Trustworthy Deep Learning in Practice

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, deep learning has achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and acoustics. However, research has revealed severe security challenges over the deep learning life-cycle, prompting concern about their trustworthiness in practice. Since there are potential risks that threaten the applications of deep learning in both the digital and physical world, it is necessary to converge advanced investigations in correlated research areas to successfully diagnose model blind-spots and further understand, and improve, deep learning systems in practice.

In this Special Issue, we aim to bring together researchers from the fields of adversarial machine learning, model robustness, model privacy, and explainable AI to discuss recent research and future directions for trustworthy AI. We invite submissions on any aspect of trustworthiness in practical deep learning systems (in particular computer vision and pattern recognition). We welcome research contributions related to the following (but not limited to) topics:

• Adversarial learning (attacks, defenses);
• Backdoor attacks and mitigations for deep learning models;
• Model stealing for AI applications and systems;
• Deepfake techniques on images and videos;
• Stable learning and model generalization;
• Robustness, fairness, privacy, and reliability in AI;
• Explainable and practical AI.

Dr. Jiakai Wang
Dr. Aishan Liu
Prof. Dr. Xianglong Liu
Guest Editors

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