Meet Kangaroo.He's a superpowered secret agent who's about to face his toughest mission yet:Vacation.Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is the pocket: a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe. Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use the pocket, and he's pretty s...

While traditional approaches in pattern recognition and computer vision have continued to evolve, along with the advances of artificial intelligence (AI), this unique compendium presents recent research activities in deep learning, graph-based and semantic-based approaches and applications.The book covers the most recent advances as well as traditional topics in pattern recognition and computer vision in this new AI area in the first part. The second part presents emerging applicat...

Continuing in the footsteps of the pioneering first edition, Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, Second Edition explores the most up-to-date signal and image processing methods for dealing with remote sensing problems. Although most data from satellites are in image form, signal processing can contribute significantly in extracting info

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information systems and technologies for national, international, and societal security-related applications. With the rise of global terrorism, the field has been given an increasing amount of attention from academic researchers, law enforcement, intelligent experts, information technology consultants and practitioners.SECURITY INFORMATICS is global in scope and perspective. ...

This manual captures and summarizes the key elements in management of groin pain, including relevant anatomy, etiologies, diagnostic evaluation tools, imaging, detailed pharmacologic options, interventional modalities and options for operative remediation. The manual separately addresses the management of intrinsic groin pain due to primary disease processes and secondary groin pain due to a prior operation. Current practices, trends in the field, treatment approaches and controversies are...

This three-volume set, LNCS 15788-15790, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2025, held as part of the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.The total of 1430 papers and 355 posters included in the HCII 2025 proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 7972 submissions.The papers presented in these thre...

The 18th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2026, held as part of the 28th International Conference, HCI International 2026, took place in Montreal, QC, Canada during July 2026.A total of 7435 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and government agencies from 94 countries submitted contributions to HCII 2026. Following peer review, 1463 papers and 360 posters (as short research papers) are included in the volumes of the HCII p...

Kangaroo's back!And this time it's personal...Maybe?On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo's spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot. The agency tracks the bot back to the Moon, where a retired asteroid miner—code named "Clementine"—might have information about who's behind the sabotage.Clementine will only deal with Jessica Chu, Kangaroo's personal physician and a former military doctor once deployed in ...

In recent years, there have been significant progress in computational intelligence and image processing with machine learning and deep learning as important components of modern artificial intelligence. All these progresses face challenges in dealing with Covid-19 pandemic for detection and treatment.This comprehensive compendium provides not only updated advances of computational intelligence and image processing in the detection and treatment of Covid-19, but also other medical ...

This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-24), held in Madeira, Portugal, on June 19–21, 2024. Covering a number of key areas, including digital IT architecture in healthcare; advanced ICT for medicine and healthcare; biomedical engineering, trends, research, and technologies; and healthcare support systems, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, managers, industrialists, and anyone wishing to gain...

PHYSICS OF SOLAR ENERGY AND ENERGY STORAGEJoin the fight for a renewable world with this indispensable introductionSolar energy is one of the most essential tools in the fight to create a sustainable future. A wholly renewable and cost-effective energy source capable of providing domestic, business, and industrial energy, solar energy is expected to become a $223 billion a year industry by 2026. The future of global energy production demand...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during November 22-24, 2024.The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They focus on Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X), Industrial IoT, Artificial Intelligence for AIoT, Security and Privacy for Smart IoT and Intelligent Sensing Technology.