7. ICST Transactions on Immersive Telecommunications
Dr. Ghassan Alregib
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Institute of Technology, USA
gregib@ece.gatech.edu
Aims and Scope:
The aim of this publication is to provide a unified locus for multi- and cross-disciplinary research on capturing, processing, analyzing, coding, communicating and rendering of rich audio-visual content in order to enable remote immersive experiences of people, objects and environments. Applications of immersive technologies can be varied, and include telepresence, industrial automation, health care, education, and entertainment. Technologies and systems that enable such immersive remote experiences is collectively referred to as immersive telecommunications technologies.
The journal will accept submissions from multiple disciplines related to the various aspects of immersive telecommunications (e.g., Multimedia Signal Processing and Coding; Computer Graphics and Computer Vision; Mixed/Augmented Reality; and Networking & Communications). This journal aims at the creation of a forum that enables and promotes such multi- and cross-disciplinary interactions and build communities that can work together to create technologies and systems that are both robust and compelling for our societies in both the present time and the future.
EIC’s keywords:
Immersive telecommunications, virtual/augmented reality, multimedia processing, computing, and networking in immersive applications, signal processing, computer graphics, computer vision, computer networks, telepresence, interactivity
Editor in chief:
Dr. Ghassan Alregib
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Institute of Technology, USA
gregib@ece.gatech.edu
Dr. AlRegib received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He joined the Faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. His research group is working on projects related to multimedia processing and communications, distributed processing, collaborative systems, immersive communications, and wireless sensor networks. Dr. AlRegib received the ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in spring 2001, the Center for Signal and Image Processing Research Award in spring 2003, and the Center for Signal and Image Processing Service Award in spring 2003, all from Georgia Tech. In April 2008, he received the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award. Dr. AlRegib was the General Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the First International Conference on Immersive Telecommunication (IMMERSCOM) that was held in Italy in November 2007. He is the Steering Committee Co-Chair for the Second International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications to be held in California in May 2009. He was the Chair of the Special Sessions Program at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2006. He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2006-2008 and is currently the Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2009-2012. Dr. AlRegib served as session chair and technical program committee member for several international conferences and workshops.
Editorial Board:
Computer Vision:
Cha Zhang, Microsoft Research, chazhang@microsoft.com
Video Processing:
Debargha Mukherjee, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, debargha@hpl.hp.com
Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz- Institut (HHI), Berlin, smolic@hhi.de
Digital Convergence:
Seok-Pil Lee, KETI, lspbio@keti.re.kr
Virtual Reality:
Oliver Staadt, University of Rostock, Germany, staadt@acm.org
Tele-immersion and Augmented reality:
Petros Daras, ITI-CERTH in Greece, daras@iti.gr