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

Junzo 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.

Roumiana Kountcheva got her PhD at TU-Sofia, and became senior researcher in 1993. She is the Vice president of TK Engineering, Sofia and participates in R&D scientific projects of the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Her scientific interests are in image processing, image compression, digital watermarking, image tensor representation, CNCs, programmable controllers. She has more than 220 scientific publications and 5 patents and participated in 49 scientific research projects. R. Kountcheva is a member of Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR); International Research Institute for Economics and Management (IRIEM); Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI); Honorary Member of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group, etc. Dr. Kountcheva is a reviewer of WSEAS, NAUN, etc. She presented her research achievements in 24 plenary speeches at international conferences and other scientific events and edited several books published in Springer SIST series. Guest editor of SIs of MDPI journals.

Chin-Shiuh Shieh received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, in 2009. In August 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, where he currently serves as a full professor. His research interests include computer networking, embedded systems, computational intelligence, and information security.

Shu-Chuan Chu received a Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University of South Australia. She joined Flinders University in December 2009 after 9 years at the Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan. She has been a Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering of Flinders University, Australia since December 2009. Currently, she is a Research Fellow with a Ph.D. advisor in the College of Computer Science and Engineering of Shandong University of Science and Technology from September 2019. She also serves as an editorial board member for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) and Research Reports on Computer Science (RRCS). Her research interests are mainly in Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Computing, Information Hiding and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Prof. Shih-Pang Tseng received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; and the Ph.D.degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tajen University, Pingtung, Taiwan. Now, he is the professor in the School of Software and Big Data, Changzhou College of Information Technology, Changzhou, China; and the School of Information Science and Technology, Sanda University, Shanghai, China. He also works as the Expert Advisor of Robotex Committee, China. He has published 12 SCI papers, 48 EI papers and one academic book. And He has 6 patents. He has won the gold prize in the Seoul International Invention Fair and the bronze medals in the International Invention Fair in the Middle East. He has been the main organizer of the following academic conferences: ICWL2013, NCS2015, NCWIA2017, ICGEC2018 and ICOT2018-2022. He has been the chief executive of the AI Robot and Orange Application Alliance in Taiwan and worked for the collaboration of the industries and universities. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Learning Technology, Natural Language Processing, Internet of Things and Robotics.

Junzo Watada 於日本大阪市立大學（現為大阪都會大學）獲得電機工程學士及碩士學位，並於大阪府立大學（現為大阪都會大學）獲得博士學位。直到2016年3月，他擔任日本北九州早稻田大學資訊、製造與系統研究所的管理工程、知識工程及軟計算教授。目前，他是日本山口縣下關市立大學數據科學院的特聘教授。Watada 博士自2016年退休以來，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。Watada 教授是 IEEE 的終身資深會員，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院士。因其貢獻，他於2002年獲得羅馬尼亞 Inventico 的亨利·科安達獎勳章，並於2006年獲得羅馬尼亞 GH Asachi 技術大學的 GH Asachi 獎勳章。

Roumiana Kountcheva 於保加利亞索非亞技術大學獲得博士學位，並於1993年成為高級研究員。她是索非亞 TK Engineering 的副總裁，並參與保加利亞索非亞技術大學的研發科學項目。她的科學興趣包括影像處理、影像壓縮、數位水印、影像張量表示、數控機床及可程式控制器。她擁有超過220篇科學出版物和5項專利，並參與49個科學研究項目。Kountcheva 是保加利亞模式識別協會（IAPR）、國際經濟與管理研究所（IRIEM）、數據科學與人工智慧研究所（IDSAI）的成員；也是非營利同行評審開放存取 IJBST Journal Group 榮譽編輯委員會的榮譽成員等。Kountcheva 博士是 WSEAS、NAUN 等期刊的審稿人。她在國際會議及其他科學活動中發表了24場全體演講，並編輯了幾本在 Springer SIST 系列出版的書籍。她也是 MDPI 期刊的特刊編輯。

Chin-Shiuh Shieh 於1991年獲得國立台灣大學電機工程碩士學位，並於2009年獲得國立中山大學計算機科學與工程博士學位。1991年8月，他加入國立高雄科技大學電子工程系，並目前擔任正教授。他的研究興趣包括計算機網路、嵌入式系統、計算智能及資訊安全。

Shu-Chuan Chu 於2004年獲得南澳大利亞弗林德斯大學計算機科學、工程與數學學院的博士學位。她於2009年12月加入弗林德斯大學，之前在台灣的正修科技大學工作了9年。自2009年12月以來，她一直是弗林德斯大學科學與工程學院的研究員及副教授。目前，她是山東科技大學計算機科學與工程學院的研究員，並擔任博士生導師，自2019年9月起。她還擔任《人工智慧工程應用》（EAAI）、《網際網路技術期刊》（JIT）及《計算機科學研究報告》（RRCS）的編輯委員會成員。她的研究興趣主要集中在進化計算、智能計算、資訊隱藏及無線感測網路。

Shih-Pang Tseng 教授於國立成功大學電機工程系獲得學士及碩士學位，並於國立中山大學計算機科學與工程系獲得博士學位。他曾在國立屏東科技大學計算機科學與工程系擔任教授。目前，他是中國常州信息技術學院軟體與大數據學院及上海三達大學資訊科學與技術學院的教授。他還擔任中國 Robotex 委員會的專家顧問。他已發表12篇 SCI 論文、48篇 EI 論文及一本學術書籍，並擁有6項專利。他在首爾國際發明展獲得金獎，在中東國際發明展獲得銅獎。他曾主辦以下學術會議：ICWL2013、NCS2015、NCWIA2017、ICGEC2018 及 ICOT2018-2022。他是台灣 AI 機器人及橘色應用聯盟的首席執行官，致力於產學合作。他目前的研究興趣包括人工智慧、學習技術、自然語言處理、物聯網及機器人技術。