Encyclopedia of Multimedia 2nd Edition Springer Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University
	Potential contributors: Send an email to borko@cse.fau.edu

Springer is launching the 2nd edition of Encyclopedia of Multimedia. with the main objective to provide a comprehensive survey of long articles (6-10 pages) and short articles (1-3 pages) written by world experts in the field. The first edition, created in 2005 and published in January 2006, consisted of 264 articles, total 983 pages. The first edition has been very successful and in the first year about 1000 copies were sold. In the second edition we intend to add additional 120 short and long articles. Potential contributors should express their interest by sending an email to Borko Furht at borko@cse.fau.edu.

Editorial Board

Marios Angelides Brunel University, UK Abhaya Asthana Lucent Technologies, USA Yannis Avrithis   (NEW MEMBER) National Technical University of Athans, Greece Alan Bovik University of Texas at Austin, USA Chang Wen Chen   (NEW MEMBER) Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA Alberto Del Bimbo University of Florence, Italy Nevenka Dimitrova Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA Chabane Djeraba University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France   Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ahmet Eskicioglu Brooklyn College, USA Benjamin Falchuk Telcordia Technologies, USA Shahram Ghandeharizadeh University of Southern California, USA David Gibbon AT&T Labs Research, Middletown, USA Forouzan Golshani Wright State University, USA

Yihong Gong NEC Laboratories America, Cupertino, CA, USA William Grosky University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA Horace Ip City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ebroul Izquieredo  (NEW MEMBER) Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ramesh Jain (NEW MEMBER) University of California, Irvine, USA Hari Kalva Florida Atlantic University, USA Shunsuke Kamijo University of Tokyo, Japan Wolfgang Klas   (NEW MEMBER) University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Kwok-Tung Lo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Rastislav Lukac   (NEW MEMBER) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Wei-Ying Ma Microsoft Research, Beijing, China Oge Marques Florida Atlantic University, USA Herve Martin Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, France Erich Neuhold Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran University of Texas at Dallas, USA Marco Roccetti University of Bologna, Italy Simone Santini University of California, San Diego, USA, and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Shin’ichi Satoh   (NEW MEMBER) National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Nalin Sharda Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Tomothy K. Shih       (NEW MEMBER) Tamkang University, Taiwan John Smith     (NEW MEMBER) IBM TJ. Watson Research Center, USA Shervin Shirmohammadi University of Ottawa, Canada Michael Stritntzis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece V.S. Subhramanian University of Maryland, USA Remco Veltkamp Utrecht University, The Netherlands Bharadwaj Veeravalli  (NEW MEMBER) National University of Singapore, Singapore Heather Yu Panasonic Technologies, Princeton, USA Roger Zimmermann University of Southern California, USA

 

SCHEDULE
1. Contributors solicited and TOC defined	September 15 - October 15, 2007
2. Articles/entries delivered	March 1, 2008
3. First draft of Encyclopedia completed	April 1 , 2008
4. Encyclopedia delivered to the Publisher	May 1, 2008
5. Encyclopedia published	September 2008

 

Links to important documents

Table of Contents - old	Sample Entries	Table of Contents - new

NEW TOPICS OF INTERESTS
(not limited to)

3D Content-Based Search CAD Tools and Synthesis for Multimedia Systems Collaborative Tagging of Multimedia Common Event Model for Multimedia Applications Component Optimization for Multimedia Platforms Consumer Electronics and Entertainment Display Techniques for Multimedia H.264 Video Coding Standard Haptics in Virtual Reality and Multimedia Human-centered Multimedia Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia Mass-Scale Multimedia Networks Metadata Standards MPEG-7 MPEG-21 Multimedia Annotations on the Semantic Web Multimedia Applications Multimedia Biometrics Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) Multimedia Information Systems Multimedia Middleware Multimedia Processor Architectures Multimedia Traffic Management Multiview Coding Natural Language Interafce for Querying Video Databases Operating Systems for Multimedia Security for Multimedia Adaptation SMIL Multimedia Standards Stereo Panoramic Video Tree-Dimensional TV Ubiquitous Experience Media Video Event Representation Language (VERL) Video Segmentation Visual Surveillance