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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Facial skin tone and texture: measurement, perception, and computation
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<i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Vision Research</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> seeks contributions for a special issue
entitled <b>‘</b></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/facial-skin-tone-and-texture-measurement"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Facial
skin tone and texture: measurement, perception, and computation’</span></a></span><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">How the visual system utilizes facial appearance cues is important in many areas of science, from evolutionary biology to medical applications. Subtle changes in skin appearance have been shown to be not
only a predictor of physical but also mental health. In computer vision, rendering skin appearance to achieve naturalness is still a research challenge.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Skin is one of the most familiar but also most complex non-uniform surfaces humans encounter on a daily basis. Yet the extent to which the human visual system is adapted to the spatio-chromatic properties
of skin and whether the familiarity of skin confers any processing advantages remain controversial.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">For more details see: <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/facial-skin-tone-and-texture-measurement">
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/facial-skin-tone-and-texture-measurement</a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Guest Editors:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Kaida Xiao, University of Leeds</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Yoko Mizokami, Chiba University.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Timeline:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submission portal open from: May 01, 2021</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submission deadline: July 01, 2022</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Acceptance deadline: December 31, 2022</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Expected publication: 2022</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submission Instructions:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Authors should select <b>“VSI: Facial skin tone and texture”</b> as the article type when submitting their special issue paper in the EM submission system.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Please see the Guide for Authors for detailed instructions on format:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vision-research/1053-8100/guide-for-authors"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/vision-research/1053-8100/guide-for-authors</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Once accepted, individual articles for the special issue will be published in the <i>next available issue</i> of the journal. Once the special issue is complete, articles will then be grouped together in
ScienceDirect along with the editors’ introduction and overview of the field.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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