Content Gazette - November 2012 - 34

Call for Papers

IEEE Signal Processing Society

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Special Issue on Video Coding: HEVC and beyond
Currently, video communication represents about half of the entire network traffic, with tendency for
further increase. Therefore, techniques aiming at efficient compression of video are of paramount
importance; an example is how to potentially avoid the "spectrum crunch" which is foreseen due to
increasing traffic in mobile networks. Substantial amount of effort have been made in this area during the
recent past years, which resulted in the new generation of video compression standard, called High
Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). For similar quality, the current architecture of HEVC only consumes
half of the transmission bandwidth of the previous AVC/H.264 standard. The compression capability of
HEVC establishes a new benchmark both in video and still image coding. This special issue is intended to
provide a forum for recent research in HEVC standardization and possible add-on techniques, which would
have potential to further improve its performance, or could even be used for future developments beyond
HEVC.
We invite original and unpublished research contributions relevant to the following areas:
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High coding efficiency techniques
Techniques proposed in the course of standardization, either relevant in the context of the HEVC
standard or methods that have potential future development of video coding technology.
Video coding with high visual fidelity
Whereas conventional video codecs often target for optimization of PSNR, this does not necessarily
match the visual quality related to human perception. The special issue solicits new techniques to
improve visual quality, either in the context of HEVC or beyond.
Parallel visual signal coding techniques
Visual signal coding and communication must meet the challenges of processing resource
constraints. Papers with new video coding architectures are particularly suitable for parallel coding
implementation.

Analysis and synthesis coding
Visual information analysis before and during the coding process showed the future trends of visual
signal coding. This special issue solicits emerging ideas and techniques of analysis and synthesis
coding.
Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for
information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted using the Manuscript Central system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the standard
IEEE process.
Manuscript submission due:
January 10, 2013
First review completed:
March 10, 2013
Revised manuscript due:
April 10, 2013
Second review completed:
June 10 , 2013
Final manuscript due:
June 25 , 2013
Guest editors:
Yun He, Tsinghua University, hey@tsinghua.edu.cn
Joern Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, ostermann@tnt.uni-hannover.de
Marek Domański, Poznań University of Technology, domanski@et.put.poznan.pl
Oscar C. Au, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, eeau@ust.hk
Nam Ling, Santa Clara University, nling@scu.edu
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