"This book uses AI's ability to explain its behaviors to explore new challenges, domains, and methodologies for analyzing human behavior in natural settings"--

In the field of computer vision research, the study of human behavior is a formidable challenge. The diverse applications of this field, from video surveillance for crowd analysis to healthcare diagnostics, have drawn increasing attention. However, a significant problem persists – the sacrifice of transparency for the sake of predictive accuracy in Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. These AI systems often operate as enigmatic black boxes, seemingly conjuring decisions from vast datasets with little to no explanation. The need for clarity and accountability in AI decision-making is paramount as our reliance on these systems continues to grow. Explainable AI Applications for Human Behavior Analysis embarks on a mission to harness AI's innate capability to elucidate upon its own decision-making processes. By focusing on facial expressions, gestures, and body movements, we delve into uncharted territories of research, offering novel methodologies, databases, benchmarks, and algorithms for the analysis of human behavior in natural settings. Geared toward academic scholars, this book compiles the expertise of leading researchers in the field, making it accessible to readers of all educational backgrounds.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) amidst the backdrop of a world that is changing at lightning speed presents a whole new set of challenges. One of our biggest hurdles is more transparency in AI solutions. It's a complex issue, but one that we need to address if we want to ensure that the benefits of AI are accessible to everyone. Across diverse sectors such as healthcare, surveillance, and human-computer interaction, the inability to understand and evaluate AI's decision-making processes hinders progress and raises concerns about accountability. Cross-Industry AI Applications is a groundbreaking solution to illuminate the mysteries of AI-driven human behavior analysis. This pioneering book addresses the necessity of transparency and explainability in AI systems, particularly in analyzing human behavior. Compiling insights from leading experts and academics offers a comprehensive exploration of state-of-the-art methodologies, benchmarks, and systems for understanding and predicting human behavior using AI. Each chapter delves into novel approaches and real-world applications, from facial expressions to gesture recognition, providing invaluable knowledge for scholars and professionals alike.

The text discusses the core concepts and principles of deep learning in gaming and animation with applications in a single volume. It will be a useful reference text for graduate students, and professionals in diverse areas such as electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer science, gaming and animation.

The numerous developments in wireless communications and artificial intelligence (AI) have recently transformed the Internet of Things (IoT) networks to a level of connectivity and intelligence beyond any prior design. This topology is sharply exemplified in mobile edge computing, smart cities, smart homes, smart grids, and the IoT, among many other intelligent applications. Intelligent networks are founded on integrating caching and multi-agent systems that optimize data storage and the entire device’s learning process. However, a central node through which all agents transmit status messages and reward information is a major drawback of this design pattern. This central node condition instigates more communication overhead, potential data leakage, and the birth of data islands. To reverse this trend, using distributed optimization techniques and methodologies in cache-enabled multi-agent learning environments is increasingly beneficial. Advancing Intelligent Networks Through Distributed Optimization explains the current race for sophisticated and accurate distributed optimization in cache-enabled intelligent IoT networks given the need to make multi-agent learning converge faster and reduce communication overhead. These techniques will require innovative resource allocation strategies stretching from system training to caching, communication, and processing amongst millions of agents. This book combines the key recent research in these races into a single binder that can serve all the interested theoretical and practical scholars. The book focuses broadly on intelligent systems’ optimization trends. It identifies the various applications of advanced distributed optimization from manufacturing to medicine, agriculture and smart cities.

The development of “intelligent” systems that can take decisions and perform autonomously might lead to faster and more consistent decisions. A limiting factor for a broader adoption of AI technology is the inherent risks that come with giving up human control and oversight to “intelligent” machines. For sensitive tasks involving critical infrastructures and affecting human well-being or health, it is crucial to limit the possibility of improper, non-robust and unsafe decisions and actions. Before deploying an AI system, we see a strong need to validate its behavior, and thus establish guarantees that it will continue to perform as expected when deployed in a real-world environment. In pursuit of that objective, ways for humans to verify the agreement between the AI decision structure and their own ground-truth knowledge have been explored. Explainable AI (XAI) has developed as a subfield of AI, focused on exposing complex AI models to humans in a systematic and interpretable manner. The 22 chapters included in this book provide a timely snapshot of algorithms, theory, and applications of interpretable and explainable AI and AI techniques that have been proposed recently reflecting the current discourse in this field and providing directions of future development. The book is organized in six parts: towards AI transparency; methods for interpreting AI systems; explaining the decisions of AI systems; evaluating interpretability and explanations; applications of explainable AI; and software for explainable AI.

As society transitions into the digital age, the demand for advanced robotics and autonomous systems has remained unchanged. However, the field faces significant challenges bridging the gap between current capabilities and the potential for brilliant, autonomous machines. While exact and efficient, current robotic systems need more sophistication and adaptability of human intelligence. This limitation restricts their application in complex and dynamic environments, hindering their ability to realize their potential fully. Multidisciplinary Applications of AI Robotics and Autonomous Systems addresses these challenges by presenting cutting-edge research and innovative robotics and autonomous systems solutions. By exploring topics such as digital transformation, IoT, AI, and cloud-native computing paradigms, readers will understand the latest advancements in the field. The book delves into theoretical frameworks, computational models, and experimental approaches, offering insights to help researchers and practitioners develop more intelligent and autonomous machines.