Visual Information Systems: Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management

ISBN-13: 9783540858904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 358 str.

Monica Sebillo

Opis

The international conference series on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL) originatesfromtheideathattheexchangeofviews, resultsandexperienceswould allowresearchersandpractitionersworkingin the areaofvisualinformations- tems to address commonproblems moree?ectively. Following the success of p- vious editions held in Melbourne (1996), San Diego (1997), Amsterdam (1999), Lyon (2000), Taiwan (2002), Miami (2003), San Francisco (2004), Amsterdam (2005), and Shanghai (2007), the aim of the 2008 edition of the International ConferenceonVisualInformationSystemswasto providea fruitful forumofd- cussioninresearch?eldsrelatedtocomputervision, databases, humancomputer interaction, image processing, information visualization, and knowledge and - formation management. The University of Salerno was honored to celebrate the 10th edition of VISUAL, choosing a prestigioushotel situated on the enchanting Gulf of Salerno, located between the beautiful Coast of Amal? and the Cilento National Park (both part of UNESCO patrimony). VISUAL 2008 received 58 submissions, which were reviewed by more than 38 international experts in the related research ?elds from 19 di?erent countries. The resulting technical p- gramcontinuedthetraditionofmixingcarefully-reviewedresearchcontributions, experience reports and other activities with plenary presentations. Papers c- lectedinthis volumeinclude, butarenotlimitedto, topics ondatavisualization, geovisualization, image and video databases, mobile visual information systems, visual data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for - sualinformationmanagement, andapplicationsofvisualinformationsystems. In particular, three keynote talks were delivered at VISUAL 2008 and six thematic sessions were organized. The ?rst invited talk, A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data, was given by Prof. Gennady AndrienkoincooperationwithNataliaAndrienko, fromthe FraunhoferInstitute Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems. Prof. Andrienko faced the issue of enhancing human interpretation of movement data and described the results of their research experience about adequate analysis methods.

Spis treści

Keynote Papers.- A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data.- Locational Awareness on the Internet.- Virtual Spaces: From the Past to the Future.- Information and Data Visualization.- Better Perception of 3D-Spatial Relations by Viewport Variations.- Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information.- Navigation and Search in 3D Visualizations of Large Unstructured Photo Collections: An Empirical Study.- Evaluation of Information Visualization Tools Using the NFR Approach.- Interactive Exploration of Large Dynamic Networks.- Flood Emergency Interaction and Visualization System.- 3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces.- Dynamic Buffer Areas Obtained by EFCM Method in GIS Environment.- Automatic G1 Surface Reconstruction from Serial Cross-Sectional Images.- Operational Risk Visualization.- Advanced Techniques for Visual Information Management.- Classification-Based Color Constancy.- An Optimized Fuzzy Based Short Term Object Motion Prediction for Real-Life Robot Navigation Environment.- Experiments on Selection of Codebooks for Local Image Feature Histograms.- Extending KDDML with a Visual Metaphor for the KDD Process.- Inter-frame and Inter-layer Motion Prediction during Fast Block Motion Estimation in MCTF.- Mobile Visual Information Systems.- L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users.- MoViSys – A Visualization System for Geo-Referenced Information on Mobile Devices.- A New Approach Toward a Modular Multimodal Interface for PDAs and Smartphones.- Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Learning Rules for Semantic Video Event Annotation.- Two Step Relevance Feedback for Semantic Disambiguation in Image Retrieval.- An Architectural Paradigm for Collaborative Semantic Indexing of Multimedia Data Objects.- Evaluation of Quality Retaining Diagnostic Credibility for Surgery Video Recordings.- Techniques for Image Classification, Object Detection and Object Segmentation.- Applications of Visual Information Systems.- A Visual Framework for the Definition and Execution of Reverse Engineering Processes.- An Evolutionary General Purpose WebGIS to Disclose EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer.- Embedding Google Maps APIs into WebRatio for the Automatic Generation of Web GIS Applications.- DINDOW: Towards an Interaction Based on Spatio-temporal Memory.- Perception Model for People with Visual Impairments.- An Analysis of Improvements for Voter Interfaces in Polling Station and Remote Electronic Voting Systems.- Reasoning about Hand-Drawn Sketches: An Approach Based on Intelligent Software Agents.- Handling of Task Hierarchies on the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop.- Musimage: A System for Automatically Presenting Pictures Depending on the Music Being Played.- Industrial Experiences.- An Architecture for Multimedia Content Publishing with GIS-Based Retrieval Facility.- SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment.- GISTURISMO Massa-Carrara – Advanced Territory’s Dynamic Fruition Service for a Conscious Tourism.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL 2008, held in Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008.

The 35 papers presented in this volume, together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The topics covered are information and data visualization; advances techniques for visual information management; mobile visual information systems; image and video indexing and retrieval; applications of visual information systems; and industrial experiences.