[I-RIM ML] Call for Papers – Visual Perception enabling Autonomous Navigation (VP-NAV) | Image and Vision Computing

[bruno.vento]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the Special Issue "Visual 
Perception enabling Autonomous Navigation (VP-NAV)" of Image and Vision 
Computing.

Autonomous navigation is playing an increasingly important role across 
intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring, smart agriculture, 
service robotics, and industrial automation. Visual perception 
represents a key enabling technology, allowing autonomous systems to 
sense, interpret, and interact with complex and dynamic environments. 
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in visual perception 
technologies supporting autonomous navigation, including onboard and 
infrastructure-based sensing, robust scene understanding, multimodal 
perception, real-time processing, and collaborative sensing across 
distributed systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Visual perception systems for autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, 
drones, and automated machinery;
* Object detection, tracking, classification, and scene understanding 
for navigation;
* Multi-modal sensor fusion (e.g., combining vision with LiDAR, radar, 
and IMU) for autonomous navigation;
* Learning-based perception systems (e.g., deep learning and foundation 
models) for autonomous navigation;
* Distributed visual sensing in smart cities, factories, and 
agricultural fields;
* Vision-based SLAM, mapping, and localization in dynamic or 
unstructured environments;
* Real-time perception and edge computing for onboard and distributed 
systems;
* Collaborative and V2X-enabled perception between vehicles, robots, and 
infrastructure;
* Visual perception for service and assistive robotics in indoor and 
semi-structured environments;
* Robust visual perception under challenging conditions (e.g., poor 
lighting, adverse weather, and occlusions);
* Data generation, simulation environments, and benchmark datasets for 
training and evaluation.

Manuscript Submission
The Special Issue is open for submissions from September 1, 2026, to 
December 31, 2026. Manuscripts must be submitted through the Elsevier 
submission system for Image and Vision Computing. During the submission 
process, authors should select the article type: "VSI: VP-NAV". All 
manuscripts will undergo the journal's standard peer-review process and 
will be evaluated according to originality, significance, technical 
quality, and clarity. Authors are requested to prepare their manuscripts 
in accordance with the Image and Vision Computing Guide for Authors and 
the journal's editorial requirements. Accepted articles will be made 
available online following acceptance and will be published in a regular 
issue of the journal while also being simultaneously collected within 
the online Special Issue. Official information regarding the Special 
Issue, manuscript preparation, and submission procedure is available 
through the ScienceDirect Special Issue page and the Image and Vision 
Computing submission platform.

Guest Editors
Antonio Greco - Executive Guest Editor - Tenure-Track Associate 
Professor
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: agreco at unisa.it

Modesto Castrillón-Santana - Guest Editor - Full Professor
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Email: modesto.castrillon at ulpgc.es

Giovanna Castellano - Guest Editor - Full Professor
University of Bari - Aldo Moro, Italy
Email: giovanna.castellano at uniba.it

Bruno Vento - Guest Editor - Post-doc Researcher
Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica, Italy
Email: brunovento.it at gmail.com

We look forward to receiving your contributions and would appreciate 
your help in sharing this CFP with colleagues and researchers who may be 
interested in the Special Issue.

Best regards,
The Guest Editors
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