The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image class...

Japanese Slang is an urban dictionary for the digital generation!Although Japanese culture is best known for its sense of formality and politeness, the Japanese are particularly fond of playing with language, in large part thanks to the versatility and nuance that their writing systems provide. This results in playful combinations of kanji, kana, and English, where conventional phrases are twisted wryly or turned entirely on their heads to cleverly capture the social attitudes of t...

Shikimori and Izumi are high school sweethearts. They hold hands walking home from school, they flirt in the halls, they tease each other. But Shikimori knows what she wants, and how to get it, and she can turn from cutie to cool in an instant.

Kako gets tangled up when she lies about her age in order to attend a company-mixer party for singles and ends up totally infatuated with her young local policeman! And it looks like it's mutual with Kota... until he finds out Kako's still in high school. Read on to see if straight-arrow Kota manages to find a way to do the right thing as our story unfolds in the first volume of this upbeat new romantic comedy from Maki Miyoshi!

Our heroine, whose name no one in school can remember, can't decide what's weirder-that the most popular guy in school, Koga-kun, wants to be her friend...or that he insists he's an alien. But one thing's for sure-he knows her name, and doesn't seem ready to let her go through high school anonymous!

Queen Ruriko is the owner and queen of shangri-la, a high class Bondage club. Customers with twisted love and various personalities gather there...

Mamiya has finally found Iori…but did Iori want to be found? And who's the strange alpha woman he's hanging around with? Questions mount for Mamiya-but if doesn't stop him from asking Iori to be part of a bold plan to deceive Reiko's bride and give the family the alpha heir neither of the other siblings can produce! In the Hanabusas' world, it seems even the most shocking revelations only lead to new secrets…

Beyond Kikokushijo: Teaching English in Japan After Growing Up Between Languages and Cultures is written by English language teachers working in Japan whose lives and professional identities extend beyond familiar labels such as native speaker, non-native speaker, Japanese teachers of English, and kikokushijo (meaning "returnee student" in Japanese). Through a series of deeply personal narratives, the contributors explore the complexities of growing up across languages an...

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image class...

Izumi has been jinxed his whole life-if something can go wrong…he'll probably wind up in the hospital. But he still thinks he's the luckiest guy in the world! That's because Izumi has a girlfriend who is smart, sporty, and always looking out for him. Shikimori is his knight in shining armor. In this heartwarming romantic comedy, rain or shine, underdog or hero, their gentle affection stays the same.

In a world where people have one of three sexes-alpha, beta, or omega-in addition to being male or female, alphas have pushed their way to the top. Omegas are oppressed, their status determined by whether or not they successfully bear alpha children. An omega named Saimon marries into the prolific Hanabusa family, a major conglomerate, but is unable to produce an heir for his alpha husband Seijuro, and is shunned as a “Megaera,” a creature that brings ill fortune. One day, Saimon is summon...

SNAKES, VIPERS, CROCS, SHARKS, AND THE VCWith 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to their success: go where no ordinary soldier would go and no VC would expect them.Though death reigned as king in the jungles of Vietnam,...