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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, UNSURE 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 10, 2024. The 20 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: annotation uncertainty; clinical implementation of uncertainty modelling and risk management in clinical pipelines; out of distribution and domain shift identification and management; uncertainty modelling and estimation.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 19–21, 2023. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 395 submissions. VISIGRAPP aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in theoretical advances and applications of computer vision, information visualization, computer graphics and interaction.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2023, held in November 29-30, 2023 in Vila Real, Portugal. The 35 full papers of MobiHealth 2023 were carefully selected from 111 submissions and present science and technology aspects in the field of wireless communication, mobile computing and healthcare applications. The conference papers are organized in topical sections on: Medical, communications and networking; Digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM). Biomedical, and health informatics; Multimedia e-Health data exchange services. Signal/Data processing and computing for health systems.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2023, held in Yerevan, Armenia, during September 28-30, 2023. The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: natural language processing; computer vision; data analysis and machine learning; network analysis; and theoretical machine learning and optimization. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length.

This five-volume set LNCS 15520-15524 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2025, held in Nara, Japan, January 8–10, 2025. The 135 full papers and 41 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 348 submissions. The MMM conference was organized in topics related to multimedia modelling, particularly: audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications, and multimedia fusion methods.

This six-volume set, LNAI 15387-15392, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2024, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during December 3–5, 2024. The 159 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 422 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections across the different volumes: - Part I : Applications; Data mining. Part II : Data mining foundations and algorithms; Federated learning; Knowledge graph. Part III : Graph mining; Spatial data mining. Part IV : Health informatics. Part V : Multi-modal; Natural language processing. Part VI : Recommendation systems; Security and privacy issues.

The ten-volume set LNCS 15016-15025 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, ICANN 2024, held in Lugano, Switzerland, during September 17–20, 2024. The 294 full papers and 16 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 764 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: Part I - theory of neural networks and machine learning; novel methods in machine learning; novel neural architectures; neural architecture search; self-organization; neural processes; novel architectures for computer vision; and fairness in machine learning. Part II - computer vision: classification; computer vision: object detection; computer vision: security and adversarial attacks; computer vision: image enhancement; and computer vision: 3D methods. Part III - computer vision: anomaly detection; computer vision: segmentation; computer vision: pose estimation and tracking; computer vision: video processing; computer vision: generative methods; and topics in computer vision. Part IV - brain-inspired computing; cognitive and computational neuroscience; explainable artificial intelligence; robotics; and reinforcement learning. Part V - graph neural networks; and large language models. Part VI - multimodality; federated learning; and time series processing. Part VII - speech processing; natural language processing; and language modeling. Part VIII - biosignal processing in medicine and physiology; and medical image processing. Part IX - human-computer interfaces; recommender systems; environment and climate; city planning; machine learning in engineering and industry; applications in finance; artificial intelligence in education; social network analysis; artificial intelligence and music; and software security. Part X - workshop: AI in drug discovery; workshop: reservoir computing; special session: accuracy, stability, and robustness in deep neural networks; special session: neurorobotics; and special session: spiking neural networks.

This two-volume set LNCS 14859-14860 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2024, held in Manchester, UK, during July 24–26, 2024. The 59 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I : Advancement in Brain Imaging; Medical Images and Computational Models; and Digital Pathology, Histology and Microscopic Imaging. Part II : Dental and Bone Imaging; Enhancing Low-Quality Medical Images; Domain Adaptation and Generalisation; and Dermatology, Cardiac Imaging and Other Medical Imaging.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP2022). The contents of this book focus on research advancements in machine intelligence, signal processing, and applications. The book covers the real-time challenges involved while processing big data analytics and stream processing with the integration of smart data computing services and interconnectivity. It also includes the progress in signal processing to process the normal and abnormal categories of real-world signals such as signals generated from IoT devices, smart systems, speech, videos and involves biomedical signal processing: electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electromyogram (EMG), etc. This book proves to be a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metaheuristics, MIC 2022, held in Syracuse, Italy, in July 2022.The 48 full papers together with 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers detail metaheuristic techniques.Chapter “Evaluating the Effects of Chaos in Variable Neighbourhood Search” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book consitiutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA 2023, held in Rome, Italy from 13 to 14 July 2023.The 9 full papers and 22 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 42 qualified submissions. The scope of the conference includes such topics as models and algorithms; machine learning; big data analytics; computer vision applications; and natural language understanding.

The two-volume set LNAI 14391 and 14392 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2023, held in Yucatán, Mexico, in November 2023.The total of 49 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions.The proceedings of MICAI 2023 are published in two volumes. The first volume, Advances in Computational Intelligence, contains 24 papers structured into three sections:– Machine Learning– Computer Vision and Image Processing– Intelligent SystemsThe second volume, Advances in Soft Computing, contains 25 papers structured into three sections:– Natural Language Processing– Bioinformatics and Medical Applications– Robotics and Applications

This book constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, ICAII 2022, held in Jamshedpur, India. ICAII 2022 has been postponed to April 2023. The 23 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 86 submissions. They are arranged in topical sections on ​artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things.

The 7-volume set of LNCS 13841-13847 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2022, held in Macao, China, December 2022. The total of 277 contributions included in the proceedings set was carefully reviewed and selected from 836 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on the following topics: Part I: 3D computer vision; optimization methods; Part II: applications of computer vision, vision for X; computational photography, sensing, and display; Part III: low-level vision, image processing; Part IV: face and gesture; pose and action; video analysis and event recognition; vision and language; biometrics; Part V: recognition: feature detection, indexing, matching, and shape representation; datasets and performance analysis; Part VI: biomedical image analysis; deep learning for computer vision; Part VII: generative models for computer vision; segmentation and grouping; motion and tracking; document image analysis; big data, large scale methods.

Increase in consumer awareness of nutritional habits has placed automatic food analysis in the spotlight in recent years. However, food-logging is cumbersome and requires sufficient knowledge of the food item consumed. Additionally, keeping track of every meal can become a tedious task. Accurately documenting dietary caloric intake is crucial to manage weight loss, but also presents challenges because most of the current methods for dietary assessment must rely on memory to recall foods eaten. Food understanding from digital media has become a challenge with important applications in many different domains. Substantial research has demonstrated that digital imaging accurately estimates dietary intake in many environments and it has many advantages over other methods. However, how to derive the food information effectively and efficiently remains a challenging and open research problem. The provided recommendations could be based on calorie counting, healthy food and specific nutritional composition. In addition, if we also consider a system able to log the food consumed by every individual along time, it could provide health-related recommendations in the long-term. Computer Vision specialists have developed new methods for automatic food intake monitoring and food logging. Fourth Industrial Revolution [4.0 IR] technologies such as deep learning and computer vision robotics are key for sustainable food understanding. The need for AI based technologies that allow tracking of physical activities and nutrition habits are rapidly increasing and automatic analysis of food images plays an important role. Computer vision and image processing offers truly impressive advances to various applications like food analytics and healthcare analytics and can aid patients in keeping track of their calorie count easily by automating the calorie counting process. It can inform the user about the number of calories, proteins, carbohydrates, and other nutrients provided by each meal. The information is provided in real-time and thus proves to be an efficient method of nutrition tracking and can be shared with the dietician over the internet, reducing healthcare costs. This is possible by a system made up of, IoT sensors, Cloud-Fog based servers and mobile applications. These systems can generate data or images which can be analyzed using machine learning algorithms. Image Based Computing for Food and Health Analytics covers the current status of food image analysis and presents computer vision and image processing based solutions to enhance and improve the accuracy of current measurements of dietary intake. Many solutions are presented to improve the accuracy of assessment by analyzing health images, data and food industry based images captured by mobile devices. Key technique innovations based on Artificial Intelligence and deep learning-based food image recognition algorithms are also discussed. This book examines the usageof 4.0 industrial revolution technologies such as computer vision and artificial intelligence in the field of healthcare and food industry, providing a comprehensive understanding of computer vision and intelligence methodologies which tackles the main challenges of food and health processing. Additionally, the text focuses on the employing sustainable 4 IR technologies through which consumers can attain the necessary diet and nutrients and can actively monitor their health. In focusing specifically on the food industry and healthcare analytics, it serves as a single source for multidisciplinary information involving AI and vision techniques in the food and health sector. Current advances such as Industry 4.0 and Fog-Cloud based solutions are covered in full, offering readers a fully rounded view of these rapidly advancing health and food analysis systems.

The 7-volume set of LNCS 13841-13847 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2022, held in Macao, China, December 2022. The total of 277 contributions included in the proceedings set was carefully reviewed and selected from 836 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on the following topics: Part I: 3D computer vision; optimization methods; Part II: applications of computer vision, vision for X; computational photography, sensing, and display; Part III: low-level vision, image processing; Part IV: face and gesture; pose and action; video analysis and event recognition; vision and language; biometrics; Part V: recognition: feature detection, indexing, matching, and shape representation; datasets and performance analysis; Part VI: biomedical image analysis; deep learning for computer vision; Part VII: generative models for computer vision; segmentation and grouping; motion and tracking; document image analysis; big data, large scale methods.

This three-volume set LNCS 13604-13606 constitutes revised selected papers presented at the Second CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. CICAI is a summit forum in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2022 forum was hosted by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).The 164 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. CICAI aims to establish a global platform for international academic exchange, promote advanced research in AI and its affiliated disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, natural language, processing, and data mining, amongst others.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2022, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which was held virtually in June/July 2022. The total of 1271 papers and 275 posters included in the HCII 2022 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5487 submissions. The DUXU 2022 proceedings comprise three volumes; they were organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Processes, Methods, and Tools for UX Design and Evaluation; User Requirements, Preferences, and UX Influential Factors; Usability, Acceptance, and User Experience Assessment. Part II: Emotion, Motivation, and Persuasion Design; Design for Well-being and Health.- Learning Experience Design; Globalization, Localization, and Culture Issues. Part III: Design Thinking and Philosophy; DUXU Case Studies; Design and User Experience in Emerging Technologies.

This book covers the following main topics: A) information and knowledge management; B) organizational models and information systems; C) software and systems modeling; D) software systems, architectures, applications and tools; E) multimedia systems and applications; F) computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; G) intelligent and decision support systems; H) big data analytics and applications; I) human–computer interaction; J) ethics, computers and security; K) health informatics; L) information technologies in education; M) information technologies in radio communications; N) technologies for biomedical applications.This book is composed by a selection of articles from The 2022 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'22), held between April 12 and 14, in Budva, Montenegro.WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences, and challenges of modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications.

The 4-volume set LNCS 13534, 13535, 13536 and 13537 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2022.The 233 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 564 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Theories and Feature Extraction; Machine learning, Multimedia and Multimodal; Optimization and Neural Network and Deep Learning; Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis; Pattern Classification and Clustering; 3D Computer Vision and Reconstruction, Robots and Autonomous Driving; Recognition, Remote Sensing; Vision Analysis and Understanding; Image Processing and Low-level Vision; Object Detection, Segmentation and Tracking.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic. The 416 full papers presented in these 8 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from about 700 submissions. The 46 workshops cover a wide range of areas including machine learning, pattern analysis, healthcare, human behavior, environment, surveillance, forensics and biometrics, robotics and egovision, cultural heritage and document analysis, retrieval, and women at ICPR2020.

This 8-volumes set constitutes the refereed of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2020, held virtually in Milan, Italy and rescheduled to January 10 - 11, 2021 due to Covid-19 pandemic. The 416 full papers presented in these 8 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from about 700 submissions. The 46 workshops cover a wide range of areas including machine learning, pattern analysis, healthcare, human behavior, environment, surveillance, forensics and biometrics, robotics and egovision, cultural heritage and document analysis, retrieval, and women at ICPR2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six International Workshops held as parallel events of the 17th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2021, virtually and in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, in June 2021: the 6th Workshop on 5G-Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge, 5G-PINE 2021; Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering and Informatics Workshop, AI-BIO 2021; Workshop on Defense Applications of AI, DAAI 2021; Distributed AI for Resource-Constrained Platforms Workshop, DARE 2021; Energy Efficiency and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, EEAI 2021; and the 10th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop, MHDW 2021. The 24 full papers and 16 short papers presented at these workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers presented at 5G-PINE focus on the latest AI applications in the telecommunication industry and AI in modern 5G-oriented telecommunications infrastructures. Thepapers chosen for AI-BIO 2021 present research on the subject of AI, in its broadest sense, in biomedical engineering and health informatics. The DAAI 2021 papers aim at presenting recent evolutions in artificial intelligence applicable to defense and security applications. The papers selected for DARE 2021 address a variety of pertinent and challenging topics within the scope of distributed AI for resource-constrained platforms. The papers presented at EEAI 2021 aim to bring together interdisciplinary approaches that focus on the application of AI-driven solutions for increasing and improving energy efficiency of residential and tertiary buildings and of occupant behavior. The MHDW papers focus on topics such as recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, pattern recognition, data mining, and time series.

This book constitutes extended and revised versions of the selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.The 29 revised and extended full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 363 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biomedical electronics and devices; bioimaging; bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms; bio-inspired systems and signal processing; health informatic

The five-volume set LNCS 12932-12936 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2021, held in Bari, Italy, in August/September 2021.The total of 105 full papers presented together with 72 short papers and 70 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 680 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Part I: affective computing; assistive technology for cognition and neurodevelopment disorders; assistive technology for mobility and rehabilitation; assistive technology for visually impaired; augmented reality; computer supported cooperative work. Part II: COVID-19 & HCI; croudsourcing methods in HCI; design for automotive interfaces; design methods; designing for smart devices & IoT; designing for the elderly and accessibility; education and HCI; experiencing sound and music technologies; explainable AI. Part III: games and gamification; gesture interaction; human-centered AI; human-centered development of sustainable technology; human-robot interaction; information visualization; interactive design and cultural development. Part IV: interaction techniques; interaction with conversational agents; interaction with mobile devices; methods for user studies; personalization and recommender systems; social networks and social media; tangible interaction; usable security. Part V: user studies; virtual reality; courses; industrial experiences; interactive demos; panels; posters; workshops. The chapter ‘Stress Out: Translating Real-World Stressors into Audio-Visual Stress Cues in VR for Police Training'is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The chapter ‘WhatsApp in Politics?! Collaborative Tools Shifting Boundaries'is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

The 6-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12535 until 12540, constitutes the refereed proceedings of 28 out of the 45 workshops held at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020, but changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 249 full papers, 18 short papers, and 21 further contributions included in the workshop proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions. The papers deal with diverse computer vision topics.Part V includes: The 16th Embedded Vision Workshop; Real-World Computer Vision from Inputs with Limited Quality (RLQ); The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS 2020); The Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop (VOT 2020); and Video Turing Test: Toward Human-Level Video Story Understanding.

The two-volume set LNCS 12572 and 1273 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2021, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in June2021. Of the 211 submitted regular papers, 40 papers were selected for oral presentation and 33 for poster presentation; 16 special session papers were accepted as well as 2 papers for a demo presentation and 17 papers for participation at the Video Browser Showdown 2021. The papers cover topics such as: multimedia indexing; multimedia mining; multimedia abstraction and summarization; multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications; semantic analysis of multimedia and contextual data; multimedia fusion methods; multimedia hyperlinking; media content browsing and retrieval tools; media representation and algorithms; audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; multimedia sensors and interaction modes; multimedia privacy, security and content protection; multimedia standards and related issues; advances in multimedia networking and streaming; multimedia databases, content delivery and transport; wireless and mobile multimedia networking; multi-camera and multi-view systems; augmented and virtual reality, virtual environments; real-time and interactive multimedia applications; mobile multimedia applications; multimedia web applications; multimedia authoring and personalization; interactive multimedia and interfaces; sensor networks; social and educational multimedia applications; and emerging trends.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications, SmartGIFT 2020, held in Chicago, USA, in December 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually.The 13 full papers were selected from 28 submissions and focus on the development of digital technology and smart grid which enables the smooth integration of centralised or distributed power generation, energy storage, and distribution. The papers are grouped thematically into: Communications, Networks and Services; Security and Stable Control; Internet of Power Things and Big Data.

The 6-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12535 until 12540, constitutes the refereed proceedings of 28 out of the 45 workshops held at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020, but changed to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 249 full papers, 18 short papers, and 21 further contributions included in the workshop proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions. The papers deal with diverse computer vision topics.Part IV focusses on advances in image manipulation; assistive computer vision and robotics; and computer vision for UAVs.

The proceedings set LNCS 12396 and 12397 constitute the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2020, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2020.•The total of 139 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 249 submissions. They were organized in 2 volumes focusing on topics such as adversarial machine learning, bioinformatics and biosignal analysis, cognitive models, neural network theory and information theoretic learning, and robotics and neural models of perception and action. •The conference was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11906 – 11908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, held in Würzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The total of 130 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 733 submissions; there are 10 papers in the demo track. The contributions were organized in topical sections named as follows: Part I: pattern mining; clustering, anomaly and outlier detection, and autoencoders; dimensionality reduction and feature selection; social networks and graphs; decision trees, interpretability, and causality; strings and streams; privacy and security; optimization. Part II: supervised learning; multi-label learning; large-scale learning; deep learning; probabilistic models; natural language processing. Part III: reinforcement learning and bandits; ranking; applied data science: computer vision and explanation; applied data science: healthcare; applied data science: e-commerce, finance, and advertising; applied data science: rich data; applied data science: applications; demo track.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2020, held in Da Nang, Vietnam, in November 2020.•The 70 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 314 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: knowledge engineering and semantic web; social networks and recommender systems; collective decision-making; applications of collective intelligence; data mining methods and applications; machine learning methods; deep learning and applications for industry 4.0; computer vision techniques; biosensors and biometric techniques; innovations in intelligent systems; natural language processing; low resource languages processing; computational collective intelligence and natural language processing; computational intelligence for multimedia understanding; and intelligent processing of multimedia in web systems. •The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, SLAAI-ICAI 2018, held in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in December 2018.The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ​intelligence systems; neural networks; game theory; ontology engineering; natural language processing; agent based system; signal and image processing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research, NTCIR 2019, held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2019. The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions.This NTCIR 2019 proceedings was structured in the following topics: lifelog search; open live test for question retrieval; QA lab for political information; short text conversation; we want web; and fine-grained numeral understanding in financial tweet.

The two-volume set LNCS 11961 and 11962 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2020, held in Daejeon, South Korea, in January 2020. Of the 171 submitted full research papers, 40 papers were selected for oral presentation and 46 for poster presentation; 28 special session papers were selected for oral presentation and 8 for poster presentation; in addition, 9 demonstration papers and 6 papers for the Video Browser Showdown 2020 were accepted. The papers of LNCS 11961 are organized in the following topical sections: audio and signal processing; coding and HVS; color processing and art; detection and classification; face; image processing; learning and knowledge representation; video processing; poster papers; the papers of LNCS 11962 are organized in the following topical sections: poster papers; AI-powered 3D vision; multimedia analytics: perspectives, tools and applications; multimedia datasets for repeatable experimentation; multi-modal affective computing of large-scale multimedia data; multimedia and multimodal analytics in the medical domain and pervasive environments; intelligent multimedia security; demo papers; and VBS papers.

This two-volume set of LNAI 11775 and LNAI 11776 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2019, held in Athens, Greece, in August 2019. The 77 revised full papers and 23 short papers presented together with 10 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: Formal Reasoning and Ontologies; Recommendation Algorithms and Systems; Social Knowledge Analysis and Management ; Data Processing and Data Mining; Image and Video Data Analysis; Deep Learning; Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Management; Machine Learning; and Knowledge Engineering Applications. The papers of the second volume are organized in the following topical sections: Probabilistic Models and Applications; Text Mining and Document Analysis; Knowledge Theories and Models; and Network Knowledge Representation and Learning.

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 refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education Challenges, LTEC 2018, held in Žilina, Slovakia, in August 2018. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Gamification and learning; learning and knowledge transfer; learning technologies applications; virtual learning environments; and mobile learning and MOOCs. LTEC 2018 examines how these technologies and pedagogical advances can be used to change the way teachers teach and students learn, while giving special emphasis to the pedagogically effective ways we can harness these new technologies in education.

This six volume set LNCS 11063 – 11068 constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2018, held in Haikou, China, in June 2018. The 386 full papers of these six volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 1743 submissions. The papers cover ideas and achievements in the theory and practice of all areas of inventive systems which includes control, artificial intelligence, automation systems, computing systems, electrical and informative systems. The six volumes are arranged according to the subject areas as follows: cloud computing, cloud security, encryption, information hiding, IoT security, multimedia forensics

This two volume set of LNAI 11108 and LNAI 11109 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2018, held in Hohhot, China, in August 2018. The 55 full papers and 31 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 308 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in the following topics: conversational Bot/QA/IR; knowledge graph/IE; machine learning for NLP; machine translation; and NLP applications. The papers of the second volume are organized as follows: NLP for social network; NLP fundamentals; text mining; and short papers.

The two-volume set LNCS 11295 and 11296 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in January 2019.Of the 172 submitted full papers, 49 were selected for oral presentation and 47 for poster presentation; in addition, 6 demonstration papers, 5 industry papers, 6 workshop papers, and 6 papers for the Video Browser Showdown 2019 were accepted. All papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2016, held in Shenzhen, China, in December 2016. The 59 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. The conference focuses on both smart computing and communications fields and aims to collect recent academic work to improve the research and practical applications.

This second edition provides a systematic introduction to the work and views of the emerging patent-search research and innovation communities as well as an overview of what has been achieved and, perhaps even more importantly, of what remains to be achieved. It revises many of the contributions of the first edition and adds a significant number of new ones. The first part “Introduction to Patent Searching” includes two overview chapters on the peculiarities of patent searching and on contemporary search technology respectively, and thus sets the scene for the subsequent parts. The second part on “Evaluating Patent Retrieval” then begins with two chapters dedicated to patent evaluation campaigns, followed by two chapters discussing complementary issues from the perspective of patent searchers and from the perspective of related domains, notably legal search. “High Recall Search” includes four completely new chapters dealing with the issue of finding only the relevant documents in a reasonable time span. The last (and with six papers the largest) part on “Special Topics in Patent Information Retrieval” covers a large spectrum of research in the patent field, from classification and image processing to translation. Lastly, the book is completed by an outlook on open issues and future research. Several of the chapters have been jointly written by intellectual property and information retrieval experts. However, members of both communities with a background different to that of the primary author have reviewed the chapters, making the book accessible to both the patent search community and to the information retrieval research community. It also not only offers the latest findings for academic researchers, but is also a valuable resource for IP professionals wanting to learn about current IR approaches in the patent domain.

The three-volume set LNCS 10277-10279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, in Vancouver, BC, Canada in July 2017, jointly with 14 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1228 papers presented at the HCII 2017 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4340 submissions. The papers included in the three UAHCI 2017 volumes address the following major topics: Design for All Methods and Practice; Accessibility and Usability Guidelines and Evaluation; User and Context Modelling and Monitoring and Interaction Adaptation; Design for Children; Sign Language Processing; Universal Access to Virtual and Augmented Reality; Non Visual and Tactile Interaction; Gesture and Gaze-Based Interaction; Universal Access to Health and Rehabilitation; Universal Access to Education and Learning; Universal Access to Mobility; Universal Access to Information and Media; and Design for Quality of Life Technologies.

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.

The two-volume proceedings of the ACIIDS 2016 conference, LNAI 9621 + 9622, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, held in Da Nang, Vietnam, in March 2016. The total of 153 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 392 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: knowledge engineering and semantic Web; social networks and recommender systems; text processing and information retrieval; database systems and software engineering; intelligent information systems; decision support and control systems; machine learning and data mining; computer vision techniques; intelligent big data exploitation; cloud and network computing; multiple model approach to machine learning; advanced data mining techniques and applications; computational intelligence in data mining for complex problems; collective intelligence for service innovation, technology opportunity, e-learning, and fuzzy intelligent systems; analysis for image, video and motion data in life sciences; real world applications in engineering and technology; ontology-based software development; intelligent and context systems; modeling and optimization techniques in information systems, database systems and industrial systems; smart pattern processing for sports; and intelligent services for smart cities.

This LNCS double volume LNCS 10069-10070 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2016, which includes the International Work Conference on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL), and the International Conference on Am-bient Intelligence for Health (AmIHEALTH), held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in November/December 2016. The 69 full papers presented together with 40 short papers and 5 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. UCAmI 2016 is focused on research topics related to ambient assisted living, internet of things, smart cities, ambient intelligence for health, human-computer interaction, ad-hoc and sensor networks, and security.

The three-volume set LNCS 9913, LNCS 9914, and LNCS 9915 comprises the refereed proceedings of the Workshops that took place in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. 27 workshops from 44 workshops proposals were selected for inclusion in the proceedings. These address the following themes: Datasets and Performance Analysis in Early Vision; Visual Analysis of Sketches; Biological and Artificial Vision; Brave New Ideas for Motion Representations; Joint Imagenet and MS Coco Visual Recognition Challenge; Geometry Meets Deep Learning; Action and Anticipation for Visual Learning; Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving; Challenge on Automatic Personality Analysis; BioImage Computing; Benchmarking Multi-Target Tracking: MOTChallenge; Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics; Transferring and Adapting Source Knowledge in Computer Vision; Recovering 6D Object Pose; Robust Reading; 3D Face Alignment in the Wild and Challenge; Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing; Local Features: State of the Art, Open Problems and Performance Evaluation; Crowd Understanding; Video Segmentation; The Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop; Web-scale Vision and Social Media; Computer Vision for Audio-visual Media; Computer VISion for ART Analysis; Virtual/Augmented Reality for Visual Artificial Intelligence; Joint Workshop on Storytelling with Images and Videos and Large Scale Movie Description and Understanding Challenge.