CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on “Multimedia in Ecology and Environment” Ecological Informatics Journal |
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013 |
| We invite authors to contribute with high quality papers that will stimulate the research community on the most recent methods for the processing, interpretation, and visualization of multimedia data recorded for monitoring ecological systems, with particular attention to animal and plant identification and classification and pollution monitoring. |
(see the Journal: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-informatics/) With the recent progress in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, the production of multimedia data has become an easy task. This has resulted in a huge amount of multimedia available on the web, in broadcast data streams, or in personal and professional databases. This explosion of multimedia data has created the urgent need for efficient organization, browsing and retrieval tools. It has also generated new possibilities for exploiting multimedia data in diverse and specialized applications that can significantly gain from the analysis and understanding of such data. Whilst a large number of multimedia analysis and understanding techniques have been developed specifically for investigating events and behaviors in human-centered applications, such as sports and surveillance, relatively little attention has been paid to the understanding of ecology-related multimedia content. On the other hand, ecology is nowadays being considered an interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive science and as such discovering, integrating and analyzing heterogeneous data are of key importance for researchers to address complex questions ranging from single particles to animals to the biosphere. This has led to a proliferation of multimedia data content in the last ten years: for instance, the EcoGrid project has collected many Terabytes of data (videos, images and audio recordings) for monitoring forest animals as well as fish by the coral reefs in Taiwan. The wide range of cameras continuously capturing birds nests, wolf, badger, fox and also the continuous collection of multimedia data for pollution monitoring are yet other important examples. The automated analysis of such multimedia data poses new challenges, and the results of such analysis are of great interest to investigators such as biologists in their strive towards monitoring and analyzing the natural environment, promoting its preservation, and understanding the behavior and interactions of the living organisms (insects, animals, etc.) that are part of it. We invite authors to contribute with high quality papers that will stimulate the research community on the most recent methods for the processing, interpretation, and visualization of multimedia data recorded for monitoring ecological systems, with particular attention to animal and plant identification and classification and pollution monitoring. Submissions are encouraged, but not limited, to the following topics:
Submission Instructions: Submissions to the special issue must include new, unpublished, original research. Papers must be original and have not been published or submitted elsewhere. All papers must be written in English. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ecoinf/ according to the submission schedule. After login the authors should choose the Special Issue “Multimedia in Ecology” in the "Choose Article Type" section. All submissions will undergo initial screening by the Editors for fit to the theme of the Special Issue and prospects for successfully negotiating the review process. Important Dates:
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