Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Special Issue: Resource-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming

Modern multimedia applications such as mobile television, movie on demand, IPTV, multiview video, distributed video conferencing, streaming and gaming over wired and wireless networks have stimulated research for new technologies in the area of multimedia architectures, processing, and networking. Current communications networks exhibit a wide range of capabilities, including various architectures, throughputs, quality of service and protocols; interconnection of different networks provides several advantages, but also poses major technical challenges. On the other hand, users employ heterogeneous terminals with a wide range of computational and display capabilities, energy resources, features, accessibilities, and user preferences. The variety of possible scenarios has escalated the need for efficient and effective techniques for streaming and adapting compressed videos in such heterogeneous environments. Considerable amounts of research activities in industry and academia have been devoted to developing the enabling technologies that are needed to make this vision reality.

The goal of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of state-of-the-art research in the field of video streaming, emphasizing the two key aspects of adaptation and resource-awareness. In particular, papers are solicited mainly, although not exclusively, in the following areas:

Bandwidth and Resource Adaptive Video Streaming - Optimization of energy resources for video streaming - Platform awareness for low-power and embedded devices - Dynamic video content adaptation - Cross-layer optimization for video streaming - Cooperative video streaming - Peer-to-peer video streaming

Resource Adaptive Encoding/Decoding Algorithms - Scalable video coding (quality, spatial, temporal and computation scalability) - Reconfigurable video coding - Distributed video coding

Adaptation to Network Errors and Losses - Error resilience and concealment for video coding and communication - Source, channel and network coding for error-resilient video streaming

Applications and Systems - IPTV: Video broadcasting and multicasting - Multi-view and interactive video - Video-anywhere.

Guest editors:

Enrico Magli Dept. of Electronics Politecnico di Torino, Italy enrico.magli@polito.it

Chia-Wen Lin Dept. Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan cwlin@ee.nthu.edu.tw

Deepak Turaga IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA turaga@us.ibm.com

Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland pascal.frossard@epfl.ch

Important dates:

First call for papers April 2007 Manuscript due December 1, 2007 Acceptance notification March 1, 2008 Final manuscript due April 15, 2008 Publication date July 2008