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* Call for papers *
* Journal of Electronic Imaging *
* Special Section on Image Processing for Cultural Heritage *
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  Due to technological developments, images have become very common data,
present and accessible through many different media (TV, camera,
smartphone, tablet, and so on). Consequently, it is more and more common
for the scientific community to use images to characterize materials or
objects under study at different scales. Heritage is one of the emerging
domains that exploit these data. The introduction of the methods
developed in the image-processing domain offers new possibilities to the
interdisciplinary cultural heritage world.

This Special Section on Image Processing for Cultural Heritage aims to
present studies that exploit images as principal data to solve heritage
problems. Topics of this special section may include:

   * Heritage preservation (restoration, enhancement, denoising, quality
     assessment)

   * Reconstruction and visualization of cultural heritage (data
     acquisition, 3D representation, virtual representation, serious games)

   * Image analysis (pattern recognition, classification, retrieval,
     segmentation, quantification)

   * Building stones, decorated caves, stained glass windows, statues
     (wood, stone, metal, ceramic), paintings, textiles, ancient texts,
     seals, etc.

Digitizing Europe's cultural heritage is an active part of the European
Union agenda, and the EU has funded several projects on the topic in the
last few years (see complete list here:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/digital-culture). Research groups
from Europe participating in these projects are invited to submit
papers. We also welcome research groups from various countries to submit
work on topics of image processing related to heritage, and specialists
in cultural heritage should present their image-processing problems.

Prospective authors should
visit:https://spie.org/publications/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/jei-pages/jei-editorial-schedule#Cultural_Heritage
<http://spie.org/publications/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/jei-pages/jei-editorial-schedule#Perceptual_Analysis>
for information on paper submission.





*Important dates:*

Original submissions due: 1 June 2016
First round of review completed, and decision sent to author: 15 July 2016
Revised manuscripts due: 1 September 2016
Re-reviews due (if necessary): 1 October 2016
Final accepted manuscripts ready for production: 1 January 2017
Guest editorial and cover art due: 1 February 2017



*/Guest Editors:/*

*Aladine Chetouani*
University of Orléans
PRISME
Orléans, France
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*Robert Erdmann*
University of Amsterdam
Johannes Vermeerplein 1
1071 DV Amsterdam, Netherlands
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*David Picard*
ENSEA
ETIS UMR 8051
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95014 Cergy-Pontoise, France
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*Filippo Stanco*
University of Catania
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
viale A. Doria, 6
95125 Catania, Italy
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