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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Submission is now open for a new research topic titled <b>“Identifying, Analyzing, and Overcoming Challenges in Vision and Language Research”</b>. Submission to this research topic
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">We invite manuscripts on topics as such:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Novel algorithms and techniques that help improve the state-of-the-art in existing V&L tasks</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Novel V&L algorithms that are less prone to dataset bias and spurious correlations, enforce demographic fairness, and/or are more interpretable and explainable</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Novel datasets, sub-tasks, and challenges that help test for new capabilities and/or highlight shortcomings with existing datasets and algorithms in V&L</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Controlled test sets aimed to evaluate specific abilities involved in the language grounded visual understanding</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Probing tasks aiming to evaluate the quality of the multimodal V&L representations</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Novel evaluation metrics that help accurate and fair evaluation of V&L algorithms with respect to dataset bias, label imbalance, lack of compositionality, and other
related issues with V&L tasks</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Previously unknown analysis, key-observations, discussion, and insights about bias and related issues in existing V&L datasets and algorithms</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px">Negative or critical results regarding practices currently used in mainstream V&L research</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">We also welcome well-formulated survey articles, opinion pieces, position papers, or commentaries regarding the current state and future prospects of V&L research if it fits within
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Frontiers’ Research Topics are collections of peer-reviewed articles around an emerging or cutting-edge theme. As a contributing author, you will benefit from:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">• high visibility and the chance to be included in a downloadable eBook</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">• rigorous, transparent, and fast peer-review for your article</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">• publication throughout the year, as soon as your article is accepted</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Submission Deadlines:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Abstract (half page) submission: <b>3rd of May 2021</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Submission of full manuscripts:
<b>5th of July 2021</b></span></p>
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