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This book constitutes the papers of the International Workshop on Analysis in Digital Cultural Heritage 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2017. The 16 full and 19 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The main objective of the Workshop was to present recent developments and applications of IT technologies for Cultural Heritage preservation, namely: Demonstration of the advantages of new generation of equipment for mapping, digital survey and documentation of heritage assets and sites; Presentation of technologies for digitalization, optimal documentation and information sharing on Cultural Heritage; Tools and procedures for social interaction enhancing, fostering awareness and participation; Rising of the knowledge level in domain of IT applications for Cultural Heritage preservation; Usage of virtual reality for better understanding and learning on Cultural Heritage.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Next Generation Computer Animation Techniques, AniNex 2017, held in Bournemouth, UK, in June 2017. The workshop was held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2017. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers are structured according to the four main themes: simulation and rendering for computer animation; character modeling and dynamics; user centered design and modeling; computer animation systems and virtual reality based applications.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2016, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2016. The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: large graphs and clutter avoidance; clustered graphs; planar graphs, layered and tree drawings; visibility representations; beyond planarity; crossing minimization and crossing numbers; topological graph theory; special graph embeddings; dynamic graphs, contest report.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2015.The total of 61 revised papers was carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on color and motion, image/video coding and transmission, computational photography and arts, computer vision and applications, image segmentation and classification, video surveillance, biomedical image processing and analysis, object and pattern recognition, computer vision and pattern recognition, image/video processing and analysis, and pattern recognition.

Virtual reality (VR) is a multidisciplinary area of research aimed at interactive human–computer-mediated simulations of artificial environments. An important aspect of VR-based systems is the stimulation of the human senses – usually sight, sound, and touch – in such a way that a user feels a sense of presence in the virtual environment. Sometimes it is important to combine real and virtual objects in the same real or virtual environment. This approach is often referred to as augmented reality (AR), when virtual objects are integrated into a real environment. Typical VR applications include simulation, training, scientific visualization, and entertainment, whereas typical AR applications include computer-aided manufacturing or maintenance and computer-aided surgery or medicine.This book comprises a collection of research and position papers presented at Dagstuhl Seminar 13241 on Virtual Realities, held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, in June 2013. The 13 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on: VR environments; interactions and user experience; virtual humans; and tele-existence.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2015, held in Los Angeles, Ca, USA, in September 2015. The 35 full papers presented together with 7 short papers and 8 posters in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include social sciences, Internet and Web computing, information systems, computational biology, networking, VLSI circuit design, and software engineering. This year the Steering Committee of GD decided to extend the name of the conference from the'International Symposium on Graph Drawing'to the'International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization'in order to better emphasize the dual focus of the conference on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces.

This book constitutes the refereed contest reports of the 1st International Workshop, VAAM 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of state of the art methods for audience measurements in retail and Digital Signage, end-users attraction, and stimulate the creation of appropriate benchmark dataset to be used as reference for the development of novel audience measurement algorithms. Papers are invited under the following topics: demographics and modeling consumer behaviour.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2017, held in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, in June 2017. The 19 fulland 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Virtual reality and augmented reality in edutainment; gamification for serious game and training; graphics, imaging and applications; E-learning and game.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017. The 172 full papers were selected from 370 submissions and focus on advances of theory, techniques and algorithms as well as innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9thInternational Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017. The 172 full papers were selected from 370 submissions and focus on advances of theory, techniques and algorithms as well as innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017. The 172 full papers were selected from 370 submissions and focus on advances of theory, techniques and algorithms as well as innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2011, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP), on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), and on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP), held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in March 2011. The 15 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics theory and applications; imaging theory and applications; information visualization theory and applications; and computer vision theory and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Learning and Games, Edutainment 2016, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2016. The 36 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: E-learning and game; graphics, imaging and applications; intelligent data analytics and visualization.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of six international workshops held in the framework of the 7th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2015, during November 23-24, 2015, in Auckland, New Zealand. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 58 submissions. Their topics diversely ranged from well-established areas to novel current trends: robot vision, RV 2015; 2D and 3D geometric properties from incomplete data, GPID 2015; vision meets graphics, VG 2015; passive and active electro-optical sensors for aerial and space imaging, EO4AS 2015; mathematical and computational methods in biomedical imaging and image analysis, MCBMIIA 2015; and video surveillance, VSWS 2015.

The aim of this book is to collect and to cluster research areas in the field of serious games and entertainment computing. It provides an introduction and gives guidance for the next generation of researchers in this field.The 18 papers presented in this volume, together with an introduction, are the outcome of a GI-Dagstuhl seminar which was held at Schloß Dagstuhl in July 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Brain Lesion (BrainLes), Brain Tumor Segmentation (BRATS) and Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES), held in Munich, Germany, on October 5, 2015, in conjunction with the International Conference on Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015. The 25 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They are grouped around the following topics: brain lesion image analysis; brain tumor image segmentation; ischemic stroke lesion image segmentation.

The two volumes LNCS 6553 and 6554 constitute the refereed post-proceedings of 7 workshops held in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in September 2010. The 62 revised papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The second volume contains 34 revised papers selected from the following workshops: Workshop on color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision (CRICV 2010); Workshop on Media Retargeting (MRW 2010); Workshop on Reconstruction and Modeling of Large-Scale 3D Virtual Environments (RMLE 2010); and Workshop on Computer Vision on GPUs (CVGPU 2010).

The two volume set LNCS 7431 and 7432 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2012, held in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, in July 2012. The 68 revised full papers and 35 poster papers presented together with 45 special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 7431) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; calibration and 3D vision; object recognition; illumination, modeling, and segmentation; visualization; 3D mapping, modeling and surface reconstruction; motion and tracking; optimization for vision, graphics, and medical imaging, HCI and recognition. Part II (LNCS 7432) comprises topics such as unconstrained biometrics: advances and trends; intelligent environments: algorithms and applications; applications; virtual reality; face processing and recognition.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2010, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP), and on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), held in Angers, France, in May 2010. The 19 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision theory and applications; imaging theory and applications; computer graphics theory and applications; and information visualization theory and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the four workshops on Photographic Aesthetics and Non-Photorealistic Rendering (PAESNPR13), Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data (GPID), Quality Assessment and Control by Image and Video Analysis (QACIVA) and Geometric Computation for Computer Vision (GCCV2013), held in conjunction with the 6th Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) in Guanajuato, Mexico during October 28-November 1, 2013. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions and cover all aspects of Imaging and Graphics Hardware and Visualization, Image/Video Coding and Transmission; Processing and Analysis; Retrieval and Scene Understanding, but also Applications of Image and Video Technology, Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis, Biometrics and Image Forensics, Computational Photography and Arts, Computer and Robot Vision, Pattern Recognition and Video Surveillance.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, in Catania, Italy, in September 2017: First International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computer Vision – WBICV 2017; Social Signal Processing and Beyond - SSPandBE 2017; Automatic affect analysis and synthesis - 3AS 2017; Background learning for detection and tracking from RGBD Videos - RGBD 2017; Natural human-computer Interaction and ecological perception in immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality - NIVAR 2017; 1st International Workshop on Biometrics as-a-service: cloud-based technology, systems and applications - IWBAAS 2017; 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management - MADiMa 2017.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2012, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2012 as part of the ALGO 2012 conference event. The 22 revised full papers presented together with invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The workshop covered areas such as geometric problems, online algorithms, scheduling, algorithmic game theory, and approximation algorithms.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics, ICCVG 2008, held in Warsaw, Poland, in November 2008. The 48 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing, image quality assessment, geometrical models of objects and scenes, motion analysis, visual navigation and active vision, image and video coding, virtual reality and multimedia applications, biomedical applications, practical applications of pattern recognition, computer animation, visualization and graphical data presentation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems, held in Córdoba, Spain, in June 2011. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. They examine latest breakthroughs and future trends within the communicability, computer graphics, and innovative design of interactive systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of two co-located events: the Second International Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2007, and the 5th Rich Transcription 2007 Meeting Recognition evaluation, RT 2007, held in succession in Baltimore, MD, USA, in May 2007. The workshops had complementary evaluation efforts; CLEAR for the evaluation of human activities, events, and relationships in multiple multimodal data domains; and RT for the evaluation of speech transcription-related technologies from meeting room audio collections. The 35 revised full papers presented from CLEAR 2007 cover 3D person tracking, 2D face detection and tracking, person and vehicle tracking on surveillance data, vehicle and person tracking aerial videos, person identification, head pose estimation, and acoustic event detection. The 15 revised full papers presented from RT 2007 are organized in topical sections on speech-to-text, and speaker diarization.

The 13th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia was held in Brisbane, Australia in September 2007. This was the first time that VSMM was sited in Australia. The Australian conference theme reflected the country's cultural heritage, both recent and past – Exchange and Experience in Space and Place. Of the many papers submitted under this theme we were able to identify three core sub-themes: Virtual Heritage, Applied Technologies and Virtual Environments. With a truly international flavor, these sub-themes covered the diverse areas of heritage site and artifact reconstruction and analysis, Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage, training, notions of spirituality, human – computer interaction in virtual environments, 3D modelling, remote collaboration and virtual agents. This made for rich, varied and lively conference session debates. Ninety-seven papers were submitted. Of these, 56 were accepted for inclusion in the general conference proceedings. Of these, 18 were further reviewed and selected for this Springer publication. The authors of these papers were invited to revise their papers following feedback from the conference before inclusion in this volume. Many people contributed to the conference. We first wish to thank the Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society, who provided strong support to the whole process of the preparation of the conference. In particular, we would like to express our thanks to Takeo Ojika, Mario Santana Quintero and Hal Thwaites for their generous support and guidance.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2010, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2010 as part of the ALGO 2010 conference event.The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 58 submissions. The workshop covered areas such asalgorithmic game theory, approximation classes, coloring andpartitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts andconnectivity, geometric problems, inapproximability results, echanismdesign, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, parameterizedcomplexity, randomization techniques, real-world applications, andscheduling problems.

This book contains refereed and improved papers presented at the 6th IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2005). This year is the tenth anniversary of GREC, which was started in 1995 and has been held every 2 years: GREC 1995 in Penn State University, USA (LNCS Volume 1072, Springer, 1996); GREC 1997 in Nancy, France (LNCS Volume 1389, Springer, 1998); GREC 1999 in Jaipur, India (LNCS Volume 1941, Springer, 2000); GREC 2001 in Kingston, Canada (LNCS Volume 2390, Springer, 2002); and GREC 2003 in Barcelona, Spain (LNCS Volume 3088, Springer, 2004). GREC is the main event of IAPR TC-10 (the Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition within the International Association for Pattern Recognition) and provides an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. Graphics recognition is a particular field in the domain of document analysis, which combines pattern recognition and image processing techniques for the analysis of any kind of graphical information in documents from either paper or electronic formats. In its 10 year history, the graphics recognition community has extended its research topics from the analysis and understanding of graphic documents (including engineering drawings vectorization and recognition), to graphics-based information retrieval and symbol recognition, to new media analysis, and even stepped into research areas of other communities, e. g.

This book presents refereed and revised papers presented at GREC 2001, the 4th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, which took place in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in September 2001. Graphics recognition is a branch of document image analysis that focuses on the recognition of two-dimensional notations such as engineering drawings, maps, mathematical notation, music notation, tables, and chemical structure diagrams. Due to the growing demand for both o?-line and on-line document recognition systems, the?eld of graphics recognition has an excitingand promisingfuture. The GREC workshops provide an opportunity for researchers at all levels of experience to share insights into graphics recognition methods. The workshops enjoy strongparticipation from researchers in both industry and academia. They are sponsored by IAPR TC-10, the Technical Committee on Graphics Recog- tion within the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Edited v- umes from the previous three workshops in this series are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vols. 1072, 1389, and 1941. After the GREC 2001 workshop, authors were invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers for review. Every paper was evaluated by three reviewers. We are grateful to both authors and reviewers for their careful work during this review process. Many of the papers that appear in this volume were thoroughly revised and improved, in response to reviewers'suggestions.

This book is an outcome of the LIX Fall Colloquium on the Emerging Trends in Visual Computing, ETVC 2008, which was held in Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008. During the event, 25 renowned invited speakers gave lectures on their areas of expertise within the field of visual computing. From these talks, a total of 15 state-of-the-art articles have been assembled in this volume. All articles were thoroughly reviewed and improved, according to the suggestions of the referees. The 15 contributions presented in this state-of-the-art survey are organized in topical sections on: geometric computing, information geometry and applications, computer graphics and vision, information retrieval, and medical imaging and computational anatomy. They are preceded by the abstracts of the talks given at ETVC 2008.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSV-IS 2001, held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in June 2001.The 12 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing, selection, and revision. The book offers topical sections on mobile interface design, context-sensitive interfaces, supervision and control systems, temporal and stochastic issues, and new perspectives.

Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) dominate the high-end server market and are currently the primary candidate for constructing large scale multiprocessor systems. Yet, the design of e cient parallel algorithms for this platform c- rently poses several challenges. The reason for this is that the rapid progress in microprocessor speed has left main memory access as the primary limitation to SMP performance. Since memory is the bottleneck, simply increasing the n- ber of processors will not necessarily yield better performance. Indeed, memory bus limitations typically limit the size of SMPs to 16 processors. This has at least twoimplicationsfor the algorithmdesigner. First, since there are relatively few processors availableon an SMP, any parallel algorithm must be competitive with its sequential counterpart with as little as one processor in order to be r- evant. Second, for the parallel algorithm to scale with the number of processors, it must be designed with careful attention to minimizing the number and type of main memory accesses. In this paper, we present a computational model for designing e cient al- rithms for symmetric multiprocessors. We then use this model to create e cient solutions to two widely di erent types of problems - linked list pre x com- tations and generalized sorting. Both problems are memory intensive, but in die rent ways. Whereas generalized sorting algorithms typically require a large numberofmemoryaccesses, they areusuallytocontiguousmemorylocations. By contrast, prex computation algorithms typically require a more modest qu- tity of memory accesses, but they are are usually to non-contiguous memory locations.

The wait for the year 2000 was marked by the fear of possible bugs that might have arisen at its beginning. One additional fear we had during this wait was whether - ganising this event would have generated a boon or another bug. The reasons for this fear originated in the awareness that the design of interactive systems is a fast moving area. The type of research work presented at this unique event has received limited support from funding agencies and industries making it more difficult to keep up with the rapid technological changes occurring in interaction technology. However, despite our fear, the workshop was successful because of the high-quality level of participation and discussion. Before discussing such results, let us step back and look at the evolution of DSV-IS (Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems), an international wo- shop that has been organised every year since 1994. The first books that addressed this issue in a complete and thorough manner were the collection of contributions edited by Harrison and Thimbleby and the book written by Alan Dix, which focused on abstractions useful to highlight important concepts in the design of interactive systems. Since then, this area has attracted the interest of a wider number of research groups, and some workshops on related topics started to be organised. DSV-IS had its origins in this spreading and growing interest. The first workshop was held in a monastery located in the hills above Bocca di Magra (Italy).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of CVM 2024, the 12th International Conference on Computational Visual Media, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in April 2024.The 34 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 212 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Reconstruction and Modelling, Point Cloud, Rendering and Animation, User Interations.Part II: Facial Images, Image Generation and Enhancement, Image Understanding, Stylization, Vision Meets Graphics.

​This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of CVM 2024, the 12th International Conference on Computational Visual Media, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in April 2024.The 34 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 212 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Reconstruction and Modelling, Point Cloud, Rendering and Animation, User Interations.Part II: Facial Images, Image Generation and Enhancement, Image Understanding, Stylization, Vision Meets Graphics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference and Workshops on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2023, which took place in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in March 2023. The 30 full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They cover topics such as: computational geometry; string algorithm; optimization; graph algorithm; approximation algorithm; and parameterized complexity.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journal focuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational science in parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitating theoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massive data processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, from mathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computational methods, findings, and solutions, and enabling industrial users to apply techniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computational methods.This, the 37th issue of the Transactions on Computational Science, is devoted to the area of Computer Graphics. The 9 papers included in the volume constitute extended versions of selected papers presented at the 36th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2019. Topics covered include virtual reality, augmented reality, image retrieval, animation of elastoplastic material, and visualization of 360°HDR images.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2019, held in Calgary, AB, Canada, in June 2019.The 30 revised full papers presented together with 28 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 231 submissions. The papers address topics such as: 3D reconstruction and rendering, virtual reality and augmented reality, computer animation, geometric modelling, geometric computing, shape and surface modelling, visual analytics, image processing, pattern recognition, motion planning, gait and activity biometric recognition, machine learning for graphics and applications in security, smart electronics, autonomous navigation systems, robotics, geographical information systems, and medicine and art.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI in Games, HCI-Games 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA. HCII 2019 received a total of 5029 submissions, of which 1275 papers and 209 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 34 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections named: Game Design; Gaming Experience; Serious Games; and Gamification.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2019, held in Xiamen, China, in December 2019. The 49 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers cover the various topics, including cognitive radio networks, wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis, information and coding theory for wireless networks, localization, mobile cloud computing, topology control and coverage, security and privacy, underwater and underground networks, vehicular networks, information processing and data management, programmable service interfaces, energy-efficient algorithms, system and protocol design, operating system and middleware support, and experimental test-beds, models and case studies.

The two-volume set LNCS 10704 and 10705 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2018, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in February 2018.Of the 185 full papers submitted, 46 were selected for oral presentation and 28 for poster presentation; in addition, 5 papers were accepted for Multimedia Analytics: Perspectives, Techniques, and Applications, 12 extended abstracts for demonstrations,and 9 accepted papers for Video Browser Showdown 2018. All papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference onHuman Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2018, held as part of the 20th International Conference, HCI International 2018, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 2018. The total of 1171 papers and 160 posters included in the 30 HCII 2018 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 4346 submissions. ITAP 2018 includes a total of 84 papers. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: aging and technology acceptance; aging and interaction; intergenerational communication and social participation. Part II: health care technologies and services for the elderly; intelligent environments for aging; and games and entertainment for the elderly.

Recognition, CCBR 2017, held in Shenzhen, China, in October 2017. The 15 full papers and 65 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on face; fingerprint, palm-print and vascular biometrics; iris; gesture and gait; emerging biometrics; voice and speech; video surveillance; feature extraction and classification theory; behavioral biometrics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2017, held in Kolding, Denmark, in June 2017. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Scale Space and PDE Methods; Restoration and Reconstruction; Tomographic Reconstruction; Segmentation; Convex and Non-Convex Modeling and Optimization in Imaging; Optical Flow, Motion Estimation and Registration; 3D Vision.

This two-volume set LNCS 10058 and LNCS 10059 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2016, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in October/November 2016. The 29 full papers, 44 project papers, and 32 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 502 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on 3D Reconstruction and 3D Modelling; Heritage Building Information Models; Innovative Methods on Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Protection of Cultural Heritage; Intangible Cultural Heritage Documentation; Digital Applications for Materials'Preservation and Conservation in Cultural Heritage; Non-Destructive Techniques in Cultural Heritage Conservation; Visualisation, VR and AR Methods and Applications; The New Era of Museums and Exhibitions: Digital Engagement and Dissemination; Digital Cultural Heritage in Education, Learning and Training; Data Acquisition, Process and Management in Cultural Heritage; Data,Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies in Cultural Heritage; Novel Approaches to Landscapes in Cultural Heritage; Digital Applications for Materials'Preservation and Conservation in Cultural Heritage; and Serious Games for Cultural Heritage.

This two-volume set LNCS 10058 and LNCS 10059 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2016, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in October/November 2016. The 29 full papers, 44 project papers, and 32 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 502 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on 3D Reconstruction and 3D Modelling; Heritage Building Information Models; Innovative Methods on Risk Assesment, Monitoring and Protection of Cultural Heritage; Intangible Cultural Heritage Documentation; Digital Applications for Materials'Preservation and Conservation in Cultural Heritage; Non-Destructive Techniques in Cultural Heritage Conservation; Visualisation, VR and AR Methods and Applications; The New Era of Museums and Exhibitions: Digital Engagement and Dissemination; Digital Cultural Heritage in Education, Learning and Training; Data Acquisition, Process and Management in Cultural Heritage; Data, Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies in Cultural Heritage; Novel Approaches to Landscapes in Cultural Heritage; Digital Applications for Materials'Preservation and Conservation in Cultural Heritage; and Serious Games for Cultural Heritage.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2016,held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in August 2016.The 12 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented together with 5 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cognitive aspects of diagrams; logic and diagrams; Euler and Venn diagrams; diagrams and education; design principles for diagrams; diagrams layout.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2016, held in Chengdu, China, in October 2016. The 84 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers focus on Face Recognition and Analysis; Fingerprint, Palm-print and Vascular Biometrics; Iris and Ocular Biometrics; Behavioral Biometrics; Affective Computing; Feature Extraction and Classification Theory; Anti-Spoofing and Privacy; Surveillance; and DNA and Emerging Biometrics.