This book presents best-selected papers presented at International Symposium on Innovations in Computer Vision and Applications (ISICVA 2025), organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from 28–29 November 2025. The book targets the current research works in the areas of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and related application areas.

This book presents best-selected papers presented at International Symposium on Innovations in Computer Vision and Applications (ISICVA 2025), organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from 28–29 November 2025. The book targets the current research works in the areas of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and related application areas.

Zoé Nóima:Born into a family of renowned street artists, Zoé Nóima was destined for a life immersed in color and creativity. Her early years were a whirlwind of paint-splattered joy, learning the craft from her parents who were celebrated for their murals that brought life to the city's walls.Tragedy struck when she was just 12, with the loss of her parents in a car accident leaving her orphaned. The once vibrant city now seemed a cold and unwelcoming place. Raised by her grandparents, Zoé...

Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This long awaited excavation report reinterprets this evidence in the light of more recent studies of the late Iron Age-Roman transition. It extends our understanding of the Ditches-Bagendon-Cirencester oppida complex, and corroborates the latest thinking on the nature of Romanisation. New conceptions are challenging the significan...

Vale. A world at peace. This thin veil of a lie is about to be torn apart by two men who will alter the destiny of not only this world, but all worlds.Skye Flem-Ath, the greatest Knight of Virtue, and his apprentice Levian embark on an impossible quest to find the Ruby Tree. A tree so powerful and full of riches that nations have been destroyed in the search for its location.As the two of them traverse their world, they realise all is not well, as sinister plots emerge everywhere they go. ...

This is a paperback reprint of the first edition, which appeared in 2004, published by British Museum Press. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, destroyed by a Sasanian Persian siege in the AD 250s, was an important regional centre of commerce, government and military control under the Seleucid, Parthian and Roman empires. During excavations in the 1920s and 1930s it became famous for finds such as a painted synagogue and early Christian chapel. Not the least spectacular of the discoveries i...

The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, includin...

Populations are growing older in a public health climate where brittle public services are struggling to cope with the demands associated with ageing populations. LGBTQ+ populations also continue to grow in line with these trends but receive much less attention in the scholarly debate. This short work offers a theoretical and practical exploration of LGBTQ+ ageing in the UK, drawing on a blend of public health and occupational therapy theory, and phenomenology.Based on original pri...

Choquet capacities, which provide the weighting mechanism for the Choquet and other fuzzy integrals, model synergistic and antagonistic interactions between variables by assigning value to all subsets rather than individual inputs.While the flexibility of capacities (also referred to as fuzzy measures and cooperative games) comes at the expense of an exponentially increasing number of parameters, the ability to explain their behavior using various value and interaction indices make...

A novel that will have you laughing out loud one minute, and swooning the next!In the town of Newsands, painfully shy Alex is abandoned by his two best friends for the summer.But he unexpectedly lands a part-time job at Wonderland, a run-down amusement arcade on the seafront, where he gets to know the other teen misfits who work there.Alex starts to come out of his shell, and even starts to develop feelin...

"A riotous, real-feeling debut" - The GuardianPoor Noah Grimes! His father disappeared years ago, his mother's Beyonce tribute act is an unacceptable embarrassment, and his beloved gran is no longer herself. He only has one friend, Harry, and school is... Well, it's pure hell. Why can't Noah be normal, like everyone else at school?Maybe if he struck up a romantic relationship with someone - maybe...

"Side-splitting comedy" - The Guardian"Refreshingly positive...sure to leave you with a smile on your face." - OK MagazineNoah's back, and more bananas!He and Harry are now officially boyfriends, but is Noah ready for the difference?It's no help that a group of cosmopolitan French exchange students have descended on Little Fobbing - including sexy Pierre Victoire, who seems to have his...