Theory, Techniques & Applications
A publication of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)

Scope
Signal Processing: Image Communication is an international journal for the advancement of the theory and practice of image/video processing and communication. Its primary objectives are the following:

• Dissemination of research results in
• Signal/image/video processing and coding,
• Visual multimedia communications and networking,
• Graphics/animation and 3-D video technologies,
• Visual information technologies including storage and retrieval,
• Digital rights management technologies,
• Image/video acquisition, printing and display technologies, and
• Multimedia processing software and hardware.
• Rapid information exchange between the industrial and academic environments.

Subjects of interest include image/video coding, 3D video representations and compression, 3D graphics and animation compression, HDTV and 3DTV systems, video adaptation, video over IP, peer-to-peer video networking, interactive visual communication, multi-user video conferencing, wireless video broadcasting and communication, visual surveillance, 2D and 3D image/video quality measures, pre/post processing, video restoration and super-resolution, multi-camera video analysis, motion analysis, content-based image/video indexing and retrieval, face and gesture processing, video synthesis, 2D and 3D image/video acquisition and display technologies, architectures for image/video processing and communication.

Types of articles
Signal Processing: Image Communication publishes original research work, tutorial and review articles, and accounts of practical developments, including standards related technical work. Review papers are particularly welcome.

Submission of Manuscripts:
The article submission and review process for IMAGE is fully electronic
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission available from http://ees.elsevier.com/image. This site will guide you stepwise through the submission process. Authors can upload their article as a LaTeX, Microsoft® (MS) Word® or WordPerfect® file. It is also possible to submit an article in PostScript or Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format, but if the article is accepted it will be necessary to send in the original source files. If you submit a word processor file, the system generates an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.

If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases, which can be obtained at http://www.elsevier.com/copyright.

NB: Papers submitted to Signal Processing: Image Communication, may also be posted on The Computer Science Preprint Server at http://www.compscipreprints.com/. Such posting on The Computer Science Preprint Server is in conformity with Elsevier copyright policy and in no way conflicts with submission to Signal Processing: Image Communication.

Editorial Policy
The editorial policy and the technical content of the journal are the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board. All papers submitted to Signal processing: Image Communication are subject to a thorough and constructive review process. In most cases, the first review is completed within four to six months after submission of the manuscript. Accepted articles will be available on average four weeks after acceptance at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/09235965.

To assist us in meeting our ambitious targets for review and publication times, we ask authors to submit their revisions, should they be requested, within four weeks after notification. Authors who need more than four weeks to prepare their revision are requested to contact the Editor.

The Journal is self-supporting from subscription income and contains a minimum amount of advertisements. Advertisements are subject to prior approval of the Editor-in-Chief.

Elsevier Image Communication Best Student Paper Awards
This Euro 1000 award will be given annually to a student author starting with 2003. Authors qualifying for this award are requested to indicate that they are a student with their submission.

EURASIP Best Paper Award
Every other year, the EURASIP society issues an Award for the best paper published in Signal Processing: Image Communication in the preceding two years. This Award is complemented by Elsevier with a one year subscription to its full electronic offering ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com).

Electronic format requirements for accepted articles:
General points

We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Save your files using the default extension of the program used.

Wordprocessor documents
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions). Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text.

To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spellchecker' function of your wordprocessor.

LaTeX documents
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsart', or alternatively the standard document class 'article'.

The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Author Gateway's "Guide to Publishing with Elsevier" Science: http://www.elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the files: elsart.cls (use this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart12.sty (use these two files if you are using LaTeX2.09, the previous version of LaTeX), guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".

Note: Although Elsevier can process most wordprocessor file formats, should your electronic file prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hardcopy printout.

Artwork
Submitting your illustrations, pictures, tables and other artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. For detailed guidelines on electronic figures, please refer to the 'artwork instructions' at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. This site shows how to prepare your artwork for electronic submission and includes: common problems, suggestions on how to ensure the best results, and guidelines for popular applications. See the links under Creating Your Artwork for details about using specific artwork software.

Reproduction of colour
Submit colour illustrations as original photographs, high-quality computer prints or transparencies, close to the size expected in publication, or as 35 mm slides. Polaroid colour prints are not suitable. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to 'grey scale' (for the printed version should you not opt for colour in print) please submit in addition usable black and white prints corresponding to all the colour illustrations.

Presentation of manuscripts
Please write your text in good English.

Title page. The title page should contain the article title, author(s) names and affiliations, related footnotes, the text of the abstract, and a list of keywords.

Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the correct e-mail address and the complete postal address.

Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide 3-5 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of').

Acknowledgements. Place acknowledgements before the references, in a separate section, and not as a footnote on the title page.

References. See separate section below.

Vitae. Include in the manuscript a short biography of each author, along with a passport type photograph accompanying the other figures.

References
Citations in the text. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

Citing and listing of web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given.

Text. Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.
Example: "..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."

List. Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun. 163 (2000) 51-59.

Reference to a book:
[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304.

Footnotes in text Footnotes in the text should be identified by superscript numbers and listed consecutively on a separate page.

Author enquiries
For enquiries relating to manuscript preparation and submission, please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/locate/image. This site will also provide status information during review and, after acceptance, production of your article. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those related to proofs, will be provided when your article is accepted for publication.

Author benefits
The principal author will receive 25 offprints of the paper free of charge. Extra copies can be ordered when proofs are returned.

Authors are entitled to a 30% discount on Elsevier books.

Page charges are not applicable.