Image processing

The two-volume proceedings, LNCS 13249 and 13250, constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2021, held in Nanjing, China in May 2021.

The two volume set LNCS 13258 and 13259 constitutes the proceedings of the International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2022, held in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain in May - June 2022.

The four-volume set LNCS 13311 - 13314 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2022, which was held as part of HCI International 2022 and took place virtually during June 26 - July 1, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Games, HCI in Games 2022, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which was held virtually in June/July 2022.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, RTIP2R 2021, held in Msida, Malta, in December 2021.

The 3-volume set CCIS 1586, CCIS 1587 and CCIS 1588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, which was held in Qinghai, China, in July 2022.

The 3-volume set CCIS 1586, CCIS 1587 and CCIS 1588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, which was held in Qinghai, China, in July 2022.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2021, held in Nanjing, China in May 2021.

This two-volume set LNCS 13317 and 13318 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2022, held virtually as part of the 24rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, in June/July 2022.

The 3-volume set LNAI 13280, LNAI 13281 and LNAI 13282 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2022, which was held during May 2022 in Chengdu, China.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021, held as a virtual event in December 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022, held as part of Evo* 2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo* 2022 events, EvoCOP, EvoApplications, and EuroGP.

Physics-based animation is commonplace in animated feature films and even special effects for live-action movies.

The wide diffusion of 3D printing technologies continuously calls for effective solutions for designing and fabricating objects of increasing complexity.

This book provides beginners in computer graphics and related fields a guide to the concepts, models, and technologies for realistic rendering of material appearance.

In image processing and computer vision applications such as medical or scientific image data analysis, as well as in industrial scenarios, images are used as input measurement data.

In geometry processing and shape analysis, several applications have been addressed through the properties of the Laplacian spectral kernels and distances, such as commute time, biharmonic, diffusion, and wave distances.

This synthesis lecture presents an intuitive introduction to the mathematics of motion and deformation in computer graphics.

Heritage sites across the world have witnessed a number of natural calamities, sabotage and damage from visitors, resulting in their present ruined condition.

This book is written for students, CAD system users and software developers who are interested in geometric continuity-a notion needed in everyday practice of Computer-Aided Design and also a hot subject of research.

New data acquisition techniques are emerging and are providing fast and efficient means for multidimensional spatial data collection.

Path planning and navigation are indispensable components for controlling autonomous agents in interactive virtual worlds.

As we increase our reliance on computer-generated information, often using it as part of our decision-making process, we must devise tools to assess the correctness of that information.

This volume presents novel computational models for representing digital humans and their interactions with other virtual characters and meaningful environments.

The three-volume set LNCS 13302, 13303 and 13304 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which took place virtually in June-July 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in May 2019.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, held as a virtual event, in June-July 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2022, held in San Diego, CA, USA in May 2022.

This book serves as a practical guide to simulation of 3D deformable solids using the Finite Element Method (FEM).

What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art?

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021.

Plants and trees are among the most complex natural objects.

For the last ten years, face biometric research has been intensively studied by the computer vision community.

Human visual perception is limited to the visual-optical spectrum.

Person re-identification is the problem of associating observations of targets in different non-overlapping cameras.

Visual pattern analysis is a fundamental tool in mining data for knowledge.

Under the title "e;Probabilistic and Biologically Inspired Feature Representations,"e; this text collects a substantial amount of work on the topic of channel representations.

Computer vision has become increasingly important and effective in recent years due to its wide-ranging applications in areas as diverse as smart surveillance and monitoring, health and medicine, sports and recreation, robotics, drones, and self-driving cars.

Covariance matrices play important roles in many areas of mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, as well as their applications.

Outlier-contaminated data is a fact of life in computer vision.

A common feature of many approaches to modeling sensory statistics is an emphasis on capturing the "e;average.

Because circular objects are projected to ellipses in images, ellipse fitting is a first step for 3-D analysis of circular objects in computer vision applications.

Modeling data from visual and linguistic modalities together creates opportunities for better understanding of both, and supports many useful applications.

Background subtraction is a widely used concept for detection of moving objects in videos.

Being able to recover the shape of 3D deformable surfaces from a single video stream would make it possible to field reconstruction systems that run on widely available hardware without requiring specialized devices.

Statistical analysis of shapes of 3D objects is an important problem with a wide range of applications.

In the human quest for scientific knowledge, empirical evidence is collected by visual perception.

In its early years, the field of computer vision was largely motivated by researchers seeking computational models of biological vision and solutions to practical problems in manufacturing, defense, and medicine.

As networks of video cameras are installed in many applications like security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and assisted living facilities, among others, image understanding in camera networks is becoming an important area of research and technology development.