Editorial Message From the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief
M Y SECOND term as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY (TCSVT) completed at the end of 2009. It has been a great pleasure to serve two consecutive terms as the Editor-in-Chief for TCSVT for the past four years. The wonderful experiences working with IEEE publication staff members, associate editors, reviewers, authors, and readers have been the highlights of my professional career. Over the last four years, we have witnessed significant growth of TCSVT in several key areas. Among them, the most impressive ones are: 1) we have more than doubled the number of annual new paper submission from under 300 in 2005 to over 600 in 2009; and 2) we have nearly doubled the impact factor from 1.7 in 2006 to 2.95 in 2009. Other areas of growth for TCSVT include the expansion of scope to recruit papers from emerging areas of video technology and the publication of six special issues in the past three years, ranging from H.264 SVC to multiview video coding, and from 3DTV to algorithm and architecture coexploration. I am most indebted to the wonderful team of publication staff members, associate editors, and reviewers for their dedicated services to select and publish extremely high quality papers for publication in TCSVT. In particular, I would like to thank all associate editors who have answered my frequent calls to process the papers assigned to them in a timely fashion. I would also like to thank the authors for submitting their high quality papers to TCSVT and the readers for continued support to TCSVT by citing papers published in TCSVT. Without their continued and unselfish commitments, TCSVT would not have achieved its current premier status. His current research interests include reliable and secure multimedia streaming over P2P, wireless and ad hoc networks, mobile multimedia systems-processing and analysis for mobile systems and devices, medical image analysis and biomedical information processing, distributed source coding for distributed systems and digital signal processing for communications, collaborative signal processing, and data aggregation for sensor networks. He has also chaired and served in numerous technical program committees for IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery, and other international conferences. He was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineers for his contributions in electronic imaging and visual communications. Over the last four years, I was able to bring together a distinguished team of Associate Editors to professionally …