>>> EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Advanced Video Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond Call for Papers The recently developed video coding standard H.264/MPEG-4 AVC significantly outperforms previous standards in terms of coding efficiency at reasonable implementation complexity and costs in VLSI realization. Real-time H.264 coders will be available very soon. Many applications, such as surveillance systems with multiple video channel recording, multiple channel video services for mobile devices, will benefit from the H.264 coder due to its excellent coding efficiency. The new video coding technology introduces new opportunities for video services and applications. However, advanced video coding is only one aspect for successful video services and applications. To enable successful new applications, additional technologies to cope with time-varying channel behaviors and diverse usage characteristics are needed. For serving multiple videos, some extended designs such as joint rate-distortion optimization and scheduling of multiple parallel video sessions are also required to achieve fair and robust video storage and delivery. For video surveillance systems, intelligent video content analysis and scalabilities in video quality, resolution, and display area, coupled with wireless transmission, can offer new features for the application. Finally, computational complexity reduction and low-power design of video codecs as well as content protection of video streams are particularly important for mobile devices. The goal of this special issue is to discuss state-of-the-art techniques to enable various video services and applications on H.264/AVC technologies and their new developments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Video over DVB-H o Error resilience of video over mobile networks o Video delivery in multiuser environments o Rate-distortion optimization for multiple video sources o Multipath delivery of video streams o Optimization of video codecs for quality improvement and power reduction o Security and content protection of video streams o Transcoding techniques o Scalable video o Other advanced video coding technologies o Video quality measures Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com.eg/asp/ 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 August 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification November 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due March 1, 2006 Publication Date 3rd Quarter, 2006 GUEST EDITORS: Jar-Ferr Yang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; jfyang@ee.ncku.edu.tw Hsueh-Ming Hang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan; hmhang@mail.ncku.edu.tw Eckehard Steinbach, Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany; Eckehard.Steinbach@tum.de Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; sun@ee.washington.edu <<< Please visit http://www.hindawi.com.eg/asp/ 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://www.hindawi.com.eg/remove.asp?j=asp&e=dolinsky@gsu.by >>>