The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9916 and 9917, constitute the proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2016, held in Xi`an, China, in September 2016. The total of 128 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The focus of the conference was as follows in multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services.

The three-volume set LNCS 101164, 11165, and 11166 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2018, held in Hefei, China, in September 2018. The 209 regular papers presented together with 20 special session papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 452 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: multimedia content analysis; multimedia signal processing and communications; and multimedia applications and services.

The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017. The 184 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Best Paper Candidate; Video Coding; Image Super-resolution, Debluring, and Dehazing; Person Identity and Emotion; Tracking and Action Recognition; Detection and Classification; Multimedia Signal Reconstruction and Recovery; Text and Line Detection/Recognition; Social Media; 3D and Panoramic Vision; Deep Learning for Signal Processing and Understanding; Large-Scale Multimedia Affective Computing; Sensor-enhanced Multimedia Systems; Content Analysis; Coding, Compression, Transmission, and Processing.

This volume includes papers presented at IIH-MSP 2017, the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, held from 12 to 15 August 2017 in Matsue, Shimane, Japan. The conference addresses topics ranging from information hiding and security, and multimedia signal processing and networking, to bio-inspired multimedia technologies and systems. This volume of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies focuses on subjects related to massive image/video compression and transmission for emerging networks, advances in speech and language processing, information hiding and signal processing for audio and speech signals, intelligent distribution systems and applications, recent advances in security and privacy for multimodal network environments, multimedia signal processing, and machine learning. Updated with the latest research outcomes and findings, the papers presented appeal to researchers and students who are interested in the corresponding fields.

Visual representation learning enables computers or systems to simulate the function of retinas, optic nerves, and visual cortex in the human brain, and derive meaningful information from digital images, videos, and other visual inputs. To learn the effective presentation of visual data is essential for many computer vision and artificial intelligence applications ranging from energy and utilities to manufacturing and automotive. Current popular deep learning-based visual representation learning methods do not fully consider the nature of the biological visual nervous system and are lack in interpretability. To solve visual representation well, the integration of psychological or neuroscientific approaches is required to enhance the cognition of visual data.

This book provides scientific research into Cognitive Internet of Things for Smart Society, with papers presented at the 2nd EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks. The conference explores the integration of networks and robotic technologies, which has become a topic of increasing interest for both researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide. The authors posit that big networks will be the main approach to the next generation of robotic research, with the explosive number of networks models and increasing computational power of computers significantly extending the number of potential applications for robotic technologies while also bringing new challenges to the network's community. The 2nd EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks was held 25-26 August 2018 at the Kitakyushu International Conference Center (MICE), Kitakyushu, Japan.