This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ethical & Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging (EPIMI 2022); the 12th International Workshop on Multimodal Learning and Fusion Across Scales for Clinical Decision Support (ML-CDS 2022) and the 2nd International Workshop on Topological Data Analysis for Biomedical Imaging (TDA4BiomedicalImaging 2022), held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, in September 2022.EPIMI includes five short papers about various humanistic aspects of medical image computing and computer-assisted interventions. The ML-CDS papers discuss machine learning on multimodal data sets for clinical decision support and treatment planning. The TDA papers focus on Topological Data Analysis: a collection of techniques and tools that have matured from an increasing interest in the role topology plays in machine learning and data science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th METAVERSE 2022 conference, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, in December 2022 in Honolulu, USA. The 7 full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of Advertising Services, Banking Services, Broadcasting & Cable TV Service, Business Services, Communications Services, Government Services, Real Estate Operations Services, Schools and Education Services, Healthcare Services, and much more.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2022, held in Fuzhou, China, in December 2022. The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. Challenges of human-robot interaction, robot control and behavior in social robotics and collaborative robotics, as well as applied robotic and cyber-physical systems are mainly discussed in the papers.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Microelectronic Devices, Circuits and Systems, ICMDCS 2022, was held in Vellore, India, in August 2022. The 9 full papers and 5 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: System Level Design; Digital Design; Analog, Mixed-Signal and RF Design; and Emerging Technologies.

The three-volume sets constitute the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2022, held in Singapore, during August 6-8, 2022. The 169 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 498 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I:Knowledge Science with Learning and AI (KSLA) Volume II:Knowledge Engineering Research and Applications (KERA) Volume III:Knowledge Management with Optimization and Security (KMOS)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, IGS 2021/2022. Originally planned to be celebrated in September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was held in June 2022.The 36 full and 3 short papers presented at the conference were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions and reviewed by a committee of 67 reviewers. Out of the 41 conferences, 26 papers were selected to be published in this proceedings. The program was comprised of 6 oral sessions on the following topics: historical documents, forensic handwriting examinations, handwriting learning and development, and motor control. One additional poster session included papers on all previous topics, and three special sessions included papers on neurodegenerative disorders.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13598 and 13599 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2022, which was held in October 2022. The 61 papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: deep learning I; visualization; object detection and recognition; deep learning II; video analysis and event recognition; computer graphics; ST: biomedical imaging techniques for cancer detection, diagnosis and management. Part II: ST: neuro-inspired artificia intelligence; applications; segmentation and tracking; virtual reality; poster.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13598 and 13599 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2022, which was held in October 2022. The 61 papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: deep learning I; visualization; object detection and recognition; deep learning II; video analysis and event recognition; computer graphics; ST: biomedical imaging techniques for cancer detection, diagnosis and management. Part II: ST: neuro-inspired artificia intelligence; applications; segmentation and tracking; virtual reality; poster.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first MICCAI Workshop, ISGIE 2022, Imaging Systems for GI Endoscopy, and the Fourth MICCAI Workshop, GRAIL 2022, GRaphs in biomedicAL Image and analysis, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 18, 2022. ISGIE 2022 accepted 6 papers from the 8 submissions received.This workshop focuses on novel scientific contributions to vision systems, imaging algorithms as well as the autonomous system for endorobot for GI endoscopy. This includes lesion and lumen detection, as well as 3D reconstruction of the GI tract and hand-eye coordination. GRAIL 2022 accepted 6 papers from the 10 submissions received. The workshop aims to bring together scientists that use and develop graph-based models for the analysis of biomedical images and to encourage the exploration of graph-based models for difficult clinical problems within a variety of biomedical imaging contexts.

This book constitutes selected papers presented at the First International Scientific and Practical Conference on Information Technologies and Intelligent Decision Making Systems, ITIDMS 2021, held as Virtual Event in January, 2021. The 13 presented papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 41 submissions. The conference was held with the aim of summarizing international experience in the field of information, digital and intellectual development, within which proposals were formulated for digital and information transformation, the development of computer models, information technologies, automated and computing processes. A distinctive feature of the conference is that it presented reports of authors from China, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Poland, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Russia. Researchers from different countries presented the process of transition of the information and digital path of development, presented the main directions and developments that can improve the efficiency and development.

This book introduces the point cloud; its applications in industry, and the most frequently used datasets. It mainly focuses on three computer vision tasks -- point cloud classification, segmentation, and registration -- which are fundamental to any point cloud-based system. An overview of traditional point cloud processing methods helps readers build background knowledge quickly, while the deep learning on point clouds methods include comprehensive analysis of the breakthroughs from the past few years. Brand-new explainable machine learning methods for point cloud learning, which are lightweight and easy to train, are then thoroughly introduced. Quantitative and qualitative performance evaluations are provided. The comparison and analysis between the three types of methods are given to help readers have a deeper understanding. With the rich deep learning literature in 2D vision, a natural inclination for 3D vision researchers is to develop deep learning methods for point cloud processing. Deep learning on point clouds has gained popularity since 2017, and the number of conference papers in this area continue to increase. Unlike 2D images, point clouds do not have a specific order, which makes point cloud processing by deep learning quite challenging. In addition, due to the geometric nature of point clouds, traditional methods are still widely used in industry. Therefore, this book aims to make readers familiar with this area by providing comprehensive overview of the traditional methods and the state-of-the-art deep learning methods. A major portion of this book focuses on explainable machine learning as a different approach to deep learning. The explainable machine learning methods offer a series of advantages over traditional methods and deep learning methods. This is a main highlight and novelty of the book. By tackling three research tasks -- 3D object recognition, segmentation, and registration using our methodology -- readers will have a sense of how to solve problems in a different way and can apply the frameworks to other 3D computer vision tasks, thus give them inspiration for their own future research. Numerous experiments, analysis and comparisons on three 3D computer vision tasks (object recognition, segmentation, detection and registration) are provided so that readers can learn how to solve difficult Computer Vision problems.

This book constitutes selected papers of the Fourth International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2020, held virtually, in November 2020. The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers selected to be included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on computer-human interaction, including Interaction design, human factors, entertainment, cognition, perception, user-friendly software and systems, pervasive technologies and interactive devices.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2022, held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2022) aims at providing an international forum that is dedicated to exploring different aspects of AI (from technologies to approaches and algorithms) and mobile services (from business management to computing systems, algorithms, and applications) to promoting technological innovations in research and development of mobile services, including, but not limited to, wireless & sensor networks, mobile & wearable computing, mobile enterprise & eCommerce, ubiquitous collaborative & social services, machine-to-machine & Internet-of-things clouds, cyber-physical integration, and big data analytics for mobility-enabled services.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1567-1568) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6h International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2021, held in Rupnagar, India, in December 2021. The 70 full papers and 20 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from the 260 submissions. The papers present recent research on such topics as biometrics, forensics, content protection, image enhancement/super-resolution/restoration, motion and tracking, image or video retrieval, image, image/video processing for autonomous vehicles, video scene understanding, human-computer interaction, document image analysis, face, iris, emotion, sign language and gesture recognition, 3D image/video processing, action and event detection/recognition, medical image and video analysis, vision-based human GAIT analysis, remote sensing, and more.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2021, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2021*. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: problem solving infrastructures, experiment organization, and machine learning applications; data analysis in astronomy; data analysis in material and earth sciences; information extraction from text * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1567-1568) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6h International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2021, held in Rupnagar, India, in December 2021. The 70 full papers and 20 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from the 260 submissions. The papers present recent research on such topics as biometrics, forensics, content protection, image enhancement/super-resolution/restoration, motion and tracking, image or video retrieval, image, image/video processing for autonomous vehicles, video scene understanding, human-computer interaction, document image analysis, face, iris, emotion, sign language and gesture recognition, 3D image/video processing, action and event detection/recognition, medical image and video analysis, vision-based human GAIT analysis, remote sensing, and more.

Complex illumination and meteorological conditions can significantly limit the robustness of robotic vision systems. This book focuses on image pre-processing for robot vision in complex illumination and dynamic weather conditions. It systematically covers cutting-edge models and algorithms, approaching them from a novel viewpoint based on studying the atmospheric physics and imaging mechanism. It provides valuable insights and practical methods such as illumination calculations, scattering modeling, shadow/highlight detection and removal, intrinsic image derivation, and rain/snow/fog removal technologies that will enable robots to be effective in diverse lighting and weather conditions, i.e., ensure their all-weather operating capacity. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students and engineers in the fields of robot engineering and computer science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Data Mining, AusDM 2022, held in Western Sydney, Australia, during December 12-15, 2022. The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as research track and application track.

This book proposes tools for analysis of multidimensional and metric data, by establishing a state-of-the-art of the existing solutions and developing new ones. It mainly focuses on visual exploration of these data by a human analyst, relying on a 2D or 3D scatter plot display obtained through Dimensionality Reduction. Performing diagnosis of an energy system requires identifying relations between observed monitoring variables and the associated internal state of the system. Dimensionality reduction, which allows to represent visually a multidimensional dataset, constitutes a promising tool to help domain experts to analyse these relations. This book reviews existing techniques for visual data exploration and dimensionality reduction such as tSNE and Isomap, and proposes new solutions to challenges in that field. In particular, it presents the new unsupervised technique ASKI and the supervised methods ClassNeRV and ClassJSE. Moreover, MING, a new approach for local map quality evaluation is also introduced. These methods are then applied to the representation of expert-designed fault indicators for smart-buildings, I-V curves for photovoltaic systems and acoustic signals for Li-ion batteries.

This book constitutes selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2021, which was held online during February 4-6, 2021. A total of 72 full and 99 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for the conference from a total of 298 submissions; 17 selected full papers are included in this book. They were organized in topical sections named agents and artificial intelligence.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2021, which was held virtually in December 2021. The 36 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions; the volume also contains 12 extended and revised workshop contributions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Planning and strategies; constraints, argumentation, and logic programming; knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning; natural language processing; AI for content and social media analysis; signal processing: images, videos and speech; machine learning for argumentation, explanation, and exploration; machine learning and applications; and AI applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence, HBAI 2022, held in conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, on July 23, 2022. The 19 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers present most recent research in the fields of brain-inspired computing, brain-machine interfaces, computational neuroscience, brain-related health, neuroimaging, cognition and behavior, learning, and memory, neuron modulation, and closed-loop brain stimulation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing Evaluations, CCKS 2022, which took place in Qinhuangdao, China, in August 2022. The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. CCKS technology evaluation track aims to provide researchers with platforms and resources for testing knowledge and semantic computing technologies, algorithms and systems, promote the technical development in the field of domestic knowledge, and the integration of academic achievements and industrial needs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th China Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, CWSN 2022, which took place in Guangzhou, China, in November 2022. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 204 submissions, including 87 English papers and 117 Chinese papers. The conference provided an academic exchange of research and a development forum for IoT researchers, developers, enterprises, and users. Exchanging results and experience of research and applications in IoT, and discussing the key challenges and research hotspots, is the main goal of the forum. As a high-level forum for the design, implementation, and application of IoT, the conference promoted the exchange and application of the oriesand technologies of IoT-related topics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI 2022, which was held 22 September 2022, in conjunction with MICCAI 2022. The 12 full papers included were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Data processing, Signal representations, Tractography and WM pathways.