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 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...

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 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...

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...

The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a fixed definition of place but as a shifting site ...

The mountain village teenager obtained a talisman book and embarked on the road of cultivation. Relying on his strong determination, he subdued the Gui Demon and subdued the Female Ghost, and also obtained rewards in the process of exterminating demons and devils. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching heights that ordinary people would not be able to reach in the short span of a few years. In the end, he even entered a Minor World and obtained a ten-thousand-year treasure....

The Mother Dragon--a mysterious being even to the Dragonars she gifts with her offspring--has summoned Ash to Albion Forest. Accompanied by Eco and Sylvia, Ash obeys, hoping to learn more about Eco's nature: Why does Eco have such a human body? Will she be able to control her power? And how can he help her be happy again...? But answers about Eco's aren't all that await the trio in the forest. It's time for Ash to learn the truth about what happened to him and Sylvia there so many years ag...

Ash, Eco, Sylvia, and Lucca venture to Willingham Mausoleum in search of Lucca's dragon, Gawain, hoping to convince him to reestablish his bond with Lucca before it's too late. However, instead of finding Gawain, the evil Milgauss lies in wait with a horrible surprise. A horde of undead dragons known as necromancia attack Ash and his friends, while countless more swarm towards the nearby dragon rider's camp. Are the best and brightest of Ansullivan Dragonar Academy up to the task of fendin...

Eunbyul's life is one long, awkward punchline. She's stuck in a dead-end job, broke, single, and clinging to the one thing she actually loves--her tiny apartment. But her peaceful little world flips upside down when a cranky pop idol accuses her of being a stalker after a bizarre rooftop mix-up.Trying to clear her name turns into a full-blown catastrophe. She runs into an old crush--now a famous webtoon artist. Then she loses her job, hits rock bottom, and finds her only hope of surviving ...