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The 21st International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP 2025) will be hosted by Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taichung, Taiwan, on October 15-17, 2025. The venue location is the Splendor Hotel in Taichung, Taiwan. The conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to discuss information hiding, multimedia signal processing, the application of artificial intelligence in multi-media and signal processing, and information technology to exchange the latest research outcomes. Multimedia technologies facilitate the creation of global information infrastructure for acquiring, storing, and communicating data in different forms. The proliferation of multimedia applications raises challenges such as multimedia security and privacy, big data in multimedia, and intelligence in multimedia processing. This conference was established in Melbourne, Australia in 2005 and was subsequently held in USA, Taiwan, Germany, China, Greece, Australia, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan from 2006 to 2024.
Topics of IIHMSP 2025 interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Track I: Information Hiding and Security:
  • -Watermarking: techniques, attacks, protocols, applications
  • -Steganography and steganalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
  • -Cryptography and cryptanalysis: techniques, protocols, applications
  • -Data authentication issues and access control themes
  • -Broadcast and public key encryption
  • -Forensic analysis and tracing traitors
  • -Digital rights management and legal aspect
  • -RFID security and home network privacy
  • -Platform integrity and trusted computing
  • -Systems engineering and development for information hiding & security
  • -ASIC/FPGA/GPGPU design and implementation for information hiding & security
  • -Enabling technologies and emerging standards for information hiding & security
• Track II: Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking:
  • -Multimedia sensing and sensory systems
  • -Multimedia source coding and channel coding
  • -Multimedia signal analysis and visualization
  • -Multimedia signal mining and data fusion
  • -Wired and wireless Multimedia networking and communication techniques
  • -Multimedia/multimodal signal interpretation and automatic recognition
  • -Multimedia databases and retrievals
  • -Multimedia hyperlink techniques and applications
  • -Advances in multimedia content description interfaces
  • -Multimedia big data
  • -Systems engineering and development for multimedia systems
  • -Enabling technologies and emerging standards for multimedia systems
• Track III: BioInspired Multimedia Technologies and Systems:
  • -Artificial neural networks for multimedia processing: models, learning paradigms, architectures, and implementations
  • -Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing for intelligent multimedia processing
  • -Human machine multimodal interaction: e.g., face/speech recognition, faci-al expression and emotion categorization, gesture analysis and recognition, etc.
• Track IV: Information and Computer Technology:
  • -Artificial intelligence, computer vision, deep learning, and big data technology
  • -Cloud computing, edge computing, and AIoT technology
  • -All other computer science fields: e.g., computer algorithm, data mining, graph algorithms, computer architecture, the other computer related areas, etc.

(If you want to submit a paper to special session, please visit the “Special Session Submission” first.)

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About Paper Submission

█ Paper Types

• All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF versions of your paper through the Paper Submission System.
• The IIHMSP 2025 accepts two types of submissions (regular and one-page) for review. These types of papers need to be submitted in Springer conference paper format, as shown in IIHMSP 2025 Proceeding Templates below, and should be written in English. And they will be included in the conference proceeding.
• Manuscript should be unpublished work, must include enough detail about the goal, the problem to solve, proposed methods and main results.

● Regular Paper:

• All submitted papers should be written according to the following MS-Word or Latex template and should be 8 to 12 pages in length. In addition, the similarity of the submission paper must be less than 20% according to Springer’s recommended rule. It does not allow the number of pages to be less than 8 or greater than 12 in this type of submission. All accpeted papers of this type will be published in the book series of Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies by Springer. Normally, papers in this series are indexed by EI and Scopus.
• In order to provide more incentives for paper submissions, authors can have an option to select whether they want their papers to be included in Springer conference book.
• The layout of Springer conference papers is much smaller than that of IEEE conference papers. Therefore, the conference requires 8-12 pages of papers, which is approximately equivalent to 5-6 pages of IEEE conference paper format. Please refer to the following template for relevant samples.
  (Springer 會議論文的版面比 IEEE 會議論文的版面小得多。因此，會議要求論文8-12頁，大約相當於IEEE會議論文格式的5-6頁。相關範例請參考以下範本。)
  (Springer 会议论文的版面比 IEEE 会议论文的版面小得多。因此，会议要求论文8-12页，大约相当于IEEE会议论文格式的5-6页。相关范例请参考以下模板。)
  (Springer の会議論文のレイアウトは、IEEE の会議論文のレイアウトと比較するとかなりコンパクトです。そのため、会議では論文のページ数を 8～12 ページと定めていますが、これは IEEE 会議論文のフォーマットに換算すると約 5～6 ページに相当します。関連するサンプルについては、以下のテンプレートをご参照ください。)

● One-page Presentation-only Paper:

• This category is provided for authors who want to present a timely review of research, a case study and so on. One of the authors of an accepted “One-page Presentation-only Paper” is responsible for oral or online presentation in the conference. The accepted papers will be ONLY included in the conference proceeding, and they are NOT included in Springer Digital Library and other indexes (EI/Scopus).

█ IIHMSP 2025 Paper Templates:

• The MS Word Template (in A4 size and the Springer format) can be downloaded here (Word_Template.zip) or linked to
  https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/editors/word-template/19338734?srsltid=AfmBOor_l72YdojlEwdddnK7ZlN_4iUQHTK3RwCka8aqqvjbM6omaX9O
• The Latex Template (in A4 size and the Springer format) can be downloaded here ( Latex_Template.zip) or linked to
  https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoridfDNO9TTSjAzjeGQ08uQe5x3M0YYBFtZsnide1V8n1TVD_q4

About Publication

All accepted full papers (except one-page papers) will be published in the book series Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies by Springer. In addition, the similarity of the submission paper must be less than 20% according to Springer’s recommended rule. Normally, papers in this series are indexed by EI and Scopus. All accepted papers will be considered for submission to the following journals:

• Mathematics (Special Issue: IIHMSP: Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing) (SCIE Q1; Scopus Q2)
• Algorithms (Special Issue: Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing) (ESCI; Scopus Q2)
• Sensors (Special Issue: Mobile Sensing and Computing in Internet of Things) (SCIE Q2; Scopus Q1)
• Sensors (Special Issue: Wearable Sensors and Signal Processing Technology for Digital Health Applications) (SCIE Q2; Scopus Q1)
• International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering (Scopus Q3)

(If you want to submit a paper to special session, please visit the “Special Session Submission” first.)

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The special sessions welcome interesting authors to contribute to the papers. The organizer of each special session will be invited as the session chair, and he/she should take all responsibility for carrying out the review process. At this time, we will invite interested scholars to organize the Special Sessions. The template of the Special Session is as follows: IIHMSP-2025-SS-template. Please send your Special Session CFP to the conference program chair: Prof. Ruo-Wei Hung (rwhung@cyut.edu.tw). We are looking forward to interested scholars who can form Special Sessions for this conference

All the special sessions will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (Microsoft CMT). The submission procedure is the same as the regular sessions via the Microsoft CMT submission system website. However, the paper of one special session should be submitted to the appropriate track as follows.

List of IIHMSP 2025 Accepted Invited Sessions:

Session No	Session Name	Session Organizers	Contact	Proposal and Submit
SS-01	Graph Algorithms and Applications	Prof. Ruo-Wei Hung and Prof. Ling-Ju Hung	rwhung@cyut.edu.tw or ljhung@ntub.edu.tw	GAA
SS-02	Generative AI or Artificial Intelligence and Applications	Prof. Jia-Lang Xu and Prof. Mu-Yen Chen	jlxu@cyut.edu.tw or mychen119@gs.ncku.edu.tw	GAI
SS-03	Metaheuristic Algorithms and Applications	Prof. Shu-Chuan Chu, Prof. Hao Luo, and Dr. Pei Hu	scchu0803@gmail.com, luohao@zju.edu.cn, or hupei@nyist.edu.cn	MAA
SS-04	AI-Enhanced QoL: Economics, Affective Computing and Modern Technology	Prof. Naruki Shirahama, Prof. Satoshi Watanabe, and Prof. Junzo Watada	shirahama-na@shimonoseki-cu.ac.jp, satoshi_watanabe@ieee.org, or watada-ju@shimonoseki-cu.ac.jp	AIQoL
SS-05	AIoT in Biomedicine	Prof. Xin Zhu and Prof. Shing-Hong Liu	zhu.xin@tmd.ac.jp or shliu@cyut.edu.tw	AIoTBio
SS-06	Generative AI, Multimedia, and Image Processing	Prof. Li-Hua Li and Prof. Hung-Cheng Chen	lhli@cyut.edu.tw or hungcheng@hgnu.edu.cn	GenAIMI
SS-07	Pattern Recognition and Feature Learning in Complex Visual Data	Prof. Yung-Chen Chou and Prof. Chun-Hsiu Yeh	yungcchou@fcu.edu.tw or chunhyeh@fcu.edu.tw	PRFL
SS-08	Using Multimodal AI for Various Data Sources in Smart Applications	Prof. Rung Ching Chen and Prof. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh	crching@cyut.edu.tw or anh.nguyenthingoc@hust.edu.vn	MAI
SS-09	Wireless Network and Intelligence Computing	Prof. Chao-Yang Lee and Prof. Ang-Hsun Tsai	chaoyang@yuntech.edu.tw or ahtsai@fcu.edu.tw	WNIC
SS-10	AIoT Convergence: Intelligent Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Smart Environments	Prof. Yu-Huei Cheng, Prof. Kuo-Chuan Wu, and Prof. Zi Yi Lim	yhcheng@cyut.edu.tw, kcwu@nptu.edu.tw, or zylim@cyut.edu.tw	AIoTC
SS-11	Applications of Intelligent Internet of Things And Communications	Prof. Yung-Fa Huang, Prof. Cheng-Ying Yang, and Prof. Jong-Shin Chen	yfahuang@cyut.edu.tw, cyang@uTaipei.edu.tw, or jschen26@cyut.edu.tw	AIIoTAC

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Deadline for paper submission:	May 30, 2025 July 15, 2025
Notification of paper acceptance:	June 30, 2025 August 15, 2025
Submission of final camera-ready papers:	July 15, 2025 August 30, 2025
Deadline for early registration:	September 01, 2025
Deadline for registration:	September 01, 2025 October 01, 2025 September 10, 2025
Conference dates:	October 15-17, 2025

Camera-Ready Paper and Copyright-Form Submission

The attached guidelines are provided to assist the authors in the preparation and submission of your final paper and copyright form for the IIHMSP 2025 conference. Please carefully prepare your camera-ready paper and copyright form by following the steps outlined in the guidelines. Please note that there are two categories of submissions for IIHMSP 2025: regular papers (to be submitted to Springer for possible publication) and one-page papers (for presentation at the conference only). The following are the camera-ready submission guidelines for the two categories, along with a blank copyright form:

• Regular paper (would like to submit to Springer book series): Download guidelines (here)and blank Copyright (Licence to Publish) Form (here). Submit here (CMT system).
• One-page paper (NOT submit to Springer book series: Download guidelines (here) and blank Copyright Form (here). Submit here (CMT system).

* Submit your Camera-Ready paper and Electronic Copyright form *

• The author needs to upload the following files to complete the camera-ready submission:
  (1) Camera-ready paper PDF file.
  (2) Camera-ready paper source file. If LaTeX is used, the source files should be packaged into a ZIP file.
  (3) Signed Copyright Form (PDF file). The copyright forms for one-page and regular papers are different. Authors who are not submitting a one-page paper should prepare accordingly and are advised to complete the form carefully to avoid rejection by Springer. Below are some important points to note when filling out the Signed Licence to Publish (Springer): (sample)
  * Corresponding Author Name: Only one author can be filled in, and this author must be clearly identified in the paper.
  * Signed for and on behalf of the Author: Corresponding author's handwritten English name.
  * Please use the keyboard to fill in the other fields, including the Proposed Title of the Contribution, Author(s) Full Name(s) -- All authors' English names, Corresponding Author Name, Print Name, Date, Address, and Email.
  * Please convert the signed Licence to Publish into a PDF file and upload it to the CMT system.
  (4) Similarity check report (PDF file). (This is optional. Please check the similarity of your paper if possible.)
  We will remind authors to prepare their camera-ready papers thoroughly, as Springer Editors have emphasized the importance of maintaining high quality in all accepted conference papers.
• Submit Here (Guidelines download—Regular paper or One-page paper)
(only corresponding author can upload the final paper and copyright form)

** Complete Registration **

• Here (Guidelines download—Here)

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All conference participants must pay the conference registration fee. For each accepted paper, at least one author must pay the registration fee and present the paper at the conference, where the participation method can be one of oral or online. However, to encourage authors to attend the conference in person, the online registration fee will be the same as the oral registration fee.
The registration for the IIHMSP 2025 is now open, please click Here to register, and the early registration fee is NT$16,500. For each accepted paper, at least one author should pay the registration fee in New Taiwan Dollars (NT dollars).
The registration fee includes one copy of the conference proceeding, opening reception, coffee/tea breaks, conference lunches, the conference dinner banquet, and access to all the IIHMSP 2025 conferences and tutorial sessions.

● Registration Form (Submit Registration)

• The registration for the IIHMSP 2025 is now open, please click Here to register.
• Download Registration Guidelines.

● Registration Fee (Authors should pay the registration fee in New Taiwan Dollar NT$)

Category	Early Registration (until August 15, 2025 September 01, 2025 )	Standard Registration (until September 01, 2025 September 15, 2025 September 10, 2025)	Late Registration (until Oct. 01, 2025 Cancel)
Regular registration	NT$16,500	NT$18,000	NT$19,500
Second paper registration	NT$13,500	NT$15,000	NT$16,500
One-page registration (including full paper without submitting to Spring conference book)	NT$13,500	NT$15,000	NT$16,500
Additional banquet ticket	Each additional ticket banquet is charged NT$900.

Notices:

• For each accepted paper, at least one author should register with “Regular registration”, “Second paper registration”, or “One-page registration” by October 1September 10, 2025 accompanied with paper ID#, which shall be obtained upon the submission of papers.
• Each registration includes 1 conference digest, 1 USB drive proceedings, and access to all sessions, coffee breaks, and banquet.
• The first and second paper must be submitted by login to the same submission account with the same corresponding author in order to implement the preferential price for the second paper payment.

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Honorary Chairs

1. Yu-Huei Yang (Dept. of Tech. and Voc. Edu., MOE, Taiwan)
2. Tao-Ming Cheng (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
3. Tsukahara Tsuneo (U. of Aizu, Japan)
4. Atsuto Suzuki (Iwate Prefectural U., Japan)
5. Chin-Chen Chang (Feng Chia U., Taiwan)

Conference Founders

1. Jeng-Shyang Pan (Nanjing U. of Information Science and Technology, China)
2. Lakhmi C. Jain (U. of Piraeus, Greece)

Advisory Committee Chairs

1. Jhing-Fa Wang (National Cheng Kung U., Taiwan)
2. Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong U., China)
3. Kebin Jia (Beijing U. of Technology, China)

Steering Chairs

1. Rung-Ching Chen (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Qiangfu Zhao (U. of Aizu, Japan)
3. Sun-Yuan Hsieh (National Cheng Kung U., Taiwan)
4. Cheng-Ying Yang (U. of Taipei, Taiwan)

General Chairs

1. Tzu-Chuen Lu (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Yung-Fa Huang (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

General Co-Chairs

1. Goutam Chakraborty (Iwate Prefectural U., Japan; Madanapalle Institute of Tech. and Sci., India)
2. Basabi Chakraborty (Iwate Prefectural U., Japan; Madanapalle Institute of Tech. and Sci., India)

Program Committee Chairs

1. Ruo-Wei Hung (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Chin-Ling Chen (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
3. Sang-Woon Jeon (Hanyang U., Korea)
4. Chuan-Bi Lin (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

Special Session Chairs

1. Shih-Cheng Horng (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Lin-Huang Chang (National Taichung U. of Education, Taiwan)
3. Samsul Huda (Okayama University, Japan)

Organizing Chairs

1. Yu-Huei Cheng (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Shao-Kuo Tai (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

Publicity Chairs

1. Wen-Huang Cheng (National Taiwan U., Taiwan)
2. Ben-Jye Chang (National Yunlin U. of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan)

Publication Chairs

1. Tien-Wen Sung (Fujian U. of Technology, China)
2. Shih-Hung Wu (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
3. Jia-Lang Xu (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

Program Committee Members

1. Péter Baranyi (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
2. Yung-Kuan Chan (National Chung Hsing U., Taiwan)
3. Chih-Yuan Chang (Feng Chia U., Taiwan)
4. Ching-Chun Chang (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
5. Young-Long Chen (National Taichung U. of Sci. Tech., Taiwan)
6. Mu-Yen Chen (National Cheng Kung U., Taiwan)
7. Chia-Hsin Cheng (National Formosa U., Taiwan)
8. Mong-Fong Horng (National Kaohsiung U. of Sci. Tech., Taiwan)
9. Jun-Wei Hsieh (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung U., Taiwan)
10. Ying-Lin Hsu (National Chung Hsing U., Taiwan)
11. Ling-Ju Hung (National Taipei U. of Business, Taiwan)
12. Biswapati Jana (Vidyasagar U., India)
13. Chao-Yang Lee (National Yunlin U. of Sci. & Tech., Taiwan)
14. Chia-Chen Lin (National Chin-Yi U. of Technology, Taiwan)
15. Chih-Yang Lin (National Central U., Taiwan)
16. Syu-Jyun Peng (Taipei Medical U., Taiwan)
17. Yung-Hoh Sheu (National Formosa U., Taiwan)
18. Chin-Shiuh Shieh (National Kaohsiung U. of Sci. Tech., Taiwan)
19. Naruki Shirahama (Shimonoseki City U., Japan)
20. Junzo Watada (Shimonoseki City U., Japan)

Local Arrangement Chairs

1. Chin-Feng Lee (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Chun-Cheng Peng (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
3. Cheng-Hao Shao (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
4. Zi Yi Lim (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

Finance Chairs

1. Jong-Shin Chen (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)
2. Chih-Huei Huang (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan)

Conference Administration

1. College of Informatics, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

Conference website:

1. https://iihmsp25.csie.cyut.edu.tw
or
2. https://iihmsp25.github.io

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Day One (Wednesday, October 15, 2025)
Time	Event
08:45 – 16:00	Registration Hall, 13F (The Splendor Hotel -金典酒店, Taichung, Taiwan )
09:00 – 09:10	Welcome Session
09:10 – 10:10	Panel Discussion (Chairperson: Prof. Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh) Theme: AI Applications in Engineering and Higher Education Management Dr. Prof. Tao-Ming Cheng (Chaoyang U. of Technology, Taiwan) Dr. Prof. Tsukahara Tsuneo (U. of Aizu, Japan) Dr. Prof. Goutam Chakraborty (Iwate Prefectural U., Japan) Dr. Prof. James Tze-Jie Yu (DePaul University, USA) The Conference Ballroom, 13F
10:10 – 10:40	Tea/Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:40	Keynote Speech I: Applications and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity with focus on Information Hiding Dr. Prof. James Tze-Jie Yu (DePaul University, USA) Speaker Introducer: Prof. Yu-Huei Cheng The Conference Ballroom, 13F
10:40 – 12:20	Regular Session_1 Room A, 14F
	Special Session-06_1 Room B, 14F
12:20 – 13:20	Lunch
13:20 – 15:00	Special Session-05_1 Room A, 14F
	Special Session-06_2 Room B, 14F
	Postor-01 (NSTC Poster): 13:40-14:30 (First Session); 15:10-16:00 (Second Session) The Conference Ballroom, 13F
13:20 – 14:20	NSTC-ETPC Speech: Prof. Chin-Feng Lee The Conference Ballroom, 13F
15:00 – 15:20	Tea/Coffee Break
15:20 – 17:00	Special Session-04 Room A, 14F
	Special Session-02 / Special Session-03 Room B, 14F

Day Two (Thursday, October 16, 2025)
Time	Event
08:45 – 16:00	Registration Hall, 13F
09:10 – 10:10	Keynote Speech II: Deep Learning-based Animal Behavior Analysis Distinguished Research Fellow H. Y. Mark Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Speaker Introducer: Prof. Shih-Hung Wu The Conference Ballroom, 13F
10:10 – 10:40	Tea/Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:20	Special Session-07_1 Room A, 14F
	Special Session-08 / Special Session-09 Room B, 14F
	Special Session-05_2 Room C, 14F
12:20 – 13:20	Lunch
13:20 – 15:00	Special Session-07_2 Room A, 14F
	Regular Session_2 Room B, 14F
	Regular Session_3 Room C, 14F
15:00 – 15:20	Tea/Coffee Break
15:20 – 17:00	Special Session-10_1 Room A, 14F
	Special Session-10_2 / Special Session-11 Room B, 14F
	Special Session-01 / Regular Session-4 Room C, 14F
18:00 – 20:00	Banquet （Entry time: 17:40-18:00） The Conference Ballroom (II+IV), 13F

Day Three (Friday, October 17, 2025)
Time	Event (Online meeting – Google and VooV meeting rooms)
09:00 – 11:00	Registration Online
09:00 – 11:00	IIHMSP 2025 Online Section A (Google Meeting: https://meet.google.com/dtt-ezmg-igm)
	IIHMSP 2025 Online Section B (VooV Meeting: https://voovmeeting.com/dm/BjThYORteGmw)
	IIHMSP 2025 Online Section C (VooV Meeting: https://voovmeeting.com/dm/NtCnd2WWRAAw)
11:00 –	The End of the Conference

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Day One (Wednesday, October 15, 2025) (10:40 – 12:20)
Room A: Regular Session_1
(Session Chair: Prof. Long-Sheng Chen)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
21	Using Grey Polynomial Interpolation in H.265 Under Limited Bandwidth Conditions	Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh; Wei-Cheng Liao; Xin-Rui Lin	p. 1
28	Developing a Table Tennis Skills and Tactics App Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model	Hsiu-Yuan Yeh; Jia-Pei Lin; Hsin-Lun Hsu; Chi-Yueh Hsu	p. 2
30	A Study on Building a Company-Level Carbon Emission Prediction Model for the Semiconductor Industry	Long-Sheng Chen; Lu-Hsien Hsieh; Yong-Yu Chang; Jing-Rong Chang	p. 3
37	Improving Minority Class Detection in Online Game Review Sentiment Analysis	Long-Sheng Chen; Hsuan-Jung Huang; Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam	p. 4

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Room B: Special Session-06_1(SS-06:Generative AI, Multimedia, and Image Processing)
(Session Chair: Prof. Hung-Cheng Chen)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
43	A Study on Manual Retopology Methods for Enhancing Efficiency and Structural Rationality of 3D Models	Chia-Jen Chang; Cheng-Hao Shao	p. 5
49	Software-Integrated Pipeline for AI-Assisted 3D Head Modeling: A Practical Approach for Virtual Character Design	Chia-Jen Chang; Hsin-Yu Lee; Tzu-Chuen Lu	p. 6
62	Designing the Timeless: Visual Symbolism and Cultural Strategies in Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball	Jui-Lin Yen; Chia-Jen Chang; Tzu-Chuen Lu	p. 7
78	Digital Wind Sculpture through Cascading Poetic Translation: Cross-media Aesthetic Generation in Multi-Generative AI Collaborative Networks	Hung-Cheng Chen; Ting-Yun Lo	p. 8
99	Revitalizing Cultural Heritage with AI Vibe Coding: The Development of the "Nine-Nine Dispelling Cold Chart" Interactive Webpage	Yu-Hui Lin; Hung-Cheng Chen	p. 9

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Day One (Wednesday, October 15, 2025) (13:20 – 15:00)
Room A: Special Session-05_1(SS-05:AIoT in Biomedicine)
(Session Chair: Prof. Xin Zhu)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
60	Estimating RR Interval of Electrocardiogram from PP Interval of Photoplethysmogram with Autoregressive Moving Average Model for Heart Rate Variability Analysis	Shing-Hong Liu; Yu-Jie Houng; Jia-Jung Wang	p. 10
79	Reduction of Motion Artifacts in the Unilateral Electrocardiogram by Means of Wiener Filters	Jia-Jung Wang; Ioannis Manousakas; Kuen-Cheng Ju; Wei-Yu Tu; Yi-Hsuan Su	p. 11
86	Transfer Learning for Lung Segmentation from Chest X-ray Images: A Comparative Study	Chiun-Li Chin; Hong-Ru Chen; Jin-You Hong; Cheng-En Li; Wei-Chieh Yu; Yu-Li Chou; Jhih-Cian Lin; Rong-Sheng Chen	p. 12
105	An Interpretable Real-Time Multimodal AI System for Injury Severity Assessment in Prehospital Settings	Chiun-Li Chin; Hong-Ru Chen; Jin-You Hong; Cheng-En Li; Wei-Chieh Yu; Yu-Li Chou; Jhih-Cian Lin; Rong-Sheng Chen	p. 13
106	EZRead: A Generative AI Approach for Improving Text Readability for Hearing-Impaired Users	Chiun-Li Chin; Jun-ren Chen; Rong-Sheng Chen; Jin-You Hong; Cheng-En Li; Fu-Cheng Tsai; Yi-Wei Chen; Tzu-Hung Yang; Hong-Ru Chen	p. 14

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Room B: Special Session-06_2(SS-06:Generative AI, Multimedia, and Image Processing)
(Session Chair: Prof. Li-Hua Li)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
54	From Curiosity to Concern: Uncovering Insights on Generative AI via Sentiment Analysis	Li-Hua Li; Agus Cahyo Nugroho	p. 15
81	The Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality Combined with an Educational Metaverse Platform on Elementary Students’ Engagement in Mathematics	Cheng-Hung Wang; Nien-En Wu; Po-Han Wu; Yi-Chen Li; Li-Wen Lu	p. 16
91	Reversible Data Hiding in the Deep Learning Era: A Review of Techniques and Future Prospects	Anis Ur Rehman; Chin-Feng Lee	p. 17
100	Unlocking Campus Energy Futures: A Comparative Forecasting Using Multivariate LSTM and Univariate SARIMA	Candrarini Trista H.D.; Gracia Adonay E.; Richard G. Mayopu; Radius Tanone	p. 18
166	The Study of a Lightweight Defect Detection Model for The Surface Condition of Solar Panels	Chien-Cheng Pan; Li-Hua Li	p. 19
167	Transfer Learning Based Microbial Colony Classification on the AGAR Dataset under Four Imaging Conditions	Yen-Ting Lin; Li-Hua Li	p. 20

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Day One (Wednesday, October 15, 2025) (15:20 – 17:00)
Room A: Special Session-04(SS-04:AI-Enhanced QoL: Economics, Affective Computing and Modern Technology)
(Session Chairs: Prof. Naruki Shirahama and Prof. Satoshi Watanabe)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
40	How Users Express Emotions and Purchase Intentions on RED	Lu Jiang; Kodono Yukio	p. 21
41	Text Mining of Negative User Reviews on OfferUp A Sentiment and Topic Modeling Approach	Xiuyi Yue; Yukio Kodono	p. 22
47	Linguistic Characteristics of High- and Low-Liked OOTD (Outfit of the Day) Posts: A Comparative Analysis on Social Media	Yi Lu; Yukio Kodono	p. 23
55	Distribution of Information Skills for Two Groups of Students Based on the Visualization Analysis for Visual Analog Scale Measurements	Satoshi Watanabe; Naofumi Nakaya; Naruki Shirahama	p. 24
59	Characterizing “Emotional Individuality” in 36 LLMs: Persona and Japanese Text Conditioning	Naruki Shirahama; Naofumi Nakaya; Satoshi Watanabe	p. 25
82	COVID‑19 Diagnosis Using CT Image Recognition Based on Transfer Learning	Chun-Cheng Peng; Cheng Yeh Wen; Tsung Tse Chang; Yu-Chen Liao	p. 26
130	Analysis of Japanese Industry Using the Cobb-Douglas Production Function	Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi	p. 27

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Room B: Special Session-02(SS-02:Generative AI or Artificial Intelligence and Applications) & Special Session-03(SS-03:Metaheuristic Algorithms and Applications)
(Session Chair: Prof. Jia-Lang Xu)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
31	A CNN-based Residual Control Chart for Interval Censored Data	Pei-Hsi Lee	p. 28
32	Applying Information Technology Technique to Optimize Real-Time Feedback Systems for Essay Grading	Chiou-Yu Chen; Shieh-Shing Lin	p. 29
34	The Study on Optimizing the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Installation Level B Certification Process Using Expert System	Ya-Chun Han; Shieh-Shing Lin	p. 30
73	A Study on Automatic Tooth Segmentation in Panoramic Dental Radiographs Using U-Net	Han-Jie Shih; Li-Rong Yang; Geng-Wei Li; Jia-Lang Xu	p. 31
117	Web Application for Supply Chain Management as a Bicycle Material Manufacture Company	Adi Putera Zhou; Chin-Ling Chen; Jia-Lang Xu	p. 32
135	Research and Implementation of Brain Tumor Diagnosis on Deep Learning	Chun-Cheng Peng; Li-Wei Liao; Jia-Xing Wu; Tsung-Tse Chang; Yu-Chen Liao	p. 33
64	Design and Implementation of Gesture Recognition Based on YOLO Neural Network	Jason Chen; M. Abdul; Chingmai Ko	p. 34

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Day Two (Thursday, October 16, 2025) (10:40 – 12:20)
Room A: Special Session-07_1 (SS-07:Pattern Recognition and Feature Learning in Complex Visual Data)
(Session Chair: Prof. Yung-Chen Chou)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
33	Reconstruction Segmenting Region Technique for Adversarial Patch Defense	Elvin Nur Furqon; Isack Farady; Junaidul Islam; Chih-Yang Lin	p. 37
36	Real-Time Detection of Lane-Change Violations in Vehicles via YOLOv8	Shao-Kuo Tai; Pin-You Chen; Wei-Ru Lin	p. 38
52	Image-Based Porosity Analysis of Acoustic Mesh Structures Using Advanced Digital Image Processing Techniques	Xiang-Shun Yang; Rou-Syuan Jiang; Wei-Wei Huang; Chu-Ya Chuang; Xuan-Yi Huang; Yu-Cheng Liu; Yung-Chen Chou	p. 39
107	A Data-Driven Approach to Total Organic Carbon Prediction in Mangrove Sediments Using FTIR and 1D-CNN	Yung-Chen Chou; Po-Sung Chen; Cheng-Hsien Lin; Ning-Hsiang Hsu; Kuo-Yen Wei; Li Lo	p. 40
110	U-Net Based Semantic Segmentation for Pore Detection in Nonwoven Mesh Structures Applied to Electroacoustic Device Design	Ching-Yi Pang; Po-Sung Chen; Xiao-Zhu Wang; Xuan-Yi Huang; Chu-Ya Chuang; Yu-Cheng Liu; Yung-Chen Chou	p. 41

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Room B: Special Session-08(SS-08:Using Multimodal AI for Various Data Sources in Smart Applications) & Special Session-09(SS-09:Wireless Network and Intelligence Computing)
(Session Chair: Prof. Chao-Yang Lee)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
104	Finetuning BERT & RoBERTa for Office Documents Classification System	Su-Wen Huang; Ping-Han Chang; Lai-Shiun Lai; Rung-Ching Chen	p. 42
120	Smart Detection of Open Parking Spaces in Urban Taiwan Using YOLOv8 Segmentation on Dashcam Footage	Muhammad Ehsan; Rung-Ching Chen	p. 43
125	Deepfake Detection Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion	Tzung-Pei Hong; Haohsuan Chien; Ja-Hwung Su; Wei-Chou Chen; Shu-Min Li	p. 44
61	Intrusion Detection System Based on Horizontal Federated Learning for Non-Terrestrial Networks	Chao-Yang Lee; Ching-Wei Lin; Chun-Hung Lin	p. 45
92	An AI-Based Two-Stage Ensemble Framework for Efficient IoT Traffic Anomaly Detection	Chung-Wei Kuo; Cheng-Xuan Wu	p. 46
96	MARL-based AoI and Energy Optimization in Multi-RSU C-V2X Networks	Yong-Sheng Lin; Chuan-Chi Lai	p. 47
103	5G UAV Real-Time AQI Smart Monitoring Platform	Feng-Cheng Tsai; Chen-Hao Li; Ang-Hsun Tsai; Chao-Yang Lee	p. 48

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Room C: Special Session-05_2(SS-05:AIoT in Biomedicine)
(Session Chair: Prof. Jia-Jung Wang)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
65	Design of High Frequency Wireless and Wearable Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Module	Yen-Po Huang; Chien-An Chen; Jia-Jin Chen	p.49
70	Predicting Prolonged Opioid Use After Total Joint Arthroplasty Using Machine Learning: An Electronic Medical Record–Based Study	Meng-Shui Lu; I-Fang Chung	p. 50
74	Development of a Plantar Pressure Wearable with Machine Learning for Muscle Fatigue Detection	Andrew Jonathan Hadikusuma; Xiao-Fan Lin; Fu-Yu Beverly Chen	p. 51
75	Aligning Cell-Line and Patient Data with Interpretable Transformers for Drug Prediction	Chi-Tang Wang; Yu-Kai Chiu; I-Fang Chung	p. 52
76	Semi-supervised Learning for Renal Pathology Image Segmentation	Chieh-Yu Li; I-Fang Chung	p. 53

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Day Two (Thursday, October 16, 2025) (13:20 – 15:00)
Room A: Special Session-07_2(SS-07:Pattern Recognition and Feature Learning in Complex Visual Data)
(Session Chair: Prof. Jia-Lang Xu)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
39	Evaluation of the Effectiveness of AI-Based Motion Interaction Games in Marine Culture Education	Wen-Chuan Wu; Yu-Wei Zhang; Yi-Chen Lin	p. 54
46	A Modular Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Factual Question Answering Domain-Specific Time-Series Data	Ankh-Erdene Ganbat; Tzu-Chuen Lu; Ming-Hsuan Wu	p. 55
57	Automated Semantic Segmentation and Quantitative Analysis of Pore Structures in PEO Coatings Using a Modified U-Net Framework	Ning-Hsiang Hsu; Po-Sung Chen; Xiang-Shun Yang; Chen-Jui Liang	p. 56
67	Medical Image Authentication for Telemedicine Applications using Grouping and Self-reference Strategies	Chia-Chen Lin; Er Tai Zhuo; En-Ting Chur	p. 57
108	A Physician-Assisted Interpretation System for Automatic Classification of Delayed Intracranial Hemorrhage Using Fuzzy AlexNet	Ming-Chi Wu; Chiun-Li Chin; Cheng-En Li; Rong-Sheng Chen; Hong-Ru Chen; Jin-You Hong	p. 58
113	Intelligent Fabric Defect Detection Research Based on the YOLOv8 Model	Chun-Hsiu Yeh; Xuan Wang; Xian-Zhong Lin; Yi-Teng Lin; Chin-Wei Liao; Wei-Cheng Shen; Jong-Shin Chen	p. 59

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Room B: Regular Session_2
(Session Chair: Prof. Zi Yi Lim)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
38	Development of a Neural Network-Based Model for Predicting the Steady-State Characteristics of a Pd HfO₂/GaOx/GaN Hydrogen Gas Sensor	Kun-Wei Lin; Hsuan-Jung Shih; Jia-Wei Li	p. 60
44	Analyzing a Serious Game for Livestock Wastewater Treatment Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)	Tzu-Chuen Lu; Ci-Jia Huang	p. 61
71	Applying Curved Price Channels to Improve Automated Detection of Consolidation Phases	Shih-Yun Yen; Hung-Yu Chien	p. 62
84	Monkeypox Identification Based on Transfer Learning	Chun-Cheng Peng; Yue-Han Chen; Xiang-Wei Hu; Mau-Shiun Tang; Jia-Xing Wu; Tsung-Tse Chang	p. 63
85	Deep Learning-Based Diabetic Retinopathy Detection	Chun-Cheng Peng; Cheng-Hui Teng; Hsun-Ming Chung; Yi-Pin Liu; Tang-Jung Ke; Li-Wei Liao	p. 64

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Room C: Regular Session_3
(Session Chair: Prof. Chun-Cheng Peng)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
88	Optimized Deep Learning Model for Prostate Cancer Detection	Chun-Cheng Peng; Yu-Chen Liao; Xiang-Wei Hu; Yuen-Han Chen; Hsun-Ming Chung; Yi-Pin Liu	p. 65
98	AI-Powered Product Code Generation and ERP Integration Platform for Industry-wide Application	Shih-Lung Liao; Yu-Ting Kuo; Shao-Kuo Tai; Pei-Hsi Lee	p. 66
102	Monocular 3D Volleyball Trajectory via Geometric Constraints	Tzu-Yun Hu; Jenn-Jier James Lien	p. 67
109	Interactive Intent Clarification Framework for Data Analysis Using Generative AI	Riku Takano; Rentaro Yoshioka; Takayuki Hoshino; Yukihide Kohira	p. 68
114	Development of Human Detection System Using Thermography with Convolutional Neural Network in Smart Museum	Kazuki Maetsubo; Shingo Tetsuka; Takaharu Kasayuki; Yukihide Kohira; Rentaro Yoshioka	p. 69

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Day Two (Thursday, October 16, 2025) (15:20 – 17:00)
Room A: Special Session-10_1(SS-10:AIoT Convergence: Intelligent Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Smart Environments)
(Session Chair: Prof. Yu-Huei Cheng)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
97	Design and Implementation of an Energy-Efficient IoT-Based Health Monitoring System with Cloud Integration	Ming-Cheng Kao; Jun-Rong Ye; Tzu-Hao Chang; Chen-Chien Shieh	p. 70
121	Comparative Analysis of Techniques and Tools for Image Steganography and Steganalysis	Elbert Timothy Thomas; MengLun Hsueh	p. 71
129	TOGAF as a Unifying Framework for Agricultural Digitalization	Kalaiarasi Sonai Muthu Anbananthen; Saravanan Muthaiyah; Baarathi Balasubramaniam; Jayakumar Krishnan; Thein Oak Kyaw Zaw; Suraya Mohammad; Yunus Yusoff; Khairul Shafee Kalid	p. 72
131	Construction and Analysis of a Student Dropout Prediction Model Using AutoGluon with Imbalanced Data Handling Techniques	Yu-Huei Cheng; Che-En Lin	p. 73

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Room B: Special Session-10_2 (SS-10:AIoT Convergence: Intelligent Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for Smart Environments) & Special Session-11 (SS-11:Applications of Intelligent Internet of Things And Communications)
(Session Chair: Prof. Zi Yi Lim)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
51	Easy Upgrade to Smart Elevator with An AIoT Device	Zi Yi Lim; Shih-Wei Ciou; Chang-Hong Lai; Yu-Zhang Luo; Chien-Chia Huang	p. 74
77	EMG-Based Gesture Recognition Using Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Control	Yu-Yong Luo; Yan-Ru Lin; Chia-Hsin Cheng; Yung-Fa Huang	p. 75
89	A Self-Timed Bi-Directional Torus Network	Chia-Cheng Tsai; Wei-Min Cheng; Yuan-Teng Chang; Yung-Fa Huang; Hung-Yue Tsai; Chang-Jiu Chen; Yu-Hsang Wu	p. 76
90	Efficient KNN Classification for High-Density Geospatial Data Using Grid-Based Partitioning	Cheng-Ying Yang; Ruo-Wei Hung; Chun-Ming Kuo; Jong-Shin Chen	p. 77
95	A Highly Convenient Smart Parking Information System Utilizes the ALPR Method Based on IoT Technology	Yung-Ping Tu; Kai-Hung Hsieh; Shao-Chi Hsu; Yung-Fa Huang; Feng-Li Lin	p. 78
116	A Monocular Defocus Depth Estimation Algorithm Combining AI-Based Image Segmentation and Physical Optics	Ing-Chau Chang; Yu-Cheng Chen; Yu-Sen Wang; Chunghui Kuo; Chin-En Yen	p. 79

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Room C: Regular Session_4 & Special Session-01 (SS-01:Graph Algorithms and Applications)
(Session Chair: Prof. Ruo-Wei Hung)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
119	A Natural Language-driven Humanoid Robot Motion Encoding Method Based on LLaMA-3-8B	Zhi-Zhong Chen; Shih-Hung Wu	p. 80
123	Adaptive Contention Preamble with Differentiating Contention Domains for Minimizing Collisions and Delay in 5G-Advanced Cellular Networking	Ben-Jye Chang; Ying-Hsin Liang; Ruo-Wei Hung; De-Yu Wang	p.81
124	Purifying Adversarial Faces: A Cold Diffusion Framework for Black-Box Defense	Pei-Hsin Hsieh; Pei-Chi Bao; Alex Carlos Ack; Le Nguyen Hoang My Dinh; Wen-Chieh Fang	p. 82
22	The 2-Fair Domination in Planar and Extended Supergrid Graphs	Ruo-Wei Hung; Jong-Shin Chen; An-Yu Hsiao	p. 83
48	Application of Heatmap Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Low-Concentration Ammonia Gas Sensing	Kun-Wei Lin; Yuan-Yi Hung; Zheng-Han Jiang; Meng-Huan Hsieh; Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh	p. 84

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Day Three (Friday, October 17, 2025) (09:00 – 11:00)
IIHMSP 2025 Online Section A:
Time: 9:00–11:00 AM (Taipei Time, UTC+8)
Room: Google Meeting ID: https://meet.google.com/dtt-ezmg-igm
(Session Chair: Prof. Szu-Ting Wang)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
45	Topic Model Analysis of Inbound Demand Collected from Social Media	Yoshiyuki Matsumoto	p. 85
56	Threat Detection Using Multimodal Fusion and Timestamp Alignment	Zong-Bin Hsiao; Peter Shaojui Wang	p. 86
115	Diversity, Cognition, and Collaboration in BEV R&D Teams: A Survival Analysis of Patent Citation Lag	Iori Nakaoka; Yousin Park; Yunju Chen	p. 87
118	Modern Deep Learning Approaches for Omics-to-Image Survival Prediction: An Improved SurvCNN Framework	Huyen Ngoc Nguyen; Hanh Nguyen Van	p. 88
101	An Integrated M-N-S-QUAL Model for Predicting Customer Loyalty in Mobile Telecom: A Construal and Involvement Perspective	Yi-Wen Liao; Siang-Jyu Yuan; Chuan-Sheng Lin	p. 89
112	Design Thinking–Driven Development of “ImWatchingYou”: An OMO Smart Learning Environment Platform Integrating AI-Based Visual and Emotion Recognition for Real-Time Teaching Interaction	Yi-Wen Liao; Hung Jui Su; Chuan-Sheng Lin	p. 90

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IIHMSP 2025 Online Section B:
Time: 9:00–10:00 AM (Taipei Time, UTC+8)
Room: VooV Meeting ID: https://voovmeeting.com/dm/BjThYORteGmw
(Session Chair: Prof. Shu-Chuan Chu)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
29	Task-Driven In-Field Hardware-in-the-Loop Accelerated Testing and Evaluation Method	Chenxuan Li; Yuanyuan Sheng; Jiashu Yang; Huanyu Liu; Junbao Li	p. 91
68	A Parallel Football Team Training Algorithm with Multiple Communication Strategies	Shu-Chuan Chu; Libin Fu; Jeng-Shyang Pan	p. 92
69	RLMALO: Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Martial Art Learning Optimization for Night Image Enhancement	Jeng-Shyang Pan; Zi-Zheng Zhang; Shu-Chuan Chu; Ying-Ying Wang; Kevin Huang	p. 93

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IIHMSP 2025 Online Section C
Time: 10:00–11:00 AM (Taipei Time, UTC+8)
Room: VooV Meeting ID: https://voovmeeting.com/dm/NtCnd2WWRAAw
(Session Chair: Prof. Shu-Chuan Chu)

Paper ID	Title	Authors	Referred Page
72	Chaotic-Elite Enhanced Animated Oat Optimization algorithm	Jeng-Shyang Pan; Li-Yuan Zhang; Shu-Chuan Chu; Qing-Wei Liang; Qing-Wei Chai	p. 94
94	FinTechX: A Comprehensive AI-Powered Financial SystemAdaptive Contention Preamble with Differentiating Contention Domains for Minimizing Collisions and Delay in 5G-Advanced Cellular Networking	Tianlin Fu; Fuquan Zhang; Lei Liu; Xianfang Luo	p. 95
128	A Robust Federated Learning Approach for Noisy Labels based on Sharpening and Self-distillation	Zhengnan Xie; Jiahui Chen; Chunshen Ye	p. 96
126	Dual-guiding Adaptive Multi-strategy Animated Oat Optimization Algorithm (DAOA)	Jeng-Shyang Pan; Peng-Yu Duan; Shu-Chuan Chu; Qing-Wei Chai; Yan Bin	p. 35
127	Multi-Strategy based Artificial Protozoa Optimizer	Jeng-Shyang Pan; He Wei; Ru-Hai You; Xiao-Min Liu; Min Liu	p. 36

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Please notice that we have adopted a “NO SHOW” policy. That is, each paper must be presented by one author, either onsite or online, for it to be included in the Springer Digital Library. Also, the presentation papers, excluding one-page papers, will be submitted for indexing in EI (Compendex) and Scopus.

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Distinguished Research Fellow (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) H. Y. Mark Liao	Topic: Deep Learning-based Animal Behavior Analysis
Biography Mark Liao received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1990. In July 1991, he joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and currently, is a Distinguished Research Fellow. He has worked in the fields of multimedia signal processing, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, video forensics, and multimedia protection for more than 25 years. During 2009-2011, he was the Division Chair of the computer science and information engineering division II, National Science Council of Taiwan. He is jointly appointed as a Chair Professor of the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department of National Chiao-Tung University and a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Cheng Kung University. During 2009-2012, he was jointly appointed as the Multimedia Information Chair Professor of National Chung Hsing University. Since August 2010, he has been appointed as an Adjunct Chair Professor of Chung Yuan Christian University. From August 2014 to July 2016, he was appointed as an Honorary Chair Professor of National Sun Yat-sen University. He received the Young Investigators’ Award from Academia Sinica in 1998; the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2003, 2010 and 2013; the National Invention Award of Taiwan in 2004; the Academia Sinica Investigator Award in 2010; and the TECO Award from the TECO Foundation in 2016. His professional activities include Co-Chair, 2004 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME); Technical Co-chair, 2007 ICME; General Co-Chair, President, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan (2006-08); Editorial Board Member, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2010-13); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2009-13), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2009-12) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1998-2001). He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2013 for contributions to image and video forensics and security. His professional activities include: Co-Chair, 2004 International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME); Technical Co-chair, 2007 ICME; General Co-Chair, 17th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling; President, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan (2006-08); Editorial Board Member, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2010-13); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2009-13), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2009-12), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1998-2001), and ACM Computing Surveys (2018-2021). Since 2021, he has been a Senior Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2013 for contributions to image and video forensics and security.	Abstract Assessing chronic pain behavior in mice is critical for preclinical studies. However, existing methods mostly rely on manual labeling of behavioral features, and humans lack a clear understanding of which behaviors best represent chronic pain. For this reason, existing methods struggle to accurately capture the insidious and persistent behavioral changes in chronic pain. This study proposes a framework to automatically discover features related to chronic pain without relying on human-defined action labels. Our method uses universal action space projector to automatically extract mouse action features, and avoids the potential bias of human labeling by retaining the rich behavioral information in the original video. We also collected a mouse pain behavior dataset, which covers the disease process of mice with neuropathic pain and inflammatory pain on different days. Our method achieves 73.10% accuracy on the pain classification task, which is significantly better than human experts (48.00%) and the popular method B-SOiD (58.43%). Finally, our method revealed differences in drug efficacy for different types of pain on zero-shot Gabapentin drug testing, and the results were consistent with past drug efficacy literature. This study demonstrates the potential clinical application of our method, which can provide new insights into pain research and related drug development.
Professor (DePaul University, USA) James Yu	Topic: Challenges of Applying Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity With Focus on Information Hiding
Biography Dr. Yu received his Ph.D in Computer Sciences from Purdue University in 1985. Before joining CTI, he was the director of Network Technology at ARBROS Communications, responsible for network architecture, network management, and service deployment of ISDN, RAS, Voice Tandem, ATM, Internet, Frame Relay, and IP-VPN. He had 15 years of experience at Bell Labs (AT&T and Lucent Technologies) where he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, working on software reliability, software quality assurance, project management, information system, local and campus network design, web-based application development, ATM switch development, local/toll switch development, softswitch development, and fault tolerant network design.	Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI), as a disruptive technology, has transformed the landscape of many areas, including cybersecurity. This talk focuses specifically on its applications in information hiding, which has been in use for data transmission and storage for thousands of years. With the advancement of AI, the practice of information hiding enters a new era with new applications and challenges. The broad domain of information hiding includes, but is not limited to, cryptography, steganography, watermarking, and covert channels. The use of AI in cryptography significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the defense system, particularly through dynamic threat pattern recognition and adaptive key management. However, it does not change the fundamentals of the encryption algorithms. Future direction may include AI-generated encryption methods that outperform the current mathematical models. Steganography hides information in existing media, such as images, audio, or video files. With AI-assisted tools, hiding information becomes easier and faster, while detection is a lot more difficult. A new challenge is that hackers could use steganography to hide malicious code to harm the user system. AI-based model, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), can create highly undetectable stego-content. Conversely, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) can analyze large volumes of media to detect hidden information that legacy rule-based steganalysis would miss. GAN and CNN are considered deep learning techniques which require significant computing power, fueling a never ending arms race between attackers and defenders. Another challenge is the inclusion of more sophisticated datasets to train AI models to identify new patterns of hidden information. Digital watermarking embeds information (i.e., the “watermark”) directly into a digital medium to ensure authenticity, ownership, and integrity of the content. Digital watermarking may or may not be perceptible to general users. It must be robust to survive transformation (copy, transmission, compression, formatting, etc.) The AI approaches (such as GAN and CNN) and challenges (arms race and dataset) to watermarking is similar to steganography. Covert channel is a hidden communication path that exploits unintended or unauthorized mechanism within the system, such as network traffic, CPU usage patterns, or Radio Frequency (RF) transmission. Machine learning can model normal traffic patterns to hide covert data within normal variance. From the defense perspective, AI-model can analyze massive logs for subtle anomalies, timing patterns, or side-channel leaks that are beyond the capability of rule-based analysis. While AI had revolutionary impacts in many areas. Its role in information hiding is primarily evolutionary, improving efficiency, effectiveness, capability, and capacity. A persistent challenge is the never-ending arm race between attackers and defenders. Both sides leverage AI to conceal and uncover hidden information. Another major challenge is the inclusion of more datasets to train AI models to learn unknown patterns. Because of the legitimate use of AI to detect hidden information, it raises legal and ethical questions about who has the right to detect hidden information and under what circumstance.

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Best Papers Competition:

We are delighted to welcome you to the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP 2025), to be held in Taichung, Taiwan, on October 15–17, 2025. Since its first event in Melbourne, Australia, in 2005, the IIHMSP conference series has been held in many countries such as the USA, Taiwan, China, Japan, Germany, Greece, Australia, and South Korea. Over the years, the conference has fostered fruitful collaborations and delivered meaningful impacts on both the research community and society.
The IIHMSP 2025 provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientists to exchange the latest research outcomes and to discuss topics such as information hiding, multimedia signal processing, the application of artificial intelligence in multimedia and signal processing, and information technology. This year, we received 153 submissions from more than six countries. Each submission was evaluated by at least two referees. To ensure the high quality of papers at IIHMSP 2025, we have made every effort to accomplish the following tasks:

1. Similarity check for each submission: Authors are required to upload a similarity report. If an author does not provide one, we use the Turnitin system to check the similarity score in accordance with academic ethics. When the overall similarity score of a submitted paper exceeds 20%, we notify the author to revise the paper and remind them that failure to do so may result in exclusion from the Springer Digital Library and other indexes (EI/Scopus).
2. Format check for each submission: To ensure the quality of papers, we carefully review and revise every submission to comply with the Springer conference format. As a result, all papers submitted to the Springer conference book now meet the required format.
3. Licence to Publish form check: For each paper submitted to the Springer conference book, we verify the signed Licence to Publish form to ensure that it meets Springer’s publication requirements.

After completing the above efforts, a total of 96 papers (excluding 10 one-page papers) were accepted for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. The acceptance rates of this conference are summarized as follows:

• Total acceptance rate:62.7%
• Springer acceptance rate:60.1% (submitted to Springer digital library/EI/Scopus)

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all authors for their contributions and participation, many of whom traveled great distances to deliver valuable presentations and share their insights. We also extend our sincere appreciation to the program committee members, including the special session chairs, as well as the external referees, for their dedicated efforts and the considerable time they devoted to reviewing each paper in a timely and professional manner.
Finally, we believe each participant will enjoy the IIHMSP 2025 and have a wonderful and exciting stay in Taichung City, Taiwan.

Best Papers List:

Long-Sheng Chen, Lu-Hsien Hsieh, Yong-Yu Chang, Jing-Rong Chang, A Study on Building a Company-Level Carbon Emission Prediction Model for the Semiconductor Industry.
Tzu-Yun Hu, Jenn-Jier James Lien, Monocular 3D Volleyball Trajectory via Geometric Constraints.
Kazuki Maetsubo, Shingo Tetsuka, Takaharu Kasayuki, Yukihide Kohira, Rentaro Yoshioka, Development of Human Detection System Using Thermography With Convolutional Neural Network in Smart Museum.
Ruo-Wei Hung, Jong-Shin Chen, An-Yu Hsiao, The 2-Fair Domination in Planar and Extended Supergrid Graphs.
Han-Jie Shih, Li-Rong Yang, Geng-Wei Li, Jia-Lang Xu, A Study on Automatic Tooth Segmentation in Panoramic Dental Radiographs Using U-Net.
Jeng-Shyang Pan, Peng-Yu Duan, Shu-Chuan Chu, Qing-Wei Chai, Yan Bin, Dual-guiding Adaptive Multi-strategy Animated Oat Optimization Algorithm (DAOA).
Jeng-Shyang Pan, He Wei, Ru-Hai You, Xiao-Min Liu, Min Liu, Multi-Strategy based Artificial Protozoa Optimizer.
Naruki Shirahama, Naofumi Nakaya, Satoshi Watanabe, Characterizing "Emotional Individuality" in 36 LLMs: Persona and Japanese Text Conditioning.
Iori Nakaoka, Yousin Park, Yunju Chen, Diversity, Cognition, and Collaboration in BEV R&D Teams: A Survival Analysis of Patent Citation Lag.
Xingjian Tian, Boyuan Peng, Yoshinao Sugai, Xin Zhu, Transfer Learning for Lung Segmentation from Chest X-ray Images: A Comparative Study.
Chiun-Li Chin, Jun-ren Chen, Rong-Sheng Chen, Jin-You Hong, Cheng-En Li, Fu-Cheng Tsai, Yi-Wei Chen, Tzu-Hung Yang, Hong-Ru Chen, EZRead: A Generative AI Approach for Improving Text Readability for Hearing-Impaired Users.
Hung-Cheng Chen, Ting-Yun Lo, Digital Wind Sculpture through Cascading Poetic Translation: Cross-media Aesthetic Generation in Multi-Generative AI Collaborative Networks.
Candrarini Trista H.D., Gracia Adonay E., Richard G. Mayopu, Radius Tanone, Unlocking Campus Energy Futures: A Comparative Forecasting Using Multivariate LSTM and Univariate SARIMA.
Yung-Chen Chou, Po-Sung Chen, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Ning-Hsiang Hsu, Kuo-Yen Wei, Li Lo, A Data-Driven Approach to Total Organic Carbon Prediction in Mangrove Sediments Using FTIR and 1D-CNN.
Ming-Chi Wu, Chiun-Li Chin, Cheng-En Li, Rong-Sheng Chen, Hong-Ru Chen, Jin-You Hong, A Physician-Assisted Interpretation System for Automatic Classification of Delayed Intracranial Hemorrhage Using Fuzzy AlexNet.
Su-Wen Huang, Ping-Han Chang, Lai-Shiun Lai, Rung-Ching Chen, Finetuning BERT & RoBERTa for Office Documents Classification System.
Ming-Cheng Kao, Jun-Rong Ye, Tzu-Hao Chang, Chen-Chien Shieh, Design and Implementation of an Energy-Efficient IoT-Based Health Monitoring System with Cloud Integration.
Yi-Wen Liao, Siang-Jyu Yuan, Chuan-Sheng Lin, An Integrated M-N-S-QUAL Model for Predicting Customer Loyalty in Mobile Telecom: A Construal and Involvement Perspective.
Ing-Chau Chang, Yu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Sen Wang, Chunghui Kuo, Chin-En Yen, A Monocular Defocus Depth Estimation Algorithm Combining AI-Based Image Segmentation and Physical Optics.

Excellent Papers List:

Hsiu-Yuan Yeh, Jia-Pei Lin, Hsin-Lun Hsu, Chi-Yueh Hsu, Developing a Table Tennis Skills and Tactics App Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model.
Elvin Furqon, Isack Farady, Junaidul Islam, Chih-Yang Lin, Reconstruction Segmenting Region Technique for Adversarial Patch Defense.
Shao-Kuo Tai, Pin-You Chen, Wei-Ru Lin, Real-Time Detection of Lane-Change Violations in Vehicles via YOLOv8.
Long-Sheng Chen, Hsuan-Jung Huang, Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam, Improving Minority Class Detection in Online Game Review Sentiment Analysis.
Lu Jiang, Kodono Yukio, How Users Express Emotions and Purchase Intentions on RED.
Yi Lu, Yukio Kodono, Linguistic Characteristics of High- and Low-Liked OOTD (Outfit of the Day) Posts: A Comparative Analysis on Social Media.
Zi Yi Lim, Shih-Wei Ciou, Chang-Hong Lai, Yu-Zhang Luo, Chien-Chia Huang, Easy Upgrade to Smart Elevator with An AIoT Device.
Ning-Hsiang Hsu, Po-Sung Chen, Xiang-Shun Yang, Chen-Jui Liang, Automated Semantic Segmentation and Quantitative Analysis of Pore Structures in PEO Coatings Using a Modified U-Net Framework.
Jeng-Shyang Pan, Li-Yuan Zhang, Shu-Chuan Chu, Qing-Wei Liang, Qing-Wei Chai, Chaotic-Elite Enhanced Animated Oat Optimization algorithm.
Yu-Yong Luo, Yan-Ru Lin, Chia-Hsin Cheng, Yung-Fa Huang, EMG-Based Gesture Recognition Using Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Control.
Chun-Cheng Peng, Hsun-Ming Chung, Yi-Pin Liu, Cheng-Hui Teng, Tang-Jung Ke, Li-Wei Liao, Deep Learning-Based Diabetic Retinopathy Detection.
Chia-Cheng Tsai, Wei-Min Cheng, Yuan-Teng Chang, Yung-Fa Huang, Hung-Yue Tsai, Chang-Jiu Chen, Yu-Hsang Wu, A Self-Timed Bi-Directional Torus Network.
Cheng-Ying Yang, Ruo-Wei Hung, Chun-Ming Kuo, Jong-Shin Chen, Efficient KNN Classification for High-Density Geospatial Data Using Grid-Based Partitioning.
Anis Ur Rehman, Chin-Feng Lee, Reversible Data Hiding in the Deep Learning Era: A Review of Techniques and Future Prospects.
Chun-Hsiu Yeh, Xuan Wang, Xian-Zhong Lin, Yi-Teng Lin, Chin-Wei Liao, Wei-Cheng Shen, Jong-Shin Chen, Intelligent Fabric Defect Detection Research Based on the YOLOv8 Model.
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Shih-Hung Wu, A Natural Language-driven Humanoid Robot Motion Encoding Method Based on LLaMA-3-8B.
Tzung-Pei Hong, Haohsuan Chien, Ja-Hwung Su, Wei-Chou Chen, Shu-Min Li, Deepfake Detection Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion.
Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi, Analysis of Japanese Industry Using the Cobb-Douglas Production Function.
Yu-Huei Cheng, Che-En Lin, Construction and Analysis of a Student Dropout Prediction Model Using AutoGluon with Imbalanced Data Handling Techniques.
Chien-Cheng Pan, Li-Hua Li, The Study of a Lightweight Defect Detection Model for The Surface Condition of Solar Panels.

BestPresent Papers List:

Chi-Tang Wang, Yu-Kai Chiu, I-Fang Chung, Aligning Cell-Line and Patient Data with Interpretable Transformers for Drug Prediction.
Jia-Jung Wang, Ioannis Manousakas, Kuen-Cheng Ju, Wei-Yu Tu, Yi-Hsuan Su, Reduction of Motion Artifacts in the Unilateral Electrocardiogram by means of Wiener Filters.
Yong-Sheng Lin, Chuan-Chi Lai, MARL-based AoI and Energy Optimization in Multi-RSU C-V2X Networks.
Feng-Cheng Tsai, Chen-Hao Li, Ang-Hsun Tsai, Chao-Yang Lee, 5G UAV Real-Time AQI Smart Monitoring Platform.

Pursue Excellence, Success follows

CYUT is situated in the Wu-Feng District in Central Taiwan, full of incredibly natural beauty with ubiquitous elegance and grace. Irrigated by historical and cultural soil, CYUT provides students with an environment combined with higher education cradle and well-equipped campus. Compared to famous universities with more than one hundred years, CYUT is a relatively new 30-year-old university with outstanding ambitions to develop academic and technological talents, achievements, and resources. We are now emerging as a major academic powerhouse in Taiwan. Our university title, Chaoyang, meaning facing the rising sun, creates a self-image of aggressive studies, large-scale development, perfect rules and value systems. Because of incessant digging, CYUT has been trying to create various kinds of miracles in the face of international cultural impacts in the global village.

Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon for us to re-consider the possibilities of individualism, free wills of labor ideology, and choices of personal life-style. In the era of Internet, the development of higher education in different countries deserve our scrupulous consideration of oceans of problems, such as how to promote and upgrade universities, how to create mutual communication among multi-cultural movements on the campus, how to incorporate professional cross-cultural outputs, and how to keep abreast of international tendency. After 30 years of endeavors, CYUT has grown up and has navigated toward a closer connection and link with internationalization.

Due to sharp decline of birth rate, Taiwan is now facing serious social and educational crises. In the 20 years to come, the number of college students dwindles. Thus, we have to take advantage of all possible facilities and resources to make both ends meet and then to create the biggest possible profits for the lasting survival of our university. By means of internationalization, we can cooperate with and guide other institutions of higher education in other countries to cultivate, to educate, to develop, and to employ students with talents. In the near future, we have to accelerate our pace to offer more educational opportunities to students from south-eastern Asia. Like the past five years, we have tried our best to recruit, to guide and to train students from Mainland China. Both strategies are of great importance. Besides, we still have to expand our Thousand-Student-Overseas-Learning-Plan as a way to make our students understand foreign cultures both economically and financially. The more our students can have a better understanding of overseas economy and life-style, the more progress our students will make to let our society a better one. Namely, the life force in Taiwan is closely intertwined with the supply and demand of international commodity.

About course arrangement, CYUT has performed teaching quality guarantee system for many years and has become the paradigm among universities in both Taiwan and Mainland China. About students' life guidance, every class instructor is supposed to help students solve various kinds of problems they encounter. Both elite and handicapped students can also receive extra care from their instructors. The mutual interaction among instructors and students can intensify harmony on the campus. Our internship system helps students build a seamless connection between campus life and career employment. Our motto is that the moment students graduate, they can be employed; the moment they are employed, they are well-equipped. Some students even participate in academic-industrial projects with their teachers to learn, to research, and to develop, and to achieve many results and outcomes.

In order to make administrative affairs efficient, we strengthen our teaching as well as R&D and stay up-to-date with many universities in highly industrialized countries because of our terrific campus culture and teamwork skills. Now CYUT is ranked among top world 1,000 by Webometrics Ranking of World Universities and we intend to make our dreams come true: by 2021, CYUT will be ranked Top-500 University in Asia by Times Higher Education World University Rankings; by 2026 Top-300 University in Asia; by 2030 Top-1,000 University in the World; by 2050 Top-100 New University in the world.

In TIMES Higher Education Asia Universities Summit 2016, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, President of California Institute of Technology, viewed 「Vision, Focus, Perspective」 as the motto of Caltech. In other words, it means seeing far away, paying attention to depth, and digging into everything. This cornerstone of administrative affairs is also appropriate to CYUT. In order to stabilize the rapid development of CYUT and to anchor our campus value, it is very important to perpetuate our sustainable administration, to play the dual role of inherited tradition and innovation, to amplify administrative development, and to expand the influence of teaching and scientific research. We have to shoulder this heavy duty and responsibility. Members of administrative team, faculty, students, and those enthusiastic educators for the development of CYUT—together, let's work hard and create our future so as to pursue excellence and then success follows.

Retrieve From: https://web.cyut.edu.tw/p/412-1000-128.php?Lang=en

Conference Venue

The conference IIHMSP 2025 will be held at the Splendor Hotel (金典酒店) (13F-14F), Taichung, Taiwan. The conference hotel is located in the hub of Taichung’s most prosperous commercial district. This is the only five-star hotel that free shuttle bus stop by and convenient to reach Taichung’s High Speed Rail station. Just take a 5-minute walk away from the National Museum of Natural science, the Botanical Garden, SOGO Taichung and ParkLane by CMP. Please visit the website of the Splendor Hotel (here) whose map can be downloaded here (here).

● The Splendor Hotel Reservation link (password=IIHMSP2025)

● Please note:
(1) After booking, the author needs to receive a confirmation letter from the hotel before the booking is considered complete.
(2) Reservation Team Hotline: +886-4-2324-6000.
(3) Reservation Team Dedicated Email: tchsplendor@gmail.com.

Recommended Travel Sites:

● Taichung Travel Net

● Taiwan Fun

Hotel and Tour

• Taichung Tourism:
  • Taichung has a pleasant climate and environment and an average temperature of 22.4℃. Taichung is endowed with a rich history and beautiful natural scenery. It also offers well-priced culinary delights, assorted shopping areas and arts performances, making it well worth a visit. (here)
• National Taichung Theater:
  • National Taichung Theater is a continuation of the 1987 completion of the National Concert Hall and Theater. After nearly 30 years since the first opening of a national performance venue, NTT is a 21st-century cultural facility that is not only a new landmark in the city, but also represents a cultural step forward.
    
• Laurel Hotel (Taichung):
  • Evergreen Laurel Hotel (Taichung) is located in the Chungkang commercial district, an area that has great potential for further commercial development. The hotel uses a gray-themed textural quality to skillfully build up its image as the king of internationalization.
    
• InterContinental (Taichung):
  • InterContinental Taichung, centrally located near the cultural Calligraphy Greenway district, offers 206 elegantly designed rooms that blend modern functionality with comfort. Guests can indulge in diverse culinary experiences at four restaurants, a bar, a bakery, and Club InterContinental, featuring Italian, Chinese, and Taiwanese hot pot. The Grand Ballroom, with its impressive 5.5-meter-high ceiling, accommodates up to 480 guests and can be divided into two sections, complemented by four additional meeting rooms designed for productive gatherings. The hotel also boasts an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and the exclusive InterContinental Club on the 17th floor. Guided by its philosophy of “True Hospitality for Good,” InterContinental Taichung redefines luxury with exceptional service and world-class amenities.
    
• Hotel National (Taichung):
  • Hotel National, an award-winning classic-style hotel. With exquisite and thoughtful service, we provide guests with a comfortable accommodation experience. With its versatile dining and banquet spaces, the professional team carefully plans every important detail, providing comprehensive and appropriate services to meet our guests' expectations.
    

About Taiwan

  Formosa, derived from the Portuguese “Ilha Formosa” (Beautiful Island), has been a representative appellation of Taiwan to the world for centuries. Shaped roughly like a tobacco leaf, Taiwan’s located between two major climatic zones. Situated in the Pacific Ocean about 160 kilometers (100miles) from the southeastern coast of the Chinese mainland and located about midway between Korea and Japan to the north and Hong Kong and the Philippines to the south, Taiwan is a natural gateway to and within Asia. Taiwan’s total land area is about 36,000 square kilometers (14,400 square miles). It is shaped like a leaf that is narrow at both ends. It lies off the southeastern coast of mainland Asia, across the Taiwan Strait from China - an island on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. To the north is Japan; to the south is the Philippines. Many airlines fly to Taiwan, making it the perfect travel destination.

  Taiwan lies on the western edge of the Pacific “rim of fire,” and continuous tectonic movements have created majestic peaks, rolling hills and plains, basins, coastlines, and other natural landscapes. Taiwan’s tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate climates provide clear differentiation between the different seasons. There are rare or endangered species of wildlife on the island. Among these are the land-locked salmon, Taiwan serow, Formosan rock monkey, Formosan black bear, blue magpie, Mikado Pheasant, and Hsuehshan grass lizard.

  Taiwan has a population of 23 million. The larger part of the country’s inhabitants are the descendants of immigrants from the various provinces of mainland China, but in particular from the southeastern coastal provinces: Fujian and Guangdong. Because the different ethnic groups have fairly well integrated, differences that originally existed between people from different provinces have gradually disappeared. Nearly 500,000 indigenous people, the original inhabitants of Taiwan, still live here; they are into 16 different tribes, namely Amis, Atayal, Paiwan, Bunun, Puyuma, Rukai, Tsou, Saisiyat, Yami, Thao, Kavalan, Truku, Sakizaya, Sediq, Kanakanavu, and Hla'alua.

  In addition, the natural bounty of beauty of Taiwan is unequaled, including sun splashed beaches and tranquil lakes, gushing waterfalls and soothing hot-springs, and an exotic array of tropical flora and fauna. Likewise, the traditional Chinese arts and crafts still flourish in Taiwan today. Calligraphy and painting, martial and medical arts, philosophy and religion, and the sublime culinary arts of classical Chinese cuisine continue to thrive and develop here, giving Taiwan a traditional Chinese ambiance that is impossible to find anywhere else in the world today.

About Taichung

  Taichung city occupies a large portion of the Taichung basin. To the north, also in the Taichung basin lies Fengyuan city, the Houli mountain terrace and even further north Miaoli county. The Dadu mountain terrace marks the western boundry of the city, beyond which lies the western coastal alluvial plain and Taichung port. Marking the southern boundry of the city is the Dadu river, across which is Changhua county and the Bagua mountain terrace. To the east, and of most interest to tourists, is the Central mountain range - a stunning range famous for fantastic scenery that runs from the far north of the island to the very south.

  By moving not far from the city, there are many other very attractive resorts. For examples, Sun Moon Lake, located at the geographic center of Taiwan, has the sparkling blue waters. Alishan, a famous scenic spot in central Taiwan that presents beautiful scenery, fresh air, and outstanding panoramic view, lays a more than 3,000-year-old cypress tree in the town nearby. And Kenting National Park, containing many unusual and exotic tropical plant species, offers broad pastures, rocky hills, warm sandy beaches and coral shorelines.

Taichung’s Traffic Lines

(This image can link to Taichng Travel Net)

  Taichung has a range of options for transport in and out of the city, both public and private, that put most similarly-sized cities world-wide to shame. For links to other cities, there is a wide variety of highway bus companies, offering everything from budget seats to giant plush lazyboy-style chairs with private video screens, video games and massage functions. For rail travel, there is the efficient traditional Taiwan Rail network, plus the more recently-constructed Taiwan High Speed Rail network that offers connections to Taipei and Kaohsiung in about an hour, plus links to Taoyuan (where there’s a shuttle bus to the international airport), Hsinchu, Chiayi and Tainan.

  Taichung’s Ching Chuan Kang (CCK) International Airport also offers regular international flights to Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai and other Asian/mainland Chinese destinations. Inside the city, Taichung is known for relatively good traffic conditions. A new TTJ city bus system has recently been put in place that is efficient and easy to use. Taxis are plentiful and inexpensive. Over the next several years, Taichung is also constructing a Mass Rapid Transit system.

One-day Tour (Changhua)

Travel Date: October 17, 2025.

Tour Place: Changhua, Taiwan.

Meeting Point: The Splendor Hotel, and then Chaoyang University of Technology.

Meeting Time: 9:00 a.m. (Splendor Hotel).

Return Time: 4:00 p.m. (Lukang Old Street) => The Splendor Hotel.

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