[HDRI] Call For Papers - Special Issue on High Dynamic Range Imaging

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Call For Papers

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Special Issue on High Dynamic Range Imaging

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is an emerging technology, which has the 
potential to bring a new revolution in digital imaging. In HDRI, the image 
files record the actual colour and dynamic range of the real world scene 
rather than the limited gamut and dynamic range of the monitor or other 
reproduction media. This means that image processing, manipulation, 
display, recognition and other operations will no longer be limited by the 
number of bits used to represent each pixel. Therefore, HDRI will have 
widespread applications in digital cinema, digital photography, computer 
games, etc., and will open up many new possibilities, including 
dramatically improving the visual realism of digital photographs and 
videos, enabling the development of more accurate computational vision 
techniques, etc. Many in academic and industry have advocated that the 
future of digital photography and video is high dynamic range imaging. It 
is anticipated that in the next decade, the imaging industry will 
inevitably move to HDRI which will affect all aspects of the imaging 
pipeline, from capture (sensor, camera), to storage (compression coding) to 
reproduction (rendering, tone mapping, printing and display). New image 
processing and computational vision algorithms will also be developed 
around this new emerging imaging paradigm.

This special issue will highlight new research directions and the latest 
technological advancement in high dynamic range imaging and video by 
collecting papers in all relevant areas of HDRI. We invite researchers and 
practitioners to submit their original unpublished work to this special 
issue. We solicit papers dealing with high dynamic range imaging subtopics 
drawn from all stages of the high dynamic range imaging pipeline. This 
includes, but is not limited to, the following topics

·    Capture devices
·    Multi-exposure techniques
·    Response curve recovery
·    Noise
·    Ghost removal
·    Encoding for images and video
·    File formats for images and video
·    Applications of HDRI
·    Image-based lighting
·    Dynamic range reduction
·    HDR display devices
·    Validation of techniques and algorithms
·    Colour science
·    Colour appearance modeling
 
Information for Authors

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors 
available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual 
Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/. 
When submitting via this page, please select “HighDynamicRangeImaging” as 
the Article Type.

Important Dates

Deadline for Submission:        15 November, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:    15 March, 2007
Final papers due:        15 April, 2007
Planned Publication:    August 2007
 
Guest Editors    

Guoping Qiu (qiu at cs.nott.ac.uk)
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham 
Erik Reinhard (reinhard at cs.bris.ac.uk)
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol 
Graham Finlayson (graham at cmp.uea.ac.uk)
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia

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