<div dir="ltr"><h2 id="gmail-m_-5041924545427444610gmail-m_7927850025186882731gmail-:1vb" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;display:inline;outline:none;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif">One-month deadline for the upcoming special issue on IEEE T-CSVT.</font></h2><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;background-color:transparent">More detailed dates and scope of the special issue are listed below.</span><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Looking forward to your contribution!</font></div><div> <div><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES: </span></b><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">                    </span></b><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuscript submission:           1^st November 2020         </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Preliminary results:                  1^stFebruary 2021      </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Revisions due:                         15^th March 2021           </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Notification:                             1^st May 2021            </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Final manuscripts due:             1^st June 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anticipated publication:          November 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:small"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE:</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This special issue aims at promoting cutting-edge research for establishing video object segmentation and detection frameworks based on the advanced machine learning technologies and offers a timely collection of works to benefit researchers and practitioners. We welcome high-quality original submissions addressing both novel theoretical and practical aspects related to this topic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Video object segmentation/detection based on graph convolutional networks</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Video object segmentation/detection based on capsule networks</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Video object segmentation/detection based on deep reinforcement learning</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Video object segmentation/detection based on generative adversarial learning</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Weakly supervised video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Semi-supervised video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero/few-shot video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Unsupervised video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Active learning and cross-domain learning frameworks for video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Self-taught learning-based frameworks for video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Saliency detection and its applications in video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Representation learning for video object segmentation/detection</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tracking and other video understanding systems based on video object segmentation/detection</span></p><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GUEST EDITORS:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dingwen Zhang, Xidian University </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hamid Rezatofighi, Monash </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Junwei Han, Northwestern Polytechnical University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nicu Sebe, University of Trento</span></p></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dingwen Zhang<div><a href="https://zdw-nwpu.github.io/dingwenz.github.com/" target="_blank">https://zdw-nwpu.github.io/dingwenz.github.com/</a><br></div><div>Xidian University</div><div>Carnegie Mellon University</div></div></div></div></div></div>