<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px;" class=""><font color="#222222" face="Arial" size="2" class=""><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/Advanced_Surveillance" class="">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/Advanced_Surveillance</a></font></p><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">The focus of this Special Issue is advanced surveillance using deep learning. The list of topics of interest includes, but is not limited to:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Sensor-Centric Processing:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: outside; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Sensors (visible/infrared/3D/mm wave/audio/radio, etc.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Ground, airborne, satellite-based (fixed/mobile /UAV)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Crowdsourcing (cellular/social networks)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Calibration and positioning (GPS, etc.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Communications and networked sensing</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Distributed Camera Networks and Smart Cameras</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Participatory Sensing</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Processing, Detection, Tracking, and Recognition:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: outside; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Modelling and feature selection</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Detection and estimation (change/motion/anomaly/saliency/pattern)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Data association and (multi-)target tracking</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Classification and recognition</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Multi-modal fusion</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Security and Privacy</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: outside; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Data authenticity</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Privacy in surveillance</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Forensics</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Biometrics (standoff, multi-modal, voice, etc.)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Cybersecurity for surveillance (wireless, network, computer)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Advanced Biometrics at a Distance</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Surveillance Systems and Applications</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; list-style-position: outside; max-height: 1000000px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Hardware and software architectures</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Research prototypes</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Simulators</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Civilian, industrial, and military</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Transportation (road, rail, air, maritime)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 1000000px;" class="">Performance evaluation</li><li class=""></li></ul></body></html>