The Underwasteland is the hell at the edge of the universe. In the house in the middle of an ash desert, N inherits the title of [Empress] of the Underwasteland. Her tasks are as important as they are monotonous: judging the deceased and taking care of the immense dungeon in which they rest. N's life is boring and lonely until a [hero] offers her an umbrella. "When the time comes, avenge me" is what he asks in return. Between colorful encounters and difficult moments, N must complete at le...

N's adventures continue in this second volume. After defeating the Devil, the Empress of the Underwasteland finds herself facing a group of elves in search of a new homeland. Unlive or undead? Don't mind, the catastrophic awakening of an ancient undead brings an end to the eons of the dungeon as we know it.

This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in the use of AI for improving Health Equity and Fairness. The edited volume contains selected papers presented at the 2024 Health Intelligence workshop, co-located with the Thirty-Eight Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference, and presents an overview of the issues, challenges, and potentials in the field, along with new research results. This book provides information for researchers, students, indus...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging, CCIW 2024, held in Milan, Italy, in September 2024.The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. In addition, the proceedings include 2 invited papers.They are grouped into the following topics: color theory and spaces; image enhancement and retinex theory; hyperspectral and spectral imaging; printing and ma...

This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in the use of AI in personalized medicine and healthcare delivery. The edited book contains selected papers presented at the 2023 Health Intelligence workshop, co-located with the Thirty-Seven Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference, and presents an overview of the issues, challenges, and potentials in the field, along with new research results. This book provides information for researchers, students,...

This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in the use of AI and multimodal artificial intelligence in biomedicine and healthcare. Multimodal AI is a relatively new concept in AI, in which different types of data (e.g. text, image, video, audio, and numerical data) are collected, integrated, and processed through a series of intelligence processing algorithms to improve performance. The edited volume contains selected papers presented at the 2022 Health Intelligence workshop and th...

This book aims to highlight the latest achievements in the use of artificial intelligence for digital disease surveillance, pandemic intelligence, as well as public and clinical health surveillance. The edited book contains selected papers presented at the 2021 Health Intelligence workshop, co-located with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) annual conference, and presents an overview of the issues, challenges, and potentials in the field, along with new r...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Computational Color Imaging Workshop, CCIW 2017, held in Milano, Italy, in March 2017.The 23 full papers, including 4 tutorials and 3 invited papers, accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on color image processing; color image quality; color in digital cultural heritage; spectral imaging; color characterization; color image analysis.

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control. With an emphasis on both high-level concepts, and practical detail, the text links theory, algorithms, and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research. Topics and features: presents a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intell...

This book contains the research on modeling bodies, cloth and character based adaptation performed during the last 3 years at MIRALab at the University of Geneva. More than ten researchers have worked together in order to reach a truly 3D Virtual Try On. What we mean by Virtual Try On is the possibility of anyone to give dimensions on her predefined body and obtain her own sized shape body, select a 3D cloth and see oneself animated in Real-Time, walking along a catwalk. Some systems exist...

Modern blockbuster movies seamlessly introduce impossible characters and action into real-world settings using digital visual effects. These effects are made possible by research from the field of computer vision, the study of how to automatically understand images. Computer Vision for Visual Effects will educate students, engineers and researchers about the fundamental computer vision principles and state-of-the-art algorithms used to create cutting-edge visual effects for movies and tele...

This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps and methods for capturing human performance in 3D; reviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption and obtain accurate action classification; presents an approach for 3D object retrieval and for the reconstructio...