The 2nd edition of this book provides an updated and extended look into the advancements in Virtual Reality and the metaverse. The history and origins of Virtual Reality, crowd simulation and virtual surgery are thoroughly explored. Applications in the cultural heritage and sports domains are also examined and described in detail. There are new contributions on Senses and Sensors, Brain-Computer interfaces, Game Engines, and Immersive Sound. This edition also provides a comprehensive look ...

Research into the methods and techniques used in simulating crowds has developed extensively within the last few years, particularly in the areas of video games and film. Despite recent impressive results when simulating and rendering thousands of individuals, many challenges still exist in this area.The comparison of simulation with reality, the realistic appearance of virtual humans and their behavior, group structure and their motion, and collision avoidance are just some exampl...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

The three-volume set LNCS 15338, 15339 and 15340 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 41st Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2024, held during July 1–5, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.The 84 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, painting and layout; detection and recognition; image analysis and processing; image rest...

This edited book is one of the first to describe how Autonomous Virtual Humans and Social Robots can interact with real people and be aware of the surrounding world using machine learning and AI. It includes:· Many algorithms related to the awareness of the surrounding world such as the recognition of objects, the interpretation of various sources of data provided by cameras, microphones, and wearable sensors· Deep Learning Methods to provide solutions to Visual Attention, ...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, held in Bournemouth, UK*, in October 2020.The 1 full paper and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections of modelling, animation and simulation; virtual reality; image processing and computer vision.*The conference was held virtually due to ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Computer Graphics International Conference on Advances in Computer Graphics, CGI 2022, held Virtually, during September 12–16, 2022.The 45 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image analysis & processing; graphs & networks; estimation & feature matching; 3d reconstruction; rendering & animation; detection & recognitio...

This 4-volume set of LNCS 14495-14498 constitutes the proceedings of the 40th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2023, held in Shanghai, China, August 28 – September 1, 2023.The 149 papers in this set were carefully reviewed and selected from 385 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Detection and Recognition; Image Analysis and Processing; Image Restoration and Enhancement; Image Attention and Perception; Reconstruction; Rendering and Animatio...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2374 and CCIS 2375, constitutes the revised selected papers from the 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during June 5-7, 2024.The 60 papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. These papers focus on various aspects of Computer Animation and Social Agents, such as Motion Capture & Retargeting, Physics-based Animation, Vision-based Techni...

The three-volume set LNCS 15338, 15339 and 15340 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 41st Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2024, held during July 1–5, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.The 84 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, painting and layout; detection and recognition; image analysis and processing; image rest...