Call for Papers
Special Issue on Animal and Insect Behaviour Understanding in Image Sequences
Springer - EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
http://jivp.eurasipjournals.com/sites/10235/pdf/H9111_A4_2.pdf
Deadline for submissions: January 15th, 2013
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This special issue aims at reporting on the most recent approaches and tools
for the identification,
interpretation and description of animal and insect behaviour in image
sequences. It specially focuses
on the interactions between (i) computer vision theories and methods, (ii)
artificial intelligence
techniques for the high-level analysis of animal and insect behaviours and
(iii) multimedia semantics
methods for indexing and retrieval of animal and insect behaviour detected
in images and videos.
With the widespread use of video imaging devices, the study of the behaviour
by exploiting visual data has become
very popular. The visual information gathered from image sequences is
extremely useful to understand the
behaviour of the different objects in the scene, as well as how they
interact each other or with the
surrounding environment. However, whilst a large number of video analysis
techniques have been developed
specifically for investigating events and behaviours in human-centered
applications, very little attention
has been paid to the understanding of other live organisms, such as animals
and insects, although huge amount
of video data are continuously recorded; e.g. the EcoGrid project or the
wide range of nest cams continuously
monitor, respectively, underwater reef and birds nests (there exist also
variants focusing on wolves, badgers,
foxes etc.). Moreover, the few existing approaches deal only with controlled
environments (e.g. labs, cages, etc.)
and as such they cannot be used in real-life applications.
The automated analysis of video data in real-life environments poses several
challenges for computer vision
researchers because of the uncontrolled scene conditions and the nature of
the targets to be analysed whose
3D motion tends to be erratic, with sudden direction and speed variations,
and appearance and non-rigid shape
can undergo quick changes. Computer Vision tools able to analyse those
complex environments are of great
interest to biologists in their striving towards analyzing the natural
environment, promoting its preservation,
and understanding the behaviour and interactions of the living organisms
(in- sects, animals, etc.) that are
part of it.
We invite authors to contribute high quality papers that will stimulate the
research community on the
use image and video analysis methods to be applied in real-life environments
for animal and insect behaviour
monitoring and understanding.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Living organism detection, tracking, classification and recognition in
image sequences
- Animals and Insects dynamic shape analysis
- Visual surveillance and Event Detection in Ecological Applications
- Stereo Vision and Structure from motion of living organisms
- Event and Activity Recognition in Ecological Videostreams
- Animal and insect behaviour analysis and articulated models
- Animal and insect motion and trajectory analysis
- High-level behaviour recognition and understanding
- Semantic Region Identification in animal and insect populated scenarios
- Categorization and Natural Scene Understanding
- Natural Scene and Object-Scene Interaction Understanding
- Ontologies and semantic annotation of animal and insect motion in video
content
Submission Instructions
Submissions to the special issue must include new, unpublished, original
research.
Papers must be original and have not been published or submitted elsewhere.
All
papers must be written in English. The submissions will be reviewed in a
double-blind
procedure by at least three reviewers. The papers must contain no
information identifying
the author(s) or their organization(s).
Before submission authors should carefully read over the Instructions for
Authors, which are located at
http://jivp.eurasipjournals.com/authors/instructions .
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the SpringerOpen
submission system at http://jivp.eurasipjournals.com/manuscript according to
the submission schedule.
They should choose the correct Special Issue in the 'sections' box upon
submitting. In addition, they should
specify the manuscript as a submission to the 'Special Issue on Animal and
Insect Behaviour Understanding in
Image Sequences' in the cover letter. All submissions will undergo initial
screening by the Editors for
fit to the theme of the Special Issue and prospects for successfully
negotiating the review process.
Important Dates
15 Jan 2013: Manuscript submission due
15 April 2013: Acceptance/Revision notification
30 May 2013: Revised manuscript due
30 July 2013: Final acceptance notication
15 August 2013: Final manuscript due:
September 2013: Tentative publication
Guest Editors
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Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy
Email: cspampin@dieei.unict.it
Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy
Email: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Bas Boom, University of Edinburgh, UK
Email: bboom@inf.ed.ac.uk
Margrit Betke, Boston University, USA
Email: betke@bu.edu
Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK
Email: rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk
Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Email: bmezaris@iti.gr
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