Applied AI and Multimedia Technologies 2022 : Call for Chapters: Applied AI and Multimedia Technologies for Smart Manufacturing and CPS Applications

In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and multimedia technology methods for integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS), smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 applications in the manufacturing industries have been steadily growing in availability. State of the art multimedia technologies coupled with innovative AI and data analytics technologies have insured and enhanced the integration of smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 applications such as digital twin technologies, augmented and virtual realities, computer vision applications, tactile Internet, human-robot collaboration applications, learning factories, additive and in-situ 3D printing etc.

However, for industrial captains, finding applicable, cost effective and readily implementable multimedia, AI and data analytics methods for specific industrial applications remains a daunting, laborious and very expensive endeavor since the ecosystem of new AI, data analytics and multimedia applications keeps diverging. For some vertical industries, AI, multimedia and data analytics technology integration remains quite expensive. Oftentimes, due to task and technology mismatch, when technology integration proposals are paid for and implemented, they often fail to satisfy the fine-grained requirements of their specificity. This problem often have adverse effects on industrial productiveness, time-to-market of product, factory running costs, product overhead costs and ultimately, the cost of the final product to the downstream consumers.

This book provides a review of the state of the art regarding the integration of AI and multimedia technologies for smart manufacturing applications. In addition, detailed industrial integration examples are given for specific AI and multimedia technologies. Cost benefits analysis are also conducted regarding the benefits of the integration of specific AI and multimedia technologies in specific industrial manufacturing applications. Uses of both R&D and empirical analysis are adopted throughout the book to examine the impacts of the integration of specific multimedia and AI technologies for stated industrial manufacturing applications.