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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">we cordially invite you to submit methodical or applied contributions on advances in deep neural networks for visual pattern recognition to our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Imaging. For details, please see
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/deep_neural_network">
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/deep_neural_network</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- supervised, semisupervised, and unsupervised deep learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- deep reinforcement learning and active vision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- principles and best practices for neural network architecture design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- generative models for pattern recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- interpretability and explainability of neural networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- robustness and generalization of neural networks (e.g., confidence, sample efficiency, out-of-distribution performance)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- metalearning, Auto-ML<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- image classification and segmentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- object detection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- document analysis, e.g., handwriting recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- biometrics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- industrial applications such as predictive maintenance, automatic quality control, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- medical image processing, digital histopathology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best reargds,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thilo Stadelmann & Frank-Peter Schilling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Guest Editors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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