Image Enhancement, Modeling and Visualization

Dear Colleagues,

The current, wide diffusion of new technological devices, such as RGB-D, HDR and thermal cameras, smart and multi-medial vision sensors, 3D virtual reality visors, Google glasses, urgently requires adaptation and/or renewal of the image processing approach. In this framework, image enhancement, vision modelling and novel visualization techniques and devices are important key factors. One of the challenges is to automatically integrate and process the multimedia data collected by the new-generation devices in order to provide high-quality information. To this aim, modern image enhancement methods and visualization techniques are at the base of this research: They must account for the application at hand, for the physical, hardware characteristics of the acquisition device, and especially for different, often multi-dimensional features, including, for instance, color, distance, time information, or even non-visual cues, like textual labels or audio.

There is an actual need for supporting these emerging novel techniques with more effective vision models. The scientific community has known since the 1970s that human vision is a spatial process, now it is time to take advantage of this knowledge for the next generation of image enhancement and visualization techniques.

This Special Issue intends to provide a comprehensive overview of recent, theoretical and/or practical advances and new trends in image enhancement, vision modelling applied to image processing and advanced visualization methods and devices, and to discuss their applications to computer vision, image processing and understanding. 

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• Image enhancement
• Image processing
• Hardware oriented Image Processing (signal-processing aspects for image processing, device dependent image processing, computer vision algorithms for smart cameras)
• Bio-inspired Image Processing
• Contrast enhancement
• Noise Removal ,Demosaicing, and Filters
• Image Compression
• Image restoration
• Image Quality Assessment
• Vision modeling
• Color, textures and visual features
• Visualization
• HDR
• RGB-D Image Processing
• Hyperspectral and Thermal Imaging
• Multimedia
• 3D Modelling and Rendering
• Visual Processing in Augmented Reality
• Benchmarks
• Applications and New Trends