Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing: Proceedings of the 20th Iihmsp 2024 in Conjunction with the 19th Isme 202
暫譯: 智能資訊隱藏與多媒體信號處理的進展：2024年第20屆Iihmsp會議暨第19屆Isme會議論文集

本書收錄了第20屆國際智能信息隱藏與多媒體信號處理會議的選定論文，該會議與第19屆ISME 2024共同舉辦，於2024年10月4日至6日在日本松江舉行。本書分為兩卷，討論了信息技術（IT）領域的最新研究成果，包括但不限於信息隱藏、多媒體信號處理、大數據、數據挖掘、生物信息學、數據庫、工業及物聯網及其應用。

Prof. Jeng-Shyang Pan received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1986, an M.S. degree in communication engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1996. He is currently a Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. He is an IET Fellow in the UK and has been the Vice Chair of the IEEE Tainan Section and Tainan Chapter Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has published more than 500 journal papers, 200 conference papers, 35 book chapters, and 22 books. His current research interests include information hiding, artificial intelligence and wireless sensor networks.

Prof. Junzo Watada is currently a specially appointed professor, Shimonoseki City University, Yamaguchi, Japan and a professor emeritus, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Watada received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Osaka City University, Osaka (now Osaka Metropolitan University), Japan, and obtained his Ph.D. from Osaka Prefecture University (now Osaka Metropolitan University), Sakai, Japan. Until March 2016, he served as a Professor of management engineering, knowledge engineering, and soft computing at the Graduate School of Information, Production, and Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan. Currently, he holds the position of specially appointed professor at the School of Data Sciences, Shimonoseki City University, Yamaguchi, Japan. Dr. Watada has been granted the title of Professor Emeritus at Waseda University since his retirement in 2016. His research interests encompass big data analytics, soft computing, tracking systems, knowledge engineering, and management engineering. Professor Watada is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE. He is also a Life Fellow of both the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics and the Bio-Medical Fuzzy System Association. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Henri Coanda Medal Award from Inventico, Romania, in 2002 and the GH Asachi Medal from Universitatea Tehnica GH Asachi, IASI, Romania, in 2006.

GEORGE A. TSIHRINTZIS received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (with honors) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is currently a Professor in The University of Piraeus, Greece and, during 2016-2020, he served as Head of its Department of Informatics. From 2008 to 2022, he served as the Director of the Graduate Program of Study in "Advanced Computing and Informatics Systems" of the Department. During the period 2016-2020, he was a member of the first Administration Council of the University of Piraeus. Currently, he is serving again as a Member of the Administration Council of the University of Piraeus for a four-year term (2022-2026). His current research interests include Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Decision Theory, and Statistical Signal Processing and their applications in Internet-of-Things Technologies, Multimedia Interactive Services, User Modeling, Knowledge-based Software Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Retrieval. He has authored or co-authored over 350 research publications in these areas, which have appeared in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator in several R&D projects. Since 2018, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal (IOS Press). During 2012-2022, he was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience). He has been the editor-in-chief of the Engineering Section of SpringerPlus. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems book series (Springer 2019-) and the Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering book series (Springer 2022-). He has organized and chaired 42 international conferences. He has received best paper awards from several international conferences, and he has been a keynote speaker of several international conferences. He has supervised 15 doctoral students who have received their doctoral degrees and is currently supervising an additional 5 students. He is ranked among the top 2% of the most influential scientists worldwide of Scientists List at Stanford University ranking in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, both career-wise and single year, for 2023 and for 2024.

Prof. Tien-Wen Sung received his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from Department of Electrical Engineering at Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 2014. Before that, he joined Hsing Kuo University, Taiwan as a lecturer and was promoted to assistant professor and associate professor in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Before joining Hsing Kuo University, he had worked for Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., Taiwan as an IT engineer and then Taida Medical Info Technology Co., Ltd., Taiwan as a project manager of system development. In 2015, he left Hsing Kuo University and joined Fujian University of Technology, China as an associated professor. He is now a Full Professor in the College of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, China. He is awarded the Taiwanese Outstanding Talents in Fujian Province of China. He is also a member of IEEE, ACM, IAENG, EAI, CCF, and AFCEC. He is now the executive editor of Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Processing and the associate editor of Journal of Network Intelligence. As a guest editor, he has edited several special issues of SCI journals. He has published more than 80 research papers indexed by SCI, SSCI, or EI, including an ESI highly cited paper. He is the leader of several research projects funded by the governments and university. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, and U-Learning.

Prof. Pei Hu, PhD, is a faculty member at the School of Computer and Software, Nanyang Institute of Technology, Nanyang, China. Dr. Hu is the Director of Henan Cloud Computing Virtualization Technology Engineering Research Center, and he is also a member of the CAA Granular Computing and Its Applications Professional Committee. He primarily teaches courses such as "Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming" and "Fundamentals of Big Data" and has successfully guided students to win national competitions. His research interests encompass evolutionary computing, neural networks, data mining, feature selection, and computer-aided education. Dr. Hu has published over 30 SCI papers, including three highly cited ESI papers, and has an H-index of 10 on Google Scholar with more than 900 citations. He has also served as the publishing chair for the IIH-MSP 2022 and ICGEC 2023.

潘正祥教授於1986年獲得國立台灣科技大學電子工程學士學位，1988年獲得國立交通大學通信工程碩士學位，1996年獲得英國愛丁堡大學電機工程博士學位。目前他是中國南京信息工程大學的教授。他是英國工程技術學會（IET）的會士，曾擔任IEEE台南分會副主席及IEEE信號處理學會台南分會主席。他已發表超過500篇期刊論文、200篇會議論文、35篇書章及22本書籍。他目前的研究興趣包括信息隱藏、人工智慧及無線感測網路。

渡田淳三教授目前是日本山口縣下關市立大學的特聘教授及東京早稻田大學的名譽教授。渡田博士於日本大阪市立大學（現為大阪都立大學）獲得電機工程學士及碩士學位，並於大阪府立大學（現為大阪都立大學）獲得博士學位。直到2016年3月，他擔任早稻田大學資訊、生產及系統研究所的管理工程、知識工程及軟計算教授。目前，他在日本山口縣下關市立大學數據科學院擔任特聘教授。自2016年退休以來，他獲得早稻田大學名譽教授的稱號。他的研究興趣包括大數據分析、軟計算、追蹤系統、知識工程及管理工程。渡田教授是IEEE的終身高級會員，也是日本模糊理論與智能資訊學會及生物醫學模糊系統協會的終身會士。因其貢獻，他於2002年獲得羅馬尼亞Inventico頒發的亨利·科安達獎章，並於2006年獲得羅馬尼亞GH Asachi技術大學的GH Asachi獎章。

喬治·A·齊赫林茲教授獲得希臘雅典國立技術大學的電機工程文憑（優等），並在美國麻薩諸塞州波士頓的東北大學獲得電機與計算機工程碩士及博士學位。目前他是希臘比雷埃夫斯大學的教授，並於2016至2020年擔任該校資訊系主任。從2008年到2022年，他擔任該系「先進計算與資訊系統」研究生課程的主任。在2016至2020年期間，他是比雷埃夫斯大學第一屆行政委員會的成員。目前，他再次擔任比雷埃夫斯大學行政委員會成員，任期四年（2022-2026）。他的研究興趣包括人工與計算智能、機器學習、模式識別、決策理論及統計信號處理，並應用於物聯網技術、多媒體互動服務、用戶建模、基於知識的軟體系統、人機互動及信息檢索。他在這些領域已發表或共同發表超過350篇研究論文，並出現在國際期刊、書章及會議論文集中。他曾擔任多個研發項目的主要研究者或共同研究者。自2018年以來，他一直是《智能決策技術期刊》（IOS Press）的主編。在2012至2022年期間，他是《計算智能研究國際期刊》（Inderscience）的主編。他曾擔任SpringerPlus工程部分的主編。他是《智能系統中的學習與分析》書系列（Springer 2019-）及《人工智慧增強的軟體與系統工程》書系列（Springer 2022-）的創始人及主編。他組織並主持了42場國際會議，並獲得多個國際會議的最佳論文獎，還曾擔任多個國際會議的主題演講者。他指導了15名獲得博士學位的博士生，並目前指導另外5名學生。他在史丹佛大學的科學家名單中被評為全球最具影響力的2%科學家，2023年及2024年在人工智慧領域的排名均為職業生涯及單一年份。

宋天文教授於2014年在台灣成功大學電機工程系獲得計算機與通信工程博士學位。在此之前，他於2010年及2014年分別在台灣醒吾大學擔任講師及晉升為助理教授及副教授。在加入醒吾大學之前，他曾在台灣的先進半導體工程股份有限公司擔任IT工程師，隨後在台灣的台達醫療資訊科技有限公司擔任系統開發專案經理。2015年，他離開醒吾大學，加入中國福建科技大學擔任副教授。目前，他是中國福建科技大學計算機科學與數學學院的正教授。他獲得了中國福建省的台灣傑出人才獎。他也是IEEE、ACM、IAENG、EAI、CCF及AFCEC的成員。目前，他是《信息隱藏與多媒體處理期刊》的執行編輯及《網絡智能期刊》的副編輯。作為客座編輯，他編輯了幾個SCI期刊的特刊。他已發表超過80篇被SCI、SSCI或EI索引的研究論文，包括一篇ESI高被引論文。他是多個由政府及大學資助的研究項目的負責人。他的研究興趣包括人工智慧、物聯網、無線感測網路及U-Learning。

胡培教授，博士，是中國南陽科技學院計算機與軟體學院的教職員。胡博士是河南雲計算虛擬化技術工程研究中心的主任，並且是CAA顆粒計算及其應用專業委員會的成員。他主要教授「物件導向程式設計基礎」及「大數據基礎」等課程，並成功指導學生贏得全國競賽。他的研究興趣包括進化計算、神經網路、數據挖掘、特徵選擇及計算機輔助教育。胡博士已發表超過30篇SCI論文，包括三篇高被引ESI論文，並在Google Scholar上擁有10的H指數，引用次數超過900次。他還擔任IIH-MSP 2022及ICGEC 2023的出版主席。