IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Deep Learning Technologies for Internet of Video Things

Recently, data-driven algorithms such as deep neural networks have attracted a lot of attention and have become a popular area of research and development. This interest is driven by several factors, such as recent advances in processing power (cheap and powerful hardware), the availability of large datasets (big data), and several small but important algorithmic advances (e.g., convolutional layers). Nowadays, deep neural networks are the state-of-the-art for several computer vision tasks, such as the ones that require high-level understanding of image semantics, e.g., image classification, object segmentation, saliency detection, and also in low level image processing tasks, such as image denoising, inpainting, and super-resolution, among others. Deep learning can handle large volumes of video data by making use of its powerful non-linear mapping and extracting high-level features with very deep networks. Incorporating deep learning into the IoVT can provide radical innovations in video sensing, coding, enhancing, understanding, and evaluation areas making it easier to handle the enormous growth in video data compared to traditional methods.