Visual and Multimedia Information Management: IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Sixth Working Conference on Visual Database Systems May 29–31, 2012 Brisbane, Australia

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Xiaofang Zhou, Pearl Pu
Springer Science & Business Media, 2002 M05 31 - 418 pages
Current research in Visual Database Systems can be characterized by scalability, multi-modality of interaction, and higher semantic levels of data. Visual interfaces that allow users to interact with large databases must scale to web and distributed applications. Interaction with databases must employ multiple and more diversified interaction modalities, such as speech and gesture, in addition to visual exploitation. Finally, the basic elements managed in modern databases are rapidly evolving, from text, images, sound, and video, to compositions and now annotations of these media, thus incorporating ever-higher levels and different facets of semantics.
In addition to visual interfaces and multimedia databases, Visual and Multimedia Information Management includes research in the following areas:
  • Speech and aural interfaces to databases;
  • Visualization of web applications and database structure;
  • Annotation and retrieval of image databases;
  • Visual querying in geographical information systems;
  • Video databases; and
  • Virtual environment and modeling of complex shapes.
Visual and Multimedia Information Management comprises the proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Visual Database Systems, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and held in Brisbane, Australia, in May 2002.
This volume will be essential for researchers in the field of management of visual and multimedia information, as well as for industrial practitioners concerned with building IT products for managing visual and multimedia information.

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Contents

Infrastructure for the Information Space
1
FEDERATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNITIES
17
RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN CBIR
21
AN OVERVIEW OF ORACLE CHART BUILDER AND MAPVIEWER
37
SOMBASED KNEAREST NEIGHBORS SEARCH IN LARGE IMAGE DATABASES
51
PARTIAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING COLOR REGIONS AND SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS
67
HIGHDIMENSIONAL IMAGE INDEXING BASED ON ADAPTIVE PARTITIONING AND VECTOR APPROXIMATION
81
THE SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF STORY BOUNDARIES IN NEWS VIDEO
95
BALANCING FIDELITY AND PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL WALKTHROUGH
217
AURAL INTERFACES TO DATABASES BASED ON VOICEXML
233
VISUAL QUERYING IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
249
AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION AND RETRIEVAL OF IMAGES
265
VISUALIZATION OF WEBBASED AUSTRALIAN EXPORT TRADING
279
A NEW AND EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR CONTENTBASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
295
DESIGNING DYNAMIC WEB PAGES IN THE WYSIWYG INTERFACE
311
IMPROVING IMAGE RETRIEVAL WITH SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK
325

ARCHITECTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERACTIVE TOOL FOR THE DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION OF ACTIVE CAPABILI...
111
INDEXING IMAGES IN HIGHDIMENSIONAL AND DYNAMICWEIGHTED FEATURE SPACES
127
MODELING MULTIMEDIA DISPLAYS USING ACTION BASED TEMPORAL LOGIC
141
AN ENTROPYBASED APPROACH TO VISUALIZING DATABASE STRUCTURE
157
VISUAL QUERY PROCESSING FOR GIS WITH WEB CONTENTS
171
SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING AND QUERYING VIDEO DATABASES USING HIGH LEVEL CONCEPTS
187
PERFECT LINE SIMPLIFICATION FOR VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY
201
AN XMLBASED FRAMEWORK FOR SPEECH ACCESS TO IMAGE DATABASES
339
QUERYING VIDEO DATA BY SPATIOTEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS OF MOVING OBJECT TRACES
355
MULTIVIEW COMBINED VISUAL SIMILARITY RETRIEVAL FOR FACE DATABASE
371
A DTDDRIVEN VISUAL QUERY INTERFACE FOR XML DATABASE SYSTEMS
383
MODELLING AND INDEXING OF FUZZY COMPLEX SHAPES
399
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