Special Issue on Image and Video Processing for Disability

New technologies represent a great opportunity for the improvement of life and independent living of the disabled and elder people. Over the last decade, active researches have produced novel algorithms for blind, deaf, mute people or for people with severe motor disabilities. These researches are strongly related with the development of new dedicated systems for human-computer interactions.

Whatever the kind of handicap, image processing can provide a significant help for disability compensation to avoid the gap increasing between disabled and nondisabled people with respect to the new technologies.

Researches for new systems for disabled people are multidisciplinary research from engineering sciences (computer science, HCI, automatic, electronics, etc.) and human sciences (psychology, cognition, etc.). Here we are focusing on researches involving image and video processing for disability. However, multimodal signals-based systems can be considered.

Manuscript Due: January 1, 2007

For more information about the call-for-paper for this special issue, please check: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/ivd.html