Paradigm Shifts in Video Technologies: Introduction to T-CSVT Future Special Issues

Recently, we have witnessed many exciting technology and methodology advances that will deeply impact the way we do research and development. These advances imply many important new research directions in the next 5–10 years, and potentially introduce paradigm shifts in video technologies—visual signal processing, communication, and computing. We have observed new trends ranging from breakthroughs in information theory and machine learning, big data, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, low-cost yet powerful computing end points, Internet of things (IoT), mobile and wireless computing, augmented reality, green computing, to integrated system research. Let us elaborate on each of these trends.