Applied Multimodal AI: Methods and Applications Across Domains
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: large model safety; image/video generation and editing
Interests: medical image and video analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue highlights practical advances in multimodal AI—systems that jointly reason over text, images, audio, video, time-series, and structured data to solve real-world problems across domains. We welcome application-driven studies that demonstrate measurable impacts in healthcare (medical imaging + EHR text), robotics and embodied AI (vision–language–action), autonomous driving (camera–LiDAR–map fusion), education and accessibility (speech–vision for assistive tools), and creative industries (audio-visual understanding).
Submissions may cover fusion architectures (early/intermediate/late), cross-modal alignment and grounding, retrieval-augmented multimodal reasoning, controllability and tool use, and on-device or streaming inference under resource constraints. We particularly encourage works that address robustness to domain shift, privacy and security, fairness across languages and geographies, and human-in-the-loop evaluation. Contributions can include original research, systems papers, datasets/benchmarks, comprehensive evaluations, and application case studies with open resources. The goal is to provide a clear picture of how multimodal methods translate from algorithms to dependable products, establishing best practices for data curation, fusion design, deployment, and rigorous, task-relevant metrics.
Dr. Fei Shen
Dr. JungHwan Oh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- large model safety
- image/video generation and editing
- medical image and video analysis
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