The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories is a new collection of stories from Ran Walker, the 2019 winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award. Each story contains exactly fifty words, save the title, and seeks to explore an entire narrative universe within its small space. The stories range from humorous to insightful to dark, and, yes, to strange!An Excerpt:INFINITYAttempting to be funny, Sherman asked our eccentric math professor what “...

Learning to ride and tame dragons comes easy to most students at Ansarivan Dragonar Academy - except for first-year student Ash Blake, who is known by his fellow classmates as the "number-one problem child." Poor Ash is the laughing stock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never appeared - until now, that is. One fateful day, Ash's dragon awakes in full glory, but appea...

This Springer Brief represents a comprehensive review of information theoretic methods for robust recognition. A variety of information theoretic methods have been proffered in the past decade, in a large variety of computer vision applications; this work brings them together, attempts to impart the theory, optimization and usage of information entropy.The authors resort to a new information theoretic concept, correntropy, as a robust measure and apply it to solve robust face recog...

Eunbyul's life is one long, awkward punchline. She's stuck in a dead-end job, broke, single, and clinging to the one thing she actually loves--her tiny apartment. But her peaceful little world flips upside down when a cranky pop idol accuses her of being a stalker after a bizarre rooftop mix-up.Trying to clear her name turns into a full-blown catastrophe. She runs into an old crush--now a famous webtoon artist. Then she loses her job, hits rock bottom, and finds her only hope of surviving ...

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 d...

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...

This two-volume set LNCS 16174-16175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2025, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in November 10–13, 2025.The 60 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118submissions. The ACPR 2025 Conference focuses on four important areas of pattern recognition: pattern recognition and machine learning; computer vision and robot vision; signal, speech and video processing; and docu...

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 d...

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...

It is now evening, and everyone is having a good time with the post-festival event. Mona and Medaka sneak into a classroom together. With the two of them having a whole classroom to themselves in the evening, the mood is just perfect for them to get a bit closer to each other! Mona is so happy, she just can't help but spill out her true feelings for Medaka. Not to be outdone by Mona, Tomo later asks Medaka to go on a date with her.

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 d...

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 d...