CALL FOR PAPERS
Aims and Scope

Real-Time Imaging is a new multidisciplinary peer-reviewed technical journal that will serve as a convergence point for researchers, technologists and practitioners in fundamental real-time imaging technologies and their application areas. It is intended that this journal will be the first place that new fundamental and practical advances in real-time imaging are unveiled.

Examples of areas to be covered include;

o image compression
o target acquisition and tracking
o remote control and sensing
o image enhancement and filtering
o networking for real-time imaging
o advanced computer architectures
o computer vision
o optical measurement and inspection
o simulation

These technologies are critical in such applications as

o robotics
o virtual reality
o multimedia
o medical imaging
o industrial inspection
o high-definition television
o advanced simulators
o computer-integrated manufacturing
o intelligent vehicles

The journal will focus on papers of an applied nature although survey and theoretical papers with practical results are welcome. In order to maintain the central focus of the journal and to encourage a cross-disciplinary emphasis, the journal solicits papers that involve systems or technologies that are relevant in at least two of the stated applications areas. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed.

Audience

Real-Time Imaging is aimed at industrial, academic and government scientists and practitioners who are researching and developing real-time imaging technologies and applications. The journal provides a mechanism for researchers to keep abreast of new applications and industrial needs, and for practitioners to learn of new available technologies.

Editors-in-Chief

Phillip A. Laplante, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, 07490 USA.

Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 07102 USA

Editorial board

An international group of board members has been appointed to represent major disciplines, and manage the rapid review of papers.

David P. Casasent, Ctr. for Excellence in Optical Data Processing, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

E.R. Davies, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey UK (European Co-ordinator)

Edward Dougherty, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Murray Eden, Director of Biomedical Engineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Borko Furht, Department of Computer Sceince and Engineering, Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Madan Gupta, Intelligent Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Wolfgang Halang, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Fern Universitaet, Germany

Robert Haralick, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Gabor Herman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Tadao Ichikawa, Faculty of Engineering, University of Hiroshima, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Hanjin Lee, Daewoo Electronics, Seoul, Korea

Bob Loce, Corporate Research and Technology, Xerox Corporation, USA

Mihai Nadin, MINDesign, USA

Paolo Nesi, Dept of Systems and Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

Nikolay Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Mike Rodd, University of Wales at Swansea, UK

Azriel Rosenfeld, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Div Sinha, City University of New York - Staten Island, USA

Hartwig Steusloff, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany

Brian J. Thompson, University of Rochester, USA

Stephen S. Wilson, Applied Intelligent Systems, Inc., Ann Arbor, USA

Real-Time Imaging will be published by Academic Press in six bimonthly issues, commencing in February 1995. Free sample copies, when available, can be obtained from;

Academic Press
Marketing Department
24-28 Oval Road
London NW1 7DX

Tel: (0) 71 482 2893
Fax: (0) 71 267 0362

Email: rti@apuk.co.uk

Editorial Policy

Each original article will be independently reviewed by at least two appropriate referees. On average, a decision will be reached within 4-5 weeks of the receipt of the manuscript. To avoid delay, e-mail will be used wherever possible. Publication will follow within 12 to 16 weeks of the acceptance date, assuming the prompt return of proofs.

All six issues in the first year will be sent to subscribers to CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing.

Real-Time Imaging

Real-Time Imaging welcomes original papers in fundamental real- time imaging technologies and their application areas. The journal will focus on papers of an applied nature although survey and theoretical papers with practical results are welcome.

Areas covered include image compression, target acquisition and tracking, remote control and sensing, image enhancement and filtering, networking for real-time imaging, advanced computer architectures, computer vision, optical measurement and inspection, and simulation

Emphasis is placed on the application of real-time imaging in the following technologies; robotics, virtual reality, multimedia, medical imaging, industrial inspection, high-definition television, advanced simulators, computer-integrated manufacturing, and intelligent vehicles.

Manuscript submission

Authors should send a copy of their paper in LaTex or ASCII or other readable sources to jrti@fdu.edu

Alternatively, one original manuscript and three complete copies should be sent to;

Alexander Stoyenko
Real-Time Imaging
PO Box 668
Millwood
New York 10546
USA.

The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original and has not been submitted in equivalent form for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts are accepted for review on the understanding that all persons listed as authors have given their approval for the submission, and that any person cited as a source of personal communication has approved such citation. To speed handling, please supply your telephone, fax and e-mail address, together with your mailing address. Articles and other materials published in Real-Time Imaging represent the opinions of the authors, and should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the Editors or Publisher.

Copyright permission

Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, exclusive copyright in the article shall be assigned to the publisher. The publisher will not put any limitation on the personal freedom of the author to use material contained in the paper in other works.

Manuscript preparation

If the manuscript is being submitted in paper form, it should be typewritten, double-spaced with one inch margins on all sides, using 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, one side only. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, and illustrations, tables and listings should be attached separately at the end with an appropriate caption list. One illustration or table should appear per page. Articles should be concise and in English.

An abstract must accompany each manuscript and should not normally exceed 200-500 words. It should be intelligible to the general reader without reference to the main text. No references or abbreviations should be used in the abstract.

Style

The journal will use the style described for IEEE transactions

Tables and figures

All figures must be cited in the text and the legends should be numbered consecutively with arabic numerals. Legends should be sufficiently detailed to allow understanding without reference to the text.

One colour illustration per paper is permitted.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used sparingly and indicated by consecutive numbers in the text.

Acknowledgments should be included at the end of the text, and not as footnotes.

References

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text in square brackets. If cited in tables or figure legends, references are to be numbered according to position in the manuscript. In the reference list, all authors should be cited.

Corrections

Authors are expected to correct and return page proofs to the Publisher within a week of receipt. Authors are responsible for the costs of changes, additions or corrections other than the printer's or publisher's errors, although the publisher may waive such charges.

Reprints

Authors will receive fifty offprints free of charge.

Submission of manuscripts on disk

Manuscripts on disk are also welcomed. Please supply a disk prepared on PC compatible or Apple Macintosh computers, along with the hard copy print out. Please ensure that the final version of the hard copy and the file on disk are identical. 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" sized disks and most word processing packages are acceptable, although any version of WordPerfect and Microsoft Word are preferred.