Immersive Visualisation

Dear Colleagues,

Immersive Visualisation (IV) is in the midst of a renaissance. With personal devices driving down the price, weight and power consumption of high-resolution screens, environmental and orientation sensors, and compute power, and the upheaval of the traditional and slow product realisation cycle by cheap additive manufacturing processes, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality devices are now readily available to the consumer. Indeed, every "smart phone" can double as a mid-range AR device by just adding software, and as an entry-level VR device with $20 worth of cardboard and plastic lenses. At the other end of the scale, more and more research groups - in industry and academia—have access to ultra-scale IV capabilities like the Monash CAVE2, the Qualcomm Institute/UCSD SunCAVE, and UNSW's EPIC 120.

It is thus timely to examine the application of IV to Imaging, and to consider how the underpinning technologies of VR and AR can drive innovation and advancement in the discipline. This Special Issue of the Journal of Imaging targets papers that bring ideas at the nexus of IV and Imaging to the forefront for the community to share, discuss, develop and realise.

We encourage submissions of original contributions to IV, strongly-related to the Journal's main theme of Imaging. We invite papers on theory, practice, experience, technological or research challenges or systems, concepts and designs. Papers will follow a peer review process. Only original papers presenting novel contributions will be considered. Extensions of previously accepted papers in conferences or workshops should justify additional content. Papers should be focused on the application of IV to the discipline of Imaging, and should identify critical contributions IV can make to: image computation; quality control; comprehension and understanding; analysis; collaborative approaches; multi-image comparison; data scale challenges; and so on. Descriptions and designs of unique imaging experiments only possible using IV are highly encouraged. Papers that identify significant challenges in the application of IV to Imaging (e.g. data scale issues) and propose specific solutions (e.g., server-side rendering/filtering) are also highly encouraged.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Imaging is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Immersive visualisation
• Virtual reality
• Image display
• Image visualisation
• Image analysis
• Big data
• Immersive analytics
• 3d visualisation
• CAVE
• Stereoscopic visualisation