Advances in Visual Information Systems

by Qiu, Guoping; Leung, Clement; Xue, Xiang-yang; Laurini, Robert

• ISBN13: 9783540764137
• ISBN10: 3540764135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL 2007, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2007. The papers are organized in topical section on image and video retrieval, visual biometrics, intelligent visual information processing, visual data mining, ubiquitous and mobile visual information systems, semantics, 2D/3D graphical visual data retrieval, and applications of visual information systems.

Table of Contents

Keynote Paper
Visual Information Retrieval - Future Directions and Grand Challenges	p. 1
Image and Video Retrieval
Approximation-Based Keypoints in Colour Images - A Tool for Building and Searching Visual Databases	p. 5
A Knowledge Synthesizing Approach for Classification of Visual Information	p. 17
Image Similarity - From Fuzzy Sets to Color Image Applications	p. 26
A Semi-automatic Feature Selecting Method for Sports Video Highlight Annotation	p. 38
Face Image Retrieval System Using TFV and Combination of Subimages	p. 49
Near-Duplicate Detection Using a New Framework of Constructing Accurate Affine Invariant Regions	p. 61
Where Are Focused Places of a Photo?	p. 73
Region Based Image Retrieval Incorporated with Camera Metadata	p. 84
Empirical Investigations on Benchmark Tasks for Automatic Image Annotation	p. 93
Automatic Detection and Recognition of Players in Soccer Videos	p. 105
A Temporal and Visual Analysis-Based Approach to Commercial Detection in News Video	p. 117
Salient Region Filtering for Background Subtraction	p. 126
A Novel SVM-Based Method for Moving Video Objects Recognition	p. 136
Image Classification and Indexing by EM Based Multiple-Instance Learning	p. 146
Visual Biometrics
Palm Vein Extraction and Matching for Personal Authentication	p. 154
A SVM Face Recognition Method Based on Optimized Gabor Features	p. 165
Palmprint Identification Using Pairwise Relative Angle and EMD	p. 175
Finding Lips in Unconstrained Imagery for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition	p. 185
Intelligent Visual Information Processing
Feature Selection for Identifying Critical Variables of Principal Components Based on K-Nearest Neighbor Rule	p. 193
Denoising Saliency Map for Region of Interest Extraction	p. 205
Cumulative Global Distance for Dimension Reduction in Handwritten Digits Database	p. 216
A New Video Compression Algorithm for Very Low Bandwidth Using Curve Fitting Method	p. 223
The Influence of Perceived Quality by Adjusting Frames Per Second and Bits Per Frame Under the Limited Bandwidth	p. 230
An Evolutionary Approach to Inverse Gray Level Quantization	p. 242
Visual Data Mining
Mining Large-Scale News Video Database Via Knowledge Visualization	p. 254
Visualization of the Critical Patterns of Missing Values in Classification Data	p. 267
Visualizing Unstructured Text Sequences Using Iterative Visual Clustering	p. 275
Enhanced Visual Separation of Clusters by M-Mapping to Facilitate Cluster Analysis	p. 285
Multimedia Data Mining and Searching Through Dynamic Index Evolution	p. 298
Ubiquitous and Mobile Visual Information Systems
Clustering and Visualizing Audiovisual Dataset on Mobile Devices in a Topic-Oriented Manner	p. 310
Adaptive Video Presentation for Small Display While Maximize Visual Information	p. 322
An Efficient Compression Technique for a Multi-dimensional Index in Main Memory	p. 333
RELT - Visualizing Trees on Mobile Devices	p. 344
Auto-generation of Geographic Cognitive Maps for Browsing Personal Multimedia	p. 358
Semantics
Automatic Image Annotation for Semantic Image Retrieval	p. 369
Collaterally Cued Labelling Framework Underpinning Semantic-Level Visual Content Descriptor	p. 379
Investigating Automatic Semantic Processing Effects in Selective Attention for Just-in-Time Information Retrieval Systems	p. 391
News Video Retrieval by Learning Multimodal Semantic Information	p. 403
2D/3D Graphical Visual Data Retrieval
Visualization of Relational Structure Among Scientific Articles	p. 415
3D Model Retrieval Based on Multi-Shell Extended Gaussian Image	p. 426
Neurovision with Resilient Neural Networks	p. 438
Applications of Visual Information Systems
Visual Information for Firearm Identification by Digital Holography	p. 445
GIS-Based Lunar Exploration Information System in China	p. 453
Semantic 3D CAD and Its Applications in Construction Industry - An Outlook of Construction Data Visualization	p. 461
A Fast Algorithm for License Plate Detection	p. 468
Applying Local Cooccurring Patterns for Object Detection from Aerial Images	p. 478
Enticing Sociability in an Intelligent Coffee Corner	p. 490
Geometric and Haptic Modelling of Textile Artefacts	p. 502
A Toolkit to Support Dynamic Social Network Visualization	p. 512
The Predicate Tree - A Metaphor for Visually Describing Complex Boolean Queries	p. 524
Potentialities of Chorems as Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Contents	p. 537
Compound Geospatial Object Detection in an Aerial Image	p. 549
Texture Representation and Retrieval Using the Causal Autoregressive Model	p. 559
An Approach Based on Multiple Representations and Multiple Queries for Invariant Image Retrieval	p. 570
Author Index	p. 581
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