Artificial Intelligence for Smart Image Perception, Recognition and Understanding

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on smart, data-efficient, and trustworthy image understanding across tasks such as recognition, segmentation, VQA, captioning, generation, and cross-modal alignment. We welcome contributions spanning theoretical advances to practical systems, covering (but not limited to) deep architecture design, self-/un-/weak supervised training, vision–language models, generative–discriminative integration, 2D–3D geometric reasoning, efficiency strategies, robustness and uncertainty, and benchmarking and reproducibility. Application areas include media data processing, medical imaging, industrial inspection, autonomous driving, and remote sensing, among others. By emphasizing shared architectures, data-efficient training paradigms, and rigorous evaluation protocols, this Special Issue aims to transcend task-specific silos and accelerate the development of practical, reliable, and transparent image understanding technologies.

Prof. Dr. Yanbin Hao
Dr. Shuo Wang
Dr. Jinmeng Wu
Guest Editors

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