Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, many visualization and imaging systems generate complex visual contents with a large amount of data, making the data extremely difficult to handle. This growing mass of data requires new strategies for data analysis and interpretation. In recent years, particular attention has been paid to deep learning methods for visual contents analysis and applications. Inspired by artificial intelligence, mathematics, biology and other fields, these methods can find relationships between different categories of complex data and provide a set of tools for analyzing and handling visual contents.

This Special Issue will provide a forum to publish original research papers covering state-of-the-art, new algorithms, methodologies, applications, theories and implementations of deep learning methods for visual contents, such as image, video, stereoscopic images, 3D meshes, points clouds, visual graphs, etc.

This Special Issue is primarily focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Classification;
Retrieval;
Restoration;
Compression;
Segmentation;
Visual quality assessment;
Convolutional neural networks (CNN);
Autoencoders;
Generative adversarial networks (GAN);
Reinforcement learning.
Prof. Dr. Hocine Cherifi
Prof. Dr. Mohammed El Hassouni
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Imaging is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Hocine Cherifi Website
Guest Editor
LE2I, University of Burgundy, UMR 6306 CNRS, Dijon, France
Interests: Signal & Image Processing; Computer Vision; Data Compression; Multimedia Quality; Complex Networks

Prof. Dr. Mohammed El Hassouni Website
Guest Editor
LRIT, FLSHR, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Interests: Computer Vision; Deep learning; Complex Networks; Data modeling and analysis; Artificial Intelligence