PR: Special Issue on Distance Metric Learning for Pattern Recognition

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Special Issue on Distance Metric Learning for Pattern Recognition

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Machine learning techniques have played a central role in pattern recognition, and a variety of machine learning methods have been developed for various pattern recognition applications over the past decade. Among these learning methods, distance metric learning has achieved many state-of-the-arts in many pattern recognition applications, which aims to learn an appropriate distance function given some constrains between samples. To better discover the geometric property of high-dimensional feature spaces and exploit the complementary information of different feature spaces, manifold learning and multi-view learning strategies have also been integrated into distance metric learning to further improve the performance of various distance metric learning methods. While these methods are helpful to learn the similarity of data such as images, videos, texts, radars, and voices, how to develop task-specific distance metric learning algorithms for different pattern recognition tasks still remains unsolved, especially for big data which are captured in the wild. Moreover, how to develop transferable and nonlinear distance metric learning methods for large-scale pattern recognition systems still requires many efforts.

This special issue serves as a forum for researchers all over the world to discuss their works and recent advances in distance metric learning for pattern recognition. Both state-of-the-art works, as well as literature reviews, are welcome for submission. Papers addressing interesting real-world pattern recognition applications are especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Semi-supervised distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Multi-view distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Structural distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Domain transfer distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Deep distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Large-scale distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Hashing-based distance metric learning for pattern recognition
• Comparative study of distance metric learning for pattern recognition
  

Tentative Timetable:

• Paper submission:     Sep. 15, 2016
• First notification:       Dec. 15, 2016
• Revision:                   Jan.  30, 2017
• Final decision:            Jun. 15, 2017
• Publication:                Sep, 2017
  

Submission Instructions:

The submission website for this journal is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/pr/default.asp.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select “SIistance Metric Learning” when they reach the “Article Type Name” step in the submission process.

Guest Editors:

Jiwen Lu,    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, E-mail: elujiwen@gmail.com

Ruiping Wang,     Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Email: ruiping.wang@vipl.ict.ac.cn

Ajmal Mian,     School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Australia, Email: ajmal.mian@uwa.edu.au

Ajay Kumar,     Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Email: csajaykr@comp.polyu.edu.hk

Sudeep Sarkar,    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of South Florida, USA, Email: sarkar@usf.edu