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Neural Networks journal special issue on GANs <br>GUEST EDITORS: Ariel Ruiz-Garcia, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Vasile Palade, Clive Cheong Took, Danilo Mandic<br>SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 2019(early submission are encouraged)</font><br>----------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b>: Neural Networks journal
(7.197IF)</div><div><br></div><div><div> <b>Special Issue on Deep Neural Network Representation and Generative Adversarial Learning</b></div><br>Generative
Adversarial Networks (GANs) have proven to be efficient systems for
data generation. Their success is achieved by exploiting a minimax
learning concept, which has proved to be an effective paradigm in
earlier works, such as predictability minimization, in which two
networks compete with each other during the learning process. One of the
main advantages of GANs over other deep learning methods is their
ability to generate new data from noise, as well as their ability to
virtually imitate any data distribution. However, generating realistic
data using GANs remains a challenge, particularly when specific features
are required; for example, constraining the latent aggregate
distribution space does not guarantee that the generator will produce an
image with a specific attribute. On the other hand, new advancements in
deep representation learning (RL) can help improve the learning process
in Generative Adversarial Learning (GAL). For instance, RL can help
address issues such as dataset bias and network co-adaptation, and
identify a set of features that are best suited for a given task.<br><br>Despite
their obvious advantages and their application to a wide range of
domains, GANs have yet to overcome several challenges. They often fail
to converge and are very sensitive to parameter and hyper-parameter
initialization. Simultaneous learning of a generator and a discriminator
network often results in overfitting. Moreover, the generator model is
prone to mode collapse, which results in failure to generate data with
several variations. Accordingly, new theoretical methods in deep RL and
GAL are required to improve the learning process and generalization
performance of GANs, as well as to yield new insights into how GANs
learn data distributions.<br><br>This special issue on Deep Neural
Network Representation and Generative Adversarial Learning invites
researchers and practitioners to present novel contributions addressing
theoretical and practical aspects of deep representation and generative
adversarial learning. The special issue will feature a collection of
high quality theoretical articles for improving the learning process and
the generalization of generative neural networks. State-of-the-art
applications based on deep generative adversarial networks are also very
welcome. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited to:<br><ul><li>Representation learning methods and theory;</li><li>Adversarial representation learning for domain adaptation;</li><li>Network interpretability in adversarial learning;</li><li>Adversarial feature learning; </li><li>RL and GAL for data augmentation and class imbalance;</li><li>New GAN models and new GAN learning criteria;</li><li>RL and GAL in classification;</li><li>Adversarial reinforcement learning;</li><li>GANs for noise reduction;</li><li>Recurrent GAN models;</li><li>GANs for imitation learning;</li><li>GANs for image segmentation and image completion;</li><li>GANs for image super-resolution;</li><li>GANs for speech and audio processing</li><li>GANs for object detection;</li><li>GANs for Internet of Things;</li><li>RL and GANs for image and video synthesis;</li><li>RL and GANs for speech and audio synthesis;</li><li>RL and GANs for text to audio or text to image synthesis;</li><li>RL and GANs for inpainting and sketch to image; </li><li>RL and GAL in neural machine translation;</li><li>RL and GANs in other application domains. <br></li></ul><b>Important Dates:</b><br><ul><li>30 September 2019 – Submission deadline (early submission are encouraged</li><li>31 December 2019 – First decision notification</li><li>28 February 2020 – Revised version deadline</li><li>30 April 2020 – Final decision notification</li><li>July 2020 – Publication</li></ul><div><b>Guest Editors:</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Dr Ariel Ruiz-Garcia</b></div>Coventry University, UK<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ariel.9arcia@gmail.com" target="_blank">ariel.9arcia@gmail.com</a><br><br><b>Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber</b><br>NNAISENSE,<br>Swiss AI Lab IDSIA,<br>USI & SUPSI, Switzerland<br>Email: <a href="mailto:juergen@idsia.ch" target="_blank">juergen@idsia.ch</a><br><br><b>Dr Vasile Palade</b><br>Coventry University, UK<br>Email: <a href="mailto:vasile.palade@coventry.ac.uk" target="_blank">vasile.palade@coventry.ac.uk</a><br><br><b>Dr Clive Cheong Took</b><br>Royal Holloway (University of London), UK<br>Email: <a href="mailto:Clive.CheongTook@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">Clive.CheongTook@rhul.ac.uk</a><br><br><b>Professor Danilo Mandic</b><br>Imperial College London, UK<br>Email: <a href="mailto:d.mandic@imperial.ac.uk" target="_blank">d.mandic@imperial.ac.uk</a><br><br><div><b>Submission Procedure:</b></div>Prospective authors should follow the standard author instructions for Neural Networks, and submit manuscripts online at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/neunet/" target="_blank">http://ees.elsevier.com/neunet/</a>.
Authors should select “VSI:RL and GANs” when they reach the “Article
Type” step and the "Request Editor" step in the submission process.<br><br>For any questions related to the special issue please email Dr Ariel Ruiz-Garcia (<a href="mailto:ariel.9arcia@gmail.com" target="_blank">ariel.9arcia@gmail.com</a>)</div>
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