Subject: CfP: Real-time Video over the Internet

From: "M. Reha Civanlar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:24:02 -0400

Special Issue Of Image Communication (a EUROSIP Journal)
on "Real-time Video over the Internet"

Transmission of real-time video over the Internet is becoming an important
part
of many multimedia applications. The availability of prototype systems that
can
deliver TV quality video using the Internet Protocol (IP) over intranets
suggests
that a real Internet TV may be feasible in the near future as higher
bandwidth
networks are more widely deployed. This will revolutionize the way we watch
TV
by making it possible for every user to have a private TV studio from which
specialized programs can be narrow-cast to interested viewers in the global
community.

To achieve this goal, the video compression algorithms is being revised or
redesigned to address the special requirements imposed by the Internet.
These
requirements include robust operation under high packet losses, delays and
jitter;
providing capabilities for multipoint transmission; coping with the
heterogeneous
nature of today’s networks and adapting to varying network conditions. In
addition
to the compression techniques, the transport and the session control
protocols
play a very important role in designing usable real-time video systems over
the
Internet. Moreover, the future designer need to be completely aware of both
signal
processing and network protocols aspects and use a combination of the two in
order
to design successful systems.

The special issue aims at providing the research and development community
with a
collection of original contributions describing the state of the art systems
as
well as results of new research and developments on the real-time Internet
Video.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

- Network adaptive video coding and transport
- Layered coding for error resilience and heteregenous networks
- Packet loss resilient coding and transport techniques
- Transcoding for heterogeneous networks
- Packet loss concealment techniques
- Statistical multiplexing for greater network utilization
- Traffic shaping for efficient network and terminal utilization
- Interstream synchronization for multiple video presentations
- Rate control techniques for VBR video
- Terminal and server architectures for real-time video over the Internet
- Implementations and commercial applications
- Telepresence - video cameras on the internet
- Developments in the International Standards, e.g. MPEG, ITU, IETF.

Important Deadlines:

Submission:  1 September 1998
Acceptance Decision: 31 January 1999
Publication: May/June 1999

Please submit contributions to Guest Editors:

Dr. M. Reha Civanlar
Technology Leader, AT&T Labs - Research
100 Schultz Drive, 3-213
Red Bank, NJ 07701
U.S.A
Phone: +1 732 345 3305
Fax: +1 732 345 3033
E-mail: [email-masked]
Web: http://www.research.att.com/info/mrc

Prof. A. Murat Tekalp
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Center for Electronic Imaging Systems
Hopeman 204
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0126
U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (716) 275-3774
Fax: +1 (716) 473-0486
E-mail: [email-masked]
Web: http://www.ee.rochester.edu/~tekalp/