Although synthetic environments were traditionally used in military settings for mission rehearsal and simulations, their use is rapidly spreading to a variety of applications in the commercial, research and industrial sectors, such as flight training for commercial aircraft, city planning, car safety research in real-time traffic simulations, and video games. 3D Synthetic Environment Reconstruction contains seven invited chapters from leading experts in the field, bringing together a coherent body of recent knowledge relating 3D geospatial data collection, design issues, and techniques used in synthetic environments design, implementation and interoperability. In particular, this book describes new techniques for the generation of Synthetic Environments with increased resolution and rich attribution, both essential for accurate modeling and simulation. This book also deals with interoperability of models and simulations, which is necessary for facilitating the reuse of modeling and simulation components. 3D Synthetic Environment Reconstruction is an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners in the field.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022. The volume covers highly diverse topics, including signal processing, smart sensors, autonomous systems, remote sensing and support, UAV platforms for SHM, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and SHM for civil structures and infrastructures. The contributions, which are published after a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13598 and 13599 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2022, which was held in October 2022. The 61 papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: ​deep learning I; visualization; object detection and recognition; deep learning II; video analysis and event recognition; computer graphics; ST: biomedical imaging techniques for cancer detection, diagnosis and management. Part II: ​ST: neuro-inspired artificia intelligence; applications; segmentation and tracking; virtual reality; poster.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops held at the 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, in Genoa, Italy, in September 2015: International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics, BioFor 2015; International Workshop on Color in Texture and Material Recognition, CTMR 2015; International Workshop on Medical Imaging in Rheumatology: Advanced applications for the analysis of in ammation and damage in the rheumatoid Joint, RHEUMA 2015; International Workshop on Image-Based Smart City Application, ISCA 2015; International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management, MADiMa 2015; International Workshop on Scene Background Modeling and initialization, SBMI 2015; and International Workshop on Image and Video Processing for Quality of Multimedia Experience, QoEM 2015.

"This book presents research on the most recent technological developments in all fields of knowledge or disciplines of computer games development, including planning, design, development, marketing, business management, users and behavior"--Provided by publisher.

Deep learning is widely applied to sparse 3D data to perform challenging tasks, e.g., 3D object detection and semantic segmentation. However, the high performance of deep learning comes with high costs, including computational costs and the effort to capture and label data. This work investigates and improves the efficiency of deep learning for sparse 3D data to overcome the obstacles to the further development of this technology.

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