Editorial June 2024 ( Vol 40, Issue 6)

This issue contains three types of papers:

• 1. 6 best papers from the conference Cyberworlds 2022

• 2. 5 best papers from the second part of the special issue of Deep Learning for 3D segmentation. The first part of this special issue has been published in June 2023, Volume 39, Issue 6.

• 3. 34 regular papers

List of 6 selected papers from the conference Cyberworlds 2022 held in Kanazawa, Japan. The program chairs are Yuriko Takeshima, Haoran Xie, Alexei Sourin.

Article_first author	Article_title
Guangmang Cui	Procedural modeling of artificially cultivated shrub roses
Xiangning Wang	Context-aware personality estimation and emotion recognition in social interaction
Guan Yang	Immersive haptic simulation for training nurses in emergency medical procedures
Minglong Lei	A video compression-cum-classification network for classification from compressed video streams
Qing Xie	SLOD2 + WIN: semantics-aware addition and LoD of 3D window details for LoD2 CityGML models with textures
Liang Yang	Military education in extended reality (XR): learning troublesome knowledge through immersive experiential application

List of 5 papers following a call for papers on “Deep Learning for 3D Segmentation.” This special section has been led by Dr Mingqiang Wei, from Nanjing University in China.

A first part of this issue on Deep Learning for 3D Segmentation has been published previously in June 2023, Vol 39, Issue 6.

Dennis Balreira	GeoSegNet: point cloud semantic segmentation via geometric encoder–decoder modeling	Original article
Jin Huang	Structure-preserving image smoothing via contrastive learning	Original article
Haiwei Sang	MFFNet: multimodal feature fusion network for point cloud semantic segmentation	Original article
Chun Zhang	Unsupervised contrastive learning with simple transformation for 3D point cloud data	Original article
Wenjun Hu	RT-less: a multi-scene RGB dataset for 6D pose estimation of reflective texture-less objects	Original article

List of 34 regular papers that have been online since a while and now assigned to this June issue.

Abeer Banerjee	ParaColorizer-Realistic image colorization using parallel generative networks
Andreas Aristidou	Dancing in virtual reality as an inclusive platform for social and physical fitness activities: a survey
Samiappan Dhanalakshmi	An optimal adaptive reweighted sampling-based adaptive block compressed sensing for underwater image compression
Bo Ren	Rendering real-world unbounded scenes with cars by learning positional bias
Shuang Liang	Patch excitation network for boxless action recognition in still images
Yongqing Huo	Ghost-free multi-exposure high dynamic range imaging based on feedback network
Qichuan Ding	BDNet: a method based on forward and backward convolutional networks for action recognition in videos
Shiqiang Hu	Multi-granularity attention in attention for person re-identification in aerial images
Shi Bao	IDA: an improved dual attention module for pollen classification
Hua Bao	Multi-modality information refinement fusion network for RGB-D salient object detection
Chao-Ching Ho	Reinforcement learning-based approach for plastic texture surface defects inspection
Badri Subudhi	Bayesian’s probabilistic strategy for feature fusion from visible and infrared images
Tingting Jiang	Dehaze on small-scale datasets via self-supervised learning
Ajmal Mohammed	SecMISS: Secured Medical Image Secret Sharing mechanism for smart health applications
Xinbo Gao	An efficient and universal polygon prediction method based on derivable analytic geometry for arbitrary-shaped text detection
Qianqian Hu	A family of hybrid iterative approximation methods for fitting blending curves
Jiajun Zhang	Guiding image inpainting via structure and texture features with dual encoder
Wanping Liu	RA-UNet: an improved network model for image denoising
Yu Pang	Cross-modal collaborative propagation for RGB–T saliency detection
Yanmin Zhu	High-density foreground object detection in optical remote sensing images via semantic fusion and box alignment
Ivan Karpukhin	Probabilistic embeddings revisited
Zhengping Hu	A fused convolutional spatio-temporal progressive approach for 3D human pose estimation
Newlin Russel	Ownership of abandoned object detection by integrating carried object recognition and context sensing
Chongyang Deng	Constrained least square progressive and iterative approximation (CLSPIA) for B-spline curve and surface fitting
Liju Yin	EC-FBNet: embeddable converged front- and back-end network for 3D reconstruction in low-light-level environment
Brajesh Kumar	Paddy yield prediction based on 2D images of rice panicles using regression techniques
Wenyuan Yang	DC-PSENet: a novel scene text detection method integrating double ResNet-based and changed channels recursive feature pyramid
Qing Tian	A plug-and-play noise-label correction framework for unsupervised domain adaptation person re-identification
Yong Feng	DMA-YOLO: multi-scale object detection method with attention mechanism for aerial images
Yizhou Chen	Multi-category domain-dependent feature-based medical image translation
Yongjun He	3D shape classification based on global and local features extraction with collaborative learning
Hua Yan	Lightweight multi-scale network with attention for accurate and efficient crowd counting

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann.

Editor-in-Chief, the Visual Computer.