Advances and Applications in Blockchain Technology

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid evolution of electronic systems—ranging from smart sensors and autonomous robots to blockchain-enabled platforms and large-scale multimedia services—is driving an explosion of heterogeneous data. Modern applications must jointly process visual, audio, textual, RF, inertial, transactional, and other streams to achieve reliable perception, secure interaction, and efficient decision-making at scale. This creates an urgent need for multimodal data processing methods that can bridge the gap between low-level electronic signals and high-level intelligent behavior.

This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research on multimodal learning and sensing for electronic and cyber–physical systems. We welcome contributions that develop novel algorithms, system architectures, and hardware–software co-designs to fuse and interpret diverse modalities in real-world scenarios. Particular emphasis is placed on applications such as blockchain-based analytics for electronic transactions and IoT data, multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis, robotics SLAM and navigation, remote sensing and medical imaging, and trustworthy, efficient deployment on edge and embedded devices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Multimodal learning and fusion (vision, audio, text, RF, sensor, transactional data) for electronic and IoT systems.
• Blockchain-based data management, analytics, and security for multimodal and sensor-rich environments.
• Multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis for human–computer interaction and intelligent services.
• Robotics SLAM, LiDAR-vision fusion, and multi-sensor navigation in autonomous systems.
• Multimodal image and signal processing for remote sensing, medical imaging, and industrial inspection.
• Wireless/5G/6G and RF sensing with multimodal fusion for human activity and understanding behavior.
• Trustworthy, robust, and energy-efficient multimodal AI on edge, embedded, and resource-constrained platforms.
• Applications of multimodal data processing in smart cities, intelligent transportation, healthcare, and blockchain-driven ecosystems.

We look forward to receiving high-quality submissions and advancing the state of the art in multimodal data processing for next-generation electronic systems.

Dr. Xianxun Zhu
Prof. Dr. Rui Wang
Dr. Hui Chen
Guest Editors

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• multimodal data processing
• blockchain analytics
• multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis
• robotics SLAM and navigation
• wireless/RF and 6G sensing
• computer vision and image processing
• edge and embedded AI
• remote sensing and medical imaging