This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012, Shanghai, China, November. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing and pattern recognition; image and video analysis; image quality assessment; text image and speech processing; content retrieval and security; source coding; multimedia communication; new advances in broadband multimedia; human computer interface; 3D video.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2020, which took place in Zhongshan, China, in October 2020. The 49 full and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: handwriting and text processing; features and classifiers; deep learning; computer vision and image processing; medical imaging and applications; and forensic studies and medical diagnosis.

Volume VIII of The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion by Yang Jizhou translated by Dr. Yue Lu, L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., covers the different categories of disease by channel, and looks at the categories of disease by body area. Here is a list of the different subjects covered in this volume: Point Rules (from the Divinely Responding Classic), the 12 channels, Incantation for Needling from the Divinely Responding Classic (Sh n Y ng J ng), The Category of All Types of Wind, Cold Damage Category, Phlegm, Panting, and Cough Category, Various Kinds of Accumulations and Gatherings Category, Abdominal Pain, Distention, and Fullness Category, Heart, Spleen, and Stomach Category, Heart Evils, Mania and Withdrawal Category, Cholera Sudden Turmoil] Category, Malaria Category, Swelling and Distention Category (Appendix: Red Jaundice, Yellow Jaundice), Sweating Category, Impediment (b ) and Reversal (ju ) Category, Intestines, Hemorrhoids, and Defecation Category, Y n Genitals], Sh n Mounting], and Urination Category, Head and Face Category, Throat Category, Ears and Eyes Category, Nose and Mouth Category, Chest, Back, and Rib-Sides Category, Extremities, Lower Back, and Axillae Category, Women's Category, Pediatric Category, and the Sores and Toxins Category.In addition, these treatment methods are also covered: Wind Stroke, Emergency Needling Method for Initial Cold Strike (Generating the Intention of Heaven and Earth), Secret Rhymed Formula for Treating] Wind Stroke and Paralysis with Acupuncture-Moxibustion, Cold damage, Miscellaneous Diseases, All Sores, and Intestinal Abscess.This volume is an extensive guide for the clinician on how to treat a wide variety of syndromes with specific acupuncture and moxibustion points and techniques.

The book is a collection of invited chapters by experts in Chinese document and text processing, and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems. The chapters introduce the latest advances and state-of-the-art methods for Chinese document image analysis and recognition, font design, text analysis and speaker recognition. Handwritten Chinese character recognition and text line recognition are at the core of document image analysis (DIA), and therefore, are addressed in four chapters for different scripts (online characters, offline characters, ancient characters, and text lines). Two chapters on character recognition pay much attention to deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are widely used and performing superiorly in various pattern recognition problems. A chapter is contributed to describe a large handwriting database consisting both online and offline characters and text pages. Postal mail reading and writer identification, addressed in two chapters, are important applications of DIA. The collection can serve as reference for students and engineers in Chinese document and text processing and their applications.