This fifth volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in image and video compression and multimedia. With this reference source you will: - Quickly grasp a new area of research - Understand the underlying principles of a topic and its application - Ascertain how a topic relates to other areas and learn of the research issues yet to be resolved - Quick tutorial revi...

This volume brings together a series of review articles that highlight new advances in using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study a wide range of cancer-related topics. Building on the foundation of Volume I, the articles demonstrate how research in Drosophila continues to uncover important developmental, cellular, and molecular mechanisms underlying tumor growth, progression, and systemic interactions.Readers will appreciate how the fly’s simple genet...

This book systematically studies the feedback control and filtering problems for nonlinear plants with limited communication channels based on T-S fuzzy models. By fully considering different network-induced phenomena, such as signal quantizations, time-delays, data packet dropouts, communication protocols, cyber attacks, and so on, some significant strategies are provided for various performance analysis and different controller/filter synthesis of fuzzy systems. The event-triggered mecha...

Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners’ future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage.The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese ...

This book delves into the evolving Southern discourse in Sinophone literature and explores its significance in the global context. Examining the Southern discourse not just within mainland China but also in the geographically and culturally southern regions, including Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Australia, this book analyzes various critical themes, including transnational migration, racial dynamics and stereotypes, gender politics, indigenous awareness, cultural hybridit...

This four-volume set LNCS 16415-16412 constitutes the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2026, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during January 29–31, 2026.

This book explains how artificial intelligence (AI) works and helps readers adopt, use, and evaluate AI applications in public health. It serves as an introduction to AI literacy for beginners without a prerequisite for a math or information technology background. The conceptual frameworks for AI in public health also serve well for future agentic AI design.With the help of this textbook, instructors will be able to teach students the fundamental concepts and skills to identify unm...

The four novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanisms (DETMs) in this book are for complex networked systems that optimize resource utilization while preserving system performance. These include hybrid dynamic variables-dependent ETMs, hybrid adjusting variables-dependent ETMs, bounded dynamic variable/time-varying threshold-dependent ETMs, and terminal constraint set-dependent mixed time/event-triggered mechanisms. It explores applications across fault diagnosis in networked systems, finite-t...

This book discusses the developments in the advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems completed over the last two decades, including the progress in advanced control theory and method, intelligent control and decision-making of complex metallurgical processes, intelligent systems and machine learning, intelligent robot systems design and control, and prediction and control technology for renewable energy. With the depth and breadth of coverage of this book, it serves ...

Deep Learning has achieved great success in many challenging research areas, such as image recognition and natural language processing. The key merit of deep learning is to automatically learn good feature representation from massive data conceptually. In this book, we will show that the deep learning technology can be a very good candidate for improving sensing capabilities.In this edited volume, we aim to narrow the gap between humans and machines by showcasing various deep learning appl...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition, DL-HAR 2020, held in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshop was postponed to the year 2021 and held in a virtual format.The 10 presented papers were thorougly reviewed and included in the volume. They present recent research on applications of human activity recognition for various a...

This book provides a thorough exploration of the latest innovations in AI for general time series analysis, distribution shift and foundation models. It offers an in-depth look at cutting-edge techniques and methodologies, using advance algorithms that are transforming time series analysis across industries. The authors highlight the use AI models, particularly those based on deep learning, to study the sequence of data points collected at successive points in time. In the study of the use...