Journal of real-time image processing: first issue of volume 12
Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Matthias F. Carlsohn · Journal of Real-Time Image Processing · 2016
Although we are half way through the 11th publication year of Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, the four issues of volume 11 have already appeared this year and this issue constitutes the first issue of volume 12.This is due to the fact that this year in 2016, two volumes or a total of eight issues are being published.The additional volume 12 is arranged for the purpose of significantly reducing the backlog of accepted papers that have already appeared as online-first articles but are waiting to appear in print.An editorial board meeting of JRTIP was recently held in Brussels in April 2016 which took place during the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image and Video Processing as part of SPIE Photonics Europe.We thank our colleagues who made the meeting possible by their presence in Brussels despite the difficult circumstances that existed.A picture of the board members and the journal editor attending the meeting appears in Fig. 1.After general information on the merger between the publishing companies Springer and Nature with no impact on the organizational aspects of JRTIP and a brief overview of the JRTIP publishing report, the following major topics were discussed during the meeting: (1) improving the turnaround time of the review process, (2) problems related to copyright aspects and self-archiving of preprint articles, (3) creating critical mass for special issues in light of the increase in the number of pages per issue, and (4) the & Nasser Kehtarnavaz