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Call for Papers
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Special Issue on Visual Signal Processing for Wireless Networks
Recent development of mobile computing technology and wireless communications brought into focus a new
paradigm of visual signal transmission via wireless channels. With the emergence of smartphones and continued
growth of laptops, netbooks and tablets, there is a huge increase in a number of mobile devices able to support
new video applications. However, conveying visual information to mobile devices over cellular or mobile
broadband networks confronts many challenges, such as limited channel bandwidth, constrained computational
and energy resources, high required quality and reliability, or tight latency requirements. This special issue is
aiming at providing a platform for discussion on recent research in visual signal processing for wireless
networks and possible emerging techniques with a potential to further improve the performance, or to lead to
new solutions, algorithms or applications.
We invite original and unpublished research contributions relevant to the following areas:
* Visual coding and transmission techniques for wireless transmission
Coding and transmission of visual (image, video or multiple view video) signals for wireless technology that
take into account specific characteristics and requirements of modern wireless communications, such as
time-varying channel constraints, streaming to clients with heterogeneous connectivity conditions, limited
power consumption, guaranteed quality of reconstruction, user-interactivity and transmission latency.
* Theoretical foundations
Contributions to theoretical foundations of visual signal processing for wireless communications. Specific
topics of interest include distributed signal processing, compressive sensing and wireless visual sensor
networks.
* Adaptation of video coding algorithms to advanced wireless networks
Design of new visual compression, retrieval and recognition algorithms and adaptation and applications of
existing ones to actual advanced wireless communication technologies and protocols, such as WiMAX,
WLAN, MIMO, LTE, 4G and beyond.
* Applications
Implementing the solutions from visual signal processing for wireless communications into specific
applications, such as visual surveillance and monitoring, video-on-demand, free viewpoint television, mobile
multimedia analytics, etc. Also, extensions to popular frameworks, such as smart cities, mass data sensing,
sending and processing, machine-to-machine communications, health monitoring, smart grid and energy
monitoring, environmental monitoring, transportation and traffic monitoring, biomedical applications, etc.,
with a focus on visual processing algorithms for wireless communications.
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:
First review completed:
Revised manuscript due:
Second review completed:
Final manuscript due:

November 1, 2013
February 1, 2014
April 1, 2014
May 15, 2014
July 1, 2014

Guest Editors:
Vladan Velisavljevic, University of Bedfordshire, UK, Vladan.Velisavljevic@beds.ac.uk
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Télécom ParisTech, France, Pesquet@telecom-paristech.fr
Branka Vucetic, University of Sydney, Australia, Branka.Vucetic@sydney.edu.au
Amy R. Reibman, AT&T Labs, New Jersey, USA, Amy@research.att.com
Chenyang Yang, Beihang University, China, CYYang@buaa.edu.cn

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