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The Convergence of Computer Vision and Wireless Communications

Guest Editors

Miguel Bordallo López, PhD, University of Oulu, Finland
Luis M. Pessoa, PhD, INESC TEC, Portugal
George C. Alexandropoulos, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Deniz Gunduz, PhD, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Michel Kieffer, PhD, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Stéphane Coulome, PhD, ETS Montréal, Canada
Shuai Wan, PhD, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: December 2024


EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking is calling for submissions to our Collection on The Convergence of Computer Vision and Wireless Communications. This is a joint call for papers with the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. The author can submit to either of the Journals following the respective submission guideline of the Journals. 

This special issue aims to showcase innovative research that bridges these two dynamic fields, highlighting applications, technologies, and methodologies that usevisual information to enhance wireless network performance and advanced wireless networks to enable sophisticated real-time visual data processing.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Miguel Bordallo López, PhD, University of Oulu, Finland

Associate Professor Miguel Bordallo López is Associate Professor of Vision Systems Engineering at the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS). He is the leader of the Multimodal Sensing team, that focuses on using real time computer vision and radio technologies to sense humans and research Area leader (Distributed intelligence) at the University of Oulu’s 6G Flagship. His work focuses on the convergence of computer vision and telecommunications, developing multimodal sensing and distributed intelligence methods enabled by 6G technology.

Luis M. Pessoa, PhD, INESC TEC, Portugal

Luis Pessoa is a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC. He is the Coordinator of the European Project CONVERGE focusing on the convergence of communications and computer vision towards a novel paradigm of integrated communications, localisation and sensing in 6G. He was involved as co-chair of the Super-CLAM Workshop at IEEE ICASSP 2024, on Super-resolution integrated communications, localization, vision and radio mapping.

George C. Alexandropoulos, PhD, National and KapodistrianUniversity of Athens, Greece

George C. Alexandropoulos is an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and his research interests include multi-antenna systems, full duplex radios, active and passive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communications, millimeter wave and THz communications, as well as distributed machine learning algorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications, Signal Processing, Vehicular Technology, and Information Theory Societies, an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM, and the chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking.

Deniz Gunduz, PhD, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Deniz Gündüz is a Professor of Information Processing at Imperial College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM and MLSP Technical Committees. He serves as an area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Michel Kieffer, PhD, Université Paris-Saclay, FranceMichel

Kieffer is a Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and a researcher at the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S). His work focuses on signal processing for communications, error correction coding, and multimedia transmission. With a PhD in telecommunications from Télécom ParisTech, he has an extensive publication record and is recognized for his contributions to the fields of robust multimedia transmission and real-time video processing.

Stéphane Coulombe, PhD, ETS Montréal, Canada

Stéphane Coulombe is a Professor in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), a part of the Université du Québec network, where he has been since 2004. He has a rich background in industry, having worked with the Nortel Wireless Network Group from 1997 to 1999 and at the Nokia Research Center in the Audiovisual Systems Laboratory from 1999 to 2004. From 2009 to 2018, he held the Vantrix Industrial Research Chair in Video Optimization. His research interests include video processing, compression, communication (transport), and systems, with a recent focus on immersive video and machine learning for video applications.

Shuai Wan, PhD, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Shuai Wan is a Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. His research spans multimedia signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications. He has made significant contributions to the development of techniques for point cloud compression and multimedia transmission. Shuai Wan's work is recognized for its impact on the efficient processing and transmission of visual data over wireless networks.

About the Collection

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking is calling for submissions to our Collection on The Convergence of Computer Vision and Wireless Communications. This is a joint call for papers with the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. The author can submit to either of the Journals following the respective submission guideline of the Journals. 

This special issue aims to showcase innovative research that bridges these two dynamic fields, highlighting applications, technologies, and methodologies that usevisual information to enhance wireless network performance and advanced wireless networks to enable sophisticated real-time visual data processing.
 

Topics of Interest:
We welcome original research articles, reviews, and case studies on topics including but not limited to:
•Image and Video Processing for Wireless Networks (View-to-communicate)
•Wireless Networks for Image and Video Transmission (Communicate-to-view)
•Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), Modelling, and Learning
•Non-line-of-sight and Through-the-Wall Sensing
•Vision-assisted Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
•Dynamic Network Management using visual data
•AI and Machine Learning in Multimodal Vision-Radio Data Fusion and Sensing
•Ultra-Low Latency Multimedia Delivery
•Error Correction and Quality of Experience in distributed image and video processing
•Development of Research Tools for vision-radio convergence

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There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Editorial Manager (EM). During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "The Convergence of Computer Vision and Wireless Communications" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.