Digital Signal and Image Processing for Multimedia Technology

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

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Dear Colleagues,

Determining how to employ deep learning technology has become a primary research topic in numerous fields. These include, for example, image processing, computer vision, the Internet of Things, natural language processing, and multimedia processing. In addition, due to the increasing process power of electronic devices and the expansion of network transmission bandwidth, deep learning models have begun to be embedded in various edge devices for application in several fields, such as automobiles, transportation, education, manufacturing, and many others.

In this Special Issue, entitled "Deep Learning Applications in Image Processing and Edge Devices", we invite authors to submit original research articles and review articles related to the application of deep learning techniques in image processing and edge devices.

We are open to papers addressing a wide range of topics, including deep learning for image analysis problems, novel algorithms for applying deep learning to various computer vision domains, and innovative methods for porting deep learning models to edge devices.

Topics of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Machine learning and deep learning for image processing and computer vision;
  • Deep learning algorithms for clustering and classification;
  • Deep learning algorithms for segmentation and data annotation;
  • Embedded multimedia applications for edge computing;
  • Novel applications in robotic vision and intelligent consumer electronics;
  • Application architecture of AI-based systems.

Dr. Chi-hung Chuang
Prof. Dr. Chih-Lung Lin
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Keywords

  • image processing
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • neural network
  • artificial intelligence
  • multimedia processing

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PANDA: A Polarized Attention Network for Enhanced Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation
by Chiao-Wen Kao, Wei-Ling Chang, Chun-Chieh Lee and Kuo-Chin Fan
Electronics 2024, 13(21), 4302; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13214302 - 31 Oct 2024
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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) focuses on transferring knowledge from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain, reducing the costs of manual data labeling. The main challenge in UDA is bridging the substantial feature distribution gap between the source and target domains. [...] Read more.
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) focuses on transferring knowledge from the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain, reducing the costs of manual data labeling. The main challenge in UDA is bridging the substantial feature distribution gap between the source and target domains. To address this, we propose Polarized Attention Network Domain Adaptation (PANDA), a novel approach that leverages Polarized Self-Attention (PSA) to capture the intricate relationships between the source and target domains, effectively mitigating domain discrepancies. PANDA integrates both channel and spatial information, allowing it to capture detailed features and overall structures simultaneously. Our proposed method significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) techniques for semantic segmentation tasks. Specifically, it achieves a notable improvement in mean intersection over union (mIoU), with a 0.2% increase for the GTA→Cityscapes benchmark and a substantial 1.4% gain for the SYNTHIA→Cityscapes benchmark. As a result, our method attains mIoU scores of 76.1% and 68.7%, respectively, which reflect meaningful advancements in model accuracy and domain adaptation performance. Full article
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Dense Feature Pyramid Deep Completion Network
by Xiaoping Yang, Ping Ni, Zhenhua Li and Guanghui Liu
Electronics 2024, 13(17), 3490; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13173490 - 2 Sep 2024
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Most current point cloud super-resolution reconstruction requires huge calculations and has low accuracy when facing large outdoor scenes; a Dense Feature Pyramid Network (DenseFPNet) is proposed for the feature-level fusion of images with low-resolution point clouds to generate higher-resolution point clouds, which can [...] Read more.
Most current point cloud super-resolution reconstruction requires huge calculations and has low accuracy when facing large outdoor scenes; a Dense Feature Pyramid Network (DenseFPNet) is proposed for the feature-level fusion of images with low-resolution point clouds to generate higher-resolution point clouds, which can be utilized to solve the problem of the super-resolution reconstruction of 3D point clouds by turning it into a 2D depth map complementation problem, which can reduce the time and complexity of obtaining high-resolution point clouds only by LiDAR. The network first utilizes an image-guided feature extraction network based on RGBD-DenseNet as an encoder to extract multi-scale features, followed by an upsampling block as a decoder to gradually recover the size and details of the feature map. Additionally, the network connects the corresponding layers of the encoder and decoder through pyramid connections. Finally, experiments are conducted on the KITTI deep complementation dataset, and the network performs well in various metrics compared to other networks. It improves the RMSE by 17.71%, 16.60%, 7.11%, and 4.68% compared to the CSPD, Spade-RGBsD, Sparse-to-Dense, and GAENET. Full article
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