Chapter 1. Variational Autoencoder based Deep Neural Network for Coronary Heart Disease Risk Prediction -- Chapter 2. Simulation and analysis of steering mechanical characteristics between tire and soil -- Chapter 3. Design analysis and optimization of the anti-collision structure of the four-wheel electric scooter -- Chapter 4. Design and optimization of electric vehicle seat -- Chapter 5. Design and optimization of spring in damping system of new energy electric vehicle -- Chapter 6. Simulation analysis and optimization of body structure and strength of the four-wheel low-speed electric vehicle -- Chapter 7. Small object detection based on multi-source data learning fusion network -- Chapter 8. Design and fault research of relay protection for shore power -- Chapter 9. Five Phases Algorithm for Global Optimization -- Chapter 10. An Ultra-Fast Static Hand Gesture Recognition Method for Finger-Guessing Robots -- Chapter 11. Simple Linear Iterative Clustering with Efficiency -- Chapter 12. Perceptual Hashing Based on Sal ent Region and NMF -- Chapter 13. Establishment and Simulation of Forest Fire Spreading Model Based on Cellular Automata -- Chapter 14. Expressway Traffic Speed Prediction Method Based on CNN_Bi-LSTM model via ETC Data -- Chapter 15. How consumers' lending knowledge and self-efficacy drive their intention: A model of TAM within information asymmetric condition. etc.

The book presents selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools, held on October 29 - 31, 2021, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is divided into two volumes and discusses latest research outcomes in the field of information technology (IT) including but not limited to information hiding, multimedia signal processing, big data, data mining, bioinformatics, database, industrial and Internet of things, and their applications.