With the growth of the Internet and developments in imaging technology,
very large digital image archives have been created and used in numerous
applications.
Together with the increase in the number of pictorial archives,
demands are also growing for methodologies and techniques
to store and retrieve pictorial entities from large image archives.
It is known that colour provides powerful information for data analysis,
recognition and
visualization.
As a consequence,
colour has become a center of interest
as a powerful tool in content-based image retrieval,
opening many new directions of research and technology.
TOPICS
In this special issue, we focus on the use of colour
in the exploration and visualization of image data
repositories for the purpose of content-based image access.
As long as the primary focus is on colour,
the special issue will include the following topics:
Colour feature extraction
Colour image filtering
Colour image segmentation
Colour models and spaces
Colour-texture models
Combining colour and shape information
Colour invariance and colour constancy
Chromatic adaptation
Handling shadows and illumination
Physics-based matching
Perceptual-based indexing and retrieval
Compression of colour image content
Colour image indexing
Colour image classification
Colour-based feature selection
Applications (face, trademark, flowers etc.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: December 1, 2002
Notification of Initial Acceptance: May 15, 2003
Paper in Final Form: September 15, 2003
Publication Date: First quarter of 2004
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines and standards of the
Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal and submitted in electronic
or hardcopy form.
For an electronic submission, submit your paper in pdf-format to
gevers@science.uva.nl.
For a hardcopy submission, please send six copies of the paper to:
Dr. Theo Gevers,
Faculty of Science,
University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 403,
1098 SJ Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact one of the guest editors:
Dr. Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, gevers@science.uva.nl.
Prof. Graham Finlayson, University of East Anglia, UK, graham@sys.uea.ac.uk.
Dr. Raimondo Schettini, Italian National Research Council, Italy, schettini@disco.unimib.it.