Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Symmetry, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2174

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue, "Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Symmetry", on the topic of symmetry/asymmetry. This Special Issue seeks high-quality contributions in the fields of computer vision/pattern recognition/machine learning and symmetry in theory, as well as applications to solve practical application problems.

This Special Issue of Symmetry will collect articles on solving real-world problems by solving data- and learning-centric technologies, including computer vision, pattern recognition, and the correlation between machine learning and symmetry. We are soliciting contributions covering all related topics including, but not limited to, vision, multimedia, biometrics, behavior analysis, adversarial learning, simulation, network security, Internet of Things, and performance. The main criteria for submission are theoretical and application-centric innovative methods aimed at solving real-world problems. There is no limit on the number of pages, but the submissions must demonstrate an understanding of the theme and a contribution to the topic.

Dr. Longfei Zhang
Dr. William Steingartner
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Keywords

  • computer vision
  • applied statistics
  • pattern recognition
  • behavior analysis
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • adversarial learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • deep learning
  • emerging technologies (telecommunications, blockchain, Internet of Things, cyber security, digital performance, smart creativity)

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Audio-Visual Learning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition
by Siyu Fan, Jianan Jing and Chongwen Wang
Symmetry 2025, 17(3), 418; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17030418 - 11 Mar 2025
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Most current emotion recognition methods are often limited to a single- or dual-modality approach, neglecting the rich information embedded in other modalities. This limitation hampers the accurate identification of complex or subtle emotional expressions. Additionally, to reduce the computational cost during inference, minimizing [...] Read more.
Most current emotion recognition methods are often limited to a single- or dual-modality approach, neglecting the rich information embedded in other modalities. This limitation hampers the accurate identification of complex or subtle emotional expressions. Additionally, to reduce the computational cost during inference, minimizing the model’s parameter size is essential. To address these challenges, we utilize the concept of symmetry to design a balanced multimodal architecture that integrates facial expressions, speech, and body posture information, aiming to enhance both recognition performance and computational efficiency. By leveraging the E-Branchformer network and using the F1- score as the primary performance evaluation metric, the experiments are mainly conducted on the CREMA-D corpora. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms baseline models on the CREMA-D dataset and an extended dataset incorporating eNTERFACE’05, achieving significant performance improvements while reducing the number of parameters. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and provide a new technical solution for the field of emotion recognition. Full article
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A Biologically Inspired Model for Detecting Object Motion Direction in Stereoscopic Vision
by Yuxiao Hua, Sichen Tao, Yuki Todo, Tianqi Chen, Zhiyu Qiu and Zheng Tang
Symmetry 2025, 17(2), 162; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17020162 - 22 Jan 2025
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This paper presents a biologically inspired model, the Stereoscopic Direction Detection Mechanism (SDDM), designed to detect motion direction in three-dimensional space. The model addresses two key challenges: the lack of biological interpretability in current deep learning models and the limited exploration of binocular [...] Read more.
This paper presents a biologically inspired model, the Stereoscopic Direction Detection Mechanism (SDDM), designed to detect motion direction in three-dimensional space. The model addresses two key challenges: the lack of biological interpretability in current deep learning models and the limited exploration of binocular functionality in existing biologically inspired models. Rooted in the fundamental concept of ’disparity’, the SDDM is structurally divided into components representing the left and right eyes. Each component mimics the layered architecture of the human visual system, from the retinal layer to the primary visual cortex. By replicating the functions of various cells involved in stereoscopic motion direction detection, the SDDM offers enhanced biological plausibility and interpretability. Extensive experiments were conducted to evaluate the model’s detection accuracy for various objects and its robustness against different types of noise. Additionally, to ascertain whether the SDDM matches the performance of established deep learning models in the field of three-dimensional motion direction detection, its performance was benchmarked against EfficientNet and ResNet under identical conditions. The results demonstrate that the SDDM not only exhibits strong performance and robust biological interpretability but also requires significantly lower hardware and time costs compared to advanced deep learning models. Full article
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