This Springer Brief represents a comprehensive review of information theoretic methods for robust recognition. A variety of information theoretic methods have been proffered in the past decade, in a large variety of computer vision applications; this work brings them together, attempts to impart the theory, optimization and usage of information entropy.The authors resort to a new information theoretic concept, correntropy, as a robust measure and apply it to solve robust face recog...

The Code of Attraction: A Slow-Burn Korean Romance Where Logic and Love CollideLove was never part of the experiment.Brilliant, stubborn, and endlessly curious, Yoon Ha-rin has one mission: to teach artificial intelligence how to feel. But when she's assigned to work under Kang Min-joon, Seoul's most exacting robotics director and her old academic rival, her perfectly coded world starts to glitch.He...

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, ICPAMI 2025, held in Dalian, China, during August 29–31, 2025.The 23 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. Their insightful talks covered the applications, challenges, and future directions of Multimodal Foundation and Large Language Models, the frontiers and perspectives in 3D Spatial Video Reconstruction, and...

This book presents the concerns, concepts and methodologies of Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA) based on the shared positions and practices of previous undertakings of discourse analysis. EDA is regarded as an emerging paradigm in discourse studies which undertakes ecologically motivated study of discourses that influences ecological relations.The authors propose a multifaceted ecosophy that incorporates Chinese ethical and philosophical traditions and ecological...

This two-volume set LNCS 16174-16175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2025, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in November 10–13, 2025.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118submissions. The ACPR 2025 Conference focuses on four important areas of pattern recognition: pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision and robot vision; signal, speech and video processing; and docu...

Within recent years, in the course of increasing international exchanges in the field of Health Sciences, many questions on various aspects of its development in China during the past three decades have been asked by visiting colleagues from abroad, particularly on the development and practice of health care in China. It has been felt that since most of the medical publications have been in Chinese, a language inaccessible to the majority of professionals in other countries, a brief review...

This book presents a comprehensive review of heterogeneous face analysis and synthesis, ranging from the theoretical and technical foundations to various hot and emerging applications, such as cosmetic transfer, cross-spectral hallucination and face rotation. Deep generative models have been at the forefront of research on artificial intelligence in recent years and have enhanced many heterogeneous face analysis tasks. Not only has there been a constantly growing flow of related research p...

This two-volume set LNCS 16174-16175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2025, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in November 10–13, 2025.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118submissions. The ACPR 2025 Conference focuses on four important areas of pattern recognition: pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision and robot vision; signal, speech and video processing; and docu...

The LNCS volume 11818 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, held in Zhuzhou, China, in October 2019.The 56 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as face recognition and analysis; hand-based biometrics; eye-based biometrics; gesture, gait, and action; emerging biometrics; feature extraction and classification theory; and behavioral biometrics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 23–24, 2022.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing and enhancement techniques; machine vision and 3D reconstruction; image/Video big data analysis and understanding; computer gra...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2017, held in Beijing, China June 30 – July 1, 2017. The 26 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision and pattern recognition; big data mining, computer graphics and VR; as well as image...

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and d...