[Mycolleagues] Special Issue CfP: Int. Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

**Apologies for cross-posting**

Advances in Video Coding for Broadcast Applications

Call for Papers

The growing diffusion of new services, like mobile television and video
communications, based on a variety of transmission platforms (3G, WiMax,
DVB-S/T/H, DMB, DTMB, Internet, etc.), emphasizes the need of advanced
video coding techniques able to meet the requirements of both the
receiving devices and the transmission networks. In this context, scalable
and layered coding techniques represent a promising solution when aimed at
enlarging the set of potential devices capable of receiving video content.
Video encoders' configuration must be tailored to the target devices and
services that range from high definition for powerful high-performance
home receivers to video coding for mobile handheld devices. Encoder
profiles and levels need to be tuned and properly configured to get the
best trade-off between resulting quality and data rate, in such a way as
to address the specific requirements of the delivery infrastructure. As a
consequence, it is possible to choose from the entire set of
functionalities of the same video coding standard in order to provide the
best performance for a specified service.
This special issue aims at promoting state-of-the-art research
contributions from all research areas either directly involved in or
contributing to improving the issues related to video coding technologies
for broadcast applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
•Video codec design methodology and architecture for broadcast applications
•Advanced video compression techniques for mobile broadcasting
•Content-based and object-based video coding
•Layered and scalable video coding for fixed and mobile broadcasting
•Mobile and wireless video coding
•Video trans-coding/trans-rating methods for broadcast applications
•Video rate control techniques
•Human visual system in distortion metrics, activity measure methods in
video sequences
•High definition video coding
•Distributed video coding in broadcast applications
•Multi-view coding-/-3D video coding
•Service enhancement through "cross-layer" optimisation
•Error resilience, intelligent robustness enhancement, and error
concealment for broadcast applications

Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia
Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit
an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal
Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the
following timetable:

Manuscript Due June 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews September 1, 2008
Publication Date December 1, 2008

Guest Editors:
•Susanna Spinsante, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Intelligenza Artificiale
e Telecomunicazioni, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona,
Italy
•Ennio Gambi, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Intelligenza Artificiale e
Telecomunicazioni, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona,
Italy
•Lorenzo Ciccarelli, Advanced Coding Group, Tandberg Television,
Southampton SO30 4DA, UK
•Andrea Lorenzo Vitali, ST-Microelectronics, 20041 Milano, Italy
•Jorge Sastre Martínez, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de
Telecomunicación, Technical University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
•Paul Salama, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis,
Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA

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