Machine Vision Applications and Efficient Deep Learning Models for Resource-Limited Learning
A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 10073
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision systems for active vehicle safety and driver assistance; machine learning and sensor fusion for autonomous driving; sensor technology; big data analytics for medicine; cross-border security; distributed sensing for industrial monitoring and automation
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Interests: deep learning; applied machine learning; computer vision; image processing
Interests: cloud computing; predictive analytics; computational intelligence; multi-objective optimization; resource management; GPGPU computing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past two decades of intelligent learning systems have fundamentally evolved around the advancement in deep neural networks (DNNs). DNNs have become a go-to model for various problems, from basic image understanding to complex segmentation and predictive analysis using big data (BD). For example, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are the backbones of state-of-the-art object classification, object localization, computer-aided diagnosis (CADx), robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Given a large set of labeled data, DNNs’ data representation mechanism has repeatedly proven superior to conventional human-engineered features.
Despite their adoption in a wide range of applications across all the fields of natural science and engineering, they do not scale well on resource-limited conditions, such as scarcity of data and hardware support. Specifically, in the domains where collecting annotated data is very costly and time-consuming since it requires domain expertise. In some cases, due to security and privacy, gathering a large amount of information is not even feasible. Hence, beyond a successful training and testing of DNNs in a laboratory setting, most real-world deployment does not have the luxury of a high-performance computing platform. To overcome these shortcomings, there is a huge demand for research and development of optimized DNNs with the following considerations: quicker training and convergence (higher training speed), applicability for real-time environments (higher inference speed), ability to reach generalization from a small number of data samples (even weekly supervised and unsupervised strategies are considered), scalability across computational platforms (GPUs, CPUs, and embedded platforms). A proposed solution can focus on one or more of the above criteria.
We request research articles presenting novel algorithms and experimental studies on machine vision applications, and ideas (methods, tools, concepts, or even literature surveys) that will contribute to the advanced development of future deep learning models for resource-limited environments.
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wu
Dr. Thangarajah Akilan
Dr. Jitendra Kumar
Dr. Chengsheng Yuan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lightweight convolutional neural network
- neural network compression
- transfer learning/domain adaptations approaches
- machine/computer vision
- medical image processing
- object classification/segmentation/localization
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