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​This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2023, as well as the Cardiac MRI Reconstruction Challenge, CMRxRecon Challenge. There was a total of 53 submissions to the workshop. The 24 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 paper submissions. They deal with cardiac segmentation, modelling, strain quantification, registration, statistical shape analysis, and quality control. In addition, 21 papers from the CMRxRecon challenge are included in this volume. They focus on fast CMR image reconstruction and provide a benchmark dataset that enables the broader research community to promote advances in this area of research.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2022, held in conjunction with the 25th MICCAI conference. The 34 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected after being revised and deal with topics such as: common cardiac segmentation and modelling problems to more advanced generative modelling for ageing hearts, learning cardiac motion using biomechanical networks, physics-informed neural networks for left atrial appendage occlusion, biventricular mechanics for Tetralogy of Fallot, ventricular arrhythmia prediction by using graph convolutional network, and deeper analysis of racial and sex biases from machine learning-based cardiac segmentation. In addition, 14 papers from the CMRxMotion challenge are included in the proceedings which aim to assess the effects of respiratory motion on cardiac MRI (CMR) imaging quality and examine the robustness of segmentation models in face of respiratory motion artefacts. A total of 48 submissions to the workshop was received.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 22–24, 2023. The 28 full papers and 42 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theory and methods and applications.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2068 and 2069, constitutes selected papers presented during the Second Pan-African Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PanAfriCon AI 2023, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in October 2023. The set goal of the conference is to exchange the best practices of joint Pan-African efforts to provide solutions for Africa's key 21st century challenges in the social, economic and ecologic domains. The 29 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Medical AI; Natural Language Processing, Text and Speech Processing; AI in Finance and Cyber Security; Autonomous Vehicles; AI Ethics and Life Sciences.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2068 and 2069, constitutes selected papers presented during the Second Pan-African Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PanAfriCon AI 2023, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in October 2023. The set goal of the conference is to exchange the best practices of joint Pan-African efforts to provide solutions for Africa's key 21st century challenges in the social, economic and ecologic domains. The 29 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Medical AI; Natural Language Processing, Text and Speech Processing; AI in Finance and Cyber Security; Autonomous Vehicles; AI Ethics and Life Sciences.

This book constitutes the Revised Selected Papers of the Second International Conference, ICAETA 2023, held in Istanbul, Turkey, during March 10–11, 2023.The 37 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The topics cover a range of areas related to engineering, technology, and applications. Main themes of the conference include, but are not limited to: Data Analysis, Visualization and Applications; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Computer Vision; Computer Communication and Networks; Signal Processing and Applications; Electronic Circuits, Devices, and Photonics; Power Electronics and Energy Systems.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 10th and 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2021 and 2022, held in February 2021 and 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conferences were held virtually. Both conferences received in total 204 submissions from which 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation in this volume. The papers span a wide range of investigation as well as development lines, which of course always reflect the last trends of research in the pattern recognition community.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th International Conference, IVCNZ 2022, which took place in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2022.The 37 papers (14 accepted for long oral presentation, 23 for short oral presentation) included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The conference presents papers on all aspects of computer vision, image processing, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, visualization, and HCI applications related to these fields.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2021, held as a virtual event during December 16–18, 2021.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Computational advances in bio and medical sciences; and computational advances in molecular epidemiology.

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.

The two-volume set LNCS 13373 and 13374 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, in May 2022.The 96 revised full papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions.ICIAP 2022 presents the following Sixteen workshops:Volume I:GoodBrother workshop on visual intelligence for active and assisted livingParts can worth like the Whole - PART 2022Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition - FAPERWorkshop on Intelligent Systems in Human and Artificial Perception - ISHAPE 2022Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis - AIRCADDeep-Learning and High Performance Computing to Boost Biomedical Applications - DeepHealthVolume II: Human Behaviour Analysis for Smart City Environment Safety - HBAxSCESBinary is the new Black (and White): Recent Advances on Binary Image ProcessingArtificial Intelligence for preterm infants'healthCare - AI-careTowards a Complete Analysis of People: From Face and Body to Clothes - T-CAPArtificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities - AI4DHMedical Transformers - MEDXFLearning in Precision Livestock Farming - LPLFWorkshop on Small-Drone Surveillance, Detection and Counteraction Techniques - WOSDETCMedical Imaging Analysis For Covid-19 - MIACOVID 2022Novel Benchmarks and Approaches for Real-World Continual Learning - CL4REAL

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in June 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The presented 14 full and 5 short papers were thorougly reviewed and selected from the 76 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects of advanced signal processing in different scientific areas, including filter design, Fourier and other transforms, feature extraction, machine learning and system adaptation to user-oriented products like 5G networks, IoT, virtual teleport or tele-surgery operations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Smart Multimedia, ICSM 2022, which was held in Marseille, France, during August 25–27, 2022.The 30 full papers and 4 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Machine Learning for Multimedia; Image Processing; Multimedia Applications; Multimedia for Medicine and Health-Care; Smart Homes; Multimedia Environments and Metaverse; Deep Learning on Video and Music; Haptic; Industrial.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2021, as well as the M&Ms-2 Challenge: Multi-Disease, Multi-View and Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge.The 25 regular workshop papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected after being revised. They deal with cardiac imaging and image processing, machine learning applied to cardiac imaging and image analysis, atlas construction, artificial intelligence, statistical modelling of cardiac function across different patient populations, cardiac computational physiology, model customization, atlas based functional analysis, ontological schemata for data and results, integrated functional and structural analyses, as well as the pre-clinical and clinical applicability of these methods. In addition, 15 papers from the M&MS-2 challenge are included in this volume. The Multi-Disease, Multi-View & Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge (M&Ms-2) is focusing on the development of generalizable deep learning models for the Right Ventricle that can maintain good segmentation accuracy on different centers, pathologies and cardiac MRI views. There was a total of 48 submissions to the workshop.

This two-volume set LNCS 12658 and 12659 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2020, the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, and the Computational Precision Medicine: Radiology-Pathology Challenge on Brain Tumor Classification (CPM-RadPath) challenge. These were held jointly at the 23rd Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2020, in Lima, Peru, in October 2020.• The revised selected papers presented in these volumes were organized in the following topical sections: brain lesion image analysis (16 selected papers from 21 submissions); brain tumor image segmentation (69 selected papers from 75 submissions); and computational precision medicine: radiology-pathology challenge on brain tumor classification (6 selected papers from 6 submissions). •The workshop and challenges were held virtually.

This three-volume set (CCIS 1367-1368) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2020, held in Prayagraj, India, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online. The 134 papers papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 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 two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R) 2020, held in Aurangabad, India, in January 2020.The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections in the two volumes. Part I: Computer vision and applications; Data science and machine learning; Document understanding and Recognition. Part II: Healthcare informatics and medical imaging; Image analysis and recognition; Signal processing and pattern recognition; Image and signal processing in Agriculture.

This two-volume book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2021, held in Nashik, India, in April 2021.•The 103 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 781 submissions. The papers in Part I and II are centered around topics like distributed systems organizing principles, development frameworks and environments, software verification and validation, computational complexity and cryptography, machine learning theory, database theory, probabilistic representations database management system engines, data mining, information retrieval query processing, database and storage security, ubiquitous and mobile computing, parallel computing methodologies, and others. •The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This two-volume set LNCS 12658 and 12659 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2020, the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, and the Computational Precision Medicine: Radiology-Pathology Challenge on Brain Tumor Classification (CPM-RadPath) challenge. These were held jointly at the 23rd Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI 2020, in Lima, Peru, in October 2020.• The revised selected papers presented in these volumes were organized in the following topical sections: brain lesion image analysis (16 selected papers from 21 submissions); brain tumor image segmentation (69 selected papers from 75 submissions); and computational precision medicine: radiology-pathology challenge on brain tumor classification (6 selected papers from 6 submissions). •The workshop and challenges were held virtually.

The two-volume proceedings set CCIS 2121 and 2122 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Development, ICICSD 2023, which took place in Hyderabad, India, during August 25–26, 2023. The 46 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They focus on digital healthcare, renewable energy, smart cities, digital farming, and autonomous systems.

The two-volume proceedings set CCIS 2121 and 2122 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Development, ICICSD 2023, which took place in Hyderabad, India, during August 25–26, 2023. The 46 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They focus on digital healthcare, renewable energy, smart cities, digital farming, and autonomous systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Recent Trends in AI Enabled Technologies, ThinkAI 2023, which took place in Hyderabad, India, in December 2023. The 7 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The conference focuses on on up to date topics and recent trends in artificial intelligence and related technologies.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 16th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2019, which was held in Bergamo, Italy, during September 4-6, 2019. The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections as follows: Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics; Algebraic and Computational Methods for the Study of RNA Behaviour; Intelligence methods for molecular characterization medicine; Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics and Medical Biology; Modeling and Simulation Methods for Computational Biology and Systems Medicine.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1147, CCIS 1148) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing. held in Jaipur, India, in September 2019. The 73 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers are organized by the topical headings in two parts. Part I: Biometrics; Computer Forensic; Computer Vision; Dimension Reduction; Healthcare Information Systems; Image Processing; Image segmentation; Information Retrieval; Instance based learning; Machine Learning.Part II: ​Neural Network; Object Detection; Object Recognition; Online Handwriting Recognition; Optical Character Recognition; Security and Privacy; Unsupervised Clustering.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1147, CCIS 1148) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing. held in Jaipur, India, in September 2019. The 73 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topics:​ Part I: Biometrics; Computer Forensic; Computer Vision; Dimension Reduction; Healthcare Information Systems; Image Processing; Image segmentation; Information Retrieval; Instance based learning; Machine Learning.Part II: ​Neural Network; Object Detection; Object Recognition; Online Handwriting Recognition; Optical Character Recognition; Security and Privacy; Unsupervised Clustering.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2019.The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video surveillance; virtual reality.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 25 full papers presented together 52 short papers and 32 poster sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 initial submissions. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2019, held in Miami, Florida, USA in November 2019.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They deal with topics such as computational biology; biomedical image analysis; biological networks; cancer genomics; gene enrichment analysis; functional genomics; interaction networks; protein structure prediction; dynamic programming; and microbiome analysis.

The two-volume set LNCS 11992 and 11993 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2019, the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, the Computational Precision Medicine: Radiology-Pathology Challenge on Brain Tumor Classification (CPM-RadPath) challenge, as well as the tutorial session on Tools Allowing Clinical Translation of Image Computing Algorithms (TACTICAL). These were held jointly at the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI, in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019. The revised selected papers presented in these volumes were organized in the following topical sections: brain lesion image analysis (12 selected papers from 32 submissions); brain tumor image segmentation (57 selected papers from 102 submissions); combined MRI and pathology brain tumor classification (4 selected papers from 5 submissions); tools allowing clinical translation of image computing algorithms (2 selected papers from 3 submissions.)

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in February 2019. The 25 thoroughly revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 395 submissions. The papers contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on computer graphics; human computer interaction; information visualization; computer vision.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.The 24 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were rejected without being reviewed). The papers are organized in topical sections on general topics of data analysis; natural language processing; social network analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; analysis of dynamic behaviour through event data.

The two-volume set LNCS 11992 and 11993 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2019, the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, the Computational Precision Medicine: Radiology-Pathology Challenge on Brain Tumor Classification (CPM-RadPath) challenge, as well as the tutorial session on Tools Allowing Clinical Translation of Image Computing Algorithms (TACTICAL). These were held jointly at the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI, in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019. The revised selected papers presented in these volumes were organized in the following topical sections: brain lesion image analysis (12 selected papers from 32 submissions); brain tumor image segmentation (57 selected papers from 102 submissions); combined MRI and pathology brain tumor classification (4 selected papers from 5 submissions); tools allowing clinical translation of image computing algorithms (2 selected papers from 3 submissions.)

This book constitutes thoroughly reviewed, revised and selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Human Centered Computing, HCC 2019, held in Čačak, Serbia, in August 2019. The 48 full and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 133 submissions. The papers focus on deep learning and its applications on a variety of real-life problems, ranging from image/video analysis, to human-computer interaction, and to logistics and supply chain management.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the workshops held at the 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2022, which took place in Macao, China, in December 2022. The 25 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections as follows: Learning with limited data for face analysis; adversarial machine learning towards advanced vision systems; computer vision for medical computing; machine learning and computing for visual semantic analysis; vision transformers theory and applications; and deep learning-based small object detection from images and videos.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Information Systems, DIS 2023, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2023. The 18 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They deal with topics ranging from theoretical, algorithmic, and practical perspectives in information systems, to offering readers valuable information, theories and techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Vehicles, ICAISV 2023, held in Tehran, Iran, during May 24-25, 2023.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: machine learning, data mining, machine vision, image processing, signal analysis, decision support systems, expert systems, and their applications in smart vehicles.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in January 2018. The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 initial submissions.The core of ICPRAM is intended to include theoretical studies yielding new insights in Pattern Recognition methods, as well as experimental validation and concrete application of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third Workshop on Computer Vision Applications, WCVA 2018, held in Conjunction with ICVGIP 2018, in Hyderabad, India, in December 2018. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers focus on computer vision; industrial applications; medical applications; and social applications.

This two-volume set LNCS 11383 and 11384 constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2018, as well as the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation, BraTS, Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation, ISLES, MR Brain Image Segmentation, MRBrainS18, Computational Precision Medicine, CPM, and Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH, which were held jointly at the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 92 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: brain lesion image analysis; brain tumor image segmentation; ischemic stroke lesion image segmentation; grand challenge on MR brain segmentation; computational precision medicine; stroke workshop on imaging and treatment challenges.

This two-volume set LNCS 11383 and 11384 constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop, BrainLes 2018, as well as the International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation, BraTS, Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation, ISLES, MR Brain Image Segmentation, MRBrainS18, Computational Precision Medicine, CPM, and Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH, which were held jointly at the Medical Image Computing for Computer Assisted Intervention Conference, MICCAI, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018. The 92 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: brain lesion image analysis; brain tumor image segmentation; ischemic stroke lesion image segmentation; grand challenge on MR brain segmentation; computational precision medicine; stroke workshop on imaging and treatment challenges.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Iberoamerican Congress on Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, CIARP 2021, which took place during May 10–13, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Porto, Portugal, but changed to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: medical applications; natural language processing; metaheuristics; image segmentation; databases; deep learning; explainable artificial intelligence; image processing; machine learning; and computer vision.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2020, as well as two challenges: M&Ms - The Multi-Centre, Multi-Vendor, Multi-Disease Segmentation Challenge, and EMIDEC - Automatic Evaluation of Myocardial Infarction from Delayed-Enhancement Cardiac MRI Challenge. The 43 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They deal with cardiac imaging and image processing, machine learning applied to cardiac imaging and image analysis, atlas construction, artificial intelligence, statistical modelling of cardiac function across different patient populations, cardiac computational physiology, model customization, atlas based functional analysis, ontological schemata for data and results, integrated functional and structural analyses, as well as the pre-clinical and clinical applicability of these methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2021, held in Beijing, China in June, 2021. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision and pattern recognition; big data mining, computer graphics and VR, as well as image technology applications. The volume contains the following thematic blocks: image processing and enhancement techniques (image information acquisition, image/video coding, image/video transmission, image/video storage, compression, completion, dehazing, reconstruction and display, etc.); biometric identification techniques (biometric identification and authentication techniques including face, fingerprint, iris and palm-print, etc.); machine vision and 3D reconstruction (visual information acquisition, camera calibration, stereo vision, 3D reconstruction, and applications of machine vision in industrial inspection, etc.); image/video big data analysis and understanding (object detection and recognition, image/video retrieval, image segmentation, matching, analysis and understanding); computer graphics (modeling, rendering, algorithm simplification and acceleration techniques, realistic scene generation, 3D reconstruction algorithm, system and application, etc.); virtual reality and human-computer interaction (virtual scene generation techniques, tracing and positioning techniques for large-scale space, augmented reality techniques, human-computer interaction techniques based on computer vision, etc.); applications of image and graphics (image/video processing and transmission, biomedical engineering applications, information security, digital watermarking, text processing and transmission, remote sensing, telemetering, etc.); other research works and surveys related to the applications of image and graphics technology.

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Asian Conference on ACPR 2019, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2019. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They cover topics such as: classification; action and video and motion; object detection and anomaly detection; segmentation, grouping and shape; face and body and biometrics; adversarial learning and networks; computational photography; learning theory and optimization; applications, medical and robotics; computer vision and robot vision; pattern recognition and machine learning; multi-media and signal processing and interaction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2020, held in Beijing, China in September, 2020.•The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision and pattern recognition; big data mining, computer graphics and VR, as well as image technology applications. •The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th workshop on Deep Generative Models for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, DGM4MICCAI 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024. The 21 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. These papers deal with a broad range of topics, ranging from methodology (such as Causal inference, Latent interpretation, Generative factor analysis) to Applications (such as Mammography, Vessel imaging, Surgical videos and more).

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 up to 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; motion estimation.

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 up to 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; motion estimation.

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 up to 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; motion estimation.

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 up to 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; motion estimation.