Advances in Image Processing and Computer Vision Based on Machine Learning, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".

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Interests: audio signal processing; biometrics; IoT; drone/UAV communications; rainfall estimation and monitoring; post-earthquake geolocation; image processing, computer vision, machine learning-based applications
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will be dedicated to recent advances in image processing and computer vision. The recent explosion in developments and application areas in this field is largely due to the powerful capabilities of machine learning algorithms and, more specifically, convolutional neural networks (CNNs).

Computer vision plays an important role in healthcare (e.g., COVID-19), anti-crime applications, and countering hydrogeological disruption. This Special Issue will present original, unpublished, ground-breaking research in the metaverse and computer vision, focusing on new algorithms and mechanisms, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). We aim to bring leading scientists and researchers together and create an interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of computational theories, methodologies, and techniques.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to disseminate research papers or state-of-the-art surveys that pertain to novel or emerging applications in the field of image processing and computer vision based on machine learning algorithms. Papers may contribute to technologies and application areas that have emerged over the last decade. We particularly welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the areas mentioned in the list of keywords below.

Dr. Francesco Beritelli
Dr. Roberta Avanzato
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Keywords

  • image processing
  • image segmentation
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • machine learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • classification
  • healthcare applications
  • novel industrial applications
  • high-speed computer vision
  • novel applications for 3D vision
  • object recognition
  • object detection
  • object tracking

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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Improving Adversarial Robustness of 3D Object Detection Models
by Mumuxin Cai, Xupeng Wang, Ferdous Sohel and Hang Lei
Electronics 2025, 14(2), 236; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14020236 - 8 Jan 2025
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Three-dimensional object detection based on deep neural networks (DNNs) is widely used in safety-related applications, such as autonomous driving. However, existing research has shown that 3D object detection models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Hence, the improvement on the robustness of deep 3D [...] Read more.
Three-dimensional object detection based on deep neural networks (DNNs) is widely used in safety-related applications, such as autonomous driving. However, existing research has shown that 3D object detection models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Hence, the improvement on the robustness of deep 3D detection models under adversarial attacks is investigated in this work. A deep autoencoder-based anomaly detection method is proposed, which has a strong ability to detect elaborate adversarial samples in an unsupervised way. The proposed anomaly detection method operates on a given Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scene in its Bird’s Eye View (BEV) image and reconstructs the scene through an autoencoder. To improve the performance of the autoencoder, an augmented memory module with typical normal patterns recorded is introduced. It is designed to help the model to amplify the reconstruction errors of malicious samples with normal samples negligibly affected. Experiments on several public datasets show that the proposed anomaly detection method achieves an AUC of 0.8 under adversarial attacks and improves the robustness of 3D object detection. Full article
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