Hiroki Takahashi – författare

1942. At the turning point of the war, the Imperial Japanese Army is in retreat. On Papua New Guinea, the unnamed narrator of Finger Bone is wounded in the fighting and sent to a field hospital to recover. There, he befriends other injured men only to watch them die one by one from their wounds, hunger, and disease. When a soldier dies, instead of a returning the body to Japan, a medic cuts off the corpse’s index finger, burns away the flesh, and prepares the remaining bone to be sent back to the soldier’s family. The narrator carries the finger bone of his friend in an aluminum tin with the promise he will return the bone to his comrade’s young son.Finger Bone is the prize-winning debut by famed Japanese author Hiroki Takahashi. The novel explores the self-consuming nature of imperialism, the ingloriousness of war, and how we are all identical in death.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2025, held in Tokyo, Japan, during July 2025. The 51 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Security and encryption; surveillance and biometry; computer vision and machine learning; remote sensing and natural areas monitoring; medical imaging; sports analytics; and robotics and drones.