Can a physics major survive the AI era? Why did two students with identical AI-assisted assignments deserve different grades? And when AI gets a body — even one as small as a wristband tag — who decides its limits? These are not quick reads. Each essay is short, but built to be read slowly and returned to.In twenty-nine short essays, public health professor Min Wu, PhD, works through the questions AI is raising for students, educators, practitioners, and anyone who serves communiti...

The digital information revolution has brought about profound changes in our society and our life. New devices and powerful software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia information. Internet and wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange multimedia information for such pur poses as remote collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. With all these advances in multimedia coding and communicat...

This book explains how artificial intelligence (AI) works and helps readers adopt, use, and evaluate AI applications in public health. It serves as an introduction to AI literacy for beginners without a prerequisite for a math or information technology background. The conceptual frameworks for AI in public health also serve well for future agentic AI design.With the help of this textbook, instructors will be able to teach students the fundamental concepts and skills to identify unm...

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes. The intelligent control and optimization methods presented were originally applied to complex metallurg...

Deep Learning has achieved great success in many challenging research areas, such as image recognition and natural language processing. The key merit of deep learning is to automatically learn good feature representation from massive data conceptually. In this book, we will show that the deep learning technology can be a very good candidate for improving sensing capabilities.In this edited volume, we aim to narrow the gap between humans and machines by showcasing various deep learning appl...

The four novel Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanisms (DETMs) in this book are for complex networked systems that optimize resource utilization while preserving system performance. These include hybrid dynamic variables-dependent ETMs, hybrid adjusting variables-dependent ETMs, bounded dynamic variable/time-varying threshold-dependent ETMs, and terminal constraint set-dependent mixed time/event-triggered mechanisms. It explores applications across fault diagnosis in networked systems, finite-t...

This book discusses the developments in the advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems completed over the last two decades, including the progress in advanced control theory and method, intelligent control and decision-making of complex metallurgical processes, intelligent systems and machine learning, intelligent robot systems design and control, and prediction and control technology for renewable energy. With the depth and breadth of coverage of this book, it serves ...

This book focuses on the key technologies and scientific problems involved in emotional robot systems, such as multimodal emotion recognition (i.e., facial expression/speech/gesture and their multimodal emotion recognition) and emotion intention understanding, and presents the design and application examples of emotional HRI systems. Aiming at the development needs of emotional robots and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) systems, this book introduces basic concepts, system architect...

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition, DL-HAR 2020, held in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshop was postponed to the year 2021 and held in a virtual format.The 10 presented papers were thorougly reviewed and included in the volume. They present recent research on applications of human activity recognition for various a...

This fifth volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in image and video compression and multimedia. With this reference source you will: - Quickly grasp a new area of research - Understand the underlying principles of a topic and its application - Ascertain how a topic relates to other areas and learn of the research issues yet to be resolved - Quick tutorial revi...

This book provides a thorough exploration of the latest innovations in AI for general time series analysis, distribution shift, and foundation models. It offers an in-depth look at cutting-edge techniques and methodologies, using advanced algorithms that are transforming time series analysis across industries. The authors highlight the use of AI models, particularly those based on deep learning, to study the sequence of data points collected at successive points in time.In the stud...

Bringing together a team of cutting-edge researchers based in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific countries, this book focuses on the tug of war between China’s influence and forces of resistance in Hong Kong, Taiwan and selected countries in its surrounding jurisdictions.China’s influence has met growing defiance from citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan who fear the extinction of their valued local identities. However, the book shows that resistance to China’s influence is a global ph...