2012 - Elsevier Applied Soft Computing SI on "Swarm Intelligence in Image and Video Processing" (SCI indexed, IF: 2.084)

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Applied Soft Computing (http://ww.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/, SCI indexed, 2010 Impact Factor: 2.084)
Special issue on "Swarm Intelligence in Image and Video Processing"

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Swarm intelligence studies collective behaviors in biological systems that consist of a population of individuals that interact with one another, as well as with their environment. Various algorithms have been developed to model such swarm systems, including ant colonies, schools of fish, colonies of honey bees, and so on. Image and video processing is a very important research area due to the rapid development of image sensors and visual communication techniques. Inspirations from swarm intelligence have been used in recent years to address challenging real-world image and video processing problems. There are a number of critical issues regarding the modeling of swarm evolutionary systems, the formulation of image and video processing problems, the design of efficient optimization algorithms, and so on. This special issue aims to provide a collection of high quality research articles that address the broad challenges in both theoretical and application aspects of swarm intelligence in image and video processing.

*** Topics of interest (but are not limited to) ***
Methods
->Mathematical models of biological or social collective systems
->Particle swarm optimization
->Ant colony optimization
->Bee colony optimization
->Bacteria foraging
->Fish schooling
->Multi-objective optimization
Applications
->Image/video coding and transmission
->Image/video processing and analysis, restoration, segmentation, object tracking
->Image/video modeling and representation
->Image/video storage, retrieval and authentication
->Image/video processing in biomedical sciences, geosciences and remote sensing, document image processing, and other applications

*** Important dates ***
Submission of manuscripts: December 1, 2011
First revision notification: March 1, 2012
Submission of revised papers: April 15, 2012
Second revision notification: June 1, 2012
Submission of final revised papers: July 1, 2012
Final Acceptance/Rejection notice: July 15, 2012

*** Submission guidelines ***
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/asoc/.