optimal robust solutions. Visual analysis methods provide low-level and high-level descriptions of the content in terms of their spatial and temporal characteristics. They have been shown to improve compression efficiency when applied to frame-type decisions, coding parameters selections, mode decisions, rate control, and background modelling. The application of visual analysis methods within robust coding and transmission frameworks such as those mentioned earlier yields content-aware error resilient solutions, improves prioritization of the visual content for coding and transmission, and enables the application of content security methods to the visual content. This special issue will focus on such seamless integration of visual analysis methods in, or joint design with, robust compression and transmission solutions. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Multiple description coding methods o Motion-compensated subband coding methods o Joint source-channel design methods o Robust motion compensation methods o Transcoding methods with error control o Error resilience and error concealment methods o Extraction methods for robust data representations o Prioritization methods for coding and transmission o Data hiding methods for error detection and resync o Content protection methods for robust transmission o Complexity scalability and adaptation methods 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 journal's web site, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due March 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification July 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due October 1, 2005 Publication Date 1st Quarter, 2006 GUEST EDITORS: Batrice Pesquet-Popescu, Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Tlcommunications, Paris 75634, France; pesquet@tsi.enst.fr Adriana Dumitras, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA 95014, USA; adrianad@ieee.org Benot Macq, Universit Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; macq@tele.ucl.ac.be <<< Please visit http://asp.hindawi.com/ for more information about the journal. Request a free sample copy of the journal at the journal's web site. EURASIP JASP publishes as many issues as required based on the flow of high-quality manuscripts and current scheduled special issues. To submit a proposal of a special issue, please contact the journal's editor-in-chief. In order not to receive any future "EURASIP JASP" alert messages, please click on the following link: http://alert.hindawi.com/remove.asp?j=asp&e=dolinsky@gsu.by >>>