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CALL FOR PAPERS
Computers & Electrical Engineering (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/, SCI indexed, 2011 Impact Factor: 0.837)
Special Issue on Multimedia Processing for Mobile Applications

The online version of this CFP is available at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-for-papers/multimedia-processing-for-mobile-applications/

The tremendous growth of multimedia-capable mobile devices, along with recent advances in multimedia technology, has enabled the development of intelligent multimedia applications in a ubiquitous environment, such as smart phones, mobile TV, e-health, social networking, etc. These have led to a massive research efforts devoted to applying advanced multimedia techniques to mobile systems, including media acquisition, processing, analysis, and retrieval, plus exciting new opportunities, such as location-based multimedia service, video-based behavior analysis. This special issue aims to consolidate the recent research achievements addressing broad challenges in multimedia processing technologies with emphasis on mobile applications. Both original research papers and review articles would be of great interest.

*** Topics of interest (but are not limited to) ***

* Mobile multimedia processing systems, interactive media and immersive environments
* Mobile multimedia storage, retrieval and authentication
* Mobile multimedia analysis, segmentation, and tracking
* Mobile multimedia processing, registration, restoration, and enhancement
* Mobile multimedia applications in biomedical sciences, surveillance, social networking, ambient intelligence, etc

Submission guidelines
Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and novelty, as well as their suitability to the special issue. The submitted papers must describe original research which has not been published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Previously published conference papers should be clearly identified by the authors (at the submission stage) and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special issue. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the online submission and editorial system http://ees.elsevier.com/compeleceng/. Please select the Article Type as “SI-mobil”.

Important dates
Submission of papers: January 31, 2013
Communication of first round of review results: May 30, 2013
Submission of revised manuscript: August 30, 2013
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2013
Final paper due: March 30, 2014
Publication date: September, 2014