专题征稿 | Special Issue on Subtle Visual Computing

Machine Intelligence Research

MIR专题"Special Issue on Subtle Visual Computing"现公开征集原创稿件，截稿日期为2025年6月30日。欢迎赐稿！

Subtle visual signals, though often imperceptible to the human eye, contain subtle yet crucial information that can reveal hidden patterns within visual data. By applying advanced computer vision and representation learning techniques, we can unlock the potential of these signals to better understand and interpret complex environments. This ability to detect and analyze subtle signals has profound implications across various fields, e.g., (1) from medicine, where early identification of minute anomalies in medical imaging can lead to life-saving interventions, (2) from industry, where spotting micro-defects in production lines can prevent costly failures, (3) from affective computing, where understanding micro-expression, micro-gesture, and hidden physiological signals under human interaction scenarios can benefit the deception detection. In an era overwhelmed by information, the capacity to detect and decode these “subtle visual signals” offers a novel and powerful approach to anticipating trends, identifying emerging threats, and discovering new opportunities. These signals, often ignored or overlooked, may hold key insights into future developments across different societal contexts.

Although recent advances on subtle visual computing have demonstrated significant potential, several challenges persist in terms of effectiveness, robustness, and generalization. Specifically, these challenges include: (1) limited representation of subtle visual signals, (2) insufficient generalization ability, and (3) limited performance in multi-task and multimodal scenarios. This special issue seeks to develop innovative representation learning models specifically designed to capture and interpret subtle visual signals. By doing so, it will provide new ways of perceiving and acting on visual information, empowering decision-making in fields such as healthcare, industrial processes, and affective computing. Ultimately, we hope this special issue aspires to demonstrate how hidden visual cues, when properly decoded, can offer critical foresight and actionable insights in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

13) Survey or technical review about recent advances on subtle visual computing.

1) 截稿日期：2025年6月30日

2) 投稿地址（已开通）：

https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/mir

投稿时，请在系统中选择：

“Step 6 Details & Comments: Special Issue and Special Section---Special Issue on Subtle Visual Computing”.

3) 投稿及同行评议指南:

Full length manuscripts and peer reviewing will follow the MIR guidelines. For details: https://www.springer.com/journal/11633

Asst. Prof. Zitong Yu*, Great Bay University, China.

E-mail: yuzitong@gbu.edu.cn

Prof. Sergio Escalera, University of Barcelona, Spain.

E-mail: sergio.escalera.guerrero@gmail.com

Prof. Deng-Ping Fan, Nankai University, China.

E-mail: fdp@nankai.edu.cn.

Prof. Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany & Imperial College London, UK.

E-mail: schuller@tum.de

Prof. Philip H. S. Torr, University of Oxford, UK.

E-mail: philip.torr@eng.ox.ac.uk