Special Issue of the JOURNAL OF REAL TIME IMAGING
Academic Press

on "Real Time Motion Analysis"

The performing motion analysis in real-time is becoming mandatory for many applications. For this reason, several researchers are studying, parallel architectures and special chips for real time motion analysis. On these basis many new opportunities for new applications are possible, and many others could be fully exploited -- infeasible systems with traditional techniques can now be implemented. Several examples can be observed in the fields of cinema, virtual reality, medical imaging, industrial inspection, etc. -- i.e., in most of the applicative topics of the journal. In most of these applications, the real time synthesis of actors animated by the estimated motions and deformations is needed. For this reason, the integration among motion analysis and synthesis techniques assume a high relevance on quality of results. Practitioners as well as researches needs to be informed to these new techniques and to their possible applications.

The special issue will focus on, and not only on, the following topics:

- Low-level motion estimation techniques.
- Object tracking.
- Dedicated hardware for motion estimation.
- Non-rigid and articulated objects motion analysis and synthesis (e.g., cinema, animation).
- Methods and architectures for robot and autonomous navigation.
- Human head/facial motions/deformations analysis and synthesis (video-conference, video-phones, cinema, animation).
- Hand gestures analysis and synthesis.

Papers should present results which can be useful for technologists and practitioners. Basic researches on specific low-level techniques which ensure real-time performances, and experiences in developing specific applications are welcome.

Manuscript submission must satisfy the rules of the journal for what concerns paper's originality, copyright permission, manuscript preparation.

The deadline for the submission of 4 copies in the journal style is the 15th of september and the special issue will be most probably published in the mid of 1996. For additional information please contact the Guest Editor Dr. Ing. P. Nesi, Dept of Systems and Informatics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
If you are willing to referee papers for this issue, please send a note with research interest to the Guest Editor.