Pattern Recognition Letters
Special Issue on Depth Image Analysis

Guest editors:
Dmitry Goldgof, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA (goldgof@cse.usf.edu)
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Münster, Germany (xjiang@math.uni-muenster.de)
Olga Bellon, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil (olga@ufpr.br)
Takeshi Oishi, University of Tokyo, Japan (oishi@cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Call for papers

3D depth data has turned out to be a key information source for
solving a large number of challenging applications. In the past
substantial advances have been demonstrated to process, analyze, and
interpret depth data. Through the recent development in consumer depth
cameras, in particular the low-cost Kinect, a new era of depth data
analysis emerges. Affordable depth cameras are changing the landscape
of computer vision and related research fields, with profound impact
far beyond the consumer electronics. The purpose of this special
issue is to timely address the challenges in advanced depth
acquisition techniques, processing and analyzing depth data, and
solving novel and challenging applications. It will bring together
researchers from multiple subfields to discuss the major research
problems and opportunities of the emerging depth camera revolution.

The scope of this special issue includes, but not limited to, the
following areas:
* Depth acquisition techniques
* Processing of depth data
* Analysis of depth data
* Fusion of depth data with other modalities
* 3D object recognition
* 3D shape modeling and retrieval
* 3D biometrics
* Human action recognition in depth data
* Augmented reality / mixed reality
* Biomedical applications of depth data
* Other applications of depth data analysis
* Depth datasets
* Depth data visualization
The submission deadline is March 17, 2013. Details will be announced
later. Please feel free to contact the guest editors in case of
questions.