Deep Learning Models and Applications to Computer Vision
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Signal and Data Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 33470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; image processing; visual data; privacy; security; object classification; activity recognition; medical image analysis
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Interests: neural networks; deep learning; IoT; smart cities; resource-efficient machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Information theory has proved to be effective for solving many computer-related vision and pattern recognition problems (including, but not limited to, entropy thresholding, feature selection, clustering and segmentation, image matching, saliency detection, optimal classifier design). Increasingly, information theory concepts are being applied in computer vision applications. Some examples include measures (mutual information, entropy, information gain, etc.), principles (maximum entropy, minimax entropy, cross-entropy, relative-entropy, etc.) and theories (such as rate distortion theory).
Entropy is a metric for how chaotic a system is. Using different types of entropy to optimise algorithms, such as decision trees or deep neural networks, has been shown to increase speed and performance since it is significantly more dynamic than other, more inflexible metrics such as accuracy or even mean-squared error. It has been demonstrated that models that are entropy-optimized can navigate the domain of unpredictability with a greater sense of purpose and awareness, and consequently lead to better overall model performance.
The fusion of computer vision with deep learning has produced amazing results for image classification, object recognition, face recognition and many more vision-related tasks. We have also seen quite impressive results in medical image analysis, security and privacy-enabled image and video processing. Furthermore, lightweight machine learning and deep learning models for edge devices have opened another opportunity to embed the learning modules into small edge devices including mobile phones, surveillance cameras, wrist watches, etc. to provide secure data acquisition and transmission. With the re-enforcement of privacy laws around the world the research community needs to develop solution-by-designs for vison-based tasks that make use of deep learning methods, including the generations and use of privacy-aware training data.
This Special Issue aims to publish cutting edge research in privacy and security enabled solutions to different vision related tasks such as recognition, tracking, autonomous driving, medical image analysis and classification. The Special Issue will accept unpublished original papers and comprehensive reviews focused (but not limited to) on the following research areas
- Entropy-based object recognition;
- Spatial-entropy-based computer vision models;
- Mathematical advancement in deep learning models;
- Light weight deep learning models for edge devices/resource constrained devices;
- Privacy aware computer vision solutions;
- Visual data security;
- Identification and mitigation techniques for cyber-attacks on image and video data;
- Deep learning methods for image style transfer;
- Deep learning methods for image segmentation;
- Deep learning methods for object detection and classification;
- Virtual reality applications;
- Immersive technology;
- Application of deep learning methods for human computer interaction;
- Smart cities.
Dr. Nadia Kanwal
Dr. Mohammad Samar Ansari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deep learning
- image segmentation
- video image analysis
- medical image analysis
- cyber attacks on video data
- image style transfer
- visual data security
- visual data privacy
- entropy
- information gain
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