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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'97, held in Lausanne, Switzerland,in October 1997. The 201 revised papers presented were selected from a large number of submissions and give a unique documentation of the state of the art in the area. The papers are organized in parts on coding and learning in biology; cortical maps and receptive fields; learning: theory and applications; signal processing: blind source separation, vector quantization, and self-organization; robotics, autonomous agents, and control; speech, vision and pattern recognition; prediction, forecasting and monitoring; and implementations.

The proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes. In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as generative neural networks, graph neural networks, hierarchical and ensemble models, human pose estimation, image processing, image segmentation, knowledge distillation, and medical image processing. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.