This textbook provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to Semantic Communications, focusing on how deep learning enhances its performance in modern communication systems. The purpose of the book is to offer students, researchers, and engineers a solid understanding of the theoretical principles and practical applications of semantic communication. The text builds from foundational concepts to advanced topics, making it suitable for graduate-level courses and beyond, while also serving ...

This 2-volume set CCIS 2778+2779 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Intelligence, ICAI 2025, held in Nanning, China, during November 6–9, 2025.The 70 full papers presented in this proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 289 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Image Processing; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition.Part II: Biomedica...

This 2-volume set CCIS 2778+2779 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Intelligence, ICAI 2025, held in Nanning, China, during November 6–9, 2025.The 70 full papers presented in this proceedings were carefully selected and reviewed from 289 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Image Processing; Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition.Part II: Biomedica...

We are all too easy to get lost either in love or in career among the mundane crowd where the noise, self-conceit, and lack of communication create invisable wall between heart and heart, especially between those sweethearts. How is it painful to imprison ourselves when sunshine looks just within our touch but the unnamble silence mutes all supposed-to-be happiness! How to deal with it? Should we sink or should we rise and dance? Where could we hear the inner voice of the beloved and where...

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the transformative role of artificial intelligence in modern healthcare and aims to inspire continued research and collaboration across disciplines. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a transformative technology across various fields, with medical image analysis standing out as one of its most impactful applications. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-evolving domain, bridging found...

The Glasgow Climate Pact signed on the 26th Conference of the Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021, saws representatives' determination for carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, "Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" proposed by International Energy Agency has suggested hydrogen as a decarbonization technology in various fields. As a clean, stable power with diverse sources, hydrogen provides a promising solution for energy, industry,...

Polarimetric rotation domain interpretation is an innovation in radar image processing and understanding. Orientation rotation is a basic operator well known in the classic polarimetry theory, and significant advancement has been made in recent years. This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories, and methodologies in radar polarimetry and bridges the gaps between target scattering diversity, polarimetric radar data, and their practical applications. It provides a comprehensive su...

This book starts by introducing the background of the era of data elements, clarifies the theoretical basis and technical methods related to big data, and analyzes the specific application of big data technology in China’s banking industry, the insurance industry, securities investment industry, third-party payment, risk supervision, and other fields. application, and thereby finally summarize useful experiences for big data development as well as effective regulation and supervision. We h...

This book starts from the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators inChina, and defines the concept and connotation of FinTech and SupTech in the form of topics,analyses the main problems in the development process, and discusses in depth the futuredevelopment and regulatory tendency of FinTech and SupTech.In recent years, with the in-depth application and cross-domain integration of information technologyin the ...

This book presents a comprehensive review of recent developments in vanadium-based nanomaterials for next-generation electrochemical energy storage. The basic electrochemical energy storage and conversion equipment are elaborated, and the vanadium-based nanomaterials of the synthesis approaches, characterizations, electrochemical storage mechanisms, and performance optimization tactics are discussed. Examples are taken from various chemical energy storage devices to expound the functions o...

This book examines China’s fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first half of this book highlights the characteristics of China’s low fertility and the risk of falling to an ultra-low state, aiming to answer the question: How China’s fertility is changing and evolving? How low is China’s fertility? What are the demographic structure, driving forces and institutional characteristics of China’s low fer...

This book summarizes the current knowledge of anthocyanins, provides systematic information for future exploration of anthocyanin applications. It focuses on several aspects regarding the studying progression in the field of anthocyanins. The first section of the book provides a brief introduction to the scope and progress on anthocyanins, which is followed by the second section that describes the natural sources, structure, extraction approaches, bioavailability, and current stabilizing a...