Evolving Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision (ECV)

Dear Colleagues,

Evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated superior global search capabilities and have been applied to diverse real-life single-, multi-, and many-objective optimisation problems. Examples include the use of evolutionary algorithms for optimal parameter selection and discriminative feature selection pertaining to diverse classification and regression models, as well as hybrid evolutionary and clustering algorithms for image segmentation and visual saliency detection.

In parallel, deep learning models have demonstrated great success in dealing with complex computer vision tasks. Examples include the use of deep convolutional neural networks combined with recurrent models for image caption generation and visual question generation. Deep learning combined with transfer learning has also been employed to deal with various computer vision tasks. Nevertheless, the design of new and effective deep learning models and identification of the optimal hyper-parameters of the resulting models require profound domain knowledge, which may not always be available to researchers. In this regard, the superior search capabilities of evolutionary algorithms can be exploited to tackle such optimisation problems, e.g., to formulate evolving deep neural networks that fit the tasks at hand.

This Special Issue aims to stimulate research pertaining to not only feature selection, optimal topology, and hyper-parameter identification for clustering and classification systems but also evolving deep learning architecture generation through evolutionary algorithm and related paradigms.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Image segmentation
• Data stream clustering
• Feature selection
• Object detection and recognition
• Image description generation
• Visual question generation
• Visual saliency detection
• Image retrieval
• Image classification
• Human or object attribute prediction
• Facial expression recognition and age estimation
• Human action recognition
• Bioinformatics (e.g., skin cancer, heart disease, and brain tumour classification)
• Machine translation, language generation, and speech recognition
• Evolving deep neural network generation for diverse computer vision, image processing, and signal
• processing problems
• Hybrid clustering techniques

Optimal topology and hyper-parameter identification for classification and ensemble learning models

Dr. Li Zhang
Prof. Dr. Chee Peng Lim
Prof. Dr. Chengyu Liu
Guest Editors

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• deep learning
• machine learning
• medical imaging
• computer vision and evolutionary computation