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Recent Advances in Audio, Speech and Music Processing and Analysis submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6995 | Submission Open
Keywords: sound analysis; sound processing; music information retrieval; audio analysis; audio recognition; music technology; computational music cognition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Innovations and Challenges
edited by Hanqing Yang, , Zening Li and Zhengmao Li
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6383 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrogen energy; fuel cells; smart grid; energy conversion; hydrogen vehicle
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Precise Timing and Security in Internet of Things
edited by Xintao Huan, Heng Wang, Yan Zong, Guyue Li and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6152 | Submission Open
Keywords: Internet of Things; time synchronization; cybersecurity; radio frequency fingerprinting; hardware fingerprinting; wireless key generation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Futuristic Security and Privacy in 6G-Enabled IoT submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6032 | Submission Open
Keywords: future security; privacy; IoT; 6G; reputation in 6G; anomaly detection in IoT; renewable energy in IoT; blockchain and IoT; threat and vulnerability in IoT
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
AI Used in Mobile Communications and Networks
edited by Yiming Liu, Zhi Zhang and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4847 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; mobile communication networks; intelligent network management; deep learning; reinforcement learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
System-on-Chip (SoC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design
edited by Nicola Lusardi
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4677 | Submission Open
Keywords: system-on-chip (SoC); field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); real-time processing; programmable temporal computing; programmable parallel computing; time mode
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Future Prospects of Wireless Transmission Based on Engineering Electrical Electronic and Telecommunications
edited by and Muhammad Ikram Ashraf
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4135 | Submission Open
Keywords: trends in 5G and beyond; wireless communication; massive MIMO; Internet of Things; URLLC
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Advances in AI Engineering: Exploring Machine Learning Applications
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3236 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI applications; AI in industry; AI for electronic; AI for materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Advances in Mobile Robots: Navigation, Motion Planning and Control
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2576 | Submission Open
Keywords: mobile robotics; navigation; path planning; control of posture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Artificial Intelligence in Image and Video Processing
edited by Yue Zhang, Bin Chen, Jinlin Guo and Xueliang Liu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2514 | Submission Open
Keywords: computer vision; image analysis; video analysis; large pretrained model; surveillance images; remote sensing images; object detection; image segmentation; object tracking
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Vehicular Communication Systems and Networks
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1968 | Submission Open
Keywords: C-V2X; V2X protocols; resource allocation in V2X; vulnerable road users (VRUs); 3GPP NR-V2X
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Advanced Nonlinear and Learning-Based Control Techniques for Complex Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1927 | Submission Open
Keywords: optimization; observer design; adaptive control; learning control; intelligent control; robust control; formation control; geometric control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Next-Generation Optical Wireless Communication: Emerging Research and Opportunities
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1840 | Submission Open
Keywords: next-generation optical wireless communication; free space optical wireless communication; underwater optical wireless communication; visible light communication; sensor network communications; convergence of optical and wireless access networks; optical networks reliability and security; novel protocols; architectures; materials; and devices for OWC systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Intelligent Resource Allocation Methods for Next Generation Wireless Cellular Systems
edited by Yaru Fu, Hong Wang, Zheng Shi and Yalin Liu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1284 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital twin; Internet-of-Things; intelligent reflecting surface (IRS); massive MIMO; non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA); rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA); sixth-generation wireless communication networks (6G); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Parallel, Distributed, Edge Computing in UAV Communication
edited by Yuan Gao
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1251 | Submission Open
Keywords: wireless network; 5G/6G; resource allocation; air to ground network; NTN; remote sensing; drone network; satellite network; emergency communication; SON; AI driven network; edge computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Deep Learning-Based Object Detection/Classification
edited by Kuo-Kun Tseng
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1212 | Submission Open
Keywords: object detection; object classification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Smart Antennas and Systems for 5G and Beyond: Latest Advances and Prospects
edited by Jesús Alberto López Fernández, Lei Wang, and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 795 | Submission Open
Keywords: plane-wave generator; RIS; channel sounder for spatial profile measurements; 5G; 6G; non-terrestrial networks; adaptive antennas; tracking; active arrays; reconfigurable antennas and arrays; hybrid scanned arrays; AI inspired/assisted/augmented antennas and arrays
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Deep/Machine Learning in Visual Recognition and Anomaly Detection
edited by Yang Liu and Jin Li
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 752 | Submission Open
Keywords: few-/zero-shot learning; visual recognition; anomaly detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
Research on Key Technologies for Hardware Acceleration
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 652 | Submission Open
Keywords: hardware accelerators; reconfigurable FPGA acceleration; in-/near-memory computing; 2.5D/3D integrated chiplets
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Communication Systems and Manipulators for Robots and Unmanned Systems
edited by , Georgi Valentinov Hristov, Ivan Beloev and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 646 | Submission Open
Keywords: unmanned systems and robots; manipulators; actuators and end effectors; communication systems for drones and robots; tethered drones and robots; payloads for drones and robots; extensions for robots and drones; intelligent drones and robots; autonomous navigation and teleoperation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Digital Signal and Image Processing for Multimedia Technology submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 567 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing; computer vision; deep learning; neural network; artificial intelligence; multimedia processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Research and Application of Neural Networks in Human-Computer Interaction submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open
Keywords: neural networks; deep learning; human– computer interaction; interactive systems; natural interfaces
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Unlocking Data’s Potential: Artificial Intelligence and Visual Analytics in the Modern Age
edited by , and Rita Francese
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 388 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); visual analytics; natural language processing; explainable AI; big data analytics; data interpretation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
Advances in Solid-State Single Photon Detection Devices and Circuits
edited by , and Hao Li
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 367 | Submission Open
Keywords: single-photon detection; single-photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD); geiger-mode multi-pixel photon counter (MPCC); silicon photomultiplier (SiPM); geiger-mode operation; violet/Visible/Shortwave Infrared; GaN/Silicon/InGaAs; focal plane array; active quenching circuit; timing digital converter; time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC); three-dimensional LiDAR; quantum information processing.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Applications of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Electric Vehicles
edited by Yitong Shang, , Qiang Xing, Shiwei Xie, and Bo Wang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 313 | Submission Open
Keywords: electric vehicle; artificial intelligence; battery management; motor control; ev load forecasting; vehicle-to-grid; smart grid; intelligent transportation; sustainable city
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Neuromorphic Computing: Devices, Chips, and Algorithm
edited by Shaogang Hu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open
Keywords: neuromorphic computing; neuromorphic devices; brain-inspired hardware; software and algorithm; computational neuroscience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Advanced Control Techniques for Power Converter and Drives submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced control techniques; power converters; electric drives; dynamic modeling; system identification; optimization; fault tolerance; real-time implementation; renewable energy integration; industrial automation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Advanced Charging Technology for Electric Vehicles
edited by , Zhichao Luo, and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open
Keywords: charging technology; vehicle to everything; intelligent vehicle integration; low-temperature preheating; charging safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Application and Development of Intelligent Information Processing Technologies
edited by Wei Yu, Zhongmin Yan and Shichao Liu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; data analysis; intelligent systems; big data technologies; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Security and Privacy in Emerging Technologies
edited by Bowen Zhao, Cheng Qiao and Jun Jiang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open
Keywords: privacy protection; network security; emerging intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Superconducting Electronics and Its Application
edited by Claudio Puglia and Giorgio De Simoni
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 152 | Submission Open
Keywords: superconductivity; superconducting electronics; superconducting qubits; superconducting mesoscopic devices; quantum technologies; quantum sensing; quantum communication; superconducting diode effect
New Trends in AI-Assisted Computer Vision
edited by Huikai Shao, Dan Zeng and Shuiwang Li
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing; feature extraction; object detection; object tracking; image segmentation; biometrics; semantic segmentation; edge detection; deep learning; visual recognition; 3D vision; pose estimation; behaviour analysis; scene understanding; visual question answering; augmented reality; virtual reality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
High-Performance Software Systems
edited by , Xizhe Yin and Yifan Mao
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-performance; networking; database; cloud; fault tolerance; availability; distributed systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Recent Progress in Visual AI: Architectures, Learning, and Applications
edited by Changshuo Wang, , Prayag Tiwari, Gang Wang and Ruiping Wang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open
Keywords: visual AI; pattern recognition; transformer models; multimodal representation learning; 3D vision; autonomous driving
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies and Systems for Smart Cities
edited by Xin Lu, Yuechuan Tao and Xianzhuo Sun
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy systems; energy management; energy modelling and optimization; battery energy storage systems; smart cities; transportation systems; smart buildings
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Design, Control, Optimization, and Security of Next-Generation Communications Networks
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open
Keywords: next-generation communication networks; system architecture; federated learning; data analysis; distributed/decentralized control; energy efficiency; resource allocation and management; security and Privacy; AI technology; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
AI for Wireless Communications and Security
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open
Keywords: wireless networks AI; deep learning; 5/6G; communications; security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Devices, Tools, and Methodologies for Embedded System Development in the 5.0 Industry Era
edited by , María José Moron-Fernández and
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open
Keywords: embedded systems; hardware-software co-design; cyber-physical systems; real-time embedded systems; embedded systems security; FPGA-based design of embedded systems; edge computing; device-level fog computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Medical Robots: Safety, Performance and Improvement
edited by and Jiangchang Xu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: medical robotics; human– robot collaboration; intelligent control; robot sensing; image-guided interventions; safe collaboration; immersive teleoperations; medical-image computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)
Advanced Intelligent Control and Automation in Industrial 4.0 Era
edited by and Bo Zhou
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent manufacturing; advanced intelligent control; automation; industry 4.0; robotics; manufacturing execution system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
Superconducting Machines Performance Optimization
edited by Dong Liu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: aviation; finite element; marine; optimization; superconducting machine; wind energy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Reliability and Artificial Intelligence in Power Electronics
edited by Xu Xu, , and Huayi Wu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open
Keywords: power electronics; artificial intelligence; reliability of power electronics components and systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
AI-Empowered Decarbonization for Modern Power Grids
edited by , Chaoxian Wu and Zhong Zhang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open
Keywords: power system decarbonization; smart grid; artificial intelligence; renewable energy; electric vehicles; energy storage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Microgrid
edited by Yajie Jiang, and Wei Xu
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: material design; microgrid modeling; artificial intelligence; electric vehicle; battery management system; energy management; power electronics; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Advanced Wireless Communications and Computing of IoV in Smart Cities
edited by Xiaoxuan Wang, Bo Zhou and Xin Fan
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open
Keywords: Internet of Vehicles; communications and networking; intelligent and efficiency computing; security; MEC networking; ultra-reliable wireless communications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Image Processing: From Datasets to Segmentation, Classification and Detection
edited by Wei Ke, Lin Chen and Yuhang He
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing; classification; object detection; object segmentation; medical image processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Deep Learning in Video and Image Processing: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open
Keywords: real-time machine learning; edge computing; video processing; image processing; algorithm optimization; hardware– software co-design; energy-efficient ML; latency-sensitive applications; computational efficiency; resource-constrained devices; anomaly detection; real-time diagnostics; autonomous vehicles; object recognition; urban traffic management; augmented reality; industrial automation; wildlife monitoring; disaster response systems; smart home devices; wearable technology; health monitoring; personalized feedback; real-time data processing; ML model deployment; edge AI; smart cameras; low-power computing; data privacy; real-world ML applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Image Processing
edited by Fan Jiang and Liang Chen
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; image analysis; deep learning; computer vision; convolutional neural networks; image segmentation; real-time processing; machine learning algorithms; automated diagnosis; image reconstruction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Challenges and Opportunities in the Internet of Vehicles
edited by Sohan Gyawali, Yili Jiang and Jiaqi Huang
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open
Keywords: internet of vehicles; intelligent transportation system; V2X communications; misbehavior detection; privacy and security; explainable AI; edge computing; fog computing; 5G-based IoV
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
The Application of Generative Models in Intelligent Decision Support
edited by Haihong E, Yifan Zhu, Qika Lin and Kaize Shi
submission deadline 15 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: generative models; decision support systems; intelligent decision support; trustworthy AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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