This book presents a systematic introduction to the latest developments in video text detection. Opening with a discussion of the underlying theory and a brief history of video text detection, the text proceeds to cover pre-processing and post-processing techniques, character segmentation and recognition, identification of non-English scripts, techniques for multi-modal analysis and performance evaluation. The detection of text from both natural video scenes and artificially inserted capti...

This two-volume set constitutes the revised selected papers of the 18th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2023 held in Harbin, China, in August 2023.The 54 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Social Media and Online Communities; Collaborative Mechanisms, Models, Approaches, Algorithms ...

The four-volume set, LNAI 16597-16600 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 184 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 728 submissions.This program featured three tracks, the Main Track, the Survey Track, and the Special Track on LLMs for Data Science.The Main Track continued its tradition of being t...

The four-volume set, LNAI 16597-16600 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 184 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 728 submissions.This program featured three tracks, the Main Track, the Survey Track, and the Special Track on LLMs for Data Science.The Main Track continued its tradition of being t...

The two-volume set LNAI 16617-16618 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026 Special Session, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 97 full papers included in this set were carefully reviewed and selected from 728 submissions.These papers were divided into two tracks: the Survey Track, the Main & LLM Track.The Survey Track contains survey papers that are intended to provide a st...

The four-volume set, LNAI 16597-16600 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 184 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 728 submissions.This program featured three tracks, the Main Track, the Survey Track, and the Special Track on LLMs for Data Science.The Main Track continued its tradition of being t...

The four-volume set, LNAI 16597-16600 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 184 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 728 submissions.This program featured three tracks, the Main Track, the Survey Track, and the Special Track on LLMs for Data Science.The Main Track continued its tradition of being t...

This two-volume set constitutes the revised selected papers of the 18th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2023 held in Harbin, China, in August 2023.The 54 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Social Media and Online Communities; Collaborative Mechanisms, Models, Approaches, Algorithms ...

The two-volume set LNAI 16617-16618 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2026 Special Session, held in Hong Kong, China, during June 9–12, 2026.The 97 full papers included in this set were carefully reviewed and selected from 728 submissions.These papers were divided into two tracks: the Survey Track, the Main & LLM Track.The Survey Track contains survey papers that are intended to provide a st...

Information technology and its convergence issue is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm with user-centric environment to provide computing and communication services.This area will be the most comprehensive topics with various aspects of advances in information technology and its convergence services.This book covers all topics as computational science and applications, electronics engineering, manufacturing technology, services, technical skill to control the robo...

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems (ICAEES 2014) held at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, India. These research papers provide the latest developments in the broad area of use of artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms in engineering systems. The book discusses wide variety of industrial, engi...

This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to video processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction and includes full coverage of key applications: wireless video, video networks, video indexing and retrieval and use of video in speech processing. Containing all the essential methods in video processing alongside the latest standards, it is a complete resource for the professional engineer, researcher and graduate student. - Numerous conceptual and numerical exam...