Robotics & Bioinformatics -- Iris Recognition Network based on Full Coordinate Attention -- Obstacle Avoidance Control Method for Robotic Assembly Process Based on Lagrange PPO -- Zero-shot Sim-to-real Transfer of Robust and Generic Quadrotor Controller by Deep Reinforcement Learning -- Robot Manipulation Strategy for Explosives Disposal in Cluttered Scenes -- Adaptive Neural Composite Learning Finite-time Control for a QUAV with Guaranteed Tracking Performance -- Multimodal wearable device signal based epilepsy detection with multi-scale convolutional neural network -- Improving EEG-Based Continuous Grip Force Decoding in Grasp-Lift Tasks by Considering Grip Force Levels -- 3D Path Planning And Tracking Of Quadrotor Based On Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm -- Multimodal Pneumatic Control System for Soft Robot -- Enhancing Robot Manipulation Skill Learning with Multi-Task Capability Based on Transformer and Token Reduction -- Vision -- Exploring Model Depth Adaptation in Image Super-Resolution for Efficient Inference -- RGB to L*a*b* Color Prediction Model Based on Color Cards -- A Diverse Environment Coal Gangue Image Segmentation Model Combining Improved U-Net and Semi-supervised Automatic Annotation -- RB-LIO: A SLAM Solution Applied to Large-Scale Dynamic Scenes with Multiple Moving Objects -- Object Detection with Depth Information in Road Scenes -- Target Detection Method Based on Mobilenetv2-SSD with Multi-Scale Feature Fusion -- No-reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment via Contextual Point-wise Deep Learning Network -- Measurement of Solder Wetting Angle Based on Image Processing and Polynomial Fitting -- Infrared Aircraft Anti-Interference Recognition based on Feature Enhancement CenterNet -- MHRN-ST: Go Board Recognition with Multi-Stage Highlight Removal Network based on Swin Transformer -- Construction of Minecraft Virtual Reality Scene Based on Voxel Point Cloud.

The two-volume set CCIS 1918 and 1919 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, ICCSIP 2023, held in Luoyang, China, during August 10-12, 2023. The 52 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I : Award; Algorithm & Control; and Application. Volume II: Robotics & Bioinformatics; and Vision.