Displays is the international journal covering the research, development and application of displays technology and its effective presentation of visual information. Technical papers on practical developments in displays technology provide an effective channel to promote greater understanding and cross-fertilization across the diverse disciplines of the displays community. Tutorial papers covering fundamentals intended for display technologists and human factors engineers new to the field will also occasionally be featured.

Coverage includes:
Technology: display devices, display materials, display electronics, image characteristics, technical aspects of multimedia, 3-D displays and virtual environments, auditory and tactile displays, colour, filters, printers.

Human Factors: user psychology and human-computer interaction, applied vision, work with display units, measurements of visual performance, colour appearance, colour reproduction and coding, graphical user-interface design, presentation of information, measurement of display artefacts, user-centred measures of image quality, image processing, input, output and interactive devices, user interfaces for multimedia systems, virtual environments, 3-D computer graphic design and animation, human factors for disabled persons, design standards and guidelines, auditory and tactile displays.

Special Issue on 3D data computation and visualization
Submission Date: 2021-07-30

Three-dimensional (3D) data provide richer information than 2D descriptions, giving 3D imaging and display significant advantages and potential in a wide range of applications, such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, smart home, smart cities, and smartphones. Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in 3D data acquisition, computation, and display with the boost from innovative computer vision, machine learning, and sensor technologies. In particular, the recent development of deep neural networks, attention mechanisms, and Transformer architectures have greatly benefited research in this area, leading to significantly improved performance and wide adoption of 3D imaging and display technology in real-world applications. This research area has also attracted many researchers, practitioners, institutions, universities, and companies. Nevertheless, along with the opportunities are new challenges in 3D data computation and visualization. New methods and applications are yet to be developed in the core research topics of the area, for example, stereo vision, 3D reconstruction, 3D image processing, autostereoscopic 3D, and stereoscopic 3D. In this special issue, we invite academic and industrial research communities to submit their original research and review articles. We aim to bring together new research findings and opinions in this area. The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to:

    3D image processing
    3D reconstruction
    Shape recognition and analysis
    Depth estimation
    Stereo matching
    Multi-view stereo
    3D visualization
    3D visual enhancement
    3D sensor image acquisition, fusion and display
    3D graphic display
    Holographic 3D display
     
The proposed schedule is given below:

    Call for papers: March 01, 2021
    Paper submission deadline: July 30, 2021
    First review: March 15, 2021
    Revisions due: Aug 15, 2021
    Final decisions: September 30, 2021
    Tentative publication date: October 15, 2021
     
Guest Editors

Prof. Xiao Bai, School of Computer Science, Beihang University, China, baixiao@buaa.edu.cn
Dr. Xin Ning, Laboratory of Artificial Neural Networks and High-speed Circuits, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ningxin@semi.ac.cn
A/Prof. Jun Zhou, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, jun.zhou@griffith.edu.au
Dr. Chen Wang, School of Computer Science, Beihang University, dawnstar8411@163.com

Special Issue on AR/VR Displays
Submission Date: 2021-07-30

Introductory Text

In recent years, the concepts of augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) have been going viral among both the academia and industry, kickstarting a new wave of innovations. In the wake of this momentum, we are launching a special issue to fuel the iterations of display technologies for AR/VR. This special issue is aimed to brainstorm ideas towards the hottest theoretical/engineering issues that have been bothering the community. Problem-oriented full-length/short-communication articles as well as the all-encompassing review articles are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    Increase of field of view
    Expansion of exit pupil
    Miniaturization of optical components/systems
    Occlusion between real and virtual objects
    3-dimensional registration of real and virtual objects
    Integration of prescription/vision correction
    Mitigation of vergence-accommodation conflict
    Foveated imaging/rendering
    Achromatic/wide-angle/high-efficiency/tunable diffractive/holographic optical elements, metasurfaces, metalenses, etc.
    Metrology/measurement/benchmark/standardization
    Ergonomics/human factors
    Emerging concepts/technologies, e.g. electronic contact lenses, artificial retina, bionic eye, brain-computer interface, etc.

Important Dates

Manuscript submission: July 30, 2021
First-round peer review: August 30, 2021
First-round manuscript revision: September 15, 2021
Second-round peer review: September 25, 2021
Second-round manuscript revision: October 10, 2021
Final acceptance notification: October 20, 2021

Guest Editor

Prof. Chao Ping Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
ccp@sjtu.edu.cn