ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications Information for Authors

ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications (ITE Trans. MTA) focus on the technology, design and applications of Multimedia computation, with emphasis given to novel engineering systems, scientific applications, industrial engineering trials, and other related researches not limited to image and video processing. Before submission, authors should read the information for authors. When submitting a manuscript, authors upload the required contents and input the required items at the ITE Trans. MTA manuscript submission website.

2.1 Type of Submission
The ITE Trans. MTA allows only one type of manuscript “Paper”, which has no maximum and minimum page number restriction.

2.2 Requirements of manuscript
The submitted manuscripts must contain the following:
(1) Originality/Novelty
Is the submitted work original, providing new information that either stands alone or builds upon previous work?
“New information” can mean new in a scientific sense, but also in an engineering sense, where it can include new superior combinations of previous works, new system designs and new applications.

(2) Practicality/Usefulness
Is the proposition potentially useful for readers of the ITE Trans. MTA?
Media technologies, interface realization, content design and service applications are important new fields in MTA. In these new fields, it is sometimes difficult for authors to demonstrate practicality by quantitative comparisons. In order to encourage authors to submit original work in these new fields, the ITE Trans. MTA accepts qualitative as well as quantitative evaluations.

(3) Reliability/Clarity
Are the contents of the manuscript reliable from the reader’s viewpoint?
Sufficient evidence should be provided to demonstrate the originality and practicality of the work, with reference to important articles which describe related previous work, discussing how the present work relates to it and establishing that the foundations of the present work are solid.

If authors submit manuscripts which are developed versions of conference papers, which have been already presented in international conference, symposium, workshop, etc., authors must cite those related works, and the submitted manuscripts must contain novel parts such as a new proposal, a new idea, or a result.

2.3 No Duplicate Submission
Submitted manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere. The ITE Trans. MTA considers a submitted manuscript as duplicate submission if it is identical or extremely similar to another manuscript published by the same author(s), regardless of its written language. If duplicate submission is found prior to publication, the submission will be immediately rejected.　A publication, for the purposes of the duplication submission policy, is defined to be a written work that was accepted and published after peer review. For example, an arXiv.org paper, an ITE technical report, and a university technical report are not considered as duplicate submission because they are typically not peer reviewed.

If the manuscript which has already been published in the ITE Trans. MTA is suspected to be duplicate or multiple submission(s) to any journal(s), transaction(s), or proceedings of peer reviewed conference, workshop or symposium after publication, the ITE transactions editorial committee investigates the situation by exchanging information with the editorial board or the organizers of the concerned journal, transaction, conference, workshop or symposium. If duplicate submission is proved, the following actions against all the authors of the submission will be applied.

(1)The ITE announces the cancelation of the paper of duplicate submission on the ITE website, as well as the cancelation from the ITE Trans. MTA website.

(2)The ITE notifies to the editorial board or the organizers of the concerned journal, conference, workshop or symposium about the duplicate submission.

(3)All other manuscripts under review are rejected.

(4)The authors are prohibited to submit any new manuscripts to all the ITE transactions and journal for a term of one year from the date of announcement.

3.1 Submission
Authors use http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mta for the submission of manuscripts. An email will be sent to the corresponding author immediately after the submission.
The details of the upload contents and the input items are shown in the Table 1.

3.2 Review
(1)   Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by reviewers selected by ITE Trans. MTA editorial board.

(2)   The editorial board will make one of the following decisions.
(a)   Accept
“Accept” is selected when one of the following two cases is satisfied. First, the submitted manuscript is acceptable, no corrections are necessary. Second, the submitted manuscript is acceptable after English of the manuscript is improved by proof reading, where the recommendation of the English proof reading is made by Associate Editor. The proof reading charge is shown in Section 5.
(b)   Minor Revision
“Minor Revision” is selected when the submitted manuscript does not reach the publication quality, but conditions for Accept will be satisfied by authors’ revisions. This judgment is made only once. Thus, if the revised manuscript cannot satisfy the conditions for Accept, it will be rejected.
(c)   Reject
“Reject” is selected when the submitted manuscript does not satisfy the publication criteria in the ITE Trans. MTA, i.e., major revisions are necessary or the subjects of the submitted manuscript are not matched to the scope of this journal. Note that Associate Editor may reject the submitted manuscript before assigning reviewers when the quality of its English is quite low.

(3)   For manuscripts receiving rejection notices, the revised version of the manuscript may be resubmitted. Upon resubmission, the authors should write the previous paper ID number in the cover letter. The authors can include answer to the comments from the reviewers of the previous review in the resubmission.

(4)    If authors who have received rejection notices are not convinced of the review or the decision, they will be able to resubmit the identical manuscript to the initial submission by clearly writing the specific reasons on a cover letter.  The deadline for the resubmission is within 60 days of the date of the rejection notice.  It shall be limited to once per manuscript.

3.3 Galley Proof
Generally, submitted manuscripts will be published in the ITE Trans. MTA after the acceptance. Prior to the publication, authors must proofread the galley proofs only once. As a rule, authors may change only misprints. Any modifications of the manuscripts are not accepted.

4.1 Manuscript Structure
Submitted manuscripts must contain the following subjects.
(1) Title
(2) Name and membership status of each author
(3) Affiliation and address
(4) Abstract (maximum 150 words)
(5) Keywords (maximum 6 keywords)
(6) Main body
(7) Acknowledgement (if necessary, show after conclusion without section number)
(8) References
(9) Appendix (if necessary)
(10) Biography of each author
Whole parts must be written in English.

4.2 Style of Figures, Tables and Photographs
Figures, tables and photographs shown in submitted manuscripts must satisfy the following points.
(1)   All figures, tables and photographs must be made by authors.
(2)   All figures, tables and photographs must be shown with their captions.
(3)   Resolutions of all figures, tables and photographs must be high enough.
(4)   All figures, tables and photographs must be saved on appropriate media for the relevant computer environment.
(5)   All figures, tables and photographs must be submitted to make the final manuscript.

4.3 Style of Videos
Videos can be submitted with the manuscripts under the following conditions.
(1)   Use of video is limited to cases where explanation is otherwise impossible, for example, where smoothness of motion needs to be shown. Videos should not be used if sufficient explanation is realized by utilizing several still images.
(2)   A representative frame of each video must be shown with its caption. Multiple representative frames are not acceptable.
(3)   The Quality of all videos must be high enough for review, e.g., videos highly degraded by lossy encoding are discouraged.
(4)   All videos must be made by authors.
(5)    All videos must be submitted in the appropriate file format. Accepted formats are “mp4”, “wmv”, “avi” and “mov”. “avi” and “mov” can be used for lossless videos.
(6)   File names of all videos must be “video1.*”, “video2.*”, “video3.*”, where * represents the file extension. In the submitted manuscript, these videos must be referred by their filenames without file extensions, e.g., “Video 1”, “Video 2”, “Video 3”.　 If the submitted videos cannot be viewed with common viewing applications, the manuscript will be rejected.
(7)   All videos must not be included within the submitted manuscript PDF.
(8)   All videos must be submitted with the manuscript at the ITE Trans. MTA manuscript submission site.
(9)   Each video must be submitted as a separate file. The submission of one video file generated by encoding multiple video files into one file is not acceptable.
(10) The total file size of videos must not exceed 50Mbyte, and the total uploaded file size, including video files, must not exceed 100Mbyte.

4.4 Style of References
References must correctly appear in the format shown below.
(1)   When references are written by coauthors, family names and given name initials for each author must be shown.
(2)   If the journal names are well-known, they can be abbreviated (refer to the Appendix).
(3)   The first letter should be capitalized, with the exception of prepositions and articles.
(4)   The year of publication should be written in parentheses. Furthermore, when a month or day of the publication is required, use the format Aug. 1981 or Aug. 1, 1981, respectively.

Examples:

Books or edited collections

1) A. Rosenfeld and A. C. Kak : “Digital Picture Processing” , Academic Press, New York (1976)

One section of a book

2) V. K. Zworykin and G. A. Morton : “Television”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp. 927-957 (1954)
Journal papers
3)L. D. Miller : “A New Method of Specifying the Resolving Power of Television Camera Tubes Using the RCA P-300 Test Chart”, SMPTE J. 89, 4, pp. 249-256 (Apr. 1980)
4) W. N. Charman : “Three-Dimensional TV System”, Appl. Opt., 20, 1, pp. 14-16 (Jan. 1, 1981)

Conferences

5) M. Jacobsen : “Picture Enhancement for PAL-Coded TV-Signals by Digital Processing”, 1981 Picture Coding Symposium,7. 5, pp. 69-70 (June 1981)

Citation of References:

References should be cited by putting the sequential reference number in parentheses (right parenthesis only) in small text to the right of the citation location. References should be written in order of their appearance.

If the submitted manuscript is accepted, there is an obligation to pay the publication fee prior to the publication. The publication charge is in Tables 2 and 3 (10% consumption tax included).

The copyrights of all papers published in the ITE Trans. MTA are automatically transferred to the ITE. Authors are required to sign and submit a completed “Copyright Transfer From” prior to publication by the ITE. “Copyright Transfer Form” can be downloaded here.
As a rule, the copyright for the articles published in the Journal of ITE belongs to the Institute, so we request that you submit a copyright transfer form. Recently, across all fields a situation where rights are claimed can be predicted. To deal with this, we have established the copyright regulations. We accept copyright transfer forms from the authors so that the transfer of copyright is performed clearly. This prevents unexpected situations with copyright and explicitly documents the stance of the author as well as the Institute towards infringement by a third party. We believe that this protects the copyright, so we request that authors co-operate in submitting a copyright transfer form when making their submission. In addition, the main purpose of affiliating with the ITE is to contribute to the Journal CD-ROM edition or the Technical Information Research Electronic Dictionary Encyclopedia, and protection of copyright. Contributing the same document for profit to another Journal requires the permission of the Institute, even if the author of the document is the same. However, for non-profit reasons, the author is may use their document freely. while describing the bibliographic information of the original manuscript.
The use of the document in electronic form is included in the copyright. That will be managed by the following method:

(1) The Institute will not interfere or hinder by making complaints or allegations when the author reproduces, translates or makes an adaptation of their own article. However, if the translation or the article in its part or entirety is used for profit in another publication, please make a proposal to the executive office and clearly state the source. Furthermore, when dealing with Web or CD-ROM materials, please make the proposal as described above. Also, when using only a part of a document, please clearly state the source below the caption.

(2)   In the following cases, the author and Institute will make a separate agreement in the case that the transfer of copyright to the Institute is problematic.
(a)    The author does not particularly desire the transfer of copyright, such as in the case of articles for special classes at conferences.
(b)   The article contents relate not only to the personal copyright of the author, but also to the organization the author is affiliated with, and it is not possible to obtain the organization’s consent for copyright transfer. However, in this case, there are already plans for the below-mentioned secondary uses (since the intent is non-profit, the actual publication will occur earlier) for which we would like to obtain your consent.  If it is possible to obtain this consent in advance, the Institute will draft a “Reproduction Consent Request” and send it.  The Institute is a non-profit organization, however if this consent is not obtained, then the author’s submission will be excluded from the secondary uses.
However, in this case, there are already plans for the below-mentioned secondary uses (since the intent is non-profit, the actual publication will occur earlier) for which we would like to obtain your consent.  If it is possible to obtain this consent in advance, the Institute will draft a “Reproduction Consent Request” and send it.  The Institute is a non-profit organization, however if this consent is not obtained, then the author’s submission will be excluded from the secondary uses.

National Institute of Information Scholarly and Academic Information Portal CiNii (URL: http://ge.nii.ac.jp/genii/jsp/index.jsp) after 3 months since publication have passed. For unregistered people or non-members the paper will be published after 2 years.

It is hoped that you will author the manuscript after agreeing to the above policies.
Also, when quoting information from other journals, please understand the following:
(1)   Be aware of the copyright of the paper that you are quoting.
(2)   Obtain prior permission for the use of figures, tables or photographs from other libraries or journals.

Contact Information:
Editorial Office, The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
Kikai Shinko Kaikan 403, 3-5-8 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011 Japan
Email: mta@ite.or.jp

The 31th International Display Workshops (IDW’24) will be held from December 4 to 6 , 2024 (Held at the Sapporo C onvention Center Center). IDW’24 is sponsored by the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) and the Society for Information Display (SID).
The Journals of the ITE（MTA (English Journal) & ITEJ（Japanese Journal）) announce a forthcoming “Special Issue on IDW’ 24” to be published in October 2025. The special issue has provided an excellent opportunity to present key aspects of display technology. Original, unpublished papers presented in IDW’24 will be accepted after review by the Editorial Board Committee. Papers related to IDW’24 will also be accepted in the special issue.
The Journals of the ITE will be published as an on-line journal, and not only member but also nonmember can read your paper based on the open access policy. Furthermore, figures with the coloring and pertinent moving images for your paper can be published.
We are sincerely waiting for your submitting paper.
MTA is indexed by
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1. Scope
General Display Technologies
(1) Based on the presentation in IDW’24
(2) Based on the display materials, devices, and systems in the fields covered by IDW’24
-Manuscript Type Type-
￭ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications (MTA)
・Paper (English Manuscripts)
￭The Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers(ITEJ)
・Paper（Japanese Manuscripts）
・Short Paper（Japanese Manuscripts）

2. Deadline for Submission
￭MTA
Paper (English Manuscripts)
March 10, 2025
￭ITEJ
Paper・Short Paper（Japanese Manuscripts）
March 10, 2025

3. Date of Issue
October 2024

4. Submission Instructions
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines indicated in the
“Information for Authors”. Please refer to the following ITE homepage.
￭MTA (English Manuscripts) http://www.ite.or.jp/ content/mta/
￭ITEJ（Japanese Manuscripts）http://www.ite.or.jp/content/paper/

5. Inquiry
Editorial Office
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
3-5-8 Kikai Shinko Kaikan
Shiba Park, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan 105-0011
E-mail: mta@ite.or.jp Tel: +81 (3) 3432-4677 Fax: +81(3) 3432-4675

In the technical field related to video information media, many researchers and engineers
are advancing research and development from a variety of perspectives, and the progress is remarkable. The ITE（Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers） holds conventions twice a year in order to respond promptly to these technological developments
and provide a forum for timely exchange and discussion on topics of high interest.
The research results to be presented at the convention include some that are still in the advanced stage and not yet fully completed, but organizing the progress to date and publishing it as a paper will reflect the progress of related specialized fields and the results. This will be valuable information for the researchers and engineers involved.
Therefore, the Transactions Committee, wishing to promptly and actively publish research results that are highly novel and expected to make further progress in the future, has planned a special feature entitled ” ITE Annual Convention Lecture 2024″ in the July 2025 issue of the Japanese (ITEJ) and English (MTA) journals as a joint special issue of the journals.
We hope that those who gave lectures at the 2024 Annual convention will understand the intent of this special issue and are encouraged to submit their presentations.

【Scope】
A paper that expands and enriches the research results presented at the ITE Annual Convention 2024
【Submission deadline】
Monday, January 15, 2025
【Submit conditions】
・ In principle, the authors of the submitted manuscript should include the speakers at the convention
・The main parts of the research purpose and results of the convention lecture must be
included in the submitted manuscript.
(Note) When entering the submission, be sure to enter the presentation number and presentation title in the ”Publication date and publication journal of oral/research reports, etc.” section

※MTA is indexed by
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Submission Guidelines:
Papers must be submitted by January 15th, 2024. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guideline given in the “Information for Authors”. The latest version is available at the web site, http://www.ite.or.jp/content/mta/. Authors should write “Special Section: ITE Annual Convention Lecture 2024” in the cover letter and choose the [Special Section] as a “Section Type” on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular]. The term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for other regular issues (30 days) because of the tight review schedule.

Editors-in-Chief:
Shingo Ando(Shonan Institute of Technology)
Associate Editors in Chief:
Takenobu Usui (NHK)
Kyohei Unno(KDDI Research)

Associate Editors
MTA Editorial Committee

The ITE (Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers) Transactions on Media Technology and Applications1) announces a forthcoming Special Section on technologies for post-COVID 3D media to be published in January 2025. The special section calls for papers on 3D visual, auditory, and other related novel technologies for the post-COVID age. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Scope of special feature
– 3D display and audio systems
– 3D video and audio capturing technologies
– 3D content technologies
– 3D media processing
– Application of 3D media (metaverse, telework etc.)
– 3D data coding, recording, and transmission
– Visual and auditory perception of 3D information
– Safety and human factors related to 3D media
– Other technologies related to 3D media in the post-COVID age
Submission Guidelines
Papers must be submitted by June 21（Deadline extension：5/31/2024→6/21/2024）. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines given in the “Information for Authors”. The latest version is available at the web site, http://www.ite.or.jp/content/mta/. Authors should write “Special Section: technologies for post-COVID 3D media” in the cover letter and choose the [Special Section] as a “Section Type” on the online screen. Do not choose [Regular]. The term for revising the manuscript after acknowledgement of conditional acceptance for this special section could be shorter than that for other regular issues (30 days) because of the tight review schedule.

※MTA is indexed by
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science ESCI（Journal Impact Factor：0.5），Elsevier Scopus（CiteScore：1.7）,
and etc.

Editorial Committee
Editor-in-Chief
Hideki Kakeya (University of Tsukuba)

Associate Editor-in-Chief
Yasuhiro Takaki (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Shiro Suyama (Utsunomiya University)

Associate Editors
Hideaki Takada (Nagasaki University)
Toshiaki Fujii (Nagoya University)
Hiroyasu Ujike (Tokyo Information Design Professional University)
Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology)
Takafumi Koike (Hosei University)
Kenji Yamamoto (Tokushima University)
Masanori Kano (NHK)
Hirotsugu Yamamoto (Utsunomiya University)
Kimitaka Tsutsumi (NTT)
Shin-ichi Uehara (AGC)

In the technical field related to image information media, many researchers and engineers are advancing research and development from various viewpoints, and the progress is remarkable. Therefore, the paper committee of this society responds promptly to the progress of such technology,
In order to publish papers on topics of great interest in a timely manner, we are planning a special issue of papers with a peer review report date set for the January 2025 issue of the Japanese Transactions on Papers (ITEJ) and English Transactions on Papers (MTA). The following items are listed as recruitment themes, but are not limited to these as long as they are related fields.
In this special feature, taking into consideration the schedule of university degree examinations, etc., the first round of acceptance/rejection decisions will be made by August 8, 2024.
We look forward to your contributions.

※<word-break:break-word;>MTA is indexed by
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science ESCI（Journal Impact Factor：0.5），Elsevier Scopus（CiteScore：1.7）,
and etc.

1. Scope
・Multimedia systems and applications
・Multimedia analysis and processing
・Universal services
・Advanced broadcasting media
・Broadcasting network technology
・Contents production
・CG and multimedia representation
・Consumer Electronics
・3D imaging technology
・Human Information
・Image sensing
・Information display
・Multimedia Storage
・Others

2. Deadline for Submission
￭MTA (English Transactions)
Paper：May 31, 2024
￭ITEJ（Japanese Transactions）
Paper・Short Paper：May 31, 2024

3. Acceptance/Rejection first decisions date
By August 8, 2024

4. Date of Issue
January 1, 2025

5. Submission Instructions
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines indicated in the
“Information for Authors”. Please refer to the following ITE homepage.
￭MTA (English Transactions)

MTA(ITE Journal)

￭ITEJ（Japanese Transactions）

論文

6. Inquiry
Editorial Office
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
3-5-8 Kikai Shinko Kaikan Shiba Park, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan 105-0011
E-mail: mta@ite.or.jp