The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...

A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade. Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her. But also: How had food and culture moved alon...

Far from the Model Minority centers the voices of five undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City and their sending communities in Fuzhou, China. Challenging dominant narratives about Chinese Americans and the model-minority myth, these families have experienced multigenerational exclusion from educational pathways and developed mobility strategies focused on attaining "face."In China, low social standing led them to prioritize immigration an...

The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...

The riveting, extraordinary story of the woman who brought Chinese stir-fry to America—and forever changed culinary history.Never heard of Buwei Yang Chao? What about a stir-fry? Well, then you’ve had Mrs. Chao’s cooking.Let us introduce you to The Formidable Mrs. Chao, the story of a woman born in China in the late 1800s―so long ago that her feet were bound when she was a child―who went on to bring Chinese food to homes across America. Her bestsel...

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15301-15333 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024, held in Kolkata, India, during December 1–5, 2024.The 963 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 2106 submissions. They deal with topics such as Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Robot Vision; Machine Vision; Im...

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and de...

The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ICPRAI 2024, held in Jeju Island, South Korea, during July 03-06, 2024.The 69 full papers presented together with 08 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 135 submissions. The conference focuses on topics that includes advanced deep learning approaches for image and document processing, generative AI, novel analysis met...

The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...

The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...

The multi-volume set LNCS 16812-16827 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2026, held in Lyon, France, during August 17-22, 2026.The total of 714 full papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 1362 submissions. They focus on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Computer and Robot Vision; Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing; Biometri...