The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China—all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral ...

The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.The 138 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 420 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision, pattern Recognition, Rendering, Image manipulation, Graphics systems and inter...

One afternoon, I returned home from a walk, my husband said that he smelt something, I responded it is the smell of the sun... Smelling The Sun then became the title of my this book.Once a while I would have confused myself for who I am, I perceive China through my American eyes, sometime the other way around. Being an American, I would look into the land beyond the Pacific Ocean trying to understand the people and the natures where I came from. Having been a Chinese, I am telling ...

The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023.The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission,...

The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.The 138 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 420 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision, pattern Recognition, Rendering, Image manipulation, Graphics systems and inter...

The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.The 138 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 420 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision, pattern Recognition, Rendering, Image manipulation, Graphics systems and inter...

Cross-device Web Search is the first book to examine cross-device search behavior, which takes place when people utilize multiple devices and several sessions to research the same topic.Providing a comprehensive examination of cross-device search behaviors, the book also models and analyses their most important features and, by doing so, helps to elucidate the motivations behind such behaviors. Drawing on a variety of methods and sources, including system design, user experiments, ...

The five-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.

Follow the adventure of 10 brothers as they work to save each other!

The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023.The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission,...

The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023.The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission,...

The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023.The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission,...