Multimedia Tools and Applications - Call for Papers: Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving [1245]

Aims and Scope

This special issue collects novel developments in the field of multi-sensor, multi-source and multi-process information fusion for computer vision. Articles are expected to emphasize one or more of the three facets: architectures, algorithms, and applications. Published papers dealing with fundamental theoretical analyses as well as those demonstrating their application to real-world problems will be welcome. The journal publishes original papers and from time to time invited review articles, in all areas related to the information fusion arena including, but not limited to, the following suggested topics:

• Multi-sensor, multi-source fusion system architectures for computer vision 
• Higher level fusion topics including situation awareness and management
• Multi-sensor management and real-time applications
• Adaptive and self-improving fusion system architectures for target detection and tracking
• Applications such as robotics, space and transportation
• Intelligent Techniques for Fusion Processing

Guest Editors:
Fahimeh Farahnakian - University of Turku, Finland
Email: fahimeh.farahnakian@utu.fi 

Jukka Heikkonen -  University of Turku, Finland
Email: jukhei@utu.fi


Important Dates:
Open: Immediately 
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2023

Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI 1245- Application of Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Driving" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at IEEE-ITSC 2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of IEEE-ITSC 2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.